I posted yesterday about Leftists using
the Fake News meme to discredit Conservatives, in that case pertaining
primarily to Pizzagate. Pamela Geller writes about the Leftist
Conspiracy to shut down any news that disagrees with Leftist ideals or values
as Fake News. (As if Leftist values is representative of traditional American
values. I call hogwash!)
JRH 12/6/16
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Geller: ‘Fake News’? Left-Wing War on Conservative
Websites: Facebook, Google, LA Times, Obama Take Aim
6 Dec 2016
The left-wing elites and
their running dogs in the enemedia are in one of their fictional publicity
campaigns that they masquerade as urgent news. Their latest terror is “fake
news sites.”
The New York Times reported
shortly after the election that Google and Facebook “have faced mounting
criticism over how fake news on their sites may have influenced the
presidential election’s outcome.”
That was fake news: “fake
news” didn’t influence the presidential election’s outcome, all too real news
about the wrong direction in which our nation was headed under Barack Obama
did. Nevertheless, the Times said that “those companies responded by making it
clear that they would not tolerate such misinformation by taking pointed aim at
fake news sites’ revenue sources.”
How would they do that?
“Google kicked off the action on Monday afternoon when the Silicon Valley
search giant said it would ban websites that peddle fake news from using its
online advertising service. Hours later, Facebook,
the social network, updated the language in its Facebook Audience Network
policy, which already says it will not display ads in sites that show
misleading or illegal content, to include fake news sites.”
A Facebook spokesman
explained: “We have updated the policy to explicitly clarify that this applies
to fake news. Our team will continue to closely vet all prospective publishers
and monitor existing ones to ensure compliance.”
The “fake news” controversy
has become a huge international story, with the Los Angeles Times among those
leading the charge with headlines such as “Want to keep fake news
out of your newsfeed? College professor creates list of sites to avoid”;
“Fake news writers:
‘Hillary Clinton, here are your deplorables’”; and “Fake news writers abuse
the 1st Amendment and endanger democracy for personal profit.”
There is conspiracy theory
and there is conspiracy fact, and what we have on our hands is one mother of a
left-wing conspiracy parading as a right wing conspiracy. You can’t make this
stuff up. It’s diabolical. In the run-up to the election, I reported on a
number of fake conservative new sites created by left-wing operatives in order
to discredit the conservatives’ news sites. If you have a bogus conservative
site, it makes a conservative site look questionable. “News sites” like the Baltimore Gazette and
the National Report were
dropping hoaxes for months to discredit conservatives who might pick up the
story.
I always understood that the
objective was to taint the conservative newssphere. Sites were created to
spread disinformation and shame the right-wingers who jumped on it. This
is classic disinformation. It’s always games, games, games… from the people who brought you Soros’ rent-a-mob —
rioting, looting and destruction in cities, etc. even going so far as to risk a
few deaths all for the cause. But what I didn’t see coming is their ultimate
goal: the shut-down of free speech. The left wants to crush free speech, which
has been in their cross-hairs for some time now.
The left is always preaching
about true democracy, but they seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as they
can. And they’re always harping about “controversial” matters that either don’t
exist or are fabricated, or are of little import.
If a blogger or news writer
gets a story wrong, does that designate him or her, or his or her site, as
“fake news”? If that’s the case, they’ll have to shut down the New York
Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, ABC
News, NBC News, CBS News, CNN, etc. They get things wrong all the time. Every
article written about my colleagues, my work, or myself is fake. Most of what
they wrote and didn’t write about the Orlando mass slaughter at the gay
nightclub was disinformation and deception.
If you issue a correction,
does that somehow remove the fake news scarlet letter? This is all a big fat
lie — it is an end-run around the First Amendment, and it’s disastrous. It is
indeed true that Facebook has too much power, but banning “fake news” sites is
hardly the solution. That’s Zuckerberg’s fix-it? It would be funny if it
weren’t so Hitlerian. Facebook has too much power. Its news curators,
mini-Goebbelians — are more frightening than Kafka’s antagonists. Facebook
should be broken up like Ma Bell was. Facebook doesn’t decide what’s good and
what’s forbidden. Left-wing fascists do not and must not decide what news
people can and cannot see. But that’s exactly what we are seeing on Facebook.
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