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Apr 30·edited Apr 30Liked by Free Black Thought

So I think that while I appreciate this, I think we should acknowledge the way this was presented was biased. To make it more balanced It should have started with Trumps election in 2016. Then the absolute firehouse of lies that followed from Russia Collusion to Covid, to the Election law changes that resulted and to Hunter Biden's laptop. That's what infected people's minds. It's cognitive dissonence. It's what led to what occurred on jan 6th and withholding all that information paints an absolutely different potrait. I think you should also talk about why Fox came about, it was to balance out all the other stations that were left leaning. How do I know? I worked at all of them.

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Good constructive criticism! Thank you!

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Kind of OK, but better to have started with COVID issue. Starting with January 6th runs into Supreme Court deliberations and the attempts to "get Trump." I can understand obsessive opinions in all mainstream media on both sides. The unraveling of the Covid mis, dis and mal-information would be more interesting. I

wonder about the "turn off cable news" n

remark. Is that an attempt to filter out what we often not see reported on 'reliable" sources.

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I agree was ok but , for me anyway, COVID would have been a better topic than J6.

The media and the left spent 4 years trying to impeach Trump with charges that were misinformation and flat out lies. In a sense the election was rigged by the left with media support because of the constant attacks at Trump that were baseless. J6 was an explosion of emotion from people that the left basically hate and still do. Normal people who are tired of seeing what’s going on around them.

Wrong approach in my opinion but understandable.

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Everyone will hate part of this and agree with party of it. Different parts of course, dependent upon what we want to believe.

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Enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing! Many great points raised and appreciated the balanced calling out of people politically and am especially glad you highlighted the glaring issues with scientific research. I think we are in tricky times and wonder how it's all going to shake out. As for elections, wonder if the creators missed this Time magazine article: https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

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Thanks for sharing. I hadn’t heard about the coming book nor this video. Enlightening, even though I cringed at Mr. Romney’s naïveté speech at the end. Maybe it was intended to show through. In December 2020, after absorbing the views from left and right, I said to myself, our election system has crumbled into a mess of broken pieces. We’re just going to have to accept the main narrative this time because it will take years to resolve all these election issues, not the weeks or months we have until Inauguration Day. Mr. Romney, a good man, clung to the mainstream narrative that made him feel safe, and he wanted others to feel safe as well. Understandable, but NOT in the spirit of this documentary which we were just enlightened by. My 2 cents.

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