Fmr. ‘Lie of the Year’ award winner Barack Obama announces crusade to stop ‘spread of disinformation’

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Barack Obama has joined the leftist establishment’s efforts to maintain control over their approved narrative, announcing that the Obama Foundation will be devoting its resources to training the next generation of information monitors under the oft-invoked pretense of combating “disinformation.” a term which like “democracy” has been twisted into a pretzel in true Orwellian fashion by the political left.

Fresh off of his speech at the big “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference sponsored by The Atlantic, Obama took to Twitter to announce his involvement in the new initiative, invoking the key buzz words in a pair of tweets that were met with incredulity by many who can recall the former president’s tendency to play fast and loose with the truth during his eight years in the White House.

According to the nation’s 44th president, “In recent years, we’ve seen how quickly disinformation spreads, especially on social media. This has created real challenges for our democracy.”

Obama added, “Part of the reason it’s hard to bring about change is because we live in a media environment that elevates falsehoods as much as truths, and divides people as much as it brings them together.”

The organization that bears his name also tweeted out an infomercial featuring Obama himself sitting with those who are being trained in the art of policing “disinformation” along with all the standard malarkey and spin that portrays any dissenting opinion from leftist orthodoxy and official policy as endangering “democracy,” a talking point that is repeatedly hammered by Democrats and their media mouthpieces.

What makes his rollout of what is obviously a program to further the left’s drive for censorship all the more laughable is that Obama was the recipient of fact-checker PolitFact’s 2013 “Lie of the Year,” award, scoring the dubious honor for his falsehood about the Affordable Care Act that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” a deception that at the time was believed by millions, many of who soon found out that they’d been conned.

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Obama was also given a “Pants on Fire” by PolitiFact earlier in the same year for his attempt to wriggle off the hook for his whopper during a speech to party loyalists.

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The Obama Foundation’s training for future information warriors and its famous namesake drew ridicule and scorn on Twitter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted out a screenshot of a Politico story touting all of those former intelligence officials – many of them Democrats – who issued a statement falsely claiming that Hunter Biden’s smoking laptop was Russian disinformation, a blatant fib that may have helped to swing the election to his father who was the beneficiary of the “big lie” told by the spooks in the waning weeks before voters went to the polls.

Benjamin Weingarten, editor of Real Clear Investigations asked Obama, “Speaking of, what did you know about Russiagate, when did you know it, and what did you do about it?”

“I’m sure there’s no way this will ever be abused and turn into a professional leftist activist organization meant to deplatform conservatives and libertarians,” wrote conservative radio host Austin Petersen.

Others weighed in with their takes.

Obama’s announcement, which singles out social media as an environment where “disinformation spreads,” comes as the leftist establishment is in a state of panic after billionaire Elon Musk announced his takeover bid for Twitter, terrifying Democrats and their allies that new leadership could end their rigged game and the stranglehold that they currently enjoy on the platform.

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45 thoughts on “Fmr. ‘Lie of the Year’ award winner Barack Obama announces crusade to stop ‘spread of disinformation’

  1. The Obama foundation ? Obama was the leader of misinformation for 8 years, and then supported the aspirations of the greatest creator of misinformation aka lies, Hillary the horribl e. Now he’s taking a chapter from her book on corruption and deceit and creating a foundation like the Clinton foundation. Full of hot air promises but just in time to pay for his daughters’ weddings. What I don’t understand is his daughters aren’t bulldog ugly . But the Clintons have proven having money doesn’t mean you can’t get somebody else to pay for what you want.

  2. Isn’t this rich! The sitting reigning “Liar of the Year” title holder hawking his latest project to bring disinformation to a halt. It’s laughable.

  3. Here is some more disinformation that you haven’t seen everywhere that you can put in your pipe and smoke. Remember Biden claiming there will be food shortages? Well over the last month there have been 12 food processing plants and scattered around the US that have been destroyed or partly so. Coincidence? One or two accidents in a month is one thing but 12. Hmmm! Part of the Marxist left’s control tactics? I don’t have a clue yet. This is just disinformation to the left. To me it’s food for thought. Can’t forget how often disinformation turns true. That is the reason they want to control it of course. You will have to use your own judgement.

  4. Of course everyone remembers the two Big Classics, “If you like your Doctor you can keep him,” “If you like you current medical insurance you can keep it.” But what about that big “Shovel Ready Jobs,” or the one I like best is the “Re-Distribution of Wealth.” So far I haven’t gotten my shovel or my check for my share of that big distribution. Could it be that Obama was telling a Lie??? It certainly looks like he got his share since he is building a Multi-Million Dollar mansion in Hawaii.

    1. And purchased a multi million $ beachfront mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. Where is all of this money coming from (rhetorical question)?

  5. Well one must give him credit for being one of the foremost experts in the spreading of disinformation for decades.

  6. Obama started the whole “Big Lie” agenda- and was able to say just about anything and get away with it, because he was half black- and even conservatives were scared of calling him out-or they would be called racist. Obama was able to use his 50% Blackness like a cloak, to protect him from any accountability or criticism. Now all Democrats do the same thing, but call all their opponents right wing nut jobs-or white Supremacists “Threatening Democracy”.

  7. Hey Barack, how you go be interviewed by Durham investigators. Then you can show what a great truth teller you are and explain how you used our government to help crooked Hillary NOT get elected. By the way, have you been able to keep your doctor?

  8. Everyone agrees that misinformation is rampant these days, and the left believes they have the right to manage it for all? Passing Bills to compel speech have been passed in Canada, and it appears that many Americans have accepted the concept. Controlling speech would prove helpful to those bent on controlling your thoughts. Be informed!

    1. Unfortunately I don’t think Canada has a first amendment. Hopefully it will be harder here to circumvent free speech. Not that the Left won’t try!

      Let’s go Brandon!!!!

  9. DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH! ALL OBAMA DOES IS SPREAD DISINFORMATION. I DON’T WANT TO HEAR HIM, PERIOD.

  10. It’s OXYMORON coming out of the mouth of that Muslim turd. The jerk is now more emboldened since he is having his third term vicariously through puppet Biden. Onward to fundamentally change America into a third world sh!thole. JMO

  11. Hey BPR!!!! What does this tell you about your new suck ass format?? One of your regular commenters emailed me the following:

    Good Morning Nick, I thought I would drop you a line to let you know that I have stopped getting e-mails from BizPacReview as I did in the past, I used to get two a day one in the morning and one in the afternoon, since Friday of last week I have received no e-mails from them. I was just wondering if this has happen to you as well or is it just my account that has been removed? If it is part of their new system or format I see where they will have problems in the future from a business stand point.
     
    I did enjoy reading many of their articles as they were subjects that you will never hear on the MSM and some I felt compelled to comment on but I assume that they have now decided they do not want any conservative views and changed the system or stop sending people e-mails that they do not want on their site.

    1. Nick, I can only assume that BPR felt your comment was to derogatory and do not want people calling their system out as I noticed they have a red flag across from your name which from what I understand from reading the pop up states click on the flag to report you or your comment. It is unfortunates that BPR is not willing to take the criticism and correct their format. BRP again while trying to reply to Nick’s comment I had Tommy’s Garage pop up 4 times, every time I type the letter F. SAD

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      1. I’ve had the same and it’s disgusting. I’ve also tried to vote up or down on a comment only to be told I’ve already done so, which I know I hadn’t. I hate this new format and wish they’d return to the old one. This one is disgusting to use!

        1. This is the worst excuse for a comment platform I have ever seen. Another news format I used tried it, but today I was pleased to see they had switched back to Disqus. Hopefully, with enough complaints from readers this one will do the same.

          I just attempted to post a comment and a pop-up told me my email was invalid. Bull pucky! They sent me an email to update my password 40 minutes ago. Guess they didn’t like what I had to say.

      2. Every comment on the page has that red flag, including yours. It is there to report spam or other problems. Put your mouse pointer or whatever your device uses on that spot by your own name.

  12. Race hustling grifter Commie Kenyan is responsible for all the problems our society struggles with today.

  13. anything connected to the atlantic is a lie. it is worse than cnn if that is possible.

  14. Darn it, and I really liked my previous health plan and thought the world of the doctor I used to have. Oh Well, Obumbler, the liar of the DECADE, fixed all the things that I really liked.

  15. HEY O’bungler ! ! ! . . . You are an EXpresident, your say is largely irrelevant, due in large part that you were not legitimately elected in the first place, none the least of all because you are a Kenyan. Then there is the massive election fraud issue to contend with as well.

    I along with a large number of my Shipmates (all military active and retired/Vets are my Shipmates) we never recognized you as our CinC.

    Barry Age 77
    PO1 USN RET
    Vietnam 3x (Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club)

    #FJB #LGB #FBHO

  16. Oh great a whole nuther generation of LIARS taught by one of the biggest LIARS known to man. I think Joe biden holds the actual title of biggest LIAR known to man but Ole bride of Chucky psaki is a close third behind those two POS. sometimes I wonder if they actually believe the lies that they pedal on a daily basis….SMH

  17. The damage this man has done to the country, let along setting back race relations back decades, still leaves an unhealed scar to this very day.

  18. “If you like your plan you can keep it, if you like your doctor you can keep him. ” LOL

  19. What… He’s actually going to stop talking? I’ll believe that when I don’t hear it…

  20. brock obamy is misinformation! He is a fake nword and the 2nd worst president in history! He can lie with the best of the dems, but not quite as much as jen cackapsaki!

  21. “Part of the reason it’s hard to bring about change is because we live in a media environment that elevates falsehoods as much as truths, and divides people as much as it brings them together.”

    This is rich coming from the POS who did more to divide this country than any president in history.

    When it comes to the suppression of free speech, conservatives need to stop trying to get the playing field back to level, and start focusing on doing exactly what liberals are doing to us.. We need to crush their voice and the filthy ideology they are pushing across this country like a putrid cancer.

  22. Since 44 admin, the mantra for the D is, “accuse others of what you are guilty”! It has been proven true time and again, “Those who are guilty, are the first to accuse”.

  23. This comment didn’t need approval. Seeing through the lie, ikr, well that needs approval. Enticing good people to do immoral acts, that’s ok.

  24. Former? Liar of year? I’d speculate tied with BumblesBiden and others at very
    least. Karen in central Fl widow of RET/DAV/USA

  25. Sounds just like Hitler. Pointing fingers blaming everyone else. It worked, for awhile, and then everyone saw through all the lies.

  26. We are at the point in our history where nobody expects democrats to tell the truth. Truth will get in the way of the democrat agenda every time! It is anathema to everything the left wants to accomplish. Their lying has become so prevalent and so obvious it’s now SOP to assume that the opposite is true whenever a democrat makes a statement about anything. Especially during campaign season. With rare exceptions the only time we ever hear them tell the truth is when there’s a hot mic nearby, and those occasions are always accidental and unintentional.

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