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Seriously, I am most offended. This injustice will not stand! I have totally been doing my best to play a role in this Rocky and Bullwinkle parody of ourselves that is going on with the Russian trolls. I am Natasha Fatale, I tell ya, and Boris is the bad guy. Bullwinkle will arrive to save the day at any moment….or perhaps just muck things up some more.
I speak of course of the PropOrNot Black Friday report, those investigating and tracing “fake news.” They actually have made a list of websites that can be tracked back to some form of Russian propaganda, er “news.” I did not make the list. That’s disgraceful and I really think they should be ashamed of their selves for the oversight!
I am also annoyed because they have totally messed with my head. A bit like an android sent off to calculate PI down to that final decimal, I have that dreaded blue smoke coming out of my ears. This. Does. Not. Compute. I speak of just one line in the report that says, “Sites with US audiences estimated in the millions, echo Russian state owned propaganda and consistently and relentlessly attack actual journalism.”
It’s those last two words that have thrown me for a loop, “actual journalism.” Where is this mythical beast? Oh do tell, where is the actual journalism people allegedly have been relentlessly and consistently attacking? Also, mindlessly attacking I presume, since the alleged Russian disinformation campaign is unfairly brainwashing us. Or something.
You know what this whole thing reminds me of? Envy. Hey, back off, unquestioning consumers of news are our mindless lemmings to brainwash. How dare the Russians step in and try to steal our useful idiots!
I jest here, except for the part about Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Natasha. I am so Natasha, that part is real, but there is a more serious lesson to be found here, and that is to understand that we as individuals do control the vertical and the horizontal. We are in charge of what information we consume, what entertainment we pursue, what kind of music we listen to, what we chose to believe. We are responsible for our own critical thought processes, and even when we are lacking the ability to think critically, we are responsible for seeking out others who can assist us.
To become a passive consumer of anything is really a bad idea, no matter who you are handing the remote control over to. As Natasha I sometimes like to quip, “back off I already have a handler, and His name is Jesus Christ.”
See, there's this thing called biology... 
I absolutely love this post! It’s honest, and had me rolling in laughter! Please excuse me while I massage my sides and wipe the tears off my face!!! xD
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“To become a passive consumer of anything is really a bad idea,”
Absolutely, Natasha.
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Amen, and funny but so true! How sad that even in matters so consequential to one’s eternal destiny, too many people are merely content to accept and parrot unsubstantiated information as fact. We’ve all been invited to a grand masquerade, but few realize that we can chose whether or not to attend. Has Rocky become one of those ‘dead squirrels’? LOL
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Loved Rocky and Bullwinkle daaaahling
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Fake news reports that Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were rigged by
meRussian hackers to giveHillary ClintonDonald Trump better results than what initially showed up.Actual news sources report:
http://www.theonion.com/video/5-things-know-about-election-recount-54771
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Sounds like the kool/aide has gotten into “the precsious bodily fluids ” of the alleged “actual journalists!😏
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At the back of my head when I read all these complaint of false news on social media I can’t help but to think of censorship…
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I hear you. I’m also thankful that others are concerned about such things, too. Our ability to speak freely in this country is something we have to remember not to take for granted. 🙂
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The false news stories are a generally agreed upon fact. False advertising is not legal. Politics is more important than money making, so false news there is the demonstration of an attempt to manipulate the election, for which I would vote to impeach. But if it has a foreign cause, it may at some point even be an act of war.
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Trump does not believe in free speech or the First Amendment, has already threatened to suppress the “journalists” in that “liberal media.” I was said to be under the influence of the liberal media for calling the speech of Melania plagiarism. But it in fact plagiarism to the extent that it was intentional, and plagiarism is something real that can be demonstrated objectively, and the news that it occurred is simply a fact, although the vicious liberals (We are centrists and not liberals at all) seem to have had other points to make, and to have forgotten all about this.
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Fake news is this: “The Pope supports Trump.” It is not the accidental error of partisan speech, but intentionally false. I did not know they were being traced to Russian sources, but I suspected Bright Bart, who has been suppressing the free speech Trump has vowed to abolish. The National Enquirer just before the election is another good example. Fake news is also akin to the schmooze of the false advertising of a used car salesman. This is the daily fare at Trump University, which can also be compared to a genuine university, and his studies to genuine political studies, though, gee, whose to say what a real university is?
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Henry Ford, when running for president, sued a man for libel who called him, I think it was an “idiot.” But Ford failed to prove the man libelous when they put Ford on the stand and it was demonstrated that Ford did not know the simplest eighth grade history of the Revolution, though the revolution had for them occurred barely a century prior. Back then, that was enough to end the run of that brilliant businessman for president. The Donald does not know the law and has not read the constitution, and does not seem aware of the one hundred million of their own citizens killed by the communist and Nazi regimes in Germany, Russia, Cambodia China when no civil war was even occurring. Do I need to repeat those numbers, because while we know about the six million Jews, the other 94+ million are not usually even remembered. John McCain reminds us that 400,000 have been killed all ready in Syria by Assad and now the Russians are helping. Don’t we hope for better relations? Hey, maybe we can do business with this guy! Quick, change the subject to Hillarie’s flaws! Oh my, her charity took money…. Oh my her e-mails were private! Incidentally, Ford supported the Nazis, but in fairness, that was before the killing of the Jews. His tyranny looked prosperous for about three years, as ours might, and many people were impressed. We have to tell the Skins, KKK and Nazi supporters to look at what happened to Germany, by 1946, from that attempt a Nationalism or fascism, that make Germany great again, that Germany first ’cause I see smoldering ruins. Do you all not study fascism? His platform, to the extent he has one, is literally fascist and that is not fake news. He is buddies with the Jews in their hatred of the Muslims, but will not renounce fascism. The problem is that like the Hippies, the Americans in just two generations have forgotten that fascism exists and think the height and depths are money and biology. We will send our sons and grandsons out to fight an unnecessary war, and receive them home in boxes. Look your sons in the eyes now and tell them you thought it merely harmful if we reconsider.
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