John Smyth
2024-11-11 13:38:24 UTC
What a surprise.
'The real ‘fake news’ comes from the left — which STILL loves to spread
disinformation'
<https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/opinion/the-real-fake-news-comes-from-the-left-which-still-loves-to-spread-disinformation/>
'This campaign season saw the left still shrieking about the threat of
disinformation from the right — even as Democrats openly and proudly
embraced their commitment to telling lies and insisting they’re true.
Exhibit 1 Billion: Courier Newsroom, a literal fake news outfit backed
by the leading leftoid sugar daddy George Soros.
It also counts prog megadonor Reid Hoffman among the benefactors of its
parent, the astonishingly misnamed Good Information Inc.
Dems spread disinformation because they're:
Courier dropped a cool $9 million backing Kamala Harris’ failed
presidential bid.
The way this outfit works is clever.
It pushes Dem talking points on Facebook, the kind of partisan content
that normal super PACs regularly pump out to help their favored
candidates.
So far, fine.
But Courier laundered pro-Harris propaganda via utterly cooked stories
published through one of 11 phony “local news” outlets camouflaged to
appear as nonpartisan organizations.
Like Cardinal & Pine, the group’s North Carolina shop.
That mini-Pravda helped push the lie that Donald Trump backs
birth-control restrictions.
This agitprop is labeled on Facebook as coming from a “media/news
organization.”
And because it’s not a traditional PAC, Courier isn’t subject to federal
laws around donor disclosure.
It’s beyond shady.
But you don’t have to take our word for it.
Courier’s so slimy that even mega-hack Brian Stelter — who would happily
clean the wingtips of any Democrat running for office with his tongue —
considers it “a big problem.”
That’s right: Courier’s too partisan for Brian Stelter.
Happily, this massive disinfo push wasn’t able to move the needle for
Harris.
And with good reason: Voters knew where Trump stands, and knew that his
policies were better for them than Biden’s and whatever Harris had in
mind before her defeat.
Look no further than the electoral and popular votes for proof.
But the whole setup not only stinks to high heaven on its own; it’s also
proof positive that Dems are the guilty ones when it comes to
disinformation, as anyone who’s been paying attention at all since 2016
knows already.
The left peddled lies about RussiaGate, COVID and everything else.
Or look at the astonishing conspiracy between lib journos, Big Tech and
crooked spies that tried to suffocate The Post’s Hunter Biden stories.
And in October CBS edited Kamala’s interview around her word salad on
Middle East foreign policy to make her look better.
Courier Newsroom is merely the logical evolution of all this naked
partisanship, mixed with a healthy dose of projection.
It’s actually fake news from the people who scream “Fake news!” whenever
a story embarrasses them politically.
And one more thing for the Republican Congress to start investigating
come January'
'The real ‘fake news’ comes from the left — which STILL loves to spread
disinformation'
<https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/opinion/the-real-fake-news-comes-from-the-left-which-still-loves-to-spread-disinformation/>
'This campaign season saw the left still shrieking about the threat of
disinformation from the right — even as Democrats openly and proudly
embraced their commitment to telling lies and insisting they’re true.
Exhibit 1 Billion: Courier Newsroom, a literal fake news outfit backed
by the leading leftoid sugar daddy George Soros.
It also counts prog megadonor Reid Hoffman among the benefactors of its
parent, the astonishingly misnamed Good Information Inc.
Dems spread disinformation because they're:
Courier dropped a cool $9 million backing Kamala Harris’ failed
presidential bid.
The way this outfit works is clever.
It pushes Dem talking points on Facebook, the kind of partisan content
that normal super PACs regularly pump out to help their favored
candidates.
So far, fine.
But Courier laundered pro-Harris propaganda via utterly cooked stories
published through one of 11 phony “local news” outlets camouflaged to
appear as nonpartisan organizations.
Like Cardinal & Pine, the group’s North Carolina shop.
That mini-Pravda helped push the lie that Donald Trump backs
birth-control restrictions.
This agitprop is labeled on Facebook as coming from a “media/news
organization.”
And because it’s not a traditional PAC, Courier isn’t subject to federal
laws around donor disclosure.
It’s beyond shady.
But you don’t have to take our word for it.
Courier’s so slimy that even mega-hack Brian Stelter — who would happily
clean the wingtips of any Democrat running for office with his tongue —
considers it “a big problem.”
That’s right: Courier’s too partisan for Brian Stelter.
Happily, this massive disinfo push wasn’t able to move the needle for
Harris.
And with good reason: Voters knew where Trump stands, and knew that his
policies were better for them than Biden’s and whatever Harris had in
mind before her defeat.
Look no further than the electoral and popular votes for proof.
But the whole setup not only stinks to high heaven on its own; it’s also
proof positive that Dems are the guilty ones when it comes to
disinformation, as anyone who’s been paying attention at all since 2016
knows already.
The left peddled lies about RussiaGate, COVID and everything else.
Or look at the astonishing conspiracy between lib journos, Big Tech and
crooked spies that tried to suffocate The Post’s Hunter Biden stories.
And in October CBS edited Kamala’s interview around her word salad on
Middle East foreign policy to make her look better.
Courier Newsroom is merely the logical evolution of all this naked
partisanship, mixed with a healthy dose of projection.
It’s actually fake news from the people who scream “Fake news!” whenever
a story embarrasses them politically.
And one more thing for the Republican Congress to start investigating
come January'