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Lies that serve a political agenda just remain undisturbed because they’re useful and people like them. How many still believe Omar Mateen — the monster who murdered 49 people at PULSE — set out to murder LGBTs? He didn’t. He had no idea it was a gay club. But it’s a useful lie.
To this day, people get angry when I point out Mateen didn’t seek out a gay club. He just wanted to murder. I didn’t know until I did reporting on the unjust prosecution of his wife. But it was false. You can’t say it just because it’s politically useful. Same with Sicknick.
Here’s the Mateen reporting. I assumed he had set out to murder LGBTs before I did reporting because the media said it over and over. I assumed Sicknick was murdered with a fire extinguisher. The media spreads falsehoods *constantly* to millionshttps://theintercept.com/2018/03/22/at-trial-of-omar-mateens-wife-judges-questioning-reveals-a-huge-hole-in-prosecutions-case-and-deceit-by-prosecutors/ …
More here: I’ll bet anything most people still believe the PULSE shooting was motivated by anti-LGBT hatred. It’s wasn’t. This is why I find media fixations on the “disinformation” from private citizens online so maddening. They spread it so much more:https://theintercept.com/2018/03/05/as-the-trial-of-omar-mateens-wife-begins-new-evidence-undermines-beliefs-about-the-pulse-massacre-including-motive/ …
Almost nothing is known about the death of Officer Brian Sicknick — not how he died or even when — but one thing is 100% clear: The story told by the media for over a month — not as a theory but as a Known Fact: that protesters killed him with a fire extinguisher — is false.
I’ve heard all day from angry liberals — including “journalists” — that this doesn’t matter, that it’s trivial. How can it not matter? They don’t hate Fake News or disinformation. It’s their most used weapon. Even CNN acknowledges its falsity now: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/02/politics/brian-sicknick-charges/index.html …pic.twitter.com/VRpXyFSvF4
So many of the claims about what happened that day — the “zip-ties” — turned out to be false, all toward melodramatizing what happened. But spending a month straight repeating a false story over and over about how this officer died is inexcusable. Where are the retractions?
This is the first time I'm hearing about it. It's amazing how effectively the media promotes a narrative.
Who knew there were so many Reichstag fires? Time for the Reichstag Fire Syndrome
First time hearing it (mateen) for me too. That tips it for me, time to follow you to substack. This shit pisses me off.
Unjust why, b/c Mateen’s dad was an FBI informant?
No. All I remember was 49 people were murdered. I don't remember anything being said about his motives.
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