Minus FJ Pushes Fake Claims Of Bias Against Conservatives

The trumpy blogger Minus FJ (a regular WYD commenter), in a duo of posts on Political Tea Leaves, repeated the old conservative trope that Conservatives face bias. From Hollywood, The "Liberal Media", Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc. According to Minus, "Google hates Conservatives" (comment posted using his Joe Conservative sockpuppet).

Of course this is complete nonsense. A fact I suspect Minus is aware of. This is an old conservative tactic known as "working the refs". They're trying to extort these outlets into changing the rules to FAVOR them. Given the FACT that there is no bias, "eliminating" bias would obviously skew search results, the news (or whatever) in their favor.

Are Google and Facebook really suppressing conservative politics?. (Excerpt from a 12/4/2018 article from The Guardian by Oscar Schwartz). Accusations of encoded anti-conservative prejudice are gaining traction, but experts say the claims are just a red herring. ... In the past year, several Republican politicians have publicly questioned whether social media platforms skew their algorithms to discriminate against conservatives. Google, Facebook and Twitter have all emphatically denied any technological anti-conservative bias. While trust in these companies is justifiably low after recent scandals, Ari Ezra Waldman, director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at the New York Law School, says that there is "zero evidence" to suggest that they're lying. "The fact that individual conservatives get less play or banned [from these platforms] is not evidence of a pattern of bias"... For Francesca Tripodi, professor of sociology at James Madison University, anecdotal evidence of anti-conservative bias spreads as fact through the media in part because of a deep misunderstanding of how bias in search engines and content moderation practices work. ...These algorithms are very complex and not at all intuitive ... They weigh things like how many people are linking to an article, what key words appear in the headline, and what specific phrases people are using in their search. ... If you search for Donald Trump and receive mostly negative results... it isn't because Google executives are censoring pro-Trump voices, but because most Google users are seeking or linking to this particular type of news item. "In other words, Google is biased but its bias skews towards the type of results people want to see. Search results are kind of like a public opinion poll about what news matters".

So, in order to eliminate "bias", Google would have to manipulate results in favor of Conservatives. Which is what they want. Failing that, their objective is to convince the public that there is "bias" against conservatives. So that the public will disbelieve the truth and believe conservative lies. It's another example of the "fake news" trope.

A red herring "is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question". The red herring (re Google) is WHY are Google results "biased" against Conservatives? Because WE (those of us who voted against Dotard) are the MAJORITY. And, as the article points out, "search results are kind of like a public opinion poll about what news matters".

The simple FACT is that there are more of US using Google then there are of THEM. Just like WE won the popular vote in 2016, WE are winning the popular vote on Google (which is what Google search results represent). If cons don't like it they can pound sand and f*ck off.

At least this is what SHOULD happen. Unfortunately working the refs is an effective strategy. Which is why Dotard - and cultists like Minus - use it. Dotard's lies work because "seeding doubt is made easier by the reality that simple lies are much more persuasive than complex truths". And Dotard is a "master manipulator". He honed his craft during his days as a reality teevee actor on "The Apprentice". Reality teevee being completely fake. They simply film a LOT of footage and pick out the portions that support the narrative they are trying to construct.

Dotard drives home his lies via repetition. Have you noticed how he repeats things multiple times? Dotard pushes out his lies via twitter and to the press (often speaking over the sound of helicopter blades chopping through the air) and the media covers (and repeats) these lies. The media is biased against tRump? Give me a break. The media is his accomplice.

As former CBS CEO Leslie Moonves said, "it may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS". He was talking about allowing Dotard to spew his lies on CBS and the fact that covering the Orange fool drew a lot of eyeballs (and thus made CBS a lot of money in advertising dollars). And I thought the media was "biased" against tRump??

I'm not a fan of reality teevee myself, but apparently the dullards love it. Explaining why shows like "Keeping up with the Kardashians" has been on the air for 16 years. This also explains the popularity of the tRump candidacy. People tuned in to see the train wreck. That's what got the non-trumpers eyeballs, at least. The "poorly educated" average trumper saw the Orange idiot and decided, "I like this fellow who tells it like it is" (spews racist and misogynist hate).

The "biased" media helped get tRump elected! Even if now they are more willing to call tRump on his lies and racist hate. He still has the rightwing "media" cheer leading for him and defending him. Sean Hannity (tRump's own Tokyo Rose) and the plethora of other FAKE NEWS trump-supporting outlets that have either sprung up or converted to trumpism.

Although, 2-plus years into the Orange Turd administration, the media is finding it harder to not call a spade a spade (call tRump out for his constant lying and racism). Which is why tRump has to work the refs even harder (his recent "Social Media Summit" being one example). To combat the media's anemic bias in favor of facts and the truth.

BTW, if Twitter was biased against conservatives they would have banned Dotard long ago for TOS violations. Instead "Twitter will add warning labels to tweets from world leaders that break its rules following years of public criticism". Another example of PRO conservative bias. Or an example of the success of working the refs. Imagine the outcry if Twitter actually enforced it's own rules and censored offending tweets from the Orange racist (or kicked him off their platform)?

Post authored by the anti-Trump Leftist Bastard Dervish Sanders. WYM-128.