Category Archives: Media

Propaganda in Action: the tarring of Christine Blasey Ford

Posted on September 22, 2018 by a1skeptic

If you want to see an example of propaganda in action, you couldn’t do much better than to see the accusations currently being made against Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually … Continue reading →

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Ann Coulter has no Shame

Posted on June 21, 2018 by a1skeptic

Yesterday I published a post on my own experience in being separated from my parents at a young age for a short period of time. Last night I came across this: Ann Coulter, claiming that the children being torn from … Continue reading →

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Propaganda in action: Fox News use of Kneeling Eagles

Posted on June 7, 2018 by a1skeptic

Here at the Skeptic’s blog we have long promised to expose examples of propaganda where we find it, and nothing could be much more delicious than catching Fox News redhanded. As some of you may recall, Donald Trump disinvited the … Continue reading →

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Hypocrisy on display (again!) after White House Correspondent’s Dinner

Posted on May 2, 2018 by a1skeptic

Last Saturday night we had the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, which seemed to generate a little controversy because of the monologue provided by Michelle Wolf. I don’t like to judge things without seeing them, so I decided to take a … Continue reading →

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The Smearing of Robert Mueller (Propaganda in Action)

Posted on April 23, 2018 by a1skeptic

Here at the blog we have promised to expose propaganda from time to time, and today we have a very clear example of it. It involves Sean Hannity at Fox “News” who, despite all his ethical lapses is, remarkably enough, … Continue reading →

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Hope Hicks resigning from the Trump Administration is not a little thing

Posted on March 1, 2018 by a1skeptic

Hope Hicks leaving the Trump campaign is not a little thing. Hicks is one of the original Trump loyalists. She’s only 29. The Donald and Ivanka are the only people she’s really ever worked for.[1] I don’t believe she’s going … Continue reading →

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Congress is Finally Taking Up Immigration

Posted on February 12, 2018 by a1skeptic

It only took a mini-government shut down to force the issue, but Congress is finally taking up the immigration debate. They’re going to use Regular Order One wouldn’t think that this would be newsworthy, but they’re actually planning to use … Continue reading →

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Our Hypocrisy is not Like Theirs, Part 14

Posted on July 14, 2017 by a1skeptic

As loyal readers of the blog know, I have on occasion published posts in a long-running series entitled “Our Hypocrisy is not like Theirs.” Today we’re up to Part 14. I saw a certain kind of irony in the following … Continue reading →

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I’m feeling a little bit of Schadenfreude, not that it will last (or matter)

Posted on April 20, 2017 by a1skeptic

Do you know what the word ‘Schadenfreude‘ means my friends? That’s what I’m feeling this morning with the news that Fox News is cutting ties with Bill O’Reilly. It wasn’t the fact that he was a first class prick or … Continue reading →

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Our Hypocrisy is not like theirs, Part 14

Posted on March 13, 2017 by a1skeptic

To my long-running series, “Our Hypocrisy is not like Theirs,” add this little item, which probably escaped most people’s notice because of the amount of BS emanating from Washington these days: there was a positive jobs report, and the Trump … Continue reading →

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