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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 870 Am I "Fake News"?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Harvard University's library system just released a guide to "fake news" and propaganda websites. Guess who's on there? So's LewRockwell.com, Antiwar.com, and even Wikileaks. Lew Rockwell joins me to discuss what we should make of this.

Show notes for Ep. 870

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 870.

0:03.1

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.7

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0:14.2

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0:19.4

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0:21.7

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0:24.7

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0:28.3

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, joined by Lou Rockwell today because we got to talk about something

0:32.3

that's just happened.

0:33.7

Harvard University has released a little guide to so-called fake news, and they're linking to a giant list of so-called fake news sites, and it includes Lou and me. How about that? So it's all right for the news media to promote war propaganda 24 hours a day. They're fine, but you dissent from that and you are demonized. So Lou and I've got to talk about this.

1:00.5

Lou, of course, is the publisher and editor of Lou Rockwell.com, your indispensable daily read. He's also the founder and chairman of the Meeses Institute, which you should definitely visit at MISES.org.

1:13.8

We may never hear from you again, by the way, so great is the conuncopia of wonderful, delightful things, courses, videos, books, articles, all kinds of wonderful things over there at Mzes.org. And he is former chief of staff

1:30.0

to former congressman Ron Paul. So great guy all around, great benefactor of mine. And I'm glad to

1:37.4

welcome him back to the show. Lou, welcome back. Tom, great to be with you. What an interesting

1:42.3

opportunity we have here. It's an interesting reason for you to be coming you. What an interesting opportunity we have here.

1:47.3

It's an interesting reason for you to be coming back.

1:48.1

All right.

1:54.0

I just kind of hinted at this a little bit, but my old alma mater has now released this.

1:56.1

I'll link to it on the show notes page.

2:00.4

It's a guide to so-called fake news, propaganda. And in that guide, they linked to this very, very

2:04.7

comprehensive, very, very long list of offending websites. And Lou, you and I are on there.

2:12.8

Now, I will say, I think I'm a notch above you because next to me it simply says unknown, which I look that up. What does unknown mean? It means they haven't bothered to actually see if it's fair that I'm on the list, but they're just going to throw me on anyway for now. So you're guilty until proven innocent, basically, in this particular court. So there's loo rockwell.com.

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