StopFakeNews #67 with Irena Chalupa

In the old days, we would have said Russia has balls.

Today we can’t say that, perhaps, because they have none?   Oh, pardon me, it is no longer politically correct to say they have some balls to do what they are doing – lying. I still say they have no balls.  Please don’t let me continue down this road, I’ll start giggling like a schoolgirl.  Balls.  A perfectly good word which isn’t on any bad-word list.  Balls.

1 – I am struck that Russian propaganda is so weak, so unbelievably  juvenile and so ill-conceived, that it can be proven fake so easily.

2 – I am struck at the volume of just bad Russian propaganda, that somehow an avalanche of bullshit is somehow believed to be effective.

3 – I am struck that Russian news, whose reputation is so dismally bad, does nothing to attempt to improve their image.

4 – I am struck that the Russian government encourages this assault on their national reputation. I realize Russian media’s intended audience is internal to Russia, but the spillover from the outer world must taint and tarnish the internal reputation as well.  If Russians have lost faith in the truth from television (in Russian from Levada), one must wonder if the Russian government is at all concerned.  Here is an English interpretation of the above article.

Watch the video below from StopFake.org.  It is chilling, to say the least. Welcome to ‘Exposing Russian propaganda 101, Russians have no balls’.

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This week, Irena Chalupa, journalist and Fulbright scholar hosts StopFake News. Among this week’s fakes: creative use of photos tries to pass off Russian nationalists as Ukrainian Nazis; a nonexistent presidential interview is used a source for a preposterous claim of reincarnation; we look for 17 fake drunken US mercenaries on an alleged rampage in Mariupol and asd, did the German Chancellor really call Ukrainian leaders “rotten bastards”?

Source: http://www.stopfake.org/en/stopfakenews-67-eng-with-irena-chalupa/