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

In the later part of her career she had investigated the Benghazi attack as well as Operation Fast and Furious, a covert gun-running scheme which transferred weapons to Mexican drug cartels in what many believe was a false flag operation to then blame American gun stores for firearms ending up in the hands of narco groups. 826So, Sharyl wasn’t just a reporter, she was investigating some very serious scandals the Obama administration didn’t want people to know about. A year before her resignation she had learned, and CBS News confirmed, that her computer had been hacked into by a sophisticated hacker on multiple occasions when she was investigating the Benghazi cover-up. 827

CBS confirmed, “Evidence suggests this party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts. While no malicious code was found, forensic analysis revealed an intruder had executed commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data. This party also used sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion. CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access.” 828

Just a month earlier it was revealed that Obama’s Justice Department had secretly obtained the emails and phone records of Fox News’ White House correspondent James Rosen trying to find out who his sources were. So it’s likely that some Deep State operatives in the NSA or CIA were snooping around in Sharyl Attkisson’s computer to see what she was working on and who she was talking to. 829The CIA admits they hacked into the computers of members of the Senate Intelligence Committee when they were investigating the CIA’s detention and interrogations programs under the Bush administration. 830Again, they wanted to know who their sources were and how much they knew.

So if the CIA would illegally hack into computers of the very Congressmen who are tasked with overseeing their activities, why wouldn’t they hack into the computers of reporters who are also investigating their unethical and illegal actions? The fact that these crimes are all but ignored by mainstream news networks shows that they are complicit in the cover-up.

Just two months before the 2004 Presidential Election, CBS’s show 60 Minutes aired a fake news story about George W. Bush’s military service record based on forged documents. The fake documents cast doubt on the quality of Bush’s service in the Air National Guard and indicated he was given preferential treatment. Various bloggers immediately began scrutinizing them and found inconsistencies in the jargon as well as the typography between the fonts used in the documents versus the fonts that actual documents of that kind had.

If real, they would have been typed in the 1970s, but appeared to have been created using Microsoft Word. For two weeks CBS anchor Dan Rather stuck by his story but skepticism from those on the Internet kept growing, causing other news outlets to cover the controversy, and so CBS reluctantly had to finally address it.

CBS News President Andrew Heyward said, “Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.” 831

Dan Rather would later say, “If I knew then what I know now◦— I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.” 832The documents, it turns out, were a dirty political trick that CBS either willfully or negligently fell for.

As I mentioned in the introduction of this book, when CBS’s flagship show 60 Minutes did an ‘investigation’ into fake news they featured several websites as examples which were actually parody and satire sites, not actual fake news sites. Who could possibly not get the humor in a headline like, “After Colonoscopy Reveals Brain Tumor, Donald Trump Drops from Race” or reading the first two sentences in the article about “Donald Trump Caught Snorting Cocaine by Hotel Staff” where the ‘eyewitness’ says she mistook a dog lying on the floor for Donald Trump’s hair!? To call parody and humor sites ‘fake news’ sites is not only disingenuous but it waters down the entire argument of those who are supposedly trying to prevent fake news from spreading.

After a left wing lunatic tried to assassinate Republican members of Congress while they were practicing for a charity baseball game during the summer of 2017, CBS News anchor Scott Pelley opened the broadcast that night saying the attack may have been “self-inflicted.” 833Congressman Tom Reed of New York denounced Pelley’s comments as “beyond the pale” and said they “further proved that the Mainstream Media has completely lost any moral compass to guide its journalistic endeavors.” Reed added, “Mr. Pelley should be ashamed of himself for doing the despicable deed of blaming the victim. He should never be employed in the media again by any forum or entity.” 834

The story of the ambush of Republican Congressmen on the baseball field was quickly dropped, because the liberal media didn’t want people to keep using it as an example that their constant bombardment of fake news painting Donald Trump and his supporters as the resurgence of Hitler’s Third Reich had incited a mentally unstable liberal to attempt to assassinate a group of Congressmen.

It might be interesting for people to know that the major shareholder of CBS’s parent company Viacom is Sumner Redstone, who was once caught on tape trying to convince a reporter to reveal their source about an embarrassing leak within MTV (one of his networks). On the tape he can be heard saying, “We’re not going to kill him. We just want to talk to him.” 835Redstone, who was 87-years-old at the time, also told the reporter he will be “well-rewarded and well-protected” if he gave up his source. 836That’s the kind of man who has been in control of CBS for decades◦— a man who bribes reporters in order to reveal their sources when they publish a report damaging to the network or their affiliates.

Almost every single night, ABC News puts a liberal spin on their stories and carefully chooses topics that will further their cause, but ABC has also staged crime scenes, deceptively edited clips to give the opposite impression of what people said, and have been sued for almost two billion dollars by a company claiming their false stories destroyed their business. 837

One shocking example of fake news on ABC was when a reporter set up her own “police line” for a live shot to make it look like she was reporting right in front of the crime scene with the yellow police tape swaying in the wind right behind her. They would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for some locals who came out to witness the report and posted pictures online showing that the producers had put up their own police tape by tying it onto two different tripods that were off camera and out of the frame. 838

After Dr. Drew expressed he was quite concerned about Hillary Clinton’s health problems as the 2016 election approached, KABC Radio (a division of ABC Broadcasting) deleted the webpage about his interview in an apparent attempt to protect Hillary from the negative publicity it was generating. “Based on the information that she has provided and her doctors have provided, we were gravely concerned not just about her health, but her health care,” Dr. Drew said, giving more ammunition to those who were raising concerns about her diminishing health. 839

The following week his show on CNN’s sister station HLN, which had been on the air for five years, was canceled. Even the liberal Washington Post couldn’t help but see the connection and published a story with the headline, “‘Dr. Drew’ show canceled days after host’s negative speculation about Hillary Clinton’s health.” 840He was also called a “conspiracy theorist” for thinking her health was failing and was labeled a “Hillary Clinton Health Truther.” 841Just two weeks later she completely collapsed and had to be carried away by her staff, confirming what many had been concerned about for some time.