Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theo

[LiberalArkie]

Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci

New York (CNN Business)Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious diseases, was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus.

The baseless conspiracy theory is set to air on stations across the country in a segment during the program "America This Week" hosted by Eric Bolling. The show, which is posted online before it is broadcast over the weekend, is distributed to Sinclair Broadcast Group's network of local television stations, one of the largest in the country. A survey by Pew Research Group earlier this year showed that local news was a vital source of information on the coronavirus for many Americans, and more trusted than the media overall.

In this week's episode of the show, Bolling spoke with Judy Mikovits, the medical researcher featured in the discredited "Plandemic" video that went viral earlier this year and which was banned from platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. Throughout the segment, the on-screen graphic read, "DID DR. FAUCI CREATE COVID-19?"

Bolling also spoke with Mikovits' attorney, Larry Klayman, a right-wing lawyer who also has a history of pushing misinformation and representing conspiracy theorists.

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[beachbumbob]

1. really don;t care as only low information people would watch and they already signed on for trump

[dlk]

2. Radical and false propaganda is being spewed over the airwaves

Republicans knew what what they were doing when they neutered and co-opted the FCC.

[Chainfire]

4. Dr. Gobbles would be so proud.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”


Joseph Gobbles

A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously".

Adolph Hitler

This is where we are folks.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Goebbels, not Gobbles.

[oasis]

3. Made to order for Cult45 idiots. nt

[LiberalArkie]

5. Made to order for the soccer moms, the families with school kids, the people who work in local

businesses. You know the people who watch local news to see what's going on in their town. What is the school board doing. What its the city council doing. What is the weather going to be.

National news, CNN etc DU doesn't cover the things that concern people in their home towns. The local TV station does.

[oasis]

9. Folks too dense to see through b.s. propaganda are a hopeless case. nt

[Andy823]

7. Exactly!

anyone with half a brain won't buy into this crap, but the trump cultists will.

[randr]

6. They should lose their license to broadcast-nc

[blm]

8. Same ones who broadcast the Swiftliars.

[dlk]

11. Too many Americans forgot the costly lessons we learned in WWII

Republicans used this to their advantage to remake our country.

[mzmolly]

12. I HATE the right wing bullshit

machine.

Dr. Fauci is getting threats as is his family. I hope he sues the HELL out of these bastards.

[IcyPeas]

13. Fauci and his family are already getting threats

this will just add more fuel to their stupid conspiracy "theory".

[Gothmog]

14. Public pressure matters. Don't let up.

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[Gothmog]

15. Sinclair drops segment featuring conspiracy theory about Fauci

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The Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI) said Monday it will not move forward with airing a segment featuring a conspiracy theory that suggested Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus.

Over the weekend, Sinclair announced it would postpone and "rework" the segment featuring discredited "Plandemic" researcher Judy Mikovits which was set to air during the program "America This Week" hosted by Eric Bolling.

But on Monday, the company pulled the plug altogether.

"Upon further review, we have decided not to air the interview with Dr. Mikovits," a spokesperson for Sinclair told CNN Business in a statement. "Although the segment did include an expert to dispute Dr. Mikovits, given the nature of the theories she presented we believe it is not appropriate to air the interview."