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Right-wing media charlatons should be held accountable


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2016 Sep 15, 4:04pm   1,287 views  4 comments

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/09/15/who-will-hold-the-right-wing-media-charlatans-accountable/?tid=pm_pop_b&utm_term=.e0b8b9ffa1e2

Donald Trumps rise was the chorus of toxic commentators the Rush Limbaugh phenomenon and the Black Helicopter guys. They have embraced smear, conspiracy theories, inflammatory language, and gross incivility to drum up ratings and stir up emotions. Theyve sown not skepticism but hatred and unwarranted distrust of all government. Theyve indulged in climate-change denial and economic nincompoopery. For a while, they played the ideological purity game. Anyone who deviated from the Heritage Action script or the NRA scorecard or the anti-gay-marriage hymnal was a RINO. (The problem with Jeb Bush, you see, was that he was too liberal.) Trump, it...

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1   Heraclitusstudent   2016 Sep 15, 4:19pm  

tovarichpeter says

They have embraced smear, conspiracy theories, inflammatory language, and gross incivility to drum up ratings and stir up emotions.

Oh my god! They dared using rough language and appealing to emotion...

2   Tenpoundbass   2016 Sep 15, 4:57pm  

I would like to think the commenters at Breitbart had more to do with it than any single reporter, news organization, PAC group or pundit.
Don't forget all of those Idiots got it wrong every day during the primaries. Even Breitbart were huge "the other guy" cheerleader the day before the Primary Tuesday when Nate Silver and the Propaganda ministry said he was losing Breitbart was there reporting it like facts when the whole damned board knew those polls were full of shit.

3   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Sep 15, 5:03pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

Oh my god! They dared using rough language and appealing to emotion...

"Bring them to heel"
"My bank deregulation and free trade to allow American industry to relocate overseas and import back to the USA is a Bridge to the Future."

4   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2016 Sep 15, 7:58pm  

Tovbot, you posted an article by Paul Krugman and then have the nards to post this? You are tresding dangerously into Toby and Pink Panther territory.

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