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"Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history." - Carl Jung

Jan 22, 2020

CNN Often Promotes (And Hires!) People Getting PAID To Push A Particular View - Or Professional Liars - And Don't Disclose It Thus Giving Liars A Platform To Become More Influential (By Not Saying That Some Of Their Talking Heads Are Infomercials & /Or Liars, CNN Is Deceiving Its Viewers)

Related: CNN Hires A Well Known And Proven Liar To EDIT The News In Secret (i.e. No Disclaimer On Anything Edited By Her!)

CNN's lack of ethics in how they edit and present the news to the public is woven into its very structure. One way they do that is by giving a platform for new faces to gain fame in the world of liars and for old faces to continue to prosper as purveyors of untruths and, ironically, giving unknowns more power to attack CNN itself (in some cases, with terror attacks endorsed by Hannity/Fox which remain unconfronted and thus continue... a fascinating pattern of behavior). Here is research by Media Matters proving this point.

Failed Trump nominee Stephen Moore: “If I'm such a scoundrel and a sexist, why did [CNN] have me on every night?” After Moore withdrew from Federal Reserve nomination process, he will not return to CNN

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): I thought you just re-signed at CNN, they wanted you to work there and then I’m watching you tonight and they’re telling me that like, you’re evil. How did that --
STEPHEN MOORE: This is a little awkward for CNN, because every night they trash me now, when, for the last two and a half years, I've been their senior economics writer. And the things that they're talking about now are things that happened 20 years ago. Wait a minute, if I'm such a scoundrel and a sexist, why did they have me on every night?
CARLSON: What's the answer?
MOORE: Well, I mean, I don't know. You would have to ask them, but -- but the point is, you know, I don't think you should hold accountable, you know, for things that were written 25 years ago.
Previously:
Stephen Moore repeatedly said he liked working at Fox News because he met “a lot of beautiful women” there
Eight times that Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore has endorsed some version of the gold standard​
Pro-Trump CNN contributor goes on racist rant about “inner city” schools
Stephen Moore defended slave owner Robert E. Lee, wrongly claiming that “Lee hated slavery"

Media Matters: CNN’s ethics mess: Employee again used network job to promote his lobbying client’s cause


CNN political commentator and megalobbyist David Urban again used his network job to push for the passage of a trade agreement favored by President Donald Trump. Urban’s lobbying firm is being paid by a Trump-aligned group to lobby for the passage of the agreement, a blatant financial conflict of interest that CNN (again) didn’t disclose to viewers. 
Trump has been trying to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) as a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since he signed the deal during November’s G-20 summit. In February, Axios reported that Republicans formed the 501(c)(4) group Trade Works for America with the specific purpose of pressuring members of Congress, especially Democrats, to support the USMCA.  
On April 1, Trade Works for America retained Urban and his firm American Continental Group to lobby for the USMCA. The group has paid Urban's firm $90,000 so far, according to a lobbying report filed by the firm last week. 
As Media Matters reported earlier this month, Urban used his CNN job to -- unprompted -- push for the agreement’s passage just three days after he was retained to lobby for it. On the April 4 edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper, Urban said that the USMCA has been “getting some momentum, some traction with Democrats in the House” and Trump’s threat to close the U.S.-Mexico border would “kind of blow that up” and be “a tragedy.” Media Matters asked CNN why the network didn’t disclose Urban’s financial conflict of interest during that segment but received no response. 
Urban again appeared on CNN and urged the passage of the USMCA, this time on the July 24 edition of Anderson Cooper 360. Urban brought up the USMCA essentially unprompted and said that “people want to see legislators legislate” and that “the path of success for Democrats” is to pass things like the USMCA. 
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Media Matters: In patently unethical move, CNN hires John Kasich even as he considers presidential bid


CNN has hired former Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich as a contributor even though he is considering running for president in 2020. Kasich’s hire is the latest example of a cable news outlet unethically allowing potential office seekers to use its national platform to boost their future election chances while simultaneously drawing a paycheck. Kasich will undoubtedly use his CNN platform to draw a contrast between himself and President Donald Trump, as he did during the 2016 GOP primary. But his “carefully cultivated appearance” as a moderate is anything but accurate.
On January 15, CNBC reported that Kasich will work at CNN as a senior political contributor. Kasich’s chief political strategist, John Weaver, told CNBC that CNN “is a strong platform for the governor to continue to offer his positive vision to the country and engage on the vital issues facing America.” As CNBC’s report notes, the hire also comes as Kasich “is planning to go on a West Coast swing this week to meet with donors and business leaders, including traveling to Los Angeles and parts of Silicon Valley.” He is reportedly considering running for president as either an independent or a Republican.
Kasich previously parlayed a cable news gig into political office. After leaving Congress in 2001, he worked at Fox News between 2001 and 2009 as a host and contributor (while also working for Lehman Brothers from 2001-2008). He then successfully ran for governor of Ohio in 2010, with Fox News acting as one of his biggest cheerleaders. The phenomenon repeated itself when Fox News gave Kasich friendly coverage leading up to his announcement of a 2016 presidential run. 
When Kasich announced his candidacy on July 21, 2015, he immediately received a return on his investment with Fox; during that day’s broadcast of The Five, then-host Kimberly Guilfoyle said that Kasich “does have a tremendous amount of experience and private sector in government and as governor,” while mentioning his previous employment with Fox. Fox’s Dana Perino added that “I said for a while that I think the folks are going to like him because they have for a long time,” while Geraldo Rivera proclaimed, “Kasich could do it.”
In August 2015, then-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly acknowledged that he was advising Kasich. (Kasich was previously a frequent guest host on The O’Reilly Factor, which was cancelled in 2017 following public reports about O’Reilly subjecting some of his staff members and guests to years of sexual harassment. Kasich has denied knowing about sexual harassment at Fox while he was an employee.)
Kasich has spoken candidly about the value of a cable news job in aiding political aspirations. In the lead-up to his 2016 presidential run, Kasich reportedly “endeared himself to the conservatives by mentioning his past TV work,” telling a group of conservatives: “I used to be at Fox News. I was a big star at one time.” In 2015, David Kushma of Toledo, OH, paper The Blade noted that Kasich's “tenure at Fox News, where he honed his heartland persona, helped make him media-savvy.” And a 2002 Columbus Dispatch profile noted that Kasich “wants to be in the White House,” but in the meantime was “concerned about doing a good job with Fox, developing as 'a media person' and connecting with viewers.”
Kasich’s hire by CNN is reminiscent of the revolving door between political candidacy and cable news punditry most often associated with Fox News. Media reporter Howard Kurtz noted on CNN.com in 2013 that “Fox News is the model” for the practice, citing the hire of “potential 2012 contenders like Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, with the latter two jumping from Rupert Murdoch's team into the presidential primaries,” and noting, “There is no question that the high-profile platform gave them a boost.” (Kurtz left CNN and joined Fox News as a media critic later that year.)
During the 2016 primaries -- in which, in addition to Kasich, Huckabee, Santorum, and Ben Carson also ended up running for president -- CNN’s Reliable Sources show discussed the phenomenon of the “Fox News primary” in which GOP candidates courted network executives and made appearances on the network central features of their campaigns. (Although he was never a paid employee, Trump infamously boosted his profile through years of regular appearances on Fox News.)
As he considers running for president, Kasich will now have a national platform to workshop his potential appeal to voters and distinguish himself from the current Republican president. Yet Kasich has a number of ultra-conservative positions and views, such as his extreme anti-choice positions, deep-seated animus toward labor unions, opposition to same-sex marriage, and refusal to take climate change seriously.
While Kasich used media appearances during the 2016 campaign to present himself as reasonable and friendly, that hasn’t always been the case. During a 2009 guest-hosting appearance on Fox, Kasich sounded indistinguishable from Trump, ranting about “illegals” and heaping praise on then-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was later convicted of a crime for refusing to stop violating the civil rights of Latinos.
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Media Matters:CNN pays Sean Duffy to make a ridiculous remark -- and then calls his statement “shocking” CNN host lets Sean Duffy question Lt. Col. Vindman's loyalty to the US, then calls his comments a ridiculous attack

CNN’s New Day gave network contributor Sean Duffy a platform to smear Army Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who was on President Donald Trump’s Ukraine call and is testifying that he objected to Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine into pursuing investigations into Trump’s political rivals. Minutes later, CNN aired Duffy’s comments as an example of an unreasonable right-wing attack.
Duffy, who has a history of pushing lies and conspiracy theories during his time as a Republican congressman, claimed Vindman is “incredibly concerned about Ukrainian defense” and claiming, “I don’t know that he’s concerned about American policy.” Vindman, who was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the U.S. with his family as a child, is a decorated Iraq war veteran and a top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council. Duffy also said, “We all have an affinity to our homeland where we came from. … I'm sure that Vindman has the same affinity.” Co-anchor John Berman strongly pushed back on Duffy’s comments, calling them “pretty stunning.”
Only a few moments later, Berman re-aired Duffy’s comments as an example of “the president’s Republican allies trying to discredit today’s witness, Col. Vindman, who we will note was awarded a purple heart and is an active member of the U.S. military.” Duffy’s comments come after he used his first two appearances as a CNN contributor to push a long-debunked conspiracy theory about Ukraine, requiring on-air pushback.
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Media Matters: CNN and Jake Tapper fail to disclose employee’s major lobbying conflict of interest


For the third time this year, CNN allowed political commentator David Urban to push for the passage of a trade agreement without disclosing that he’s being paid to lobby for that measure. CNN has repeatedly ignored questions about its failure to disclose this blatant conflict of interest. 
President Donald Trump has been trying to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) as a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since he signed the deal during November’s G-20 summit. In February, Axios reported that Republicans formed the 501(c)(4) group Trade Works for America with the specific purpose of pressuring members of Congress, especially Democrats, to support the USMCA.  
On April 1, Trade Works for America retained Urban and his firm American Continental Group to lobby for the USMCA. The group has paid Urban's firm at least $90,000 so far, according to a lobbying report filed by the firm in July. 
During the September 9 edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper, Urban used his CNN job to push for the passage of the USMCA, stating: “[Politico reporter] Melanie [Zanoa] makes a good point about there's this long laundry list of things to do in the Congress, right, whether to get things actually accomplished, USMCA, lots of things that -- ” 
Tapper then responded: “The new trade deal?” 
Urban replied: “Yeah, the trade deal, right, that moderate Democrats, [Rep.] Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania and a slew of others, 30-plus others, were elected to get things done.” 
Tapper added: “Congressman Max Rose.” 
Urban then continued: “‘We’re going to go to Washington. We're going to work with my counterparts across the aisle and accomplish things.’ And they have gotta go back and run. And they're going to run on nothing, zero. They have a very thin record to run on. They're at risk.” 
Urban’s push for the USMCA mirrors that of the White House, which has been heavily promoting the measure. 
This is the third time that Urban has used his CNN position to push for the passage of the USMCA without any disclosure that he is paid to lobby for the measure’s passage. He also did it on the July 24 edition of Anderson Cooper 360 and the April 4 edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper. 
CNN has also not previously disclosed Urban’s conflicts of interest from lobbying on other topics, such as military issues, environmental protections, and tax policy.
CNN again did not respond to a request for comment. 


Media Matters: Broken record: CNN’s David Urban touts defense secretary, doesn’t disclose financial conflicts of interest


In what's become a troubling pattern, CNN failed to disclose that one of its main political commentators has financial entanglements with the subject he was discussing. 
CNN political commentator David Urban appeared on the network and touted acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper, listing him as one of the “credible people” that President Donald Trump can rely on and saying that the administration official has a “great relationship” with Trump. Urban personally lobbies the Defense Department on behalf of defense contractors and lobbied for defense giant Raytheon when Esper headed the company’s lobbying shop. 
Urban serves as the president and part-owner of American Continental Group, a multimillion dollar lobbying firm. In 2017, when Trump was reportedly considering Urban as his White House chief of staff, Daily Beast reporter Lachlan Markay wrote that Urban has “not just a wealth of political experience but a roster of recent lobbying clients with business before the federal government and large sums riding on major administration policy decisions.” 
Trump recently nominated Esper to serve as defense secretary in a permanent capacity. In June, Axios had reported that Esper “is close” to Urban, and Politico called him “a close ally” of Urban. The two, along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, graduated from West Point in 1986. 
Media Matters previously reported that Urban has pushed his lobbying interests during CNN appearances on issues such as the military, environment, taxes, and trade. 
CNN has recently started adding some disclosures for Urban during his appearances. CNN’s Jake Tapper stated on the July 12 edition of The Lead that Urban is “a D.C. lobbyist” who works on “behalf of energy, defense, and transportation companies.” Urban laughed as Tapper read the disclosure, stating, “That's like a tagline ... my new tagline.” Tapper replied: “Well, just full disclosure.”
But just a few hours later, that disclosure was gone as Urban appeared on the July 12 edition of Erin Burnett OutFront with guest host Kate Bolduan, and she introduced him as a Trump 2020 adviser. The segment was about the stability of Trump’s White House intelligence community apparatus amid reports that Trump is considering firing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats. After dismissing Coats as “a glorified” staffer, Urban said that, among others, “you have a new secretary of defense coming up who the president has a great relationship with. … There's lots of credible people there in the intelligence community and other places the president relies on.” 
In addition to their friendship, Urban has financial reasons to tout Esper’s credibility to CNN viewers. 
Urban personally lobbies the Defense Department for clients that include military housing developer ​Lendlease Americas and defense contractors General Dynamics and Textron. 
He was also financially connected to Esper before Esper joined the Trump administration in November 2017. Esper worked as a lobbyist for military contractor Raytheon and was its vice president of government relations. During that time, Urban lobbied on behalf of Raytheon regarding various military issues. His lobbying firm hasn’t reported any lobbying activity for the defense contractor since 2017. 
Urban’s American Continental Group lists dozens of clients on its website and states that it lobbies for numerous sectors. In other words, whenever CNN decides to host Urban, the network is exposing itself to numerous potential conflicts of interest. The question remains: Why does CNN keep putting Urban on its airwaves? 
CNN did not respond to a request for comment.


Media Matters: Once again, CNN is reaching a breaking point with a pro-Trump commentator A Trump rally is the latest episode of CNN’s embarrassing employment of Steve Cortes


CNN political commentator Steve Cortes this week attended a rally for President Donald Trump, who criticized CNN for its handling of Cortes and told him that he’ll “get a real job” soon. The rally is the latest episode in CNN’s embarrassing employment of Cortes, who appears headed for the exits at the network.  
During the September 16 rally in New Mexico, Trump called Cortes a “great friend of mine, somebody that was on CNN and they didn’t like him because he was too positive on Trump, can you believe it? He happens to be Hispanic. … You were incredible on CNN and now you will get a real job, OK? Steve, that audience wasn’t big enough for you.”
He also launched into a bizarre monologue in which he said Cortes “looks more like a WASP than I do” and questioned, “Who do you like more, the country or the Hispanics? He says the country. I don’t know, I may have to go for the Hispanics, to be honest with you.” 
In late January 2018, CNN announced that it had hired Cortes as a political commentator. CNN signed Cortes shortly after it let go of pro-Trump commentator Ed Martin, who said he was fired “for cause.” 
CNN hired Cortes despite his anti-CNN history. As Media Matters documented in May 2018, Cortes called the network “fake news” and suggested he was “very happy” to work at Fox News -- where he was a contributor at the time -- instead of CNN. He also tweeted of CNN Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta: “Sadly, @Acosta has stopped even pretending to be a journalist. He's an anti-Trump activist masquerading as a reporter.” 
Cortes himself indicated in May 2018 that he started working for CNN at the suggestion of Trump, who is obsessed with cable news. The commentator said on a radio show: “I used to be at Fox News, which was a whole different world. I went over to CNN partly at the suggestion of the White House itself and the president himself because -- and I wanted to do it also because I saw a narrative there that I thought was unfair to the president, and I want to try to be a countervoice.” 
Being a “countervoice” on CNN means that Cortes has defended Trump’s suggestion that violence from his supporters might be justified; taken issue with the idea “that the president is a habitual liar”; claimed “there is zero evidence that” Trump “is a racist”; and falsely stated that “there is evidence of widespread voter fraud” and “illegals do vote, clearly.” 
Cortes starred in an August 5 video for the right-wing outlet PragerU which attempted to rewrite Trump’s “very fine people” remarks after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. CNN reporter Oliver Darcy responded to the video by tweeting: “Calling this a ‘malicious lie’ (which it's not) and ‘journalistic malfeasance’ (which it's also not) is a weird thing for someone who is a paid CNN commentator to say, given the network's accurate reporting on the matter.” Trump replied to the video on Twitter: “Thank you Steve!” 
Shortly afterward, The Hollywood Reporter’s Jeremy Barr wrote that Cortes appears to have been “benched” by the network, with one former CNN contributor stating of the network and Cortes: “They just won't book him. They'll just pay him. They won't fire him, because that's just blatant. But they won't book him, and they'll tell all the producers not to book him.” The Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Maxwell Tani subsequently reported that Trump “got on the phone with Cortes in the past month to ask him what was going on, and to complain about CNN’s ‘bias’ and how unfairly the cable news network has treated” Cortes, according to “two sources familiar with the call.” 
In the past month, Cortes has appeared on CNN just twice (the September 11 and 17 broadcasts of Cuomo Prime Time), according to a Nexis and TVEyes search. 
On August 30, Cortes visited Trump at The White House to discuss his CNN employment, among other issues. Cortes said in a September 13 radio interview that he discussed his CNN employment situation “with the president personally. I went there two weeks ago and sat with him in the Oval Office and talked about a whole lot of issues, most of them related to media, and most of them related to the 2020 campaign, you know, and including my situation there.” He added: “I’ll probably have more to say at some point but not present.” 
When Cortes’ CNN contract does run out, it’s certainly likely he’ll follow the same path as other former pro-Trump CNN commentators and trash the network for purportedly being insufficiently deferential to Trump. 
Even without Cortes, CNN has another problem in political commentator David Urban. Urban advises the Trump campaign and, like Cortes, received a Trump shoutout at a recent rally. But unlike Cortes, Urban is the president of a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm that collects millions in lobbying income per year. And Urban regularly uses his CNN position to promote his lobbying clients’ issues without disclosures about his conflicts of interest.  

Media Matters: CNN’s Sean Duffy problem


Sean Duffy, a former Republican member of Congress, is the latest shill for President Donald Trump to join CNN and immediately disgrace the network. That’s by design, the result of a deliberate policy mandated by the network’s top executives to hire and feature Trump supporters, knowing all the while that they will inevitably lie to CNN's audience.
On Tuesday morning, Duffy was brought on to discuss Army Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman’s pending congressional testimony before the House committees that are currently pursuing an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s abuse of power regarding Ukraine. Vindman, the top official handling Ukraine on the National Security Council, will testify that he was on the July phone call in which Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to probe former Vice President Joe Biden, and that he viewed the call as improper and reported his concerns to the NSC’s top lawyer.
Vindman earned a Purple Heart while deployed in Iraq in 2003. He came to the United States as a Jewish refugee from Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) when he was 3 years old.
That latter point was the focus of Duffy’s criticism, as the newly minted CNN contributor and The Real World: Boston alumnus insinuated that the decorated active duty Army officer had turned on the president because he is a “former Ukrainian” who “wants to make sure that taxpayer money goes in military aid to the Ukraine.”
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Related: The conspiracy theories and lies of CNN’s latest hire, Sean Duffy



CNN’s Sean Duffy joins leading lobbying firm, creating untold conflicts of interest for the network


CNN political commentator and former Republican Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) is taking a senior position at BGR Group, a leading lobbying firm that’s already worked for more than 100 clients this year. Duffy’s new job creates untold conflicts of interest for the network, which has repeatedly demonstrated its inability to handle its commentators’ ethical issues. 
Duffy joined CNN last month and quickly embarrassed himself and his new employer by pushing a conspiracy theory about the 2016 election and smearing Army Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a witness in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Duffy is the latest in a long line of CNN commentators whom the network pays to defend Trump. 
Politico reported today that Duffy will become a lobbyist and senior counsel for BGR Group and that “he plans to advise financial services companies, trade associations and their members.” According to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, BGR has already banked roughly $21 million in lobbying income this year, which places them third among the top lobbying firms. BGR has received over $200 million since 1998. 
BGR lobbied for the Saudi government, whose agents killed Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. BGR later dropped the government as a client. The firm currently employs Kurt Volker as senior international advisor; Volker has been a key figure in the ongoing impeachment inquiry. 
This year so far, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the firm has had 142 lobbying clients. They include defense contractors such as Airbus and Huntington Ingalls Industries; energy companies such as Chevron and Southern Co.; pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer and Eli Lilly; and foreign governments such as Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, India, and Somalia. BGR’s financial services clients include Credit Suisse Securities, Franklin Resources, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, and the Mid-Sized Bank Coalition of America. Numerous other companies could be contracting BGR’s services for non-lobbying work that does not require filing government disclosures. 
In other words, Duffy now has a countless amount of conflicts of interest as a paid CNN commentator. 
CNN has previously failed when it comes to disclosing the conflicts of interest of fellow pro-Trump CNN commentator David Urban, who is the president of the lobbying firm American Continental Group. CNN did not disclose Urban’s lobbying conflicts of interest when he discussed topics such as military issues, environmental protections, and tax policy. 
For instance, Urban has repeatedly urged Congress to pass a trade agreement favored by President Donald Trump without the network disclosing that he’s being paid by a Trump-aligned group to lobby for the passage of the agreement. Urban also urged attacking Iran without the network telling viewers that he lobbies for defense contractors. 
BGR founding partner Ed Rogers was previously a contributing opinion writer for The Washington Post and frequently wrote about topics in which he had a conflict of interest. The publication's opinion editor told Media Matters last month that it had sidelined him ahead of the 2020 election.
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Anchor John Berman spent the next several minutes pushing back on and teasing out the implications of the smear, as his colleague repeatedly suggested that Vindman had prioritized his “homeland” of Ukraine over the United States. He later reaired the comments as an example of efforts by the president’s allies to “discredit” Vindman, referring to them as “a pretty shocking statement.”
Duffy’s smear has continued to drive CNN’s coverage of the impending Vindman testimony. 
Editor at large Chris Cillizza included Duffy’s comments, along with similar remarks from Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham, in a piece denouncing the Vindman smear as “Awful. Appalling. Asinine.” 
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CNN commentator attacks green policies while his firm collects hundreds of thousands in fossil fuel-related lobbying fees CNN starts segment by noting some of Urban's lobbying ties after Media Matters inquiry


During appearances on Jake Tapper’s CNN programs, CNN political commentator David Urban has praised President Donald Trump for rolling back environmental protections and repeatedly warned Democrats against pursuing pro-environment policies. But CNN repeatedly failed to disclose his major financial conflict of interest during those segments: Urban lobbies for numerous fossil fuel-related clients, which have paid his firm nearly $900,000 since 2017. 
CNN did not respond to a request for comment. But during Urban's first appearance after Media Matters reached out to CNN for comment for this story, the network stated that Urban is “a corporate lobbyist who has clients in the defense and energy industries.”
Urban is the president of American Continental Group (ACG). As part of his work for ACG, he has personally lobbied for fossil fuel companies, including Aiteo Global Group and Anadarko Petroleum (Anadarko terminated its relationship with ACG on January 31). His other clients have included the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, a proposed natural gas pipeline in Oregon, the related Jordan Cove LNG export facility, and Norfolk Southern, which transports coal. 
Since the beginning of 2017, ACG has pocketed $870,000 in fees from those clients, according to a tally of data via OpenSecrets.org. 
Despite these financial conflicts of interest, Urban has repeatedly appeared on CNN and warned Democrats against pursuing pro-environmental policies. For instance: 
  • While discussing Democratic environmental proposals such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal, Urban said on the May 14 edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper: “I would just point out that AOC is not running for president and doesn't have to win in Pennsylvania, where there's Carbon County, Pennsylvania. What do you think comes out of Carbon County? Coal.”  
  • Urban said on the May 5 edition of State of the Union with Jake Tapper that the Green New Deal is one of the Democratic proposals that’s “very progressive, very left of center” and isn’t “going to play well in the states that the Democrats need to capture to win an electoral college map -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin. The ideas that the Democrats are talking about play very well in New York, San Francisco, Chicago -- big cities.” 
  • Urban connected the Green New Deal to socialism on the February 24 edition of State of the Union with Jake Tapper, stating that while younger people may not have a problem with socialism, for people who are “over 35 who turn out to vote a lot, it is a bad thing. ... The Green New Deal, where -- paying people not to work, sounds a little bit like socialism to me.” Tapper replied: “That was in an early document.” 
  • Urban said on the January 31, 2018, edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper that one of the things that “swung the election was Hillary Clinton's war on coal. She was completely out of touch with the working class, the Democrats in Pennsylvania.” 
Urban also praised Trump for rolling back environmental protections. He stated on the October 15, 2017, edition of State of the Union with Jake Tapper that “the president and this administration have done so much so far,” then listed what he thought were Trump’s accomplishments, including the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, and mentioned “Pittsburgh, not Paris” -- a reference to Trump’s quote about withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement. 
CNN did not disclose Urban’s lobbying for fossil fuel-related companies during those discussions. 
Media Matters reached out to CNN for comment last week about those lack of disclosures. The network did not respond but during Urban's June 30 appearance on State of the Union with Jake Tapper, guest host Brianna Keilar started a panel segment by stating: “We have to disclose that you are a corporate lobbyist who has clients in the defense and energy industries.” Urban replied, laughing: “We get in trouble. We always get in trouble. I get in trouble.”  
Urban previously used his CNN position to advocate for a missile strike against Iran without the network disclosing that he lobbies for defense contractors, and he touted the National Association of Home Builders' opposition to the GOP tax bill without the network mentioning that the organization is his client and hired him to lobby on “tax reform.”
OpenSecrets reported on June 28 that Urban recently registered to lobby for defense contractor Lockheed Martin, adding: 
Newly-minted acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a former Raytheon executive and lobbyist himself, is reportedly close friends with Urban. The two graduated from West Point, along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in 1986. 
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, two of the world’s largest defense contractors, work closely on major weapons, including the F-35 fighter jet and the Javelin missile system. Urban on CNN specifically mentioned the Tomahawk cruise missile, the U.S. Navy’s go-to missile originally manufactured by General Dynamics and now made by Raytheon, Urban’s former client from 2015 to 2017. 
Lockheed Martin and Raythoen each saw their stock soar after Trump announced the U.S. would leave the Iran nuclear deal. The stocks dropped before the New Year then rebounded. Executives of major defense companies, including Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, have told investors that Iran tensions were good for business, The Intercept reported. Defense companies have consistently denied lobbying government on whether the U.S. should engage in conflicts.
Update (7/1/19): This post was updated to note Anadarko’s lobbying termination.

Watch CNN's Rick Santorum’s pathetic attempt to justify Trump’s confession that he welcomes election help from foreign governments Santorum: "​When you get opposition research in a campaign, you don't call the FBI. ... I got folks who threw information at me in all of my campaigns, and no, I never called the FBI"




ANDERSON COOPER (HOST): Yeah, Sen. Santorum, on the subways in New York there are signs saying, you know, “If you see something, say something.” We want citizens to call the police if they even, you know, suspect something. What message does this send?
RICK SANTORUM (CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR): Well, I mean, let's be fair. I mean, the president said he would listen, but he would also send it to the FBI. He said he would do both. So, the question is whether he should do both or just simply refuse to get the information. But he did say he would turn it over to the FBI. So, I -- and what I think he was talking about --
DAVID GERGEN: He said “maybe.”
COOPER: Yeah, “maybe,”  and also, initially he did point out he's never, you know, never picked up the phone for something like that, and nobody ever would, and congresspeople don't do it, and that Chris Wray is wrong, that you should pick up the phone.
SANTORUM: Yeah, I -- look, the president throws the terms “maybe” out -- I mean, he has sort of -- as we all do, we have filler words that we throw out there, and -- that don't mean what they say, like, you know, “I think.” So, I took the president for his word that he would do both, which I think -- I don't think that's necessarily inappropriate as long as he refers it to the FBI.
As far as looking at the information, maybe he should, maybe he shouldn't, but I don't think there's a crime in looking at the information as long as you refer it to the proper authorities.
...
SANTORUM: The president wasn't answering questions about solicitating information. He was saying if someone came to you and said, “Hey, I have some dirt” -- and he was talking more colloquially, and again, I think the president's word, as often, are imprecise and not necessarily -- you know, that's why I think he didn't want to be interviewed with Bob Mueller, is that he can sort of ramble and talk about things more loosely, and I think he was talking more of a general political context that we get opposition research all the time.
When you get opposition research in a campaign, you don't call the FBI. I mean, I got -- I got folks who threw information at me in all of my campaigns, and no, I never called the FBI.
COOPER: Right, but did you get it from Russia or Norway? Or, I mean --
SANTORUM: No -- if I knew that that information was coming from a foreign source, sure, I would call the FBI --
COOPER: OK, but that's not what the president said. He didn't say yes --
SANTORUM: He said he would. He said he would do both.
Previously:
CNN's Rick Santorum says Trump lies consistently about a lot of things so it doesn’t matter if he lies about Russia
CNN's Rick Santorum: The allegation that Trump committed a campaign finance violation is “an incredibly flimsy charge”
CNN's Rick Santorum praises Trump administration trying to bury report on climate change: “A lot of these scientists are driven by the money”
CNN's Rick Santorum defends Trump by claiming he was only praising assault in general, not assault on reporters


Media Matters: CNN’s voting rights coverage demonstrates its Trump sycophant problem


Over the past year, CNN diluted its coverage of voting issues by stocking its discussion panels with pro-Trump sycophants who consistently lied to prop up the president’s false claims about voter fraud in the 2016 election. CNN’s panelists stood in contrast to the channel’s reporters, who were somewhat more proactive in calling out Trump’s debunked claims of widespread voter fraud and illegal voting.
During (and since) the election, CNN was widely criticized for adding as commentators a roster of Trump loyalists, including former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), conservative commentators Scottie Nell Hughes and Kayleigh McEnany, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and Jeffrey Lord, former White House staffer under then-President Ronald Reagan (Hughes and Lewandowski have since left CNN). Over the past year, these sycophants have used their platform on the network to spew lies about voting and have repeatedly defended Trump’s debunked claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election.
  • Lewandowski made 14 false statements about voting during his four appearances on CNN between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017, to discuss the topic.
  • Lord made 21 false statements about voting during his 13 appearances on CNN between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017, to discuss the topic.
  • McEnany made 41 false statements about voting during her 11 appearances on CNN between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017, to discuss the topic
  • Santorum made eight false statements about voting during his one appearance on CNN between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017, to discuss the topic.
  • Hughes made three false statements about voting during her one appearance on CNN between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017, to discuss the topic.
This barrage of lies from CNN’s pro-Trump coalition stands in contrast to the network’s reporters, who made somewhat of an effort to call out Trump’s lies about voting. During the same period, CNN correspondents Jeff Zeleny, Jim Acosta, Dana Bash, and Drew Griffin made a total of 85 true statements about voting and refrained from repeating any of the falsehoods their conservative colleagues pushed.
Ideally, panelists are supposed to engage in a healthy discussion based on a shared set of facts. But CNN’s Trump surrogates prop up lies when they discuss voting, often to defend the president and his alternate reality.

Media Matters: CNN’s baffling, self-sabotaging hire of Sarah Isgur The network’s new political editor is a former Trump official who has never worked in journalism


Early on in the Trump administration, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions ran into a staffing problem as he took over the Department of Justice. According to The Washington Post, Sessions very much wanted to hire longtime Republican political operative Sarah Isgur as his chief spokeswoman, but she had “criticized [President Donald] Trump, repeatedly, during the 2016 Republican primaries,” and thus her “prospects for a Justice Department job stalled.” To break the logjam, the Post reported, Isgur paid Trump “a cordial visit during which she told the president she was on board with his agenda and would be honored to serve him.”
The incident was noteworthy when the Post reported it last April because it demonstrated both the president’s overriding need for loyalty and the willingness of Republican operatives to kiss Trump’s ring as a means of career advancement. The story has taken on new relevance now that the same Sarah Isgur who personally expressed her loyalty to the sitting president has reportedly been hired as a political editor at CNN.
In certain respects, this is a baffling move by CNN. According to Politico, which first broke the news, Isgur will assume her editorial role at the network in March and “will coordinate political coverage for the 2020 campaign.” Isgur is a career political operative -- she’s worked for Sessions, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the Republican National Committee, and Carly Fiorina’s failed 2016 presidential campaign -- but there is no indication that she has ever worked in any capacity as a journalist (unless you count appearing as a pundit on cable news, which you should not). CNN has hired a person with zero experience producing news to oversee the production of news.
Not only that, but the network has turned over its 2020 political coverage to a person who is more or less a walking conflict of interest. Politico notes that Isgur, because of her employment history, “will not play a role in covering the Department of Justice.” How on earth can a cable news channel have a political editor who can’t cover DOJ? The workings of the Justice Department are at the heart of some of the most critically important political stories of the Trump era. The Russia investigation and the special counsel’s office are going to be hugely important topics for the 2020 campaign, and Democratic candidates are likely going to spend considerable energy attacking DOJ policies that Isgur defended, such as Sessions’ legal assault on sanctuary laws for undocumented immigrants.
It doesn’t make much sense to have a political editor who has never worked in journalism, and it doesn’t make any sense to have a political editor who is walled off from important stories that will be central to the very coverage she is supposed to be coordinating. And those problems rest uneasily atop issues that arise from Isgur’s partisan leanings and her loyalties to current and former high-ranking Trump officials. Isgur’s presence will lead to persistent, difficult-to-answer questions about how her politics and conflicts of interest are shaping the network’s 2020 coverage.
CNN’s choice of a Trump administration veteran does, however, fit in with the network’s fantastically self-defeating strategy of hiring pro-Trump mercenaries who shill on behalf of a president and administration that delight in demonizing CNN. The journalism industry does not lack for talented, experienced professionals who are desperate for work, but CNN opted to give this important job to a Jeff Sessions acolyte who has never worked as a journalist. That sure feels like the network sabotaging its own interests in order to send a conciliatory message to a political movement that will always view it as an “enemy of the people.”



Media Matters: CNN pro-Trump pundit Steve Cortes says his tenure with the network is “almost done,” attacks media as “enemy of the people”


CNN political commentator Steve Cortes said on a radio program yesterday that his “tenure with CNN is almost done.” As he heads toward the exits, Cortes has been taking shots at CNN and the media in general, including stating that he believes the media is “very much the enemy of the people.”
CNN employment of pro-Trump commentators has been a disaster for the network and its viewers. It’s formerly employed Trump supporters like Corey Lewandowski, Jeffrey Lord, Ed Martin, Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Moore, and Ken Cuccinelli. Former pro-Trump CNN commentators have gone on to trash the network for alleged bias against the president. 
Despite those repeated failures, the network doesn’t appear to have learned its lesson: CNN recently hired pro-Trump former congressman Sean Duffy, who went on to promptly misinform the network’s viewers and later also joined a leading lobbying firm as senior counsel. It also employs Trump adviser David Urban, whose on-air conflicts of interest have repeatedly drawn scrutiny. 
In 2018, the network hired Cortes, who also serves as a Trump campaign adviser, despite his anti-CNN history. As Media Matters documented in May 2018, Cortes had previously called the network “fake news” and suggested he was “very happy” to work at Fox News -- where he was a contributor at the time -- instead of CNN. He had also tweeted that CNN Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta “sadly … has stopped even pretending to be a journalist. He's an anti-Trump activist masquerading as a reporter.” 
Cortes has indicated that he started working for CNN at Trump’s suggestion, stating: “I used to be at Fox News, which was a whole different world. I went over to CNN partly at the suggestion of the White House itself and the president himself because -- and I wanted to do it also because I saw a narrative there that I thought was unfair to the president, and I want to try to be a countervoice.” 
In August, Cortes starred in a video for the right-wing outlet PragerU which attempted to rewrite Trump’s “very fine people” remarks after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In recent months, he has been benched from appearing on the network, with one former CNN contributor telling The Hollywood Reporter’s Jeremy Barr: “They just won't book him. They'll just pay him. They won't fire him, because that's just blatant. But they won't book him, and they'll tell all the producers not to book him.” Cortes has not appeared on CNN since September 17, according to a search of transcripts in the Nexis database.  
Cortes has recently started hosting The Steve Cortes Show on Chicago’s WIND. On that show, which frequently features discussion of the media, Cortes said that while he previously thought Trump “was too harsh” when he called the media the “enemy of the people,” he now thinks that “the fake news media” is “very much the enemy of the people” and pointed to the media’s coverage of the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani (he specifically singled out a New York Times article).
Cortes also appeared on the January 15 edition of Salem Radio Networks' The Dan Proft Show and said, “My tenure with CNN is almost done. I do give them credit for putting a voice like mine on. And I don’t see that, for example, on MSNBC.” He later took a shot at CNN and the media, saying: 
STEVE CORTES: In general, CNN, MSNBC, anywhere, print media, it’s unfortunate, I believe, that there’s a real crisis of journalism in this country. Far too many people who are activists and advocates are trying to masquerade as journalists. And that lack of transparency and that hypocrisy, really, has destroyed a lot of trust from the public, rightfully so, in media. And that void of real journalism, I think, is really problematic for our republic. So I’ve always been incredibly transparent. I am an activist, I’m an advocate. I’m trying to persuade people of the American nationalist agenda. A lot of my colleagues in corporate media are similarly activists, and yet they pretend to be reporters and anchors. And I think, you know, therein lies the sort of systemic problem that unfortunately plagues a lot of so-called journalism today. 


Media Matters: Man charged for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at “fake news” CNN



A man was charged in federal court on Friday after allegedly threatening a mass shooting at the Atlanta, GA, headquarters of CNN, which he complained was “fake news.”
As part of his broader effort to undermine trust in the news media, President Donald Trump has frequently singled out CNN for opprobrium, attacking the network dozens of times during his presidential campaign and first year in office and often asserting that the network and its reporters propagate “fake news.” In July, after the president tweeted a video of himself body-slamming a man who had a CNN logo superimposed on his head, the network warned that he was “encourag[ing] violence against reporters.”
Brandon Griesemer, a 19-year-old from Michigan, apparently channeled the president’s attacks on CNN. He made nearly two dozen phone calls to the network earlier this month, four of which included threats, according to court documents first reported on by Atlanta’s CBS affiliate. In those calls, Griesemar allegedly told a CNN operator:
  • “Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down. Fuck you, fuckin’ n***ers.”
  • “I am on my way right now to gun the fuckin’ CNN cast down. … Fuck you. I am coming to kill you.”
  • “I’m coming for you CNN. I'm smarter than you. More powerful than you. I have more guns than you. More manpower. Your cast is about to get gunned down in a matter of hours.”
  • “You are going down. I have a gun and I am coming to Georgia right now to go to the CNN headquarters to fucking gun every single last one of you. I have a team of people. It’s going to be great, man. … You gotta get prepared for this one, buddy.”
Investigators were able to trace the calls, leading to Griesemer’s arrest last week. He was charged with transmitting interstate communications with the intent to extort and threat to injure, which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, and released on a $10,000 bond.
It is unclear how close the threats were to being realized. The Washington Post reported that a man identifying himself as Griesemer’s father told the paper on Monday that Griesemer “really didn’t mean any of it” and that the family doesn’t own any guns.
On Monday night, CNN said in a statement: “We take any threats to CNN employees or workplaces, around the world, extremely seriously. This one is no exception. We have been in touch with local and federal law enforcement throughout, and have taken all necessary measures to ensure the safety of our people.”
This morning, as horrified reporters circulated articles detailing Griesemer’s threats, Trump tweeted another attack on “Fake News CNN”:
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Media Matters: Sean Hannity reacts to arrest of bomber by ranting about CNN's “abusively biased news coverage” Hannity: “If there's any hate there, it's their hatred of the president”
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): You know, if you say CNN sucks, or CNN is fake news, that is not a cry or an advocation of violence in any way, shape, matter or form. It's a feeling people have when they see abusively biased news coverage.
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Media criticism is fair game. Calling out networks that have political agendas, that's fair game. When networks spend every second, minute, and hour of the day hating on Donald Trump if Donald Trump cured cancer they'd still hate him. Well, I'm allowed to call that out, that's not hate. If there's any hate there it's their hatred of the president that they can't seem to get over. 
Previously:
After NBC reporter points out his incendiary remarks, Sean Hannity has a meltdown, threatens to sue
Sean Hannity: “I guarantee you that Obamacare will be repealed and replaced” if Republicans maintain control of House and Senate
Fox’s Geraldo Rivera on bombs sent to Democrats: “At the risk of sounding like a far right-wing lunatic … I believe that this whole thing was an elaborate hoax”

Media Matters: On Hannity, David Clarke calls CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, and Huffington Post “terrorist sympathizers” Clarke: “This attempt at muticulturalism has been a disaster. Cultures do not blend, they clash”


Media Matters: CNN bemoans a lack of civility after spending years hiring pro-Trump commentators

CNN has been on a civility kick. A transcript search shows that variations of the words were said over a hundred times on June 25 alone. One good example is the network’s June 25 highlight reel of allegedly incivil things that have recently been said by various people. As my colleague noted, the video conflated examples of liberals being mean with conservatives being racist:
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CNN then brought on longtime centrist commentator David Gergen and pro-Trump whisperer Salena Zito to discuss the supposed decline in civility. Apparently no progressive voices were available.
Later in the day, when discussing Trump’s separation and detention of immigrant families with immigration lawyer David Leopold, CNN anchor Kate Bolduan interrupted Leopold and chided him for calling White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller a white nationalist, asking, “Where is the fact on that?”
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Calling Miller a white nationalist is not some gratuitous insult. It is a simple, straight-forward analysis of his ideology. Splinter News’ Clio Chang aptly noted the evidence:
There is plenty of evidence that Stephen Miller, the architect of Donald Trump’s hard-line racist immigration policies, is a white nationalist. He crafted Trump’s Muslim ban. His thumbprint is smeared all over the administration’s family separation policy, the point of which is to tear immigrant families apart and deter others from entering the country. Miller reportedly laughed during a meeting when Trump made up names for immigrants and described imaginary crimes they might have committed. He has pushed for some of the harshest overhauls of our immigration system, including cutting legal immigration by half over the next decade. A White House aide recently told Vanity Fair Miller “actually enjoys” seeing pictures of children detained at the border: “He’s Waffen-SS,” the person said.
As journalist Chris Hooks also noted, Miller and white nationalist Richard Spencer worked together at Duke University to bring in white nationalist Peter Brimelow to speak about immigration. Spencer even told Mother Jones that he was glad no one was reporting on this connection:
“It’s funny no one’s picked up on the Stephen Miller connection,” Spencer says. “I knew him very well when I was at Duke. But I am kind of glad no one’s talked about this because I don’t want to harm Trump.”
This determined ignorance of the Trump team’s white nationalism is particularly galling since CNN has been profiting off of Trump’s team for years now. The network has hired a parade of pro-Trump analysts who, like the children at Willy Wonka’s factory, have been inevitably dropped as they become too toxic.
The hirings started during the 2016 campaign when Trump told CNN executives to hire Jeffrey Lord. Soon after, CNN programming was inundated with Lord, Corey Lewandowski, Kayleigh McEnany, and Scottie Nell Hughes. These hirings frequently raised ethical questions. Current Vox correspondent Carlos Maza examined the problem for Media Matters before the election:
As Maza noted, the presence of pro-Trump voices turned discussions into screaming matches more suited to reality television than to a news network. And like reality television, the names rotated in and out with the content staying the same.
Lewandowski resigned from CNN following the election (CNN refused to fire him even after reporting revealed the Trump campaign was still paying him). McEnany moved on to become the spokesperson of the Republican National Committee. Hughes left CNN before the inauguration. And most notably, CNN eventually fired Lord after he issued a Nazi salute on Twitter.
In their stead, CNN rolled in new pro-Trump voices. One of the first was former Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller. By mid 2017, the channel’s paid Trump shills were flooding the network:
Media Matters’ senior fellow Matt Gertz noted in October 2017 how the network continued to flood its airwaves with bullshit:
[Ben] Ferguson, for example, has repeatedly been called out by his CNN colleagues this month for offering nonsensical diversions in discussions of Trump’s attacks on NFL players who protest racial inequality during the National Anthem. And [Stephen] Moore -- who typically appears on the network to lie about Trump-backed health care proposals -- on Monday derailed a CNN panel discussion about then-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly paying a hefty sexual harassment settlement by saying that the real solution is for powerful men to never be alone in a room alone with a woman. [Jack] Kingston, for his part, last night attempted to make excuses for Trump’s unprecedented falsehoods, saying that “the American perception is that politicians lie” and Trump is no worse than other presidents; the rest of the panel denounced him, with anchor Don Lemon scolding him for “condoning bad behavior.”
When major stories break, such as Trump’s string of indefensible responses to the lethal white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, Trump’s CNN supporters blanket the network’s coverage. That result was a trainwreck, with the president’s shills sidelining discussions with praise for Trump’s response and dismissals of the importance of the rally.
In September 2017, CNN hired Ed Martin, president of the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, ostensibly as Lord’s replacement. CNN was either ignorant or tolerant of the fact that Martin had previously called CNN “fake news” and had made flatly racist statements. In 2016, Martin told a crowd at a right-wing rally: “You're not racist if you don't like Mexicans. They're from a nation. If you don't think Muslims are vetted enough, because they blow things up, that's not racist.”
Martin predictably used his appearances to turn CNN into a trainwreck, while using his radio show to rail against the network:
  • Martin called on the air for a total end to immigration, saying, “Stop all immigration right now.” (11/2/17)
  • Martin argued that Leigh Corfman, the woman who reported that former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore molested her as a child, should not be believed, saying, “What is this woman? She’s got multiple bankruptcies." (11/11/17)
  • Martin endorsed Moore and tried to get him elected even as CNN was doing great reporting on him. (11/7/17)
  • Martin said that Trump’s racist remarks about LaVar Ball, father of one of the basketball players arrested in China, could not be a “racial thing” because Trump also attacked Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ). (11/20/17)
  • Martin defended Trump’s racist “Pocahontas” comment to World War II Navajo code talkers as “100 percent” appropriate. (11/27/17)
  • Martin contended that Trump’s racist anti-Muslim tweets were actually helpful because they were “starting a conversation.” (11/30/17)
  • After Roy Moore said that America was at its best during slavery, Martin argued that Jewish slaves had families: “When the Jews were in bondage for years, they still loved each other.” (12/11/17)
  • Martin called fellow CNN employees and co-panelists “black racists.” (12/14/17)
  • Martin praised Trump for ordering CNN’s chief White House correspondent out of the Oval Office, saying it was “amazing to see” and “really funny.” (1/18/18)
  • Martin gave an award to disgraced conservative operative James O’Keefe, who had on numerous occasions run deceitful stings against CNN. O’Keefe once attempted to lure then-CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat full of sex paraphernalia. (1/12/18)
Martin stopped appearing on CNN after December 14 when Media Matters posted audio of Martin complaining about appearing on a panel with CNN commentators “who were just rabid feminists, actually racial, racists -- two of the women were racists, they were just were racists, black racists.” CNN eventually confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on January 18 that Martin no longer worked for the network.
Martin’s role was soon taken by pro-Trump commentator Steve Cortes, who has said that he went to CNN “partly at the suggestion of the White House itself and the president himself.” Like Martin, Cortes also had previously called CNN “fake news.” During his time as a contributor at Fox News, Cortes had compared undocumented immigrants to violent thieves. And on CNN, Cortes has not only made similar statements, he’s also made laughably false and ridiculous claims. Michelle Wolf called out CNN’s charade with Cortes:
MICHELLE WOLF (HOST): Aw man, as a fan I just love this kind of TV magic. Watching the host act like the guest forced his way into the studio is so compelling, you almost forget that he was invited on and paid! Good job, Don, you knew full well Steve was going to lie and you gave a fun clip to share, and that's exactly why you invite him back all the time.
Here’s a brief history of things that paid CNN commentators have said on-air since the inauguration:
  • Stephen Moore made a completely false claim about coal jobs that an actual economist immediately corrected. (3/29/17)
  • Jason Miller made sexist remarks about Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), calling her “hysterical.” (6/13/17)
  • After Trump encouraged police brutality, Jeffrey Lord dismissed it as a “New Yorker sense of humor.” (7/31/17)
  • Lord called Trump “the Martin Luther King of health care.” CNN then talked about it for an entire day. (4/13/17)
  • Lord compared the Congressional Black Caucus to the KKK. (2/16/17)
  • Ben Ferguson criticized civil rights icon John Lewis for not educating Trump about civil rights. (12/8/17)
  • Rick Santorum said that Parkland school shooting survivors aren't taking personal responsibility and should learn CPR instead of engaging in activism. (3/25/18)
  • Kayleigh McEnany attacked Barack Obama for golfing in 2002 when George W. Bush was president. (3/28/17)
  • Ken Cuccinelli told panelist Symone Sanders to shut up while discussing white supremacists in Charlottesville. (8/14/17)
  • Paris Dennard posited that Trump was better than Obama at calling out white supremacists. (8/14/17)
  • Kayleigh McEnany defended Trump’s sexist remarks to an Irish reporter: “The press should be applauding the fact that he's bringing reporters into the Oval Office, calling them out and including them.” (6/28/17)
  • Rick Santorum attacked reporters for asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for details about North Korea and nuclear weapons. (6/14/18)
  • Miller dismissed reports that Trump had an affair with adult actor Stormy Daniels and paid her hush money because, according to him, the alleged payoff was nothing to a billionaire. (3/7/18)
  • Santorum accused Obama of exacerbating racism in America. (6/3/18)
  • After a suicide bombing killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert, Lord said that it would be fair for Trump to criticize Grande for not providing enough security. (6/5/17)
  • Lord used a Nazi analogy to attack London Mayor Sadiq Khan. (6/5/17)
  • Stephen Moore repeatedly lied about the Affordable Care Act, often without CNN fact-checking him. (7/17/17)
  • After Roy Moore was accused of child molestation, Stephen Moore argued that his opponent was “no saint either” because he supported abortion. (11/20/17)
  • Jack Kingston pushed a conspiracy theory that shadowy forces were behind the rally against gun violence organized by Parkland survivors. (2/20/18)
  • While discussing sexual harassment, Stephen Moore said that he would never take a one-on-one meeting with a woman. (10/23/17)
  • Jack Kingston said that Bill O'Reilly's racist remarks about Waters' hair were just like liberals calling Trump “orange.” (3/29/17)
  • Bryan Lanza argued that discussing sexual assault allegations against Trump “seems like a waste of time.” (12/20/17) 
And it’s not only the paid commentators who are a part of CNN's “false equivalency” problem. Just last week, after Lewandowski mocked a 10-year-old with Down syndrome who was separated from her mother at the U.S. border, CNN invited him on to talk more about his remark.

At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Michelle Wolf called out this sycophantic relationship between the media and those in power. Wolf later told Vulture (emphasis original): “It was gross! Like, I saw [CNN President] Jeff Zucker hugging Kellyanne Conway, and it was just like, Oh! You’re all in this together! People are really getting hurt, and you guys are just celebrating your money. It’s all a game, nothing more than ‘How will we best profit off of this?’ It was icky.” Nevertheless, a CNN panel criticized Wolf’s jokes, with a CNN host saying that some of her jokes were “way too personal.”
America is not enduring a crisis of civility. America is enduring a crisis of facts, brought on largely by the rise of the filter bubble, with specious liars given credibility by feckless media and tech companies. It’d be nice if they were all at least a bit more self-aware about it.

CNN

  • CNN Hires A Well Known And Proven Liar To EDIT The News In Secret (i.e. No Disclaimer On Anything Edited By Her!)
  • CNN's "Editor At Large" (Chris Cillizza) Lies About And Frames Elizabeth Warren! What's That About And Who's Paying/Influencing Him To Do It? DNC/Biden?
  • How CNN Focuses On Sensationalism (With The Daily Show)

Media

  • War Based Money Con: Chuck Todd Of Meet The Press Promoted Pro-Iran War Views By Hosting A Lobbyist/Briber Without Disclosing That He Was Doing That And Helped The Guys Companies Stock Go Up!
  • BREAKING: Corporate Media Is Helping The GOP With Their Lies On Iran The Way They Did With Iraq
  • CNN's "Editor At Large" (Chris Cillizza) Lies About And Frames Elizabeth Warren! What's That About And Who's Paying/Influencing Him To Do It? DNC/Biden?
  • Media Uselessness Example: Ignoring Historical Context To Explain The Trump VS Lincoln Poll Of Republicans
  • Moment Of Zen: Fox News Was Designed To Protect A Republican President From The Constitution!
  • The Many Times The Washington Post Has Betrayed The Public's Trust
  • Mainstream Media Is Markedly Pro-Right Wing Lies
  • Media Uselessness Example: Corporate Media Gives Steve King A Pass On White Supremacism
  • Here Is Chuck Todd Skewing Viewers Perceptions With A Pro-Republican Piece Using NBC's Meet The Press
  • The Coast Guard Domestic Terrorist Is Just The Latest Right Wing Terrorist Enabled By Media Silence On Fox News Incendiary Rhetoric
  • Why Do News Outlets Bring On Non-Scientists To Argue Against Science?
  • Examples Of How The "Fact Based" News Media Distorts Public Perception Of Truth Because Of Unusually Bad And/Or Incompetent Journalism
  • As Fox News Launches Fox Nation, I Would Like To Note That Mainstream Media Lets Fox Lie Unchallenged And Don't Fight Fox To Dominate The Ratings By Suppressing Their Lies... Thus Fox Has Been #1 For Decades. "Fact" Based Media Has Enabled Right Wing Hate & Are Thus A Threat To National Security!
  • BREAKING: Fox News Is The Real President
  • Don't Let Chuck Todd Fool Ya. The GOP Really Is Very Very Bad
  • Chuck Todd: Spreading Lies By Sanitizing Right Wing Nuts Talking Points
  • The Last GOP Bill Condemned 28,600 Americans To Death (Approx), Media Ignores Story
  • Trump's Terrorist Attack On the Press (With Fox News Support)
  • Fox News Has Literally Been Created For Obstruction Of Justice (i.e. Choosing Party Over Country Is What They Are All About)
  • The Ultimate Proofs That Fox News Is Basically Just A Group Of White Supremacists/Nationalists/Nazis
  • The Infowars Style Group Of Hate & Violence Mongers, Include Fox News & Fox Business!
  • Fox News Is A MAINSTREAM Fearmongering Media Channel Mistakenly Labelled Real News Followed By A Bunch Of Sheep Who Don't/Can't See The Con!
  • Media: How The "Left" Enables GOP Tyranny - The Southern Strategy By The GOP Created Modern Politics But They Continuously Get Away With It!
  • Media: How The "Left" Enables GOP Tyranny: The Paul Ryan Example, i.e. "Paul Ryan Is A Bad Person", So Why Won't The Media Tell The American People?
  • The Main Political Commentators At Fox News & Alex Jones (Infowars) Are Now Joined At The Hip
  • How Media Enables The GOP's Southern Strategy: The Puerto Rico & Hurricane Maria Example
  • NRA, Infowars, Fox News, Breitbart And Sinclair Function As A Terrorist Propaganda Wing Of The GOP That Seeks To Build Hate & Muddy The Waters (Kinda Like State TV)
  • Note - Gerrymandering Is A Subset Of "Rigging Elections" Or "Election Fraud", An Important Aspect That Gets Left Out Of Media Coverage
  • Fox News - And Right Wing Media - Is Nothing More Than A Conspiracy & Nazi-Style Propaganda Ring
  • Media: How The "Left" Enables GOP Tyranny - Making Russia Seem Worse Than The GOP (& How Russia & The Right-Wing/GOP Are Really In A Symbiotic Relationship!)
  • Media: How The "Left" Enables GOP Tyranny - The Ongoing Iraq War Lies Coverup By Richard Engel & NBC
  • The Right Wing Are Basically Terrorists Or "Terrorist Creators" (Alt Right Terrorists Is The Politically Correct Term)
  • The Last GOP Bill Condemned 28,600 Americans To Death (Approx), Media Ignores Story (Choosing Politeness Over Saving Lives?)
  • The Liars & Bullshitters Of The Iraq War (Such As John Bolton) Are Still Treated With Respect By Mainstream Media (Despite Being Constantly Wrong... Its Like Being Respectful To Nazis Because They Are Americans)
  • FLASHBACK: The Tea Party Wasn't Authentic Because Outside Groups (Fox News & The Kochs) Created, Organized And Spread It
  • Outlining The Kochs Treasonous Agenda: Proofs That The Koch Brothers OWN The Right Wing & Thus The GOP Could Be Renamed "KOCH"
  • NBC/MSNBC's Hidden Role As "The Rights, Left"
  • CNN's Model For Reporting & Journalism Has A Problem With Conveying The Whole Truth Based On Facts To Its Viewers Because Of Its "Both Sides" Format That Places Outright Lies On the Same Footing With Facts On Their "Facts First" Apple-Banana Channel
  • An Introduction To, & Overview Of, The Mainstream Corporate Media
  • FCC's Anti-Constitutional Push Under Trump To Cut Of Net Neutrality To Increase Authoritarianism
  • BREAKING... The Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count It OR Real Economics VS Fake Economics: How The Kochs Are Destroying America By Attacking Its Societal Structures In Favor Of Social Darwinism Or "Survival Of The Fittest"
  • Trump's America: The GOP Sentences At Least 15,000 To 17,000 Americans To Death EVERY YEAR! (i.e. The Effects Of 13 Million Uninsured)
  • How "Liberal" Media Helps The GOP With It's Fake Healthcare (More Examples Of The Corporate Media's Coverups)
  • Corporate Media's Iraq War Coverup: Incontrovertible Proof Of Network News & The Beltway Media Covering Facts About The Iraq War For Their GOP Masters

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UFO/UAP News

  • An Outline Of The Official US Government Declassified Report On UFOs/UAPs With A Sprinkling Of Mainstream News Reports And Why I Think "Foreign Adversary" Can Be Removed As A Category From The Report
  • UFO/UAP News: NBC News Does An Investigative Report On The Possibility Of Alien Life
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  • UFO/UAP News: New Declassified Video Of UFO/UAP Shows It Can Go Underwater, Media Discusses The Alien Question & National Security Risk
  • UFO/UAP News: 60 Minutes Interviews The Navy Pilots Of The Declassified UFO/UAP Videos
  • Here Is A Supposedly Debunked UFO/UAP Video From 2011 - Over The Dome Of The Rock In Israel - That Appears To Be Real, Based On Navy Pilot Testimony & Already Confirmed UFO/UAP Videos By The Pentagon
  • UFO Facts: Pentagon Calls UFOs "UAPs" (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) And Have Just Confirmed A Green Triangular UAP & A Spherical UAP That Was Leaked By A Navy Pilot
  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In The News: Video Of Triangular Shaped UFO/UAP Over A Military Base On Fox News From 2016 (Clear Visual)
  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In The News: NY Post Says That NASA Has A History Of Editing, Deleting, Or Covering Up Footage Of UFOs In Space & Entering Earth From Space!
  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In The News: CBS News Obtained Footage Of Mysterious Glowing Orbs Floating Over New York City
  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In The News: Actor Russell Crowe Puts Up Video Of UFO - CNN
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  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In The News: Chilean Navy Releases Video Of Mysterious Flying Object - Fox News
  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In The News: Unexplainable UFO Sighting Leaves Stargazers In Awe - New York Post
  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In the News: Bizarre Midair UFO Sighting Freaks Out Plane Passengers | New York Post
  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In The News: 'UFO' On BBC Look North webcam
  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs IN The News: UFO caught LIVE on camera during Newscast in Buffalo
  • UFO/UAP Eye Witnesses In The News: Government/Military UFO Sightings Going Back Decades - 7 NEWS Spotlight
  • UFO/UAP Eye Witnesses In The News: Westall’s 50-Year-Old UFO Sighting Emerges Again | 7NEWS
  • UFO/UAP Eye Witnesses In The News: FAA audio of UFO over Chicago O'Hare Airport in 2006 - NY Post
  • UFO/UAP Eye Witnesses In The News: 2 Pilots In Separate Planes Report Seeing A UFO Over Arizona
  • UFO/UAP Eye Witnesses In The News: Police Confirmed Triangular UFO Sighting - National Geographic (UFO Moves Slowly Over Several Counties)
  • Obama On The UFO/UAP Phenomenon: 'We Don't Know What They Are'

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Antiquities Research

  • Fascinating Synchronicity: The Animistic Or "Mystical" Outlook Of Modern Physics And Evolutionary Science
  • Animals And Humans Share DNA, A Nervous System, Intelligence, Creativity And Emotions (Such As Empathy)
  • Is The Missing Link Between Man And Ape Psychological? Since We All Seemed To Have Evolved From The Same Root/Source Species?
  • Where We Are In Anthropology Today: Many Species Of Humans Existed Simultaneously & Occasionally Intermingled And Homo Erectus Traveled The World For Over 2 Million Years, Maybe As Far As America!
  • A Look At The Steadiness Of Mythology Over Time & Watch A Ritual Practiced By the Ainu Of Japan That Appears To Be Neanderthal In Origin, If Not Earlier
  • Catastrophic Earth: The Climate Change Of The Last Ice Age, And Other Natural Disasters, Constantly Reshape Earth Washing Away The Old Landscapes And Replacing Them With New Ones
  • Problems In Anthropology: Fragmentary Fossil Evidence, Rigidity In Science, Homo Erectus Lived Until Too Recently etc. (Where I Stand)
  • Bread Making Is Confirmed At A Minimum Of 23,000 Years Ago. This Means The Earliest Cereal Production Sites Are Now Underwater Given Sea Level Changes Over The Last 20,000 Years.
  • Oldest Pieces Of Pottery Found Are 20,000 Years Old, Making It Likely That Pottery Making Began In The Lands East Of China That Were Above Water At The Last Glacial Maximum.
  • Breakthrough Discovery: Connecting A Recent Excavation Of The 12,000 Year Old Karahan Tepe To An Underwater Site Off The Coast Of Japan Opens Up New Questions Of How Many Megalithic Sites Are Really Out There, Especially If The Rise In Sea Level Of That Time Period Is Taken Into Account
  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} Atlantis ... Has An Ancient Lost Megalithic City Been Discovered & Ignored Off The Coast Of Cuba?
  • The Best Proof Of A Lost Ice Age Civilization Is Presented By Graham Hancock In This Lecture Covering Ancient Maps With Advanced Knowledge And Underwater Structures Found At A Depth Indicating They Were Built Before The Sea Level Rise At The End Of The Last Ice Age 12-13 Thousand Years Ago. i.e. The Structures Are As Old As Gobekli Tepe
  • Discoveries Of Fossils Have Been Going On Forever! So Dragons Must Be The Ancient Interpretation Of Dinosaur Bones! (& Other Such Possibilities)
  • Lost History: Dinosaurs In Ancient Popular Culture - The Stegosaurus At Angkor Wat (12th Century)
  • Lost History: Dinosaurs In Ancient Popular Culture - "Lions Paws" Of The 5th Century Sigiriya Of Sri Lanka Which May Be Dinosaur Claws!
  • Paradigm Altering Discovery Of Comet Impact Of 13,000 Years Ago Has To Be Taken Into Account When Examining Human History
  • A General Overview Of Extinct Species Of Humans

UFO Facts

  • UFO Facts: Pentagon Calls UFOs "UAPs" (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) And Have Just Confirmed A Green Triangular UAP & A Spherical UAP That Was Leaked By A Navy Pilot
  • Pentagon Confirms UFO Videos Released By Department Of Defense, And Confirmed As Real By The Navy, Are, In Fact, Real
  • UFO Facts: The Navy Confirmed That 3 Videos On The Web Are In Fact Real UFOs, Providing A Confirmed Starting Point For UFO Research
  • UFO Facts: A Navy Pilot Did An Interview With Mainstream News Media Outlets And Revealed That UFOs Are Shaped Like White Tic Tacs & Can Move At Hyper Velocity, Vertically Or Horizontally, Showing Capabilities Beyond What An Air Force Pilot Or Physicist Can Imagine Modern Aircraft Doing
  • UFO Facts: Civilian/Commercial Airline Pilots Have Reported Seeing UFOs/UAPs
  • UFO Facts: The Chilean Navy Released A Video Of A Tic Tac Shaped UFO In January Of 2017
  • UFO Facts: There Is A Video From 2011 Of A UFO Behaving The Way The Navy Pilot Of The Confirmed UFO Videos Describes in 2017 Of An Experience He Had in 2004!
  • UFO Facts: A White Tic Tac Shaped UFO Was Spotted Over Texas 2016 & 2018 (UFO Fits Navy Pilots Description!)
  • UFO Facts: Fighter Jets Have Been Scrambled To Meet UFOs In England (UK) & Oregon (USA)
  • UFO Facts: UFO's Seem To Like The UK! They've Shown Up On Live BBC News Several Times!
  • UFO Facts: Debunking The Abydos UFO/Helicopter/Jet-Plane/Glider And A Look At The Possibility Of An Ancient Flying Machine
  • See All Three Of The Official UFO/UAP Videos Released By The Department Of Defense (Pentagon) Thus Far...

Full Episodes Of 'UFO Hunters' Relevant To What's Already Been Confirmed By The Pentagon

  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Code Red! UFOs In Military Air Space! (Includes UFO Incidents Going Back To 1965)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Multiple Orb Sightings Raise Suspicions/Fears/Terror (Watch People Get Very Scared At The Thought Of Encountering A UFO)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Chilling Evidence of UFOs in Ohio (Includes UFO Incidents Going Back To 1994)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Aliens/UFOs Spotted at Chicago Airport (Covers UFO Incident from 2006)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: US Military Pursues UFOs (Includes UFO Incidents Going Back To The 1950s)
  • UFO Hunters: Strange USOs Found in the Deep Sea (Includes UFO/USO Incidents Going Back To 1966)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: American Military Jets Fight UFOs (Includes UFO Incidents Going Back To 1976)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Military VS UFOs (Stories Going Back To 1980)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Secret NASA Files Exposed (Includes UFO Incidents Going Back To The 1960s)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Giant UFOs (UFO Encounters By Passenger Planes Going Back To 2007)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Invasion: Illinois (Incidents Going Back To 2004)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Invasion Texas 2008 (Stories Going Back To 2007)
  • Exploring UFOs/UAPs In Media: UFO Hunters: Alien Surveillance at Secret Government Facilities

Mainstream Documentaries

  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} Atlantis ... Has An Ancient Lost Megalithic City Been Discovered & Ignored Off The Coast Of Cuba?
  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} Finding Atlantis
  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} World of Mysteries - Lost City of Atlantis
  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} History: Lost Worlds: Atlantis
  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} National Geographic: Legend of Atlantis - Drain the Oceans
  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} National Geographic: Lost World of the Maya
  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} Uncovering The Lost Mayan City of La Corona
  • {Mainstream Documentary - History} Lost Treasures of Egypt - Tutankhamun's Treasures
  • {Mainstream Documentary - Lost Civilizations} A Sunken Civilization In The Black Sea

Gobekli Tepe Related Research

  • Built 6000 Years Before Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe Is The Oldest Megalithic Stone Site We Have Found So Far
  • Göbekli Tepe: Tracing Probable Links In The Mythology Of Göbekli Tepe To The Native Americans
  • Breaking News - The Shaman Of Gobekli Tepe: The Link Between The Shaman Of Lascaux Cave, Shiva & The Headless Man Of Gobekli Tepe
  • The Discovery Of A Proto-Proto-Proto Shiva At Göbekli Tepe? A Short Look At Correlations Between Göbekli Tepe And Other Cultures (Includes Observations By Graham Hancock)
  • Tracing Evidence Of Yoga Postures For Shamanic Meditation To 15,000 BC!

UFO Phenomenon Analyzed

  • The Pentagon Has Released A Video Of A UFO Proving That There Is Unidentified Advanced Technology Wandering The Skies! Expert Testimony Confirms UFO Visitation Since 1948!
  • Pentagon Confirms UFO Videos Released By Department Of Defense, And Confirmed As Real By The Navy, Are, In Fact, Real
  • UFOs Burst Into Mainstream Popular Culture! Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Unimpressed, Requires Dinner Date.
  • The UFO Fear Factor: Fear Of UFOs And Aliens In Popular Culture
  • UFO Fear Factor: Pentagon Releases UFO Videos... Do UFOs Exist? If UFOs Exist Are They A Threat? What Do They Want?
  • Why Accepting The Presence Of UFO's And Alien Life, As A Global Culture, CAN Help Reduce Divisions In Our Society
  • Advanced Aerospace Threat Analysis And A Cultural Analysis Of The UFO Phenomenon
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: A 3 Hour Debunking Of Ideas On Ancient Aliens Supplemented With New Discoveries Of History
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Its The False Historical Timeline That Makes The Remains Of A Forgotten Civilization(s), And Its Mythology, Seem Like A Reference To Aliens Or UFOs To UFO Enthusiasts (With Graham Hancock)

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    There are some videos of UFOs/UAPs in the news that can't be explained and have not been confirmed as real or fake by the Pentagon ( com...
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    There are some videos of UFOs/UAPs in the news that can't be explained and have not been confirmed as real or fake by the Pentagon (comp...
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    At 2:06 Tucker mentions he would love a scenario he wouldn't like with his school age daughter... but anyone  else's school age daug...
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    Congress just had a hearing with the military which brought more de-classified material to light and confirmed videos already in the mainstr...
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  • Bread Making Is Confirmed At A Minimum Of 23,000 Years Ago. This Means The Earliest Cereal Production Sites Are Now Underwater Given Sea Level Changes Over The Last 20,000 Years.
    Evidence for baking going back 23,000 years has been discovered . If bread making has been confirmed when sea levels were at their lowest th...
  • An Outline Of The Official US Government Declassified Report On UFOs/UAPs With A Sprinkling Of Mainstream News Reports And Why I Think "Foreign Adversary" Can Be Removed As A Category From The Report
    The official US Government report on UAP/UFOs covers 5 points . Here are summaries in point form followed by extracts from the official repo...
  • The Best Proof Of A Lost Ice Age Civilization Is Presented By Graham Hancock In This Lecture Covering Ancient Maps With Advanced Knowledge And Underwater Structures Found At A Depth Indicating They Were Built Before The Sea Level Rise At The End Of The Last Ice Age 12-13 Thousand Years Ago. i.e. The Structures Are As Old As Gobekli Tepe
    Related:   A Look At The Steadiness Of Mythology Over Time & Watch A Ritual Practiced By the Ainu Of Japan That Appears To Be Neandertha...
  • UFO/UAP Eye Witnesses In The News: Police Confirmed Triangular UFO Sighting - National Geographic (UFO Moves Slowly Over Several Counties)
    A massive triangular object (possibly similar to one previously confirmed by the Pentagon ), seen by 5 cops and 1 civilian in Illinois. Poli...

Popular Posts - For the year thus far

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    There are some videos of UFOs/UAPs in the news that can't be explained and have not been confirmed as real or fake by the Pentagon (comp...
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    There are some videos of UFOs/UAPs in the news that can't be explained and have not been confirmed as real or fake by the Pentagon ( com...
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    There are some videos of UFOs/UAPs in the news that can't be explained and have not been confirmed as real or fake by the Pentagon (comp...
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    With  the confirmation of UFOs/UAPs by the Pentagon , other stories about UFOs in the media take on more significance, Here is one of those ...
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    Background/Context: 1. Fox News And The GOP Are Basically Terrorist Organizations (Based On Their Rhetoric & The Effects Of That Rhetori...
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    While media informed the public of Ed Asner's death and celebrated his career , they particularly left out his activism for 9/11 science...
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    With the confirmation of UFOs/UAPs by the Pentagon , other stories about UFOs in the media take on more significance. Here are stories going...
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  • Unconfirmed UFOs/UAPs In the News: Bizarre Midair UFO Sighting Freaks Out Plane Passengers | New York Post
    There are some videos of UFOs/UAPs in the news that can't be explained and have not been confirmed as real or fake by the Pentagon (comp...
  • Environmental Solutions Collage: The Climate Change Debate Is Over... Now Lets Prepare 4 Floods
    Bugs Bunny In "Water Water Every Hare"... There is an old story... There were a couple of guys holding to the ground at t...
  • The Heart Of Culture and Society – The Golden Rule
    We tend to notice differences more than similarities when encountering other races or cultures. Yet we(the human race) have more in common t...
  • Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices
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  • What is the difference between culture and society?
    The first thing Id like to clear up before I begin to look at culture is that my perspective on culture is a lot broader than is normally us...
  • Case Study: Many "Business" Channels (Such As Fox Business) Are Designed To Deceive It's Viewers For Profit - Part 2!
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  • The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
    Historically, knowledge has always been approached from a holistic perspective. The Ancient Greeks studied every field of knowledge and put...

Comedic News

  • The Daily Show Trashes Hypocrite & White Supremacist Tucker Carlson
  • The Daily Show Covers America's Failing Power Grid
  • The Daily Show Covers The Rise And Spread Of White Supremacy In America
  • Comedic News: The Daily Show Explains The Senate's Filibuster Rule
  • Comedic News: Last Week Tonight Covers The 'Scam' Aspect Of Health Care Sharing Ministries
  • Comedic News: Daily Show Explains America's Failing Water Infrastructure
  • Fox News Poll Contradicts Fox News Talking Points on Vaccine Mandates

AE911Truth.org News & 9/11 Related Analysis

  • My Facebook Page:WTC 7 - The Ultimate Smoking Gun & Much More - 9/11 Truth & Science
  • AE911Truth.org News: On C Span Founder Of Architects & Engineers For 911 Truth Explains How The 3rd Building That Fell On 9/11 Should Not Have
  • AE911Truth.org News: University Study Finds Fire Did Not Cause Building 7’s Collapse on 9/11 (Video/Visual Demonstrations)
  • AE911Truth.org News: Family Of British 9/11 Victim Geoff Campbell Gets Its Message Out In UK & British Media (Ignored By US Media)
  • AE911Truth.org News: Spike Lee Is Right: Fire Can’t Melt Steel — and Molten Metal Was Everywhere (Mainstream Media Is Too Incompetent To Notice Video Evidence Of Molten Metal)
  • 9/11 News: Majority Who See Building 7's Collapse Suspect Explosives
  • BREAKING: "WTC 7 Did Not Collapse from Fire" Dr. Leroy Hulsey... Engineering Experts, 9/11 Families And A Former NIST Employee Call On Congress To Launch A New Investigation Into 9/11!
  • Update: Professional Engineers & Architects From AE911truth.org Continue To Debunk The Unscientific Official Story Of 9/11
  • Visual Analysis: The Plane That Hit The Pentagon On 9/11 Was Too Small To Be A Passenger Jet But Not Too Small To Be a Drone
  • 9/11 Cognitive Dissonance: Who Cares How Hot Jet Fuel Burns? The Whole Building Wasn't Even On Fire, How Could The Steel AND Concrete Dissolve So Fast That It Collapses In Seconds Without Even Being On Fire?!
  • Ed Asner Dies And Mainstream Media Hides His Support For Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth And Refuse To Play His Video Explaining The Science. Here Is That Video:
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Politics 2

  • A Deadly Culture Of Politeness: The Fox News Involvement With Spreading Domestic Terrorism Is Hidden By Mainstream Media By Couching It In Soft And Indirect Words But Its Basically An Open Secret That Fox News Is Now A Pro Domestic Terrorism Propaganda Outlet
  • Trump The Terrorist: Every Opportunity Trump Has Had He Has Used To Undermine The Health & Safety Of The American People And The GOP Have Supported Him Gleefully
  • Crimes Against Humanity: Jesus Says "Love Thy Neighbor" While The Christian Rights Response To Covid (Led By Trump, Fox News & The GOP) Is "Risk Thy Neighbors Life" Or Even "Kill Thy Neighbor"... IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM!
  • Trump The Pro-Pedophile Incestuous Creep: Did Trump Turn The GOP Into A Den Of Pedophiles Or Were They Always Pedophiles & Thus Created QAnon For Cover?
  • America's Pro Domestic Terror & Pro-Nazi Party (GOP/Fox) Started A War On Christmas In 2004 - Pretending It Was Started By Liberals - Here Is How They Did It

Talks By Graham Hancock

  • Graham Hancock | Ancient Civilizations - Presentation at the 2012 Tipping Point Prophets Conference.
  • Magicians of the Gods Lecture by Graham Hancock at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey
  • America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization, by Graham Hancock
  • Graham Hancock: Quest for the Lost Civilization - A Species with Amnesia
  • Ancient Underwater Ruins: A Review Of Graham Hancock's "Underworld, Flooded Kingdoms Of The Ice Age" (With Discoveries Dating To 7500 BC And Earlier!) & "Advanced Ice Age Civilizations & Atlantis"
  • "Is The House Of History Built On Foundations Of Sand?" - Graham Hancock
  • Graham Hancock: 'The First Fall Of Civilization Happened By Comet 12800 Years Ago, And Its Remnants By A Flood 11600 Years Ago (Atlantis)'. - {This Is Conclusive Scientific Proof. The Debate Is Over.}
  • Graham Hancock: ‘Magicians of the Gods’, snapshots of a work in progress

Learning & Education

  • Prelude to a new article series on education
  • Learning and Education With The 'Socratic Method'
  • The Power Of Your Brain: Brain Plasticity & IQ Enhancement
  • How Emotions Cloud Judgement: An Introduction To True Empathy
  • Introduction To NLP, It's Therapeutic Models & The 5 Minute Phobia Cure (With A Talk By Richard Bandler)
  • Basics of Body Language and Lie Detection
  • Book Review: What Is Intelligence? - The Flyn Effect
  • Problems With The "No Child Left Behind" Act In 3 Interviews
  • Education Part 1 - The Problem Of Psychiatric Drugs
  • How Can Psychiatrists Be Allowed To Prescribe A Physical Substance For A Mental Disease That Has No Biological Source?
  • The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
  • {Updated Debunking}Problems In Anthropology: Fragmentary Fossil Evidence, Rigidity In Science, Homo Erectus Lived Until Too Recently etc. (Where I Stand)

Animals

  • Animals And Humans Share DNA, A Nervous System, Intelligence, Creativity And Emotions (Such As Empathy)
  • Octopuses May Be As Intelligent As Apes And Are Also The Best Camouflage Artists Of The Animal Kingdom
  • The Modern Dodo: Meet The Flightless Parrot Called The Kakapo
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Elephant Intelligence (They Can Paint, Count, Communicate etc.)
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Parrot Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Raccoon Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Whale Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Dolphin Intelligence

Talks By Andrew Collins

  • Andrew Collins: Giza's Cave Underworld
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History
  • Finding Eden: The Mystery of Göbekli Tepe & Giza's Cave Underworld - Andrew Collins FULL LECTURE
  • Meet the Denisovans | The True Founders of a Lost Civilization | Andrew Collins | Origins Conference
  • Andrew Collins | Genesis and Evolution of the Giza Pyramids | Origins Conference
  • Andrew Collins: The Cygnus Key - The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt
  • Andrew Collins: From Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge: A Cosmic Blueprint 10,000 BC
  • Andrew Collins: Gobekli Tepe: Temple of the Watchers, Gateway to the Stars

Politics

  • The Daily Show Covers The Rise And Spread Of White Supremacy In America
  • Fox News And The GOP Are Basically Terrorist Organizations (Based On Their Rhetoric & The Effects Of That Rhetoric)
  • GOP's War On America 4: GOP Create An Alternate Reality Based On Lies So They Can Overturn Any Election By Using Fox News To Create False Narratives
  • GOP's War On America 3: Republicans Turn Over Election Ballots To Crazy QAnon Followers, A Group With Links To Domestic Terrorism
  • Russia's GOP: Trump Was OK With Intelligence Reports Of Russia Paying Bounties To Kill American Soldiers In Afghanistan Because He Hoped Putin Could Help Him Win The 2020 Election!
  • GOP's War On America 2: Republicans Are Running Against Democracy Not Democrats
  • After Canceling Over 500,000 Lives With Covid-19 Misinformation, Fox News Complains About Dr. Seuss Books The AUTHORS Private Estate Decided Not To Print Anymore
  • After Canceling Over 500,000 Lives With Covid19 Misinformation, Republicans Focus On Fake News Of Biden Cancelling Beef (From Fox News) To Get Outraged About
  • After Helping To Cancel 500,000 Lives With Coronavirus Misinformation, Fox News Conservatives Go On TV To Complain About Cancel Culture
  • GOP's War On America: Republicans Take Their Rebellion Against Democracy To The Next Level, Giving Themselves The Power To Overturn Elections Like Dictators
  • The GOP Are Lying Repeatedly And Passing New Voting Laws Based On Their Lies
  • Trump's Legacy: Taxpayers As ATM? Trump Spent Millions In Taxpayer Cash On Golf, Trips To Marallago And Fleeced Supporters Of Their Cash With Tricks
  • Collusion Proven: More Links Showing Trump And His Allies Are Willing And Able Russian Assets
  • Trump's Ongoing Insurrection: A Riot At The Capitol Is Exactly What The "Law And Order" President Wanted
  • The Russian Takeover Of The Republican Party: Trump and The GOP Have Become Willing And Able Russian Assets
  • Fox Used To Pretend It Was Part News And Part Opinion. That Pretense Is Over. Now Its Lies All the Time.
  • For Fox News, Mass Murder In The U.S. Was Just The Cost Of Doing Business
  • Congratulations To Fox News For Winning The Misinformer Of The Year Award!
  • Fox News Merged With The Trump Administration And Showed Up What They Are Made Of Over The Last 4 Years
  • With Democrats in Control of the White House, House and the Senate They Must Get Rid Of The Filibuster Or Choose Undemocratic Minority Rule
  • Daily Show & Colbert Report Prove That Fox News Is Fake News
  • Daily Show: Jordan Klepper vs. Trump Supporters
  • Trump's Legacy: A Look At The January 6th Insurrection And Attempted Coup By Trump/GOP/FoxNews
  • Hypocrisy On Display: Ted Cruz Demonstrates What He Stands For (Texas Winter Power Outage 2021)
  • Texas Winter Power Outage 2021: GOP And Fox News Lie And Demonize To Hide Their Economic Incompetence
  • Mitch McConnell Pretends to Be Honorable After Avoiding To Convict Trump For Treason Again, Again!
  • Highlights Of Trump's Acquittal With Late Night Hosts (2nd Senate Trial)
  • Highlights Of The Second Impeachment Trial's Case Against Trump With Late Night Hosts
  • The Rights War On The Left - A Walk Through Some Of The Intimidation/Bullying/Terror Tactics Fox News Uses
  • The Rights War On The Left (Blaming The Left For Everything Is A Standard Tactic Of GOP & Fox News)
  • The Real Divide In America Is Establishment VS Non/Anti-Establishment ("We The People") - With Robert Reich
  • Politics Update: The GOP & Fox News Take Domestic Terrorism To New Levels
  • GOP, Fox News & Right Wing Media Are Waging War On Rule Of Law
  • Class Warfare: How The GOP, Fox News & Billionaires Make Nonsense Sound Like Common Sense
  • Lou Dobbs: One Of The Creepiest Authoritarian Style Newsperson From Fox News Was Just Fired Because Of A Multi Billion Lawsuit Against Fox For Its Lies
  • After Helping Trump Lie & Deceive The People For Four Years, On Trump's Last Day, Mitch McConnell Pretends to Be Honorable After Avoiding To Impeach Trump For Treason, Again!
  • Tucker Carlson Is Going Out Of His Way To Help Trump Get People Sick With Coronavirus
  • Trump's Top 100 Scandals That The Trump Presidential Library Is Going To Have To Explain Away
  • Joe Biden's Vote For The Iraq War Proves He Lacks Leadership Qualities That Are Needed To Run A Country (Such As The Ability To Tell Right From Wrong, i.e. Biden Is Incompetent, At The Very Least)

The Murdoch/Fox War On The People

  • Fox News Hypocrisy Caught On Tape: Daily Show Proves Fox News Is Always Contradicting Itself With Before & After Video
  • The Daily Show Covers The Rise And Spread Of White Supremacy In America
  • Fox News Is Deceiving People To Help The GOP Pass Voter Suppression Bills That Can Be Used to Overturn Democratic Elections
  • Tucker The White Nationalist: Unearthed Audio Shows Tucker Carlson Using White Nationalist Rhetoric And Making Racist Remarks
  • White Nationalists Praise Tucker Carlson For Mainstreaming Their Beliefs But Are Disappointed In The Obvious Attempt To Water Down Their Talking Points
  • More Evidence Of Tucker Carlson Being A Pedophile: Harassing School Kids On A Regular Basis And Defending Roy Moore
  • The Murdoch/Fox War On The People 3 - Fox News Is Constantly Reporting On And Spreading Fake News (Lies) As Part Of Its 'Misinforming The People' Agenda
  • The Murdoch/Fox War On The People 2 - Fox News Continues To Spread Misinformation About Coronavirus Inevitably Killing Some Of Their Viewers And Leaving Others Unprepared
  • Tucker The Terrorist: Tucker Carlson Tries To Get His Followers To Attack Others Over Masks And If They Have Their Children Wear Masks
  • An Exploration Of Tucker Carlson's Tactics, History & Links To The Increase Of White Nationalism & Terrorism With John Oliver & NBC News
  • Tucker The Pedophile: During interviews on Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson said he “love[s]” the idea of young girls sexually experimenting, used sexist terms to refer to a number of women, and defended statutory rape
  • Tucker The White Supremacist Terrorist: Tucker Carlson, The Face Of Fox News, Just Gave His Full Endorsement To The White Nationalist Conspiracy Theory That Has Motivated Mass Shootings
  • The Murdoch/Fox War On The People - The Murdoch's Own Fox News, Fox Does Nothing Without Their Implicit Or Explicit Approval
  • Daily Show & Colbert Report Prove That Fox News Is Fake News
  • Congratulations To Fox News For Winning The Misinformer Of The Year Award!
  • After Helping To Cancel 500,000 Lives With Coronavirus Misinformation, Fox News Conservatives Go On TV To Complain About Cancel Culture
  • The Rights War On The Left - A Walk Through Some Of The Intimidation/Bullying/Terror Tactics Fox News Uses
  • The Rights War On The Left (Blaming The Left For Everything Is A Standard Tactic Of GOP & Fox News)
  • Fox Used To Pretend It Was Part News And Part Opinion. That Pretense Is Over. Now Its Lies All the Time.
  • Trump's Legacy: A Look At The January 6th Insurrection And Attempted Coup By Trump/GOP/FoxNews
  • Class Warfare: How The GOP, Fox News & Billionaires Make Nonsense Sound Like Common Sense
  • Fox News Merged With The Trump Administration And Showed Up What They Are Made Of Over The Last 4 Years
  • For Fox News, Mass Murder In The U.S. Was Just The Cost Of Doing Business
  • FIRE Tucker - The Pedophile - Carlson: During Interviews On Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson Said He “Love[s]” The Idea Of Young Girls In His Daughters Boarding School "Sexually Experimenting"

Media's War On The People

  • Mainstream Media's War On the People 7 - Mainstream Media Tends To Be Pro Incendiary Rhetoric & Pro-Domestic Terrorism For The Right, While Admonishing The Left To Be Polite
  • Mainstream Media's War On the People 6 - Mainstream Outlets Won’t Hold The Right Accountable, So Conservatives Have Every Reason To Keep Lying
  • Mainstream Media's War On The People Part 5 - Mainstream Media Run With Right-Wing Spin About Georgia's Voter-Suppression Law Making GOP's Anti Democracy Actions A Partisan Issue Rather Than A Civil Liberties Issue
  • Mainstream Media's War On The People Part 4 - Despite Non-Stop Lies & Hypocrisy Media Makes Mitch McConnell Seem Sincere Thus Allowing Him To Lie & Deceive With Greater Ease
  • Mainstream Media's War On the People Part 3: Media Pushes Working With Republicans On The Covid Relief Bill Despite The Over 500,000 People The GOP Helped Kill With Thier Corona-virus Lies
  • Mainstream Media's War On the People Part 2 - Applying Double Standards To Leadership That Helps Republicans Obstruct The Democrats Majority But Don't Allow The Democrats To Do The Same To The GOP Minority
  • Mainstream Media's War On The People Part 1: Treating Majority Views Of Democrats As Extreme & Extremist Views Of Republicans As Normal
  • Mainstream Media's War On The People: Media Silence On Fox News & The GOP's Continued Incendiary Rhetoric, Given The Insurrection, Indicates Complicity
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 10 (Making A Few Bad Apples Seem Like The Whole Apple Grove)
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 9 (Promoting A Fundamentalist Domestic Terror Group)
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against Jews)
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 7
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 6
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 5
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 4
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 3
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 2
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 1
  • Media Matters Proves Corporate Media's Journalists Aren't Real Journalists
  • Mainstream Media Is Markedly Pro-Right Wing Lies
  • Mainstream Media Is Markedly Pro-Right Wing Lies - Part 2
  • Media Matters: NY Times Shouldn't Treat Matters Of Facts As Opinions, And Opinions Shouldn’t Be Treated As Matters Of Fact
  • We Know That Most People Only Read Headlines So Is Mainstream Media Being Incredibly Stupid Or Are They Intentionally Pushing Untruths?
  • Washington Post & NY Times Buried The Lead - And The Facts - With A Pro-Republican Lies Push On A Coronavirus Bill
  • CNN's "Civility" Argument Shows CNN Anchors/Hosts Can't Put Facts In Context Of What's Going On!
  • The Ultimate Proofs That Fox News Is Basically Just A Group Of White Supremacists/Nationalists/Nazis
  • BREAKING: Corporate Media Is Helping The GOP With Their Lies On Iran The Way They Did With Iraq
  • Why Do News Outlets Bring On Non-Scientists To Argue Against Science?

GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series

  • Seth Meyers: Trump And His Allies Are Lying In The Exact Same Ways The Bush Administration Lied Us Into A Catastrophic War In Iraq Nearly 17 years Ago
  • The Anti-Diplomacy And Anti-Deal Making Party: The GOP Used Bullying And Assassination To Start A War With Iran
  • The United States Of Russia: Why Is Trump Always Sucking Putin's Dick? And Why Are The GOP Joining Him? If You Can't Beat 'Em Join 'Em?
  • As Anti-American As A Party Can Get: Trump Sees Himself As A King And The GOP Are More Than Willing To Comply And Treat Him Like A King (Fighting A King Is What Created The USA In The First Place!)
  • Mitch McConnell: The Most Anti-American And Un-Constitutional Politician Of All Time?
  • Lindsey Graham's Hypocrisy On Impeachment Is Epic
  • Snapshot Of The Present: Colbert Calls The GOP "A Spineless Group of Self-Interested Toadies Who Would Rather See The Country Destroyed Then Stand Up To An Out Of Control, Narcissistic Toddler."
  • A Snapshot Of The Modern Political & Media Structure Under A GOP President (With Seth Meyers)
  • GOP Hypocrisy...The Republicans Basic Argument Is: We Are Going To Hurt & Betray The Country But You Should Be Nice To Us... While We Lie & Incite Terror!
  • Republicans Demonstrate What "The Height Of Hypocrisy" Looks Like & Fox "News" Ignores It!
  • Republicans Demonstrate What "The Height Of Hypocrisy" Looks Like & Fox "News" Ignores It! PART DEUX: The Golf Edition
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 3: Using Taxpayer Money For Personal Use Like Communists & Dictators
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 4: Republican Hypocrisy On The Deficit Is Epic!
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 5: Roy Moore Hypocrisy & Deficit Hypocrisy Show GOP Stand For Nothing. Not Family Values. Not Fiscal Responsibility. Nothing. Except Maybe Pedophiles.
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 6: GOP & Fox News Helps Trump In Obstruction Of Justice Showing They Don't Care About The Rule Of Law... And Now, The Nation Is in A Constitutional Crisis!
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 7: The Executive Order & Dictator/Tyrant Hypocrisy
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 8: Being Civil To The Uncivil Would Be An Atrocity! Fearing the Backlash the Trump Administration Calls For Civility After Showing None Since The Campaigning Days!
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 9: The Supreme Court Hypocrisy & Why Approving Any Trump Nominee To The Supreme Court Is A Bad Idea!
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 10: Rule of Law Hypocrisy - More Evidence Of The GOP Obstructing Justice & Other Constitutional Abuses

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Quotes


"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty." - Rumi

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi

"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society." - George Washington

Xmas

  • Santa's Surprise
  • Animation: Jack Frost (1934)
  • Animation: The Star Of Bethlehem
  • Animation: A Christmas Tree (1959)
  • The "War On Christmas"... Exposed!
  • Animation: The Christmas Visitor (1959)
  • Samantha Bee's 2018 Christmas Special
  • Christmas Cartoon: Christmas Night (1933)
  • Movie: Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
  • Christmas Special: Jon Stewart On Christmas
  • Christmas Carol - An Animated Movie (Cartoon)
  • Christmas Special 2017: The War On Christmas
  • "The War On Christmas" ... Exposed! (Part Deux)
  • Christmas Movie: A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
  • Christmas Sing-A-Long Cartoon: Snow Foolin' (1949)
  • Christmas Cartoon: Somewhere In Dreamland (1936)
  • Cartoon: Santa and the Three Bears (1970 - 45 mins)
  • Christmas Cartoon: Rudolph, The Red Nose Reindeer
  • Animation: Christmas Comes But Once A Year (Cartoon)
  • "The War On Christmas"... Exposed! (The Colbert Edition)
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 1
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 2
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 3
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 4
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 5
  • Christmas Special: Stephen Colbert On Christmas - Part 6
  • Christmas Special 2017: Happy Christmas With The President!
  • Animation: The Shanty Where Santa Claus Lives (1933 - Christmas Cartoon)
  • Comedy Central's Non-Denominational Christmas Special (S1Ep101) - Part 1
  • Comedy Central's Non-Denominational Christmas Special (S1Ep101) - Part 2
  • Comedy Central's Non-Denominational Christmas Special (S1Ep101) - Part 3
  • Old Silent Christmas Movies: The Night Before Christmas (1908) & The Christmas Angel (1904)
  • A Christmas Carol - Movie & Audio Books - The 1st Silent Film & 1st Audio Film Of A Christmas Carol
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