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@AlekseyMaksimovichPeshkov 60 minutes is a left wing show and editing interviews to distort the context is their shtick. Look at how they film interviews. No wide shot to show the interviewer and interviewed. Alternating closeups between them and a generic backdrop behind the interviewer. This is so they can edit the interview to create false impressions. To place answers in the context of DIFFERENT QUESTIONS, and edit OUT key background information, they can even film a new "question" after the fact in front of their generic background to create a false context for the "answer". Usually, 60 Minutes does this to do a hit job on the interviewed, but it can be worked the other way. That is the whole basis of the show. They have been doing this since it first aired in 1968.
The formerly mainstream media have gotten every major story since the Tet Offensive not only wrong, but the diametric opposite of the truth. Here are some recent howlers:
1. (CBS 60 Minutes) Dan Rather Publicizes Fake Memos About George W. Bush’s National Guard Duty
2. (Huffington Post, New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, et al.) Hillary Has a 98% Chance of Winning The Election
3. (Salon, CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, CBS News, et al.) Donald Trump Requests Security Clearance for His Children
4. (ABC News) In 2009, ABC News Blatantly Lied About The 1 Million Protesters in Attendance, Reports 60,000
This is a bad one because it was so brazenly false. Glenn Beck’s 9-12 March on Washington DC brought in over a million Tea Party protesters to call for lower taxes and less federal spending.
Clear pictures of the crowds from the tops of Washington DC buildings can be cross-referenced with the USA Today/National Park Service schematic for estimating the turnout at President Obama’s inauguration in January earlier that year. The turnout was undeniably one million plus.
5. (CBS News) 1 Million Disenfranchised Black Voters in The 2000 Election
Back then, activists claimed that dogs and hoses were used to keep black voters from the polls. Claims that thousands of blacks were disenfranchised, harassed, and intimidated from voting ran rampant. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights conducted a six-month investigation of the charges and found absolutely no evidence of systematic disenfranchisement of black voters. The civil-rights division of the Department of Justice also found no credible evidence that any Floridians were intentionally denied the right to vote.
6. (CNN, CBS News, NBC, et al.) TV Networks Call Critical Toss-Up Race in Florida for Al Gore Too Early
In a historically very tight toss-up race in a state with critical electoral votes, the mainstream media’s television networks called Florida too soon for Al Gore in an “embarrassment of major proportions.” Dan Rather was so bold as to make it a guarantee, “If we say somebody’s carried the state, you can take that to the bank. Book it!”
The networks made the call just before 8pm Eastern and were forced to retract their call. By 1:30am the Sunshine State was still too close to call. The earlier pronouncement may have had the effect of chilling votes on either or both sides. The state was eventually carried by George W. Bush.
7. (ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC, and MSNBC) TV Networks Falsely Claim The Polls In Florida Are Closed
8. (Washington Post, Miami Herald, Mic, et al.) Sources Falsely Claim Orlando Shooter Used an AR-15 Rifle
9. (Daily Mail) UK Newspaper Falsely Claims Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, Worked as an Escort
10. (New York Times) A National Desk Columnist for The New York Times Made A Career There Out of Faking News
Jayson Blair
11. (Rolling Stone) A Completely Fabricated Story of Campus Rape Is Published In A Catastrophic Failure of Editorial Process
12. (Reuters) Photographer Doctors a Photo of Smoke at The Site of an Israeli Airstrike
In 2006, Reuters published photos of an Israeli airstrike in a suburban neighborhood of Beirut. A skeptical American blogger criticized the photo: “This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop ‘clone’ tool to add more smoke to the image.”
13. (The Huffington Post, The Independent, International Business Times et al.) Media Falsely Reports Hit and Run in Brussels as Right-Wing Hate Crime
The Huffington Post’s headline was later amended, but the URL still contains the original report of a “far right activist” at work. The Independent also corrected the narrative-driven, knee jerk reporting still evident in their article’s URL. So too, the International Business Times.
As the Independent reports in a correction at the bottom of their article, the hit and run driver was a young Muslim local named Mohamed.
14. (The Guardian) UK Newspaper Publishes Chain Email Hoax Claiming President Bush Has The Lowest IQ of Any President
15. In 2001 after the election of President George W. Bush, a hoax email began circulating claiming that a study of presidential IQs by the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania found that George W. Bush had an IQ of 91, the lowest of any US president, while outgoing President Bill Clinton had the highest at 182.
The study was a fabrication and the Lovenstein Institute doesn’t even exist. Neither do the sociologists quoted in the email. But in a stunning display of the journalistic standards at The Guardian, the fairly obvious chain email hoax was published as news! The paper retracted the story when the Associated Press pointed out their error.
16. (Washington Post) Pulitzer Prize Awarded To Journalist for Fake Story About an 8 Year Old Heroin Addict
In 1980, as the War on Drugs started by President Richard Nixon raged on, a Washington Post journalist named Janet Cooke published a story entitled, “Jimmy’s World,” about an 8 year old heroin addict.
17. (NBC) Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams Lied About an Iraq War Helicopter Incident
In 2003 Dateline NBC headlined a story, “Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC’s Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire.” In a 2007 retelling of the story, Williams said, “I looked down the tube of an RPG that had been fired at us, and it hit the chopper in front of us.” By 2013, Williams said, the helicopter he was in had been “hit … and landed very quickly.”
In February of 2015, Williams had to recant the story after criticism from the Chinook crew who said the helicopter Williams was riding in was not hit by an RPG and that he could not have seen the one that was hit ahead of the one he was riding in because it was a half hour ahead of his flight.
Further scrutiny prompted by this revelation found that Williams had told inconsistent stories about a man committing suicide in the New Orleans Super Dome during Katrina, falsely claimed he was at the Brandenburg Gate the night the Berlin Wall came down, and lied about flying into Baghdad with SEAL Team Six.
18. (The Associated Press, Boston Globe, CNN, Fox News) FBI Criticizes Media for False Reports Regarding The Boston Marathon Bombers
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombings in 2013, with the perpetrators still at large, several news sources falsely reported that an arrest had been made.
19. (The Washington Post, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, et al.) Media Spreads Inflammatory Fake News Story About a Police Shooting in Ferguson, MO
In 2014, when a Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer confronted a suspect who matched the description of an assault and robbery that had just taken place at a convenient store, the young man, 18 year old Michael Brown, fought with the Police Officer, Darren Wilson, struggling to wrest his gun away. When Wilson pursued him on foot, Brown turned and charged at him, and Wilson fired several shots into the front of Brown’s body, killing him.
This was a very delicate tragedy with strong racial overtones, and in a rush to support a racially-charged, inflammatory media narrative, journalists enthusiastically spread a fake news story: that Michael Brown had his hands up and yelled “Don’t shoot!” at the time Wilson fatally discharged his firearm. It turned out to be false. Upon investigation by the Federal Justice Department, eyewitnesses changed their stories or admitted they didn’t see the shooting take place.
The eager embrace of this narrative by the media had real world consequences, stoking tensions and anger in Ferguson and leading to looting of local businesses and protests that turned violent. The shooting happened in August 2014. By March 2015, MSNBC anchor and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart finally offered a mea culpa with a column entitled, “‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Was Based on a Lie.”
20. The initial false narrative involving the Covington HS youth, which was reported without due diligence, and, in all too many cases, not properly corrected or even corrected at all.
You're claiming that conservative media is inaccurate. Show what they got factually wrong. Your turn.
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@AlekseyMaksimovichPeshkov "right wing echo chamber"
It is impossible to form a "right wing echo chamber". Your take on matters is crammed down our throat. We get it on broadcast television, government subsidized public broadcast media, 3 out of 4 cable news networks, in primary, secondary, and higher education, in blurbs under our videos, in mandatory "struggle sessions" at our places of employment, in taxpayer funded advertisements. It is impossible for us not to be exposed to your point of view. The message is clear as a bell. Accept this or we will hurt you, enforced with slander, direct violence (Antifa, BLM), politically discriminatory hiring and firing, discriminatory regulatory harassment, lawfare, general harassment. There is nothing you could think of to say that we haven't heard before.
Obversely, it is trivially easy for you to avoid our point of view.
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"not idolize Trump"
I've been following Jesus since before you were born, son. I don't idolize Trump, nor does anybody on the Daily Wire. DW gets grief all the time for being frank about Trump's flaws. Taking action in the world when possible isn't spiritually inappropriate, it's what disciples of Jesus DO (by their fruits ye shall know them).
"or try to make him president"
I'm reminded of what Abraham Lincoln said when Stephen Douglas accused opponents of slavery as promoting marriage between blacks and whites. "just because I do not want a colored woman for a slave, I do not necessarily want her for a wife. I do not need to have her for either. I can just leave her alone."
In a similar manner, I find I can easily support Trump for president without idolizing him.
"If you actually put the kingdom of heaven first, you would be at peace in this chaotic period."
If you can allow the country to go to hell without doing what you can to stop it, you're not putting the kingdom of God first, you won't be at peace in your heart, or in your neighborhood. And you shouldn't.
"Even if Kamala Harris is elected, so what... What is the significance of her election?"
More abortions. More crime. More poverty. More misery. More poisoning and mutilation and moral and spiritual corruption of children. More censorship and persecution and less scope for charitable deeds, truth, and the gospel, less freedom. More of a bunch of bad things that no person of goodwill would welcome, and Jesus DOES call us to be persons of goodwill. There is no such thing as being too pious to do good in the world. "To do good is noble, but to teach others to do good is nobler, and it's far less trouble." - Mark Twain.
"the last days"
You mention the last days, but I wonder if they are real to you at all. Jesus will not only set the world right, he will separate the sheep from the goats. You won't be rewarded for sitting on your self-righteous thumbs. Repent! Matt 25:14 -
"¶For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods." "And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey." "Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents." "And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two." "But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money." "After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them." "And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more." "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." "He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them." "His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." "Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:" "And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine." "His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:" "Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury." "Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents." "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." "And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." "¶When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:" "And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left." "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:" "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:" "Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." "Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?" "When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?" "Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?" "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:" "I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not." "Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?" "Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me." "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."
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DN "I don't idolize Trump, nor does anybody on the Daily Wire."
@Jack-Alexander_J "The DW idolizes politics above Christ" because the "
You changed your ground. You accused DW of idolizing TRUMP. When I deny this you call me a lair and assert something irrelevant to your charge of idolizing Trump.
"DW does not emphasize holiness, rather it focuses on CRITICAL COMMENTARY."
It is a political channel. That's not a crime. And it's pro-Christian, for that matter.
"Voting is giving your approval and validation"
It is not. It is a choice. Choose life.
"" If you can allow the country to go to hell without doing what you can to stop it, you're not putting the kingdom of God first, you won't be at peace in your heart, or in your neighborhood. And you shouldn't."
"You're wrong because the book of Revelations says that the last days, to the sinners, shall be days of sorrow and mourning."
How does that make me wrong? God prophesies that evil will come, that is not an excuse for not fighting evil. When He says "Occupy until I come" that does not mean occupy space.
"You need to evangelize (Matthew 24:14) and intercede for the lost.""Electing Trump as president will not take away the sins of those who sin."
I do those things. I also do good in the world. God doesn't call us to do evangelize and pray OR do good. He calls us to do all three. You spuriously condemn those who obey, while refusing to obey yourself.
"Electing Trump as president will not take away the sins of those who sin."
Neither will brushing my teeth. That is not a reason not to brush my teeth. Electing Trump will result in fewer abortions. You either care about that or you don't. Apathy is nothing to brag about.
" it's not possible to make this Earth perfectly just."
It is possible to improve the world around you, and it is always sin to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
"What matters is your relationship to Jesus Christ."
My relation to Jesus Christ is "servant". This means doing what He says to do.
"This is how Jesus thinks"
It's not your job to read Jesus' mind. It is our job to OBEY HIS COMMANDS. None of this is an argument against doing good in the world. And insofar as you are arguing against that, you're arguing against God.
"You're not the savior."
No, but I follow Him. You should try it.
"Why do you call me "self-righteous"? Am I self-righteous because I affirm God's standards of righteousness and it makes you uncomfortable?"
No, you are self-righteous because you set up your disobedience as superior to obedience. I contradict you because you're wrong. I convict you of sin in word and deed. James 4:15 - "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." My emotions aren't engaged. You needn't project your guilt on me. I have comprehensively proven your objections irrational and unbiblical. You insist on a false dichotomy between piety and good deeds whereas biblical piety includes good deeds.
James 2:17-26:
"Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
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