Fake News

How extremely typical: Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham incorrectly labeled a photograph of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ NBA Championship parade as a photo of Trump supporters in Phoenix on her website on Thursday. Ingraham placed the photo at the top of her site in a slideshow of current news stories with the title, “5 miles of Trump supporters waiting to meet …

Raw Story reports: In the final moments of Wednesday’s Fox & Friend program, the morning crew tossed to reporter Todd Piro, who was speaking to patrons at a diner in Louisville, Kentucky. “Let’s get right to the debate,” Piro said. “Jefferson County, where we are, highly Democrat. Bullitt County, right across the way here, heavy Republican.” Turning to a man …

CNN reports: A self-described “email prankster” seemingly fooled top editors at Breitbart over the weekend into believing he was Steve Bannon, the fired White House chief strategist who returned to the right-wing website as executive chairman on Friday. In the emails, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow pledged that he and several other top editors would do Bannon’s “dirty work” against White …

As you can see by the screenshot, Breitbart is ramping up their attacks on “globalists” Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. They write: Stephen K. Bannon’s exit from the Trump administration is being seen as a victory for the Chinese government. With Bannon gone, the White House is vulnerable to falling under the influence of those in the administration China has …

This will totally make up for the still-growing boycott by over 2600 advertisers, right? The Hill reports: Major conservative news outlet Breitbart is selling fidget spinners with Stephen Bannon’s face on it, less than a week after the former chief strategist to President Trump left the White House to resume his leadership position at the site. Fidget spinners, a toy …

The Independent reports: More than 2,500 advertisers have reportedly stopped advertising on right-wing news website Breitbart News in recent months, underscoring the swelling power of a grassroots campaign to boycott the platform, especially amid escalating political tensions in the US. According to a tweet by Sleeping Giants, a campaign group aiming to pressure companies into cutting ties with media they …

The Independent reports: Far-right website Breitbart have been forced to apologise after mistaking Lukas Podolski for a migrant travelling from Morocco to Spain. The article entitled “Spanish Police Crack Gang Moving Migrants on Jet-Skis” originally appeared on Sunday with a picture of the recently-retired German star on a jet-ski before it was swiftly changed. It is understood the picture, rather …

The Washington Examiner reports: President Trump touted his support on Saturday for Steve Bannon’s transition from the White House back to Breitbart News. Earlier in the day, Trump tweeted his thanks to Bannon for serving him in his campaign and administration. The White House confirmed on Friday, following reports, that Bannon would no longer be Trump’s cheif strategist. White House …

Axios reports: Unshaven and working from home in cargo shorts as he moves into “Bannon the Barbarian” mode, Steve Bannon is thinking bigger than Breitbart. Axios’ Jonathan Swan hears Bannon has told friends he sees a massive opening to the right of Fox News, raising the possibility that he’s going to start a network. Bannon’s friends are speculating about whether …

CNN reports: In the immediate aftermath of the Charlottesville terror attack, the far-right website GotNews posted what seemed like a huge scoop. The website said it could “exclusively reveal” that the person who had run over a group of demonstrators in a Dodge Charger was not a white nationalist, but instead a critic of President Donald Trump. The Michigan man …

NBC News reports: A right-wing activist who brought attention to debunked conspiracy theories — and who gained new prominence when he was retweeted by President Donald Trump this week — is a U.S. naval intelligence officer detailed to a reserve unit, Navy service records show. John Michael Posobiec III’s security clearance is currently suspended, according to a U.S. official, who …

Mediaite reports: We’ve already focused on how President Trump deleted a post he retweeted this morning where someone referred to him or Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a “fascist.” However, that wasn’t the only retweet the president is trying to erase from the history of the Internet. As you can see, Trump previously re-posted someone who put up a cartoon showing …

The Daily Beast reports: On Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump condemned neo-Nazis in a long anticipated speech, two full days after Saturday’s Charlottesville terror attack killed one anti-racist protester and injured 20 others. Then, late on Monday night, Trump retweeted Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, who spent part of Saturday amplifying an entirely inaccurate conspiracy theory that the attack was …

Homocon Jim Hoft might get sued. The Detroit Free Press reports: A Michigan man was falsely accused by conservative and alt-right websites as being the driver of Saturday’s deadly car attack on anti-racist protesters in central Virginia, in the hours after the tragedy, according to the man’s attorney. The man, who the Detroit Free Press is not naming because his …

“A lot of the KKK guys with their hats off look like they’re from the cast of Seinfeld. Literally they’re just Jewish actors. Nothing against Jews in general, but they are leftists Jews that want to create this clash and they go dress up as Nazis. I have footage in Austin — we’re going to find it somewhere here at …

Media Matters has the transcript: Trump is arguing for an American nationalism and not a white nationalism. Let’s remember that this whole concept of ethnic nationalism is a left-wing idea. The Democratic Party invented white nationalism and the Democratic Party invented black nationalism. Now interestingly today, the way that the progressive Democrats have constructed their sort of multicultural totem pole, …

“So they advertise and they have a ‘unite the right – don’t be racist’ rally and of course these guys with torches come and you look them up and most of them are actors, you can even look up their names. They’re Democratic Party operatives. They’ve been caught painting swastikas on black people’s places and burning crosses and they always …

Raw Story reports: The right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial board on Wednesday called out top White House political strategist Steve Bannon for allegedly coordinating a series of attacks on National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. In particular, the editorial accused Bannon of pushing out a series of stories to his former publication, Breitbart News, that accused McMaster of being “insufficiently pro-Israel …

The Week reports: At 3:11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity decided that some things are just more important than politics. “In light of dangerous NKorea threat, I’m stopping all petty political disagreements for at least next 12 hours,” he tweeted. “Petty” is, of course, a subjective term, but at 11:03 p.m. EDT, less than …

Via Mediaite: Today brought the sobering and troubling news that reclusive dictatorship North Korea has now successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can be placed in missiles, bringing it to the brink of being a true nuclear power in the world. Well, one man has made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in terms of fighting the nuclear threat …