Topics: 

• NYT interviewed a non-racist statue supporter at Charlottesville
  • There was a DIVERSE group of people at the event
• PolitiFact “pulled a Mueller”, refuses to state Charlottesville was hoax
  • PolitiFact  provides full context, lets the reader decide
  • Judging true or false is what PolitiFact does…and they can’t?
    • Left-leaning PolitiFact can’t or won’t state it was a hoax
• Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales (Founder), retweets truth of Charlottesville
  • Wikipedia beat all other left-leaning outlets to report the truth
• Does a law exist, that allows the murder of babies after birth?
  • A life and death decision, who gets to make it?
• Synagogue shooter and copycat shooters
  • Media coverage provides a how-to tutorial
• Tragedy increases media profits
  • Does the media unintentionally promote copycat horrors?
• NYT International edition’s anti-semitic trope…WTF?
  • NYT removed the comic, said it was an error in judgement
• Don’t judge by the mistakes people make
  • Judge by their response to making the mistake
  • “I made a mistake, I’m owning it and here’s how I’ll correct it”
  • Isn’t that a better filter for life, and the world you want to live in?
• 48-Hour Rule: Allow people 48 hours to retract or explain things
• Charlottesville event poster wasn’t obviously racist to everyone
  • A Jewish person attended, thought it was a free speech rally

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