A round-up of the fakest news from January 22-28, 2022. 

0:00 - Watch out for those guys with British accents

10:00 - President Biden’s next diversity hire

14:30 - Biden tries to rescind Russia’s invitation

19:20 - Beyond the Headline: Twitter Thread on Biden Regret

28:20 - Brian Stelter haș a bad week

33:05 - What’s Racist This Week?

36:40 - An Inclusive Language Update from U of Washington 

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Joe Biden plays the race card against people who won’t support his voting “rights” act. What’s up with that?

0:00 - The Race Card

9:30 - Joe Biden’s Press Conference this week 

20:55 - A Message from Our President

26:20 - Beyond the Headline: Gorsuch didn’t mask despite Sotomayor’s COVID worries, leading her to telework (NPR)

36:05 - What’s Racist This Week?

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Democrats have a logic problem. A roundup of the fake news from the first two weeks of this year. 

0:00 - Why Biden’s approval rating is tanking

9:45 - The unconstitutional vaccine mandate is unconstitutional 

17:25 - Newsflash: men and women are different

25:25 - Defund-the-police politicians get carjacked

32:00 - Woke talking points get rebounded by reality

36:05 - A Thing That Happened

40:40 - Coronavirus is already endemic

47:15 - Beyond the Headline: What the Public Keeps Getting Wrong about Pedophilia (USA Today)

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Perhaps you’re familiar with the classic phrase “A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its pants on.” There were many lies that took off on January 6 of 2021, lies that took days to be disproven, lies that are still perpetuated today. And for at least a year now, the Left has successfully prevented the truth from catching up. So today, while the truth is still trying to get its belt tied, I’m going to give you the naked truth about January 6, 2021…

5:45 - Context #1 - The Political Left constantly complains about elections being fraudulent and stolen.

10:15 - Context #2 - The Political Left routinely engages in political violence, and Democrat politicians encourage it. 

22:30 - There Was No Insurrection

34:40 - 5 People Did Not Die

47:50 - Ashli Babbitt Gets No Sympathy

50:30 - The FBI’s Role in January 6

1:01:45 - A Message From Our President

1:02:10 - What’s Racist This Week?

1:05:30 - Beyond the Headline: The Constitution Isn’t Working (The Hill)

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We look back on the fakest news story of 2021, as well as some of the other notable events of the year.

1:00 - Everything that Happened in the Past Year

30:15 - The Fake News Runner-Ups

40:45 - The Washington Post is a Threat to Our Democracy

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A Retrospective on 2021

Today I discuss some news stories from the past year that, perhaps on their own, weren’t huge deals; but they represent some significant issues the media has had in 2021. 

4:25 - Let’s Go Brandon, Revisited

24:20 - No Republican has Banned Masks

37:25 - The Demand for Racism is Exceeding the Supply

40:30 - The Neverending, Everchanging COVID Story

51:10 - What’s Racist this Week?

57:35 - A Thing That Happened

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A Weekly News Roundup for December 11-17, 2021

Today I talk about a common fake news tactic known as the “non-story,” or “nontroversy.” This is when the media takes an issue that is not a real issue and pretends it’s something you should be concerned about. Today we look at several examples of this from the past few months, leading up to the biggest non-story circulating in the news right now: the January 6 conspiracy theory. 

4:25 - A school photo non-story (Fox)

10:55 - Did Donald Trump “knowingly” spread COVID? (The Bulwark)

14:35 - Trump defeats Biden in Iowa poll (Washington Examiner)

22:10 - You can be anti-mandate but pro-vax (New York Post)

25:45 - Four years ago: “When Donald Trump kills net neutrality, it will RUIN THE INTERNET!!1!” 

28:40 - “The Jewish-Palestinian Conflict” is not a phrase you want to hear from a Supreme Court Justice (Esquire)

32:00 - Dave Chappele told some jokes and two transgender people died (Forbes)

35:00  - Beyond the Headline: The January 6 Hoax (CNN and PBS)

48:45 - A Message From Our President 

49:40 - What’s Racist this Week?

56:50 - Fakest News of the Week

58:45 - A Thing That Happened

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An analysis of the curious case of Jussie Smollett- and, of course, the story behind the story; the story of how the media handled it; and the story of how differently the American Right and Left interpret reality. 

3:30 - Recapping the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax

10:00 - How the Left reacted 

15:00 - How the Right reacted

22:00 - How the Media reacted

25:50 - How Black Lives Matter reacted

29:30  - Beyond the Headline: Jussie Smollett being found guilty of hoax will hurt LGBTQ folks reporting hate crimes (NBC)

49:20 - some notes about the next few episodes

52:10 - Rapid Fire! Weekly Roundup

1:02:15 - A Thing That Happened (& Closing Thoughts)

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A weekly round-up of the fakest news of November 27 through December 3, 2021. 

The Omicron virus has been unleashed. Or has it? Unfortunately, nobody knows what to believe about COVID because the media lies so much.

7:40 - Child dies from COVID-19. Except he didn’t. (Victorian Herald Sun)

19:55 - A decepticon SUV attacks parade in Wisconsin (Washington Post, CNN)

26:15 - The Media v. the American Legal System

39:05 - Joe Biden is a racist superspreader , according to Joe Biden 

47:45 - Mean Girls: Congressional Edition

55:30 - “Sexual preference” is OK to say again now, and then it was banned again (Slate)

57:45 - Kevin Smith is afraid of air

1:00:30 - What’s racist this week?

1:04:00 - Beyond the Headline: After Rittenhouse verdict, advocates demand justice for Krystul Kizer— (NBC News) 

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This episode talks about some notable media stories from the past few weeks with a unique focus on how the media uses particular words to manipulate public opinion. A weekly round-up of the fakest news from November 13-26, 2021. 

10:00 - Everything is Infrastructure

22:45 - Using and Abusing the Filibuster (MSNBC, The Los Angeles Times)

27:50 - “Diversity” used to mean something (NBC News)

33:50 - Kyle Rittenhouse follow-up (The Independent and others)

44:40 - Climate Change wordplay (Time, EOS, CNN)

48:35 - The “Woke” suddenly realize how stupid they are (NYT, Slate)

50:45 - Will we ever know the truth about the Waukesha Massacre? (MSNBC, CNN, WKYT,  Wikipedia)

59:50 - Fauci Redefines “Fully Vaccinated”

1:00:40 - Looting doesn’t have to be looting if you don’t want it to be looting (ABC-7 News)

1:05:15 - Beyond the Headline: Kyle Rittenhouse’s ‘Not Guilty’ Verdicts Make Perfect Sense in America’s Judicial System (MSNBC)

1:18:15 - Closing Thoughts: Genetically-Engineered Dictionaries

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