Am not trying to make you look bad. It was the BBC and Laura K that accused Trump of advocating for Torture, not Youtube. I challenge to you to show me where Trump advocated for Torture in the sense of removing body parts. That would be something ISIS does.
Trump was talking about obtaining information from enhanced interrogation, not removing body parts which is the lie that the BBC is trying to paint in the minds of its viewers ..
But this one example is not the larger point.
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ALL the press is suspect, including CNN with the Russian reporting.
All the press could have useful information, even press that is hostile or that we disagree with.
So I have been thinking about a framework to evaluate a report.
Souce > Source Motive > SubjectSo for example, If the source is Iranian and the subject is US navy of course it likely wrong . And certainly going to make the US look bad( In Obama's case he gave the Iranians the sailors as a propaganda coupe. )
But we already KNOW to be suspect of the Iranian press.
Now the real danger is the so called 'trusted' press like BBC, CNN, NYT and Wash post which is supposed to be credible.We get a false positive feeling of credibility from these outlets and end up having to waste time defending Trump , Sessions and Global warming (As an aside all of these outlets are complicit in the East Anglia fraud)etc.
So we have to be
MORE VIGILANT with the leftist outlets.
Now these is one more thing.
Because I dont like having to write these explanations, I TRIED finding credible western sources/embeds for what was going on in Tal -Afar and Mosul. They were slim and none and slim left the country.
But the framework above works because the arab sources had credible embeds AND were calling ISIS 'infidels' and takfiri (apostasy). Fascinating!!! ISIS members were REPEATEDLY referred to as takfiris.
A corollary political insight is that Trump refers to radical islam. Well the word takfiris means the same thing for purposes of building alliances so we dont have to fight them all.
Maybe we can make the media framework thing a post for the antro board , so am bringing this to the attention to don for that purpose.
@Norm Lenhart @don-o @Smokin Joe @LonestarDream
Oh, videos, is the best thing one can do. A youtube video can be put up by anyone. A youtube video that was being posted in the politics section. 
And now someone wanted the thread deleted because it was placed in the right area.
Did Trump make comments originally about torture, yes he did. Has Trump backed down on those comments now. Yes he did. And his general said they wouldn't do it.
Who cares what some youtube channel has.
At least, they are not posting mickey mouse Russian press stories.
US Sets Up Military Base in Syrian Manbij to 'Defend It From Turkish Attack'
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703011051156732-us-syria-manbij-base/
This story above has been shown to already be a load of trash.
@LonestarDream
Any news outlet can be shown to have had bad reporting.
Youtube videos hardly qualify as news.
Don't personalize your arguments, find what was wrong with the story.
It's better than posting propaganda you tube videos, what a hoot.
It's fine to post from whatever source one wants, but if one criticizes, they should be prepared likewise to defend what they post. Some sources may be right, this is a rabbit hole for some reason, one felt they needed to go down.
