Following the news that the Department of Homeland Security disinformation governance board has been sidelined because of ‘mischaracterisation’, GOP Senator Tom Cotton and former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard both warned that the scheme is only on hold because it was exposed, and it likely will return in stealth.
Appearing on Fox News, Cotton said “I’m glad to know that this Orwellian Ministry of Truth is at least paused for the moment, but I think it’s important to realize that it’s only paused because the American people found out about it.”
Cotton continued, “The government has no business refereeing disputes engaged in political campaigns or public debates. If you don’t like someone else’s speech, the solution is more speech. It’s not to use the Department of Homeland Security, for goodness’ sake, to try to censor or label someone’s arguments in the public sphere.”
“Now, I think the Democrats often believe that disinformation and misinformation are simply facts that reflect poorly on Joe Biden and the Democrat Party,” Cotton further urged.
“Congress needs to act in the weeks ahead to ensure that it – and nothing like it – can ever be created again in the future,” the Senator asserted.
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Gabbard also tweeted similar sentiments, noting “Freedom requires vigilance.”
Freedom requires vigilance. The vigilance of courageous Americans has forced the Biden Admin to “pause” the Ministry of Truth (Disinformation Board). We must not allow them to reactivate this propaganda arm (with new name/leadership?)
As we noted Thursday, the so called ‘Ministry of Truth’ could be dusted off and reactivated at any point, with reports suggesting that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has picked former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff to replace the thoroughly compromised Nina Jankowicz and to lead a “thorough review” of the scheme.
Study: Half Of Americans Believe Media “Intend To Mislead, Misinform”
“This study suggests that many Americans… feel distrust on an emotional level, believing news organizations intend to mislead them”
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17 March, 2023
Steve Watson
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A study has revealed new lows in terms of trust Americans have in the establishment media.
The study by pollster Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that only a quarter of Americans have some level of favourability regarding the media, the lowest figure recorded for five years.
The study also found that half of Americans believe news organisations “intend to mislead, misinform, or persuade the public.”
More than half (52%) also said that they do not believe news organisations have people’s best interests at heart.
Gallup/Knight noted that “This study suggests that many Americans … feel distrust on an emotional level, believing news organizations intend to mislead them and are indifferent to the social and political impact of their reporting. Our analysis demonstrates that these indicators of emotional trust in news are, in fact, distinct from the opinion that news organizations are capable of delivering accurate and fair reporting.”
Trust in media is spiralling downward, with the criminal justice system and banks garnering more trust at this point:
Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi, who worked on the Twitter Files, and was insulted and attacked by Democrats in Congress last week, noted this week how the media seems completely unconcerned now that real reporting is being suppressed at the behest of the government, where as four years ago it would have been constantly in the headlines.
“These stories are clearly newsworthy,” Taibbi said of the Twitter Files, adding “They are not particularly partisan, the bulk of them. And these attacks on myself and [Michael] Shellenberger. It’s the kind of thing that drove the mainstream media wild when Donald Trump was in office.”
“There would have been days and days of headlines of this kind of thing back then. Now, there is total unconcern about it. But I’ve been really troubled outside this entire period by the lack of esprit de corps among reporters about the story,” Taibbi added.
He continued, “Normally when you get a big story you want the cavalry to come to help investigate and nobody did and I think that’s been a very troubling aspect.”
“This idea of journalists sticking up for one another and sticking up for civil liberties which used to be a no-brainer issue in this profession, again, it’s gone. It’s just something that has disappeared entirely from the business,” the reporter further urged.
Cringe: Biden Receives One Clap From Small Crowd When He Tries To Gee Them Up
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16 March, 2023
Steve Watson
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Joe Biden bumbled his way through a speech at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Wednesday, where a tiny crowd could barely bring themselves to applaud when the President pathetically attempted to rile them up.
Biden was delivering a speech on a plan to lower prescription costs, but barely anyone showed up.
BIDEN FINISHES VEGAS REMARKS: @POTUS is leaving @unlv College of Hospitality. Expect closures shortly along Maryland parkway from Tropicana to Russell and the airport connector for half an hour, according to previous @LVMPD info. #RJNowpic.twitter.com/ZUSDaiDqDr
President Biden’s remarks in Las Vegas this morning are expected to begin at 11:30 AM. His speech will focus on prescription drug prices. Event happening in the atrium of UNLV’s College of Hospitality. Plenty of white coats from School of Medicine serving as backdrop for podium. pic.twitter.com/XDdqbANOSJ
Joe Biden lies again about the deficit, falsely claiming his policies have reduced it.
Per Moody’s Analytics: “The actions of the [Biden] administration and Congress have undoubtedly resulted in higher deficits, not smaller ones." pic.twitter.com/VyjJq8jlNr
After lying about cutting the deficit, toward the end, around 25 minutes into the speech, Biden claimed that many people have told him how amazing it is that the cost of their medications have come down, and promised “there’s a lot more coming.”
The crowd was so low energy and bored witless that only one person clapped:
“Why Would I Want to Fight For People Who Hate Me?” U.S. Army Ad Panned on YouTube
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5 days ago
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16 March, 2023
Chris Menahan | Information Liberation
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The US Army released a new ad last week reviving their old “Be All You Can Be” slogan in a bid to attract the “deplorables” they alienated with woke garbage and vax mandates to enlist but they appear to be running into a wee bit of trouble.
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Despite the ad being markedly “anti-woke” (when compared to current standards) and trying to appeal to more traditional American values, the comments on the video are overwhelmingly negative with poster after poster asking why any normal American would want to fight for people who hate them.
“Why would I want to fight for people who hate me?” one commenter said.
“I’m never dying for people who hate me. NEVER,” said another.
“Nobody in my neighborhood speaks english or flies the American flag,” read another post. “Thanks for defending my country.”