Doublethinking About the Media-Manufactured “Fake News” Crisis

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Let's take a trip down memory lane... Tony Blair, February 2003 (lie) 'There are unquestionably links between al Qaeda and Iraq.' US President George Bush, September 2002 (lie) 'The regime has longstanding and continuing ties to terrorist group, and there are Al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq.' US Vice-President Dick Cheney, December 2002 (lie) 'His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.' US National Security Advisor, Condoleeza Rice, September 2002 (lie) 'There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here' US Secretary of State Colin Powell, February 2003 (lie) 'Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.' US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, November 2002 (lie) 'Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al Qaeda.'"

“Let’s take a trip down memory lane…
Tony Blair, February 2003 (lie)
‘There are unquestionably links between al Qaeda and Iraq.’
US President George Bush, September 2002 (lie)
‘The regime has longstanding and continuing ties to terrorist group, and there are Al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq.’
US Vice-President Dick Cheney, December 2002 (lie)
‘His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.’
US National Security Advisor, Condoleeza Rice, September 2002 (lie)
‘There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there’s a relationship here’
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, February 2003 (lie)
‘Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.’
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, November 2002 (lie)
‘Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al Qaeda.'”

My Commentary: This fake news led to untold levels of death and destruction… But, pay no attention to such inconvenient facts. Doublethink your way through any cognitive dissonance that may arise, and go back to sheep.

Ron Paul Supporters Crash War Reunion of War Criminals Cheney and Rumsfeld

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

One good war crimimal deserves another!

One good war crimimal deserves another!

‘War Criminal!’: Ron Paul Backers Crash Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/10/paul-backers-crash-cheney-rumsfeld-reunion/

(Raw Story) Supporters of libertarian Republican Ron Paul shouted down former Vice President Dick Cheney at a conservative conference Thursday, in a sign of a growing foreign policy rift on the American right.

Cheney had appeared on the first day of the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference to introduce Donald Rumsfeld, the former Bush-era defense secretary who was scheduled to receive this year’s “Defender of the Constitution Award.”

That didn’t sit well with “Team Paul,” supporters of Rep. Ron Paul who have long called for an end to the US’s foreign wars.

“Where’s bin Laden?” one heckler shouted as Cheney stood at the podium to introduce Rumsfeld.

“War criminal!” another shouted out, prompting a heated reaction from the crowd.

The specter of a Republican vice president being called a “war criminal” at a conservative conference was so unexpected that it prompted TalkingPointsMemo’s Evan McMorris-Santoro to describe it as “what a Cheney-Rumsfeld hug at the Netroots Nation convention might look like.”

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Ha! Great work, fellow Ron Paul supporters! The Libertarian Party is on the rise!