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http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=34814Trumps Infowars Pals Are Paying Their Crazed Fans to Wear CNN is ISIS T-Shirts on TV
Posted by Mark NC on June 3, 2017 at 3:36 pm.
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We are launching a new contest to stand up to the Lefts calls for violence against the president and against other Americans for simply exercising their right to promote Americana. Infowars is launching a new $200,000 contest to expose CNNs Kathy Griffin and mainstream medias call for violence. We will expose the medias terrorist campaign.
To collect the prize, Jones for-hire hoodlums have to appear in a live broadcast wearing the shirt and audibly plugging Infowars. Each successful clod will earn $1,000 with a total of $200,000 in the pot. The purpose, according to Jones, is to expose CNN as a terrorist organization by virtue of their association with Kathy Griffin. Never mind that Griffins over-the-top stunt had nothing to do with CNN, or that she has profusely apologized. And forget that CNN quickly dismissed her from their New Years Eve special. The suggestion that Griffin had actually intended anyone to behead Trump is patently absurd.
Nevertheless, Jones is determined to proceed with his own offensive publicity stunt because, well, because thats his whole shtick. In fact, he recently sweetened the offer to $10,000. The new prize calls for the first person to say MSM is fake news or terrorist media on live television. And, of course, the all-important Infowars plug is still required.
This is what Donald Trump believes is journalism. He has personally appeared on Jones webcast and praised him adoringly saying Your reputation is amazing. And Jones has been rewarded for his sycophancy with a White House press pass (at least according to Jones). Just today Trump sent an email to his supporters bragging about pulling out of the Paris Accords on Climate Change. That email featured a link to an article on Infowars.
Let that sink in. The President of the United States sent his followers an official communication that cited Infowars as a credible source for more information. This is the same Infowars that says 9/11 was an inside, government operation. Its the same Infowars that believes the murders at Sandy Hook were fake and staged by actors. Jones has also called the Boston Marathon bombing a hoax. Its the very same Infowars run by a conspiracy spewing fruitcake who admitted in divorce court proceedings that he is just a performance artist.
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sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)CNN seeks profits
CNN: infotainment
It is shocking that the right is going after CNN when the truth is that CNN is on the side of the GOP donor class.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)"I was paid an outrageous sum of money by Infowars to say this in front of the cameras: "MSM ..."
bresue
(1,007 posts)I have always been so disgusted that almost all Rubs are preconditioned into one thought process...and collectively they repeat whatever is spouted at the top, regardless who is at the top.
Do they not have their own ideas? If Infowars tell them what to do or say, are they going to blindly follow?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)CNN is seen as neutral and reaches a huge number of Americans.
The first thing authoritarians must do is co opt the media.
That is the reason Trump and his dictatorship-seeking aides are attacking CNN.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)but they will not be satisfied until it is completely under the control of the right wing
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)In support of KG we should chant "we are all French".
They had the good sense to take the heads of their tyrants after all.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'd like to wear a "Jail Gianforte" t-shirt on MSM. KG did not do shit to tRump. Gianforte, however, did do violence.