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UCmeNdc

(9,601 posts)
Sun May 3, 2020, 05:53 PM May 2020

Conservative Propaganda Machine Works to control conservative voters!

“A lot of this fear I mentioned about, a lot comes from propaganda from conservative networks downplaying the virus,” Weissman offered. “They don’t think the virus isn’t as serious as it really is and a lot of people do not believe in the numbers of the fatalities from the virus– we have Trump even called it a hoax, he called it a hoax for a long time. He waited until 70 days to finally act on it. You see people like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, they were calling it a hoax. That’s why you have so many thinking that this is not as serious as it really is, why they have no problem going into public and protesting.”



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/ex-trump-fan-reveals-on-msnbc-how-he-was-duped-into-voting-for-the-president-in-2016/

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Conservative Propaganda Machine Works to control conservative voters! (Original Post) UCmeNdc May 2020 OP
Free Speech? Newest Reality May 2020 #1
But people like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and their ilk are hunkered down. tecelote May 2020 #2
Conservative voters are in the minority in any fair and secure election. It's the ratfucking that abqtommy May 2020 #3

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Free Speech?
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:05 PM
May 2020

We are at a point where the question of legality comes in. Is it legal to knowingly mislead the public concerning health dangers during a crisis? Wouldn't a bona fide, global pandemic be a criteria for that?

We have criteria that the FDA uses that does not allow companies to misrepresent the health benefits of their products. Those kinds of claims require empirical evidence based on studies.

We all know that you cannot yell fire in a crowded theater when there is none and call that your right to free speech.

I am a proponent of freedom of the press, so to speak, but the question of how criminal it is to be able to use the airwaves and other media to blatantly misinform and therefore endanger the public stands out now.

How can we have a safe and healthy society if that is allowed? Why would it be different from spurious health claims for products. Also, there is not even a disclaimer required about dispensing opinionated advice without even having credentials on a network? What?

This is very dangerous territory. We need that to be investigated and dealt with or we are just going to run to the exits and stomp all over each other as if there is a real fire, figuratively speaking.

tecelote

(5,122 posts)
2. But people like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and their ilk are hunkered down.
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:17 PM
May 2020

Do as I say, not as I do.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
3. Conservative voters are in the minority in any fair and secure election. It's the ratfucking that
Sun May 3, 2020, 06:25 PM
May 2020

wins for conservatives, plain and simple... Their main problem is that COVID-19 will ratfuck them...

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