{"id":2533,"date":"2016-12-02T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2016-12-02T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:45:23","slug":"biggest-fake-news-story-2016-washington-posts-sinister-support-called-moderate-rebels-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/2016\/12\/02\/biggest-fake-news-story-2016-washington-posts-sinister-support-called-moderate-rebels-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Fake News Story of 2016: The Washington Post\u2019s Sinister Support of so Called \u201cModerate Rebels\u201d in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ministryvalues\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Follow Mystic Post on Facebook<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>By Stephen Ryan<\/strong><br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2425\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/616\/2016\/01\/TheMadonnaFiles_CoverArt-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"TheMadonnaFiles_CoverArt-2\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">I voted for Trump for one simple reason. He asked the question \u201cWho are these \u201cModerate Rebels\u201d in Syria? \u00a0adding \u201cHillary doesn\u2019t even know who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hillary also doubled down on her reckless foreign policy views \u00a0by promoting a \u201cNo fly zone\u201d in Syria that Obama\u2019s own Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff said would lead to war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are these \u201cModerate\u201d rebels is a question never asked of Hillary by the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN and the rest of the Main Stream Media. But let\u2019s be clear on one thing the \u201cModerate Rebels\u201d don\u2019t exist ..It\u2019s all made up \u2013 It\u2019s fake news.<\/p>\n<p>The ineptness of not asking Hillary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say\/2016\/11\/24\/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tough questions is troubling enough but for the 4th estate to circle the wagons and accuse hundreds of media outlets of promoting fake news stories<\/a> because they were not smart enough to understand they were being \u00a0duped by the Russian government\u2019s clever manipulation of social media conducted by highly sophisticated Russian \u201cinternet trolls\u201d \u00a0is scary, awful, stupid. \u00a0The narrative that the Syrian rebels are not all good guys and that Russia\u2019s skepticism of the rebels chances of bringing stability to the country is NOT a fake news story.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post has promoted the deadly fake news story for years that \u201cModerate Rebels\u201d could bring peace and democracy to Syria. It\u2019s just a big fat lie . \u00a0 The moderate rebels, as anyone who reads past a headline, understands that the forces fighting Assad in Syria are thugs and mercenary soldiers \u00a0even terrorists getting paid well by the CIA and Saudi Arabia to conduct \u201ccontrolled chaos\u201d inside Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Main stream media has tried to control the narrative \u00a0i.e. its fake news story, \u00a0of the Syrian civil war with horrific consequences. \u00a0The Washington Post, \u00a0asserts that Assad is the evil tyrant \u201cbarrel bombing\u201d his own people and that the indispensable nation of the United States of America has been morally obligated to stand with the freedom seeking Syrians. The Washington Post, in its support of this story line, has, with hat in hand, dutifully gone along with the Washington Establishment\u2019s recommendation of pursuing regime change. \u00a0With the Washington Post any news story about the Syrian civil war that John McCain or \u00a0Lindsey Graham object to is immediately branded as fake news manipulated by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s desperate \u00a0attempts at smearing competing news outlets is not just about protecting its credibility and relevance but it\u2019s also about defending itself against the real possibility that they have been morally wrong on their views on the Syrian conflict and that their support of their fake news narrative has led to Syrian blood on their own ink stained hands.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Mystic Post on Facebook By Stephen Ryan I voted for Trump for one simple reason. He asked the question \u201cWho are these \u201cModerate Rebels\u201d in Syria? \u00a0adding \u201cHillary doesn\u2019t even know who they are.\u201d Hillary also doubled down on her reckless foreign policy views \u00a0by promoting a \u201cNo fly zone\u201d in Syria that Obama\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2537,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medjugorje"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Biggest Fake News Story of 2016: The Washington Post\u2019s Sinister Support of so Called \u201cModerate Rebels\u201d in Syria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Follow Mystic Post on Facebook By Stephen Ryan I voted for Trump for one simple reason. 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