I know I keep repeating myself, especially for a savvy audience like BFDers, but still, the point has to be hammered home:
Always assume that “fact-checkers” are trying to bullshit you.
Because as experience proves, time and again, they absolutely are.
I’m not just talking about Snopes “fact-checking” the Babylon Bee, or the ABC “fact-checking” Craig Kelly when he was absolutely right. No, I’m talking about venerable mainstream news outlets telling absolute whoppers to our faces about one of the most dangerously violent and destructive radical groups in America.
Twitter users scorched Newsweek after it fact-checked Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for condemning “Antifa riots”.
An episode of “The View” posted Monday featured Cruz debating The View’s hosts on the existence of left-wing political violence. After Cruz called out the “Antifa riots” from 2020, host Whoopi Goldberg replied “I don’t know what an Antifa riot is.”
Here’s a hint:
Should she care to pull her head out of her ample backside, Goldberg could find hundreds of hours of similar footage, spanning years of violence, across the internet.
With the typical deceit of “fact-checkers”, the lying legacy media weasel-worded Cruz by claiming that, hey, cities didn’t literally burn for a whole year, 24-7.
While the piece acknowledged that over a thousand businesses were damaged in Minneapolis and there were “reports of fires after Floyd protests” in places such as Washington DC, St Louis, Seattle and more, it took issue with the senator’s wording.
“While many businesses were damaged or destroyed as a result of arson, Cruz’s characterization that ‘cities’ burned for a year is significantly stretching the truth, even if taken figuratively,” the fact-check wrote.
The piece objected that while there were buildings damaged by fire, “this did not carry on throughout the year.” It followed by warning that while some protests lasted throughout the year, not all were characterized by arson.
“While protests did continue in Portland, Oregon for nearly a year, according to media reports, these were not all characterized by arson,” they wrote.
No, some of them just had smashed cars, vandalized buildings, shootings, stabbings and bashings. Fiery but peaceful, the lying media might say.
But then came the really gigantic porky-pie.
After initially saying that “Antifa is not a formalized group or association” in the piece, the fact-check added that “labeling the protests as ‘Antifa riots’ is misleading too as there is no organization or group known as such.”
I mean, it’s not as if they have an official handbook or anything.
But, goldfish-brained morons that they are, the legacy media can’t even read what they wrote themselves a year ago.
However, Newsweek reported on Antifa groups or “Antifa cells” in the past. A story from spring 2021 explained that “Newsweek spoke with members of three Antifa chapters – one in Atlanta, Georgia; one in Corvallis, Oregon; and one in Portland.”
So, it’s not a group or association, it just has chapters in cities across America – and the world.
Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo, who popularized the national concern over critical race theory, slammed Newsweek in a tweet for being pedantic and partisan.
“Newsweek claims that Antifa didn’t burn down cities in 2020, because not all cities burned down and Antifa doesn’t exist,” he wrote. “Remember: fact-checking is a scheme to launder left-wing messaging through a pseudo-scientific process and pressure tech firms to censor conservatives.”
As Rufo points out, the legacy media, especially so-called “fact-checkers” are systematically lying about everything.
“They really tried to push all of these obvious lies as ‘facts: – Antifa doesn’t exist. – Critical race theory isn’t in schools. – Vaccinated people can’t get Covid. – Puberty blockers are completely reversible. – Doctors aren’t performing radical gender surgeries on minors,” he tweeted.
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Those are lies. All of them. They knew it – and they know that we know they’re lying through their teeth.
But that’s beside the point: because the point is not to convince us. The real point is to spoon-feed the media-political left with talking points that they can parrot endlessly. Because, so far as the lying legacy media are concerned, a lie told often enough becomes the truth.
