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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOAN Employees Real Sorry About Poisoning Your Nana's Brain, Please Stop Calling Them 'Nazis' Now?
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"We're not Nazis," a One America News producer told the New York Times. "Just, like, everyday people." Because if you think about it, the real victims here are the poor OAN staffers, cruelly misjudged when they're just following orders.
In this case, those orders come from the network fuhrer himself, Charles Herring, the owner of OAN, who insists his employees scrape up all the sticky bits from floors of wingnut chat rooms and call it "news."
Times reporter Rachel Abrams writes:
Assignments that the elder Mr. Herring takes a special interest in are known among OAN staff as "H stories," several current and former employees said. The day after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, Mr. Herring instructed OAN employees in an email, which The New York Times reviewed, to "report all the things Antifa did yesterday."
That would be a short report, since Antifa did nothing on January 6 when Trump's maniac supporters were sacking the seat of government.
But it gets better! Some "H stories" are crafted by Kristian Rouz, a former correspondent for Sputnik, the media outlet explicitly backed by the Russian government. Rouz has voiced support for QAnon, suggested that Hillary Clinton is funding Antifa, and endorsed the Plandemic lunacy about George Soros, Bill Gates, and Hillary Clinton creating the coronavirus as part of a "globalist conspiracy to establish sweeping population control."
Rouz tried and failed to get $10 million from Rachel Maddow and MSNBC for "defaming" him by suggesting that he was "on the payroll for the Kremlin."
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OAN Employees Real Sorry About Poisoning Your Nana's Brain, Please Stop Calling Them 'Nazis' Now? (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 2021
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Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)1. Ironically, "just following orders" was the excuse most Nazis used
Hekate
(90,683 posts)2. Oddly enough, whenever some uses the phrase "just following orders" it is a direct reference...
...to the trials of the Nazis after WWII.
Aristus
(66,351 posts)3. "Just following orders"
didn't work for Calley at My Lai...
It didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg...
I think they deserve a punishment somewhere between house-arrest and hanging...