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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

To ‘Shepard’ truth and facts


The video above is from Brian Tyler Cohen, an actor and producer who is the on-camera host, and former managing editor for, Occupy Democrats, a Leftist organisation mostly on Facebook. It’s often been called “unreliable”, for a lot of reasons, however, this particular video features Fox’s Shepard Smith talking about the First Son-in-Law’s appearance at the TIME 100 event, where he said, basically the Russian interference in the 2016 US elections was no big deal (just “a couple Facebook ads”, he said), but the Mueller investigation, well, that nearly destroyed America.

In the video’s first part, Smith, who is pretty much the only sane host the Fox network, explains why Jared was not only wrong about the facts, but also dishonest and flat-out un-American when he blithely dismissed the Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. That’s followed by Cohen’s commentary. The format of this video is pretty typical of what Occupy Democrats now posts to Facebook.

I don’t usually share Occupy Democrats’ Facebook videos, mainly because they’re always interrupted near the beginning with an ad, and the video resumes after the ad. I absolutely hate that, and won’t help spread it. Sharing any Facebook video or post here is more complicated than it needs to be, too. However, Cohen has his own YouTube Channel where he posts the same videos, and his version is what’s up top.

Some of these videos are quite good in whole or in part, and this one is about a serious subject and the commentary at the end is fact-based. It’s also a reasonably good example of what Occupy Democrats’ Facebook videos are like.

Calling out lies is always important, and when Fox does it, it’s even better.

I originally shared the Facebook version to the AmeriNZ Facebook Page. This post is a revised and extended version of that.

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