Fact Checking

Oprah Winfrey Called for the Death of a Whole Generation in 2013

Oprah winfrey called for the death of a whole generation in 2013 - photo licensed by shore news network.

There are still generations of people, older people…..and they just have to die.  – Oprah Winfrey

HOLLYWOOD-In a 2013 interview about racism, daytime television diva Oprah Winfrey who the left is now calling the future President of the United States said there’s an entire generation of people who were born and bred in the south that “Just have to die”.

Even the online liberal media “fact checker” Snopes admits she said it, but of course, she didn’t quite say it that way.

“Of course the problem is not solved. As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem’s not solved. As long as there are people who still…” the television talk show host said.  “And there’s a whole generation — I said this for apartheid South Africa, I said this for my own community in the South — there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.”

Apologetic Snopes said Winfrey’s comments were not racist, nor was her demand for the death of generations intended JUST for white people.

“However contentious and impolitic it may have been for Winfrey to claim that older generations steeped in prejudice will have to die before the problem of racism can be solved, the objection that it was racist of her to say so is absurd,” Snopes concluded.

Really?

“It’s valid, given the context, to infer that the majority of the people Winfrey was talking about are white, but invalid to infer that her remarks targeted all older white people, or only older white people,” Snopes continued to drivel.

This is where the media, if she was a white, male, Republican would denounce Winfrey as the next Adolf Hitler, but they won’t.

 

On Corey Booker's Ben Franklin Fake Quote

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”  – Benjamin Franklin

That was a tweet sent out this morning by New Jersey Democrat Corey Booker. Unfortunately, we’re not so sure Benjamin Franklin ever said that and neither is Snopes, the liberal fact checking website.

“Social media platforms have long proved a popular outlet for the circulation of quotes from well-known figures, with a significant proportion of them being mistattributed or apocryphal. A long-circulating example of this phenomenon is a quote attributed to Founding Father Benjamin Franklin highlighting the responsibility every citizen bears to question authority,” Snopes published on this modern urban legend of a quote.

Snopes continued:

The quote “it is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority” has widely been attributed to Benjamin Franklin since the mid-2000s, but we could locate no credible evidence before or after that period suggesting that the comment was ever written or uttered by. The most comprehensive collection of Franklin’s writings not only provides no evidence that the quote is authentic, but it also lacks any other statement of Franklin’s similar enough to serve as reasonable basis for the attribution.

Read more about the quote here.

A link to the tweet is provided above, but in case Senator Booker removes it, here is a screenshot.

On corey booker's ben franklin fake quote - photo licensed by shore news network.

France 24's Philip Crowther's Inauguration Day Missteps Label Reporter as #FakeNews

France 24’s Philip Crowther is obviously no fan of Donald Trump, but he also seems to not be a fan of fact checking or writing credible reports on Inauguration Day either.

Spreading the lie about the MLK bust. Of course, he later apologized.

However, he did get one thing right during his coverage.

 

Fact Checking Councilman Ken Bressi's Slanderous Assault Against JTOWN Magazine

Editorial from JTOWN Magazine editor Phil Stilton

Government doesn’t get to decide what is a newspaper and what isn’t, but when the government declares a publication by ordinance to be a newspaper, it should accept its own definition of the law as fact.

This came into question in December when two Jackson Township Councilmen, Ken Bressi and Barry Calogero launched a politically motivated attack against a newspaper in Jackson after receiving unfavorable election coverage, which was based completely on factual information.

“Advertising in a document that doesn’t meet the legal advertising criteria to be a newspaper for the township. How are we reaching our residents if it’s not qualified,” Bressi said.

Not only was Ken Bressi’s statement about JTOWN incorrect, it was nothing short of slanderous and libelous.  It was with intent to harm not only JTOWN Magazine’s reputation, but it’s business.

Bressi was upset over a story published in our magazine related to his former position in the transportation department and decided to launch this attack in retaliation for facts published in JTOWN Magazine that were widely reported in such papers that do meet his legal advertising criteria.

On record with Jackson Township are several of JTOWN Magazine’s postal delivery forms,  a federal document prepared by the United States Postal Service which not only more than sufficiently satisfies the township’s own definition of a “newspaper”, certifies that every home in the 08527 zip code is receiving our publication on a monthly basis.

While township code suggests a newspaper is published minimum four times per year, JTOWN Magazine (part of the Shore News Network) is not only published 12 times a year, it operates daily online, with a certified reader base with over 100,000 subscribers online, including 12,000 online in Jackson, making it the most widely accessible publication both online and in print in Jackson with the highest per-issue circulation.

These attacks on JTOWN Magazine by the Council of Jackson will not be tolerated.  This is the fourth time in one year this council has attacked our publication because the news did not favor their political position and they continually infringe upon our first ammendment right of Freedom of the Press.   Disagree if you may with the content, but do not misrepresent the facts in an attempt to damage the reputation of a very reputable publication in your town.

For almost 10 years now, JTOWN Magazine has served Jackson Township and the community faithfully, promoting good government services, charities, youth sports, education and everything in between in Jackson.

The council’s assault on our magazine and reader base in 2016 is nothing short of a feeble attempt of government bullying, but we, nor our readers will stand for it in 2017.

From the Jackson Township Code Book (read online)

Article I:Newspapers and Handbills
[Adopted 6-12-1973 by Ord. No. 26-73 (Ch. 74, Art. II, of the 1972 Code)]
§ 262-1 Definitions.
For the purpose of this article, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
Any newspaper of general circulation, as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States in accordance with federal statute or regulation and any newspaper filed and recorded with any recorded officer as provided by law; and, in addition thereto, shall mean and include any periodical or magazine regularly published with not fewer than four issues per year and sold or circulated to the public.

Fact Checking Tomi Lahren: Are Cattle Being Jam Packed into Ships and Imported to American Shelves Without Consumers Knowing?

Fact checking tomi lahren: are cattle being jam packed into ships and imported to american shelves without consumers knowing? - photo licensed by shore news network.Where does American beef come from? Most of us think we get those steaks on the kitchen table from the pristine American outback ranges in states like Texas, Nebraska and Kansas.  On Tuesday, conservative voice Tomi Lahren told us a tale of American cattle ranchers being pushed out by beef supplies from overseas in her feature entitled, “Make the American Table Great Again”.

In her final thought, she spoke out for the American cattle rancher, who have been slammed by a 2015 bill pushed down the throats of the American public by the World Trade Organization.

“Cowboys and cattlemen have never had it easy, these last two years have been brutal” Lahren said. “The cost to operate has gone up, but the cost of cattle has gone down, alot.”

She noted this was due to Congress repealing the COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) on meat products, allowing other nations to import and sell their products alongside homegrown beef, and without letting the consumer know where it was coming from.

For a few years, manufacturers were required to stamp the country of origin on packages of meat and pork products, but the World Trade Organization complained, saying the U.S. law unfairly targeted international beef suppliers.  In 2015, President Obama signed the $1.5 trillion omnibus bill, which effectively also repealed the COOL laws.

Lahren said beef today comes from South America, Canada, Japan and others, no longer just from the American rancher.

Fact checking tomi lahren: are cattle being jam packed into ships and imported to american shelves without consumers knowing? - photo licensed by shore news network.
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“That means your beef is transported in crates for God only knows how long,” she said. “Animal lovers, live cattle are smashed into shipping containers and shipped to this country to be slaughtered for a discount.”

“Would you have a family eat out of a dumpster, not knowing what’s on your table?” she asked. “Then why in the hell would you put foreign sketchy beef on your table?”

“Every American has the right to know where their beef is coming from,” She added.  “If you want to eat that foreign crap, go for it.”

But, is she right? Are cattle jam packed into ships on long voyages enroute to the United States?   It’s something many people don’t think about, but that’s exactly how it happens…and it isn’t a pleasant sight.

In October of 2015, a cattle ship in Brazil sunk in port, sending 5,000 cows into the water to die.  The scene was caught on video and gives you a glimpse into how cattle are shipped from overseas.

A year before, one of the world’s largest cattle carrying ships burned in Australia, also while docked, but was luckily empty of cattle.

In conclusion, Lahren is right.  For over a year, Americans have been in the dark about where their beef and pork comes from as the USDA and even your local grocery store is not allowed by law, to report your meat’s country of origin.

How CNN, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek Failed to Fact Check the Carson Fact Checking

When presidential candidate Ben Carson boasted Thomas Jefferson helped shape the U.S. Constitution, left-leaning news agencies pounced on him like peasants in the former communist Soviet Union would pounce on the last available loaf of bread in the bread line.

“But I’m particularly impressed with Thomas Jefferson, who seemed to have very deep insight into the way that people would react and tried to craft our Constitution in a way that it would control people’s national tendencies and control the natural growth of the government,” were the words uttered by Carson that sent the desperate legions of liberal bloggers and journalists into a frenzy.

Thomas Jefferson helped draft the constitution?  What an unthinkable notion.  Something must be done to correct this blatant revisionist attack on American history.

USA Today’s David Jackson, without fact checking, stated, “Jefferson, however, did not participate in the development of the U.S. Constitution during a 1787 convention. As Carson himself pointed out in his book A More Perfect Union, Jefferson was serving as U.S. minister to France at that time.”

That neutral political outlet Politico followed suit, claiming, “Carson says, wrongly, that Thomas Jefferson crafted the Constitution”.

In a gem of misinformation penned by Politico’s Nolan D. McCaskill, “Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.”

At Newsweek, a once well-trusted source, Jack Martinez jumped on the ill-informed bandwagon.

“It’s a bit of a trick question, because there isn’t a sole author. That fact appeared to be lost on Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson when he said during a recent interview that Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence,” Martinez wrote.   Carson didn’t say Jefferson was author of the Declaration of Independence, but let’s not let any facts get in the way of a good viral “gotchya” story during an election, especially if it’s against a Republican.

The list goes on and on.  Hanry Gaas, Christian Science Monitor; Noah Feldman, Bloomberg;  Chad Merda, Chicago Sun Times; and many others dropped the ball on the story.

Only one however as of this morning had the integrity to admit they were wrong.  David Mastio of Gannett’s USA Today got the story right in his story, “Oops! Carson’s not actually wrong about Jefferson”.

“…here’s an interesting historical footnote to the Constitutional Convention. At the time, an early version of email was available. It was the social media of its day, called letters. Important people, say, the U.S. minister in France, could give pieces of paper to ship captains who’d take them by boat all the way to Philadelphia,” Mastio wrote.

Even the ACLU, the liberal bastion of idiocracy agrees the media had it all wrong.

Jefferson while he never “wrote” the Declaration of Independence did play a significant role in its creation (crafting).

According to the ACLU’s take on the whole affair, Jefferson lobbied those who did the actual “writing” to include the Bill of Rights, a cornerstone of the Declaration of Independence.

“So, the Constitution’s framers heeded Thomas Jefferson who argued: A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference,” the story went.

None of this matters, they’ve all moved on to their next meal, like seagulls to a french fry.