Roasting the Press Episode 24 for Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Fact Checkers, Real Raw News, The Rumor Mills Reading Room, Klaus Schwab Missing plus the Potential "Nation Climate Emergency," Joe Rogan & Tucker Carlson.
Tonight’s new media personalities include Freedom Forum editor Chuck Black, independent media commentator Marie Anne and and Mongo Minds Productions owner Richard Gagnon.
Fact Checkers, Real Raw News, The Rumor Mills Reading Room & Klaus Schwab Missing
Rumors surround World Economic Forum (WEF) Founder Klaus Schwab, his public absence, his purported death, his illnesses and even his alleged imprisonment.
The April 16th, 2024 Snopes post, “Fact Check: Viral Rumor Alleges Delta Force Arrested WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab at His Home in Switzerland. Here's the Truth,” acknowledge those rumors, Schwab’s recent absence from public life and takes a guess at where those stories seem to have originated from.
Snopes traces the story to the April 15th, 2024 Real Raw News post, “Delta Force Arrests Klaus Schwab.” The Real Raw post cites only “a (single, unnamed) source in General Eric M. Smith’s office.
So Snopes initially seems to have an easy target for its “fact check.”
But Snopes second citation, the April 15th, 2024 Rumor Mills Reading Room, “Delta Force Arrests Klaus Schwab,” intended to bolster its viewpoint, is simply a reprint of the first piece written by the same author posted to another site.
The additional Snopes citation doesn’t even link directly to the Rumor Mills Reading Room. It instead links to Archive.org, a “non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.”
The archive.org site includes the “Wayback Machine,” a repository of the history of 866 billion webpages (including Rumor Mills), archived almost since the beginning of the current internet in the 1990’s.
But its not the primary reference site.
Snopes probably posted the archive.org link to prevent “linkbacks,” instances where authors receive notice when other sites reference their stories.
Linkbacks also encourage readers to jump to the primary source materials, in this case the Real Raw News post, which is something Snopes likely doesn’t want to encourage.
Snopes also cited the Real Raw News “About Us” page using archive.org, which included the following disclaimer:
Information on this website is for informational and educational and entertainment purposes. This website contains humor, parody, and satire. We have included this disclaimer for our protection, on the advice on legal counsel.
Snopes considers the disclaimer to be proof that articles on Real Raw News are intended as “humor, parody and satire.”
The lack of independently verifiable references for the Real Raw story isn’t really even noted by Snopes, nor are contrary pieces of evidence cited. These are odd choices for a service intending to “fact check“ news outlets.
Snopes also admitted that stories about Schwab’s arrest and execution keep circulating on social media and video sites including BitChute, Rumble and YouTube, no matter what it and other fact checkers might say.
And those stories are being accepted as legitimate news stories, perhaps because the Real Raw News “About Us” page, also includes some interesting comments on “fact checkers,” like Snopes, Lead Stories, PolitiFact, and News Guard which suggests that the Real Raw author(s) takes their stories very, very seriously.
Although most of what was said about Schwab in the Real Raw News cannot be independently validated without a cadaver or a live public appearance to either confirm or put the lie to the claims, its worth noting that the sites track record with other stories of this nature are less than stellar.
For example, Schwab isn’t the only public figure the site has claimed to be dead or in prison.
As outlined in the April 4th,2024 Real Raw News post, “Merrick Garland Executed After Shanking Guard,” US Attorney General Merrick Garland was executed in the US military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in early April 2024 after being held there for a period of time and even attempting to escape.
But the April 16th, 2024 Associated Press post, “Garland defends Biden's mental fitness and says he has 'complete confidence' in him,” shows that Garland also gave public testimony before the US House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday, April 15, 2024, in Washington DC, almost two weeks after he was reported to have died in prison.
Pictures were included in the story and there are other witnesses to the event so the Real Raw News Garland story has been debunked, if only because Garland has been proven to be not dead yet.
Others, such as recently retired US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland and US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew Graves have also been reported in Real Raw News stories to have been executed in prison.
If one or both show up in public over the next few weeks, their appearance will debunk the Real Raw News stories about them. If they don’t make a public appearance, there might be a real story to tell.
It’s curious that Snopes wouldn’t just reference the Real Raw News track record if they wanted to question the Klaus Schwab stories. It a legitimate place to start.
This oversite seems to be an error on the part of Snopes.
White House Weighs Declaring a National Climate Emergency
Our second story is a panel discussion on the presentation and propaganda used in compiling the April 19th, 2024 Fox News post, “White House weighs declaring a national climate emergency: Report.”
The story focuses around US President Joe Biden reportedly planning to block millions of acres in Alaska from oil and gas drilling using edicts using emergency measures initially rolled out during the great pandemic of 2020 - 2022.
No one, especially Fox News really likes this idea.
But the piece focuses just a little too much on emotional manipulation intended to frighten the uninformed while ignoring reasonable steps people can take to dissuade governments from implementing foolish or unpopular policies.
Frankly, even the elites don’t really believe these sorts of stories.
Tucker Carlson on the Joe Rogan Experience.
Our final discussion tonight is on the presentation, techniques and propaganda used by both host and guest during the April 19th, 2024 Joe Rogan Experience on YouTube post, “Joe Rogan Experience #2138 - Tucker Carlson.”
It’s an interesting rambling post with calming influencer and enabler Joe Rogan mostly sitting back and listening to the everyman presentation of media personality Tucker Carlson.
Since both host and guest are two of the most powerful of the current crop of media personalities, its only natural that their media personalities imply far, far more than their conscious works.
We discussed their techniques plus the possibility that their presentations are being used to further the current UFO narrative.
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