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90-percent

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29. Amazing the extent the them-or-us disinformation manipulation wars have reached
Mon Dec 29, 2014, 09:13 AM
Dec 2014

So this petition is a rovian three dimensional chess plant designed to spread the word about protesters calling for murdering policeman?

And if you sign this specific whitehouse.gov, you're a useful idiot promoting this BIG LIE that protesters advocate for murdering policemen? While you think you're practicing good citizenship trying to do something to curb MSM's habit of not providing journalism, but instead AGENDA DRIVEN CORPORATE PROPAGANDA?

I strive to be an informed critical thinker, but this entire disinformation effort apparently by our Oligarchs is hard to stay ahead of.

So just what's the deal with these interconnected websites? Are they designed to trick progressive activists into doing things they think are progressive, but end up supporting the efforts of the Oligarchs to turn America into an authoritarian fascist police state?

Ironic that our country has become what we fought the Revolutionary War to get away from, isn't it? Man's inhumanity to man is a fixed component of the human condition, apparently. I thought humanity was better than that. I thought we were trying to build a more perfect union, not a corporate plantation with the bottom 99% living lives of dull grey economic servitude chained into legalized slavery?


ONE MORE POINT

This needs to be fleshed out and fact checked, but, did not the cop killer come from Baltimore? Is it not conceivable, then, that he watched this misleadingly edited news piece and made up his mind that he should go out and kill some cops? Did Fox' reporting drive this guy to murder? And if so, doesn't this clearly illustrate the danger to society when we have fictional news designed to divide us and make us hate each other? Isn't what the Fox affiliate did a close equivalent to shouting FIRE in a crowded theater?

-90% Jimmy

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Direct link to the petition to save time 951-Riverside Dec 2014 #1
They are only AT 1,561 Let's get rolling classykaren Dec 2014 #7
Umm.... Why so? LovingA2andMI Dec 2014 #38
And Where Is The Democrat StevePaulson Dec 2014 #2
Haven't been listening to the right Democrats and listening to the right news programs if you have jwirr Dec 2014 #31
Can't say I like this NobodyHere Dec 2014 #3
My take mwyn8 Dec 2014 #6
FCC has no jurisdiction over a Cable TV network... brooklynite Dec 2014 #13
The petiton I read calls for a debate about how to hold those that lie responsible...and the consumer Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #17
Are you kidding? We did enforce the Fair and Balanced Act. classykaren Dec 2014 #8
Fox deliberately misleads the viewer through lies and subterfuge. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #10
Fox is allowed to lie watoos Dec 2014 #12
Let them lie. Let us expose it. Let them be held accountable. If the lie is admitted, as here, then Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #15
There is a deeper concern here.... LovingA2andMI Dec 2014 #4
Agree. Is the purpose of this petition (and post) to repeat the "‘Kill A Cop" meme? hexola Dec 2014 #5
Free speech, IMO, should not include outright lies. Stevepol Dec 2014 #11
Not to to mention a local affiliate has nothing to do with Fox NEws. nt 7962 Dec 2014 #19
fox pays local 'news' to use their name it is more profitable that way. Sunlei Dec 2014 #24
I always thought that tgey should have been forced to remove "news" Lucky Luciano Dec 2014 #28
I signed. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #9
Just signed. Sienna86 Dec 2014 #14
Fascism at its worst Android3.14 Dec 2014 #16
That is not the wording of the petition...burn all the strawmen you want, read the actual petition. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #27
The wording is mealy-mouthed fascist nonsense Android3.14 Dec 2014 #32
Right. Now progressives are the fascists?? Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #33
You don't usually express such profound ignorance Android3.14 Dec 2014 #36
Apparently someone has not..... Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #37
Who decides "honesty" and "integrity" Android3.14 Dec 2014 #34
Waiting for my e-mail verification but, I signed it also. a kennedy Dec 2014 #18
I will sign, the petition doesn't show-up yet. There is a second petition for Bush/Cheney & has 2.5k Sunlei Dec 2014 #20
I found your petition & signed, Thanks for starting this one Sunlei Dec 2014 #22
Signed n/t Feral Child Dec 2014 #23
Thank you Feral Child Sunlei Dec 2014 #25
Signed Feral Child Dec 2014 #21
signed onecent Dec 2014 #26
Amazing the extent the them-or-us disinformation manipulation wars have reached 90-percent Dec 2014 #29
Many good questions and.... LovingA2andMI Dec 2014 #35
overwhelming majority father founding Dec 2014 #30
Sorry, but we're locking this because it doesn't conform to the LBN SOP. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2014 #39
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