Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

When money butts heads with money,
Money usually wins.

steve66613

Actually, you’re wrong most of the time. No change at this particular juncture.

debeda

debeda

Yep. It's how the left gains control. Throw money at everything😠

One Patriot

Hey PeterS, (that name definitely fits you) I’ll let you in on a little secret. When that idiot POS won the Democratic nomination a bunch of people said “ the only way that clown will beat President Trump is if they cheat “. Stop parroting what you hear on television. You government rejects never stop amazing me!

One Patriot

If you are saying that the right wing is a cult then that also means that the left wing is also a cult.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Actually, it means he doesn't know what a cult is.

microphor Loc: Home is TN

If a liberal lies, it's not a lie-it's exaggeration and opinion!

microphor Loc: Home is TN

So Peter, you can speak for everyone on the right? You are all seeing and all knowing, just like Maddow

microphor Loc: Home is TN

I know-so surprising!

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Yep!
HOLY MELTDOWN, BATMAN! Watch Rachel Maddow get that SMIRK wiped off her face Election Night 2016

https://youtu.be/WjN_4VTy-jk

What do you think? Are we still getting liberal BS "polls"?

"MSNBC's top-rated host Rachel Maddow devoted a segment in 2019 to accusing the right-wing cable outlet One America News (OAN) of being a paid propaganda outlet for the Kremlin. Discussing a Daily Beast article which noted that one OAN reporter was a "Russian national” who was simultaneously writing copy for the Russian-owned outlet Sputnik on a freelance contract, Maddow escalated the allegation greatly into a broad claim about OAN's real identity and purpose: “in this case,” she announced, “the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America really literally is paid Russian propaganda."

In response, OAN sued Maddow, MSNBC, and its parent corporation Comcast, Inc. for defamation, alleging that it was demonstrably false that the network, in Maddow's words, “literally is paid Russian propaganda." In an oddly overlooked ruling, an Obama-appointed federal judge, Cynthia Bashant, dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that even Maddow's own audience understands that her show consists of exaggeration, hyperbole, and pure opinion, and therefore would not assume that such outlandish accusations are factually true even when she uses the language of certainty and truth when presenting them (“literally is paid Russian propaganda").

In concluding that Maddow's statement would be understood even by her own viewers as non-factual, the judge emphasized that what Maddow does in general is not present news but rather hyperbole and exploitation of actual news to serve her liberal activism:

On one hand, a viewer who watches news channels tunes in for facts and the goings-on of the world. MSNBC indeed produces news, but this point must be juxtaposed with the fact that Maddow made the allegedly defamatory statement on her own talk show news segment where she is invited and encouraged to share her opinions with her viewers. Maddow does not keep her political views a secret, and therefore, audiences could expect her to use subjective language that comports with her political opinions.

Thus, Maddow’s show is different than a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news. The point of Maddow’s show is for her to provide the news but also to offer her opinions as to that news. Therefore, the Court finds that the medium of the alleged defamatory statement makes it more likely that a reasonable viewer would not conclude that the contested statement implies an assertion of objective fact.

The judge's observations about the specific segment at issue — in which Maddow accused a competitor of being “literally paid Russian propaganda" — was even more damning. Maddow's own viewers, ruled the court, not only expect but desire that she will not provide the news in factual form but will exaggerate and even distort reality in order to shape her opinion-driven analysis (emphasis added):

Viewers expect her to do so, as it is indeed her show, and viewers watch the segment with the understanding that it will contain Maddow’s “personal and subjective views” about the news.

AmericanEagle Loc: Indiana

Madcow viewers can think for themselves? And the people on the right can’t? What a joke!😁
Why is it liberal news media channels has the exact same talking points every day?
Just listen to the buzz word of the day and then change the channel when you were here it on everyone! All nauseating garbage

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

The reading from the same script on all the liberal channels is Sooooooooo obvious.
"the buzz word of the day"
Yep!

debeda

Of course!! Conversely, if a conservative voices an opinion it's a LIE. Actually, if a conservative voices facts that are contrary to a liberal's opinion, it's also a lie🥴🙄

debeda

This country is SO screwed😥