Posted on 05/17/2021 5:44:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Right on and many here on FR are doing this often lately!
This was a fake study - almost ALL left news is fake news.
However, some of the absolute cr@p that shows up on conservative news sites shows that there are gullible on both sides.
All left news is propaganda nothing more!
Establishment news posts 95% truth and 5% leftist agenda (or “lies”), making it all unreliable.
Folks like John Solomon, Steve Bannon, Daniel Greenfield, Dan Bongino, Molly Hemmingway, Sundance (@ConservativeTreeHouse), among others, are reliably honest and accurate.
Sites like FreeRepublic, JustTheNews, TheFederalist, RevolverNews, NationalPulse, FrontPageMagazine, AmericanThinker, and - lately - FrankSpeech all are reliable sources.
Go forth and discern!
That's a load of horse dung. As is the claim that people can't do their own vetting...it's like Dems who promote anti-minority policies because "they're not smart enough to help themselves."
All it requires is a little vigilance and some smarts. For example:
-If someone posts a video without the executive summary, it's either a blogpimp or someone who didn't watch the whole thing on their own
-if it comes from American Thinker or Gateway Pundit, you can be assured it likely lacks basic editing and fact-checking and is suspect/sensational. Washington Examiner is a distant third in this category.
-there is this cool, space-age technology called a "search engine" e.g., Duck-Duck Go. All you need to do is take 5-10 min to do your own fact checking. You'll be surprised at how much you learn and how little you'll wind up trusting certain new media (and old media, too).
Don't outsource your fact-checking to some blogger in his mom's basement who says he's conservative.
The problem is almost EVERY news article written is impossible to vent. The reason because the Government Lies (every agency), Republicans Lie, Democrats are natural born Liars, fact checkers are bias, and last but not least is that the media deliberately slants the news to fit a narrative they prefer with unnamed sources.
How are we supposed to know the truth?
Ah yes. We really DO get caught up in all kinds of fake stories and we look like idiots.
Like a Presidential campaign being spied on by the FBI, DOJ, and intelligence agencies. What a ridiculous conspiracy theory. Who but an idiot right-winger would believe such pap?
Or how about that story about a former General working for a Republican Presidential campaign who was set up, fired from his job as a result, prosecuted and hounded for years on trumped up charges, ruined financially and personally. People actually believed that he was set up!
Wait-wait-how about that guy who worked for the President, who was charged with lying to the FBI, and when it looked like he might slip through their grasp, they had to find a way to shut him up, so they got someone to give him $10,000 in cash (one penny over the limit for not having to declare when bringing it into the country) and had some FBI agents meet him at the airport on his return home from Greece, arresting him in the airport for probable cause (nearly unheard of) and keeping him in prison, only to have to release him because they couldn’t find the money they gave him as part of the set up (he had left it with a lawyer in Greece)
Oh, how about that President who was impeached over quid pro quo charges? Right wingers believe that was all made up.
Never mind all the voting fraud idiocy. This was the most secure election ever.
No! Idiots on the right believe that this crap actually happened!
I have a suggestion-why don’t we tell this a-hole of a writer to go pound sand over a few things we got wrong, while a tsunami of REAL things that actually DID happen and were shouted about by those right-wing lunatics were totally ignored and discounted and are in the process of irretrievably destroying this country.
This pearl-clutching jackass hasn’t got the sense or the guts to stand up to a Leftist who lies about all those things, and folds because someone on the Left told her we swallowed a story that was wrong.
(Nothing against you, Kaslin...you are just posting the article...)
The truth cannot be found in the media or government. Seek places on the Internet for new sources that can be trusted.
The left mission is to control our lives.
See my post above at #8. Sure, we can and should be more discriminating, but that isn’t the battle we should fight.
Exactly!!
If we could get our side to stop ‘reporting’ on tunnels, JFK Jr is alive, and white hats are about to swoop in and frog-march Biden and his cronies to their doom, I’d be happy.
I agree. You can see it here often.
Most of the comments on this article are on to the writer. Check it out!
The right should be more careful about fake news coming from its own side, yes, but not because of concerns over what the left will label it.
100% agree with the above. My inbox is getting flooded with "must see" videos which is a major pet peeve of mine. Just give me a well written article!
It's not even a matter of time with me, I simply don't have the patience to sit through these 45-minute videos, in which it takes 30 minutes or more to get to the point. Typically, the narrator spends the first 10-15 minutes talking about "where we can find" related content and asking us to subscribe to this or to subscribe to that, yadda yadda.
I spent most of my life reading 2-3 newspapers every day and average 5-10 books read every month. I would much rather get the information in printed form.
The entire Democrat Party is living on fake news. Everything in their world is fake!!!
I can say with certainty that China and Iran helped fuel disinformation to both sides, but mostly to conservatives in an effort to discredit them and to instigate violence.
The simple fact that we still have Q followers demonstrates the problem clearly. A source of disinformation can totally discredit itself and still have loyal supporters and followers.
No kidding...I stopped reading comments of any kind on any article years ago because I found them to be a waste of time, like listening to two four year olds arguing “You’re a poopy-head!” “No! You are!”
(I generally don’t see FR the same way, though we do see that in some forms here too)
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