Andrew Klavan:
Every liar from Hillary Clinton to Brian Williams is up in arms at what the liars at the New York Times are calling the “Fake News Onslaught.” The make-believe outrage, largely aimed at censoring conservative opposition to the media’s left-wing agenda, hit fever pitch last week after an armed man walked into the popular D.C. Pizza joint and music venue Comet Ping Pong and fired a rifle, claiming he had come to investigate the online rumors known as Pizzagate.
Pizzagate is the notion that Hillary Clinton and her minions are running a satanic child sex ring in the restaurant’s basement. I’ve taken the time to look into the theory and it’s ridiculous, wholly unfounded, its “proofs” absurd.
But when I mentioned that the theory was bunk on my podcast the other day, a few listeners became angry with me. One was so incensed she says she cancelled her subscription to The Daily Wire, the website that hosts my cast. This certainly testifies to how attached people become to these false ideas, and how dangerous they can be.
So as a public service — and braving the anger of my readership — I’d like to expose a few other absurd fake news stories.
- Police Target Blacks
After a white police officer shot and killed a large black thug who was attacking him in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, witnesses falsely claimed that the thug had surrendered before being shot, putting up his hands and saying, “Don’t shoot.” This fed into the mainstream media thesis that police were unfairly targeting black youths for violence. Both the “hands up, don’t shoot” scenario and the overall notion of widespread police bigotry have been thoroughly debunked and yet fake news sites such as CNN and the New York Times continue to keep up their onslaught of lies. Unlike the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, these lies have contributed to multiple deaths and repeated riots. Should fake news sites like CNN and the Times be shut down before more people die?
- The Obama Economy is Strong
Once again, we find the pernicious fake news site the New York Times at the center of this absurd story. Desperate to obscure the near-total failure of the Obama presidency, the Times has been using fake news sites like nytimes.com to spread the absurd notion that “Donald J. Trump can expect to inherit an economy that has added private sector jobs for 80 months, put another 178,000 people on payrolls last month and pushed the unemployment rate down to 4.6 percent today from 4.9 percent the previous month. Wage growth, though slower, is still running ahead of inflation, and consumers are expressing the highest levels of confidence in nearly a decade.” In fact, while energy-rich states like Texas and Kentucky have thrived, the National Association of Counties reports that 93% of the nation’s counties have not recovered from the 2008 crash. Median incomes are down. And the drop in the unemployment number disguises the fact that labor participation is at its lowest rate since the horrible Carter years. When you add people who would like to work or work more, the real unemployment rate is very close to ten percent. Oh, and by the way, those rising levels of confidence may have something to do with the fact Obama is leaving office.
Seems the ”feelings” that used to rule how Liberals made decisions has slopped over to those who buy into the pizza basement/Hillary sex ring story.
Too bad.
That guy with the gun was after a big reward offered to the 1st person to prove there are tunnels under Comet Ping Pong Pizza that connect it to gov’t offices.
So far, no one has ANY proof connecting Hillary with the place EXCEPT for her thank you letter for the fundraiser they hosted.
But lest you think it’s IMPOSSIBLE, the Norway child abuse sex ring netted 15 terabytes of nasty videos and photos, 51 adults arrested. Four of them professionals: 2 elected officials, one teacher (professor) one lawyer. (That’s 8%)
Is it very odd that the owner of a pizza place is the 49th most powerful man in DC?
http://www.gq.com/gallery/50-most-powerful-people-in-washington-dc#49
That is as odd as it comes.
Especially when he gushes over Turkey’s new law allowing 12 year old’s to consent for sex.
There’s plenty of smoke, but no fire, as of now.
BUT, more important, the gov’t is using ”fake news” as a meme to place strong controls over the freedoms we have to read what we like on the web!
There’s the REAL problem.
You can include in this problem the fake “fact checker” organizations that exist only to provide denial to stories which reflect poorly on liberals and support stories which shine a complementary light on liberals and liberalism.
The MSM has run so much fake news they just dislike the competition. They are in a tizzy about Trump bypassing them and using social media for his messages to the people. Censorship by social media will be the death of that medium as well. Facebook is making its platform China ready, Reddit CEO himself altering posts he didn’t like, twitters shadow banning and outright banning of conservatives, I was not seeing all of Ted Cruz, VA Sen. Black or Sen Lees posts. Let them make their site a pile of SJW democrat crybabies. I am done with all of the above.
Saying fake news was the reason for a Trump victory is just another “its not my fault” whine.
@Nanny G:
The Drudge Report is listed as a ”Fake News site.”
Weird because all Matt Drudge does is LINK to news stories!
Today it linked to this story:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/promising-no-censorship-social-network-gab-draws-alt-061709406.html
Promising no censorship, social network GAB draws ‘alt-right’…
GAB is wonderful.
You do have to bring your own filter, however.
And hinky links to various conspiracy theories abound.
But cool people of every political stripe are there.
Some famous people are there, too.
Ann Coulter, Milo Yiannopolis, Gen Flynn’s son, Clint Eastwood, various local news people from all over, even Pam Geller and Geert Wilders!
It’s war between the WaPo and the NYTimes as to what is even happening.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.47f1868ac151
The Washington Post published a report this weekend that claims the CIA has found that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win.
There is no evidence presented in this article. Liberals want everyone to uncritically accept anonymous CIA claims.
VS
FBI investigation concludes there’s no evidence that Russia tried to help Trump win the election.
Diversion.
What’s really scaring Hillary and Obama?
The Wikileaks email publications tie them to faking a story about Benghazi and the timing.
One even shows Hillary ordered the men who were ready to help to stand down instead.
Nothing fake there.
She simply won’t comment on how her own emails and the men she ordered to stand down are in complete agreement while she lied to America.
@Nanny G:
Found this little nugget from Prager U, enjoy;
The MSM is pointing the fake news finger yet ignoring that their other four fingers point back at themselves.
If news does not support the left’s bias, that doesn’t make it fake. The modern radical political left is the greatest purveyor of censorship this world has ever seen. They disingenuously wrap themselves in the mantle of free speech, only to deny it to those who do not share in their propaganda and political agenda. The people of this nation are no longer buying their BS.
Most of the news today is fake wheather it be broadcast or print its all fake