Tuesday, May 08, 2018 5:37:29 AM
Part 199, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 big ones. These from a second on Sunday,
05/06/18, covering April 1, 2018, and headed, Stephon Clark shooting death spurs calls for police reform
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=140578669
The second
Despite Stormy Daniels evangelicals still support Trump
AM Joy
4/1/18
Stormy Daniels’ allegations have not stopped evangelicals from supporting Donald Trump. ‘Evangelicals have folded the
belief that Trump has been given to America by God into their theology,’ religious leader Frank Schaeffer tells Joy Reid.
This Easter America’s Evangelicals No Longer Believe in the Risen Lord but in the Alt-Reality of Their Porn-Star Pres
\ March 29, 2018
https://frankschaefferblog.com/2018/03/easter-americas-evangelicals-no-longer-believe-risen-lord-alt-reality-porn-star-pres/ [with comments]
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/despite-stormy-daniels-evangelicals-still-support-trump-1199939139543 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9kd7gMxFxE [with comments] [a must-watch]
Into the comedy, the sixteenth
I've Got A Great, Great, Lawyer | Our Cartoon President | SHOWTIME
Published on Mar 30, 2018 by SHOWTIME
Our Cartoon President discusses his new legal representation.
[Episode 9 originally aired April 1, 2018]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqVgy0WcJ0w [with comments]
To "stashed April 1, 2018:"
How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media - Sinclair
Earlier this month, CNN’s Brian Stelter broke the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.” The script, which parrots Donald Trump’s oft-declarations of developments negative to his presidency as “fake news,” brought upheaval to newsrooms already dismayed with Sinclair’s consistent interference to bring right-wing propaganda to local television broadcasts.
You might remember Sinclair from its having been featured on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight last year, or from its requiring in 2004 of affiliates to air anti-John Kerry propaganda, or perhaps because it’s your own local affiliate running inflammatory “Terrorism Alerts” or required editorials from former Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn, he of the famed Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jewish people. (Sinclair also owns Ring of Honor wrestling, Tennis magazine, and the Tennis Channel.)
The net result of the company’s current mandate is dozens upon dozens of local news anchors looking like hostages in proof-of-life videos, trying their hardest to spit out words attacking the industry they’d chosen as a life vocation.
Not that any of it matters to Sinclair, which, with the help of a friendly federal government, is about to swallow up another 40 television stations—increasing its reach and its lead over competitors like Hearst and Scripps. The script, as transcribed by ThinkProgress based on the KOMO (Seattle) version, reads:
"Hi, I’m(A) ____________, and I’m (B) _________________…
(B) Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Northwest communities. We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that KOMO News produces.
(A) But we’re concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.
(B) More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories… stories that just aren’t true, without checking facts first.
(A) Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think’…This is extremely dangerous to a democracy.
(B) At KOMO it’s our responsibility to pursue and report the truth. We understand Truth is neither politically ‘left nor right.’ Our commitment to factual reporting is the foundation of our credibility, now more than ever.
(A) But we are human and sometimes our reporting might fall short. If you believe our coverage is unfair please reach out to us by going to KOMOnews.com and clicking on CONTENT CONCERNS. We value your comments. We will respond back to you.
(B) We work very hard to seek the truth and strive to be fair, balanced and factual… We consider it our honor, our privilege to responsibly deliver the news every day.
(A) Thank you for watching and we appreciate your feedback."
For a list of stations owned or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, check here. If you’re a Sinclair employee who has something to say—anonymity guaranteed on request—let me know or use our anonymous SecureDrop.
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490 [with embedded links]
Jimmy Kimmel condemns Sinclair ‘fake stories’ warning as ‘extremely dangerous’ [
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/381151-jimmy-kimmel-condemns-sinclair-fake-stories-warning-as-extremely-dangerous
The Kushners Saw Redemption in the White House. It Was a Mirage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/us/charles-jared-kushner-white-house-real-estate.html
What A Year This Month Has Been
All of these things really happened in March 2018.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-a-year-this-month-has-been-march_us_5abfe160e4b0a47437ab6df9
Roseanne Touts Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Child Sex Rings In Tweet
Twitter didn’t give the actress a pass.
Amid the hoopla over the reboot of “Roseanne” last week, people were scratching their heads over actress Roseanne Barr’s bizarre tweet hailing Donald Trump for freeing “hundreds” of children a month from their pimps.
The president has “broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” Barr tweeted Friday.
President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt-4 now.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 31, 2018
Barr, who’s no stranger to promoting right-wing conspiracy theories, was apparently referring to a fantasy birthed on the anonymous online message site 4Chan last year. The conspiracy theory claims that Trump is secretly busting satanic child sex rings linked to high-level Democrats. Barr retweeted posts and links backing the “untold story” that shares similarities with the “Pizzagate” hoax that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza shop in Washington.
The fantasy Barr referred to is the handiwork of anonymous 4Chan contributor QAnon or Q. The sex ring conspiracy theory insists that the investigation of Trump and his campaign by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is a fake front so that the president can continue to nail the criminals. It gets even more convoluted after that.
Last November Barr tweeted, “Who is Q?” The Daily Beast reported. The actress later added: “Tell Qanon to DM” — direct message— “me in the next 24 hours.”
The theory is known as “The Storm,” apparently referring to Trump’s mysterious promise last year that reporters were experiencing the “calm before the storm.” He never explained what he was referencing.
Twitter didn’t give Barr a pass. Shortly after her Trump tweet, she apologized for posting it but didn’t deny that Trump is freeing hundreds of child sex slaves. “I have worked with victims of trafficking for decades & supported the fight against it,” she tweeted. “Sorry to have mentioned it here. It’s not the place.”
Barr then posted another tweet saying she didn’t know so many were “not aware” of child sex slavery.
i thought today was a good day to talk about freeing kids from sex slavery, since it is Passover. I didn’t realize that so many were not aware of it. Anyway, no more opinions from me on twitter, it invites bullying. Moving on.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 31, 2018
[...]
Barr once retweeted an Infowars report that baselessly claimed 5.7 million “illegals” voted in the presidential election, according to The Daily Beast. Barr has also promoted conspiracy theories about murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roseanne-sex-ring-conspiracy-theory_us_5ac01e45e4b0a47437ab8502
Russian bots are rallying behind embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham as advertisers dump her show
Russia-linked Twitter accounts are rallying in support of Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she drew scorn for mocking Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg's grades on Twitter.
According to one website that tracks Russian propaganda on Twitter in near-real time, the hashtag #istandwithlaura saw a 2800% jump in 48 hours.
Another website that monitors Russia's disinformation campaign found that @ingrahamangle, @davidhogg11, and @foxnews were among the top six Twitter handles that Russia-linked accounts have tweeted at in the last 24 hours.
Companies have pulled their ads from her show, and& Ingraham announced this weekend she will take a "pre-planned vacation" amid the exodus.
http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-bots-support-fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-amid-advertiser-exodus-2018-3
Hamilton68 - Tracking Russian influence operations on Twitter
GMF - alliance for securing democracy
https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
botcheck - Detect & Track Twitter Propaganda
https://botcheck.me/
05/06/18, covering April 1, 2018, and headed, Stephon Clark shooting death spurs calls for police reform
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=140578669
The second
Despite Stormy Daniels evangelicals still support Trump
AM Joy
4/1/18
Stormy Daniels’ allegations have not stopped evangelicals from supporting Donald Trump. ‘Evangelicals have folded the
belief that Trump has been given to America by God into their theology,’ religious leader Frank Schaeffer tells Joy Reid.
This Easter America’s Evangelicals No Longer Believe in the Risen Lord but in the Alt-Reality of Their Porn-Star Pres
\ March 29, 2018
https://frankschaefferblog.com/2018/03/easter-americas-evangelicals-no-longer-believe-risen-lord-alt-reality-porn-star-pres/ [with comments]
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/despite-stormy-daniels-evangelicals-still-support-trump-1199939139543 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9kd7gMxFxE [with comments] [a must-watch]
Into the comedy, the sixteenth
I've Got A Great, Great, Lawyer | Our Cartoon President | SHOWTIME
Published on Mar 30, 2018 by SHOWTIME
Our Cartoon President discusses his new legal representation.
[Episode 9 originally aired April 1, 2018]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqVgy0WcJ0w [with comments]
To "stashed April 1, 2018:"
How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media - Sinclair
Earlier this month, CNN’s Brian Stelter broke the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.” The script, which parrots Donald Trump’s oft-declarations of developments negative to his presidency as “fake news,” brought upheaval to newsrooms already dismayed with Sinclair’s consistent interference to bring right-wing propaganda to local television broadcasts.
You might remember Sinclair from its having been featured on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight last year, or from its requiring in 2004 of affiliates to air anti-John Kerry propaganda, or perhaps because it’s your own local affiliate running inflammatory “Terrorism Alerts” or required editorials from former Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn, he of the famed Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jewish people. (Sinclair also owns Ring of Honor wrestling, Tennis magazine, and the Tennis Channel.)
The net result of the company’s current mandate is dozens upon dozens of local news anchors looking like hostages in proof-of-life videos, trying their hardest to spit out words attacking the industry they’d chosen as a life vocation.
Not that any of it matters to Sinclair, which, with the help of a friendly federal government, is about to swallow up another 40 television stations—increasing its reach and its lead over competitors like Hearst and Scripps. The script, as transcribed by ThinkProgress based on the KOMO (Seattle) version, reads:
"Hi, I’m(A) ____________, and I’m (B) _________________…
(B) Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Northwest communities. We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that KOMO News produces.
(A) But we’re concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.
(B) More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories… stories that just aren’t true, without checking facts first.
(A) Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think’…This is extremely dangerous to a democracy.
(B) At KOMO it’s our responsibility to pursue and report the truth. We understand Truth is neither politically ‘left nor right.’ Our commitment to factual reporting is the foundation of our credibility, now more than ever.
(A) But we are human and sometimes our reporting might fall short. If you believe our coverage is unfair please reach out to us by going to KOMOnews.com and clicking on CONTENT CONCERNS. We value your comments. We will respond back to you.
(B) We work very hard to seek the truth and strive to be fair, balanced and factual… We consider it our honor, our privilege to responsibly deliver the news every day.
(A) Thank you for watching and we appreciate your feedback."
For a list of stations owned or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, check here. If you’re a Sinclair employee who has something to say—anonymity guaranteed on request—let me know or use our anonymous SecureDrop.
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490 [with embedded links]
Jimmy Kimmel condemns Sinclair ‘fake stories’ warning as ‘extremely dangerous’ [
]this is extremely dangerous to our democracy https://t.co/D1T8Z7J2Wn
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 1, 2018
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/381151-jimmy-kimmel-condemns-sinclair-fake-stories-warning-as-extremely-dangerous
The Kushners Saw Redemption in the White House. It Was a Mirage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/us/charles-jared-kushner-white-house-real-estate.html
What A Year This Month Has Been
All of these things really happened in March 2018.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-a-year-this-month-has-been-march_us_5abfe160e4b0a47437ab6df9
Roseanne Touts Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Child Sex Rings In Tweet
Twitter didn’t give the actress a pass.
Amid the hoopla over the reboot of “Roseanne” last week, people were scratching their heads over actress Roseanne Barr’s bizarre tweet hailing Donald Trump for freeing “hundreds” of children a month from their pimps.
The president has “broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” Barr tweeted Friday.
President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt-4 now.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 31, 2018
Barr, who’s no stranger to promoting right-wing conspiracy theories, was apparently referring to a fantasy birthed on the anonymous online message site 4Chan last year. The conspiracy theory claims that Trump is secretly busting satanic child sex rings linked to high-level Democrats. Barr retweeted posts and links backing the “untold story” that shares similarities with the “Pizzagate” hoax that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza shop in Washington.
The fantasy Barr referred to is the handiwork of anonymous 4Chan contributor QAnon or Q. The sex ring conspiracy theory insists that the investigation of Trump and his campaign by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is a fake front so that the president can continue to nail the criminals. It gets even more convoluted after that.
Last November Barr tweeted, “Who is Q?” The Daily Beast reported. The actress later added: “Tell Qanon to DM” — direct message— “me in the next 24 hours.”
The theory is known as “The Storm,” apparently referring to Trump’s mysterious promise last year that reporters were experiencing the “calm before the storm.” He never explained what he was referencing.
Twitter didn’t give Barr a pass. Shortly after her Trump tweet, she apologized for posting it but didn’t deny that Trump is freeing hundreds of child sex slaves. “I have worked with victims of trafficking for decades & supported the fight against it,” she tweeted. “Sorry to have mentioned it here. It’s not the place.”
Barr then posted another tweet saying she didn’t know so many were “not aware” of child sex slavery.
i thought today was a good day to talk about freeing kids from sex slavery, since it is Passover. I didn’t realize that so many were not aware of it. Anyway, no more opinions from me on twitter, it invites bullying. Moving on.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 31, 2018
[...]
Barr once retweeted an Infowars report that baselessly claimed 5.7 million “illegals” voted in the presidential election, according to The Daily Beast. Barr has also promoted conspiracy theories about murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roseanne-sex-ring-conspiracy-theory_us_5ac01e45e4b0a47437ab8502
Russian bots are rallying behind embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham as advertisers dump her show
Russia-linked Twitter accounts are rallying in support of Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she drew scorn for mocking Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg's grades on Twitter.
According to one website that tracks Russian propaganda on Twitter in near-real time, the hashtag #istandwithlaura saw a 2800% jump in 48 hours.
Another website that monitors Russia's disinformation campaign found that @ingrahamangle, @davidhogg11, and @foxnews were among the top six Twitter handles that Russia-linked accounts have tweeted at in the last 24 hours.
Companies have pulled their ads from her show, and& Ingraham announced this weekend she will take a "pre-planned vacation" amid the exodus.
http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-bots-support-fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-amid-advertiser-exodus-2018-3
Hamilton68 - Tracking Russian influence operations on Twitter
GMF - alliance for securing democracy
https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
botcheck - Detect & Track Twitter Propaganda
https://botcheck.me/
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