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Fake news is going to get it in the teeth in 2020

Jim_S

Gone But Not Forgotten
GOLD Site Supporter
March 29, 2019
Fake news is going to get it in the teeth in 2020
By Monica Showalter

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybe...cal--and-may-have-violated-state-law-n2543973

Leftist presidential candidates of all (correction: the same) stripes are preparing to do battle with President Trump in 2020, pushing their menu of spoiled and smelling Venezuelan-style socialist ideas for voters.

Trump will swat them away like flies, but he's not looking in their direction much. His real target, according to the Atlantic Monthly, is going to be the press. Instapundit has found a beauty from within the Atlantic Monthly report, noting that Republicans are raring to go after the mainstream media, using their atrocious strings of lies and "narratives" that fell apart after the Mueller report on the fake Russian collusion. They will do it when the press starts reporting biased dreck about Trump himself, citing their tattered credibility. Here's some of it:

"Any reporter who tries that will be hit with 30-second spots of all their ridiculous claims about collusion," said the source, who, like others interviewed for this story, requested anonymity to describe private conversations. "Their tweets have all been screencapped. It's all ready to go." ("It's the same thing we've been doing the last two years. We're going to hold the media accountable when we see fit," an RNC official clarified, adding that this would include digital clips shared on social media.)

This is kind of what a biased media cooperative deserves.

The fact is, the press did disgrace itself in its two or three years of news coverage, constantly beating the phony tin drum that Trump colluded with the Russian to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, armed with more than a dozen leftist, Hillary Clinton–donating lawyers, could find nothing to support that, and he finally threw in the towel this past week, releasing the report over the weekend in a futile bid to hope no one would notice.

Democrats in Congress continue to insist that something is there in the wake of it, but the reality is, they look like fools — but not as big of fools as the mainstream media, which acted as a Greek choir, chanting for years that Trump's end was imminent and the "walls are closing in." Rick Moran noted that there was a hilarious video compilation of the spectacle here.

Do I think it will work? Anecdotally, yes. The Trump voters I know in San Diego say the mainstream media's continuously unfair treatment of Trump in the press — in itself — was the reason they chose to vote for him. There may be internal GOP polls suggesting that the sentiment is widespread.

There's also the fact that the mainstream media are getting away with it. Two years of lies, false leaks, fake sources, and artificially damping President Trump's popularity ratings, not to mention wrecking what could be an important Russia-U.S. relationship to check a rising and ravenous China that sees no accountability. Nobody got fired in the wake of this performance; nobody criticized anyone else; nobody paid any price for it. On the contrary, they seem to be praising themselves for it and awarding each other Pulitzers. They have yet to get the memo that they have disgraced themselves again.

They could have stuck to the truth, that very truth that is required in their stated profession. It might not have led to the facts they liked, but they wouldn't have suffered the reputational loss they are looking at now. But it was so much easier to go with the stories they liked, their bias out there, yet their claims to objectivity intact in all those Pulitzers and conference engagements. They had been getting away with it up until now.

Except that now, the price they will pay is that Trump has them, not the socialist cookie-cutter Democrats, in his electoral gun sights.

Nice planning, bozos. Stick to objectivity, and you won't make yourselves a target. Take some unfair advantages, and hear all about it told to the voters.

They made their choice. And they chose poorly.
 

300 H and H

Bronze Member
GOLD Site Supporter
If this means we shall see attack adds attacking individual reporters come election 2020 time I am all for it!! Nothing like making them look like the partisan idiots trying to hide as journalists they actually are!

I can't wait to see the litany of CNN pukes getting slammed in attack adds. Since they are functioning as political operatives, this IS the thing to do!!

We shall make them live up to their own standards, and rules. Saul Alinsky would be proud! :yum:

Love this I do! :thumbup:

Regards, Kirk
 

tiredretired

The Old Salt
SUPER Site Supporter
We need to turn the tables on the libs and attack them the same way they attack us. The difference being, we do not need to lie. We have enough on them that is true to take them right to the cleaners. Expose them and show the world the emperor has no clothes. :thumbup:

They are the enemies of the Republic.
 

300 H and H

Bronze Member
GOLD Site Supporter
The difference being, we do not need to lie.

It is by the use of the truth that we will conquer those who have been telling the lies. We shall see them in the adds lying through pursed lips. The hate will also be exposed of the left wing partisans. Journalism will be forced to eat a bitter red pill, or else expose themselves even more..

It is high time we hold people accountable, even if it is just in the court of public opinion.. the best part is there will be no legal excuse under the fairness rules that govern our election for these add not to be run on the MSM channels, like it or not!!! It just simply has not bee done before by anyone!!

Regards, Kirk
 
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