Trumps suggestion that the media is ignoring terrorist attacks traces to a familiar source:InfoWars

[TubbersUK]

President Trump made a whopper of a claim on Monday, suggesting that the media is deliberately ignoring terrorist attacks.

The comments would seem to be a response to the hubbub over Kellyanne Conway having repeatedly cited a non-existent terror attack in Bowling Green, Ky., in recent days. But Trump doesn't appear to have totally invented this theory on the fly.

Instead, the kernel of the idea appears to have come from -- or at least been propagated by -- one of his favorite news sources: the conspiracy theory website InfoWars.

As @UrbanAchievr noted after Trump's comments, InfoWars has been barking up this tree for a while now. A sampling of its headlines:

"FAKE NEWS: MAINSTREAM MEDIA WHITEWASHES ISLAMIC TERROR IN BERLIN: Propagandists desperate to hide the obvious" -- Dec. 20
"SCANDAL: MASS MEDIA COVERS UP TERRORISM TO PROTECT ISLAM" -- July 29
"GERMANY COVERING UP TERROR PLOTS TO PROTECT MUSLIM MIGRANTS" -- June 24
"MEDIA CAUGHT COVERING UP ISLAMIC TIES IN MUNICH ATTACK" -- July 24
"VIDEO: TERROR IN GERMANY – THE TRUTH THEY HIDE: Mass media deception to conceal what's really happening" -- July 25

Former congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) has also pushed this idea, posting a video from InfoWars back in August under the headline, "TERROR ATTACK: Massive media cover-up." And it's a theme that has cropped up on other conspiracy theory and right-wing websites from time to time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/trumps-suggestion-that-the-media-is-ignoring-terrorist-attacks-has-a-familiar-source-infowars/?postshare=5691486417930557&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b35b9d2d8f57

[world wide wally]

1. So, they say we deny terror attacks that actually happen and lie about things like Sandy Hook.

They deny Sandy Hook and make up shit like the Bowling Green Massacre.

Is there any wonder we will never get along?
Aren't you glad you are on the side of sanity?

Please don't ask me to "just try to understand" these people.

[Va Lefty]

2. My ex-boss used to listen to Alex Jones and it did something to his mind

Worked for the man for six years. He was always a rwIng gun nut, but seemed like a reasonably sane person. He became delusional. Everything was either a conspiracy or a "false flag" operation. It didn't matter that Jones' predictions were wrong again and again, he ate that Bullshit up with a spoon. By the time he quit he was a joke everybody laughing at him.

[TubbersUK]

3. This should be interesting

Link to tweet

The Hill ✔ @thehill
White House vows to provide list of terror attacks Trump claims the media didn't cover http://hill.cm/9OrzDDr
10:19 PM - 6 Feb 2017

[shraby]

4. Trump promised to show us his taxes, too. Trump promised Mexico would pay for the wall.

Trump promised to end ACA. Trump promises a lot of things but doesn't intend to deliver any of them cause it's hard work.
Not that I give a darn.