Donald Trump and US politics

THE TRUTH vs CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0sy8w23rU

"15 points on media bias." =^[.]^=

It is interesting to me that CNN got caught for a change. They have been on my BS list for at least 7 years at this point but good to see others catching up! LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZE5uD0YLY

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Manocean wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZE5uD0YLY

ahaha yeah I saw it on his twitter earlier it's so funny.... but what's even funnier is the outrage of liberals because "it is inapropriate"



yet somehow this is art and ok

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diablofdb wrote:

ahaha yeah I saw it on his twitter earlier it's so funny.... but what's even funnier is the outrage of liberals because "it is inapropriate"

yet somehow this is art and ok

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Mock Trump assassinations are art, but they get removed by support here.

I think that .gif which is being heralded as extremely violent and an attack on freedom of speech is pretty benign, personally.


edit:

I removed the Trump WWE CNN .gif myself, support is very erratic and doesn't really follow concrete guidelines, never know what will get you axed.

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Manocean wrote:

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diablofdb wrote:

ahaha yeah I saw it on his twitter earlier it's so funny.... but what's even funnier is the outrage of liberals because "it is inapropriate"

yet somehow this is art and ok

[Removed by Support]

Mock Trump assassinations are art, but they get removed by support here.

But, somehow this .gif is worse...

I think this .gif which is being heralded as extremely violent and an attack on freedom of speech is pretty benign, personally.

That moment when I was... wtf did I said again that worth censoring x.x ohhh you know I can agree with that :3

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Raycheetah wrote:

THE TRUTH vs CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0sy8w23rU

"15 points on media bias." =^[.]^=

It was an interesting video and I watched it all the way through. Here is its progression:

1. CNN is biased and he has some evidence to show that. I would say that most media is biased to differing degrees, including CNN, and that there are more left of center media outlets in the US than right of center except for the talk radio markets. My own bias explains that imbalance by noting that smarter people tend to lean left rather than right and the charlatans tend to lean right because their audience is more susceptible to being taken advantage of. This video is an example of that btw.

2. The narrator then says that because CNN is biased, it creates fake news and the Russian connection story is an example. Two things are wrong with this. The first is that being biased doesn't mean you make stuff up. It means that you slant one's reporting to favor one side over another. This is seen more clearly on MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News. MSNBC is Russia all the time; Fox is Russia never. The second failure here is his use of Russia as an example. Russian interference is not fake news. It's impact is still TBD. The trump Campaign's connections to Russians is not fake news. The degree of and impact of those contacts is still TBD. But, as the investigation continues, more and more stuff is coming out. I am patient enough to wait. Bias does not equal fake news. Do you think that the WSJ articles from last week about Flynn's et al connections to Russian hackers looking for the lost emails was fake news? Do you think that the WSJ just made that story up? Do yo think that the WSJ is biased against Trump?

3. In Step 3 your video jumps to another conclusion without any evidence: A biased media equals a 15% prejudice in voting. That is a pretty bold statement and a thinking person would expect some validated supporting evidence. None is given. Turning media bias into 15% more votes is a leap that only the unthinking would accept. It also ignores the power of both FoxNews and Talk radio on right leaning voters.

4. Lastly, the video shows electoral maps from recent elections and then changes the results to reflect 15% more republican votes if the left leaning media bias was removed. And low and behold the Republicans win everything. This is truly a video for stupid people.

What this video shows is how a really biased guy built a case that Trump would have won the election if the media hadn't so biased. His argument is totally fake and built without any reasoned thinking. It is designed for non thinkers who accept things without thought.

And as a note he mentions "hundreds of millions" of Trump voters. Well, only about 125 million people voted and only 62 million voted for trump. Not quite hundreds of millions. Clearly, he is not one to quibble over what is true and what is not.

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ChanBalam wrote:

It is designed for non thinkers who accept things without thought.

So the video and CNN are the same

I'd probably put Bill Whittle and the entire CNN organization about on the same spot for examples of factual reporting and journalistic integrity

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ChanBalam wrote:

My own bias explains that imbalance by noting that smarter people tend to lean left rather than right and the charlatans tend to lean right because their audience is more susceptible to being taken advantage of.

I almost choked laughing. Classic Dunning-Kruger.

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Xavderion wrote:

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ChanBalam wrote:

My own bias explains that imbalance by noting that smarter people tend to lean left rather than right and the charlatans tend to lean right because their audience is more susceptible to being taken advantage of.

I almost choked laughing. Classic Dunning-Kruger.

Wow I completely missed that part of the post.


Reminds of my facebook after the election... where I saw an English major say:

"This is what happens when the rest of America doesn't listen to smart people when we tell them who to vote for!"



You're clearly not thinking for yourself if you don't think exactly like me