Hoaxed - “It’s a fricking masterpiece.”
We all know the feeling of logging onto the Internet and reading fake news stories. The latest fake news story is that Joy Reid's computer was hacked by time travelers. Fake news is a simulation, that is, an artificial construct of reality. What we know as "the news" simply isn't true.
Hoaxed is a crowd-funded documentary produced by Cerno Films (Mike Cernovich). Cernovich's last film about free speech included icons like Alan Dershowitz, Candace Owens, and Scott Adams. Hoaxed, if you can believe it, has an even greater cast.
On 10th October 1990, a 15-year old girl, who introduced herself only as “Nayirah” testified before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus.
She told the committee she saw Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die. George H.W. Bush mentioned this story at least 10 times to gin up support for putting American troops on the ground in the first Gulf War.
CNN took the story and ran with it, Wolf Blitzer becoming the face of Gulf War journalism.
It Was All a Lie.
“Nayirah” was Nayirah Al-Sabah, daughter of Saud Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.A. at the time. She lived and went to high school in Washington, D.C. Her testimony was part of a campaign orchestrated by Hill & Knowlton, an American public relations firm.
Hill Knowlton received $10.5 million from an organization called “Citizens for a Free Kuwait.” Citizens for a Free Kuwait received close to $12 million from the state of Kuwait, according to official documents.
On 7th September 2002, Judith Miller and Michael R. Gordon wrote the “metal tubes” story, claiming they would be used by Saddam Hussein to manufacture WMDs.
Soon after this piece was published, Vice President Dick Cheney went on “Meet the Press” and quoted the Miller story. His argument was, “It’s not just conservatives who support regime change in Iraq, even the New York Times is saying it!” Cheney was the one who leaked the “metal tubes” intel to Miller. And of course, no WMDs were found. Miller’s excuse was, and continues to be, “how was I supposed to know!”
This film makes a very compelling case that all people, regardless of ideology, are victims of fake news. This is a cinematic masterpiece that will transcend time. I honestly didn’t expect this from Cernovich. I expected it would be good but this documentary blew me away. I’m uncomfortable calling it a documentary because the pace, editing, visuals, and attention to detail feels like a cinematic experience. The film is two hours long but somehow holds my attention throughout. I’m on my second viewing and I am noticing the very meaningful scores, shots, edits, and images chosen for each scene. Brilliant.
It looks like a $10 million budget documentary, but was made by a tiny fraction of that. This says a lot about the passion of this great team. This is touched by God.
Question everything, believe nothing and stay curious...
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