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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFaux newz going nuts over Antifa again
they are saying Obama ignored possible left wing violence last year
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/01/fbi-dhs-warned-increasingly-violent-antifa-clashes-in-2016-documents-show.html?ICID=ref_fark
but does anyone remember when faux and the GOP freaked over the DHS report about right wing terrorism in this nation and how it will rise?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Fuck them, all of them.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)IT IS FUCKING PROPAGANDA
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Frankly, I wish people would stop posting things about those people. We all know how to crawl over to that particular sewer should we feel the need.
politicat
(9,808 posts)1) it's Fox. If they say the sky is blue, water is wet and gravity sucks, I'm going to go check. They're that unreliable. This has been borne out with multiple studies and samples, but the easy one is always politifact: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/fox/ -- 60% of what they say is mostly false to pants on fire.
2) they failed to cover SovCit violence at Bundy Ranch and Malheur Wildlife refuge, even to their poor standards. I have a list of 117 arsons at predominantly black, Korean and Latinx churches in the past two years, which got minimal coverage anywhere, and none from Fox. They blamed Rick Best and Taliesin Namkai-Meche's murders on themselves and the girls they were protecting , not on the white nationalist who stabbed them. (They did this in the dog whistling "some people are saying..." and "we report the controversy, you decide" voice.) They also republished white nationalist tirades blaming Heather Heyer for her own murder. (Same whistle voice.) On right wing violence and extremism, their coverage is not just bad, it's blatantly wrong.
QED: given their general unreliability, and their specific unreliability on SovCit and right-wing extremism, why would I give them any credit whatsoever for talking about anything left of center?
Initech
(100,081 posts)They're the ones bringing giant AK-47s and AR-15s to rallies.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Pretty fucking weak that they are shit scared by a few guys that wish to remain anon at rallies.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Then Antifa is doing something right. And don't get all bent out of shape over it, folks. Faux will get bent out of shape no matter what leftist protesters do. If they're peaceful, then they're anti-American terrorists. If they fight back, then they're anti-American terrorists. Might as well punch a Nazi on the nose, because they're going to say the same thing no matter what.
I find it hilarious though that a few fist fights in response to fascism sends Faux into a tizzy. Just imagine if we showed up armed to the teeth like their boys do.
maxsolomon
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Jim Dandy
(358 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)Because they're told by every RW media outlet that George Soros literally funds EVERYTHING they don't like, and the new RW boogeyman is called Antifa (it used to be Black Lives Matter, remember). I knew it had to be a RW talking point handed down from above because literally MINUTES after the Nazi-driven car ran over those people, the internet was flooded with RWers ALL yammering that Antifa was to blame. I had never even heard of them at that time.
Every good propaganda outlet knows that you have to give people a face and/or a name to channel their hatred towards. Small minds need a monster to chase with pitchforks and torches. And Faux News is right there to ALWAYS give them one.
haveahart
(905 posts)I still say some of those wearing masks just don't to be recognized as having toted a gun in RW protest. Infiltrators I say. Nope, I don't have proof but we all know how Bannon and buddies behave.