Faux News, the art of deception.

I know it looks alot like Fox News and in alot of ways they are the same.

Now, I know that my right wing friends will automatically say, what about the Clinton News Network or MSNBC (I dont think they have a catchy name for it yet).

Well, they certainly have their detractors and bomb throwers, but the Right wing seems particularly adept at spreading manure around in large doses and then brainwashing their followers to tell everyone it smells like roses and bacon!

There is actual Physiological studies that show their is a difference in the brains of people that are right wing or left wing!

Think I'm making this up?   NOPE and here is the study:

LEft/brain Right/brain

And its not from a partisan website either!

So it's actually a chemical reaction. 

The really strange part for me at least, is how they buy into the Bullshit Hook, line and sinker!

I have friends that believe Rush Limbaugh is a highly educated authority...ON EVERYTHING!

He takes an ounce of truth.....and then spreads enough manure around it to grow a forest! Then he turns on the Entertainment machine and ups the volume to 11 and all of a sudden everyone within earshot thinks because he is yelling and arguing that no one else will admit this because it is such damning evidence, it becomes true...To them at least! 

Then it gets bounced around the echo chamber over and over and over. Just because the same thing comes up 20 times on a google search doesn't mean its true, it just means its been repeated verbatim by 19 other people and its gets pushed to the top of the search engine!

Then someone takes a photo and writes some words on it that say the same thing and VOILA! 

A MEME is born! 

And if the photo has anything in common with the topic, it now takes on a life of its own as well.

 Now its a news report with 2 sentences of bullshit!

Then it gets circulated over and over by the people that hope its true and all of a sudden its everywhere! Well It must be true right? I mean everyone is talking about it!

IN the meantime, RUSH or Hannity or Oreilly are repeating it and FOX NEWS is reporting it as breaking news......because its the hottest topic in the last 24 hours.....

So, the cerebral Lefties that we are, smell a rat and look to sites like Snopes to see if anyone has tried to verify it and find out that its either a re-hash of an already disproved story, or a new twist on an old nugget that keeps popping up like a dandelion on a Trump Golf course!

But, when we quote it on FB as a rebuttal, then instead of the Right brained crowd, using deductive reasoning and saying, oh yeah, what was i thinking...They instead just dismiss the evidence as lie from the left to bury the truth....and now we move from the echo chamber to the hamster wheel!

Now i'm not saying that everything the right likes to accuse the left of is false....and vice versa, but its getting to the point that the truth doesn't matter anymore.

Patrick Moynahan, a famous senator from New York and Ambassador to the UN once said, we can have our own opinions but not our own facts....

NOT ANYMORE! Now we can have our own opiniafact...(?) and as long as I can find someone or  a MEME that supports it, then nothing is going to change my mind!

So whats my point? I dont know, it almost seems pointless to try and argue with people that refuse to be enlightened or educated.

I started this blog to vent more than anything else. I have a hard time anymore being able to keep a lid on myself when i see some of the crap that gets put on FaceBook. But, like alot of you, i live my life on FaceBook.

I schedule my riding (motorcycle and bicycle) with friends on FB. I used to call people on the phone, now I just Messenger them. I cant unplug!

So heres my advice, especially to my right wing friends, if you are even still reading......

Fact check your friends that always agree with you. Before you repost that Flaming post about how some liberal did something tragic that killed several people and were paid off by some mystery billionaire......

Dont be gullible,

Trump really did say he would grab their pussies...but Obama never said he was going to grab your guns....No really he never did.

But I bet you think its the other way around! LOL

So be it.