Conservative Sensational Headlines No Excuse for FAKE NEWS

Unfortunately, a lot of tabloid-style Conservative "News" sites have sprung up lately, telling the patriots what they want to hear ("Hillary Arrested!") with no clear sources nor accountability when they're upright, forthright, downright wrong.

Meanwhile they spam you unmercifully with advertisements for supplements and survival stuff and online stores and I-know-not-what making reading the article painful at best, impossible at worst.

I know why they do it. Just like this website, since January 20th they've too have seen their website traffic, and thus their income, decrease by 75%...or more.

Nevertheless, Patriots, this must not be. Fake News should belong only the Liberal Left. They have the franchise. We expect them to lie and they do it so beautifully, over and over again.

But we are called to a higher, more ethical form of Journalism. If we call ourselves "Patriots," then our word must be impeccable, our facts consistent and Truth (not money!) our goal.

Telling the Patriots what they want to hear has another name: lying. Wasn't there a Commandment about that or something?

Just because we want to hear, as Real Raw News and Before It's News are reporting, that Hillary Rodham Clinton's tribunal began yesterday, doesn't make that sensational story true.

What about the claim that Hillary Rodham Clinton died on the campaign trail in 2016? What about David Zublick's claim that she died in 2018? Or 2019?

It's like the Avram says to Tevye in Fiddle on the Roof after Tevye agrees to two diametrically opposed statements: "He's right? And he's right? They can't both be right!"

If she's already dead, she can't be tried by tribunal. So which is it!?! Make up your minds. It's sites like these that make Patriots look ridiculous and give them a bad name.

Same goes for Joe Biden. Either it's he or it's not. And if it's not, why are we railing against the policies of a man who isn't Biden, wasn't elected and didn't have a real inauguration!?! We'd get much further by demanding he take a DNA test instead of endless lawsuits and headlines that don't do anybody any good!

We're giving this thrice invalidated Individual (whose Real Name we don't even know!) validity by freaking out about what he says and what he signs.

Frankly, I feel that sites like RRN are more likely run by the Left, churning out badly written hopium tales and then sniggering in their sleeve when we read, quote and share them. "MAGA folks will believe anything," they chortle while spinning another yarn. Now and then they throw in an article that's actually true just to keep us coming back for more.

There's a strange double-standard in this cockeyed world. A Liberal news site can lie their asses off with zero repercussions. But if Conservatives write one tiny headline (with the best intentions) that turns out to be false...wham-o! We're invalidated forever.

If you have no morals, no ethics and no God, you can get away with murder. If you're a good person and expectorate just once on the sidewalk, you're clapped in irons, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That's how the world works at the moment.

As the curmudgeonly father on Sabrina says about the 20th Century: "I could pick a century out of a hat, blindfolded, and get a better one."

You can tell I'm turning 39 (for the third time!) next week because I've begun to gripe about how fast this world is going. I also can't figure out how to set a digital alarm clock.

Hundreds, nay thousands, of headlines are churned out each day. Some I share to the "Breaking News" aggregator page but most I share on my Telegram channel.

Here's my biggest gripe: No one ever goes back to see if the headlines were right. There's no accountability. It'd be way too time consuming.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I believe that every news item should be "worked through" very slowly and carefully and thoroughly. Only then should it be tied up with the Big Red Bow of Closure and laid to rest on the shelf of History. Then we should all move on to the next Big Story.

That's how I think. That's how I live. It just works...except I'm still chewing on a headline from December as this damn planet plunges damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-ahead into May. I'm like...

We leave the past in an awful muddle with no accountability, no "working it through" and no Big Red Bow of Closure. That's just wrong and it serves us ill. We're not learning from History so we're damned to repeat it!

This was brought home to me a fortnight ago after months of struggling with my News page. I'd intended to keep all the headlines from when the News page was launched last year so we wouldn't forget. Unfortunately, broken links made the page impossible to work with. After months of struggling, I had to purge it and start from scratch.

But I was able to save all the old headlines in a Word document (sans hyperlinks.) Here's just a few that were screamed from rooftops but never went anywhere. How many were researched? How many were persued to their logical conclusions? How many crimes were prosecuted? How many do you even remember?

Prosecutors Charge Netflix Star and Joe Biden Operative with Sexually molesting Teen Boys in Public Restrooms

New Data Analysis Finds 353 Counties With 1.8 Million More Registered Voters Than Residents

Massive caravan of Trump supporters stretches 30 miles — thousands of cars long — in battleground state Arizona

Explicit Photos of Minor in Hunter Biden’s Laptop Were of a Relative — and He Was in Some of the Photos WITH HER

Twitter suspends feminist professor for saying ‘only females get cervical cancer’

Jill Biden Reacts To Hunter Biden Story: "American People Don't Want To Hear About These Smears..."

“Mask police” will begin patrolling for COVID violations in New York town while real crimes are totally ignored

HUGE: New Hunter Biden Emails Suggest Obama Was In On ‘Outrageous’ Biden Family Business Deals

Biden Daughter’s Diary Details“Not Appropriate” Showers With Joe As Child: "Was I molested. I think so," wrote Ashley Blazer Biden

Brexit Hero Nigel Farage Speaks at Arizona MAGA Rally: "This is the Single Most Resilient and Bravest Person I Have Ever Met in my Life."

Leaked Zoom Calls Reveal Federal Workers Conspiring To Shut Down White House/Disrupt Government

Biden Boosted By ‘Tens Of Thousands’ Of Fake Twitter Followers — From India

By the time we all know a Particular Thing, no one can remember where the information came from.

That's the risk we run both as a writer (me) and as readers (you). Not being sure of the source of anything. Even if we have three sources for a particular fact, those three sources may be feeding each other! Circular reasoning. Heavy sigh.

On the other hand, just because something like the use of blockchain hasn't been proven yet doesn't mean it's not true! Same goes for Scytl Scuttled, one of my most popular articles (before Google shut me down.)

Take clones for example. Jeffrey Epstein told friends he was involved with a cloning lab in Mexico. I've been told that by the time we're allowed to know about a particular technology, it's already been in the works for, oh, about forty years. Clones...probably true.

Body doubles? That goes back to Joseph Stalin and probably centuries before him. C'mon man! It's obviously NOT Joseph Robinette Biden Jr (hence no pre-debate blood test...wrong DNA, uh-oh!) and obviously not Hunter Biden either.

They're good. They're very good but you can still tell when it's really Joe (2019 and earlier) and when it's not.

We're not meant to the know the truth so it's no shame if, from time to time, we latch onto a "fact" that turns out to be false. The shame is always with the liar, not the one they lie to.

All this just to say, "Be careful." Leave tabloid sensationalism to the Loony Left. It's really the only thing they've got going for them. If we want to be taken seriously so we can red-pill others, we need to hold ourselves and each other to the highest standard of Journalism.

Websites like Real Raw News telling the Patriots what they want to hear is no kindness. It doesn't get much lower than that!

Be careful what you believe. Be careful what you share. To the best of your ability, Patriots, always keep your word impeccable. Goodness knows I try, Patriots, I really try.

“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

1 posted on 04/10/2021 6:05:25 PM PDT by Lenora Thompson

So you’re saying that Rusty Staff at the rustystaffblog, and McQTard at the NeedleNettleBlog aren’t giving us original breaking news, but maybe cut-and-pasted stuff from other blogs in hit-and-run clickbait form? Say it ain’t so!!!!!

2 posted on 04/10/2021 6:19:11 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)

Conservative Sensational Headlines No Excuse for FAKE NEWS

Where's The Donald when you need him.

3 posted on 04/10/2021 6:29:24 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)

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