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PostPosted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:39 pm    Post subject: Attack from Within: Reply with quote

I heard her talk today about this her new book. She is a former federal prosecutor. loved her examples like how the media and NYT cover commies release that was not suppose to happen before an election .. well NYT had it front page I think she mentioned 4 days and nothing about trump.

If I remember correctly someone else compiled the NYT negative stories of Hillary and it was maybe double that of trump. can someone find me a liberal media in the usa please. well just go to the big lie that the right clim the media is liberal. Right winger cut and run from that thread because they have no ultra partisan liberal media examples like they have like FUX, WSJ largest paper in the usa, not one liberal has a national radio political show, dobbs came from CNN, tucker came from CNN and MSNBC, Paula Zahn came from cnn and on and on.

Since I am a dyslexic will not be reading the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Attack-Within-Disinformation-Sabotaging-America/dp/164421363X




Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America Kindle Edition
by Barbara McQuade (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics

MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in the hands of the few.

"One of the most acute observers of our time shares . . . a compelling work about a challenge that—left unexamined and left unchecked—could undermine our democracy." —Eric H. Holder Jr, 82nd Attorney General of the United States

American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation—the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth—and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including rapid developments in artificial intelligence threaten to make the problems even worse by amplifying false claims and manufacturing credibility.

In Attack from Within, legal scholar and analyst Barbara McQuade, shows us how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society and how we can fight against it. The book includes:

The authoritarian playbook: a brief history of disinformation from Mussolini and Hitler to Bolsonaro and Trump, chronicles the ways in which authoritarians have used disinformation to seize and retain power.
Disinformation tactics—like demonizing the other, seducing with nostalgia, silencing critics, muzzling the media, condemning the courts; stoking violence—and reasons why they work.
An explanation of why America is particularly vulnerable to disinformation and how it exploits our First Amendment Freedoms, sparks threats and violence, and destabilizes social structures.
Real, accessible solutions for countering disinformation and maintaining the rule of law such as making domestic terrorism a federal crime, increasing media literacy in schools, criminalizing doxxing, and much more.

Disinformation is designed to evoke a strong emotional response to push us toward more extreme views, unable to find common ground with others. The false claims that led to the breathtaking attack on our Capitol in 2021 may have been only a dress rehearsal. Attack from Within shows us how to prevent it from happening again, thus preserving our country’s hard-won democracy.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-trump-press-aide-breaks-down-true-message-of-his-unhinged-comments/ar-BB1k8JcD?cvid=53721a9a28664cb4aef2d90db4f0af1d&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=19&sc=shoreline

Ex-Trump Press Aide Breaks Down True Message Of His ‘Unhinged’ Comments


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Sarah Matthews, a former press aide to Donald Trump, on Monday said she had no doubts about the message the former president was sending to his supporters with his weekend warning of a “bloodbath” should he not win back the White House.

Trump allies have claimed the presumptive GOP nominee’s threat was just about the auto industry and the economy under President Joe Biden. But critics — now including Matthews — have highlighted how it’s part of a pattern of incendiary comments from the four-times-indicted ex-POTUS.

It follows Trump’s “proven track record of these kinds of unhinged comments” and “increasingly violent rhetoric and apocalyptic rhetoric almost,” Matthews told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki. And they serve as “a warning call” or even marching orders for his supporters, she added.

Matthews explained Trump’s tactic of deliberate ambiguity.

“Trump oftentimes speaks in these kinds of incoherent vague sentences so that allows people to draw the conclusion that they want to fit their own narrative,” she said.

“Obviously the Trump campaign is out there saying, ‘Of course, he’s talking about the auto industry,’ but then why would he use a phrase like, ‘that’s going to be the least of it,’ immediately afterward? That alludes to something more,” Matthews added.

Matthews acknowledged that Trump could just have been talking about the economy. But he “helped incite a deadly insurrection on our nation’s Capital,” she recalled. “So when he’s using terms like ‘bloodbath,’ it’s really hard for me to give him the benefit of the doubt.”

Matthews resigned as Trump’s deputy press secretary on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. She has since become a fierce critic of her former boss.

“When he refused to accept the results of the 2020 election, it started this slow burn in me where I felt really uncomfortable with the things he was saying and doing, and then obviously it was a breaking point for me on January 6,” Matthews revealed last month.

Matthews has said she’ll vote for President Joe Biden over Trump in November.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here is another example..

lets see if this makes page one of right wing media? Under oath testimony...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/impeachment-hearing-backfires-witness-accuses-two-republicans-of-doing-the-bidding-of-russia/ar-BB1kf7WZ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=6d282f35c20e4c0ea79f662f46d48a86&ei=18

Impeachment hearing backfires: Witness accuses two Republicans of 'doing the bidding' of Russia
Story by David Badash • 1h • 3 min read


[quote]The House Republicans’ impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden was dealt another significant blow when former Rudy Giuliani aide Lev Parnas, known as his Ukraine “fixer,” during a televised hearing declared two current Republican lawmakers were “doing the bidding” of Russia.


Parnas testified that U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), who was present at the hearing as his name was mentioned, and U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), “were doing the bidding for the Russians.”

Democratic Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, Jamie Raskin, asked Parnas, “At what point did Mr. Giuliani begin working directly with Russian agents and Russian assets? Individuals who would later become sanctioned by Donald Trump’s own Treasury Department for spreading propaganda and disinformation against Joe Biden.”
Parnas said, “probably around May, June of 2019.”

Parnas also said “absolutely,” when asked if he and Giuliani were “aware that these people were basically just doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin?”



“So he had no hesitation about spreading lies that were concocted by Russian agents?” Raskin asked.

“As long as it fit the narrative. Absolutely not,” Parnas answered.

“How were you and Giuliani able to take these false allegations peddled by corrupt officials and Russian agents and promote and amplify them here in the United States in our political system? Weren’t media groups skeptical of your claims?” Raskin continued.

That’s when Parnas dropped the bombshell.

“Most media groups I’d probably say all, except for Fox and a few other right-wing media groups, didn’t want to take any of the information and that aggravated Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon, him and other players. And the main group that was being pushed through was Fox, Sean Hannity and some other media personalities over there.”

“But then there was also other people that were doing the bidding for the Russian people, in Congress,” Parnas continued, “like Senator Ron Johnson, like Congressman Pete Sessions, that sits here right now there, was with me from the very beginning of this journey into finding, digging dirt on Joe Biden.”


(In 2019 The New Yorkers award-winning investigative journalist Jane Mayer reported, “no journalist played a bigger part in fuelling the Biden corruption narrative than John Solomon, who until last week was an opinion columnist and executive vice-president of The Hill, in Washington.”)



“Everything was for the ultimate benefit of Donald Trump and thereby Vladimir Putin. Because the team’s investigations were centered around Biden and Ukraine, I was designated the point person in every matter they pursued,” Parnas said. “That is how that is how I know with certainty that these Biden stories are untrue then and are untrue now. Congressman Pete Sessions, then Congressman Devin Nunes, Senator Ron Johnson, and many others understood they’re pushing a false narrative.”

“The same goes for John Solomon, Sean Hannity, and media personnel, particularly at Fox News, who used this narrative to manipulate the public ahead of the 2020 elections. Sadly, they’re still doing this today as we approach the 2024 elections. We cannot separate this conspiracy from the Russian-Ukraine war because Trump has no intention to keep aiding Ukraine.”

“Without the support of the United States and NATO, millions in Ukraine will suffer and die. If we allow Russia to defeat Ukraine eventually that suffering will reach American shores. Today, I admit my own wrongdoings. I have been a convicted federal election campaign and fraud crimes and served my sentence. I do not hide that from reality. It is part of my truth. Despite rigorous attempts by those in power to silence me. I will be silenced no longer.”


The Lincoln Project’s co-founder, Mike Madrid, responded to Parnas’ opening statement: “Pete Sessions. Devin Nunes. Ron Johnson. Sean Hannity. Traitors.”

Calling Republicans “a national security risk,” political strategist Rachel Bitecofer wrote: “House Republicans knew their source was a Russian asset, the same House Republicans did the same thing during the Ukraine blackmail impeachment where intel told them their info was Russian disinformation but they used it anyway.”

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