Rep. Louie Gohmert warned OAN viewers about the "hundreds and thousands" of "Flamers," aka birds who survive windmills but wind up spontaneously combusting after flying over solar farms in the Southwest US. This is how the green new deal will bring the nation down.
note for some people in my comments - even if there's one study or report about a similar phenomenon, Gohmert and OAN are so divorced from fact or reality that there's no point in bringing it up. don't waste your energy trying to separate fact and fiction from RW propaganda
Chuck Todd on Marjorie Taylor Greene and the GOP: "I assume if there were a secret ballot there'd be a lot of House Republicans that would say, hey, this is a bridge too far."
Garrett Haake: "I'm not sure that's a safe assumption, Chuck."
H/t
@mount_bees
"The Kubrick Stare" is one of director Stanley Kubrick's most recognizable directorial techniques. A method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that they are at the peak of their derangement
disgraced ex-Papa John's man mad company alleging
@PapaJohns
targeted him, knows "he's not a racist." This said seconds before telling OAN he's been "working for months to get the n-word out of his vocabulary"
Did Dems kill
@OANN
?
May ‘21:
@ATT
announces $43B Warner/CNN merger
Nov ‘21: D Reps Eshoo/McNerney tell ATT to cancel OAN
Jan ‘22: ATT confirms plan to cancel OAN off
@DIRECTV
Feb ‘22: Biden DOJ approve merger
April ‘22: ATT cancels OAN
INVESTIGATTE!
MSNBC: President Biden's speech on the anniversary of the Jan 6 insurrection
CNN: President Biden's speech on the anniversary of the Jan 6 insurrection
FOX: President Biden's speech on the anniversary of the Jan 6 insurrection
OAN: British Christmas sales
OAN, Ryan Fournier really mad about "very complicated" plot points like lesbian velma, gay rat wedding being "forced on them," warn that we're "stealing the innocence of kids" with "endless amounts of gender"
The reason why twitter alternatives keep failing is because they don't appeal to teenage girls. Teenage girls run pop culture. Your social media app is going to fail without them.
Hello, I will be writing an open letter to LVJUSD, LHS, and GHS over the culture of racism and sexual abuse fostered in their educational environment. If you are from Livermore, please dm me with thoughts and comments!
@LivermoreRacist
Though gone from DirecTV's lineup effective today, OAN's insane coverage will not be forgotten. OAN's insane conspiracies and sycophantic coverage will continue to poison American political discourse for the foreseeable future.
Please enjoy this montage-- a little slice of what my life has been like monitoring OAN for 1.5+ yrs. Thanks to OAN's insane post-2020-election coverage, I have had multiple existential crises about American democracy set to 'My Heart will go on' (pan flute edition)
"Leftists academics are trying to accomplish white genocide with CRT" is, by far, one of the dumbest lies about critical race theory I've ever heard, and I literally watch OAN for a living
all u college kids out there all u people who went thru colleges&got brainwarshed thinking socialism is stinkin around having a cup of coffee going Hey im vry social today think again ur living it now yr friends r getting canceled out getting squished getting attacked and ur next
sentient fluorescent lightbulb defends 3/5 compromise: "the 3/5 clause was anti-slavery...3/5 was in order to reduce the political power of the southern states in order to minimize the spread of slavery. So I'd like to know what is the slavery embedded in the founding documents?"
I wish the american left was actually as well funded and powerful as the right thinks it is. I would love it if there was a leftist grift that could get you paid 300k/year or whatever to shitpost, say dumb shit on cable news, and like speak at a conference once per year. Alas
OAN's created the newest conservative facebook knockoff and yes the featured video is the entire 2 hour My Pillow election fraud conspiracy ""documentary""
I watch around 3 hours of OANN every work day. some bits Brian missed: calling democrats "completely unhinged" moments before pushing voter fraud conspiracies; Pelosi "politicized" "protests" in contrast to "republican lawmakers' nonpartisan condemnation violence in DC"
I watched ten random minutes of
@OANN
in the 10am hour and heard the pro-Trump riot sanitized as "the Capitol Hill incident;" heard it was a "very small crowd" of "troublemakers;" heard the scene was "nothing like" a war zone; and heard "there were clearly agitators in there."
TBT to 3 days after the Capitol insurrection, when an OAN guest called on Trump "to nationalize and utilize the emergency broadcast system" to takeover the Presidency & assured viewers Trump "still has a path to victory, maybe in combination with some sort of military tribunal."
Fabio on the Israel-Hamas war. Lady Gaga's dad on the migrant crisis. Elaine's boss from Seinfeld on NFL players kneeling during the anthem.
Here are the "celebrities" Fox wants weighing in on politics (instead of Taylor Swift):
i was going to say this earlier (lol) but going forward, i'll be focusing less of my time on the third-place loser show fox & friends. expect a somewhat wider variety of content, including more OAN work, much of it in collaboration with
@mount_bees
"Do you remember back in the 90s there was that series of videotapes called 'girls gone wild.' Well, I think we need a new series called Democrats gone wild. Don't you?" So true Dan!
strong contender for dumbest take from OAN: "[dems] talk about being the party of protecting people with pre-existing conditions but anyone with a pre-existing condition, it's like, they were born, i'm sorry we're all born at some point if we're here, so it doesn't make sense"
I deserve student loan forgiveness because I had to sit through dozens of political science classes portraying this clownish venture capitalist as some kind of big brain political genius because he wrote a classist novel about Appalachia.
Senate candidate JD Vance criticizes the millions of 18-year-olds who are pressured into signing predatory student loans:
"[It's] a massive bailout for people who've mad bad decisions."
sentient fluorescent lightbulb defends 3/5 compromise: "the 3/5 clause was anti-slavery...3/5 was in order to reduce the political power of the southern states in order to minimize the spread of slavery. So I'd like to know what is the slavery embedded in the founding documents?"
OAN is mad the WH is "using" Olivia Rodrigo as a "celebrity muppet pawn" to "push" American teens to stay happy and healthy by getting their COVID vaccines
Brain worms alert! Kim Klacik thinks that if democratic socialist & civil rights advocate MLK Jr. was here today he would "probably be a very hard-right conservative."
@mount_bees
and I took a wider look into OAN's recent attempts to get viewers personally involved in the fight for election audits -- or to run for office and/or work elections themselves, poisoning future elections with conspiracy theories about the past.
hey .
@Mediaite
I didn't volunteer to be the only person who watches OAN regularly 7 months ago [not just at
@mmfa
] for you guys to not give me any credit for this lol
To be clear, OAN's very much alive; DirecTV will just no longer distribute it. It was the natural result of OAN poisoning its own brand w/ constant conspiratorial, mostly unethical, & often threatening coverage. It'll continue to exist in some form for the foreseeable future. BUT
HEY NEWS REPORTERS: before you publish that article quoting Christina Bobb, make sure you're giving readers some context -- namely: She's a conspiracy theorist who has spent the last ~two years trying to overturn the 2020 election. Thread:
And if you want the low quality, DirecTV is essentially replacing OAN w/Fox Nation-- where Fox News puts pundits accused of sexual misconduct on timeout.
Fox Nation even gave former OAN host Tomi Lahren her own show < 3 so rest assured the content is just as grating
As OAN’s founder said, "the economic consequences... could be devastating to OAN." Keyword "could."
IMO, it's looking more like it *will* devastate OAN. Honestly, Fox is pushing the same content, just w/ higher production value. Why seek out OAN when you can just watch Tucker?
like yeah it actually is crazy how this isn't a satirical impersonation of Sean Hannity. Crazy how a channel full of dumb shit like this is actually a genuine threat to American democracy and public health.
fox news paired stories on the earthquake in Haiti and hurricane threat with a story about a man who died after falling from a sky ride -- all in one roughly ~ 1 minute segment
my main takeaway from OAN's indigenous peoples day rant is that we need a real month dedicated to all the Italianx Americans, starting dec 3- the premiere of the Jersey Shore- and ending jan 10 - the premiere date of The Sopranos