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The Mainstream Media is America's greatest threat (vanity)
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Posted on 08/10/2016 9:35:49 AM PDT by Crucial

The Mainstream media is completely out of control. It only masqurades as news entity. It's bias against Trump is implicit. It ignores the growing Hillary Clinton body count of hackers and witnesses to her crimes. Hillary's email's show a very cozy and colluding relationship with the DNC. Republicans they just attack and scrutinize until they squeeze out something that might be perceived as negative. Crimes by Democrats against America and Americans' Liberty is routinely ignored.

The media never passes up a chance to put a happy face on a federal agency. Does it ask how the EPA's decrees might put people out of work. Did it criticize ObamaCare even though it's widely known as a failure? Is it concerned that Social Security is going bust? Does it care that America's armed forces are working with outdated weapons and equipment that is falling apart? Does it care that it is so very difficult for any individual to start a business, take his destiny in his own own hands and be self-sufficient, because the government taxes him to death or regulates his business into oblivion? Yeah, right. The media doesn't care about personal independence. Face it, the mainstream media is the People's greatest enemy. It is a full frontal assault on individual freedom by undermining our elections through implicit bias, spinning facts, ignoring concerns about Democrats and even covering up vital information about Americans' enemies.

Islam is a religion of peace? In what universe? Four hundred million shipped in the middle of the night to a terrorist government is no big deal to the media? The mainstream media is enemy number one. The lies are a constant stream, an unending flow of misinformation and brainwashing 24/7 on multiple channels. The threat of the media needs to be taken more seriously than any other threat, even terrorism, because the media has weakened America and turned us against each other through its lies all while supporting America's enemies.


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To: Crucial

We can start fighting against the media who are the biggest threat to America and our freedom by making this thread go viral on the Innternet twitter, facebook , google, youtube, etc.


81 posted on 08/10/2016 10:45:21 AM PDT by Democrat_media ( Only Trump will stop TPP and China and the socialist illegals' invasion of the USA w Wall!)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

“We all can do our part to put the MSM 6 feet under...make it so.”

A key weapon against the left wind mediots is Free Republic.

We need to donate to it on a monthly basis to keep it online, and it should be our main source of news.


82 posted on 08/10/2016 10:47:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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To: Piranha

Should he just attack the media and how It parrots Hillary? It’s been said Trump is really running against the media. Maybe he should.


83 posted on 08/10/2016 10:54:58 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial

My tag line says it best and I’ve had it since I joined FR in 2003.


84 posted on 08/10/2016 10:57:56 AM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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To: 1Old Pro

“I couldn’t agree more, it’s blatant and non-stop. It’s almost unbelievably over the top.
We watch CBS “This Morning” and it’s now totally about putting forth so called negative Trump stories and positive Hillary stories - It’s frickin unbelievable.”

Faux news was our source of news until the Iowa caucus bs and the debate Trump wisely cancelled. We haven’t watched any national news yet. After the conventions, our local tv stations push the latest Trump lies and attack spots, and we are not watching local news.

I use my computer to scan Faux and local news for anything that might be of need to us.

Our county sends out fire or police alert texts when something is happening.

Our main news source is Free Republic.


85 posted on 08/10/2016 10:57:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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To: timestax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M9rssz6tIE

Mickey: “You’ll never understand, Wayne. You and me, we’re not even the same species. I used to be you, then I evolved. From where you’re standing, you’re a man. From where I’m standing, you’re an ape. You’re not even an ape. You’re a media person. Media’s like the weather, only it’s man-made weather. Murder? It’s pure. You’re the one made it impure. You’re buying and selling fear. You say “why?” I say “why bother?”


86 posted on 08/10/2016 10:59:03 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: Crucial

You are right. But they are just slaves. They work for “someone.” They are the 100% effective tools to do the dirty work of fooling busy and dumb Americans. The media companies work for some kind of cabal that is only out for their own riches and power, that care little for the American people other than how they can be manipulated to work for them.

We are not any more “free” in this country than we were under King George.


87 posted on 08/10/2016 11:02:14 AM PDT by Yaelle (Sorry, Mr. Franklin. We've been extremely careless with our Republic.)
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To: Crucial
While I'll agree that the media is a major problem, it is however, not the #1 problem. That dubious honor belongs to the educational system who have turned out people who are not journalists, but rather brainwashed propagandists who know nothing about journalism.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

88 posted on 08/10/2016 11:03:52 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MCF

The new media, which everyone is going to, in part because of the break down of real journalism. Most people hunger for the truth. Even sweet lies are like living on a diet of chocolate bars Trump is leading the biggest change in American politics since FDR.


I love the positive attitude soooo much in your post that I am reposting it above.


89 posted on 08/10/2016 11:09:05 AM PDT by Yaelle (Sorry, Mr. Franklin. We've been extremely careless with our Republic.)
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To: timestax
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90 posted on 08/10/2016 11:10:35 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: MUDDOG

We’re going to have quite the list at this rate... :-)


91 posted on 08/10/2016 11:12:34 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The media absolutely CREATED OBAMA. Without them he is practically a cardboard cutout.

They are trying to create Hillary too, but she is a lot harder sell. She doesn't have that natural "jive talk" talent that Obama has.

92 posted on 08/10/2016 11:15:45 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DNME
I think Donald Trump would be well-served by having a squadron of lawyers ready to pounce at the next falsehood told about him. Some might accuse him of being a wimp, or hiding behind his lawyers, but I think a few high-profile libel or slander cases might help level the playing field. Once such a suit is filed, I believe injunctions can be sought against offending news outlets, which would cause a few ripples.

We need to pursue ideas like yours and more.

93 posted on 08/10/2016 11:16:49 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Crucial
The first problem is that we do not call the problem out by its name: Wire Service Journalism.

Granted that movies and fictional TV can be a problem, there is no realistic response to fiction which remotely accords with the First Amendment. If you cannot even call our “nonfiction” journalism, you are utterly dead in the water.

What basis can justify action against journalism??? It sounds impossible, but it is not. The argument against journalism is that journalism is inherently leftist, thus not entitled to any privileges. Rights, yes - privileges, no. I am not talking about censorship, I am talking about not giving privileges to journalists which you and I do not enjoy.

And I am not talking merely about justifying such action on the basis of anecdotal evidence - the existence of voluminous such “anecdotal” evidence notwithstanding. I refer to a philosophical analysis of journalism. Journalism has short deadlines, and on that basis journalism is biased in favor of shooting from the hip. This is worst when “breaking news” is being reported. How can “breaking news” possibly be objective? As Don Rumsfeld famously noted, “First reports are always wrong.” The other defining characteristic of journalism is negativity. Journalists will candidly admit that they are on the lookout for bad news: “If it bleeds, it leads.” Journalists also claim that all journalists are objective. But if you combine the fact that journalism is inherently negative (bad news) with the fact that journalism claims to be objective, you conclude that journalists claim that negativity is objectivity.

Anyone who thinks that negativity is objectivity is a cynic. And any cynic rejects the idea that

"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sorbonne:
Socialists proclaim that “you didn’t build that,” which is simply “all private property is theft” writ small. Socialism is cynicism about the relation between work and reward. And journalists are cynics.

The Associated Press newswire is a continuous virtual meeting among all major journalism outlets. The result of any such meeting will be as predicted by Adam Smith:  

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
That is, the AP - and all other wire services, they all have the same effect inherently produces a conspiracy against the public, and as such is in violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Act.

94 posted on 08/10/2016 11:18:31 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Grampa Dave
We should never post a bs oped/editorial/article by the mediots as an important post.

I've been noticing that people have done this, and each time I wonder "Why?" Why are people repeating medial lies and smears?

Only post them as another example of the dangerous lies/bs the mediots are spewing out to defeat Trump by discouraging our voters.

In this, such articles ought to be clearly marked as an example of blatant media bias.

The BIAS should be the point, not whatever lies the article is attempting to spread.

95 posted on 08/10/2016 11:21:44 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: All

Actually MSMedia is one-half of the greatest threat we face: The other half is Political Correctness.


96 posted on 08/10/2016 11:31:44 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: Crucial
The Mainstream media is completely out of control.

The libtard media like all libtards have a religion and a god. They worship big government, and like any religious fanatic, they will never stop defending it.

97 posted on 08/10/2016 11:33:18 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Grampa Dave
We need to donate to it on a monthly basis to keep it online, and it should be our main source of news.

Absolutely agree, FR is a vital source of information and common purpose to find the truth through like-minded individuals getting together to develop a strategy to expose all the lies being spewed.

...but it's the Command Post, not the battlefield.

The battlefield is raging elsewhere...must breakout of our comfort zone now and then to confront the enemy on their own turf in order to defeat them.

Their (MSM/academia) monopoly has gotten away with indoctrination/manipulation for decades.

...now that NEW media has weakened them(through competition)...it's time to let'em have it with both barrels...

(ooops), I meant(cough), of course, exposing the truth, that is.

98 posted on 08/10/2016 11:35:44 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Political Correctness is a kool-aid drinking suicide cult)
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To: Crucial

It’s close or has moved to a point with the public about the old tale of the ‘boy who cried wolf’ too many times by the BS Media. The ‘boy who cried wolf’ at least told the truth in the end, but the Media only lies about and twists Trump’s words.

On another point. Trump is saving campaign donations money hand over fist. He could spend a half billion $ dollars or more all within the last 45 days until the election going after Hillary in ads. We could see a monstrous hit to Hillary that will overwhelm the Dems. :-)

Enemy number #1 and the Hillary camp are getting very nervous about what is Trump going to do with all that money he’s getting but not spending? LoL.


99 posted on 08/10/2016 11:39:50 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: DiogenesLamp
"I've been noticing that people have done this, and each time I wonder "Why?" Why are people repeating medial lies and smears?"

They are possibly trolls paid by Clinton to post those articles to discourage us from voting for Trump. I can remember the same bs as long as I have been using FR. (add one year of watching before I joined.

Then, we have the concerned trolls posting their deeply felt concern that Trump will lose because of what the biased bs article said.

Then, there of those, who clutch their pearls, have an attack of the vapors and pass out because of the horrible things the evil dumb Trump has said. These are shown below:

Donglalinger has installed a Free Republic fainting couch for fainting Freepers, whenever the media tells us Trump is out of line or losing in another left wing poll, and Freeper panic and pearl clutching ensues.


100 posted on 08/10/2016 11:40:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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