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I used to tell people replace imagine replacing media with used cars salesman. Would you still believe anything they tell you. I have stopped with this comparison as it is unfair to used cars salesman.

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Speaking of scammers... Youtube now admits they're censoring the dislike button: https://twitter.com/markusallenshow/status/1458940656890568706

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The original site seems to be defunct, but they tracked the downvote manipulation on the White House's youtube account. as of June, they'd disappeared 3.9 million downvotes, and the ratio of dislikes still outnumbered the likes by 10:1 or better - https://phzoe.com/2021/06/21/youtube-removed-3-9-million-dislikes-for-white-house/

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YouTube apparently disliked my asking for a comment on the recent scientific article published in the prestigious journal "Viruses" on the experimental finding of mRNA spike protein in cell nuclei. My post took no position and was not confrontational. Removal for the post and the link to the article occurred within minutes of the posting - and recurred when I reposted it three times. I guess simply mentioning actual science is now dangerous.

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YouTube will build up a profile of words and links you are forbidden from using, and automate their removal, regardless of the context.

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Thanks. After making another, unrelated comment on another YouTube video, it appears that I am now blocked regardless of content. Seriously, all I did was to ask if it would be reasonable to consider a pause in vaccinating children in view of the article I cited (about spike protein being found in cell nuclei). This is now starting to slowly go viral with entire videos on the study being discussed by serious scientists. I must have committed an "original sin".

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It really is sickening, that people are actually employed to sift through comments and judge who is unworthy of even communicating with other humans. No doubt those who do so feel eminently qualified to pass such judgement.

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Let's go Paula!

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Anyone want else starting to dig this bot? Lol

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What SEX will you be modeling today Paula?

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Every veteran and loved one of a fallen soldier should pile on CNN until they suffocate from shame.

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As a veteran, what the hell did I do to protect anyone’s freedoms? They spy on our phones, milch us for taxes, make kids wear masks, and make adults get jabs. FREEDOM my ass.

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I know, Good Cat :-( As Smedley Butler discovered, war is a racket and soldiers are typically used as pawns to advance corporate agendas.

That said, your service was not for naught, and those of us who care about genuine freedom greatly appreciate your service!

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Maybe it's time to treat CNN and MSNBC for what they've become, tabloid media. And stop reporting on their fake news, just like we don't report what's on the front page of The National Enquirer.

They're already losing viewership. We need the algorithms to document that no one is clicking on, linking to, or mentioning anything that points to their website or social pages.

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I see your point, Holly, and I definitely don’t want them to get any clicks/views, but I do believe it’s important to monitor what the propagandists are doing and calling them out on their hypocrisy and lies.

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But if the propogandists have no listeners, will it matter what they say?

Look at it from their perspective, how best to keep attention coming their way (and ad revenue)? If they were middle of the road, or just slightly to one side, would they get as much attention?

Are some of their extreme statements playing to their critics (and Ad marketing numbers?)

Sometimes we need to assess whether what we are doing is because we feel compelled or we were manipulated into the act.

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I appreciate the point you're making, and I think there's a lot of truth to it. People need to see corporate media for what they are, very much like gossip magazine. I would put Fox in that same group, as their reporting changes with who is in the White House. For example, if Trump was in the white house I don't think they would be reporting on the pandemic and vaccine in the way they are now.

The power of corporate television news is not just about how many people watch (viewership is thankfully declining). 1) they help set the narrative in crises, especially at the beginning of a crisis where visual images and repeated narratives are powerful propaganda. This lodges is in people's consciousness and belief systems, and spreads to those who don't watch. 2) CNN and MSNBC are part of all corporate media, which includes the smaller online (previously print media) like USA Today, Time magazine, Newsweek etc. The corporate narrative is repeated through all these corporate outlets. Thank goodness for substack, telegram, bitchute, rumble, signal ect!

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Remember when people confused the barrage of Covid scoreboards sensing cases == deaths. They pushed fear and got it in spades.

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I do agree, but unfortunately, the propagandists *do* still have far too many listeners, and exposing them for the perception-management puppeteers they are is what’s helping to turn people away from them. So if we can do that without generating clicks/views for them, that is the ideal.

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Berenson's audience on his Substack isn't that much smaller than CNN's, especially when you consider that he has no institutional viewers and no traditional audience to lean on. He says he has about 200 thousand subscribers, and CNN has 600 or 700 thousand viewers.

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Shame? What's that, would be their comment.

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You know, I had the same thought after I wrote that 😏

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Or figure out how to get max murder hornets into CNN hq

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I like the way you think ;-)

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Tracker jackers.

When they got to Stelter, I'd fire up the Scorpions' Love at First Sting.

To 11.

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You are the reigning DJ of the commentariat, libertate—you have the perfect music for every occasion 😎

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lol! Would they scream like Honeybees?

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If they had any.

Which they demonstrably do not

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good lord... embarrassing for whoever wrote this.

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Dear Cat... please try to limit sending things that make me regurgitate all over my keyboard. One of the most disgusting, gross things I've ever seen! :-0 :-)

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Instead of trying to reach the bathroom, put a bucket next to your computer just in case

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Good idea... a big bucket!!

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“Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record…29% of the public currently registers ‘not very much’ trust and 34% have ‘none at all.’”

https://news.gallup.com/poll/355526/americans-trust-media-dips-second-lowest-record.aspx

The propagandists in the media are not fooling the majority of Americans.

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Leaving that 30% to rush off to vaccinate their children. Sad.

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This is BEYOND chutzpah. Brilliant Vichy observation—although you forgot to mention it was the Vichy collaborators who proposed the parade for themselves 🤣

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Huh? Did they mean to thank James O'Keefe for NOT publishing Ashely Biden's diary? Are they saying that the FBI shouldn't raid reporters homes for NOT publishing something? What exactly are they talking about? From my view, most of MSM has failed to do anything to protect freedoms in the last 18 plus months.

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Well they have been at war with the truth for quite a long time now, so it's hardly surprising they should want some recognition for it.

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My father was a newspaper editor. I have been a journalist of some sort (mostly in trade publications and religious publications) all my professional life. I am shocked at what journalism has become. My father drummed into me that newspapers were to question everyone and everything, and report ANYONE who cheats, betrays a public trust, lies, commits fraud, etc. If you were a reporter and your best friend told you he had embezzled or murdered or was wanted by the police, your story had better be filed within the hour. The newspaper looked out for the "common man" -- it wasn't supposed to side with the powerful. Today, "journalists" ARE the powerful.

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These Mockingbird journalists aren't powerful at all. They're disposable sockpuppets and stenographers. And with all respect to your dad, this isn't exactly news.

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This is the CNN equivalent of photobombing

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Who wrote this!? Insanity!

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This is from 2018...

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They haven’t changed.

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Again, the CNN post is a figment of a NARCISSIST'S delusional mind.

They are sick/deranged people.

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Sort of misleading. This is an excerpt from an opinion article in 2018 by Joseph Holt, and it wasn’t written on Veterans Day.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending Pravda, I just don’t want people to go around repeating this as if it was written today.

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Thank you for pointing this out.

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“We owe the corporate media a great debt,” said the corporate media.

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They owe a great apology and billions in damages for spreading TDS throughout the land.

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Amazing report on how it’s done and rubes freak out and demand more.

Emails Reveal Media Collusion in Steele Dossier Efforts | Truth Over News https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/emails-reveal-media-collusion-in-steele-dossier-efforts-truth-over-news_4099656.html

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Narcissism reaching a new level of mental disorder.

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“CNN: our army of zoom masturbators, crotch rubbing finger sinffers and rec room donut bandit eunuchs are just like the people who put their lives on the line to defend the country.”

https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1458909100914483201?s=12

And, dishonorable mention;

Wounded Marine Vet: 'Disgraceful' & 'Disgusting' for Dem Rep to Suggest Strzok Deserves Purple Heart https://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/13/wounded-marine-veteran-disgraceful-steve-cohen-suggest-peter-strzok-deserves-purple-heart

Cory Booker likens Planned Parenthood activists to brave men that stormed beaches of Normandy http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/06/30/cory-booker-likens-planned-parenthood-activists-brave-men-stormed-beaches-normandy-508346

Democrat Senator Cory Booker said vagina-hat-wearing Planned Parenthood activists are today’s version of the heroes who stormed the beach in Normandy, France, during World War II.

Moulton Compares Funding Abortion to Paying Troops Moulton Compares Funding Abortion to Paying Troops https://freebeacon.com/politics/moulton-compares-funding-abortion-to-paying-troops/

If you need something denigrated, now you know who to call.

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Two thoughts - first, that's not necessarily CNN's opinion. It could be the opinion of a third-party contributor. Second...are we sure that's legit, and not some spoof from, like, Titania McGrath?

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Specially when they are ignoring things like this:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/28/applying-brakes-on-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccination/

It argues for stopping the mass vaccination of kids. It is authored by world-renowned scientists Dr. Larry Kwak, Dr. Steven T. Rosen and Dr. Idit Shachar. I haven't seen it gain any traction.

"Finally, none of the mRNA vaccines has a built-in “off” switch to control where they travel in the body and how long they persist there.

Published animal safety studies showed traces of COVID-19 spike protein in the brain, heart, and other vital organs, and the European Medicines Agency’s assessment report acknowledged that low levels of mRNA itself were detected in most tissues. The potential consequences of vaccines crossing the natural blood-brain barrier in children’s developing brains are of the utmost concern to all future humanity. "

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Say the people who get paid millions by the war machine and big pharma to be well-coiffed propagandists.

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Only the Clown News Network would have the lack of self awareness to publish something like that. 🤡🌎

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CNN-kiss my ass! I wouldn't watch you or listen to you if someone offered me 1B to do so. You are insane in the membrane and you all need to vanish, never to be heard from again. Thank the media, yeah right.

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If I watch CNN, my stomach starts to feel queasy within 30 seconds. I guess I have a brainwashing propaganda allergy.

Maybe there's a shot for that?

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There is a shot for it but it only lasts six months.

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That's from 2018

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are you implying that they have gotten better on this issue?

because i would take the other side of that debate.

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Not at all. They're clearly worse. Just pointing out that this attitude is not new

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does not matter, they have always sucked.

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Yep. I can't believe it has been that long, guess we are in some sort of crisis timewarp.

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Well that gives you the perspective of Their Great Decline over the past three years!

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WOW. Doublespeak. Word fail me.

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You have to understand that the MSM networks have no native viewership, so their entire business model depends on saying the most insane / stupid / inflammatory thing with the expectation that it will go viral across all platforms. The goal is simple: rage clicks.

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Thank the media. That’s rich.

I think a hair ball is coming up.

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blew my coffee out my nose at that last sentence.

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Oh damn that's psycho.

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Please tell me this is Photoshopped.

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Ummmm is this from the Babylon Bee?

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The arrogance of the media throughout this has been matched only by their total lack of self-awareness.

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Let’s make a minute of silence for the thousands of journalists who sacrificed and lost their life’s to protect our freedom.

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Snopes calls this outdated, because it appeared in August 2018, but it appears to have aged rather well.

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Think about those times that you read an article about something that you actually know about, and you cringe because of all the mistakes, inaccuracies or oversimplification in the article. But we are conditioned to believe the accuracy of on subjects that were don’t know intimately. Ponder that. COVID? Climate change? Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan?

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Wow. They must have a troll in there. Right? Please? Because I thought "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was bad.

Can someone funnier than I am suggest what they might be planning to say on Christmas and/or Easter?

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Visit Ukraine. This is exactly what happens during WWII events.

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"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

~ H.L. Mencken

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But on the other hand, nice news from Winsome Sears today: https://twitter.com/WinsomeSears/status/1458775818923134977?s=20

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Love her! She is what Obama should have been. He can't hold a candle to this woman.

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You are so right! I hadn't thought of it that way.

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Maybe that was the real reason why Ex princess Megan showed up on the Essex with a hideous red dress in celebration of Veterans Day, it was really for CNN and to get a photo op.

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I'm no fan of her, but this is Remembrance Day in England. Red poppies, etc. She might just have been honoring her husband's many ancestors who served.

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"The stakes have never been higher." Here: let me help by pounding that stake through your heart.

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Do you have the link to this page?

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Nevermind, i see the link below. It is from three years ago.

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Anyway now that I have been 'cleared' by Gmail...back to what I was going to say...whomever wrote this is delusional...the media on par with what the military does? hardly...

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Speaking of dinosaurs...

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If that's not a spoof, they've taken their lack of self-awareness to a whole new level. I really do hope they're trolling. The alternative is worse.

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I have no words.

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Maybe when they stand in front of a tank. Maybe then.

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Societal norms are for thanking someone after they do something usefule. I guess those norms don't exist for patting oneself on the back.

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Hilarious. When they can convince us of their valor, the truths they uphold and report on and all the honorable things they have accomplished. Ha the stakes have never been higher…

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Cunty News Network

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oh lincoln, naughty word, tsk tsk, LOL!

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they deserve every bit of it for as long as they allow Leana on ;)

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yes indeed, i am not PC so all is ok!

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WHO allowed that comment to be posted on CNN??? THEY SHOULD ALL BE FIRED FOR IGNORANCE SEEMS STUPIDITY. not heroes, just disgusting media hacks and liars w.h.o don't deserve any airspace..

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