You are being obtuse.
So fake that Maddow is choking Hannity out
https://shareblue.com/rachel-maddow-has-beat-sean-hannity-in-ratings-every-night-this-year/
What a beautiful woman. You go girl.
After the “awards,” Trump ended the night with a tub of Häagen-Dazs and viewing his favorite films Heathers, Mean Girls and Chicks Who Look Like Ivanka And Take It Up The Butt 7.
But you and your teammates went ape shit when Obama pushed back on fox a little bit.I don't blame him for pushing back on a media that is inflating everything against him regardless of the actual facts.
Seeing this gave me attention to how important appeals to emotion are in the media and how far conservative media has turned it into a partisan game. Maddow is no Hannity, but it's using the same playbook. It's not like liberals don't appeal to emotion. There's plenty, with MoveOn and HuffPo coming to mind. However, it's not so overtly partisan as conservative media who generalize those appeals to bash liberals as a whole and evoke a sense of trustworthiness in conservative media.
Its no secret that reason itself is a poor tool for emotionally charged topics. Due to the current political climate, anything at all partisan is implicitly emotionally charged even if the issue itself really isn't. In those situations, people are going to gravitate to an explanation which validates their emotional state and has apparent credibility. When that credibility goes under attack, it is very hard to un-stick what has been believed. I don't think the problem is so much that people who have believed these things are stupid, unable to see reason, etc. I think the problem is, in shedding this belief, not only do they give up the thing that has validated their emotional experience which led to the belief in the first place, they must add to those feelings shame in being wrong.
Perhaps we're going about this wrongly. Perhaps we ought to offer an alternative explanation that validates the emotional reason they have wanted to believe what came before.
But you and your teammates went ape shit when Obama pushed back on fox a little bit.
That's what struck me as I read that list: a year of non-stop whining about "fake news" and that's the best Donnie could come up with? Good grief, the Snowflake in Chief and his fawning cult of fools and bigots need to get over themselves. Tweets, op-eds, and a few errors that were quickly corrected.What, an economist made an economic prediction which turned out to be incorrect? Wow, I've never seen that happen before. I must have imagined that libertarians have been predicting hyper-inflation every year for the past 5 decades. But that isn't fake news, because it isn't news. Someone's opinion about where the economy is headed is just that, an opinion.
It's interesting how Trump's definition of "fake news" seems to broaden more and more with time. If he accomplishes nothing else, it will be in thoroughly discrediting the phrase "fake news" by turning it into something utterly meaningless.
I wanted to write up a point by point rebuttal, but this does it much better than I would.Krugman's opinion is his opinion, not news, & he's admitted that he was wrong.
This lays it out pretty well-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...umps-fake-news-awards/?utm_term=.2a40f2e6d6f3
Psychopath claims he's being hunted by monsters in white coats. I realize that doctors and psychopaths are indistinguishable when you're brain dead. You're an anti-American disgrace to your country.Not true? The majority of them believed every one of them then and still believe them today. I just got "lectured" the other day here about the wonderfulness that is Paul Krugman.
Not a day goes by that we don't have three, four or more threads based in shit the media puts out to keep their ratings up. The same people that abhor big business believe every piece of fabrication these sources come up with, get their anxiety levels all amped up and post about it here as some form of misguided therapy. They are willful participants in keeping big business media sources that would otherwise have floundered and gone by the wayside alive. The people that think they are the deepest of thinkers are at the mercy of their "feelings".
Just yesterday we had a long time member proclaiming that Trump was ruining the nation and every single thread here must be centered around impeaching him! We're witnessing mass psychosis.
Takes two to Tango.
Not just a prediction that turned out to be incorrect, but a monumentally idiotic political statement by a partisan economic figure that not only turned out incorrect, but was so far from reality that it brought well deserved derision to Krugman and cast a layer of doubt on all his future economic predictions.What, an economist made an economic prediction which turned out to be incorrect? Wow, I've never seen that happen before. I must have imagined that libertarians have been predicting hyper-inflation every year for the past 5 decades. But that isn't fake news, because it isn't news. Someone's opinion about where the economy is headed is just that, an opinion.
It's interesting how Trump's definition of "fake news" seems to broaden more and more with time. If he accomplishes nothing else, it will be in thoroughly discrediting the phrase "fake news" by turning it into something utterly meaningless.
I think interchange might be right about the humility thingi...... I just bought a tub of Haagen-Dazs and your post was emotionally crippling.After the “awards,” Trump ended the night with a tub of and viewing his favorite films Heathers, Mean Girls and Chicks Who Look Like Ivanka And Take It Up The Butt 7.
Oh I agree so very much. You get the same emotional speak with Bill Maher and at the end of the day it is just the other side of the coin.
What you get with Rachel though, if you strip away all the emo speak, is a very long set of verifiable facts that she uses to build up a point. Facts. Facts is a precious commodity these days. That and she is gay and you just know thats a thorn in the eyes of all the bigoted Pences outthere as well. Bonus. Winning.
Not just a prediction that turned out to be incorrect, but a monumentally idiotic political statement by a partisan economic figure that not only turned out incorrect, but was so far from reality that it brought well deserved derision to Krugman and cast a layer of doubt on all his future economic predictions.
Then you’re forgetting very recent history. The things he is ranting about are twitter posts, opinion pieces, and things like that. Obama faced far, far worse on those fronts and he paid them no attention because he was busy...you know... being president. This just makes Trump look small and pathetic.
Trump has run a uniquely inept and chaotic White House. Why people would think reporting on that is evidence of some media conspiracy is actually evidence of their own bias.