Originally Posted by Taichiliberal View Post
One of the recent mantras trotted out by the Murdock media and like minded extreme right wing pundits and sycophants. Here's the problem: the general population has become lazy regarding proper research and the use of critical thinking. Relying on one source without keeping abreast of current affairs via multiple HISTORICALLY VALID & DOCUMENTED SOURCES makes one's final determinations susceptible to fraud.
When Fox News and its like minded entities were caught chronically lying to the American public, their counter punch was to actually do honest research in analyzing folk who criticized them. However, ANY inaccuracies or flaws found were touted as full blown and constant media bias. Thus, folk like you can easily dismiss any fact check that disproves your beliefs or declarations.....much akin to the Orange Oaf's declaring any and everything "Fake News".
So the immediate question comes to mind....whom do you consider an impeccable source of information? And how do you logically and factually determine who is telling the truth?
Apply those question to what I previously posted and see if your assertions pass the muster. As shown, the Ray Epps legend is just pure amalgamated propaganda repeated by like minded entities. Apply logical, critical analysis to all information available, and the Epps story falls apart.
Oh, and this might help you out:
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias
Okay, your assertion is that the Ray Epps thing is a nothingburger. Now I don't know much about that; So I'm going to see if I can find anything to either prove or disprove your assertion. Let's see how it goes!
Oh, and I've seen that site posted 100s of times, usually by people wanting to use the site's assessment to promote original fallacy. Starting right now at around 8:30, here I go!
Okay, there's this: Epps is a former president of the "Oath Keepers", was present in Washington on the 5th and the 6th, was directing people to the Congress building.
"Ray Epps, a Marine veteran, was seen in video urging a group of Trump supporters in Washington DC to 'go into the Capitol' on January 5 and 6
DailyMail.com located Epps, 60, who is at the center of a conspiracy theory alleging he was an FBI plant sent to help incite the deadly riot
Epps is the former president of the largest chapter of the far-right anti- government militia group the Oath Keepers
His alleged involvement in the deadly insurrection was highlighted in the DOJ's House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing in October
U.S Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) showed video clips of Epps repeatedly encouraging protestors on the streets of DC to 'go into' the Capitol"
"The vacuum of corroborated facts about the person identified by the FBI in photograph “16” has been filled with speculation stemming from a video showing crowds chanting “Fed! Fed! Fed!” after Mr Epps said on 5 January, “Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol”."
"Mr Epps’s image was included on the FBI Capitol Violence most wanted list, but it was removed around July last year."
https://news.yahoo.com/ray-epps-capitol-riot-figure-140228875.html
There's no denying he was there:
"Ray Epps told The Arizona Republic in a brief telephone interview Monday that he had traveled to the capital for the event, and that he had been advised by an attorney not to speak about it. "
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...stigation-arizona-trump-supporter/6624406002/
Kinzinger and the AP try to spin it all kinds of ways, but that doesn't mean they're not running contrary to the facts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-ray-epps.html
https://www.rawstory.com/ray-epps-capitol/
^Nothing but spin.
And then there's this nonsense from Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-epps-dominion-idUSL1N2Z91V2
Back to the facts, there's this from the Congressional hearings:
https://t.co/JV1cITkprd
Okay, so I do find it odd that a person who orchestrated the Jan 6 thing has not been charged or anything. A logical conclusion is that he was an FBI plant used to pump people up to do bad things they can get in trouble for.
Don't try to claim they don't do that, because they entrapped a local man by doing ecactly that.
I'm going to say Ray Epps was a plant used to pump up people to do illegal things with the FBI just waiting to spring a trap because he was working with them.
One of the recent mantras trotted out by the Murdock media and like minded extreme right wing pundits and sycophants. Here's the problem: the general population has become lazy regarding proper research and the use of critical thinking. Relying on one source without keeping abreast of current affairs via multiple HISTORICALLY VALID & DOCUMENTED SOURCES makes one's final determinations susceptible to fraud.
