Just where are those “substantive discussions”, in the Times with their imaginary Right of Free Spew?
For example the “unprepared Obama” meme Beltway media constructed by cherry-picking Mr. Obama’s comment on Northern Iraq containment to Scott Pelley of CBS and pretending the President was commenting on ISIL’s global reach has been repeated endlessly and is, based on remarks made on this past weekend’s Sunday shows, now expressed by journalists across the spectrum as a proven fact. By this creation of nonexistent fact, Beltway press could just as easily claim the NYT’s use of “spew” actually referred to the Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare founded by Hermione Granger in 1994.
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I think I need to get a bigger Snark-O-Meter.
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Gorgeous cat!!!
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Well, this happened. Cheering can’t be too far out of the question .
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Ah, the good ol’ John Birch Society…aka the TeaGrampas.
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My point is the public is disengaged on issues relating to politics and policies and do not tune in. Trump’s a hollow but entertaining huckster, and that’s what they’re after
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And unchallenged…
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Sad but true.
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“social media—a form of communication that doesn’t require any proof, unlike an exchange with a reporter should”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Oh man is that rich coming from the NYT (WMDs anyone?)…or any major MSM outlet at this point. Fucking nonsense.
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Would tweet footnotes be called fweets?
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Trump: Make America Hate Again.
His supporters are some of the scariest I’ve seen. The more he panders hate and fear the louder they cheer
The really sad thing in all of this is that there are real live Americans out there that don’t care about the truth. Their fear and hate rules them and the truth becomes an inconvenience to their way of life. How easily we forget the mistakes of the past. And when that happens, we are doomed to repeat them over and over.
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Great Post.
The NYT is a Day Late and (Billions of Dollars) Short. It’s “plausible journalism”. In fact, the Times missed the boat in 2009-2010 when this bullshit started with Dick Armey (The U.S’s Roehm) and his TeaBagg Stormtroops.
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A vested interest in furthering falsehood…
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What Stone did to great effect was throw every known JFK assassination theory at the screen and it all stuck. You can see its effectiveness when there are social media discussions on who the assassin might have been. It was Oswald, no, it was the Mob, no. it was the Russians, no, it was the army, no it was Cubans ad infinitum. New Orleans itself is ground zero for all the conspiracy theories because of the film…
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“A Mystery Wrapped in a Riddle Inside an Enigma” - David Ferry in “JFK”
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That sounds familiar.
Trump often wages his attacks on social media—a form of communication that doesn’t require any proof, unlike an exchange with a reporter should
unlike an exchange with a reporter should… since when, not recently that is for sure… it is all about the “balance” with the MSM. And for sure you never get the questioner asking follow up questions and/or calling the person out when they avoid the question and go on a tangent, let alone immediately calling out lies.That is unless, like Hill, you are on the Times shit list then it is definitely not balanced.
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The public is apathetic, the candidates don’t matter and voting doesn’t matter Why it’s happened could be chalked up to any number of things, including an election season that lasts almost two years. I’ve told this before but in a conversation with a young man who saw my HRC button, he said “Is Hillary running?” I told him she was the front runner. He said he hadn’t read the news lately. Another young man asked what the button was, I told him it was for the Democratic candidate, I asked him if he voted, he said no, why should he.
Even the beloved Saint Rachel couldn’t call Trump a liar in the Muslim on roof lie, she only called it “factually inaccurate”, and she’s on our team. Nobody knows how to fix this. The media know how lazy and unchallenging the public is, they coast on the ignorance and apathy and have no incentive to do more than bring us more infotainment with the emphasis on the tainment.
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It’s astounding how many things today that should go without saying, need to be not only said, but defended loudly. See also: science.
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