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DFW

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19. Pay attention, people--this is classic Fox Noise propaganda
Tue Mar 14, 2017, 02:30 PM
Mar 2017

"Many people are asking....."

No, no one is asking. Fox is trying to make people ask a question that has occurred to exactly nobody.

Classic propaganda: Remove the two relevant questions by asking other questions that use Fox Lies as their premise. They thus move beyond the questions that people should be asking Fox, and prompt them to ask meaningless questions predicated upon Fox's lies being fact.

The obvious question "WHO is asking?" is therefore answered from the start. "Many people." Don't ask who the many people are. You are a libbrul agitator if you ask that. Like at the end of the first Indian Jones film: "Top men."

Then Fox asks the BS question, "if Obama didn't use American services to spy on the Trump campaign, then who DID he use? The British? Someone else?" See how easy it is? Fox removes the question of whether Obama did any such thing at all by asking another question that assumes their first false premise is correct. It's like asking someone if they murdered their mother by shooting her or strangling her--the question of whether or not they harmed their mother at all is thus already answered in the affirmative--by the one asking the questions. Say, "I never hurt my mother at all," and you get immediately shouted down with "don't change the subject!"

It's simple, and it works. It shouldn't, being so obvious, but then consider the average education level of Foxsuckers. Once you do that, you get the added bonus of insight as to why the Republicans are so against education.

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the only bugs in trump tower are trump-cooties... samnsara Mar 2017 #1
leave it to faux rumors to move the goal posts. they will always carry water for trump spanone Mar 2017 #2
Maybe he used the same Russian agents twitler used? randr Mar 2017 #3
Nothing matters anymore , nothing. If Trump is guilty of treason, and he is, Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #4
wow, even the tin foil hat wears a tin foil hat! unblock Mar 2017 #5
I thought he used his Kenyan friends who knew microwave ovens dalton99a Mar 2017 #6
This will become the new tRumper meme ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #7
I have it on good authority that bedbugs in all Trump buildings have chips implanted in them. Vinca Mar 2017 #8
You have to wonder if this outrageous claim has ulterior motives Docreed2003 Mar 2017 #9
"Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano"....... yellowcanine Mar 2017 #10
Aliens matt819 Mar 2017 #11
What if there's, like, no evidence because it, like, never happened? Iggo Mar 2017 #12
That blows my mind!!!! Kaleva Mar 2017 #13
Nothing but beauty happens when FOX News flexes that one collective brain muscle. TheBlackAdder Mar 2017 #14
"Hillary and her shape-shifting alien lizard people friends are behind this!" struggle4progress Mar 2017 #15
I met a lizard person once. panader0 Mar 2017 #17
When I was a child, I told my mom there was a bear in the back yard ... PsychoBabble Mar 2017 #16
It was microwave ovens manufactured in Britain. DavidDvorkin Mar 2017 #18
Pay attention, people--this is classic Fox Noise propaganda DFW Mar 2017 #19
Yep, 'cause those Brits have cameras EVERYWHERE! n/t Liberal In Texas Mar 2017 #22
Now mini cameras in both the tea AND the crumpets! n/t DFW Mar 2017 #25
Thanks for this concise explanation of Fox's propaganda technique. CottonBear Mar 2017 #36
The want to ALABAMA Obama. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #20
Well, Trump is basically a Bond villain, so it makes sense. Orrex Mar 2017 #21
It might happen..... IcyPeas Mar 2017 #23
Yeah, baby! pinboy3niner Mar 2017 #24
But Fox told us Obama removed Churchill's bust and sent it back to delisen Mar 2017 #26
Then how the fuck did he accuse Obama of that malaise Mar 2017 #27
They are pulling shit out of their asses.. coco22 Mar 2017 #28
And... and... the Chinese-made microwaves !!!! C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #29
Theatre Release? Zambero Mar 2017 #30
No doubt Obama sent in the A-team Botany Mar 2017 #31
Unfortunately the A-team wasn't available, so... pinboy3niner Mar 2017 #33
Standard MO Thomas Hurt Mar 2017 #32
Drumpf's Mexican maid speaks five languages and ratted him out to Barack. nt Ilsa Mar 2017 #34
Aw, hell. Don't tell me they've blown Nigel Farage's cover. n/t Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #35
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