Using fear of contagion to fuel xenophobia dates back to medieval times. It’s a very old playbook that people are still somehow falling for.

In an alternate universe, Smith is the top journalist at Fox News, making the network a shining beacon of truth in reporting.

Literally minutes after Smith’s show ended, a Fox News guest said that the migrants were going to bring leprosy to the U.S.!

That’s the real horror here.

He’s definitely got a bit of a mad savior complex if he thinks he’s gonna stem the tide of stupid coming out of that place.

To be honest, I actually often flip over from CNN to Fox during his hour, because it’s the only escape from the six-box of pundits arguing the same thing the four-box of pundits argued in the last segment.

This is amazing. Thank you.

You forgot to add how the Jews control the media.

Halloween: More convoluted than the Zelda timeline.

Yeah, how is anyone surprised by this?

Go on and tell us how journalism is supposed to work.

Countdown before the right starts a massacre there.

So, the classics:

- publicly owned institutions up for grabs to those who are cuddly with the dictator for pennies on the dollar

Yeah, back in the day all those hyperlinks in newspapers really helped people make sure the information was well sourced.

Yeah, he doesn’t care about facts. His whole shtick is whining about “fake journalists”.

I remember how distraught I was on election night 2016. How scared. I can’t imagine how the vulnerable in Brazil feel now. So many LGBTQ, women, people with left ideologies, people who are black or mixed race, are actively in danger in Brazil and around the world.

You mean like the heavily linked Human Rights Watch article cited here?

Further proof that humans are fucking idiots.

Hungary. Poland. Russia. Turkey. Israel. Italy. The Philippines. The US. Now Brazil. The fascist authoritarian century continues.

And I’m sure his anti-corruption stance is really anti-certain-corruption. His people will be perfectly happy about it.