# Bullshit fake news from the left **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641 "2017-02-12T09:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/81 "2017-02-25T00:10:44Z")
It seems the thread title should have been “Bullshit Fake Posts from the Right”. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/82 "2017-02-25T00:21:25Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > It seems the thread title should have been “Bullshit Fake Posts from the Right”. Maybe we can start a thread. We have plenty of material to choose from, starting with Breitbart, InfoWars, Wall Street journal, and Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/83 "2017-02-25T01:09:06Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I clicked on the first link and saw Melania’s sign and immediately thought of this: > > [CPAC attendees seen waving Russian flags](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320997-cpac-attendees-seen-waiving-russian-flags) > > Trump supporters, demonstrating their usual level of savviness, got pranked very nicely. Sad! How likely is it that they had no clue that it was a Russian flag? It’s red, white, and blue . . . there’s no sickle . . . ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/84 "2017-02-25T07:32:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The Left fooled the Right into thinking that the Left thought it was real. Like. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/85 "2017-02-25T12:50:43Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Next you’re gonna tell me that picture of GW eating a kitten is fake too 😃 Or the one [where GWB is wearing Sauron’s Ring](http://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/us/3504/george-w-bush-possesses-the-ring-of-power). 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/86 "2017-02-25T13:06:27Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > How likely is it that they had no clue that it was a Russian flag? It’s red, white, and blue . . . there’s no sickle . . . The hammer and sickle went away when the USSR did, back in 1991. But it’s not like the post-USSR Russian flag (which was also the pre-USSR Russian flag) is well known in the U.S. Hell, my wife and I made three trips to Russia when we adopted the Firebug eight years ago, but I wouldn’t have been able to recall what the regular Russian flag looked like. I’d have recognized the [Presidential standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_of_the_President_of_the_Russian_Federation.svg) as being Russian, but not the [tricolor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Russia.svg), given how many flags [look](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands) [similar](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/250px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png) [to it](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/300px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/87 "2017-02-25T13:17:02Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Next you’re gonna tell me that picture of GW eating a kitten is fake too 😃 IIRC, the twist was that although he’d eaten plenty of kittens, he hadn’t eaten _that_ particular kitten. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/88 "2017-02-25T19:13:09Z")
[Who is Nils Bildt?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/25/who-is-nils-bildt-swedish-national-security-advisor-interviewed-by-fox-news-is-a-mystery-to-swedes/?utm_term=.2c190f7e1a61)Swedish ‘national security advisor’ interviewed by Fox News is a mystery to Swedes. Oh wait. This is Bullshit fake news from the right. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/89 "2017-02-25T20:04:49Z")
_blows referee whistle_ That’s a 5 yard penalty for redundancy assessed to Little Pig! ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Lucky\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_Mike)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/90 "2017-02-25T20:59:41Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > So, **aldiboronti** , any response? I guess you have better self control than I do, because I don’t think I’ve ever let my own thread sit this long without checking in. > > Maybe someone with better SDMB skills can tell us in the peanut gallery whether our esteemed OP has been back on the board since he posted this. He is a trolling piece of deplorable filth. It lessens me to even post in a thread he started, but I have decided it is ok as I am just calling him the troll he is. Posting idiotic threads without any intention of supporting them or making logical arguments in the effort to raise ire = troll ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/91 "2017-02-25T21:33:43Z")
He’s too busy ridiculing [70 year old ladies who were detained and grilled by border patrol guards for no apparent reason.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20026326&postcount=28) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/92 "2017-02-25T21:34:57Z")
Regarding the OP: Man, what an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/93 "2017-02-25T23:00:01Z")
I’m going to officially declare aldiboronti as Clothahump stupid. This is a power I’m loath to use. But sometimes the shitfuckery compels my hand. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/94 "2017-02-25T23:09:01Z")
I dunno, it would be hard to beat a right wing martial arts teacher who shows his lack of character and honor by posting stupid crap just to get a rise out of people. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/95 "2017-02-25T23:23:20Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I dunno, it would be hard to beat a right wing martial arts teacher who shows his lack of character and honor by posting stupid crap just to get a rise out of people. Does selling black belts count as “teaching”? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/96 "2017-02-25T23:26:23Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Or the one [where GWB is wearing Sauron’s Ring](http://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/us/3504/george-w-bush-possesses-the-ring-of-power). 😛 Geez, that is pathetic. How could that picture even purport to exist? Everyone ought to know that the One Ring makes the wearer invisible. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/97 "2017-02-26T00:28:59Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Geez, that is pathetic. How could that picture even purport to exist? Everyone ought to know that the One Ring makes the wearer invisible. Not to a ring-wraith with a cell phone. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641/98 "2017-02-26T00:56:03Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Who is Nils Bildt?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/25/who-is-nils-bildt-swedish-national-security-advisor-interviewed-by-fox-news-is-a-mystery-to-swedes/?utm_term=.2c190f7e1a61)Swedish ‘national security advisor’ interviewed by Fox News is a mystery to Swedes. > > Oh wait. This is Bullshit fake news from the right. Never mind. You didn’t get the memo; Leftie amateur blogger makes up a silly story making fun of Trump = A TRAVESTY OF LEFT WING BULLSHIT FAKE NEWS! OMG!!!111 Fox News brings in an unknown dude passing himself off as “Swedish National Security Advisor”, despite the fact that he is completely unknown in Sweden = Good, solid reporting that shows Trump is always right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullshit-fake-news-from-the-left/779641.md?page=4)