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It is embarrassingly similar. Pointing at foreigners as the bogeyman to blame for things is a very tried and true technique. Nobody in this discussion has poi

It is embarrassingly similar. Pointing at foreigners as the bogeyman to blame for things is a very tried and true technique. Nobody in this discussion has pointed to any specific stories run by the RT that are problematic. They all just believe that they know the intent of all of RT's journalism simply because of the origin of RT the network. There is also no corresponding scrutiny of American "news" outlets and the heavily biased stories that they run with impunity. We really don't have news anymore, it's just partisan entertainment. RT is at least as newsworthy as any of the major US news outlets, and I think quite appropriately focuses on issues of concern to the poorest and least politically empowered Americans.

gadders 9y ago
And to be fair, I don't particularly like RT or Russian foreign policy or Putin but to blame those factors for losing the election is ridiculous. We've seen similar levels of cognitive dissonance in the UK after Brexit. Russia, Low Information Voters, etc etc. It's all just excuses. Examine your policies and your candidates first.
- DonHopkins 9y ago
  But you just love to watch and parrot Sean Hannity, and use his own favorite weasel words "people have said" to obscure who you're getting your conspiracy theories and marching orders from. Go figure. Tell us more about how everyone is suffering from cognitive dissonance except for you? Let me rewrite your post so it's more honest about where you got your misinformation from: "Sean Hannity has said that the "Russia won the election" conspiracy theory is the Democrat's equivalent of "Obama was born in Kenya" birthers." I'll leave it to you to explain why you didn't write that in the first place, and why anyone should ever take your seriously.
  - gadders 9y ago
    Mate, I'm not even American. I'd seen the quote before on Facebook and was at work so I didn't really have time to google for an attribution. However, please feel free to make that into a bigger deal than it really is.

gadders 9y ago

And to be fair, I don't particularly like RT or Russian foreign policy or Putin but to blame those factors for losing the election is ridiculous. We've seen similar levels of cognitive dissonance in the UK after Brexit. Russia, Low Information Voters, etc etc. It's all just excuses. Examine your policies and your candidates first.

DonHopkins 9y ago
But you just love to watch and parrot Sean Hannity, and use his own favorite weasel words "people have said" to obscure who you're getting your conspiracy theories and marching orders from. Go figure. Tell us more about how everyone is suffering from cognitive dissonance except for you? Let me rewrite your post so it's more honest about where you got your misinformation from: "Sean Hannity has said that the "Russia won the election" conspiracy theory is the Democrat's equivalent of "Obama was born in Kenya" birthers." I'll leave it to you to explain why you didn't write that in the first place, and why anyone should ever take your seriously.
- gadders 9y ago
  Mate, I'm not even American. I'd seen the quote before on Facebook and was at work so I didn't really have time to google for an attribution. However, please feel free to make that into a bigger deal than it really is.