Марк Дайс - The True Story of Fake News - How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

Of course the same kinds of hate crime hoaxes are perpetuated by other minorities like black people and Jews who are looking to smear a neighbor they don’t like or trying to “raise awareness” about racism. 242A black student at Kean University in New Jersey was arrested for tweeting death threats to her fellow students who were attending an anti-racist rally on campus after she was caught using a fake twitter account trying to make the threats appear as if they were coming from a white person. 243

After a wave of threats to Jewish Community Centers across the United States raised concerns that neo-Nazism was on the rise, a Jew was arrested for making them. 244Other Jews have been caught painting swastikas on their own homes in order to fake hate crimes. 245Swastikas have even been spray painted on synagogues by Jews for the same reason. 246These kinds of hoaxes seem as if they’re a plot out of a cheesy 1980s TV crime drama, but they have been thoroughly documented by police for years. One has to wonder how many more hate crime hoaxes don’t get exposed because of undiscovered evidence which would prove they too are fake.

The ‘victimhood is virtue’ mindset of liberals has created an Oppression Olympics of sorts, where people find value in being a member of a group that is supposedly under attack or marginalized due to their race, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League are often seen as money making schemes that exaggerate the kinds of ‘threats’ they claim to monitor in order to justify their ongoing fundraising efforts. One ADL operative named James Rosenberg was actually caught posing as a right-wing extremist who worked as an agent provocateur, attending white supremacist rallies in order to presumably rile up the attendees to make them look violent. 247

The Southern Poverty Law Center is the organization that routinely labels conservatives “racists,” “sexists,” “homophobic,” “bigots,” “anti-government,” and claims they’re members of “hate groups.” Radical Islamic groups are never included on their “hate watch” articles, only ‘anti-Muslim’ ones, and ‘right-wing extremists.’ 248They also ignore and have even censored reports of anti-white racism and hate crimes against white people. 249

Many see the SPLC as just a way for its founder, Morris Dees, to make easy money through tax-exempt donations. He pays himself a six-figure salary from the organization which helped him build a luxury 200-acre estate, complete with tennis courts, a swimming pool and horse stables. 250The president of another civil rights organization, the Southern Center for Human Rights, has called Morris Dees “a con man and a fraud” who “has taken advantage of naive, well-meaning people◦— some of moderate or low incomes◦— who believe his pitches and give to his $175-million operation.” 251

Well, that is a $175 million operation back in 2007. Since then, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s wealth has skyrocketed. In 2015 alone they raised more than $50 million dollars and their IRS filing shows they have accumulated more than $328 million dollars in assets. 252They have even transferred millions of dollars to offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. 253

It’s ironic that an organization with the word ‘poverty’ in their name is stashing millions of dollars in offshore accounts, which may be why the SPLC’s hometown newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser , even said they exaggerate the threats of hate groups in order to rake in millions of dollars in donations. 254

No discussion about fake news would be complete without a thorough examination of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, which at first may sound like a conspiracy theory or the plot of a Hollywood thriller, but it is a very real and well-documented program that was exposed during a 1975 Congressional hearing called the Church Committee. 255In the early 1970s there were widespread allegations that the CIA was involved in a variety of corrupt activities, including spying on American citizens, and even assassinating foreign leaders. The Church Committee was set up to investigate these reports and one of the surprising things they uncovered was that the CIA had been covertly spending millions of dollars a year to pay key figures at major news outlets to work as government propagandists and gatekeepers. 256

The scope of Operation Mockingbird is staggering. Thomas Braden who helped lead the program, admitted, “If the director of the CIA wanted to extend a ‘present,’ say, to someone… suppose he just thought, this man can use fifty thousand dollars ($250,000 adjusted for inflation today), he’s working well and doing a good job◦— he could hand it to him and never have to account to anybody… There was simply no limit to the money it could spend and no limit to the people it could hire and no limit to the activities it could decide were necessary.” 257

Such reporters could be considered to be members of the Deep State, using their position of influence to serve intelligence agencies rather than their news agency or their readers. These were people who would also be given classified information to leak to the public, a practice that still goes on today which we saw in the case of transcripts of President Trump’s phone calls and those of his advisors being given to the press after they were intercepted, which is obviously a serious felony. 258

During the initial investigation into Operation Mockingbird, a congressman asked William Colby, who was then the head of the CIA, “Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?” Colby responded, “This, I think, gets into the kind of details, Mr. Chairman, that I’d like to get into in executive session.” 259Executive session, meaning a closed session with only a handful of senators who were authorized to have access to classified information.

Despite the CIA’s attempts to contain the details and scope of the program, a lot of information was revealed, but many investigators believe that the full extent of Operation Mockingbird was never made public, and insist that the Church Committee’s hearings were just a “limited hangout,” meaning despite some damaging revelations, the true nature and scope of the program remained classified. Former Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA, Victor Marchetti, said that limited hangouts are used by the CIA, “When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public,” so “they resort to admitting◦— sometimes even volunteering◦— some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.” 260

Frank Wisner, who led the Office of Strategic Services which would later become the CIA, called Operation Mockingbird the “Mighty Wurlitzer” after the Wurlitzer jukebox because he and his operatives could get the media to “play any tune” they wanted. 261The Church Committee also uncovered assassination plots, a frozen poison dart gun built by the CIA for such operations, poison pen letters, and other shocking activities which was actually their primary objective. Discovering the CIA’s media manipulation was an unexpected side effect.

The Church Committee’s final report on the investigation admits, “the Central Intelligence Agency has used the U.S. media for both the collection of intelligence and for cover,” 262and that, “The CIA maintained covert relationships with about 50 American journalists or employees of U.S. media organizations. They are part of a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of foreign newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.” 263Notice they stressed ‘foreign’ outlets, which was just a diversion. The program was very much a domestic operation as well.