Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Obama Progressive Delays and Bias Mimicked by Facebook
In an announcement reminiscent of the IRS /Lois Lerner "lost emails" affair, the State Department says it has no emails, or backups, to or from the man who reportedly created and maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server during her four years as Secretary. The revelation was made in a recent Republican National Committee (RNC) court filing. The Department has found archived emails from IT specialist Bryan Pagliano written after Clinton left office, according to spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau, but it has not found a single email he sent or received from May 1, 2009, to February 1, 2013, the RNC filing asserts. Trudeau said : “We are continuing to search for Mr. Pagliano’s emails....the Department does have records related to Mr. Pagliano and we are working with Congress and [Freedom of Information Act] requesters to provide relevant material.” Trudeau wouldn't comment on how or whether Pagliano stored his emails or deleted them after a certain period, adding : “It is not required for employees to save every email they sent and received..." The Federal Records Act requires government agencies to store many employees’ emails for recordkeeping purposes, but it's unclear how this law applied to Pagliano. The RNC’s filing makes a broad claim : that the department has not found a single email anywhere in its system. Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave the State Department until May 23 to declare when it would hand documents over to the RNC or to file another motion. In addition to the Pagliano emails, the State Department also does not have any text messages or BlackBerry Messenger messages sent to or from Clinton during her time in office. ~~~~ In addition to the latest anti-GOP delaying tactics of the Obama administration, we now learn that contractors who were “curators” for Facebook’s "Trending" topics section, which focuses attention on certain news stories, regularly didn’t include key politically conservative stories, according to a Monday report from the Gizmodo blog. A former curator told Gizmodo that after logging on, they would see that popular conservative stories were not included on Trending. The contractor, who is a conservative, guessed that the person running the list “didn’t recognize the news topic” or was biased against a conservative figure in the story. The person said among the topics not included on the list were those relating to Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official who was pursued by Congress for illegally targeting conservative groups, and Governor Scott Walker, a GOP candidate for President who dropped out early. Another former curator told Gizmodo that if a story originated on a conservative news website, curators would look for a link to the story from a neutral outlet. Gizmodo formerly reported that Trending topics are selected by human curators based on a Facebook-generated algorithm of the stories being discussed and shared by users. The story is causing problems for the giant social network, including a session with a congressional committee. Facebook always insists its platform is politically neutral when critics speculate that it might use its power over the flow of information to influence its 187 million US users. Recently, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg criticized "fearful voices calling for building walls" in a hit at Donald Trump, now the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. Facebook sponsors lounges at presidential debates and reminds users to vote. It also does outreach to political campaigns to get them to use the company's products and sells ads to campaigns up and down the ballot to take in some of the money poured into political ads. ~~~~~ Dear readers, if Facebook's rules for "consistency and neutrality" in picking topics for the Trending section produce the same biased results political pollsters get by skewing to the left the sample of people they question, Facebook is simply another huge bias point in American political news. Obama was "pleased" with Facebook's statement denying it engaged in such a practice - another 'no inquiry needed.'
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Facebook is another in your face example of the biased liberal media in the United States today. They all play word games and they all preach in order to indoctrinate the young children and young adults that flock to thee 'social sites' on the Internet to their views.
ReplyDeleteMist of the under informed voters gets their erroneous information from the sites like Facebook.
Between the anonymity of the Internet & it’s ‘social media’, the crudity of much of modern music and TV along with our bad habit of rewarding every reality show star with 15 minutes of fame as long as they’re willing to go to any lengths to catch our attention, we’ve become a crass, rude and obnoxious culture.
DeleteWe live in a country that often rewards sarcasm instead of wisdom, rudeness instead of insight and the squeaky wheel instead of the farsighted patriot. You’re more likely to get your way in America if you claim to be angry, offended or can just make enough noise on social media than if you’re plain old right. How well is that working out for our country?
Instead of a wonderful tool, the Internet and its Social Media garbage has made billionaires out of social rejects that create these debris packed web sites and instantly grant them the label of “authority” on every subject imaginable. All of which clutter the minds of those gullible, under-informed readers and innocent children to go out and spread falsehoods on any subject.
The “net” should be a positive tool for learning and expanding one’s mind and understanding. Not a tool of depravity, decadence, and degeneracy.
Sorry for drifting off point here. But the internet with its sweet sounding ‘social media’ sites is a very dangerous place for the under-informed readers. Can you imagine what the likes of Hitler would have done with such an indoctrination tool like social media?
Seven out of ten Americans’ today get there primary news from Facebook. Facebook has over 1 Billion (yes that’s a “B”) subscribers worldwide. Facebook virtually blankets the United States with their newsfeed – news that is written and interpreted by a leftist organization.
ReplyDeleteWe need to put behind us the idea that somehow the playing field with an unbiased approach to covering Hillary Clinton is possible before November 8, 2016. It’s not and most likely won’t ever be.
Way back when Hillary Clinton started her life lies and big fibs she didn’t have to worry about an army of Internet trolls digging around her stories, or even questioning lost e-mails mysteriously gone missing from the entire Obama Administration. That was pre e-Hillary.
ReplyDeleteBack then she only had to wink at the camera and crowds, use her Southern accent.
Back then she could $100,000 in Cattle futures all the while investing only $1,000. And later as the First lady in the White House get access to FBI & IRS files (none of which she had the ‘need to know’) on those she perceived to be hers and Bill’s enemies – Tricky republicans one and all. And before social media became what it is today, all her problems were the fault of that right-wing conspiracy.
What the Clinton campaign has always been about is - it runs the risk of being exactly what their opponents accuse them of being: a campaign that appears to be populist but is a smoke screen that is paid and brought to you by lifetime political operatives and high-level consultants.
Pagliano (Hillary’s IT person for 4 years at the State Department) is the fellow who has been given immunity from prosecution (so he must testify as I understand it – no taking the 5th) as the FBI continues to investigate Clinton’s use of a private email server set up in her basement. That private email account allowed her to keep her work product from public scrutiny and allowed her to send classified and top secret documents, which may have been hacked by foreign intelligence services.
The main thing to remember is that if Twitter and Facebook and the rest had been available when Hillary began her public life as a truth bender, she’d be off camera by now and out of our lives. Perhaps she’d have disappeared, to live alone in a tiny house in the woods far, far away from Washington D.C.
A pivotal question … Can Hillary (or anyone else for that matter) run for the Presidency while under investigation or under indictment by a Federal Court?
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