Think fake news isn't a real problem? Look at Senator John Kennedy

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Think fake news isn't a real problem? Look at Senator John Kennedy

Today’s politics combine technology with propaganda, disinformation and corruption. But there is an alternative

Richard Wolffe
@richardwolffedc
Tue 3 Dec 2019 11.00 GMT
Last modified on Tue 3 Dec 2019 15.51 GMT

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But that was so last week. Kennedy reappeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday to reconsider his reconsidered remarks.

“I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election,” he said, in flat contradiction of well, everyone with a brain. Among those brain-driven people is Fiona Hill, the former Russia hand in the Trump White House, who warned Congress just last week that this Republican line of attack was entirely what Vladimir Putin wanted.

“This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves,” she said.

This is sadly not just a tale about a moronic senator on a couple of Sunday talkshows. It cuts to the heart of our democratic process, as new tools of technology are combined with good old-fashioned propaganda, disinformation and corruption.

Kennedy’s lies did not appear out of thin air. They were concocted by a Russian government that has trashed Ukraine to justify its invasion and annexation of Crimea, as well as its everyday corruption and general commercial pillaging. They were propagated by the consistently pro-Russian stooge who sits in the Oval Office, who tweeted his encouragement at Kennedy on Monday.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/03/think-fake-news-isnt-a-real-problem-look-at-senator-john-kennedy

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I saw a clip on kennedy's meeting w/ Chuck Todd...what a moron. Lack of intelligence too. They...

talk about kids in school being uneducated etc., but this is wrong. The kids are fine when you have idiots like this guy out there (kennedy).

When you have morons that are too dumb to exercise a tiny sliver of brain matter, then they don't deserve a position in the House or Senate. I saw this guy in the Todd interview and he was literally a mental mess, and not making one bit of sense. And he can't even respect our own intelligence services to believe them vs. some stupid narrative invented by others. He deserves to be kicked out of office NOW and he deserves the 'Idiot of the Year' award. What a moron.

[BannonsLiver]

5. I think he went to Oxford

Which is sort of surreal, given that he has literal shit for brains. Maybe Oxford is overrated.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Obviously. I don't want to insult those at Oxford, it does have a long and established ...

reputation, it's this moron, who's has dirtied the reputation of Congress. Disgusting.

[IronLionZion]

2. Senators get briefings from our intelligence agencies

let's not pretend they don't. Douchebag deliberately spews lies and fake news in direct contradiction to US intelligence.

This is not a case of a dumbass being stupid enough to believe memes on social media. This is deliberate spreading of false information for political aims.

[BigOleDummy]

3. THIS!!!

Well said

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Lying at this level should be subject to summary execution