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So fake news spreads more easily on the right than the left. What we don't know is this.

Is it that right wingers are more gullible ?

Or is it that they are more willing to lie to push their political goals ?

I'd say the answer is both, depending on the right winger.

Call It Crazy says

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs Originally appeared at Drudge Report

#fakenews

From 60 minutes piece of fake news. The NPR article is biased and ignores the facts"

Pelley repeatedly told viewers that fake news was an issue on both sides, but never provided any proof until the nine-minute-mark of the 13-minute exposé with two ludicrous headlines about President Trump using drugs and having cancer.

It was soon after this that guest and “internet advertising firm” CEO Jeff Green dropped this admission that both he and Pelley seemed befuddled by:

JEFF GREEN: So the first thing that we found out is that it is definitely a phenomenon that affects both sides.

PELLEY: Liberals and conservatives?

GREEN: Yes. There is no question they're both affected.

There was yet another surprise in store for these hardcore liberals. After citing a case of left-wing fake news about Congress “plotting to overthrow President Trump,” Green revealed that “fake news readers on the left were more likely to be affluent and college educated.” At the other end, “right-leaning fake news overwhelmingly attracted readers in their 40s and 50s.”

Green admitted that this “shocked me,” and Pelley had a similarly flabbergasted look. Green added that he “thought the same way that many Americans perhaps think is that fake news was a phenomenon that only tricked the uneducated,” but, alas, “not true — just not — the data shows it's just not true.”

The glaring omission appeared a few minutes earlier while Pelley spoke to Jestin Coler, who “made real money on fake news” but overseeing two of them that fooled people (National Report and the Denver Guardian).

Touting the fact that “he pushed people’s buttons on issues such as abortion and ObamaCare” and reading headlines from some other Coler stories, Pelley shamefully left out the fact that Coler was not a Republican but a registered Democrat.

Hilariously, the pathetic National Public Radio (NPR) found the time to include this tidbit when they profiled Coler on November 23's All Things Considered:

Yeah, believe a FAKE NEWS guy who is a Democrat that libbies DON'T fall for fake news, only right wingers. Question is, who is behind him, and it isn't just advertising income.

Obviously, libbies are prepared to believe anything an admitted professional liar is ready to say.

Case in Point: Trump-Russian Collusion with no evidence.

TwoScoopsPlissken says

Case in Point: Trump-Russian Collusion with no evidence.

lol--funny that there are 3 indictments and counting with no evidence.

'Drumpf is a Russian stooge, I tells ya. He's workin' with that Putin guy, just like Hillary & Barack said. That guy is a right out money launderer, doncha know. Hey you gotta read that dossier Buzzfeed published, it'll tells ya everythin' you need to know'

HappyGilmore says

lol--funny that there are 3 indictments and counting with no evidence.

Let’s look at an equivalent scenario:
Chief of police sends two detectives to investigate a murder. Six months later, they return.
“Did you catch the killer?” the Chief says.
“No, but we got one guy for jaywalking, and another two for driving with busted brake lights!”

Quigley says

Let’s look at an equivalent scenario:
Chief of police sends two detectives to investigate a murder. Six months later, they return.
“Did you catch the killer?” the Chief says.
“No, but we got one guy for jaywalking, and another two for driving with busted brake lights!”

No--it's more like:

We cut a deal with two of the accomplices so they would turn on the murderer. We're closing in on him now.

I have a strong suspicion the Banon story today by Michael Wolff is Fake News.

Here is the guy's Wiki bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wolff_(journalist)

Everybody with #Resist in their bio is busy insisting that the Bannon-Don Jr. Money Laundering bullshit is True and that Deep State Mitt Romney won't be so Anti-Trump (LOL)

"You are transparent. I see plans of leftism within plans of leftism"

Is there any point in talking to believers?

Here are opinions of people on the street as to whether or not Hillary Clinton should be impeached and removed from office. Nov 15, 2017
www.youtube.com/embed/oMupq6zB1Tc

Oddly missing are the "George Soros, Obama, subject flippers" but that's because Trump was not criticized. No "merry Christmases," kneeling traitors, or bathroom use controversies either!

TwoScoopsPlissken says

I have a strong suspicion the Banon story today by Michael Wolff is Fake News.

I have a strong suspicion that McGee will be starting multiple threads about Hillary this evening...

Hutch says

Sounds like your handelers can't understand its a book and not a news story by Michael Wolff. Are you trying to seed the idea that the story is not true? Sounds like a play right out of the fake news hand book.

Wolff is/was a journalist. His book is also news. Plenty of Journalists write Books about recent news.

Although some Journalists are being more cautious this time around.



There's one fake quote already.

And Wolffe has been accused of being a fabricator before.

We'll see. Again, next Monday is the Fake News Awards.

#Wolffe

HEYYOU says

We are going to build a wall & Mexico will pay for it!

$26B in remittances to Mexico last year. If we decide to tax remittances, not a damned thing Mexico can do about it.

A believer must find their own way out of a cult, nobody can tell them any different until they're ready to move on from evangelism, Breitbart, Fox, whatever, you can just sow seeds asking little questions like "what will America be great again?" "is America getting great again now?"

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

--Joseph Goebbels

CNN
MSNBC
Daily Kos
Mother’s Jones
Now This Politics
NY Times
Washington Post

For starters

This thread didn't age well.