fox-news-set-600WND – by Joe Kovacs

A former aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush says viewers of Fox News and readers of WND are “self-brainwashing,” and now radio host Rush Limbaugh is calling the claim “patently absurd.”

On CNN’s “Reliable Sources” over Memorial Day weekend, historian Bruce Bartlett was discussing his paper published earlier this month, in which he said: “It can almost be called self-brainwashing – many conservatives now refuse to listen to any news or opinion not vetted through Fox, and to believe whatever appears on it as the gospel truth.”   Continue reading “Fans of Fox, Rush, WND accused of ‘self-brainwashing’”

Infowars – by Kit Daniels

Paid actors posed as “potential gun buyers” who were “convinced” by a “gun store clerk” – also an actor – not to buy a firearm as part of an anti-gun group’s “experiment” designed to deceive the public.

It was previously known that the “clerk” in the “hidden camera experiment” produced by States United Against Gun Violence was an anti-gun activist actor, but a journalist recently discovered that all the “gun buyers” in the video were paid actors as well.   Continue reading “Gun Control Group Deceives Public By Hiring Paid Actors For “Hidden Camera Experiment””

Herman Crisp (KVUE/screen grab)Raw Story – by David Edwards

An 82-year-old Texas man alleged this week that officers in military gear stormed his home, broke his hip and then left him without calling for medical assistance.

Herman Crisp told KTBC that Georgetown deputies wearing SWAT uniforms gave no warning before throwing a flash-bang device outside his home last September as he was sitting in a chair and smoking a cigarette.   Continue reading “Texas SWAT breaks 81-year-old man’s hip, family finds him lying in his own feces: lawsuit”