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Rosco T.

(6,496 posts)
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:33 PM Jan 2017

Can we please stop with this 'Fake News' bullshit.....

and call it what is really is....

propaganda

noun

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

“It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.”

"Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men."

- Robert Heinlein

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

- Joseph Goebbels

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Can we please stop with this 'Fake News' bullshit..... (Original Post) Rosco T. Jan 2017 OP
speaking of spreading fake news on DU, trump tweets are NOT LBN! nt msongs Jan 2017 #1
start retweeing with #TrumpPropaganda Rosco T. Jan 2017 #3
The goal is to lie so often that nobody knows the truth anymore. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #2
Exactly. The lies tumble out and collect so quickly... VOX Jan 2017 #5
Thank you tavalon Jan 2017 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
2. The goal is to lie so often that nobody knows the truth anymore.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:37 PM
Jan 2017

Donald Trump comes by it naturally as he is a classic chronic liar, his team surrounding him are doing well at this also.

Very soon nobody will know what is true and what is not, by design.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
5. Exactly. The lies tumble out and collect so quickly...
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:56 PM
Jan 2017

that one just gives up trying to sort them out. With Trump & Co., it's the way they work. Every day. Every hour. The lies just pile up like so much soiled laundry.

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