Invasion of the loudmouths

SneekyNinja

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Some people take great joy in "rileing up the liberals". Hard to say what is actual opinion as opposed to just saying things to get a reaction.
If they were intelligent though they'd attack with things that actually hurt liberals.

"HILLARY LOST!"

No fucking shit like.

Tl;Dr version:

You give them too much credit, much to your credit.
 

HAF2

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If they were intelligent though they'd attack with things that actually hurt liberals.

"HILLARY LOST!"

No fucking shit like.

Tl;Dr version:

You give them too much credit, much to your credit.
Oh don't give me too much credit, I just said I didn't know their motivations. It's either:

1) instigating a fight
2) idiocy and gulability

Maybe both?
 

HAF2

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They genuinely believe they're "correct" and that emboldens them.
I know I've said it here before, but the fake news believers should really read about Occam's Razor:

Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case, the simpler one is usually better. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is.

So for the alt-right news sources to be fact you must believe that hundreds of other news publications must be false and it's a great big liberal media conspiracy against them.

For them to be incorrect, you only have to believe those few are garbage.

And they call us "special little snowflakes"? The hypocrisy is rampant.
 

esh dov ets

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How some radio hosts set the agenda
Invasion of the loudmouths



Alex Jones has said the shooting at Sandy Hook, Conn., was staged.
Joe Walsh, a U.S. talk-radio host, last week tweeted to gun-control advocates whose children were killed in the horrific Newton, Conn., shooting in 2012: “I’ll just say it: Sandy Hook Parents: Your 15 minutes is up.”

Alex Jones, a U.S. talk-radio host, has said the shooting at Sandy Hook was staged. He says the moon landings were faked.

Mark Levin, a U.S. talk-radio host, this month alleged, without evidence, that the Obama administration used “police state” surveillance tactics against the Donald Trump presidential campaign. He has said “the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our government.”

Michael Savage, a U.S. talk-radio host, once said of autism: “In 99 per cent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, ‘Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.’”

Sean Hannity, a U.S. talk-radio and Fox News TV host, once claimed that Obama “went to a Muslim school” and “grew up in Kenya.”

These are the kinds of people from whom the president of the United States gets his information, and worse, rebroadcasts it. U.S. talk-radio hosts were hugely influential before Trump’s election, and they are even more so now.

Trump has called Jones “amazing.” He gets advice from Hannity. His infamous tweets alleging his predecessor ordered wiretaps against him were based on the report by Levin.

Despite Trump’s many attacks on the mainstream media, it is these people and their ilk, none of them journalists, who help give the media a bad name.

Even their less outrageous (and less famous) colleagues are fond of prescribing simple, poorly considered solutions to complex problems.

They have been multiplying since 1987, during the Reagan administration, when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission stopped enforcing the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which obliged broadcasters to devote air time to contrasting views on matters of public interest.

The abandonment of the doctrine did not likewise cause so-called “progressive” radio shows to multiply, perhaps because “progressives” are lousy at it. Maybe they don’t shout enough.

Few people want to listen to leftwing dullards when right-wing fabulists are available, apparently.

Perhaps also progressives are not interested in the fame and fortune such shows can generate for their hosts, although it’s hard to believe.

After all, the granddaddy of them all, Rush Limbaugh, earned $77 million in 2015, according to Forbes. Sean Hannity made $29 million. Glenn Beck made $16.5 million.

Sometimes, these people back off a bit. Savage said he was taken out of context on autism. Limbaugh has apologized on occasion, and Beck admits he has said “stupid things.”

But their apologies and clarifications rarely resonate with listeners, or the president for that matter. The misinformation these loudmouths spew somehow finds its way into some circles of conventional wisdom, where normal thinkers are obliged to actually refute it.

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-hamilton-spectator/20170318/281513635968684
so many bad guys being identified, sessions, Pruitt; in office and in the media . this guy is like limbdaugh though. he is a highly replaceable far right crap artist. I don't get into those fucks because they are so full of shit but people swallow it.201412_1621_ahhce_sm.jpg
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