CNN doxxing again - this time it's a grandma Facebooker

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(02-22-2018, 04:00 AM)Benton Wrote:

Picture it. Sicily, 1942.

The Allies had just beaten Erwin Rommel all across northern Africa. He'd taken it in the tuchus in Tunisia and was looking to perk up his Panzers in Italy. Mussolini was on his way out and ol' Adolph what's-his-name was looking to get the good folks of Sicily to trade in their meatballs for bratwurst. Ol' Adolph what's-his-name was pretty smart. He knew after Freddo Santucci bought one of those defective German cars that no self respecting Sicilian would ever... EVER... trust another kraut-eater.

So Ol' Adolph what's-his-name brought in the  Latsis sisters to work handing out fliers. Agatha Latsis — she looked like the front end of a pig and smelled like the back — went around posting these fliers everywhere talking about how great ol' Mussolini was and how we should stick with our despot. She even came up with a slogan: Benito for me-o, bullets for Badolglio!

It was great! Suckers ate it up. Pretty soon, thanks to duping those Latsis sisters, Ol' Adolph what's-his-name had all sorts of clueless suckers working for him. They couldn't print fliers up fast enough for people to post!












Now... think about what Russia has been doing. They've been using American citizens, businesses and even possibly elected officials to wage a propaganda war. If this was 1943, that old lady wouldn't just some gullible sucker, she'd be a sympathizer of a foreign power who is attacking our country. The fact that she's an idiot and that some people are really keen on totalitarianism these days seems to trump the fact that this is a significant problem. Unless people here really want the last 10 years worth of shit to keep making the same downward trajectory.

Have some pride in your country. Call out ignorant tool boxes when they're ignorant tool boxes (although, not if they're a fellow Bengals fan, then just politely ask them to stop standing for the anthem).

I'm not a fan of CNN (or any partisan news source). But if they're the only ones who are going to call out people for actively taking part — knowingly or otherwise — in spreading misinformation and propaganda spread by people without the best interests of the US in mind, then kudos to them.

First I love the Golden Girls...well written and funny.  But I'm a Bea Arthur fan because of Maude and All in the Family.

I digress...

While what you say is true it doesn't matter to Trump supporters and/or people on the right.  They have to have a way to defend what happened.  So, in this case, CNN went after some "poor old lady".  Next time it will be because they didn't cover something else instead.  We live in the age of diversion.  Just keep attacking a small part of the larger story until everyone forgets what the original story was about.

And the rubes and bots will spread that far and wide before the sane people get their phones on in the morning.