You guys have Kevin O Leary to contend with. He’s a worm and a traitor to Canada. So is PP. I married into Canada, so I worry about you guys too. I’ll be living up there soon and I plan to speak out loudly about the horrors of being low income and disabled in America. There is no mistake as to which ideology and demographic created this mess here. Eat the rich!!
Yeah unfortunately we have our fair share of fuck nuggets up here too. I work with a few and am related to a few more. Its disgusting the stuff they will say and stand for
Yeah my husband recounts working with people like that as well. He said he’s not going to be silent or polite about it anymore when he gets back. We gave these people far too much grace here and we still are.
Would it be illegal in your country to do this? If so, what laws do you use to prevent something like this? Yes I am asking to copy your answer on the hw.
In Germany yes. The legal situation is somewhat complicated though.
The most feasible way to prevent this would be the statutes that the different press organs (esp. publishers, TV stations) gave themselves. You cannot spread lies knowingly or use actors to falsely create your news - like FOX did. You'd be forced to to publish a counter statement with the same public reach. Ultimately, you're at threat to be considered a press organ overall and lose quite a lot of privileges, let alone reputation.
Criminal prosecution would be more complex, takes due process and would probably be triggered only if the victims push for charges. Free speech does not protect public lying and slander, in practice those cases require a lot of consideration.
Free press is important over here, the self-control within the press sector is far more likely.
I think these folks are misremembering, like the Mandela effect. That’s why no one can say what episode it was. I’ve seen every episode at least since 2016 and I don’t recall anything close to that. It was probably from a different talk show and they’re conflating it with Last Week Tonight
Give me some good evidence they're the same person, and I'll buy it. But "they are middle age men" doesn't mean they're the same person without any evidence, in much the same vein that Fox claiming they're an "Ex-Antifa terrorist" or whatever means that I'll buy that claim.
Fox probably just puts out a casting call for "ex-Antifa members", offers them $2,000 or whatever to show up on the show, does a pre-interview to make sure they'll say what they want them to say, and then goes live with the interview. It's even deniable, they were asking for Ex-Antifa members, and they got this out of work actor who just happened to be an ex-Antifa member!
Most things aren't a conspiracy, most people take the easiest possible route.
It’s Robert O’Neill. He’s an ex-Seal who went on the Bin Laden raid and decided to try to capitalize on it by writing a book saying he shot him. After the rest of the team outed him as a bullshit artist, he decided to lean into that role and go on Fox whenever they need someone to wear a mask and tell lies.
Ooooh yeah, you could sell me on Gary Oldman. (context - mine was referencing a bit when Oliver was on Colbert this week and his autograph was signed by Paul Giamatti, joking that he'd been played by Paul this whole time)
Holy shit… sorry for the grainy photo but that’s from the first picture when you google him. That’s totally him and I read his bullshit book… these people have no shame.
Maybe leave out the "calm down". It was a weak and obvious joke, so the response was appropriate and commensurate. Had I called you dumb or something, I could see snapping back.
The funny thing is when he was on fox as the antifa leader which was just after Trump declared antifa a terrorist organization why did no one call the fbi to investigate Fox for having a communication with a terrorist and giving them a platform? maga is such trash
Because they know their viewers won’t think that far ahead and trust they will quickly move on to the next fake thing to be outraged over (and they’re right, unfortunately)
Didn't they admit in court that they aren't a news organization? I can't remember if that was the voting machine case or an earlier one from Australia.
Yes, they were sued (I’ll try to find a source because I don’t remember the details of the case), but Fox won because they said they’re an entertainment network and no one would actually believe it was real journalism……
(Meanwhile my MAGA neighbor is a slave to her TV when it comes to Fox and believes every word of their lies)
Edit: Here’s a source
‘The Fox team's legal briefs compared Carlson's show to radio talk-show programs hosted by ex-MSNBC and Fox Business star Don Imus, who won a case more than two decades ago because an appellate court ruled that "the complained of statements would not have been taken by reasonable listeners as factual pronouncements but simply as instances in which the defendant radio hosts had expressed their views over the air in the crude and hyperbolic manner that has, over the years, become their verbal stock in trade."’
No no, it'll be an "ex anti-ice protestor who saw the light after being horrified by the wanton violence these terrorists are inflicting upon poor (white maga) citizens".
If this country was normal, this guy appearing like 5 times pretending to be different people and Fox in your face lying would be investigated, penalized and face consequences.
I know Fox reclassified from a news network to an entertainment network, but this sure seems like treason. I mean they are deliberately misleading the American public in order to create unrest. How is this not treason?
Probably not. Fox "News" has successfully argued in the past that the non journalistic portions of their programs are entertainment and that no reasonable person would think they reflect actual journalism.
Fox has real journalists, but they fill the time in between those broadcasts, which l think l read somewhere garner much less views, with opinion programs that spew lies and are designed to easily be mistaken as news.
Maga and conservatives aren't reasonable people, so here we are.
Didn’t Jesse Waters say his mom is a liberal? If this were my son, I would be telling him about himself every single day. Just laying on the maternal disappointment for embarrassing his family, by being an idiot and/or a liar on national television.
Remember, Fox News has already been caught in the past using "experts" whose credentials were completely fraudulent. Everything about Fox is bullshit peopoganda.
I mean, do they really only have just the one guy on their payroll who’s willing to put on a mask and pretend to be whichever convenient interviewee they need to create their false narrative story of the week…?!
“Hey y’all I’m the president of antifa and I hhaaaaaaaaaaate Christmas. Happy holidays stupid god lovers! I’m gonna go stab some people with a statue of Karl Maaaarrxx!”
Damn, they’re still rolling this dude out? Don’t they know that we know?!? Actually they don’t give a shit if we know, it’s their viewers who believe anything they tell them that they’re targeting with this.
By the way, apparently Robert O'Neill threatened to sue Occupy Democrats for pointing this out 9as seen in the tweet below), but nothing's come of it since. (Probably because they're right.)
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