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Chairman of House Media Fairness Caucus: Fake News Is a ‘Threat to Our Democracy’
Breitbart ^ | Penny Starr

Posted on 06/17/2017 5:16:10 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) spoke with Breitbart News’ Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 on Saturday about the media bias that’s reached unprecedented levels since President Donald Trump was elected and poses a risk to the democracy it is tasked to protect.

“I think the media bias today is a threat to our democracy for this reason,” said Smith, who is the chairman of the House Media Fairness Caucus. “If the American people don’t get the facts then they can’t make good decisions.

“And if the American people can’t make good decisions because they’re not getting the facts then I think that is a threat to democracy,” Smith said.

Smith said the “so-called mainstream media” is not only replacing facts with opinion but “invective and venomous opinions” when it comes to reporting on Trump.

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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“Obama said”......

Everything the half-caste Royal Idiot “said” turned out to be the exact opposite.

That was his only gift——predicting the future on falsehoods.

Must be a Kenyan birthright.


41 posted on 06/18/2017 4:49:57 AM PDT by Liz ( Liberalism: standing on your head, then telling the world that it's upside down.)
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To: vette6387

No, he is attacking domestic enemy #1, the old media empire, the operative mouthpiece of the demrats. If you control the media narrative, you control the majority of the people.


42 posted on 06/18/2017 4:55:08 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Gene Eric

Exactly, every tyrant in history first got control of the media. The old media is the mouthpiece of the rat party and Smith knows it. Trump recognizes it and so does Smith. It should be talked about nonstop.


43 posted on 06/18/2017 4:58:30 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

tell the MSM to stop putting out fake news.””

That is the point of talking about and exposing the lies-machine called the old media empire.


44 posted on 06/18/2017 5:03:33 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Hildy

Not so. The press has never been fair and impartial. What we lack now is competition.


45 posted on 06/18/2017 7:00:23 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: Cboldt
If Hillary had won the election, there would be zero Congressional hearings about Russia. The January 6 ODNI report would not have been produced.

You got that right!

46 posted on 06/18/2017 7:56:09 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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To: Liz
Everything the half-caste Royal Idiot “said” turned out to be the exact opposite.

In this case, what he said turned out to be true (i.e the election results were valid) but since H lost they had to suggest the opposite. Similarly, O ridiculed Romney's claim that Russia is the #1 enemy, but now they claim Russia IS the biggest problem.

"Situational truth." I wish I had coined that phrase but somebody beat me to it. Having it both ways? No problem!

47 posted on 06/18/2017 8:32:32 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Why didn't the FBI examine DNC servers?)
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