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Tuesday, March 7. 2017

The war on Trump

From Kimball's News, Fake News, Very Fake News: A Primer:



 We were chatting with a couple of other people about this and that when someone she knew from the Times joined in. I then overheard him explain to her that she had to be careful about what she posted on Facebook, Twitter, etc., because anything too explicitly anti-Trump could be used against her when that glorious day came and "they" -- the conventional fraternity of groupthink scribblers -- finally took down that horrible, despicable man.


"We've got dozens of people working on it all the time," he explained, adding that it was only a matter of time before they got the goods on Trump and destroyed him.


There in a nutshell, I thought, is the existential imperative that has been so gloriously productive of fake news and its exacerbated allotrope, first delineated by Donald Trump in his famous media-bashing presser on February 16, "very fake news."


Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 17:53 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Today the Fake News Media was going after Ben Carson for referring to slaves as immigrants. How racist and insensitive of him!

No mention of the fact that Obama used virtually identical language in at least two speeches he made about immigration.
#1 Jim on 2017-03-07 18:37 (Reply)
And Obama has no family history of slavery. Unless his mother's family once owned slaves.
#1.1 Mike-K (Link) on 2017-03-08 05:49 (Reply)
Actually, more likely his father's side. Tribal cultures tend to take captives from other tribes and these become slaves. This also happened in North America among the various Indian tribes.
#1.1.1 Frances on 2017-03-08 11:14 (Reply)
I recall Hillary used the term "Fake News" first, and the other side embraced it to use against the them, much like they did with the "deplorables" comment. Am I wrong?
#2 I.......... on 2017-03-07 18:47 (Reply)
Ol' Hil's campaign also started the "born in Kenya" thing back in '08.
#2.1 OldFert on 2017-03-07 19:43 (Reply)
I hope the oft-rumored FEMA concentration camps are real, and that Trump uses them.
#3 bob sykes on 2017-03-08 06:35 (Reply)
I listened to Ben Carson's comment and did not see the harm or offense. I think where he went wrong is he is not by nature a race baiter or race hustler. He needs a few weeks in the Black Caucus or the NAACP so he can understand that the purpose of the narrative is to divide and create anger and problems not to make things better. Keep them angry and scare the lawmakers into passing more and more special rights.
#4 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-03-08 10:09 (Reply)

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