Breitbart News: The True Fake News
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Breitbart News: The True Fake News

"You're letting The Weather Channel school you..."

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Breitbart News: The True Fake News
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Breitbart.

The E-edition of the National Enquirer and Trump’s most visited app on his Android phone outside of Twitter.

The founder of the alt-right newsmagazine is a man named Andrew Breitbart. The site launched in 2005, operating as a viable alternative to the Drudge Report, which was the driving force to get Breitbart its own site in 2007. It’s been known to create some fake news, which Malcolm Nance eloquently pointed out:

Wow. Malcolm Nance made Alex Marlow look like the smarmy kid that acts tough when a teacher is around, but more like a scared kid that has to bolt to his next class lest he gets beat like a stool pigeon in county jail! And Marlow tries to justify it, claiming that Breitbart editors get death threats on an equal level to what Nance received. So, if one of ours gets murdered, we exact revenge on others? That’s not the attitude of an editor at a journalism site, that’s the attitude of an Italian mob boss!

We did look that story up, which can be viewed here: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/04/19/msnbc-counter-terrorism-analyst-calls-for-isis-bombing-of-trump-property/. Breitbart insinuated that Nance wanted Trump Tower in Istanbul bombed. Digging a little deeper, this is what Nance said about a year ago:

Sounds rational; ISIS ‘endorsed’ Trump to be the brand representative of its new business venture: ISIS-West. And it’s almost played directly into ISIS’s hands. Were it not for the Travel Ban being blocked, we’d be seeing massive amounts of beheadings in the same fashion that we would see Osama Bin Laden’s surprise messages in the 2000’s.

That’s just the tip of the proverbial fucking iceberg were seeing with Breitbart News. During the 2016 election season, this was the website that launched the “Pizzagate” controversy that alleged that Hillary Clinton and her aide, John Podesta, were running a child sex ring operation. The theory was quickly debunked by the District of Columbia Police Department. Makes perfect sense; this happened at a pizza shop. Had the Catholic Church been mentioned in there, then there’d be eyebrow raising!

The site is known as well for its denial of climate change. In November of 2016, the site published an article written by James Delingpole that asserted global temperatures were falling, instead of rising. He is quoted as saying:

“The last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final death rattle of the global warming scare."

Except for that is completely not true: the global temperature has risen steadily year by year since the start of the millennium! Delingpole’s article featured a video from Weather.com that featured a nice little return message from Kait Parker:

When even something as basic as The Weather Channel has to educate you in global warming, you may want to pick up a book or two. No word on whether Trump has declared The Weather Channel “Fake News.”

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