Matt Gaetz Cites ‘China’s Fox News’ in Push to Stop Ukraine Aid

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  1. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And who does not enjoy watching alleged child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz fail?

    It seems Florida's representative was attempting to create some case against aid for Ukraine, sort of a homage to Putin, and in doing so asked some hard hitting questions........

    While citing Chinese propaganda.

    Not sure why this upstanding citizen, this hallmark of decency, would expect that Chinese propaganda is correct and our own military and policy people would be wrong.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetz-cites-chinas-fox-news-in-push-to-stop-ukraine-aid

    He cited the report to grill Colin Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, on whether Ukraine’s Azov Battalion—the Kremlin’s favorite bogeyman—was getting access to U.S. weapons. But Wahl reacted calmly to the congressman’s spiel, asking: “‘Is this the Global Times from China?” “No, this is... ” Gaetz said, before admitting, ”Yeah, it might be. Yeah.” After Kahl told the congressman that he doesn’t “take Beijing’s propaganda at face value,” Gaetz conceded: “‘Fair enough.” The newspaper, popularly referred to as “China’s Fox News,” is a well-known government mouthpiece. Before speaking to Kahl, Gaetz spent several minutes unsuccessfully trying to get Defense Department Inspector General Robert Storch to admit that the Biden administration somehow lost track of funding sent to Ukraine.
     
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    drluggit Well-Known Member

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    Misleading threat title. The title should reflect the real name of the paper, not a reference to US Fox news.

    The inference here is that Matt Gaetz attacked Fox news, not the Global Times. Title should be edited to reflect this misleading inference.
     
  3. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The thread title is the title of the article and seems wholly accurate. Perhaps your complaint should be aimed at the editors of the Daily Beast.
     
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    Not to anyone, who can read. The title-- which comes from the cited article, not the OP writer-- very clearly says, with quotations around the title, "China's Fox News." Unless you'd thought that FOX actually has a branch of their outfit, operating in China, it is inexplicable how you could have gotten confused.



    Freudian Slip?
     
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    Let's not distract from the point by dragging Foxnews into this.

    Matt Gatez is an idiot who does his own research.
     
  6. yardmeat

    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    . . . he didn't "attack" the Global Times. He cited them as evidence.
     
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    He has long history of pushing Russian and Chinese anti-American propaganda, because its what his base wants to hear.
     
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    It cannot be, must match the article
    How do you not know this?

    And the tile is accurate, its chinas version of fox — sheer propaganda. The only difference is they probably believe what they are saying vs Fox that is openly lying to their viewers because they know they don’t actually care about the truth.
     
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    Did Kahl ever answer the question though?
     
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    I'm confused. Is this an 'anti-china' thread or a 'pro nazi funding thread'?

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    Now about "attempting to create some case against aid for Ukraine, sort of a homage to Putin" as you said....

    Do you really want to go there?

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    The inference is that the poster is not attacking Fox News. the inference is that Fox News is propaganda for the GOP just as the Global Times is propaganda for the CCP in China.

    But Matt Gaetz using the Global Times, the English version of The People's Daily, the official CCP newspaper, is more than just ironic, it is quite sad that Gaetz would not be knowledgeable to know what Global times really is. It is China's version of the Epoch Times, but with a direct link to the CCP ministry of propaganda.
     
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    This is what you get when you put a guy into Congress because daddy is a rich donor. You end up with a dumb extremist who reguritates the propaganda of America's enemy to attack a nation being invaded by another American enemy.

    Gaetz knows that there is no chance he will ever face consequences for this sort of behaviour.
     
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    Was the question ever answered though?
     
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    I can’t help but notice how you referred to Matt Gaetz, perhaps you’ll be flattered if I copy your style.

    If I ran the country instead of the alleged child sniffing, woman groping, influence peddling racist* guy we currently have in the Oval Office we would be ending aid to Ukraine and auditing what we already gave them. I have this odd feeling that Zelensky will end up being, or already is, worth hundreds of millions of dollars just like Yasser Arafat.

    *it’s not really alleged when we can see videos of Biden behaving like a child sniffing, woman groping racist who almost certainly sold the influence of his office according to his son’s own emails.
     
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    Great story
     
  16. Durandal

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    lolololo... Does this mean we get to start calling him "China Matt"?
     

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