Building the realm of alternative facts: Trump's lies are enabled by years of right-wing media

[DonViejo]

MONDAY, FEB 6, 2017 08:15 AM EST

After decades of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Breitbart, conservatives can no longer tell fact from fiction

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

The latest polling shows that Donald Trump is the most unpopular new president in history. Most new presidents, even when elected only by a plurality like Bill Clinton, or under dubious circumstances like George W. Bush, get at least a short-lived honeymoon in which a majority of the population decides to put aside the rancor of the election and give the new leader a chance. Of course, most new presidents go out of their way to try to heal the inevitable hard feelings of a tough campaign and reach out to the people who didn’t vote for the. In principle, the person who wins the election becomes president of the whole country, not just those who gave him their votes.

On the night of the election, Trump gave a standard magnanimous speech. Since then he has never returned to that theme. He has obsessed over his voters, even going on a victory tour only to states he won and fetishizing his supporters in speeches as “the forgotten Americans who will never be forgotten again.” To everyone else he has simply issued edicts effectively saying “we will come together.” (Left unsaid is the obvious: “or else.”)

On New Year’s Eve he made himself very clear with this juvenile tweet:

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!

8:17 AM - 31 Dec 2016
142,942 Retweets 352,307 likes

On Sunday night, during Trump’s Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly, Trump said that California is “out of control” and suggested he might withhold federal funds to the state if they don’t do what he wants them to do. He is purposefully antagonizing the most populous state in the nation. (Which, not coincidentally, overwhelmingly supported his opponent.)

This is not the only reason he’s unpopular, of course. Trump’s flurry of executive orders and bizarre behavior toward foreign leaders have horrified tens of millions of Americans. Opposition to his policies is fierce, substantive and widespread.

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1. The only way to fix this is to continuously point out...

The lies of Fox News. What we need is more coverage of the Iran/Contra scandal. If more conservatives realized that Reagan's White House had a bunch of folks investigated, tried, and convicted. It would rattle their belief system to the core.

At least that's my opinion.

[TubbersUK]

2. It's incredible

That MSNBC Interview Was Not the First Time Kellyanne Conway Referred to the "Bowling Green Massacre"

Kellyanne Conway took to Twitter on Friday to walk back her comments on MSNBC's Hardball about a nonexistent terrorist attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky. However, this wasn't the first time she used the words "Bowling Green massacre" in an on-the-record conversation with a reporter.

In an earlier interview with Cosmopolitan.com, she not only used this same phrase but also went a step further in describing the actions of the two Iraqi men involved in the case to which she was referring.

But in an interview with Cosmopolitan.com conducted by phone days earlier, on Sunday, Jan. 29, Conway used the same phrasing, claiming that President Barack Obama called for a temporary "ban on Iraqi refugees” after the “Bowling Green massacre.” (The quotes did not appear in either of two stories recently published on Cosmopolitan.com.)

"He did, it’s a fact," she said of Obama. "Why did he do that? He did that for exactly the same reasons. He did that because two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, traveled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills, and come back here, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers' lives away."

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8674035/kellyanne-conway-bowling-green-massacre-repeat/