commando Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 so fox news is saying Joe has done a great job with the sanctions of russia and it is really hurting putin. good to know. 1 Link to comment
Born N Bled Red Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Putting it here too... Just cuz. Even though this is exposing bad actors on the right, I'm going to put this in here because of the way I think this should be. In my opinion, the coziness here seen between the Trump administration and Fox News is absolutely unacceptable. Just as there is separation of church and state, there should be separation of state and media. A free media is key to a functioning democracy and drifting away from that is very dangerous, as we are seeing in Russia. Just as it is "Illegal" for PACS and campaigns to coordinate, it should be illegal for any news organization/ political administration to coordinate messaging. Cuomo lost his job for helping his brother through his position of power in the media, during a time of crisis. Each news personality participating in these texts are guilty of the exact same crime and should suffer the same fate. I don't give a damn who is in power. The free media is there to inform us on exactly how our government is performing. They cannot be in the pocket of any party, administration, or candidate. Go ahead and throw your Obama/ Clinton examples out @Archy1221, though much smaller in scope, those examples are just as wrong, and should be just as illegal. How thousands of text messages from Mark Meadows and others reveal new details about events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack - Washington Post 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 On 3/2/2022 at 3:04 PM, commando said: Fake News Network defending Russia Related: Push me over with a feather. This just makes a person scratch his head and say 'hummm' https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-fox-news-producer-sean-210134835.html Former Fox News Producer for Sean Hannity Indicted for Helping Russia Quote \ As the United States increasingly goes after some of the Kremlin’s business tentacles, the latest person arrested for violating U.S. sanctions against Russia is less notable for his ties to Vladimir Putin than his old ties to Sean Hannity—he is a former Fox News producer who left to launch a Russian propaganda network. The Department of Justice on Thursday revealed that Jack Hanick was quietly arrested in London on Feb. 3 for dodging U.S. sanctions by helping a sanctioned Russian oligarch, Konstantin Malofeyev, start his right-wing Tsargrad TV. The DOJ simultaneously unsealed a grand jury indictment against him, accusing Hanick of knowingly engaging in business dealings with Malofeyev, who had been formally sanctioned by the U.S. government for his role in financing Russia-backed soldiers in eastern Ukraine who have violently tried to break off from the democratic country since 2014. Quote The indictment also accuses Hanick of lying to FBI agents about his travels to Greece and Bulgaria to expand the TV network in 2015 and 2016, when he was interviewed by American investigators last year in New York City. Federal agents assert that many of the damning details about Hanick’s Kremlin adventures were laid out in an unpublished memoir he kept in his email account, which was searched by the feds with a court-approved search warrant. Malofeyev was sanctioned in December 2014 by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for financing separatists in the Donbas region in southeastern Ukraine. Russia-aligned fighters there operated with the not-so-secret help of that country's military and used that government’s weapons when they shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing 283 passengers and 15 crewmembers. Malofeyev (also spelled in the West as Malofeev) started an Orthodox Christian network called Tsargrad TV. In 2020, he launched a similarly named right-wing political group in Russia with an imperialist bent that would—much like the National Rifle Association does in the United States—pressure politicians to toe the conservative line. Quote According to The Warsaw Institute, a Polish-based geopolitical think tank, “Tsargrad” would test political candidates’ adherence to “traditional family, religious, and cultural values of the Russian people.” The Financial Times in 2015 analyzed how Malofeyev launched his “conservative yet modern spin on global news” in an attempt to mimic the rise of Fox News. Then, in 2018, the online news site Salon called out Hanick for joining the Russian operation, noting that he had previously served as Hannity’s director at Fox News. Hanick got his start at Fox News when it first launched in 1996. Fifteen years later, in 2011, he left. Three years later, he joined forces with Malofeyev’s Russian propaganda operation. The Justice Department now wants to extradite him from the United Kingdom to New York City. Damian Williams, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, issued a statement noting that sanctions “prohibit United States citizens from working for or doing business with Malofeyev but as alleged, Hanick violated those sanctions by working directly for Malofeyev on multiple television projects over the course of several years.” 2 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted March 3, 2022 Author Share Posted March 3, 2022 58 minutes ago, Born N Bled Red said: Go ahead and throw your Obama/ Clinton examples out @Archy1221, though much smaller in scope, those examples are just as wrong, and should be just as illegal. Why would I throw them out there when you just acknowledged it? Though I don’t think it should be deemed illegal. Unethical yes 1 Link to comment
commando Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 where did they find this guy? 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 This is bull s#!t if true. why would the press ever call an end to a news briefing? 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Why is he pushing such propaganda? Who does that benefit? 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted March 8, 2022 Author Share Posted March 8, 2022 That’s a good question 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 40 minutes ago, knapplc said: Why is he pushing such propaganda? Who does that benefit? Some how, he is getting paid to promote pro Russia. The big question is, who is paying him? Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 10 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: Some how, he is getting paid to promote pro Russia. The big question is, who is paying him? If only his listeners asked such pertinent questions. But then, these are the same people who voted for TFG, twice, without demanding to see his taxes. 3 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 28 minutes ago, knapplc said: If only his listeners asked such pertinent questions. But then, these are the same people who voted for TFG, twice, without demanding to see his taxes. Why would they ask to see the taxes of the greatest business man the world has ever seen? 2 1 Link to comment
Dr. Strangelove Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, knapplc said: If only his listeners asked such pertinent questions. But then, these are the same people who voted for TFG, twice, without demanding to see his taxes. It's pretty terrifying to think that Trump elevated these people to high positions in his administration. I mean, this guy is shilling for Putin so hard it's painful to watch. And he was the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense during the Trump Administration. The Trump Administration's ties to Putin and Pro-Russian organizations should be sickening to anybody who voted for him in light of the events of the last two weeks. But, we all know in a 2024 rematch between Dear Leader Trump and Biden they're going to vote for Trump again. 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted March 10, 2022 Author Share Posted March 10, 2022 https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/media-outlets-adopt-activist-dont-say-gay-label-for-florida-bill-on-schools/ If Republicans had decided to call the Democrats’ recent abortion bill — on demand, until crowning, paid for by taxpayers — the “Let’s Kill Babies” bill (though pretty accurate, actually), no major news agency would have allowed those words to creep into their reporting, much less used it in a headline. If liberals want to engage in hyperbole, that’s their business, but how can we trust outlets that shamelessly regurgitate their propaganda? (That’s rhetorical.) 3 Link to comment
Lorewarn Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 10 hours ago, Archy1221 said: https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/media-outlets-adopt-activist-dont-say-gay-label-for-florida-bill-on-schools/ If Republicans had decided to call the Democrats’ recent abortion bill — on demand, until crowning, paid for by taxpayers — the “Let’s Kill Babies” bill (though pretty accurate, actually), no major news agency would have allowed those words to creep into their reporting, much less used it in a headline. If liberals want to engage in hyperbole, that’s their business, but how can we trust outlets that shamelessly regurgitate their propaganda? (That’s rhetorical.) • Editorializes one single perspective on abortion as actually being true • Asks how we can trust outlets that shamelessly do the same thing 2 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted March 11, 2022 Author Share Posted March 11, 2022 3 hours ago, Lorewarn said: • Editorializes one single perspective on abortion as actually being true • Asks how we can trust outlets that shamelessly do the same thing Simple question…..Do you think “don’t say gay bill” accurately describes the bill? 2 1 Link to comment
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