Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:30 PM

I think it's time to go to work on the fake right wing media.

The damage that the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, and others in the right wing media have done to this nation
is incredible.
I think it's time to make their lives miserable.

How can we do it?

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I think it's time to go to work on the fake right wing media. (Original post)	Progressive Jones	Nov 2018	OP
Every journey starts w the first step...	Crutchez_CuiBono	Nov 2018	#1
I'm not sure of a plan, but the right way is always through the advertisers.	Squinch	Nov 2018	#2
That's a good start...	ck4829	Nov 2018	#4
exactly	KayF	Nov 2018	#5
That may work a little on Fox News but	Progressive Jones	Nov 2018	#15
But the stations that run him need to keep their advertisers	Squinch	Nov 2018	#20
The 1st amendment and libel laws make doing anything about fox	AJT	Nov 2018	#3
those don't limit much.	unblock	Nov 2018	#7
Going after advertisers was mentioned, that's 1 thing	ck4829	Nov 2018	#6
I think Trump might be doing it for us. The pressers won't go well. I'd say the press needs	brewens	Nov 2018	#8
MSM growing a spine would help to cure a lot.	NoMoreRepugs	Nov 2018	#9
You have to lop off the head of the snake	Bfd	Nov 2018	#10
Hannity is such a smug piece of shit, he needs to be taken down a few pegs.	Initech	Nov 2018	#11
Hannity is public enemy number one, IMO. nt	Progressive Jones	Nov 2018	#16
Hannity and Trump are so deep in each other's closets they're finding Christmas presents.	Initech	Nov 2018	#18
How about the news being called fake call fox news fake.	pwb	Nov 2018	#12
I don't think we should confine ourselves to right-wing media	shanny	Nov 2018	#13
The reason the middle of the country is so f'ed up is because of right wing radio	kimbutgar	Nov 2018	#14
Yep. When all they are fed is shit, shit starts tasting good. nt	Progressive Jones	Nov 2018	#17
& the so-called "libural" M$M with their	Cha	Nov 2018	#19

Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:33 PM

Crutchez_CuiBono (7,725 posts)

1. Every journey starts w the first step...

we should get stepping. I verily agree. What to do? Whattt tooo dooo??

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:33 PM

Squinch (46,374 posts)

2. I'm not sure of a plan, but the right way is always through the advertisers.

Threatening the advertisers' businesses.

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Response to Squinch (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:34 PM

ck4829 (34,154 posts)

4. That's a good start...

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Response to Squinch (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:35 PM

KayF (1,345 posts)

5. exactly

here are Hannity's advertisers, with contact info:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aew0GGo1M3adPajley3Hxy0al-lYEz5gIb42jOlN8hA/edit#gid=1086988979

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Response to Squinch (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 11:54 PM

Progressive Jones (6,011 posts)

15. That may work a little on Fox News but

Limbaugh, I believe, is paid for by right wing think tanks, etc.
There is no way that show turns a profit on gold coins and
other crap that gets advertised.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Reply #15)

Wed Nov 21, 2018, 06:43 AM

Squinch (46,374 posts)

20. But the stations that run him need to keep their advertisers

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:34 PM

AJT (5,240 posts)

3. The 1st amendment and libel laws make doing anything about fox

and the rest of the rightwing media machine nearly impossible.

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Response to AJT (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:40 PM

unblock (51,193 posts)

7. those don't limit much.

first amendment limits government action, but there are plenty of things that might help that don't involve the government shutting them down.

libel laws don't only deter us if we were to damage them through lies.

plenty of things we might do that help that don't involve lies. and don't directly damage them, either, for that matter.

the real problem is that we need a better organization of rational, reasonable people that can be organized and determined to keep our government and society reasonable and rational -- to compete with the organization the right-wing hase that's determined to keep it unreasonable and irrational.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:38 PM

ck4829 (34,154 posts)

6. Going after advertisers was mentioned, that's 1 thing

Some others:

Let's get them known and labeled as purveyors of fake news and conspiracy theories.
If you see something forwarded on another site, just don't let it sit there, report it, make it known it's fake news
Two letters "B and S". These fake news and Republican conspiracy theorists are counting on us to just walk away, they want people to be silent in the face of the nonsense. Never stop calling it all BS.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:45 PM

brewens (11,964 posts)

8. I think Trump might be doing it for us. The pressers won't go well. I'd say the press needs

to hammer him with tough questions no matter what. Maybe even agree to try and follow up each other if they can. If the correspondent before you asked a tough and more important question than what you had planned, keep on it!

If they boot all the free media out and it's only FOX "News", "Frightfart" and other white-wing idiots left, it will stink to high heaven. The bubble heads will think it's utopia at first. Bubbleland for everyone! But that will expose them for what they are and drive more people away.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Tue Nov 20, 2018, 07:52 PM

NoMoreRepugs (7,729 posts)