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The left hasn’t given up on its “fact-checking” scam. But it’s getting more absurd by the minute.
It’s well known by now, at least among people who are paying attention, that the proliferation of “fact-checking” sites and organizations in recent years was just another leftist con game, an attempt to discredit and destroy sources that dissented from the establishment line by tarring them as “disinformation.”
The Biden regime even set up an abortive “Disinformation Governance Board” supposedly to help Americans (whom regime wonks clearly regard as stupid and undiscerning) distinguish the truth (that is, the left’s line) from lies (that is, whatever Trump was saying). The whole thing went up in flames, however, when some of the nation’s top intelligence professionals labeled Hunter Biden’s laptop “disinformation,” yet it turned out to be real. Yet the left still remains committed to its fact-checking game.
One of the foremost exponents of this scam is NewsGuard, an initiative of the hard-Left self-appointed news arbiter Steven Brill that received $749,387 from the Department of Defense in 2021. What conceivable benefit could a leftist propaganda outfit masquerading as a neutral fact-checking have to the Department of Defense? Well, if you’re a corrupt and politicized government agency that is more concerned about defending the Biden regime from its political opponents than with defending the United States of America from its enemies, you might find NewsGuard to be quite handy.
On Thursday, NewsGuard senior apparatchik Valerie Pavilonis called Ben Shapiro on the carpet for the Daily Wire’s coverage of the Hamas-Israel war. Pavilonis was agitated because the Daily Wire had reported accurately that it was not Israel, but Palestinian Islamic Jihad, that had bombed the parking lot of Gaza’s al-Ahli Hospital. Wrote Pavilonis: “There have been enough conflicting accounts that, in NewsGuard’s view, we still don’t know enough to pin the blame definitively on [Palestinian Islamic Jihad].”
As the Daily Wire notes, “at the time of her email, U.S. intelligence officials had already gone public with their assessment that the hospital blast was the result of a Palestinian rocket. Based on analysis of four different video feeds as well as the effect of the blast, it was determined with ‘high confidence’ that the rocket came from inside Gaza and was fired by Palestinian militants.”
The British and French governments have agreed, and even the New York Times walked back its coverage that had blamed Israel for the blast. So why are Pavilonis and NewsGuard running cover for Palestinian Islamic Jihad?
I have heard from Valerie Pavilonis myself. In September, she wrote demanding to know how I knew that a chap named Daniel Abed Khalife, who had escaped from a prison in the UK where he was being held on terrorism charges and suspected of passing information to the Islamic Republic of Iran, was a Muslim.
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Kepha says
Noah was regarded as a crank, but it was the fact-checkers who drowned.
somehistory says
Kepha, that’s a good line to remember when the “fact-checkers” and mockers spout their denials.
somehistory says
Even the women on The View are calling out the liars on this hospital bombing, both tlaib and i elmi, alias i omar.
Joy Behar called out r tlaib as a liar on the hospital *parking lot* bomb. She must really dislike the lie, because she compared tlaib to Mr. Trump.
It’s rather like the lies about the Holocaust never happening.
As well as so many other lies that are told, and retold, until the liars are sure that the majority believe them.
tlaib is claiming that the “majority of Americans” want a ceasefire “Lies, lies, one can’t believe a word she says,”
libertyORdeath says
“I have heard from Valerie Pavilonis myself. In September, she wrote demanding to know how I knew that a chap named Daniel Abed Khalife, who had escaped from a prison in the UK where he was being held on terrorism charges and suspected of passing information to the Islamic Republic of Iran, was a Muslim.”
This can’t be real…right?
Her issue is that you figured out that an Iranian in a UK jail on terrorism charges for aiding Iran, named Daniel KHALIFE (for f@#k’s sake) is a Muslim?
That’s the “fact-check”?
We’re at that historic “have you no shame?” moment. But I don’t think we’ve seen peak insanity…yet.
Pray.