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NRaleighLiberal

(60,029 posts)
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 10:47 AM Mar 2017

This not unexpected normalizing of Trump by the MSM is at all of our peril.

No, I didn't watch last night, but I scanned through a lot of the reactions by much of the media.

All it exhibits, to me, as a complete misunderstanding of how power and narcissism work.

We've been in these situations in the world before. It is a seeming flaw of human beings. Kind of like an "inability to walk and chew gum at the same time" - but more in line of an utter inability to learn from history, and to misguidedly think that people who CAN NOT CHANGE do so because they are buffed up and made shiny and actually get through prewritten sentences without totally blowing up.

I don't buy it for a minute - neither should anyone who cares about all of our futures.

The Van Jones reaction made me the most ill - he should know better.

I really, really would like to think better of us as a species. But...until evidence is proven otherwise, I remain pessimistic about our ability to read, comprehend, analyze...and learn.

It does make one wonder, doesn't it????

RESIST!

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This not unexpected normalizing of Trump by the MSM is at all of our peril. (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Mar 2017 OP
Yeap, the "but his base" excuse has been their only go to since the election but now they have a uponit7771 Mar 2017 #1
I was shocked to hell when I heard about Van Jones Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2017 #2
I'm so disappointed MontanaMama Mar 2017 #3
What you must read BSdetect Mar 2017 #4
yes - that is a great link. thanks. and frightening. NRaleighLiberal Mar 2017 #5

uponit7771

(90,370 posts)
1. Yeap, the "but his base" excuse has been their only go to since the election but now they have a
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 10:50 AM
Mar 2017

... "he didn't shit on himself while reading to us" excuse.

MontanaMama

(23,365 posts)
3. I'm so disappointed
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 11:13 AM
Mar 2017

Again in MSNBC and CNN. I know I shouldn't be but in recent days at least some of them have been telling the truth and I'd come to expect it. I'm back to ignoring ALL of them. Again. Fuck the MSM. They are complicit in this mess.

BSdetect

(8,999 posts)
4. What you must read
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 11:52 AM
Mar 2017

Exposed how exactly social media is being used to influence elections [View all]

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media,

This is how they influence elections and even financial markets which has proven very successful



https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage
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