Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Nolte: Lack of Bigotry in America Forces Media to Invent ‘The Hoaxtroversy’
Breitbart ^ | 13 July 2019 | John Nolte

Posted on 07/13/2019 11:07:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The “Hoaxtroversy” is our corrupt establishment media’s latest way to pretend bigotry is still a major problem in America. Which means that the media’s need to manufacture a hoaxtroversy (a controversy that proves to be a hoax) actually serves as yet one more slice of proof of just how little racism, sexism, and homophobia exists in this country. What I mean is this…

If racism in America was anywhere as serious as the fake news media claims, would they have had to fabricate all these massive lies over the past few years? The media told us the Hispanic George Zimmerman was white. They hoaxed us with the KKKids from KKKovington High School, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” and Duke lacrosse.

Each one of those phony hysterias blew up in the media’s lying face, so now they have changed tactics. Rather than invent massive national hoaxes to smear America and Americans as small-minded bigots, they have turned to the “Hoaxtroversy,” they have begun to fabricate meme-like controversies, and still they are forced to lie.

Some notable examples…

Remember how all those evil conservatives went crazy with rage over that high school video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Crazy (D-NY) dancing? Remember all those media stories, all those shrieking headlines, like this one from Reuters and this one from Newsweek…? It was all lies.

In reality, conservative reaction to the video ranged only from shrugs to Hey, even though she looks like she could eat an entire pizza in one bite, that video’s kind of cute.

In a world where tens of millions of Ocasio-Crazy critics are online, the media could not find even one legitimate Twitter account lathered up over the video, so they invented a “hoaxtroversy” and went ahead and claimed her critics were outraged even though no one was.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hoaxtroversy

1 posted on 07/13/2019 11:07:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.

2 posted on 07/13/2019 11:17:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Actually, I think bigotry still exists. But only against conservatives. Seriously.


3 posted on 07/13/2019 11:37:10 AM PDT by Innovative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
If racism in America was anywhere as serious as the fake news media claims, would they have had to fabricate all these massive lies over the past few years?

So, let's see if I've got this right, Media. America elects, and then reelects a black person, and then even more suddenly America becomes a racist country? Get a grip, Media.

4 posted on 07/13/2019 11:45:02 AM PDT by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Notice how the hoaxes, once revealed, are put in the dustbin of history? However, the message that they were meant to illustrate lives on and is repeated over and over again for decades afterwards.


5 posted on 07/13/2019 12:10:46 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libertylover

After Obama they elected a white man, instead of a white woman, and it was a “whitelash”.


6 posted on 07/13/2019 12:19:37 PM PDT by monkeyshine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Unless I’m missing something, there seems to be a drought in those big “race attack” stories the past few months. Maybe the Jussie Smollette (dont even care to look up the right spelling) hoax has made people a tad bit shy on promoting them like they used to?


7 posted on 07/13/2019 12:20:12 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is gonna sound off-topic, but follow me:
Fifteen years ago I read
The Mind and the Brain:
Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
by Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley
which I found to be most interesting. It described the neuronal architecture of the brain as a kind of curiosity machine, constantly seeking to find patterns and make sense of its inputs. At that macro level, we all think of that is commonplace. “Curiosity killed the cat,” and all that. But what I got from the book was that that was true at the micro level as well.

The book discussed “phantom pain” - pain experienced by an amputee as occurring in a limb which no longer existed. It’s a conundrum: "I don’t even have a left middle finger - and pain in it is killing me.”

Well, in my case I have all my limbs and fingers and toes, that’s not the issue. But I do, I’m told, have some spinal nerve damage. Which causes a bit of tingling and numbness in my toes - no big deal, usually. But joint at the base of my big toe (the busiest joint in the body, the Dr. says) hurts sometimes (I’m talking about now, incidentally - not that FReepers in general need much note nor long remember).

But to the extent that I understand the phenomenon, I experience pain “in my big toe" not because there’s anything wrong with my foot, but because at a micro level the part of my brain that receives pain signals from my toe joint got too bored receiving “no report” from my foot, and decided to tap into other information available locally in the brain - and interpret it as pain in my big toe joint. What’s more, swelling and inflammation - actual physical effects in my foot - result from the stupid decision of that micro region of my brain. A positive feedback loop, making the syndrome self-perpetuating. So apparently “my foot hurts” is in my head - but because of that, my foot actually is a source of pain.

Well, I said that I was gonna relate to the topic, which was that “the media” are inventing ways to criticize conservatives - as usual. And it makes about as much sense as the exaggerated pain I experience in an otherwise more-or-less perfectly good foot. And as with the busybody neural architecture linkages in my brain intruding where they have no business, it’s a powerful temptation to think we should be able to just shoot the messenger.

But as Adam Smith put it, "It is impossible indeed to prevent such . . by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice.” Or maybe not. In the 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan case, SCOTUS unanimously denigrated the right of public figures to sue for libel. The right to sue for libel was recognized before the enactment of the First Amendment, and the First Amendment was carefully worded to avoid changing the rights of the people as they were then understood. Unanimous or no, Sullivan is bad law. Some billion-dollar libel verdicts would have a salutary effect on our polity.

8 posted on 07/13/2019 12:27:48 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: I want the USA back

The left knows that a lie can get half way around the world before the truth can put its pants on. They lie as a tactic because they value power over truth.

When you live amorally, you cannot admit that there is such a thing as absolute truth, because that takes you down a path that logically ends with right and wrong instead of shades of grey.


9 posted on 07/13/2019 12:31:53 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

Certainly it exists against Christians.


10 posted on 07/13/2019 12:58:07 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Add it to the literal fake hate crimes list
http://fakehatecrimes.org/


11 posted on 07/13/2019 1:16:21 PM PDT by tbw2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Innovative

The only racism in this country today is against white people and yes conservatives, the Dems show absolute DISTAIN for conservative blacks!!!


12 posted on 07/13/2019 1:22:44 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

If there aren’t enough criminals, the government invents some. If there aren’t enough bigots, the media invents some. This is the way they control people.


13 posted on 07/13/2019 1:54:42 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bingo!

It has been my common experience for decades now to see African Americans abusing waiters, sales clerks and managers in every type of setting imaginable, with the white workers/ managers falling all over themselves to apologize, offer free meals, etc. Just saw it today at lunch.

What’s wrong with this picture if I really was living in a country with institutionalized white racism?


14 posted on 07/13/2019 3:22:06 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

John Nolte is cracking the code...


15 posted on 07/13/2019 9:13:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC Bimbos & Pretentious men: EVERY CHILD RAPIST on Epstein's plane was a powerful democrat...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson