Disgustus tells us not to believe our eyes and ears, not
to read, but simply follow. Any criticism is 'fake news', always
accusing his critics of generating 'fake news' and fabricating lies.
This from a man who, posturing as tRUMP's publicist John Barron,
Disgustus planted stories in New York Tabloids favorable to himself.
Disgustus was one of the inventors of 'fake news'.
Disgustus, ever smearing with a mighty hand, helped
spread a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in which the
sound-track was 'tweaked' by slowing her speech ever so slightly so
as to make her speech appear slurred, as if she were drunk or unwell.
Facebook refused to take down the video, causing a minor uproar, but
that's not the problem according to Farhad Manjoo writing in The
New York Times.
“I understand the fear about digital fakery. But
to focus on Facebook instead of Fox News is to mistake the symptom
for the disease.
“The disease is a well-funded,
decades-in-the-making, right-wing propaganda network, one that exists
to turn rumor into full-blown politically convenient narratives. Its
tentacles now infiltrate every form of media—magazines, books, talk
radio, social networks—but it still finds its most effective outlet
in the Murdoch cable empire.
“And it is devastatingly effective: Just about
every political lie that has dominated American discourse in the past
two decades—the Swift Boaters and the birthers, death panels, the
ideas that undocumented immigrates pose an existential threat but
climate change does not—depended, for its mainstream dissemination,
on the Fox News machine.” (1)
Indeed, Fixed News did
its own editing, creating a separate video aired on Lou
Dobbs Tonight in which
“Misleadingly spliced...small sections of a news
conference” were made to make
Speaker Pelosi stammer “worse than Porky Pig”. (2)
This led the Fox pundits to comment that the Speaker appeared '”worn
down' by the demands of her 'very big job'”.
“While Facebook moved quickly to limit the spread
of the doctored Pelosi clip, Fox is neither apologizing for airing
its montage nor taking it down, because this sort of manipulated
video fits within the networks ethical bounds.” (3)
While Manjoo is right in citing Fox as “the
million-pound, forked-tongue colossus that dominates our
misinformation menagerie” that represents a clear and present
danger, he is missing the point of concern entirely. That is, the
way that technology is trending.
Already pornography exists wherein the faces of
recognizable political figures, usually women—Sarah Palin, Hillary
Clinton, Angela Merkel are affixed to naked bodies engaged in
unspeakable acts of degradation. The technology is so far, crude.
But it is improving and the time is not far distant when it will be
impossible to discern the real from the unreal, and the ability to
make 'fake' tapes, or fabricate fake narratives of any description,
will be within the reach of every malignant force. It will also
make possible the outright discrediting of legitimate videos by
claiming that they are fabricated. The public will not be able to
discern one from the other. Already Disgustus, after having
'apologized' for the Access Hollywood Tapes, is now claiming that
they are 'fake'.
Heretofore, we have relied upon what our eyes could
verify when confronted with rumor and innuendo. Not so anymore. We
are quickly entering an era where our very eyes will be easily
deceived and we will be taught—as Disgustus is already teaching
us—not to believe what we can plainly see. Fake News has taken
over. So successful has he become that Disgustus can now obstruct
justice in plain sight. In a world where you can trust no one, the
vacuum is filled by the tyrant. Disgustus and his minions have
learned their lessons well. Fascism awaits us, it is lurking just
around the corner.
An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh
Impeach and Imprison.
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- Manjoo, Farhad. “The Problem Is Fox News, Not Facebook” The New York Times. Friday May 31, 2019. Page A26
- ibid
- Ibid
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