[LeatherTrumpet]

CNN was thrashed so severely on social media for deceptively blaming a car
for the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre instead of the repeat felon that
the outlet was forced to walk back its misleading headline.

Exactly a week after the tragedy in Waukesha, CNN duplicitously insinuated
that a car was the cause of six deaths and 62 people being injured, including
18 children. The corporate media outlet crafted a tweet that read:
"Waukesha will hold a moment of silence today, marking one week since a
car drove through a city Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring
scores of others."

In the actual article, CNN waited until the final paragraph to mention Darrell
Brooks the suspect charged with five counts of first-degree intentional
homicide. A sixth count is likely after an 8-year-old died from his injuries on
Tuesday.

Commentators obliterated CNN for deceptively blaming a car for the
massacre during Waukesha's 58th annual Christmas Parade.

BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey: "A car did it."

Former Navy SEAL Robert J. O'Neill: "Oh snap… the car drove itself?"

New York Post writer Jon Levine: "Has this car been arrested yet?"

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon: "We need answers from the manufacturer of
this car. And we need laws that permit us to charge vehicles with a crime."


Former New York Times writer Nellie Bowles: "Someone (Joe Rogan?) is
radicalizing cars."

Outkick founder Clay Travis: "Did the car have a driver @cnn? The amount of
media covering for the murderer here is embarrassing."

California congressional candidate Buzz Patterson: "A 'car' did this? Not a
human being with intent to kill and maim and being held on $5 million bail?
You guys are a joke."

Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza: "Not a 'black leftist who
supports BLM and vilifies white people.' No, this CNN headline insists it was
the 'car' that drove through the parade. Now imagine how CNN would frame
this if the perpetrator happened to be white."

This is the second legacy media outlet to run with the deceitful narrative that
a car was to blame for the Waukesha Christmas parade attack despite fully
knowing that ex-convict Darrell Brooks was the suspect and was criminally
charged for the deaths.

On Thursday, the Washington Post ran a headline that read: "Here's what we
know so far on the sequence of events that led to the Waukesha tragedy
caused by a SUV."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/cnn-wa...-car-reactions

[bitontheslide]

news is bias ... look at the fox news version of other stories ... look at the bbc, look at the daily papers, they are all full of crap. look at social media, full of crap, look at conspiracy sites, full of crap

See the common denominator?

[arista]

The Evil Killer Darrell Brooks
guilty of murder

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

news is bias ... look at the fox news version of other stories ... look at the bbc, look at the daily papers, they are all full of crap. look at social media, full of crap, look at conspiracy sites, full of crap

See the common denominator?

It is true sadly.

[Alf]

[Livia]

I really don't understand the problem. The TiBB discussion thread about this says "Ford SUV plows into Wisconsin holiday parade: Some Dead". If people think the car is being blamed, well.... they're being a bit literalist.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Livia

I really don't understand the problem. The TiBB discussion thread about this says "Ford SUV plows into Wisconsin holiday parade: Some Dead". If people think the car is being blamed, well.... they're being a bit literalist.

It's deliberately done, that's what people notice. If this was a White person, the headline would be "far-right White supremacist drives through crowd of people" while this blatent racist attack by a follower of BLM is ignored for what it was. That's what most people have become aware of from a network like CNN.

[Alf]

Chris Cuomo has been suspended from CNN by the way.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Livia

I really don't understand the problem. The TiBB discussion thread about this says "Ford SUV plows into Wisconsin holiday parade: Some Dead". If people think the car is being blamed, well.... they're being a bit literalist.

I agree for the first example on the thread ("a car drove through") - it's just wording that people are reading too much into. People are rather pedantically saying "How did a car drive?? Did it drive itself??" like it isn't very common phrasing, e.g. "Where is my delivery?? The post van just drove away down that street." ... no one would think twice about someone saying that. They wouldn't say "LOL what do you MEAN the post van drove down that road?? Obviously the postal worker was driving it!"

"That red car just drove past again..." etc. etc. etc.

I feel like "tragedy caused by an SUV" is a little harder to get your head around though . Certainly it INVOLVED an SUV but an incident can't be "caused" by an inanimate object, that wording is really very awkward, I do have to wonder why they shied away from either properly talking about the "cause" OR simply said "involving an SUV" rather than "caused by".

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I agree for the first example on the thread ("a car drove through") - it's just wording that people are reading too much into. People are rather pedantically saying "How did a car drive?? Did it drive itself??" like it isn't very common phrasing, e.g. "Where is my delivery?? The post van just drove away down that street." ... no one would think twice about someone saying that. They wouldn't say "LOL what do you MEAN the post van drove down that road?? Obviously the postal worker was driving it!"

"That red car just drove past again..." etc. etc. etc.

I feel like "tragedy caused by an SUV" is a little harder to get your head around though . Certainly it INVOLVED an SUV but an incident can't be "caused" by an inanimate object, that wording is really very awkward, I do have to wonder why they shied away from either properly talking about the "cause" OR simply said "involving an SUV" rather than "caused by".

Come on lad, wake up, these people ran a 3 year fake Russia story, non-stop every day. They held a state funeral for a criminal who wouldn't have even died if he'd have just got in a the Police car. They say statements like "White supremecy is the biggest danger to our country" that one came from Mr Don Lemon.
They've gone on non stop about January 6th being an insurrection and still go on about it to this day, it's now December, when not person has been charged for an insurrection.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Alf

Come on lad, wake up, these people ran a 3 year fake Russia story, non-stop every day. They held a state funeral for a criminal who wouldn't have even died if he'd have just got in a the Police car. They say statements like "White supremecy is the biggest danger to our country" that one came from Mr Don Lemon.
They've gone on non stop about January 6th being an insurrection and still go on about it to this day, it's now December, when not person has been charged for an insurrection.

All I can say Alf is that the truth almost always lies somewhere in the middle ground - and it often seems that you've been lead out towards the opposite extreme by the things you've watched/read.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

All I can say Alf is that the truth almost always lies somewhere in the middle ground - and it often seems that you've been lead out towards the opposite extreme by the things you've watched/read.

No, I just see with my own eyes what's happening. Like those things I just mentioned. You was even joining in with them pushing the big Russia lie for 3 years on this here forum. And now it's a proven made up story, you have nothing else to say on the matter.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Alf

You was even joining in with them pushing the big Russia lie for 3 years on this here forum. And now it's a proven made up story, you have nothing else to say on the matter.

Where to even start unpacking that one. Trump (and associates) have several traceable links to Russian officials. Russian interference in US and other Western politics is 100% something that happens - I watched the Russian Twitter bots in action with my own eyes during the 2020 US election night - it was fascinating (and worrying).

There was an investigation into whether or not Trump was directly involved with Russian interference geared towards helping him win. They could not prove that there was any direct, knowing involvement from the Trump camp. That is all that happened.

1) This does not mean it was "proven to be made up" - it means that there wasn't enough evidence to continue the investigation.

2) This does not mean that Russia didn't interfere - it's widely accepted that they did (and do) try to influence all Western voting events - or that they didn't favour Trump. It only means that him knowing about it and being involved in that activity was not PROVEN (again, "not proven" is not the same as "it didn't happen").

3) I don't have "nothing else to say" on the matter at all, Russian "high tech meddling" in Western politics is very real and very interesting as a topic. Their grubby fingerprints are all over UK politics as well, and I assume most other European political events (I can't say I keep informed on those as much as I do the UK and US). However... of course everyone's "gone quiet" about it - we're not in any sort of election period right now in either country so it's not a current event. Sure a general thread on it could be interesting but there are other things going on in the world right now so it's understandable that it's not really a topic of concern? The idea that Trump is magically "coming back as President" before 2024 is purely fantasy and the idea that he's going to run then, let alone win, I find unlikely. Russians will be trying to influence either way. It's not about Trump. I know you find that concept hard to swallow.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Where to even start unpacking that one. Trump (and associates) have several traceable links to Russian officials. Russian interference in US and other Western politics is 100% something that happens - I watched the Russian Twitter bots in action with my own eyes during the 2020 US election night - it was fascinating (and worrying).

...

2) This does not mean that Russia didn't interfere - it's widely accepted that they did (and do) try to influence all Western voting events

...

Russian "high tech meddling" in Western politics is very real and very interesting as a topic.

I'm not active disagreeing with this, but to be fuuuurrrrr, the way some people (not you) went on about the alleged interference one might think the Russians had hacked the voting machines or something.

There's only so much influence accounts like TrumpLover74763518 and maga87655 have over the way people decide to vote...

[bitontheslide]

People try and simplify things that aren't simple in my opinion

There is all sorts of election interference going on at every level both internally and externally. Russia really don't care who wins, they want to sew discord more than anything else and they did a very good job on that on scottish independence, brexit and the US presidential elections.

Fair elections and referendums are a thing of the past and we need to get used to it, because it's here to stay

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I'm not active disagreeing with this, but to be fuuuurrrrr, the way some people (not you) went on about the alleged interference one might think the Russians had hacked the voting machines or something.

That's what I was talking about before though - when you actually take a good look at things you'll almost always find the truth somewhere in the middle ground. It'll obviously never be EXACTLY in the middle (as that would also be extreme in its own way) but, it'll be somewhere around there. But the loudest voices come from the fringes which is 70% massive exaggeration... and 29.9% complete and utter nonsense.