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Complete with fired from Fox Eric Bolling, quack "doctor" Judy Mikovits and her fake "documentary," and sheister lawyer (you got it,) Larry Klayman.
Sinclair's Eric Bolling Gives 'Plandemic' Conspiracy Theorists Platform To Attack Dr. Fauci
Here's what happens when Sinclair Broadcasting decides to revive the career of someone who was ousted from Fox for sexual harassment.
Sinclair Broadcasting, a network which at one time was rumored to be considering hiring sexual harrasser Bill O'Reilly, actually did hire another sexual harasser who was also suspended from Fox, Eric Bolling.
Sinclair has been a cesspool of misinformation, with the company doing its best to take over as many local media stations as they believed they could get away with. They were regularly airing segments from former Trump aide Boris Epshteyn, before finally dropping him at the end of last year.
That hasn't stopped the network from continuing to pollute the political waters with segments like the one documented by Media Matters with Bolling this week.
I've lost track of how many people I know in real life who were sadly posting copies of the Plandemic "documentary" on Facebook. I decided to deal with it by just reporting their posts, rather than argue with anyone who has been brainwashed to the point of buying into that garbage.
So it's difficult to express the amount of outrage I feel when an outlet like Sinclair and someone like Bolling continues to propagate this garbage when it's so awful, even Facebook and YouTube pulled it down -- once enough people like myself complained and reported them.
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/sinclairs-eric-bolling-gives-plandemic
Story has been updated.
Update (7/25/20): Following Media Matters' reporting, Sinclair Broadcast Group released a statement on July 25 addressing feedback the company had received about America This Week host Eric Bolling's interview with and coverage of coronavirus conspiracy theorist Judy Mikovits and her lawyer, Larry Klayman. The company stated that it was a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial. Hours later, the company announced that it would delay airing the episode featuring Mikovits and instead instruct its local news stations to re-air the previous week's episode. However, Media Matters has found that the segment already aired on at least one local station based in Charleston, West Virginia. The video now appears to be scrubbed from Sinclair stations' websites without a correction or note. Bolling claimed to CNN's Oliver Darcy that he was unaware of Mikovits' Plandemic video before interviewing her, and shifted blame to others on the show's production team for the booking as well as the on-screen graphics used during the episode.
https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group/sinclair-gives-plandemic-conspiracy-theorists-platform-spread-their-lies
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/25/media/sinclair-pulls-fauci-conspiracy-segment/index.html
Initech
(100,099 posts)This is bullshit pure and simple. Fuck this "plandemic" bullshit.
Archae
(46,343 posts)Depraved indifference.
Initech
(100,099 posts)DBoon
(22,395 posts)We would not have 140,000 dead without this concerted effort to destroy the credibility of public health officials.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)From its blatant right wing bullshit...right down to its lack of digital sub channels.
It usually only runs digital subchannels it owns on its stations. It does not serve the public interest and should be broken up under anti-trust laws.
still_one
(92,371 posts)does not serve the public interest, and is just another propaganda outlet like fox
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Enough said.