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  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    Captain_Call said:
    The video clip is an excerpt from a recreational shooting event that takes place annually here in the states. The news is trying to pass it off as footage of what is happening in Syria.
    Hmmm. Maybe so, I’m not arguing. I just got no inkling of that from watching the video. Guess I ought to watch the news more often......
    It was selectively edited not to show anything that gives away its origin. But people who saw the full original video have recognized it and pointed out the attempt
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
    More wag-the-dog.  Sigh.... :/
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 32,129 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Or stock footage
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  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And here's the apology headline that will get 1 percent of the views the original lie did
  • Trykflyr_1
    Trykflyr_1 Posts: 2,514 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Move along, Citizen.   Nothing to see here.   Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
    I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Citizen implies they think of us with anything but disdain. More like subjects, or peons
  • Sleddog46
    Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's why I don't watch the local news. Haven't looked at it in a couple of years. I get the news from NPR or if I really want to look BBC news on PBS.
    You can't dispel Ignorance if you retain Arrogance!
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You can seek all the information you want and still be fooled.

    Worse yet: You can make an informed decision and be ignored.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sleddog46 said:
    That's why I don't watch the local news. Haven't looked at it in a couple of years. I get the news from NPR or if I really want to look BBC news on PBS.
    Yeah, like those are both unbiased and trustworthy...
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,921 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I used to listen to shortwave broadcasts from various countries...Yugoslavia, Russia, Britain, VoA, Costa Rica, Cuba, etc. it became quickly apparent that there was a considerable degree of manipulative propaganda in the "news".  The mix of opinion, nationalism, and selective reporting of the news has only worsened.

     And now that anyone can broadcast via the internet and social media we are condemned to ignorance by what we think we know.

    "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
    --Winston Churchill
  • Far_North_64
    Far_North_64 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sleddog46 said:
    That's why I don't watch the local news. Haven't looked at it in a couple of years. I get the news from NPR or if I really want to look BBC news on PBS.
    Now that's funny!
    Now this is not the end of the cigar. It is not even the beginning of the end of the cigar. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning of the cigar.

  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sleddog46 said:
    That's why I don't watch the local news. Haven't looked at it in a couple of years. I get the news from NPR or if I really want to look BBC news on PBS.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,921 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion" (Elizabeth Drew).
  • TBonz
    TBonz Posts: 554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Had a very conservative friend who used to work for NPR..He referred to it as No Place for a Republican...
  • NorCalR1
    NorCalR1 Posts: 4,200 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://www.kron4.com/news/california/newsom-signs-law-allowing-californians-living-in-us-illegally-to-serve-on-government-boards/

    If you want to bomb me send it to Tony @0patience :D
    If you are a newbie I got Dem nachos....

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NorCalR1 said:
    https://www.kron4.com/news/california/newsom-signs-law-allowing-californians-living-in-us-illegally-to-serve-on-government-boards/
    SMDH
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://youtu.be/orN2Tp0c028?t=123
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,967 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NorCalR1 said:
    https://www.kron4.com/news/california/newsom-signs-law-allowing-californians-living-in-us-illegally-to-serve-on-government-boards/

    Why not just officially give Cali back to Mexico?   WTF.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was the plan all along.

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-2020-race-ben-shapiro

    Ben Shapiro: Now's the time for Hillary Clinton to jump in and steal the nomination
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jd50ae said:
    It was the plan all along.

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-2020-race-ben-shapiro

    Ben Shapiro: Now's the time for Hillary Clinton to jump in and steal the nomination
    Stick with what works. 

    I imagine a news announcers voice:
          "The Democratic Presidential candidates seem to be mysteriously committing suicide, one by one...what could be behind this strange phenomenon?"
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tulsi
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,967 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It would be hilarious to see Trump beat her again.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ShawnOL said:
    NorCalR1 said:
    https://www.kron4.com/news/california/newsom-signs-law-allowing-californians-living-in-us-illegally-to-serve-on-government-boards/

    Why not just officially give Cali back to Mexico?   WTF.
    You know, it just occurred to me, I guess now Donald Trump could appoint a Ukrainian citizen to a cabinet position, and California would just have to keep shut about it. 
    Things that make you go "hmmm". 
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,967 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://hannity.com/media-room/tax-everything-new-jersey-government-confirms-decorative-pumpkins-now-subject-to-taxation/

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  • OldGnome
    OldGnome Posts: 58 ✭✭✭
    webmost said:
    Does anyone else find Hillary Clinton attacking Tulsi Gabbard as a Russian asset to be one of the most bizarre things in the Golden Era of Bizarre Things?



    I do. Even for Hillary, that was strange. 
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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,921 ✭✭✭✭✭
    she's trying to shovel a path for Biden I think.
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ever more bizarre and ludicrous, this world:

    Yesterday was National Period Day... and, no, it's not about proper punctuation. I even missed this aspect last May:

    H.R. 1882: Menstrual Equity For All Act of 2019

    (cause, of course, Congress had nothing better to do last May)

    Well, today, the twitterverse is still all atwit about it, with the woke attacking the woke for not being woke enough:



    I'm just an old guy, so I don't know much; but, you younkers tell me: If a surgeon chops off your junk, do you bleed every month? Or will you just get cranky cause you didn't?

    It's fun to be alive, innit?

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2019
    @webmost
    My wife rolled her eyes and said the world has totally gone nuts.
    Stupidity at it's finest.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,967 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SMH

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