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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 01:48 PM Feb 2019

Calling Trump's lies "another fact" is debasing the language.

I have heard a few comments on MSNBC regarding Trump claiming that something is a fact when it is, in fact, a lie.

The commenter should not call it a fact, or a fact that Trump introduced, or any expression that includes the word fact in it. When Trump lies, he should be called a liar. And what he says should be called a lie. Anything else erases the difference between fact and lie, and between truth and lies.

One example:
It is this deliberate media debasement of the language that allows the GOP to call something a "right to work" Bill, when it is actually anti-worker legislation that demonstrably depresses wages. It has nothing to do with any right to work, and media commenters should note this fact.


We all know that the US media is corporate controlled, and over 90% corporate owned, and we know that the media plays a huge role in normalizing Trump, and the GOP in general.

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