Random Politics & Religion #11

To be honest, I do check news reports from CNN and MSN.

I then check those same reports on other outlets. It helps me remove the fluff associated with those reports, so I can see the real story from the wool.

Eh, I was more challenging the notion that those would be your go-to news sources, which is how I interpreted his statement. It's not always easy to interpret someone who makes no sense, though.

I agree with you 100% on this one. It is not moderators job to fact check people it is the job of the candidates to fact check each other. Notice how they only asking mods to fact check him? Doesn't help that Lester is a huge democrat.

I may have a low opinion of the media, but I highly doubt they would report something without checking to see if it's true or not.

Here are 35 huge lies the mainstream media repeatedly reported as "facts" that we now know to be total lies:

1) Brian Williams: "The helicopter I was riding in got hit with an RPG."

2) President Obama: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

3) Lance Armstrong: "I never doped."

4) The CDC: "There's no evidence linking vaccines to autism."

5) The NSA: "We aren't spying on the phone calls or emails of U.S. citizens."

6) The U.S. Navy: "No sailors were harmed by Fukushima radiation."

7) The mainstream media: "What Fukushima radiation?"

8) The American Diabetes Association: "Diabetes cannot be reversed; only managed with expensive medication."

10) Government-run schools: "Common Core provides your child with a quality, historically-accurate education."

11) The FCC: "We don't want to really control the internet. We just want to regulate it a little."

12) Big Pharma: "We don't need to charge you exorbitant prices for drugs for our own profits; we only need the money to bring you amazing breakthroughs!" (REALITY: Most drug company R&D money comes from taxpayer dollars funneled through the NIH.)

13) Every news station in America: "Unvaccinated children put vaccinated children at great risk because vaccines work so well they make vaccinated children immune... unless there are unvaccinated children around in which case the unvaccinated children cause the vaccinated children to revert to unvaccinated status which is bad. And that's where measles comes from!"

14) The U.S. Congress: "We can pay off the national debt by slightly reducing the acceleration of the growth of new debt being added to it."

15) The Federal Reserve: "Printing more fiat currency is good for the economy, and inflated stock market valuations prove it!" (Until one day they don't, anyway...)

16) The IRS: "We need your tax revenues to fund the government." (But when banksters need another trillion-dollar bailout, they instantly create the money from nothing.)

17) Monsanto: "Glyphosate is perfectly safe for human consumption and has zero negative impacts on the environment."

18) British Petroleum: "We completely cleaned up the Gulf of Mexico. What dolphins? We thought those were greasy sea otters..."

19) The FDA: "The psychiatric drugging of children helps children become healthier."

20) The American Dental Association: "Mercury is awesome! Especially when we drill it into your mouth."

21) Vaccine manufacturers: "What mercury?"

22) The USDA: "Every GMO crop the biotech industry comes up with is totally safe for open-field planting! No worries!"

23) Every liberal media outlet: "Everything is so screwed up by big government that the only answer is BIGGER government!"

24) Children's hospitals: "We are kidnapping your children and forcing them to undergo chemotherapy because we know better than you do what's good for them."

25) Your local TV news station: "Children's vitamins are dangerous!"

26) That same local TV news station: "But mercury in vaccines makes children healthier!"

27) Your local city: "Dumping fluoride chemicals into the public water supply is just one of the many ways we selflessly serve the humanitarian needs of society."

28) All mainstream doctors over the last 20 years: "Eating cholesterol in foods causes heart disease."

29) Those same doctors: And because cholesterol is so horrible, statin drugs are awesome and help everyone!

30) CNBC: "The rising stock market proves the economy is strong, and it has nothing to do with money printing by the Fed."

31) The White House: "The number of unemployed Americans is falling, just like we promised. See? These numbers prove it..."

32) Mainstream media: "Illegal immigrants carry no disease into U.S. cities, but unvaccinated American children are filthy and dangerous."

33) Every mainstream media newspaper in America: "There is no CDC whistleblower named Dr. William Thompson, and he never confessed to taking part in the fraudulent alteration of data to bury any link between vaccines and autism."

34) NBC News: "When Brian Williams lies to the world, that's okay. But when independent media organizations report the truth, they're crazy!"

35) Every "science" columnist carried by the mainstream media: "Aspartame is totally safe! In fact, it's probably just as safe as vaccines! Maybe even as safe as eating glyphosate or GMOs."

Holt is a registered Republican. Just more pre-whining from Trump so he can blame any potential gaffes on the media.

Yeah, Holt gets bombarded with requests to fact-check in behalf of I-Can't-Handle-My-Own-Campaign Clinton and it's Trump that's the problem. Keep on spinnin', my friend.

It is not moderators job to fact check people it is the job of the candidates to fact check each other.

what if he told you he was open to nuclear arms useage. would you still vote for him?

finding any facts in this debate will be about as likely as finding the holy grail...

1) kingnobody admits he believes everything the mainstream media reports and what the government says through it.

You can thank me later.

To each his or her own I won't hold it against you for being willfully ignorant.

Hey Rav, congratulations on being my cohort.

Let's go rob a bank together, or run for office! According to LG, both are equally illegal in his eyes.

The only way it would be illegal for you to run for office let's say the presidency would be if you were not naturally born on any of the 50 states soil.

What you could do is start up a bank by getting a bank charter and steal your money legally there as this very practice is going on today.

LG's #24 was probably refering to "Parentectomy*".

This case in particular has been in the news:

Parents of Justina Pelletier sue Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston Globe


Justina Pelletier's family to sue Boston hospital after long custody fight
Fox News

Justina Pelletier and her Parents will have their Day in Court
Daily Kos

The Sad, Scary Saga of Justina Pelletier
Slate (this is probably the best overview bleive it or not.)

*Too many definitions of this word to list.

Is that what you think banks do? Really?

Did you know your bank is loaning out over half of your bank account to new customers for loans and charging interest on your money without your permission?