The actual fake news is Faux “News.” Faux “News” is NOT a “real” news organization — it is a political POOPaganda machine CREATED BY REPUBLICAN OPERATIVES AS A MEDIA OUTLET FOR REPUBLICAN SPIN. It is FALSE ADVERTISING and FRAUD to be marketed as news when it was created for the stated, explicit purpose of being a media outlet to represent the views of the Republican party.
In a 15-page memo from 1970, that had been in storage at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda and only released years later, it was revealed that Roger Ailes started planning “Faux Noise” while working for Nixon, though it was not practical in an age before cable made it feasible to establish entirely new media outlets. As a top Republican party strategist, Ailes engineered the election of Nixon, and later Reagan and George H.W. Bush before officially leaving his Republican party political role and establishing Faux “News” with the stated intent, expressed in his 1970 memo, of creating a Republican POOP-aganda machine disguised as a news outlet which occurred by the 1990’s.
And witch hunt? For a witch hunt, they sure keep finding a lot of smoking broomsticks. Numerous indictments, guilty pleas and convictions at trial, and many threads still open.
This is a LOT safer then the trump drinking game, where you have to take a shot EVERY TIME he says “Witch Hunt”, or “No Collusion”:, or “Fake News”, or “Failing New York Times”, or “Lying Media”!
To all the above: pols, among others, tell only those truths that suit their immediate purposes. Only rarely and only when confronted at some later date can they be forced to admit their efforts to gain an advantage from a partial truth and their complicity in outcomes favorable to themselves.
By which I mean, without criticism of commenters, all the venting that happens here or everywhere one looks only serves to raise one’s blood pressure on a daily basis and eventually forces decisions based on pure anger and emotion. Given the length of time until the next election, and the anticipated volume of partial truths, outright lies, and pure vituperation, one wonders just when and what kind of ‘spark’ will bring permanent division to a country that used to take pride in its ability to stand together in times of crisis.
DD Wiz Premium Member over 5 years ago
The actual fake news is Faux “News.” Faux “News” is NOT a “real” news organization — it is a political POOPaganda machine CREATED BY REPUBLICAN OPERATIVES AS A MEDIA OUTLET FOR REPUBLICAN SPIN. It is FALSE ADVERTISING and FRAUD to be marketed as news when it was created for the stated, explicit purpose of being a media outlet to represent the views of the Republican party.
In a 15-page memo from 1970, that had been in storage at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda and only released years later, it was revealed that Roger Ailes started planning “Faux Noise” while working for Nixon, though it was not practical in an age before cable made it feasible to establish entirely new media outlets. As a top Republican party strategist, Ailes engineered the election of Nixon, and later Reagan and George H.W. Bush before officially leaving his Republican party political role and establishing Faux “News” with the stated intent, expressed in his 1970 memo, of creating a Republican POOP-aganda machine disguised as a news outlet which occurred by the 1990’s.
And witch hunt? For a witch hunt, they sure keep finding a lot of smoking broomsticks. Numerous indictments, guilty pleas and convictions at trial, and many threads still open.
And NO COLLUSION? Seriously? More to follow…
Masterskrain over 5 years ago
This is a LOT safer then the trump drinking game, where you have to take a shot EVERY TIME he says “Witch Hunt”, or “No Collusion”:, or “Fake News”, or “Failing New York Times”, or “Lying Media”!
THOUSANDS would die of acute Alcohol poisoning…
Stevefk over 5 years ago
Chatty Trumpy – just pull the string but then you know pretty much what the standard chatter will be!
sandpiper over 5 years ago
To all the above: pols, among others, tell only those truths that suit their immediate purposes. Only rarely and only when confronted at some later date can they be forced to admit their efforts to gain an advantage from a partial truth and their complicity in outcomes favorable to themselves.
By which I mean, without criticism of commenters, all the venting that happens here or everywhere one looks only serves to raise one’s blood pressure on a daily basis and eventually forces decisions based on pure anger and emotion. Given the length of time until the next election, and the anticipated volume of partial truths, outright lies, and pure vituperation, one wonders just when and what kind of ‘spark’ will bring permanent division to a country that used to take pride in its ability to stand together in times of crisis.
c’est très triste
guyjen2004 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Funny! I bet people have actually done this :)
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
The Liar in Cheap
mourdac Premium Member over 5 years ago
Dang, I just needed ‘National Emergency’ to win!
Judge Magney over 5 years ago
If this joke looks familiar to you, see
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/10/23/trump-clinton-snl-debate-spoof-newday.cnn
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
Cliche Trump says the same stupid and wrong cliches over and over.