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Matthew Gertz ✔@MattGertz
YIKES! OAN ran a segment last night on "mounting evidence of a globalist conspiracy" by the Clintons, Soros, Gates, Fauci, & Chinese gov't to use coronavirus "to establish sweeping population control" by backing remdesvir over hydroxychlorquine. It cites Plandemic's Mikovits!
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The OAN segment concludes, "There is concern that the deep-state Democratic cabal and the Big Pharma are working to derail President Trump's reelection, and force the American people into total submission and control."
Trump has repeatedly endorsed this network.
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Hand to God, this is a real screenshot from OAN.
This is the nuttiest shit I've ever seen, and I watched Glenn Beck in his prime.
2:27 PM - May 9, 2020
Oh, and to the "why are you bringing this shit here" crowd: Ignoring them doesn't make them go away. It makes them unchecked.
DFW
(54,462 posts)We'd be pushing the use of hydroxychlorquine...in red states and Republican-held districts.
When you see Democratic campaign workers taking Republican advice and handing out free hydroxychlorquine in Red areas of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky and Arizona, THEN they can whine that we're trying to derail Trump's chances.
Mister Ed
(5,945 posts)This here's the hard stuff.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)We recently got it as part of a new cable package and it is far, far more hyperbolic and intense than Fox ever gets.
The hosts are clearly D-Listers who couldn't make it on a real network so have turned things to 11 in order to have a job.
It's pure entertainment, but does have a following among those who don't see it at as such.
spanone
(135,907 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,862 posts)in OANN? This has the smell of Alex Jones all over it, and Jones and Trump are reportedly pals. I've had it with this nuttery. The people who are spreading this poison need to be exposed as the mountebanks that they are.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)President Trumps allies are seeking to buy out the presidents new favorite cable-news channel, One America News Network, in a move that would shake up the conservative media landscape currently dominated by Fox News
So what if it is only $250,000,000. That may be pocket change for a start, but it IS A START. If there is even the slightest hint of success, more $$ will come poring in.
Even if he loses, if he is not in jail this will be how he gets revenge on America for denying him is right to be an autocratic dictator. Because, you know, he is ENTITLED to it, just being the stable genius that he is.
We ignore this at our peril.
Delphinus
(11,845 posts)clueless about OANN. Wow.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,052 posts)Nuts on the face of it.
tulipsandroses
(5,131 posts)to have their citizens die and shut down their economy to take down Trump. Makes perfect sense. Even Boris Johnson was in on it, that's why he exposed himself and was in the ICU with Covid19. Why don't you see that?
Cosmocat
(14,576 posts)and it makes not one bit of difference.
This country is lost.
mopinko
(70,275 posts)for several years, i couldnt force my fingers to type his name, called him spanky, cheato, twitler. now i cant force them to type anything but hitler. america's hilter.
but nuts on the face of it has a bit of a ring to it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,052 posts)Democrats should be a little less cerebral and appeal more to emotions, but less fear than appealing to positive emotions.
Obama won on "Hope and Change".
outasync
(41 posts)especially after Fox disappointed Captain BoneSpurs lately.
Alacritous Crier
(3,821 posts)this is going to become TrumpTV.
They are already setting the groundwork.
BComplex
(8,077 posts)but this shit isn't going away, and it's only becoming more sinister. Something has to be done to stop making crazy people try to destroy our country BEFORE IT BECOMES ALL OUT WAR!! These assholes are armed.
THEY ARE HEAVILY ARMED!!! And all the airplanes the military can throw at them won't stop them from killing their fellow citizens or our elected officials. You remember Gabby Giffords? The people who do this stuff are getting crazier by the day, and nobody sees this as a threat to our nation! It's the propaganda machine that is hopping them up like they're on a drug or something.
If that's not crying "fire" in a crowded theater, I don't know what is.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)In June 2019, OAN said that it reached 35 million homes. Its website lists availability via DirecTV, Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Prism TV, and other distributors. At the time, OAN had approximately 150 staff.
cayugafalls
(5,646 posts)We need to fight this at every level. I hope the real media people will start fighting back and calling OAN crazy.
Somehow we need to get them out of the light.
Celerity
(43,632 posts)Sputnik reporter working for pro-Trump TV channel
https://www.reddit.com/r/fakenews/comments/7svoli/sputnik_reporter_working_for_protrump_tv_channel/
Judy Mikovits is a straight up completely discredited anti-vaxxer hack and a pure CT nutter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Mikovits
Judy Anne Mikovits (c.?1958) is a discredited American ex-research scientist who is known for her anti-vaccination activism, promotion of conspiracy theories, and scientific misconduct. She has made false claims about vaccines, coronavirus, and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
As research director of CFS research organization Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) from 2006 to 2011, Mikovits led an effort that reported in 2009 that a retrovirus known as xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) was associated with CFS and may have had a causal role. However, the paper came under fire,[7] leading to an eventual retraction on December 22, 2011, by the journal Science. In November 2011, she was arrested and held on charges that she stole from WPI, but she was released after 5 days and the charges were later dropped.
In 2020, Mikovits drew attention online for promoting conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic via the conspiracist internet video Plandemic, which made claims that are either false or not based on scientific evidence.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plandemic
Plandemic is a 26-minute conspiracy theory video released in May 2020 that promotes a variety of falsehoods and misinformation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was produced by Mikki Willis's California-based production company Elevate, which has produced other conspiracist videos in the past. The producers of the video state that it is a trailer for an upcoming full-length documentary film to be released in Summer 2020. The video stars discredited former medical researcher turned anti-vaccination activist Judy Mikovits.
Promoted by conspiracy theorists, the video spread rapidly and virally on social media, garnering millions of views, making it "one of the most widespread pieces of coronavirus misinformation." The video was removed by various platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, and Twitter, over its misleading content and promotion of false information.
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OAN is a clear and present danger.
If they get even half as popular as Fux News, my civil war countdown clock gets moved up.
Blecht
(3,803 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,377 posts)Celerity
(43,632 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Plain old far-RW whackjobbery, which OAN has been promoting, has been infiltrating the RW mainstream that used to reject it, but the people we know still have limits on what they'll believe.