“Fake News” is nothing new to Cubans. The cause of freedom in Cuba has been victimized and attacked by fake news for decades. Beginning even before dictator Fidel Castro took power with the fake news reporting of New York Times reporter and Castro sycophant Herbert Matthews, we have suffered through six decades of the media peddling lies and fabrications about Cuba.
Fake News has been and continues to be the weapon of choice for leftist propagandists. So as the “socialist paradise” of Venezuela implodes and exposes once again the misery and death that socialism inevitably always produces, the leftist media (but I repeat myself) kicks the fake news machine into high gear.
Enter Fake News huckster extraordinaire Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Unable to continue ignoring the massive protests taking place in Venezuela and the violence and murders carried out by Cuba’s puppet dictatorship, Maddow attempted to spin the horror and terror in Venezuela with some fake news. According to her, the Venezuelan people are not protesting the violently repressive dictatorship or the triple-digit inflation or the destruction of democracy or the lack of food and toilet paper in their country. No, instead Maddow claims that the protests in Venezuela are the Venezuelan people expressing their rage against Trump.
The Rachel Maddow Show’s Fake News on Venezuela
Venezuelans swarmed the streets this week in protest of a brutal dictator who has led the country into a humanitarian crisis without food or medicine, freedom of speech or democratic government.
They were certainly not protesting Donald Trump, despite what MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow may tell you.
Maddow tried to claim on her show Thursday night that the streets of Venezuela had exploded with protests and marches in response to recent news surrounding a subsidiary of a major Venezuelan oil company that donated half a million dollars to the Trump campaign.
Seriously? It’s pretty clear the citizens of Venezuela had other priorities, like making sure their children do not die of hunger or illnesses.
April 19 marked 207 years of Venezuelan independence from Spanish colonialism, and with that date in mind, both the political opposition and President Nicolás Maduro planned rallies that ultimately clashed and, the next day, saw military force used against unarmed citizens.
Yet the banner caption running on MSNBC read, “Unrest In Venezuela Over Trump Donations” — what many following the events in Venezuela criticized as sloppy reporting to the point of fake news.
No argument there.
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The more I look at Maddow (OK, I only look at her when somebody puts her in front of me), the more I think she should go transgender. She’d definitely look better as a guy, even if that’s not saying much. Besides, think of the points she could score for being even more “progressive” than she is now! Really, I think it’s a no-brainer. Do it, Rachel–you owe it to your audience, small though it may be, and if that’s not enough incentive, you owe it to Lena Dunham. Lena, of course, should not go transgender. She should go hermaphrodite–the next frontier.
Oh, and why does Maddow talk like a high-school sophomore? Isn’t she supposed to be a professional?
The banner caption was unacceptably misleading, not to say deceptive, and whoever wrote it is an incompetent idiot, even if he or she acted without malice. Anybody who was only watching casually, or even not so casually, could easily have gotten the impression that the images of protest and unrest on the screen were primarily Trump-related, as the caption at the bottom of the screen clearly implied.
A serious news outfit should never give the appearance or raise the suspicion of fake news, whether it is intentional or not–and by the way, if a comparable incident occurred at FOX, does anybody think Maddow’s public would give FOX the benefit of the doubt? Also, since it’s Maddow’s show, she is absolutely responsible for the screw-up, just as much as MSNBC. Again, when MSNBC’s audience gives the FOX people the benefit of the doubt over something like this, I’ll give it to Maddow and her crew.