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Right-Wing Echo Chamber Fomenting Panic About Fake Sino-Russian Global Currency Plan
Matthew Yglesias —
... dynamic. When these things were put into place, a large swathe of the world was Communist and not participating in its mechanisms, Europe was a land of many currencies, and the poor world was much poorer. Over time, things change. Meanwhile, a phrase like “super-sovereign reserve currency” is going to be confusing to most people. One thing political media and political leaders could do is try to explain it to people. Instead, as Ali Frick observes, Matt Drudge teamed up with Rep Michelle Bachman (R-MN), Glenn Beck, and Major Garrett to generate a massive freak-out ...
A New Reserve Currency Is Not A Global Currency
Newshoggers.com —
... and Ali at Think Progress explain how Drudge, Glen Beck, FOX News and Michelle Bachman revealed themselves as exactly that cynically manipulative. ...
Echo chamber case study
Political Animal —
... over the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. Around the same time, the infamous (and non-existent) high-speed rail between Disneyland and Las Vegas offered another case study. Ali Frick reports on the latest theory, which actually managed to make its way into the White House last night. Earlier this week, China's Central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan suggested the need for a "super-sovereign reserve currency," a move most passed off as China trying to "flex some muscle." And yet, within days, Fox News' Major Garrett was demanding whether President Obama ...
Hannity Aids And Abets Michele Bachmann's Unfounded Conspiracy Theories
News Hounds —
... there is video of her saying exactly that. Not only did Hannity and FOX News not hold it against her, then-co-host Alan Colmes' portion of the interview was cut short when he contfronted her about the lie.
Lately, Bachmann has been taking to the airwaves falsely accusing the Obama administration of possibly joining an international plot to move the United States off the dollar and onto some kind of international One World Currency. Bachmann's claims are false. Think Progress has a great write up tracing FOX News' role in promoting this misconception. ...
Beck And Bachmann Spread More Paranoid Lies About Geithner And The Dollar
News Hounds —
... Glenn Beck revisited the phony Republican/wingnut conspiracy theory about Secretary Timothy Geithner supposedly “being open to” replacing the U.S. Dollar with some international, One World currency. It's black helicopter kind of thinking, and even Republican pollster Scott Rasmussen ...
Beck And Bachmann Spread More Paranoid Falsehoods About Geithner And The Dollar
News Hounds —
... Glenn Beck revisited the phony Republican/wingnut conspiracy theory about Secretary Timothy Geithner supposedly “being open to” replacing the U.S. Dollar with some international, One World currency. It's black helicopter kind of thinking, and even Republican pollster Scott Rasmussen ...
