Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Third request for proof that CNN badgered conservatives by calling them Nazis to the same degree that Alex Jones badgered Sandy Hook families under the auspices of "it's a hoax".



> to the same degree

You just moved the goal post. That's why I never send people like you links. No matter what links you get you'll tap dance right out of it, and pretend it's proven nothing, dispute everything, adjusting goal posts as necessary along the way. lol.


No goal posts were moved - my first comment asked for the same level of proof regarding CNN's actions that we have for Jones' actions here. Perhaps it wasn't crystal clear or perfectly spelled out, but I did say, "There's a litany of footage" of Jones and asked for "a litany of footage" of CNN doing what you claimed. That was me essentially asking for the same level of proof. "To the same degree" is just a different way of saying that same thing.

All you have provided is conjecture - "They're doing it!".


MY STATEMENT: "CNN has called all conservatives Nazis for years, and they are liars."

MY PROOF: There's countless, easy to find, Youtube montages of CNN/MSM news anchors spouting the Nazi/Fascism accusation at the MAGA movement.

If you try to expand my words to mean something else, just so you can disprove that something else, that's called straw-manning.


>MY PROOF: There's countless, easy to find, Youtube montages of CNN/MSM news anchors spouting the Nazi/Fascism accusation at the MAGA movement.

How easy? "cnn calls conservatives nazis" doesn't really return the results you're suggesting should be there[1].

>If you try to expand my words to mean something else, just so you can disprove that something else, that's called straw-manning.

Relax, nobody is doing that. I asked for proof, you gave me conjecture instead. Simple as that lol.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cnn+calls+conse...


lol. Searching "CNN calls MAGA Fascist", turns up tons of videos, even despite that youtube rigs their search results against conservatives.


>"CNN calls MAGA Fascist"

I certainly see a couple of videos with CNN reporting on someone calling GOP fascists, but... that's it. I don't see any CNN reporters or anchors explicitly, and repeatedly, calling them fascists. No montages, either. Oh well.

>... even despite that youtube rigs their search results against conservatives.

So, I'm supposed to go to YouTube to find "countless, easy to find" (your words!) proof that I'm looking for, but once I've started searching and finding little of any of that, your response is, "YouTube rigs their search results against conservatives". What was that you'd said about shifting goalposts? :)


[flagged]


>Glad you admit you found the videos from a simple YT search. There's a thing called Search Engines too. TBH nobody even believed you when you said you couldn't find that stuff. That claim wasn't remotely credible.

This is a fascinatingly disingenuous interpretation of how I said I didn't see anything akin to what you claim. It's no wonder you've got such a hard-on for Jones.

>So yes the censorship and the "easy to find" claims are both true at the same time, but nice try in your attempt to parlay that into some sort of contradiction in terms.

Ahh, yes, they're so "easy to find" that they don't come up when I look for them and you can't even produce a link to one in spite of your continued insistence that they exist. Cool beans.


No one can even tell which of my claims you're currently trying to disprove at this point, since you admitted you found the videos, and my "claim" was that you would. So now you pivot to the definition of "easy to find", having ran out of other options.


[sigh]

Yet another interpretation that is so wildly disingenuous that I can't help but assume you're doing it intentionally just for the sake of trolling.

>... you admitted you found the videos...

At no point have I admitted that, and you know it. Your initial claim was that "CNN has called all conservatives Nazis for years". What I asked for was proof of CNN staff doing this, to which you said I would find it easily. What I explicitly said was, "I certainly see a couple of videos of CNN reporting on someone calling GOP fascists". That's all that I saw - a statement of fact that a popular public figure called someone in the GOP a fascist. It's called "reporting on something that happened", and is literally no different than FOX News reporting on a GOP rep calling Trump a fascist[1].

At no point in any of those clips does CNN itself - not anyone on their staff - directly call a conservative individual a fascist.

>... and my "claim" was that you would.

I'm still scrolling through YT results and not seeing these montages, nor CNN staff leaning in and repeatedly calling conservatives fascists. If you find them so easy to obtain, please feel free to hold my hand and pass one my way!

>So now you pivot to the definition of "easy to find", having ran out of other options.

No, what's happening is that you're intentionally twisting words around in an incredibly amateur attempt at putting some kind of "gotcha" together and, honestly, it's kinda sad. I'm starting to think that that joke someone else made about supplements impacting your critical thinking might not be too far off.

At any rate, it's clear to me that you can't have this discussion in good faith. Deuces, bud, enjoy the rest of your week.

[1]https://www.foxnews.com/video/6364355441112


CNN/MSM has called MAGA Nazis and Fascists for years, and every American has heard it countless times. For you to even question that at all was utterly hilarious and transparently disingenuous.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: