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-Land of the Free
Kerry: People can't tell 'what's real and what isn't'
2016-12-03
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 lamented Friday that technology has allowed the quick spread of false information to the point that people are struggling to "know what's real and what isn't."

"This is one of our chief challenges today, is to manage information and to do it in a way that average folks at home can know what's real and what isn't, what's true, what's false, and try to build consensus around a common set of understandings," Kerry said during the Mediterranean Dialogues Conference in Rome. "Technology has brought the world closer, yes; but it's also enabled bigots and demagogues to spread messages of divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
ness and hate with the click of a button, with the push of a finger."
Have 'em post it on Rantburg -- our people quickly clarify whether something is fact or fiction.
That focus on misinformation was apparent whether he was talking about the risk of jihadist recruiters propagandizing young Moslems or pushing back against the trade skepticism now regnant in the United States. "Now, none of us should have any illusion about the challenges that we face. They are real, and frankly, they require our collective courage," Kerry continued. "And, I might add, they require all of those things based on truth."

He offered counterarguments to such ideas throughout his talk, beginning with the problem of terrorist propaganda. Kerry argued, contrary to jihadists, that all the great religions of the Mediterranean world share a common set of ethics.

Posted by:Fred

#18  I was close. :-)
Posted by: gorb   2016-12-03 18:51  

#17  Imam Kerry has his own version of Islam. He should explain it to ISIS.
Posted by: KBK   2016-12-03 14:58  

#16   But forget to pay taxes on their yacht that somehow always got parked in Connecticut Rhode Island?

FIFY gorb. Granted a distinction without a difference.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-03 14:43  

#15  People are very good at spotting what's not real, which is why the MSM is held in so little trust.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2016-12-03 14:15  

#14  Then there was that time that Liveshot got a free Buick from then local car dealer Bob Brest, skipped the first 16 payments, then claimed he paid the money back. This same car was also the car Kerry was sleeping in before he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Posted by: Raj   2016-12-03 13:40  

#13  But forget to pay taxes on their yacht that somehow always got parked in Connecticut?
Posted by: gorb   2016-12-03 13:37  

#12  People can't tell 'what's real and what isn't


That may or not be the case, Liveshot, but most of us deplorables can spot fake and phony from a mile away, like certain former Massachusetts Senators who managed to marry two rich widows.
Posted by: Raj   2016-12-03 13:33  

#11  You mean like George Stephanopoulos?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-12-03 12:45  

#10  Take for instance your face, Kerry. That's not real.
And most people don't know that you are a cartoon character yet.
Posted by: newc   2016-12-03 12:37  

#9  People can't tell 'what's real and what isn't'

Mr. Kerry probably shouldn't speak ill of his "rice bowl."
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2016-12-03 12:20  

#8  People can't tell 'what's real and what isn't'

Christmas in Cambodia, anyone?
Posted by: Frank G   2016-12-03 10:46  

#7  Like this mutt could tell.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2016-12-03 09:35  

#6  My favorite take on "what's real..."

“After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it: "I refute it thus.”

(August 6th 1763, as told in James Boswell’s 'Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 3'; 1791)
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-12-03 08:34  

#5  'Average folks'...aka 'unredeemable deplorables.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-03 08:09  

#4  Yep, Beso. I hear herr Goebels there as well.

The globalists / statists were born in the days of a central media monopoly of the airwaves. The big three owned the narrative and the "facts" and the "truth".

Much easier to control the plebs when there is only one source of information and you control it.

Now? Not so much and as people have heard more from more sources the bubble was broken and can't be put back together again.

I think that in the fullness of time Rathergate will be seen as a major milestone in the destruction of the elite.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-03 08:01  

#3  Oh to be a fly on the wall for the 'transisition meeting' between this delutional fool and Darth Bolton.

Especially when he tries to lecture Bolton on foreign policy.
Posted by: Chunky Unise6230   2016-12-03 05:16  

#2  Some are so delusional they compare the US military to Ghengis Khan.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-12-03 02:49  

#1  This is one of our chief challenges today, is to manage information and to do it in a way that average folks at home can know what's real and what isn't,

Literally cries out for a Goebbels graphic. Anyone hear it besides me ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-03 02:09  

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