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Alt-Right Frames Wrong Esteban Santiago for Shooting, Kickstarts Racist Conspiracy Theory
The Daily Beast ^ | 1-7-2017 | Ben Collins

Posted on 01/07/2017 9:58:55 PM PST by Bronzewound

Far rightwing figureheads immediately invented an elaborate and racist conspiracy theory that CNN had lightened a photo of alleged Fort Lauderdale airport shooter Esteban Santiago shortly after the Friday attack. In reality, CNN had yet to air a picture of Santiago, let alone lightened a picture of him. The conspiracy also used a picture of an entirely different man named Esteban Santiago—not the alleged shooter. Still, writers at websites like InfoWars and Gateway Pundit tweeted about CNN’s nonexistent Photoshop job. Former Republican Florida Congressman Allen West, who represented Fort Lauderdale itself, even tweeted about the conspiracy and linked to an article about it on his own website.

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KEYWORDS: careless; clickbaitpundit; estebansantiago; fake; gatewaypopulist; gatewaypundit
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To: FreedomPoster

I noticed very early on they tried to paint the narrative the shooter had mental problems starting with the tour in Iraq. However, it came out that he had no PTSD. The girlfriend was alleged to say he was receiving treatment because he had mental problems. This is the narrative they are now using for “radical islam” (radical islam is in quotes because there is no such thing as “radical islame” just as there is no such thing as a moderate mooslime). Whether or not this guy had mental problems the fact is they covered the aspect of his roots of Islime with the mental illness narrative early on in the reporting.


21 posted on 01/08/2017 1:21:41 AM PST by zaxtres
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To: RedWulf
I pointed this out here because we are on his side and I imagine he might be best informed by seeing our comments here.

This is not be passed off as simply a mistake. It's critical we not do what our enimies do. We have to be beyond reproach.

Even Drudge has been dragged down because of GP's faulty reports. I am advocating that he starts now making credibility something he never sacrifices for expediency, carelessness, or any other reason.

As for now there is no reason to go the site if is frequently unreliable. I hope he will do better.

 

22 posted on 01/08/2017 1:29:43 AM PST by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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To: Bronzewound
I see that the original thread from yesterday has been pulled. On that thread, I called out the lightened photo as not matching the photo being shown on CBS.

-PJ

23 posted on 01/08/2017 1:38:31 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

He has been sloppy for years. I seem to recall a fake X-Ray of someone’s skull that he posted.


24 posted on 01/08/2017 1:43:08 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Bronzewound

Bronzewound, I think that CNN, etc., have lowered journalistic standards everywhere, unfortunately.


25 posted on 01/08/2017 2:28:31 AM PST by blackbetty59
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To: Bronzewound; All

Uhhhh the Daily Beast as a source of reliability??? ROTFLMAO!

The Daily Beast is a far left globalist web site who has Chelsea Clinton as one of their main Directiors on their board. You mine as well be taking Hillary Clinton’s side on this article.

Nevertheless, you site their article as a source of credibility? OBVIOUSLY you missed what CNN did. It’s not that hard to find.

As for Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit. He always links his proof. The Gateway Pundit has a lot of great articles. Ditto Info-Wars.

For the record both The Gateway Pundit and Infowar web sites have a much larger audience than the Daily Beast and CNN.

But hey... If you want to believe their BULL$HIT....., then that is your choice.


26 posted on 01/08/2017 2:58:02 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

>> For the record both The Gateway Pundit and Infowar web sites have a much larger audience than the Daily Beast and CNN.

Which record? Your statement is flat wrong. Check with Alexa.


27 posted on 01/08/2017 3:20:34 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: chris37

Absolutely. Listen to “breaking news” they can’t get the number of dead and wounded right, the flight itinerary “stopped in Canada”? How can one get that wrong?

The number of mistakes the MSM makes is incredible. And then there’s that bias thing.


28 posted on 01/08/2017 3:25:32 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: Bronzewound

I stopped clicked my on that stupid website when they began posting those idiotic stories late in the 2016 campaign about “inside sources” in the NYPD claiming that a bunch of arrest warrants were about to be issued in the Anthony Weiner case. All of the “sources” were other clickbait sites that all linked back to the same single Twitter post from some dope who had no evidence to support his claim.


29 posted on 01/08/2017 3:52:00 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Bronzewound

Duh. Of course CNN was used, because they most often screw up things and slant things.


30 posted on 01/08/2017 6:29:47 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Bronzewound
With the current debate about fake news, he is dangerous to conservatism. We should be better than this regarding credibility.

Agreed. We are better than they are and must hold the feet of "our own" to the fire.

31 posted on 01/08/2017 8:50:34 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Lisbon1940

LOL! Alexa is now RIGGED.....

Do you even know who owns Alexa? Guess what it’s the same media company that owns the Washington Post. In other words it’s Amazon.

Okay obviously you did not get the memo that Alexa has been pushing down all conservative web sites. They have been paid off in other words...... They use to be credible until they became political.

The “Gold Standard” for measuring web traffic is Quant-cast and Google Analytics. There numbers show the true web traffic unlike Alexa that has become political manipulated. Gee imagine that? Quant-Cast and Google Analytics are very similar in numbers. Alexa is too with the exception, of all conservative web sites, that changed back in 2014. When Alexa did this ALL CONSERVATIVE SITES on the same day when down and have been down since.

Quit using Alexa as a measuring stick for conservative web sites

https://www.intellihub.com/alexa-caught-fixing-rankings-to-target-anti-obama-news-sites/

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32 posted on 01/08/2017 10:27:27 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1; All
Gateway Pundit posted the two photos seen below claiming CNN had altered the original to make it whiter. CNN did not put up this image. It isn't even a picture of the shooter. It's someone else. GP had to take it down and admit CNN never put it up.

I am well aware of who The Daily Beast and CNN are. Gateway Pundit's and Infowar's carelessness (didn't even check the CNN site to see if it was there) handed this story to the enemy and gave them an excuse to make us look foolish.

Please don't perpetuate their stereotype of conservatives by missing my point by a country mile.

 

NOT ESTEBAN SANTIAGO

 

33 posted on 01/08/2017 10:52:23 AM PST by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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To: Bronzewound

A website doing this stuff is not news. A network doing this type of stuff is news.


34 posted on 01/08/2017 10:54:37 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Bronzewound

>This is not be passed off as simply a mistake. It’s critical we not do what our enimies do. We have to be beyond reproach.

Why? Only fools fail to fight just hard and on the same level as our foes. Claiming moral superiority while the left is busy trying to destroy you will just result in our destruction.


35 posted on 01/08/2017 11:46:47 AM PST by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap T)
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To: Enlightened1

I think CNN probably gets a lot of clicks.


36 posted on 01/08/2017 1:21:06 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: RedWulf
If enough are thinking like you, then what is left to save? We are already destroyed.

 

37 posted on 01/08/2017 2:02:05 PM PST by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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To: Bronzewound; All

Sorry Bronzewood but your Butt-Hurt buddies at CNN have lied so much.... I can’t even tell when they are telling the truth?

CNN has the morals of a cockroach or filthy sewage rat.

CNN = Fake News


38 posted on 01/08/2017 2:30:46 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1; All
Sorry Bronzewood but your Butt-Hurt buddies at CNN have lied so much.... I can’t even tell when they are telling the truth?
CNN has the morals of a cockroach or filthy sewage rat.
CNN = Fake News

Yet you just proposed we fight by behaving just like the bastards.

 

39 posted on 01/08/2017 2:55:14 PM PST by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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To: Bronzewound

I never said that.... YOU said that.

I am simply describing what most people see when they look at CNN. Hence, why their numbers are so in toilet. No one believes these BULL$HIT.

They are nothing but pseudo intellectuals at best.

CNN = Fake News


40 posted on 01/08/2017 3:22:51 PM PST by Enlightened1
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