Posted on 10/27/2017 2:50:28 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The liberal press’s contempt for the intelligence of the American people was on full display on Friday’s Morning Joe as columnists and reporters from The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and USA Today all joined in a united chorus to insult the public as being too stupid to parse the difference between truth and propaganda. Moreover, once again, the show’s panelists also used their platform to call for government regulation of social media to stop “election meddling.”
Morning Joe’s latest call for censorship of news that they don’t like came in response to a short clip that they played of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein expressing confidence in Americans’ ability to make informed political decisions:
"I think what people need to keep in mind is that there’s a distinction between people trying to sway American elections and succeeding in swaying American elections. [...] American citizens are pretty savvy, and when they decide who to vote for, I don’t think they’d be influenced by ads posted by foreign governments. I think people are more thoughtful about that in the way that they make their decisions."
This was so triggering for the panel that Donny Deutsch immediately renewed his calls for regulation of Twitter and Facebook to save “our democracy”:
"Am I overreacting, Gene, that there's nothing more important to safeguarding our democracy over the next decade than the regulation of the Twitters and the Facebooks and so on, that without that, we do not have any -- you talk about fake news, you talk about lack of truth -- the pillars start to fall apart?"
Deutsch was asking Eugene Robinson, longtime left-wing columnist and associate editor for The Washington Post, for his opinion. Not only did Robinson agree that regulating news on social media was of paramount significance, but he explained:
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MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I totally agree. Jonathan Lemire, you and I had the same reaction when [Rosenstein] said that, which was: are you kidding me? Because, I know -- we have a whole generation growing up on Twitter, Facebook, and I know what, like, my kids read. They don’t -- they can't tell the truth, and between truth and gossip, even about their own mother, let alone [trails off].
JONATHAN LEMIRE [AP, WHITE HOUSE REPORTER]: That's right. I mean, election meddling does not just mean an attempt to actually damage a ballot box, right? It means this, it means propaganda. It means flooding social networks with-
BRZEZINSKI: [interjecting] Untruths. With lies.
LEMIRE: -fake news, with untruths, trying to sway voters. And I think 2016 is of course an example that it played some role. Can we quantify exactly how much? Of course not. But there's no doubt.
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PRZYBYLA: honestly, a lot of people can't even tell the difference between a real news story and an ad.
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The Ministry of Propaganda is outraged that their monopoly on information is busted.
Nobody is buying their BS anymore.
LOL…these bozos think they are the top of the food chain. They aren’t even the bottom link.
Talk about “meddling” in the election! That’s what “reporters” are trained to do.
These frauds are scared of competition of everyday people telling the truth to everyday people.
He's right. It wasn't until I was well into my thirties that I discovered that my mother, in fact, did NOT wear combat boots.
MORE CENSORSHIPS!!!!!!
I know bs when I see or hear it, thank you very much.
The Mourning Blow crowd are skating on the brink of communism and that is putting it mildly. They are vicious and a danger to everything America ever stood for and especially dangerous to this president. Like seditionists on a drunk.
For liberals, the ONLY real truth is the leftist propaganda..that is what they want to all feed us and want drained into our brains..anything else is considered evil and lies
They believe that, and they are correct. Those who believe the liberals, in fact can't discern between the two. That is their audience. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
As long as we’re regulating...can we just stop “Morning Joe” from airing?
Nobody watches this insignificant little propaganda show.
Bring it on, a-holes. Thanks ForYourChildren.
My son, who is in his thirties, knows for a fact that his mom *does* wear combat boots. ;)
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Quit hiding the truth
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