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Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - SteveG - 04-28-2021
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-new-york-climate-climate-change-media-529b0cb6d7393c225c8b9baf040c1904
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden spent only a weekend as the “Hamburglar” in the conservative media world.
But while the false story lasted, it moved with a damaging speed and breadth, another example of a closed ecosystem of information affecting public opinion.
An academic study published a year before Biden became president was used to speculate that he would place limits on how much red meat Americans can consume as part of his stated goal to sharply reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
It was a potentially potent, visceral argument with punchy cable TV octane, namely that Biden was trying to limit people to eating one hamburger a month — an allegation that could seriously undermine his climate change plan before he even announced it.
There was one main problem: He’s said no such thing.
Yet two days after the Daily Mail brought up the topic in a report last Thursday, Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, was tweeting, “Why doesn’t Joe stay out of my kitchen?”
The Mail’s story, by Emily Crane, was headlined “How Biden’s climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH, cost $3.5K a year per person in taxes, force you to spend $55K on an electric car and ‘crush’ American jobs.”
Crane cited a January 2020 study by the University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems, which discussed how a transition to a more plant-based diet by Americans could cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. The paper estimated the environmental impact of a 90% reduction in beef consumption.
Martin Heller, a research specialist at Michigan and one of the study’s authors, said there was no connection between the research and Biden’s plans.
“The conversation so quickly gets pushed to these extremes and I think that’s an effort at poking at people’s fears,” Heller said. “That’s the frustrating part to me — that we can’t have a conversation about how to get creative in this sort of middle space.”
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Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - S. Pupp - 04-28-2021
Mankind needs to go back to the hunter/gatherer stage. We have not evolved enough to belong to large modern societies.
Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - pdq - 04-28-2021
The piece I saw also mentioned the "news" that Biden was including a copy of Kamala Harris's children's book in every "Welcome package" for migrant kids. Some dickwad even pushed Jen Psaki over it.
Yeah, no. It's fake news. Real fake news.
Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - Lemon Drop - 04-28-2021
pdq wrote:
The piece I saw also mentioned the "news" that Biden was including a copy of Kamala Harris's children's book in every "Welcome package" for migrant kids. Some dickwad even pushed Jen Psaki over it.
Yeah, no. It's fake news. Real fake news.
The author of that NY Post story has been fired.
Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - AllGold - 04-28-2021
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=pdq]
The piece I saw also mentioned the "news" that Biden was including a copy of Kamala Harris's children's book in every "Welcome package" for migrant kids. Some dickwad even pushed Jen Psaki over it.
Yeah, no. It's fake news. Real fake news.
The author of that NY Post story has been fired.
I thought she resigned in protest after being forced to write the bogus story.
Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - sekker - 04-28-2021
Cool, I did not know CP Harris was an author! I might have to buy a copy...
Available in English and Spanish, and the messaging rocks.
Of course, has nothing about White Supremacy, so must not be shared with incoming immigrants!
Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - Lemon Drop - 04-28-2021
AllGold wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
[quote=pdq]
The piece I saw also mentioned the "news" that Biden was including a copy of Kamala Harris's children's book in every "Welcome package" for migrant kids. Some dickwad even pushed Jen Psaki over it.
Yeah, no. It's fake news. Real fake news.
The author of that NY Post story has been fired.
I thought she resigned in protest after being forced to write the bogus story.
I don't believe that. She's been writing for this paper for a long time.
The time to resign would be BEFOrE you had the story go out under your name knowing you are lying about the VP of the US.
They got busted this time, I imagine there are lawsuits coming, and her hide had to go.
Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - deckeda - 04-28-2021
She resigned. She has regret for writing it, but they didn’t fire her. Death of a career by a thousand little cuts most likely.
Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - Lemon Drop - 04-28-2021
deckeda wrote:
She resigned. She has regret for writing it, but they didn’t fire her. Death of a career by a thousand little cuts most likely.
This is your guess, same as mine.
My guess is she was hung out to dry when the shit hit the fan. Again the time to resign in protest was before.
The Post is used to getting away with th1is
Re: Fake News; Associated Press on right wing Biden meat conspiracy nonsense - deckeda - 04-29-2021
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
She resigned. She has regret for writing it, but they didn’t fire her. Death of a career by a thousand little cuts most likely.
This is your guess, same as mine.
My guess is she was hung out to dry when the shit hit the fan. Again the time to resign in protest was before.
The Post is used to getting away with th1is
Excuse me? Every credible news source including Laura Italiano’s own freaking tweet said she resigned.
I’m not saying she wasn’t effectively pushed out, unsupported, or otherwise not stopped from leaving. Nor am I “arguing” about what she should have done and when. I’m am also most assuredly not “guessing.”