President Trump proposed this morning “a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage”.
We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2017
It’s a great idea, and it has been going on in France for over half a decade.
I was lucky enough to be able to participate this year, in a theatre near the Bataclan on the Boulevard Voltaire in Paris.
It was all in French, of course, but the founder and organiser — a cheery fellow by the name of Jean-Yves La Gallou — took it upon himself to find me a translator.
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Monsieur La Gallou has of course been derided as a “fascist”, as had many of the event’s attendees, but all I witnessed on the night was jovial and robust ribbings of the establishment media. I wrote about it in my book ‘No Go Zones’, not least because a fake news story about a Brussels no go zone won the award on the night:
At an awards ceremony lampooning the mainstream media—the Bobards d’Or [Golden Fibbers] in France—a host semi-jokes that the real name of Molenbeek is “Sint-Jans-Molenbeek” or Molenbeek Saint-Jean, named after St. John the Baptist. They are, he claimed, trying to erase the area’s Christian history by changing its name to simply “Molenbeek.” Whether this is true or just a convenient truncation is unclear. But what is clear is that all around Europe, regardless of what they call it, people talk about Molenbeek in hushed tones. Interestingly, with my audience-member vote included, the “fake news” story about Molenbeek won the award for mainstream media lie of the year.
full story at http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/27/potus-proposes-fake-news-awards-french-conservatives-decade-hilarious/