Fake News
Overview
Quick note: for what would be direct links to fake news, I’ll be linking the archived articles instead. This is so that said fake news can be preserved, so the article won’t be edited to cover up the mistakes/lying later on. It’s also so that the outlet in-question doesn’t get any ad revenue from their misleading articles.
Before we delve through examples, what is “Fake News”? Claire Wardle of First Draft News (a project to fight mis + disinformation online) identifies seven types of fake news:
- satire or parody (“no intention to cause harm but has potential to fool”)
- false connection (“when headlines, visuals or captions don’t support the content”)
- misleading content (“misleading use of information to frame an issue or an individual”)
- false context (“when genuine content is shared with false contextual information”)
- impostor content (“when genuine sources are impersonated” with false, made-up sources)
- manipulated content (“when genuine information or imagery is manipulated to deceive”, as with a “doctored” photo)
- fabricated content (“new content is 100% false, designed to deceive and do harm”)
Some of these will be used to categorise different examples of fake news below.
For the errors that these outlets have made, consider how many happen in a certain direction and are only corrected later on more quietly after the disinformation has spread—if it’s even corrected at all.
Media Dogpiling
This section will be dedicated to times when multiple outlets dogpile individuals, groups or organisations based on fake news.
Goldie Taylor, editor at The Daily Beast race-baits and lies in her article about Covington kids, claiming that ‘had it been my son—my black son—with a group of black and brown boys swarming, intimidating and taunting an elderly white man, the story would have been very different’: https://web.archive.org/web/20190121032139/https://www.thedailybeast.com/boys-will-be-boys-covingtons-showed-yet-again-why-only-white-boys-can-smirk-through-that (https://archive.is/VCrT2)
This all does not match up with footage from the scene, which clearly shows Nathan Phillips approach them with a loud drum at 1:12:27: https://youtu.be/QwNyOD8FIQk?t=4333
Notice how much of the racial language from the militant activists is not mentioned at all in this article, nor other related articles. Instead, hatred is directed at a group of kids who stood there smiling whilst an old man beat his drum and shouted in their faces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwNyOD8FIQk
This sort of disinformation has led to the kids involved receiving death threats, and a few being doxed; the death threats of which led to police being stationed on their campus: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/01/21/unhinged-leftist-mobs-doxx-the-wrong-kid-in-the-aftermath-of-the-medias-false-c-n2539357 (https://archive.is/SrFw1)
It’s worth noting that some conservatives were part of the dogpile at first too, but have apologized since: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/conservative-press-apologizes-for-saying-students-harassed-a-native-american-protester (https://archive.is/NN29a)
CNN
CNN falsely labels Democrat Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam as a Republican whilst they cover his racist old photo: https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-scorns-cnn-false-republican-label-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-1315621 (https://archive.is/Idx6J)
This was corrected later: https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1091677009028280320 (https://archive.is/RQnw6)
CNN analyst claimed that he overheard two Republican Senators who supposedly said ‘is this stuff real? I haven’t heard any of this before. I thought it was all about a server. If half the stuff Schiff is saying is true, we’re up shit’s creek. Hope the White House has exculpatory evidence.’, then admitted later after getting all the Twitter likes that he made it all up: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/man-who-ran-white-house-press-shop-during-lewinsky-scandal-spreads-fake-news-about-trump-impeachment + https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/republican-senators-up-shits-creek/
CNN thinks they have an exclusive bombshell report, proving that the Trump campaign had exclusive access to the DNC emails before they were published on the internet; which would prove collusion between the Trump family, Wikileaks and Russia (US intelligence community thinks that Wikileaks is linked with Russian intelligence).
This was all based on an email from someone named “Michael J. Erickson” (CNN couldn’t identify this man), who sent this email (https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/939214967210987520) (https://archive.is/SGd1a) to Donald Trump Jr. offering a decryption key giving access to DNC emails that Wikileaks uploaded. CNN claimed that it was dated September 4th, 10 days before these emails were leaked online which would suggest a special relationship for collusion: https://web.archive.org/web/20171208195744/http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/email-effort-give-trump-campaign-wikileaks-documents/index.html (https://archive.is/vHmSk)
This was quickly debunked by the Washington Post, who pointed out it was sent on September 14th, when the documents were already public: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/email-offering-trump-campaign-wikileaks-documents-referred-to-information-already-public/2017/12/08/61dc2356-dc37-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html?utm_term=.d210bd111843 (https://archive.is/Iwzvu)
CNN journalist responsible for this “breaking” news tweeted a correction and amended the article, but the damage was still done because they rushed out a story. This quiet correction doesn’t do much: https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/939234692955607040 (https://archive.is/emm4L)
CNN’s Brian Stelter claims that multiple sources provided him with ‘incorrect info’: https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/939243564172824578 (https://archive.is/VoNGj)
CNN contributor Linda Sarsour responds to the murder of Shaima Alawadi, attempting to stir up trouble with a forged note saying “go back to your country, you terrorist”. This note was written by Alawadi’s husband to deflect from the fact that he murdered Alawadi in an honor killing by portraying it as a hate-crime. This was overlooked by Sarsour and she has neither apologised nor corrected her mistakes:
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/05/my-take-my-hijab-is-my-hoodie/ (http://archive.is/G541o)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraqi-immigrant-gets-26-years-to-life-for-killing-wife-in-california/ (https://archive.is/ifAdv)
http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-murder-el-cajon-20140623-story.html
CNN’s Chris Cuomo claims that it’s ‘illegal to possess’ WikiLeaks Clinton emails, documents from John Podestra’s inbox released daily just before the US election:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-beYBLrkNAg
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/17/remember-its-illegal-to-possess-wikileaks-clinton-emails-but-its-different-for-the-media-says-cnns-chris-cuomo/?utm_term=.b9fbe8f59534 (http://archive.is/Zu4IT)
These emails contained questionable material about Hillary and her campaign. Chris Cuomo arguably knew this and really didn’t want people looking for themselves:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/07/the-44-most-damning-stories-from-wikileaks/
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wikileaks-dnc-and-cnn-colluded-on-questions-for-trump-cruz/article/2606651
CNN’s Chris Cuomo claims that the 1st Amendment doesn’t cover hate speech:
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/may/07/chris-cuomo/cnns-chris-cuomo-first-amendment-doesnt-cover-hate/ (http://archive.is/LFbPz)
CNN Host Chris Cuomo downplays the downturn of the economy and claims that it had nothing to do with Obama:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/13991/cuomo-94-million-out-labor-force-has-nothing-do-robert-kraychik (http://archive.is/f4s6c)
Chris Cuomo wasn‘t self-quarantining, despite a CNN article acting like he was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIQjwoFk-rk
CNN puts forward the opinion that everyone should have a shot at paid family leave, Trump puts it in his budget, then CNN puts out an article against that claiming it hurts women:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171126211034/http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/04/opinions/paid-family-leave-for-all-boushey-bethell/index.html (https://archive.is/AoxNB)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171126211325/http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/trump-paid-leave-ivanka/index.html (https://archive.is/sNbEo)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171126211411/http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/30/opinions/trump-budget-paid-leave-calder-opinion/index.html (https://archive.is/VfL1t)
CNN claims rape is pre-existing condition under ACHA (American Health Care Act):
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/04/health/pre-existing-condition-rape-domestic-violence-insurance/index.html (http://archive.is/qJPzW)
Articles debunking this lie:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/06/no-the-gop-health-bill-doesnt-classify-rape-or-sexual-assault-as-a-preexisting-condition/?utm_term=.8155eaa4b52d (http://archive.is/UpEmw)
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/05/blog-posting/headlines-say-gop-bill-makes-sexual-assault-pre-ex/ (http://archive.is/3E5i8)
CNN’s Don Lemon comments on racist Chicago Torture against a disabled boy that was livestreamed on Facebook: ‘I don’t think it was evil’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc5gU5FNaLA
Senior Legal Analyst at CNN Jeffrey Toobin didn’t think it was a hate crime either, despite racial slurs and repeated yelling of ‘fuck white people’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPM_s_rjZM
Partial video of stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFX8f3trol8
CNN gets basic information about guns wrong:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/15/cnn-botches-basic-gun-fact-refuses-correct-error/ (http://archive.is/B9VF8)
http://freebeacon.com/issues/wall-street-journal-reporter-gets-gun-law-wrong-on-cnn/ (http://archive.is/pH5NR)
CNN attempts to fearmonger with attachable grenade launchers, which are practically illegal:
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10/07/cnn-mocked-with-hilarious-reaction-for-showing-rifle-with-grenade-launcher-while-talking-bump-stocks/ (http://archive.is/pH5NR)
CNN manipulatively edited and presented a clip to make it sound like a woman calling for peace, when she was encouraging violence in the suburbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_iXfbxfwDA
This was during the Milwaukee protests, where a policeman was hit in the head with a brick, 8 businesses were burnt down and a squad car was destroyed:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/8355/7-things-you-need-know-about-milwaukee-riots-michael-qazvini (http://archive.is/ySBad)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-milwaukee-cop-sylville-smith-trial-20170611-story.html (http://archive.is/jLFCL)
CNN panelists make Gallup poll on lack of trust towards the media all about Trump, whilst ignoring various other large factors:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2016/09/19/cnn-panel-makes-gallup-poll-lack-trust-media-all-about-trump-ignore
CNN article complains about Trump calling protesters terrorists, yet the one below it titled ‘At least 45 arrested after protesters throw explosives at police’: https://archive.is/jtCtF#selection-1393.0-1417.64
CNN commentator Sally Kohn claims that pro-speech conservatives are just afraid of multiculturalism, and that she’s glad that conservatives feel that their ideas are under attack:
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8140 (http://archive.is/mXfqB)
http://www.dailywire.com/news/9236/sally-kohn-rips-free-speech-whites-hank-berrien#exit-modal (http://archive.is/gCJQz)
CNN Commentator Sally Kohn claims that Trump would act like a dictator, instituting internment camps and suspending habeas corpus:
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/cnns-kohn-claims-trump-would-put-people-internment-camps
CNN commentator claims criticism of Hillary = sexism:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2016/02/02/caucus-night-cnn-analyst-slams-hillary-critics-sexist
CNN political commentator Marc Lamont Hill accuses a panelist of racism after he cites NYPD stats that found NYC’s black population committing a disproportionate amount of crime to their percentage of the population (prone != inherent, which would be racist.):
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2016/07/11/cnns-hill-goes-berzerk-after-houck-recalls-blacks-commit-more
CNN contributor W. Kamau Bell says Michael Phelps should give up the honor of being chosen as the flag-bearer in Rio Olympics because: “No offense, but right now America has enough tall, successful, rich white guys hogging the spotlight trying to make America great … again.”:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/04/opinions/michael-phelps-flag-bearer-w-kamau-bell/ (http://archive.is/zHwh4)
CNN removes “Crooked” from a tweet by Trump:
https://www.snopes.com/cnn-took-crooked-out-of-trump-tweet-about-clinton/ (http://archive.is/NyoJa)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/28/cnr.06.html (http://archive.is/TqZs9)
CNN (and MSNBC) claim that Hillary’s bad health is just a conspiracy: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/22/politics/hillary-clinton-health-conspiracy-theory-explained/index.html (http://archive.is/9iOJW)
A few days later, it’s confirmed:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/11/health/hillary-clinton-health/index.html (http://archive.is/BNjhe)
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2016/09/12/cnn-msnbc-sprinted-spin-hillarys-911-health-episode-just
CNN Buries Buzzfeed Over Fake Trump Story:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/12354/ugly-cnn-turns-buzzfeed-over-fake-news-trump-james-barrett (http://archive.is/tuArA)
CNN has potentially covered up evidence against Joe Biden concerning his sexual assault allegations: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/04/24/shock-video-joe-bidens-accusers-mother-talking-cnn-1993
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/24/new-evidence-tara-reade-joe-biden/
Video on this: https://youtu.be/e9N3eKTzQdY?t=148
CNN holds split-screen “satellite” interview between Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield in same parking lot:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/nancy-grace-ashleigh-banfield-cnn-parking-lot/315472/ (https://archive.is/DglAt)
CNN changes headline which before correctly identified Antifa as violent:
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/cnn-scrubs-headline-correctly-identified-antifa-violent
CNN tweets out two fake quotes:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18285/another-cnn-fail-cnn-tweets-out-fake-lincoln-quote-aaron-bandler
CNN devotes an incredibly small amount of time to Clinton Uranium revelations:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/24/cnn-devoted-just-four-minutes-to-clinton-uranium-revelations/ (http://archive.is/qSKnd)
CNN host & analyst mock white people who say they’re discriminated against (which they are in terms of affirmative actions, quotas, etc.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8B5bbl4Uj8
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22777/cnn-host-analyst-mock-white-people-who-feel-james-barrett (http://archive.is/MVsKR)
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria claims that Trump’s core-voters are stupid, racist, misogynistic, anti-immigrant bigots:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-xenos/2017/07/31/cnns-zakaria-trump-won-because-bigots
A compilation of lies from a desperate CNN:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/16711/unreliable-sources-cnn-caught-lying-about-fox-news-john-nolte (http://archive.is/nkY1v)
CNN/MSNBC ‘Collusion’ Montage; May, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnBavGpuKzI
CNN’s Paul Cruickshank suggests Manchester Bomber could’ve been a right-wing false flag:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-paul-cruickshank-suggests-right-wing-false-flag-during-unfolding-manchester-report/ (http://archive.is/bNLgc)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/23/in-absurd-pivot-cnn-suggests-manchester-was-right-wing-false-flag/ (http://archive.is/VfiET)
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos claims on CNN that his opponents want to “make America white again”:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/15/ramos-the-fact-is-this-country-is-changing-video
New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman tells CNN that America is racist and that Trump’s rise is “ultimately about race”, ignoring the poor financial situations of many Americans who voted for him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r0NqSDj6fw
CNN ‘calling out’ Ted Cruz for supposedly not talking about his record on gun policy on air: https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/964142014655881216 (https://archive.is/Ph1lY)
When he did, and CNN didn’t air it: http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/16/cnn-lie-ted-cruz-afraid-talk-record-guns/ (https://archive.is/Jtf9N)
CNN’s Brian Stelter showcases a deceptive edit of NRA’s representative supposedly claiming that the media loves mass shootings, when she said that they love the ratings from said shootings: https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/968201664065765376
‘Trump has finally condemned white supremacists… on Hannity.’ ― Jim Acosta; CNN “journalist” on Oct 2nd 2020: https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1311846345674829825 (https://archive.is/4jZyv)
‘Trump condemns KKK and white supremacists commenting on Charlottesville: “Racism is evil.”‘ ― Jim Acosta back in 2017: https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/897136278277410817 (https://archive.is/zQceE)
CNN contributor Brian Fallon claims on Twitter that Charlottesville rally organiser is also organising Boston free-speech rally:
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/896442539892408320 (https://archive.fo/V9j46)
http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2017/08/boston_free_speech_rally_organ.html (https://archive.fo/90Eit)
CNN complains about distrust of the media, blaming it on Trump: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/06/11/reliable-sources-trump-feeds-distrust-in-news-media.cnn (http://archive.is/IIft7)
CNN cutting feeds/mics of people that disagree with them
CNN cuts feed of congressman when he starts talking about WikiLeaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8cOLIOaikU
CNN cuts feed of soldier talking about Ron Paul’s foreign policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_AQnegSXMw
Big compilation (includes MSNBC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYRN8Clddw
CNN cuts feed when Obamacare victim starts to share her story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzlcXOFs5n8
Questionable things CNN has done
CNN blackmails a kid over a meme:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/how-a-cnn-investigation-set-off-an-internet-meme-war.html (http://archive.is/Jnpwo)
Useless news from CNN
‘Trump gets 2 scoops of ice cream, everyone else gets 1’: https://web.archive.org/https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/trump-time-magazine-ice-cream/index.html (https://archive.is/eWrSx)
CNN also devoted a whole two segments to Trump’s privilege because he ate 2 scoops of ice cream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixEahmx0Btw
‘Feathers fly over Donald Trump eating fried chicken with a fork’: https://web.archive.org/https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/donald-trump-eats-kfc-knife-fork/index.html (https://archive.is/r8XPL)
‘Trump sips water during speech like Rubio’: https://web.archive.org/https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/11/16/trump-drinks-water-speech-rubio-comparison-moos-erin-dnt.cnn (http://archive.is/ItCz5)
‘A 12 Diet Cokes-a-day habit like Trump’s is worth changing’: https://web.archive.org/https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/11/health/diet-coke-trump-health-effects/index.html (https://archive.is/wLhLb)
Fox News
Fox News promotes “Obama’s fake birth certificate” conspiracy theory:
http://www.huffpostbrasil.com/entry/fox-news-donald-trump-birtherism_us_57e54a06e4b08d73b830d54e (https://archive.is/kW17m)
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-on-birtherism-wrong-and-wrong/
Fox News fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry during 2004 presidential campaign:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/04/digitalmedia.uselections2004 (http://archive.is/1zFMa)
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/02/nation/na-fox2 (https://archive.is/j5jZl)
Fox News falsely claims that CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS and ABC weren’t reporting on Tea Party protest on US Captiol lawn, using a still picture taken from a CNN broadcast covering the event:
https://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/WaPo_defends_running_Fox_ad.html (https://archive.is/8YLs8)
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/18/networks-respond-to-false-fox-ad/ (https://archive.is/CLVDZ)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090922183947/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/in_full_page_ad_fox_asks_where_were_other_media_on_912_the_answer_they_were_there_136133.asp
Wikipedia Articles about Fox News edited from IP addresses owned by Fox News:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/aug/15/wikipedia.corporateaccountability (https://archive.is/AQY43)
Fox News calls and refuses to change Arizona as a Biden win in the 2020 election despite it being possible at the time that Trump could win it: https://www.newsweek.com/nate-silver-wants-ap-fox-news-retract-calling-arizona-biden-1545019 (http://archive.is/ozBbM)
Fox News Graphic Said that Trump Cut U.S. Aid to ‘3 Mexican Countries’: https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/03/31/fox-news-graphic-says-trump-cut-u-s-aid-to-three-mexican-countries/ (https://archive.is/p2Et1)
Fox & Friends shows graphic claiming Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/426276-fox-friends-accidentally-shows-graphic-saying-ruth-bader-ginsburg-is-dead (http://archive.is/RgED5)
Video of this: https://twitter.com/Pappiness/status/1087386282517557248
MSNBC
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry: Saying ‘Hard Work’ Is Bad Because It’s ‘Offensive to Slaves’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8OxO5bnU_4
Melissa Harris Perry on the ‘politics of black hair’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTP96_61sGc
Melissa Harris Perry wears tampons as earrings in protest of Texas abortion bill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Imj58xpug
MSNBC Panel Makes fun of Romney’s adopted grandchild, because he’s black:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBXeLNsuAgU
Karen Hunter continuously implies that people who disagree with Obama are racists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SVZKzZUbOM
Al Sharpton struggles to read teleprompter continuously on multiple occasions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggHWRpsMEmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6MTlT2Ye8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbaR4SBAr4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Q5sE8u6ek
Struggles with touchscreens too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET-124I5Qz4
MSNBC put incendiary device under car to fake a crash and create a controversy:
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-10/news/mn-1335_1_gm-pickup (https://archive.is/miPKl)
It’s our “job” to “control exactly what people think”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9ce-yMEfc
MSNBC’s Schmidt, Wallace Lose It When Guest Mentions Uranium One:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/11/02/fantasyland-nonsense-talk-msnbcs-schmidt-wallace-lose-it-when-guest
Former MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson: “the police are the manifestation of terror against black life”:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2016/09/23/cnn-dyson-claims-police-are-manifestation-terror-against-black
MSNBC peddles feminist myth of “1 in 4 women being the victims of rape on campus” (BBC was guilty of this too) skipping BJS/DOJ statistics countering the narrative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLxiekhztk
Related government statistics: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5176 — 7.6/1000 & 6.1/1000 != 1 in 4. Still bad, though not nearly as bad as feminists desperately want it to be.
MSNBC’s Schmidt Wallace Loses It When Guest Mentions Uranium One:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/11/02/fantasyland-nonsense-talk-msnbcs-schmidt-wallace-lose-it-when-guest
Former MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson: “the police are the manifestation of terror against black life”:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2016/09/23/cnn-dyson-claims-police-are-manifestation-terror-against-black
MSNBC tries to tar law-abiding gun-owners who protested Obama as racist, also edit clip to match their narrative:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2009/08/18/msnbc-obamacare-protesters-racist-including-black-gun-owner
Second Amendment Foundation’s Response:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2009/08/20/gun-rights-group-calls-out-msnbc-claiming-gun-carrying-protesters
NBC claims that Google pulled ads from The Federalist and ZeroHedge after NBC contacted them, in an attempt to suppress them: https://web.archive.org/web/20210313083302/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-bans-two-websites-its-ad-platform-over-protest-articles-n1231176 (http://archive.is/S68Ke)
NBC in this article claims that both are ‘far-right’ websites. ZeroHedge is a libertarian outlet, which had brilliant financial commentary during the Great Recession. The Federalist is an outlet that espouses traditionalist values. Though you may disagree with these things, that doesn’t make them far-right.
According to Google Communications, ‘The Federalist was never demonetized’ … ‘We worked with them to address issues on their site related to the comments section’: https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1272997425821540352
Article on this: https://reason.com/2020/06/17/google-the-federalist-nbc-news-demonetize-ads/ (https://archive.is/Tisol)
MSNBC falsely labels racist George Wallace as a Republican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9S2KjrnGag
George Wallace was a Democrat throughout his life, up until his passing in 1998: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace
Rachel Maddow
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow peddles conspiracy theories to defend Anthony Weiner, convicted of sexting minors with pictures (TYT also defended him from these allegations):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKrgSMAhG_Y
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Spouts the Wage Gap Myth, also complains about interruptions while interrupting continuously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDb7jJO_yyo
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow falls for Christian conservatives satire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czY3y1lttaI
MSNBC over-hypes Trump’s tax returns, then when they get his 2005 tax returns it turns out to be a massive nothing-burger, showing that he pays far more in percentage than Mitt Romney and even Bernie Sanders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eB-xjDMGdQ
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/03/15/rachel-maddow-fell-for-an-obvious-setup-on-trumps-tax-return-n2299410 (https://archive.is/1Dc2o)
NBC town hall was claimed as consisting of an audience of “undecided Florida voters”, which was a lie: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/519955-undecided-voters-at-nbc-biden-town-hall-once-told-msnbc-they-were-voting-for (https://archive.is/HTGDZ)
Chris Matthew
MSNBC’s Chris Matthew gets a ‘thrill’ up his leg whenever Obama speaks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9fpKVXxCc – original clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEJVvxADKAM – compilation (sound warning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAwAchZcuPA – tells reporter to go to hell when bringing it up
‘My job is to make Obama presidency successful’ – Chris Matthew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFJvlzDpey4 — not to report accurately on current events?
MSNBC’s Chris Matthew: Obama Could Lose Because White Voters Who Voted For Him Are Now Racists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-YRZZ6g-js
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews compares Mitt Romney to the KKK:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/chris-matthews-walks-back-kkk-accusation-against-romney/334248/ (https://archive.is/ISAVt)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/chris-matthews-apologizes-mitt-romney-msnbc-274227 (https://archive.is/xpjNQ)
More examples of Chris Matthews using the race card on his and Obama’s critics: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2013/11/07/top-20-worst-chris-matthews-quotes-calling-obama-critics-racist
MSNBC tweets about right-wing being racist and hating a Cherrios ad when practically all of them weren’t bothered:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/msnbc-rnc-twitter-war_n_4696544 (https://archive.is/hznTC)
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-tweets-about-right-wing-hating-bi-racial-couple-deletes-and-apologizes/ (https://archive.is/n7418)
MSNBC implies Star Wars is racist because Darth Vader wears black: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/msnbcs-melissa-harris-perry-implies-star-wars-is-racist-because-darth-vader-is-a-black-guy-a6775406.html (https://archive.is/vJF6Q)
NBC deceptively quotes Zimmerman in an attempt to paint him as a racist with the following sentence: ‘“This guy looks like he’s up to no good … he looks black,” Zimmerman told a police dispatcher from his car.’: https://web.archive.org/web/20120322121835/http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/21/10791755-neighbor-comes-to-defense-of-trayvon-martins-shooter (https://archive.is/XS0Tr)
Full context of quote: ‘Zimmerman: Hey we’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there’s a real suspicious guy, uh, [near] Retreat View Circle, urn, the best address I can give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like he’s up to no good, or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy is he white, black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.’:
https://archive.org/stream/326700-full-transcript-zimmerman/326700-full-transcript-zimmerman_djvu.txt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj7qEcD8R-8
NBC also airs this quote with doctored audio, whilst refusing to acknowledge error:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/matt-philbin/2013/06/20/shameless-nbc-never-tells-viewers-it-smeared-zimmerman-doctored
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/randy-hall/2012/03/30/msnbc-fixes-false-report-which-made-zimmerman-look-racist-doesnt
NBC’s Brian Williams lies about being on a helicopter that was under fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7v4w8A3T_s – original clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-WtAFa8Jlo – video on how his story changed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCl4Y5-mfL0 – Brian Williams’ apology, recant of Iraq story
Article on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/business/media/brian-williams-helicopter-incident-in-iraq.html (https://archive.is/84jUS)
MSNBC cuts Lindsey Graham’s mic when he brings up Clinton campaign meeting Russians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORt1SfjwCdw
NBC4 Columbus airs a clip stating the shotgun being shot is an AR-15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y2aSiGBvao
The Young Turks (TYT)
The Young Turks is a “progressive” news/opinion show that was started in 2002, making it the longest-running political talk show in the world. It has been included here as they often act as if they’re a news outlet.
According to Paste Magazine, the name was chosen because it is a ‘seemingly innocuous colloquialism’: https://web.archive.org/web/20190328230829/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/why-cenk-uygur-is-getting-confronted-about-the-nam.html
According to Uygur, ‘Young Turks means young progressives looking to overthrow the established system’: https://dailytrojan.com/2016/09/12/young-turks-films-live-campus-discusses-election/ (https://archive.is/vyYuE#selection-951.0-951.182)
However, this doesn’t match up. Before establishing The Young Turks as a news/opinion show, Cenk had a personal website by a similar name; “youngturk.com” where he made sexist and creepy comments. He dismissed these comments later as being from when he was a conservative, meaning that the name probably didn’t come from the colloquial term referring to young “progressives” overthrowing the establishment: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/justice-democrats-ousts-cenk-uygur_n_5a3eb4d1e4b025f99e178181 (https://archive.is/HhO3Z#selection-1807.0-1815.64)
This has still stirred a great deal of controversy as the show shares the same name with the original Young Turks movement who committed the Armenian Genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks#1915%E2%80%931918:_Armenian_Genocide
As well as this, in 1991 Cenk Uygur wrote an article for The Daily Pennsylvanian where he promoted Armenian Genocide denial: https://web.archive.org/web/20190406114936/https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/pennsylvania?a=d&d=tdp19911122-01.2.24
Cenk also sent a response letter into Salon in 1999 claiming ‘After investigating the issue, [Cenk’s professor] came back and said that he could not find one non-Armenian scholar who believed this was a genocide, but since “it looked like a duck, it walked like a duck and it talked like a duck, it must be a duck.” If that’s not the product of excellent propaganda, I don’t know what is.’: http://www.salon.com/1999/06/16/punk_2/ (http://archive.is/EYhv0#selection-2391.0-2401.12)
Cenk’s blog post on this: https://web.archive.org/web/20000115191936/http://youngturk.com/newpage15.htm
Cenk has since distanced himself from his comments in 1991 and 1999, stating in 2016 that ‘My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about’: https://web.archive.org/web/20190626085246/https://legacy.tyt.com/2016/04/22/rescinding-daily-pennsylvanian-article/
More on this controversy: https://www.ora.tv/thelowdownwithlalo/article/2016/4/24/cenk_uygur_still_will_not_recognize_the_armenian_genocide (https://archive.is/Mn2tn)
‘The Young Turks’ Progressive Founder Urged His Staff Not To Unionize’: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-young-turks-progressive-founder-urged-his-staff-not-to-unionize_n_5e540686c5b6ad3de3823a32 (http://archive.is/RSDbn)
The Young Turks often complains about various organisations like Learn Liberty being funded by the Koch brothers, but this ignores TYT’s funding:
- $20 Million from 3L Capital, Greycroft, WndrCo and e.ventures: https://www.businessinsider.com/young-turks-fundraising-venture-capital-criticism-2017-8 (https://archive.is/wip/6Sryh)
- YouTube: https://www.axios.com/youtube-young-turks-local-news-academy-05829e4b-e3f6-4aa1-8f15-d1ac13b60ccd.html (https://archive.is/znYyD)
- Buddy Roemer: https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/04/buddy-roemer-firm-invests-4-million-in-young-turks-network-186934 (https://archive.is/vDmdF)
A fantastic Medium post delving into more detail on where some of this corporate funding comes from: https://medium.com/@RobletoFire/the-ideological-failure-of-the-young-turks-90c15ddde408
TYT has also partnered with AJ+ (Al Jezeera): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYC1IpG-8bg
AJ+ & Al Jezeera) are funded by the Qatari government: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/30/al-jazeera-independence-questioned-qatar (https://archive.is/DC655#selection-1311.0-1311.119)
Al Jezeera is freqently criticized as a propaganda outlet, for its manipulation of coverage to suit Qatar’s political interests: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-cables-al-jazeera-qatari-foreign-policy (https://archive.is/AI6NC#selection-1187.0-1193.234)
More examples can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism (https://archive.is/EpwH4#selection-649.0-885.4)
Co-founder Cenk Uygur has claimed without a source that TYT is targeted at the 60% of Americans who hold “progressive” views: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/cenk-uygurs-the-young-turks-this-youtube-news-bulletin-is-challenging-the-fogeys-of-us-tv-9761069.html (https://archive.is/xBovV)
However, only 8% of Americans are “progressives”: https://hiddentribes.us/pdf/hidden_tribes_report.pdf
The Young Turks puts out a poll with the question ‘Do you support a federal ban on assault weapons?’. It backfires, with 85% of people out of 664.6k voters voting “No”: https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks/posts/10155466273634205 (http://archive.is/y8LWQ)
Cenk Uygur of TYT defends Anthony Weiner from allegations of sexting a minor (Rachel Maddow from MSNBC did this too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3UqiFDd3dM
Cenk Urgur claims Sarah Palin said ‘BLM aren’t people’ when she said ‘peaceful’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7qNmgc_eCQ
Even HuffPo heard it as ‘peaceful’, suggesting Cenk had his mind elsewhere: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sarah-palin-blm-thugs_us_5783bc15e4b0344d51501e7b (https://archive.is/QBvzT)
This was corrected afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lSGtuRnYo
Misc
Great video covering the general poor attitude & fake news produced by The Young Turks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXyiUi5fPWc
Another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNLnOy_3r2Q
BBC
The BBC is a state-owned broadcaster supported mainly by TV licences which are a requirement for British residents: https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence (https://archive.is/SF6kR)
TV Licensing extorts this from them, then puts this money towards the BBC effectively helping to create a government-sanctioned monopoly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom
This can especially be a problem when the BBC ends up spending ‘£28m of licence-fee payers’ money gagging 500 staff’ in relation to the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10128702/BBC-spent-28m-of-licence-fee-payers-money-gagging-500-staff.html (https://archive.is/JFxmq)
In ‘Do Those on Top Deserve Their Success?’ a question is ‘Should we reward talent and hard work?’: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084x2tp (https://archive.is/UjSml)
BBC Northampton tweets fake news that Trump was injured in arm by gunfire, without fact-checking:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/757089/BBC-Donald-Trump-injured-gunfire-mistake (https://archive.is/br2PF)
BBC peddles fake news of ‘college rape epidemic’ on US college campuses, a feminist myth (MSNBC did this too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1sNaLeGKc8
Video debunking this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XMuTAomNk
BBC’s Panorama broadcasts fake footage of child labor in India, claiming that they’re being exploited by Primark:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-crisis-over-fake-sweatshop-scene-in-primark-documentary-2298764.html (https://archive.is/aNRIP)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120911094612/http://www.primarkresponse.com/panorama/timeline-of-events/
On the 20th anniversary Bhopal Disaster, the BBC broadcast an interview with a Dow spokesman who was soon after ‘unmasked as a fraudster’: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/dec/13/mondaymediasection5 (https://archive.is/l6vbx)
The BBC quickly apologised afterwards: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ifs/hi/newsid_4060000/newsid_4065600/4065673.stm (https://archive.is/9qjMu)
BBC failed to vet a man who called himself Guy Soma who wasn’t that person: https://youtu.be/e6Y2uQn_wvc
BBC claims 95% of charity aid donated to Ethiopia during famine in 1985 was used for weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFm_gfIh7nk
BBC forced to apologise: https://youtu.be/qk_eLynCx08
BBC reporter lies about Hungarian police supposedly pushing immigrants onto train tracks: https://youtu.be/-Sv3oXGLNVY
Racism & Race-Baiting
‘Is it OK to use black emojis and gifs?’: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-40931479/is-it-ok-to-use-black-emojis-and-gifs (http://archive.is/oDqWR)
Oddities
‘Should I Marry My Cousin?’ — BBC normalising cousin relationships:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p056gvhm/should-i-marry-my-cousin (http://archive.is/a1GCU)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hiba-maroof-should-i-marry-my-cousin-bbc-three-documentary-bradford-genetic-a7830501.html (http://archive.is/CLoPP)
Bradford has a lot of marriages between first cousins in their Pakistani community, leading to birth defects spiking to nearly double the national average:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-23183102 (http://archive.is/H1Unk)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/birth-defects-risk-for-married-cousins-estimated-in-uk-1.1356317 (http://archive.is/z4CFJ)
Misc
Blue Peter is a program funded through tax-payer money funnelled through TVL toward the BBC, so I’m including this section here.
Blue Peter holds a competition to name the new cat on the program, audience votes for “Cookie”, they name it “Socks” instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20090104232758/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7005053.stm (https://archive.is/2q6I)
Blue Peter admits rigging phone-in competition after technical faults: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/mar/15/broadcastingethics.bbc (https://archive.is/2kEnY)
Huffington Post
HuffPo’s David Fagin publishes an article claiming Al Franken (who groped and kissed a woman without consent) was framed by two Republicans, then promptly removes it:
http://archive.is/zrdg1
Huff Po writer Alyson Inouye peddles myth that a men’s rights activist edited Star Wars: The Last Jedi to exclude women, without evidence: https://twitter.com/aloeverasol/status/954334818715648000 (https://archive.is/jk6xl)
Racism & Race-Baiting
‘So-Called ‘Free Speech’ Isn’t Worth Fighting For’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171219235101/http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/davide-mastracci/so-called-free-speech-isnt-worth-fighting-for_a_23312071/?ncid=tweetlnkcahpmg00000002 (https://archive.is/Jkstm)
From the article: ‘“Free speech” is too costly for the disenfranchised, and this will never change when the system in power profits from this imbalance.’ This implies that who he regards as the “disenfranchised” are too weak to handle what he considers mean words. This is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Huffington Post platformed this man, who is a communist as his avatar shows: https://archive.is/DiI7g
‘Why Some White People Don’t See White Privilege’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130171830/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-prevalence-why-we-whites-dont-see-white-privilege_us_5970cb92e4b04dcf308d2aa1 (https://archive.is/1S7j6)
This source interestingly routinely quotes Ethno-Marxist Peggy McIntosh as an authority.
‘How White People Should Write About Ferguson’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130172200/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-mannell/how-white-people-should-w_b_5698573.html (https://archive.is/5sjea)
‘An Open Letter to My White Biz Besties’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130172547/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/apryl-beverly/letter-to-my-white-biz-besties_b_9293090.html (https://archive.is/db9a0)
‘I Sometimes Don’t Want to Be White Either’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130172940/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-michael/i-sometimes-dont-want-to-be-white-either_b_7595852.html (https://archive.is/eNHwb)
‘Do Latino Businesses Pander to White Customers’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130173124/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-cubias/do-latino-businesses-pand_b_6740772.html (https://archive.is/oNT6g)
‘White Fragility is Racial Violence’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130173214/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/amelia-shroyer/white-fragility-is-racial_b_8151054.html (https://archive.is/o7NXQ)
‘SNL Warns White People Won’t Be Calling The Shots For Long’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130173928/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/snl-white-video_n_5935428 (https://archive.is/diRvx)
‘White Supremacy and Devaluation of African [Heritage] Lives’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130173959/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-j-blumenfeld/white-supremacy-and-devaluation-of-african-heritage-lives_b_7931458.html (https://archive.is/iway0)
‘White America, Wake The F*ck Up, The Deaths Of Alton Sterling And Philando Castile ARE Your Problem’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130180254/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-damiani/white-people-wake-the-fuc_b_10898332.html (https://archive.is/h9Uys)
‘Irrelevant Things I Learned From White People That Increased My Social Capital’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130180417/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-plummer/irrelevant-things-i-learn_b_5787942.html (https://archive.is/IfWLZ)
‘Study Shows Most White Americans Don’t Have Close Black Friends’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130180503/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/white-americans-black-friends_n_5733250 (https://archive.is/jWvvu)
‘11 Things White People Need to Realize About Race’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130180605/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/11-things-white-people-need-to-realize-about-race_us_55b0009be4b07af29d576702 (https://archive.is/2EtbG)
‘White Millenials Explain What It Means To Be White In America, And You Should Listen’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130180735/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mtv-white-people_us_55a6b116e4b04740a3dec084 (https://archive.is/b2qhV)
‘White People, If You’re Not Part of the Solution, You’re Part of the Problem’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130180853/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-fleshman/white-people-if-youre-not-part-of-the-solution-youre-part-of-the-problem_b_7665452.html (https://archive.is/isi5U)
‘Callused Hands: The Shrinking Working Class White Vote’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130181318/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/terrence-chappell/31-things-white-people-sh_b_7910952.html (https://archive.is/eyXbi)
‘Why Does My White Church Have to Talk About Race’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130181226/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-dominique-c-atchison/why-does-my-white-church-_b_8761316.html (https://archive.is/tsWpm)
‘31 Things White People Should Culturally Appropriate’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130181318/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/terrence-chappell/31-things-white-people-sh_b_7910952.html (https://archive.is/ALzud)
The Guardian
Racism & Race-Baiting
‘My fellow white people: if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130181005/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/06/white-people-solution-problem-munroe-bergdorf-racist (https://archive.is/il7AF)
‘Of course all white people are racist’:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171107211633/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/jul/03/raceintheuk.comment (https://archive.is/oJPx1)
‘Why white people aren’t as cool as black people’: https://web.archive.org/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/14/why-white-people-arent-as-cool-as-black-people (https://archive.is/JsAn3)
Sexism
‘You might not think you’re a sexist – until you take a look at your bookshelf’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104174341/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/18/you-might-not-think-youre-a-sexist-until-you-take-a-look-at-your-bookshelf (https://archive.is/728GQ) — according to Jessica Valenti if you happen to follow mainly men on Twitter you’re a sexist. Same with books, art, etc.
Also interesting to note: ‘culture produced by women or people of color is seen as specific to their gender or racial identity.’
This is a sentiment created by these regressive-types, through continuous identity politics. In other words, Valenti is whining about a symptom when those obsessives like her created the problem.
‘Star Wars is a game-changer, awakening the feminist force in little girls everywhere’: https://web.archive.org/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/30/star-wars-is-a-game-changer-awakening-the-feminist-force-in-little-girls-everywhere (https://archive.is/WgWQz)
Useless Articles
‘Guardian Shop’s T-shirt sizes don’t fit with its feminist image’: https://web.archive.org/web/20160107074458/http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/30/guardian-shop-t-shirt-sizes-feminist (https://archive.is/t61zI)
‘Facebook’s gender identities are a good start – but why stop at 56?’: https://web.archive.org/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/14/facebook-gender-identity-56-transgender-cis (https://archive.is/MEVPb)
‘Tea is a national disgrace’: https://web.archive.org/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/tea-national-disgrace-beverage-british (https://archive.is/79BsK)
‘I want sex with someone, but not my husband’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104173833/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/21/i-want-sex-with-someone-but-not-my-husband-open-relationships (https://archive.is/vEcJh)
‘Three simple rules for giving compliments without causing offence’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104173859/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/10/compliments-tinder-charlotte-proudman-offended (https://archive.is/KGral)
‘Miley Cyrus’s twerking routine was cultural appropriation at its worst’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104173919/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/27/miley-cyrus-twerking-cultural-appropriation (https://archive.is/Q4fZh)
‘Is it OK for a Guardian-reading leftie to play Grand Theft Auto’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104173938/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/09/grand-theft-auto-guardian-leftie-play (https://archive.is/MFv2k)
‘Shaving my head in college taught me to be fearless – and I had more sex’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104174003/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/09/shaving-my-head-in-college-taught-to-be-fearless-and-i-had-more-sex (https://archive.is/Ip1mB)
General Insanity
‘How can our future Mars colonies be free of sexism and racism?’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104171726/https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2015/may/06/how-can-our-future-mars-colonies-be-free-of-sexism-and-racism (https://archive.is/brcB8)
‘What if the mega-rich just want to rocket ships to escape the Earth they destroy?’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104171918/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/mega-rich-rocket-ships-escape-earth (https://archive.is/N4LtP)
‘A moment that changed me – my husband fell in love with a bonobo’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104172010/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/01/my-husband-fell-in-love-bonobo (https://archive.is/kTdZh)
‘If the personal is political, is it ever OK to want a spanking?’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104173335/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/11/sexual-fantasy-personal-is-political-spanking-fifty-shades-of-grey (https://archive.is/PbOlc)
‘Why Kanye West would be the best president in US history (seriously)’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104172105/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/03/why-kanye-west-would-be-the-best-president-in-us-history-seriously (https://archive.is/4Ijt5)
Buzzfeed
Racism & Race-Baiting
‘Here Are A Few Things White People Seem To Be Really Confused About’:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170705213454/https://www.buzzfeed.com/essencegant/things-white-people-seem-to-be-really-confused-about (https://archive.is/20170702100129/https://www.buzzfeed.com/essencegant/things-white-people-seem-to-be-really-confused-about)
’37 Things White People Need To Stop Ruining In 2018′: https://web.archive.org/web/20171228154014/https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricepeck/37-things-white-people-ruined-in-2017?utm_term=.ldeRrmeWQ6#.vqrly8DKgo (https://archive.is/bQGrN)
Interestingly, a member of their audience took a similar view but for black people instead: http://archive.is/I5F8p
BuzzFeed rightly took issue with this, but not the other.
’21 Things White People Ruined in 2015′: https://web.archive.org/web/20180111182200/https://www.buzzfeed.com/pedrofequiere/stop-white-ppl-2015?utm_term=.khPlvn4W4#.mnLZ4enxn (https://archive.is/cbxGF)
’17 Foods White People Have Ruined’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180111182355/https://www.buzzfeed.com/tahliapritchard/no-thank-u?utm_term=.inDrdZm0w#.nixY5bzgE (https://archive.is/9uLwz)
ThinkProgress
Lies regarding Koch Brothers: https://legalinsurrection.com/2011/06/a-fair-assessment-of-think-progress/ (https://archive.is/tz3DL)
ThinkProgress claims on Twitter & in article that ‘the NRA donated $10,000 to help train the Parkland shooting suspect to use a rifle’: https://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/964651314289528832 (https://web.archive.org/web/20180217171911/https:/twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/964651314289528832) (https://archive.is/i6BGl)
Whilst omitting this was a donation from the NRA to the U.S Army’s JROTC program, for ‘equipment for high school air rifle teams to gun safety programs for younger children’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/suspect-was-on-nra-supported-target-rifle-team/2018/02/16/eb2690e6-1351-11e8-a68c-e9374188170e_story.html?utm_term=.4d5d1b359af0 (https://archive.is/PoZ0T)
Worth noting: ‘Along with schools, the NRA Foundation also gives millions of dollars a year to local gun clubs, Boy Scout chapters, churches and agriculture programs. The NRA Foundation has provided more than $335 million in grants since 1990.’
It also neglects to mention that Kevlar sheets donated by the U.S. Army’s JROTC program were used to shield a group of ~60 students from potential gunfire: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-florida-shooting-suspect-nra-grant-20180216-story.html (https://archive.is/eXnyO#selection-299.0-307.210)
As well as the two JROTC members who helped save these kids: https://twitter.com/ABC/status/964458845060849664
This is yet another mass shooting that has happened despite the perpetrators being on the FBI’s radar: http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/15/fbi-missing-mass-shooters-florida-nikolas-cruz-omar-mateen/ (https://archive.is/fF4GP)
And local law enforcement’s radar as well, who visited him 39 times over a 7-year period: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/16/cnn-nikolas-cruz-law-enforcement-39-visits/ (https://archive.is/ivNDh)
CBS
CBS edits out slip-of-the-tongue from Bill Clinton regarding Hillary’s health: https://youtu.be/01uhPbcka2U
CBS in 60 Minutes segment misconstrues what Neil Armstrong said towards Elon Musk to provoke a negative reaction: https://youtu.be/8P8UKBAOfGo
Armstrong’s actual words: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1005/12hearing/ (https://archive.fo/qx7j5)
CBS doesn’t air Obama’s admission of mistakes in campaign ads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aESQWYBeV5E
http://www.weeklystandard.com/cbs-doesnt-air-obama-admitting-mistakes-campaign-ads/article/652973 (http://archive.is/rsev7)
CBS headline: ‘Trump sells Qatar $12 billion of U.S. weapons days after accusing it of funding terrorism’, CBS paragraph in same article: ‘The full arms sale, of over $20 billion for 72 F-15QA fighter jets, was notified in November 2016. This means it had already been authorized by congress and the executive branch, when President Obama was in office, before the Trump administration came into office.’: https://web.archive.org/web/20171218022227/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sells-qatar-12-billion-arms-days-after-accusing-it-of-funding-terrorism/ (https://archive.is/BygGG)
Much like the BBC, CBS (KCAL-TV) seems to struggle with vetting as well: https://youtu.be/EsoJz_69-jE
ABC
Joy Behar from The View interrupts said program to announce that Flynn was prepared to testify that President-elect Donald Trump directed him to make contact with Russian officials during his 2016 campaign:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6g1Sd5EMFQ
Article on this: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/01/abc-news-flynn-plea-clarification-conservatives-275981
Joy Behar celebrating this on Twitter: http://archive.is/tluzj
The journalist responsible for this was later fired: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-russia-abc-idUKL1N1O20O4
Stocks plummeted after this:
https://www.rt.com/usa/411719-abc-fake-news-trump-flynn/ (https://archive.is/i0GQs)
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/01/us-stock-futures-data-opec-tax-on-the-agenda.html (https://archive.is/VA9ch)
ABC edits out Michelle Obama’s claim that Chicago teen was killed by ‘automatic weapon’, which itself is false. They should have corrected her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aEUpzj5Q7s
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2522593 (https://archive.fo/ctdsp)
ABC falsely claims that the Batman Theatre shooting may be connected to the Tea Party without evidence: https://youtu.be/fM0hQRUMbns
Politico on this: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/07/abc-draws-possible-tea-party-connection-with-alleged-aurora-shooter-129568 (http://archive.is/tKLhZ)
ABC were also accused by James Holmes’ mother of misquoting her: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/james-holmes-mother-abc-news-colorado-shootings_n_1696319.html?utm_hp_ref=media (http://archive.is/3XbBU)
ABC falsely claims Ivanka Trump received a $100 million donation from Saudi Arabia: https://youtu.be/GMYEbtkNMM4
Snopes on this: http://www.snopes.com/ivanka-trump-saudi-arabia-100-million-donation/ (https://archive.fo/hFyKN)
ABC deceptively edited video on former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2017/01/25/fake-news-abc-apologizes-deceptively-editing-ari-fleischer (https://archive.fo/kfKyC)
New York Times
Race & Racism
‘Can My Children Be Friends With White People’:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191020111048/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/opinion/sunday/interracial-friendship-donald-trump.html (http://archive.is/u83wH)
Reuters
Reuters publishes an article with the following misleading headline about a suicide bomber: ‘Syrian man denied asylum killed in German blast: Bavarian minister’: https://www.webcitation.org/6vsvEWWbN (https://archive.fo/gp2oR)
Notice how they dance around the fact that he’s a suicide bomber: ‘A 27-year-old Syrian man who had been denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when a bomb he was carrying exploded outside a music festival in Ansbach’
Salon
Insanity
‘Human-on-dolphin sex is not really that weird’: https://web.archive.org/web/20140615130807/https://www.salon.com/2014/06/14/human_on_dolphin_sex_is_not_really_that_weird/ (https://archive.is/ahAng)
The Week
Extremism
‘The Marxist case for the Nintendo Switch’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180111192718/https://theweek.com/articles/747291/marxist-case-nintendo-switch (https://archive.is/RapJV)
Newsweek
Extremism
Newsweek claims that the ‘deputy head of the Democratic National Committee is under fire—again—from far-right activists after he posed with a copy of a “antifa” book’ — a far-left terrorist book: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104203014/http://www.newsweek.com/keith-ellisons-antifa-tweet-spurs-fake-news-backlash-linking-him-terror-group-770958 (https://archive.is/fnMMB#selection-423.0-423.144)
Express
Dishonesty
Express writer claims Antifa, an extremist militant socialist/communist group, is right-wing: https://archive.is/S9hWC#selection-1371.71-1371.89 (http://www.webcitation.org/6x3gPXYkW)
The corrected article, without any statement of correction: https://archive.is/gktVr
VICE
Dishonesty
VICE cut certain parts of their interview with Jordan Peterson in order to get rid of important context and paint him as a horrible person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrSrZpX5l8
GQ Magazine
‘Hillary Was Wrong to Say Half of Trump’s Supporters Are Deplorable’ with the opening statement ‘Her math is too generous—they all are.’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104202351/https://www.gq.com/story/hillary-is-wrong-about-trumps-deplorables
Racism & Race-Baiting
‘Thanking Black People Is Good, Being Better White People Is Better’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104202131/https://www.gq.com/story/thanking-black-people-is-great-being-better-white-people-is-better — written by the same racist who is featured quite heavily in The Root articles below.
The Root
Owned by Univision, which uses the Kinja platform. The Root is an American online magazine directed at African-Americans which publishes opinion-pieces on current issues usually with a racial tone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_(magazine) (https://archive.is/HmXxH)
Racism & Race-Baiting
‘20 Things White People Ruined Already This Year’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104185436/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/20-things-white-people-ruined-this-year-1798161755
‘Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104194832/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214
‘They Know They Can’t Win; They Just Want Black and Brown People to Lose Too’ filed under their dedicated tag ‘white people’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104194054/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/they-know-they-cant-win-they-just-want-black-and-brown-1800094417
‘55 Percent of White Americans Believe Whites Face Racial Discrimination, Which Means 55 Percent of White Americans Are Really Stupid!’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195553/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/55-of-white-americans-believe-whites-face-racial-discr-1819851601
‘The Most Useless Types of White People, Ranked’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104164044/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/the-most-useless-types-of-white-people-ranked-1820270561
‘Is Cold Weather Racist?’: https://web.archive.org/web/20201115222520/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/is-cold-weather-racist-1821652706 (http://archive.is/OFWND)
‘White People Need to be Better People’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104163517/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/white-people-need-to-be-better-people-1821243046
‘5 Life Hacks for Black People Who Want to Leverage White Guilt to Make White People Uncomfortable at Work’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104163645/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/5-life-hacks-for-black-people-who-want-to-leverage-whit-1820853574
‘We Need a Reset Button or Something for White People’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104163928/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/white-people-need-a-reset-button-1819983792
‘Polite White People Are Useless’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104192858/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/polite-white-people-are-useless-1798546057
‘2017: The Year Liberal White People Reminded Us That They’re White, Too’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104164230/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/2017-the-year-liberal-white-people-reminded-us-that-th-1821630365
‘New Orleans Saints Season Ticket Holder Sues Team Because of Anthem Kneeling, Then Drowns in Tub of Salty White Tears’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104164407/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/new-orleans-saints-season-ticket-holder-sues-team-becau-1821256256
‘Stephen Miller Somehow Only Being 32 (!!!) Is More Proof That Terrible White People Age Like Day-Old Guacamole’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195546/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/stephen-miller-somehow-only-being-32-is-more-proo-1819290515
‘How to Protest Without Offending White People’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195044/https://www.theroot.com/how-to-protest-without-offending-white-people-1818770022
‘We Need to Have a Conversation About White People’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195535/https://www.theroot.com/we-need-to-have-a-conversation-about-white-people-1819315777
‘The Video of the Man Saving the Rabbit From the Fire Captures Everything Wrong With Whiteness in 30 Seconds’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104164516/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/the-video-of-the-man-saving-the-rabbit-from-the-fire-ca-1821184637
‘10 Not-Racist-at-All Things White People Do That Make Me Think ‘Yup, He’s Probably Racist’’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195523/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/10-not-racist-at-all-things-white-people-do-that-make-m-1819152214
‘Why Do So Many White People Want to Bone the American Flag?’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104194507/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/why-do-so-many-white-people-want-to-bone-the-american-f-1802741559
‘The 10 Best Places for Black People to Escape White People When We Just Don’t Wanna See Them for a While, Ranked’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104185134/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/the-10-best-places-for-black-people-to-escape-white-peo-1797837436
‘Jeff Bezos Is Buying Whole Foods, Completing His Monopoly on Whiteness’: https://web.archive.org/https://www.theroot.com/jeff-bezos-is-buying-whole-foods-completing-his-monopo-1796174987
‘The 20 Whitest Things White People Say to Black People, Ranked’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104184611/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/the-20-whitest-things-white-people-say-to-black-people-1797730806
‘For Black People Who Have to Work With White People in the Age of Trump’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104162713/https://www.theroot.com/for-black-people-who-have-to-work-with-white-people-in-1790857686
‘White People Are Weird! Why Are Y’all So Damn Weird? Can Y’all Stop Being So Damn Weird?’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195722/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/white-people-are-weird-why-are-yall-so-damn-weird-can-1820447298
‘How to Survive in America When You’re Black and Your Hometown Is Donald Trump’s Base’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195737/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/how-to-survive-in-america-when-you-re-black-and-your-ho-1819882549
‘For Black People Who Have to Deal With White People This Week’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104184733/https://www.theroot.com/for-black-people-who-have-to-deal-with-white-people-thi-1797835711
‘7 Things That Make White People Interrupt You When You’re Minding Your Own Damn Business’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195730/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/7-things-that-make-white-people-interrupt-you-when-you-1820549973
‘I Can’t Be Racist Because My Best Friend Is Black and Lives in the Condo I Own’ Is the Whitest Thing I’ve Ever Heard This Week’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195625/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/i-cant-be-racist-because-my-best-friend-is-black-and-li-1819975259
‘Dear 24- to 45-Year-Old White People Who Live in Urban Spaces: Why Don’t You Put Curtains and Blinds on Your Windows?’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104200220/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/dear-24-to-45-year-old-white-people-who-live-in-urban-s-1821051885
‘Racists, Ranked’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104200210/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/racists-ranked-1820806337
This is an article which rightfully includes collectivist scum like the KKK but uses that to project their hatred onto white people, with entries like ’10. The Salesperson Who Follows You Around the Store’, ‘8. The Person Who Has a Black Friend That They Always Reference to Prove They’re Not Racist’, ‘2. Gentrifiers’, ‘4. Nightclub Bouncers’ and ‘1. Complicit White People’.
‘The White People Are Coming! 6 Signs Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104194703/https://www.theroot.com/the-white-people-are-coming-6-signs-your-neighborhood-1803819806
‘The Caucasian’s Guide to Halloween Costumes’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195559/https://www.theroot.com/the-caucasians-guide-to-halloween-costumes-1819904830
‘An Open Letter From Black America to White People’s Pets’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104195330/https://www.theroot.com/an-open-letter-from-black-america-to-white-peoples-pets-1818993839
‘This Belly Flop Contest Into a Pool of Mayonnaise Is the Best-Ever Example of ‘That’s Some White-People Shit’’: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104194756/https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/this-bellyflop-contest-in-a-pool-of-mayonnaise-is-the-b-1818520645
Affinity Magazine
‘White people age like bananas’ – Affinity Magazine: https://mic.com/articles/175938/affinity-magazine-retracts-white-people-age-like-bananas-insult-about-olsen-twins (http://archive.is/7mNsy)
Yes, they’re joking about the appearance of women with anorexia.
People at this site then called Daily Wire racist without evidence: http://www.dailywire.com/news/15977/site-tweets-about-white-people-aging-bananas-then-frank-camp (http://archive.is/hfmZU)