Will Wheaton's great take on Trump's lying strategy

[Ruffhowse]

"Last night, KCAL credulously repeated Trump’s lies about Sprint.

If you turned on the news yesterday, you probably heard this story about Donald Trump taking a phone call from executives at Sprint, working that Make America Great Again magic, and hanging up the phone with the promise of Sprint creating 5000 jobs for Americans. Trump says that “Because of what’s happening and the spirit and the hope I was just called by the head people at Sprint and they’re going to be bringing 5,000 jobs back to the United States.”

Wow. That’s kind of amazing, isn’t it? If it’s so easy for Donald Trump to get on the phone and make that happen, why can’t that loser Obama do it? Why does Obummer hate America so much?

Oh. Wait. Sorry. I fell into the Stupidsphere for a moment.

The truth is, Donald Trump lied yesterday, Sprint went along with his lie, and then an appalling number of news organizations repeated the lie so much, it’s become accepted as truth in less than 24 hours. This, in spite of the common knowledge that Donald Trump is constantly lying about everything."

more:
http://wilwheaton.net/

[CrispyQ]

1. Great blog! Worth the time to read. Sharing on FB,

for the two nitwit cousins of mine who voted Trump. You know, the kind who live in Stupidsphere.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. I haven't visited his site in many years...

Will check it out on my comp at home tonight.

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Excellent and disturbing

[BSdetect]

4. Its just scary how the msm repeats his drivel as if its true.

Its a very sad and disturbing culture we have allowed.

I'm hoping for some karma before Jan 20.

[TNNurse]

5. Please be sure wherever there is anything about Trump creating jobs,

You ask the question: Have any Trump manufacturing jobs (including Ivanka's) been brought back to the US????????

Thank you.

[peggysue2]

6. And this,

is how great propagandists work--tell the lie with a straight face, repeat the iie until it has a life its own (enter our current media that has, it would seem, given up on fact-checking and research) and . . . viola! Lie becomes accepted fact in a post factual, information-saturated, access-seeking world. The Trump-voting public must also be held accountable for their unwillingness to question anything, even the most ludicrous. As well as GOP enablers like Kelly Anne Conway and Spicer and all the rest for whom winning is the only truth that matters. Or those who believe they can control this maniac. Good luck with that.

We've entered a Brave New World with barely a whimper.