InfoWars is behind President Trump's idea that the media is covering up terrorist attacks

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Tuesday, 7 February 2017

quote [ The conspiracy theory website has been accusing the media of covering up terrorism for months. ]

Yes, our so-called president is indeed getting his information from Alex Jones.

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Trump accuses media of failing to report terrorist attacks

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InfoWars is behind President Trump’s idea that the media is covering up terrorist attacks
By Aaron Blake February 6 at 4:49 PM

President Trump made a whopper of a claim on Monday, suggesting that the media is deliberately ignoring terrorist attacks.

"It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported," he said to military leaders at U.S. Central Command. "And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that."

The comments would seem to be a response to the hubbub over Kellyanne Conway having repeatedly cited a non-existent terror attack in Bowling Green, Ky., in recent days. But Trump doesn't appear to have totally invented this theory on the fly.

Instead, the kernel of the idea appears to have come from -- or at least been propagated by -- one of his favorite news sources: the conspiracy theory website InfoWars.

As @UrbanAchievr noted after Trump's comments, InfoWars has been barking up this tree for a while now. A sampling of its headlines:

"FAKE NEWS: MAINSTREAM MEDIA WHITEWASHES ISLAMIC TERROR IN BERLIN: Propagandists desperate to hide the obvious" -- Dec. 20
"SCANDAL: MASS MEDIA COVERS UP TERRORISM TO PROTECT ISLAM" -- July 29
"GERMANY COVERING UP TERROR PLOTS TO PROTECT MUSLIM MIGRANTS" -- June 24
"MEDIA CAUGHT COVERING UP ISLAMIC TIES IN MUNICH ATTACK" -- July 24
"VIDEO: TERROR IN GERMANY – THE TRUTH THEY HIDE: Mass media deception to conceal what's really happening" -- July 25

Former congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) has also pushed this idea, posting a video from InfoWars back in August under the headline, "TERROR ATTACK: Massive media cover-up." And it's a theme that has cropped up on other conspiracy theory and right-wing websites from time to time.

The idea of the media covering up or not fully covering terrorist attacks was around before InfoWars picked it up, though. Conservatives have long accused the media of obscuring the details and motivations of radical Islamic terrorists in an effort to downplay the role of religion. After Benghazi, the media were often accused of not sufficiently covering the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost -- or refusing to label it terrorism.

So suspicions about the mainstream media slow-rolling the importance or true roots of terrorist attacks go back years. What InfoWars is doing now is taking the next step -- accusing the media of covering up the attacks.

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In light of our so-called president referring to the judge who temporarily halted his Muslim travel ban as a 'so-called judge', I will henceforth be referring to our so-called president as 'our so-called president'.
Also I will absolutely not be using his photographic image in any posts, period.
My own personal guidelines, but anyone should feel free to follow suit.

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Comments

kylemcbitch said @ 1:19am GMT on 7th Feb

Does it surprise anyone that America's version of Goebbels looks like a little league soccer coach?

1111 said @ 2:54am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:-1 Old]
filtered comment under your threshold

Ankylosaur said @ 11:15am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1]

Your reply is outdated. Didn't you hear that Trump repealed Godwin's Law?

kylemcbitch said^[1] @ 3:02am GMT on 7th Feb

Propagandist are propagandist, sir. Goebbels was simply the best example of his job.

Also, are you honestly going to make a defence of Alex Jones? Truly numbers, you haven't sunken that low?

sanepride said @ 4:31am GMT on 7th Feb

To be honest I don't think it's fair to compare Alex Jones to Goebbels. Jones after all is just a loose cannon who happens to have our so-called president's ear, Goebbels was a highly placed figure in his regime, officially disseminating deception and lies. If anyone is Goebbels it's Kellyanne Conway.

papango said @ 4:58am GMT on 7th Feb

Goebbels was competent, though. He managed to convince people of things and nobody laughed in his face (although they did sing that song about his balls).

ComposerNate said @ 9:10am GMT on 7th Feb

Why are you so Nazi about Godwin's law?

SnappyNipples said @ 1:53am GMT on 7th Feb

Yes, we're nothing but sheep getting our news from the media, we could be alt-right sheep getting our news from infowars or breitbart.

biblebeltdrunk said @ 7:19am GMT on 7th Feb

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bbqkink said @ 7:16pm GMT on 7th Feb

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