Fake News

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 …

CNN reports: The FBI monitored social media on Election Day last year in an effort to track a suspected Russian disinformation campaign utilizing “fake news,” CNN has learned. In the months leading up to Election Day, Twitter and Facebook were the feeding grounds for viral “news” stories floating conspiracies and hoaxes, many aimed at spreading negative false claims about Hillary …

Happening now! I got this post up a few minutes late, but you can rewind the clip to catch up on the insanity that has already happened, including an accusation that the Clintons colluded with Russia and the claim that Trump hasn’t yet received the Russian sanctions bill. He has, but even simple little facts like that aren’t beyond lying about. …

Whoa. NPR reports: The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The explosive claim is part of the lawsuit filed against Fox News by Rod Wheeler …

USA Today reports: What did John Oliver do with all of that free time while on hiatus? In addition to appearing on The Late Show to chat about Don Jr. with Stephen Colbert, it appears he also went on a shopping spree at the InfoWars’ online store. In a NSFW segment Sunday, the Last Week Tonight host showed off his …

Mediaite reports: During tonight’s broadcast of Hannity, the pro-Trump commentator devoted yet another segment to lobbing personal attacks at media personalities. But this time he added a twist — he also called on his viewers to troll these CNN and MSNBC hosts on social media. “I am not encouraging you to get in your neighbor’s face like former President Obama …

The far-right Media Resource Center has revoked giving its William F. Buckley Media Excellence Award to Sean Hannity. That’s gotta sting! CNN reports: Buckley, the founder of the National Review, who died in 2008, was hailed in his day as “arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States.” Giving an award in his name to Hannity — a …

Via Breitbart: Matthew Boyle, Breitbart News’ Washington Political Editor, gave a speech entitled “Combating Fake News: Replacing Establishment Media” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Wednesday. “The goal eventually is the full destruction and elimination of the entire mainstream media. We envision a day when CNN is no longer in business. We envision a day when the New York …

The Guardian reports: Rightwing controversialist Milo Yiannopoulos has branded reported low sales of his new book “fake news” after official figures revealed the writer has failed to rock the book charts on either side of the Atlantic, despite his claims to the contrary. According to Nielsen Bookscan, which monitors book sales through almost all outlets, including Amazon, the former Breitbart …

With a giant headline screaming “MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” this morning Breitbart credited Trump with the launch of a new aircraft carrier that began construction in 2005 during the George W. Bush administration. They write: Smelling of fresh paint instead of jet fuel, the U.S. Navy’s newest, most advanced aircraft carrier will join the fleet this weekend, bringing the nation’s …

“We’ve got insanity in this hour, into the next. We’ve got British man, 21, makes history by giving birth to baby daughter. When I read the headline in AP, Reuters, the Sun, I said, it’ll be a woman that thinks she’s a man that had a baby. And sure enough, it was. Because they haven’t produced artificial wombs that work properly. …

Raw Story reports: Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy admitted Tuesday that the report they did on former FBI Director James Comey revealing classified information in his memos was “mistaken.” After the story aired on the Monday morning show, President Donald Trump then tweeted, “James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!” However, as of Tuesday …

“I am in a death battle. People ask how I have this much energy. Megyn Kelly asked me what drugs I was on. And I said I don’t use drugs. She was kind of like, ‘Really, you don’t?’ And I don’t know what that meant, but I thought she was trying to get me to saying I was on drugs. …