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The NY Times has noticed the Right is winning the disinformation wars - and what they omit says why. The Headline at the Paper of Record is explicit: How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online. It’s a good read up to a point. The right wing...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 08:34 AM PDT
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There seems to be a certain amount of surprise in some quarters that Secret Service texts, Homeland Security texts, and now DOD messages have all gone missing, all of them from around January 6. Really? Surprise? It’s almost as though anything that...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 07:17 AM PDT
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With the January 6 hearings off and running, I thought I’d pass on a comment I posted in response to a Michelle Cottle opinion piece at The New York Times. I’ve expanded and edited it a bit since there’s no word limit here. She’s a member of the...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Jun 11, 2022 at 10:02 AM PDT
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D. Clay Ackerly, MD, MSc, an internal medicine and primary care physician practicing in Washington, DC is seeing something that is not good news. Via VOX: My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes. Emerging cases of Covid-19...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Jul 13, 2020 at 08:20 AM PDT
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Give Donald Trump credit. He has managed to generate outrage and consternation among even the most complacent, oblivious, and complicit people who were seemingly blind to the decades-long effort by conservatives and the dark money behind them to...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jun 03, 2020 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Even at the best of times, understanding what goes on in the minds of Trump supporters and conservatives in general is a puzzle. They profess beliefs that are disconnected from facts. They embrace behavior that puts them at risk. They turn a public...
by xaxnar
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on Sun May 24, 2020 at 07:26 AM PDT
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Mike McIntire and Nicholas Confessore have put together an article which lays out how Donald Trump is picking up on slanderous attacks on Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman’s character and running with them. The article is attempting to show how Trump is...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Nov 07, 2019 at 08:05 AM PST
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Stolen from Spocko over at Digby’s place.
by xaxnar
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on Tue Oct 08, 2019 at 07:37 AM PDT
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The initial jockeying for position in the race to the Democratic nomination has already begun — and here I am already falling into the horse race metaphor. It’s an easy trap to fall into and it serves us badly. If you can’t win the election, you...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jan 11, 2019 at 06:20 PM PST
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I wrote this on April 1, but decided to hold off publishing until April 2, lest anyone dismiss this as an April Fools Joke. It’s anything but.
Back at the beginning of last month, I posted a diary We Are On An Information War Battlefield And Most of...
by xaxnar
161 comments
on Sun Apr 02, 2017 at 09:22 AM PDT
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Digby has a call to arms over email.
You need to read this piece about "the bullshit email scandal" from Matt Yglesias and then send it around to your social media feeds and Clinton skeptics. Maybe a member of the media might even read it and...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Nov 04, 2016 at 04:08 PM PDT
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Leslie Salzillo's great diary breaks down the 'secret story' about the StopRush movement here. Rush Limbaugh Must Be Terrified - He's Releasing Secret 'Facts' About StopRush
She points out all the ...
by spocko
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on Wed Sep 24, 2014 at 06:53 PM PDT
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From a great diary here at Daily Kos. Industry Expert Says StopRush Has Destroyed Limbaugh's Business For Good by Proglegs
Speaking yesterday on the Ed Schultz radio show, industry insider ...
by spocko
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on Fri Apr 18, 2014 at 04:53 PM PDT
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The media has a hard time covering itself. If one of their members IS the story it is even harder. What to do when a member of the media calls for the genocide of an entire country?
Lee ...
by spocko
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on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 06:27 PM PDT
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Talk radio and cable TV hosts are whipping up the anger for town halls. Who will be financially responsible when someone is hurt or killed? The call to action on the part of talk ...
by spocko
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on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 11:35 AM PDT
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Some of you may recall when SF blogger spocko http://www.spockosbrain.com/ posted audio of hate speech on one of our local stations.
by tony the American Mutt
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on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 11:20 AM PST
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My take on the recent Spocko-KSFO radio station dustup:
Try pointing out to haters of their hate and they offer up more hate.
Point out this hate to advertisers supporting the specific medium of ...
by Cogitator
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on Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 11:49 AM PST
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About a week ago, after my appearance on Reliable Sources, I received an email from Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard. Noel was the right wing blogger that wrote what soon came to be the definitive right-...
by Mike Stark
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on Sun Jan 28, 2007 at 09:06 PM PST
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Spocko lost his hosting because of accusations of copyright violations. In the course of creating this post, ...
by Graphictruth
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on Sun Jan 28, 2007 at 10:04 AM PST
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I must stress the fact that there has not been ANYONE more committed to exposing the hypocrisy of ABC News or Disney Entertainment than John at ...
by paddykraska
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on Fri Jan 26, 2007 at 04:12 PM PST
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