Politics FAKE NEWS STILL GOING STRONG

[Shaboid]

No, but I certainly defend his right to determine his own diet.

As do I. We can both agree that it is asinine.

 

[Lanny]

The dough/crust is the most important part of any pizza, in my opinion. That is what a pizza is built on. I like a thin crispy crust. Almost cracker like. Round table crust is a good place to start.

Was a good place to start. We loved the Round table in Lake Oswego only 3 miles from our house but they got rid of their thinnest crust. Now, all we have is Papa Murphy's doctored up pizza and my wife doesn't like that. Also, with a pizza cooked at home, while it's got it's advantages, it lacks the social experience that you get when going out.

 

[Lanny]

Literally my favorite part of Portland these days is the food. It's one of the better food towns in the US that I've been too, and there is a lot of diversity, good Pizza, Sushi, Indian, Jewish, etc. Very good food to be had.

You don't know good food until you go to St. Louis, San Francisco or New York.
For really great Korean food you need to go to Chicago, Seattle, LA or Korea. We have had good food in Tacoma at the Lakewood exit but it's hit or miss. We also ate fabulous buffet Korean food in Bellevue and West Virginia near Washington D.C. Still think about those two places. Of course, this just applies to those few of us who know and appreciate Korean food.

 

[Lanny]

You must not be looking hard. Portland is widely recognized these days as a great pizza town. Wood fired delicious pizzas wherever you look.

My personal favorites are Apizza Scholls and Escape from NY.

Escape from New York is one of my favorites, as well but it's super casual and not many places to sit down. I think I recall two maybe three tables and a few bar stools. The problem with them is that they don't have quite the same thin crust as I've had in NY and New Jersey as well as parts of St. Louis.
There is a wood fired pizza joint in the Scholl's area near the movie theater that we sort of liked but it just wasn't quite the same thin crust.
We've also gone to MOD's pizza in Lake Oswego but although we love the toppings we aren't crazy about the crust and their beer selection is God awful.

 

[Lanny]

You must not be looking hard. Portland is widely recognized these days as a great pizza town. Wood fired delicious pizzas wherever you look.

My personal favorites are Apizza Scholls and Escape from NY.

Now I know what place you're talking about.
My occupational therapist is from Brooklyn and told me about Apizza Scholls being the best pizza he's found in Portland including Escape from NY which he says is not quite as good.

 

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[Lanny]

Hey hey, this was our secret? How did you find out? Was it at our regular Wednesday night meetings?

 

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CNN's Chris Cillizza mocked for telling Trump viruses 'don't, uh, recognize borders'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News

CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza was widely mocked on social media on Monday while attempting to mock President Trump for his vocal stance on borders amid the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump has long supported strengthening the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico, but as the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, there has been a renewed call to increase border security to crack down on the transmission of the virus on top of the travel ban he had set against China as well as the majority of Europe.

On Monday morning, Trump touted his support for strong borders on social media.

"THIS IS WHY WE NEED BORDERS!" Trump exclaimed.

CNN'S JAKE TAPPER UNDER FIRE AFTER ADMITTING HE DIDN'T FACT-CHECK AOC ON TRUMP-CORONAVIRUS CLAIM

Cillizza responded to what the thought was a witty response.

"Viruses don't, uh, recognize borders," Cillizza told the president.

Critics ridiculed the outspoken CNN commentator for the tweet.

"How do you think viruses cross borders, Chris?" Human Events managing editor Ian Miles Cheong asked.

"Cillizza’s hot take is 'viruses don’t recognize borders' as countries around the world are temporarily closing their borders," Daily Caller social media manager Logan Hall said.

"Viruses, uh, are transmitted by human beings," Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy told Cillizza.

"The curve of media intelligence has been flattened," comedian Dave Cooperman quipped.

"Cillizza thinks that this is a good point? People who carry viruses do, however, respond to checkpoints and border security," RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway reacted.

Even Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., knocked the liberal pundit's tweet.

"So was it good or bad that the US halted flights in and out of China?" Cruz asked.

 

[Lanny]

CNN's Chris Cillizza mocked for telling Trump viruses 'don't, uh, recognize borders'
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News

CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza was widely mocked on social media on Monday while attempting to mock President Trump for his vocal stance on borders amid the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump has long supported strengthening the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico, but as the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, there has been a renewed call to increase border security to crack down on the transmission of the virus on top of the travel ban he had set against China as well as the majority of Europe.

On Monday morning, Trump touted his support for strong borders on social media.

"THIS IS WHY WE NEED BORDERS!" Trump exclaimed.

CNN'S JAKE TAPPER UNDER FIRE AFTER ADMITTING HE DIDN'T FACT-CHECK AOC ON TRUMP-CORONAVIRUS CLAIM

Cillizza responded to what the thought was a witty response.

"Viruses don't, uh, recognize borders," Cillizza told the president.

Critics ridiculed the outspoken CNN commentator for the tweet.

"How do you think viruses cross borders, Chris?" Human Events managing editor Ian Miles Cheong asked.

"Cillizza’s hot take is 'viruses don’t recognize borders' as countries around the world are temporarily closing their borders," Daily Caller social media manager Logan Hall said.

"Viruses, uh, are transmitted by human beings," Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy told Cillizza.

"The curve of media intelligence has been flattened," comedian Dave Cooperman quipped.

"Cillizza thinks that this is a good point? People who carry viruses do, however, respond to checkpoints and border security," RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway reacted.

Even Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., knocked the liberal pundit's tweet.

"So was it good or bad that the US halted flights in and out of China?" Cruz asked.

Yes, viruses don't respect borders whether secured or not. However, now here's the hilarioud irony, Central and South America have less Covid19 coronavirus than we do so maybe they should close their borders to us. We are now no. 2 or 3 in the infected population count and headed for no. 1. Your Trump is a huge failure in saving American lives.

 

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The fakest of them all, is a sinking ship.

MSNBC treads water during jam-packed news quarter, fails to add viewers

By Brian Flood | Fox News

The first quarter of 2020 was filled to the brim with news, from the impeachment trial of President Trump and the contentious Democratic primary to the growing coronavirus pandemic, but MSNBC failed to add viewers, and experts say that's a serious issue for the far-left network.

“This should concern the MSNBC hierarchy,” DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall told Fox News.

Fox News grew 38 percent among total viewers during the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same time period last year, and MSNBC's liberal rival CNN grew 26 percent, while MSNBC finished the quarter with roughly the same viewership as Q1 of 2019.

USNS COMFORT DOCKS IN NY 10 DAYS AFTER RACHEL MADDOW SAID IT WOULD TAKE 'WEEKS'

It was even worse for MSNBC when it comes to the key news demographic of adults age 25-54, as Fox News grew 42 percent and CNN grew 27 percent, while MSNBC dropped by one percent – losing viewers during, arguably, the most newsworthy quarter in a decade.

MSNBC’s primetime lineup of Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell was completely flat compared to last year, while Fox News and CNN both grew by at least 35 percent during the hours of 8-11 p.m. ET.

MSNBC still managed to finish the quarter behind Fox News as the No. 2 basic cable network, but the lack of growth during a jam-packed news quarter should be extremely concerning to MSNBC honchos, McCall said.

FOX NEWS CHANNEL RATINGS FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 2020 ARE THE HIGHEST IN NETWORK HISTORY

"The impeachment trial, COVID-19 coverage and the Democrat presidential primary should have all provided MSNBC plenty of spark to generate audience growth. The flat MSNBC viewership numbers suggest that the channel can maintain their loyal, core audience, but that the appeal of MSNBC is limited beyond the channel's true believers,” McCall said.

"The flat MSNBC viewership numbers suggest that the channel can maintain their loyal, core audience, but that the appeal of MSNBC is limited beyond the channel's true believers... this should concern the MSNBC hierarchy."

— Media critic Jeffrey McCall
“It is natural that big stories such as impeachment, COVID-19 and the contested Democrat primary will draw the less consistent news viewers back into the audience, including viewers who are more politically independent," McCall explained. "That MSNBC apparently failed to attract some of this audience growth would seem to indicate that MSNBC's appeal is largely to a narrow, more ideologically driven news consumer.'

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McCall says the marketplace is telling NBC executives that their “appeal is limited beyond the normal core” and that “casual news viewers don't see MSNBC as a place to get something other than the expected ideologically-charged point of view,” which is typically far-left and anti-Trump.

“MSNBC has made money off of this strategy, but it is limiting when it comes time for covering high-impact stories and trying to reach broader demographics,” McCall added.

“The Rachel Maddow Show,” which is the network’s most popular program and cash cow, finished the first quarter behind five different Fox News programs, including non-primetime shows “The Five” and “Special Report with Bret Bair.”

On March 25, Maddow’s show even finished outside the 20 most-watched cable news programs among the key demo, something that would have been unthinkable not long ago.

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Maddow has famously spent much of her program hyperventilating over whether or not Trump colluded with Russia until Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report contradicted her nightly narrative. At the time, ex-MSNBC host Krystal Ball blasted her former colleague for floating wild “Russian conspiracy theories” that were not supported by Mueller's report.

RACHEL MADDOW'S CREDIBILITY AND RATINGS AT A LOW EBB FOLLOWING MUELLER FINDINGS, CRITICS SAY

“Rachel Maddow, you’ve got some explaining to do,” Ball said, but Maddow hasn’t stopped anti-Trump speculation. Maddow recently told her viewers it was “nonsense” to believe Trump’s word that the USNS Comfort could be ready to quickly help New Yorkers, but it arrived at the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak only 10 days after her comment.

“In the midst of a global crisis, people are turning to other outlets, not MSNBC."

— Dan Gainor

“In the midst of a global crisis, people are turning to other outlets, not MSNBC. Maybe that's because they don't want to hear more lies about Russian collusion from Rachel Maddow. Or more lies in general from Brian Williams. Or maybe it's just because no one other than their core audience takes them seriously,” Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor told Fox News.

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"Maybe it's just because no one other than their core audience takes them seriously."

— Dan Gainor
Fourth Watch editor Steve Krakauer on Sunday slammed MSNBC’s Brian Williams, who was famously demoted from NBC’s “Nightly News” after embellishing stories, for his “over-the-top” criticism of Dr. Deborah Birx.

“There's a way to critique the administration and the president, and then there's these low points from journalists who really should know better,” Krakauer wrote, comparing Williams to a “basement blogger.”

Williams also had an embarrassing math debacle in March, inaccurately suggesting the $500 million that Michael Bloomberg spent on advertising during his short-lived presidential campaign could have supplied every American with their own check for $1 million. In reality, however, had Bloomberg divvied his advertising dollars among all Americans, the per-capita cash-out would have been more like $1.53 per person – not even enough to take a ride on New York City’s subway.

MSNBC WORKING AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS' DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION, CRITICS SAY

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Status Coup founder and journalist Jordan Chariton used to cover cable news ratings when he was an editor for TVNewser earlier in his career. He’s been an outspoken critic of what he calls “corporate media” and has another theory about MSNBC’s lack of growth in the ratings department.

“There's something else that was occurring in that first quarter that might have made MSNBC viewers look away—Bernie Sanders winning Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada,” Chariton told Fox News.

In fact, MSNBC was widely criticized during the quarter for its antagonistic coverage of Sanders, as many observers felt progressive MSNBC hosts and pundits openly preferred a moderate Democrat such as Joe Biden.

CNN'S BRIAN STELTER WINS FIRST-EVER 'LIBERAL HACK TOURNAMENT,' TOPPING MAINSTREAM MEDIA GIANTS

If MSNBC brass is concerned about the lack of new viewers, they certainly haven’t implemented any changes yet.

The network didn’t get off to a strong start to the second quarter from a credibility standpoint on Wednesday, as “Morning Joe” namesake Joe Scarborough was widely mocked on social media after declaring that “everybody” saw the coronavirus epidemic coming “in early January” despite his own show not even uttering the word coronavirus until Jan. 24, according to Grabien Media.

Grabien founder Tom Elliot noted that Scarborough’s first commentary on coronavirus occurred roughly two months after what could be considered “early January.”

 

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[Minstrel]

 

[Lanny]

Study suggests mainstream media double standard at work after arrest of Rep. Chris Collins

By Brian Flood | Fox News

Mainstream media spent more time on the arrest of Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y. in one day than it did in a year where Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., was concerned.

Mainstream media has often been accused of focusing on the flaws of Republicans while looking the other way when it comes to Democrats. Consider this week's coverage of the arrest of Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y.

The Media Research Center reported that ABC, CBS and NBC combined to cover Collins’ arrest on evening and morning newscasts for a combined 18 minutes and 24 seconds during the first 24 hours of coverage. The MRC study also noted that similar ordeals involving a Democrat received little to no attention from the same networks.

Former Democrat Rep. Chaka Fattah resigned in 2016 after being convicted of federal corruption charges including bribery, racketeering, money laundering and bank fraud. The networks spent more time on Collins in one day than they did on Fattah in over a year, according to the MRC.

“During the year-and-a-half period in between his indictment and conviction for bribery and fraud, the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening programs managed a scant 68 seconds,” MRC associate editor Scott Whitlock wrote.

Former Florida Rep. Corrine Brown was sentenced last year to five years in prison over a variety of charges including fraud, but the networks ignored it all together. ABC, NBC and CBS combined for zero minutes of coverage from Brown’s indictment through sentencing, according to the MRC.

According to the MRC, CBS spent 7 minutes and 6 seconds on the Collins story, while ABC spent 5 minutes and 41 second and NBC dedicated 5 minutes and 37 seconds of airtime on the story.

CBS, ABC and NBC did not immediately respond when asked about the study.

Collins said he believes that charges filed against him "are meritless" and he will remain on the ballot for re-election. The indictment charges 68-year-old Collins; his son, Cameron Collins; and the father of his son's fiancée, Stephen Zarsky, with conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud and making false statements to the FBI. All three pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday afternoon.

“On Wednesday and Thursday, the networks not only offered a lot of time to Collins’s arrest, but they also heavily emphasized the Republican’s connection to Trump,” Whitlock wrote. “Is that the journalistic standard now? Corruption matters because Trump is President? Apparently, corrupt Democrats were of no concern during the Obama era.”

Collins, who has served New York's 27th District since 2013, ran unopposed in the Republican primary and holds what's largely considered a safe Republican seat in a state that went to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016. He's being challenged by Democrat Nate McMurray, a Grand Island, N.Y., town supervisor.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...d-at-work-after-arrest-rep-chris-collins.html

The Media Resource Center and Fox News are noteworthy poor sources.

 

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[Minstrel]

The New York Times doesn't have to harass Carlson to get him off the air--Carlson is doing a good job of getting himself off the air with the recent reports of racist/sexist/homophobic writers and his own alleged sexual harassment.

 

[ABM]

The New York Times doesn't have to harass Carlson to get him off the air...

Then they should stop. I mean, seriously.

 

[Minstrel]

Then they should stop. I mean, seriously.

If they are, sure, they should stop. Probably not going to take Tucker's word for it that they're targeting him for harassment.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Lawsuit comes out, Tucker is trying to bang other women. Same day, Tucker, "I'm a victim!"

Let's see the article.

 

[Lanny]

As if anyone who knows anything about Tucker Carlson is going to watch this tripe.

 

[Lanny]

If they are, sure, they should stop. Probably not going to take Tucker's word for it that they're targeting him for harassment.

Probably not?

 

[Minstrel]

Probably not?

Understatement. It's generally my style.

 

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Twitter, Facebook Censored Trump, Campaign 65 Times, Leave Biden Untouched
Corinne Weaver and Alec Schemmel
October 19th, 2020 8:47 AM

Big Tech has caused serious damage to President Donald Trump’s ability to be heard on social media.

Twitter and Facebook have censored the president’s social media accounts and the accounts belonging to his re-election campaign at least 65 times. In contrast, the companies have not censored former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his campaign accounts. At all.

Twitter composes the bulk of the problem, with 98 percent of all the instances of censorship. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Twitter has made the decision to censor major headlines about the Biden family, particularly when it came to the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine.

The Media Research Center’s Techwatch department analyzed two years of social media posts from Trump, Biden, and their respective campaigns. The analysis did not include any ads from PACs or super PACs that had made ads in favor of either candidate. It also focused on social media posts, not paid advertisements, from the campaigns. These numbers were collected from between May 2018 to October 16, 2020.

In addition, Twitter and Facebook employees have funneled money into Democrat campaigns. In a previous study released by MRC Business, the numbers showed that Facebook and Twitter had given over 90 percent of their political contributions to Democrats in 2020.

Twitter

Twitter has been far and away the biggest offender, labeling, fact-checking, and removing Trump’s tweets and the tweets from his campaign accounts 64 times since the president’s election. Tweets about the president’s concern over mail-in voting, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protests have been given “public interest notices.”

Videos retweeted by the president depicting a satirical version of Biden walking on stage to the song “F*** Tha Police” have been deleted as well, after a fact-check from Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact. The actual video showed Biden playing the song "Despacito.”

Twitter fired first in the war between Trump and Big Tech when it completely deleted three tweets from the president on July 28, 2020. It removed tweets about the drug hydroxychloroquine.

Memes apparently are not allowed on the president’s account either. A meme showing Trump saying “in reality, they’re not after me. They’re after you” was removed from his June 30 tweet. Meme videos and meme creators who make pro-Trump content have suffered at the hands of Twitter. One instance is Carpe Donktum, the meme creator who made a video mocking the Democrats’ reaction to the 2019 State of the Union address. The video, retweeted by Trump, was removed after a copyright complaint. Donktum, whose real name is Logan Cook, was also removed in June 2020 after Trump had tweeted another one of his videos showing two toddlers hugging each other, with fake CNN chyrons at the bottom.

This censorship goes back as far as the beginning of the Trump presidency. A rogue Twitter employee in 2017 deactivated Trump’s account on his last day at work, leaving it offline for 11 minutes. Trump’s two tweets of Drudge headlines in 2018 were given the “sensitive content” filter over top of the tweets.

Users who have been retweeted by Trump play a game of censorship roulette as well. According to the Daily Beast, “Nearly 10 percent of the unverified accounts retweeted by President Trump since his inauguration are currently suspended from Twitter for various violations of the platform’s policies.” One user was quoted in the Daily Beast as saying, “Twitter’s always been fair to me, until the president of the United States retweeted me.” Seventeen accounts at least have been suspended since Trump’s inauguration.

The Trump campaign’s accounts have also been struck by censorship on Twitter. Team Trump has had four videos removed, including one that talked about pro-life policies. In addition, the Trump campaign was also suspended for sharing the controversial Hunter Biden emails story from the New York Post.

Facebook

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech given at Georgetown University on Oct. 17, 2019 that Facebook would “continue to stand for free expression.” But since then, Trump and the Trump campaign have been censored on the platform five times. Instagram, Facebook’s sister company, removed one video as well. Each time, the platform has made the statement that it opposes whatever Trump and the campaign have said or stood for.

A video attacking Antifa was removed from the platform, because it violated the platform’s “organized hate policy” for featuring an upside-down red triangle. The ad asked supporters “to sign a petition and "stand with your President and his decision to declare ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization.” The ad was removed from both the president’s page and his campaign’s page. However, multiple violent Antifa pages that have doxxed members of the Senate remain on the platform, unscathed.

Facebook fact-checkers, certified by the liberal Poynter Institute’s Independent Fact-Checking Network, also fact-checked a video that showed Biden saying, “We cannot win this re-election. Excuse me, we can only re-elect Donald Trump.” The video was labeled “partially false” and given an interstitial, or a filter, that suppressed the spread of the content on the platform.

 

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[Lanny]

What scandal? I've seen zero evidence of a Biden scandal.

 

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-tops-espn-most-watched-cable-network-cnn

 

[Sheldon Shape]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-tops-espn-most-watched-cable-network-cnn

God help this country. Don't look up.