Four years ago, Rolling Stone mag reported that an Oklahoma hospital ward was swarming with people who had drowned themselves in cow-dewormer meds. Its source? An ER doc at the hospital. Rolling Stone’s source also claimed gunshot victims were bleeding out in the waiting room while those darn dewormer nuts were taking up ER beds. No one at Rolling Stone bothered to pick up a phone and call the hospital. The hospital wasn’t being overrun with cow dewormer victims. No one had grown a horsehead.
It was all a lie.
Rolling Stone isn’t exactly a guiding light in journalistic ethics. One cannot forget its most infamous hoax – that being its smear of a Virginia fraternity. The story was debunked almost before the ink was dry. Nothing made any sense to anyone with the ability to put two and two together. Had “fact-checkers” working for Rolling Stone actually checked facts, the story would have been canned and, presumably, it would never have made print. Presumably. The story blew up, and so did Rolling Stone’s bank account. It paid out millions in settlements. In 2023, almost a decade after the article was published, the magazine’s founder, Jann Wenner, was defending it.
"The University of Virginia story was not a failure of intent, or an attempt to be loose with the facts," Wenner told The New York Times last week. "You get beyond the factual errors that sank that story, and it was really about the issue of rape and how it affects women on campus, their lack of rights. Other than this one key fact that the rape described actually was a fabrication of this woman, the rest of the story was bulletproof."
That’s like saying “Our story about that murder? Okay, there was no murder, but murder is bad, so saying murder is bad makes our phony murder article 'bulletproof.'"
I think Rolling Stone Magazine has the journalistic integrity of used toilet paper. If it published a story about water being wet, I’d have to run a faucet to check. Rolling Stone makes guttersnipes look classy.
The day before Charlie Kirk’s memorial, it ran an article titled:
Donald Trump's Most Authoritarian Week Yet
Subhead reads: Trump and company are using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as an excuse to ramp up their ongoing campaign for total power
It only took the Rolling Stone’s three authors two paragraphs before the lies flowed freely.
The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show taken off the air by threatening companies’ broadcast licenses if they continued to run his show. Trump and his team threatened to strip the tax-exempt status of liberal nonprofit groups, while the president called for left-wing activists to be jailed for protesting him at dinner. Trump announced he’ll once again try to designate “antifa” — America’s disparate anti-fascist movement — as a terrorist group, with no legitimate basis, clarifying once again where he stands on the whole fascism question.
Unless Trump’s administration is named Disney or ABC, it didn’t get Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air. ABC and Kimmel's own words did that. ABC asked Kimmel to retract his lie that Kirk’s alleged murderer was a MAGA-man, and he flatly refused.
The next sentence blusters that Trump “threatened to strip” the tax-exempt status for non-profits like the Ford Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society, and Pierre Omidyar. The Ford and Open Society have always been leftist, not liberal, for years, and in the last decade, even more strident in their attempt to influence the body politic. The IRS has rules about this. Last year, I wrote about Omidyar’s Network and what it intended for America:
[T]o make structural changes. What type of changes? It’s no secret that Omidyar has his acolytes who are all-in on equal results, not equal treatment. In 2020, his Network produced a pamphlet titled: “Call to Reimagine Capitalism in America.” On its opening page, it calls for:
A more democratic economy is one in which the real creators – working people, consumers, individuals, small businesses, and families – can have equal voice, hold power, and get ahead.
Further into the manifesto, it laments that America is rife with badness:
“structural racism, colonialism, paternalism,”
It calls for:
“an explicitly anti-racist and inclusive economy.”
It also quotes a lifelong communist, Angela Davis.
Rolling Stone then claims that Trump was calling for the arrest of a Code Pinker (who called him Hitler) at a restaurant. Out of context, Rolling Stoners. Trump was suggesting that Code Pink's screeching Karens might be funded by nefarious actors, and those actors, who are pulling the strings, should be investigated.
Finally, Rolling Stone suggests that Antifa is just a "movement” - like a parade. A movement of anti-fascists citizens. There’s no “legitimate” basis for calling them terrorists, Rolling Stone claims. Rolling Stone might have a point. Other than the years of coordinated property destruction running in the millions, beating up and terrorizing people while wearing the same black uniform, there's no legitimate basis for the terror claim. Antifa has “anti” in their "movement" name, so it has to be anti-fascist. Right?
You can read the full article, but I did that for you. It took one of me to read it, and three of them to write it. I do have a lead for Rolling Stone. It should put this crack team of Jimmy Olsens on it. There’s an ER close to a University of Virginia fraternity, and I heard that it is the staging ground for Trump’s fascist takeover of America. Per usual - no need to check facts Rolling Stoners. You just “know” it’s true.
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