{"id":38935,"date":"2020-02-10T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38935"},"modified":"2020-02-10T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:25:19","slug":"the-republican-reichsministry-of-propaganda-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/10\/the-republican-reichsministry-of-propaganda-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda Strikes Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Many are confused as to why the criminal Fuhrer Trump\u2019s approval ratings remained as high as they did during the impeachment process.&nbsp; Many Americans watch the normal mainstream news outlets, complete with their bias against all things progressive, especially social democrats.&nbsp; If that isn\u2019t bad enough, most small town and rural Americans plus virtually all Republicans, watch the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>!&nbsp; Someone there recently leaked an internal memo, about how they stacked the deck.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"419\" title=\"0210FauxNoise\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0210FauxNoise\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0210FauxNoise.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 own research team has warned colleagues not to trust some of the network\u2019s top commentators\u2019 claims about Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>An internal Fox News research briefing book obtained by The Daily Beast openly questions Fox News contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/leaked-memo-colleagues-unload-on-john-solomon-the-reporter-who-kicked-off-trumps-ukraine-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Solomon<\/a>\u2019s credibility, <strong>accusing him of playing an \u201cindispensable role\u201d in a Ukrainian \u201cdisinformation campaign<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The document also accuses frequent Fox News guest Rudy Giuliani of amplifying disinformation<\/strong>, as part of an effort to oust former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and blasts Fox News guests Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/read-it-trumpworld-lawyers-contracts-to-dig-dirt-on-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both ardent Trump boosters<\/a>\u2014for \u201cspreading disinformation.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The 162-page document, entitled \u201cUkraine, Disinformation, &amp; the Trump Administration,\u201d was created by Fox News senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy, who produces research from what is known as the network\u2019s Brain Room\u2014a newsroom division of researchers who provide information, data, and topic guides for the network\u2019s programming.<\/p>\n<p>The research brief is especially critical of Solomon, a former opinion columnist at The Hill whose opinion pieces about Ukraine made unsubstantiated claims about its government interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Solomon\u2019s pieces for The Hill fueled Giuliani\u2019s efforts to dig up dirt in Ukraine, which eventually helped lead to President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment. <strong>Trump has also frequently cited Solomon\u2019s questionable reporting on Twitter in his own defense<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Insured from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/fox-news-internal-document-bashes-john-solomon-joe-digenova-and-rudy-giuliani-for-spreading-disinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Beast<\/a>&gt;<br \/>H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/leaked-memo-shows-fox-knew-hannitys-show-pushed-ukraine-disinformation-did-nothing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T7VwuFq96uU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News Sends Out Internal Memo Warning About Fake News\u2026On Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/T7VwuFq96uU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Most Sheeple and other deplorable Republicans can\u2019t react to the truth, because they don\u2019t know it. They have been fed a steady stream of lies, lies they want to believe because of their fear inspired hatred.&nbsp; Nevertheless, we must keep trying to teach them for the sake of the few, who can be taught.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many are confused as to why the criminal Fuhrer Trump\u2019s approval ratings remained as high as they did during the impeachment process.&nbsp; Many Americans watch the normal mainstream news outlets, complete with their bias against all things progressive, especially social democrats.&nbsp; If that isn\u2019t bad enough, most small town and rural Americans plus virtually all <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/10\/the-republican-reichsministry-of-propaganda-strikes-again\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3712,3887,3721,3796,3743,3714],"class_list":["post-38935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-faux-noise","tag-gop-lies","tag-media-bias","tag-republican-reich","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}