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mwb970

(11,344 posts)
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 01:23 PM Jun 2019

You REALLY need to read this column about trump by Rex Huppke. It is WONDERFUL.

Even Fox News is reporting bad polling numbers for Trump — so they must be fake! (Chicago Tribune, June 17)

A couple of excerpts:

That’s right. The network I believed I could trust to always tell me President Trump is beloved by all Americans and has never made even a minor mistake has suddenly pumped out outrageous misinformation that it refers to as “a poll.”

This so-called poll, released Sunday, alleges that the greatest U.S. president in history — Donald J. Trump, long may he reign — is looked on negatively by 53 percent of Americans and is polling neck-and-neck with some smartypants DEMONcrat mayor from South Bend, Ind.

Yeah, right. Nobody I interact with on pro-Trump Facebook pages or talk to during weekly meetings of my gun club’s Hillary for Prison Committee ever has a negative thing to say about the president. How dumb does Fox News think I were?


I know some of you are saying, “Rex, the president is a great and honest man who has done more in the first two years of his presidency than any other president in history and, possibly, more than any other world leader in history, but how can you be so certain these poll results are made-up and that we should give Fox News the nickname Lyin’ Fox News?”

To which I say, “It’s simple.” I just apply the same accuracy test President Trump has used since he took office and throughout his amazingly successful business career:

Does the information make Trump look bad in any way, shape or form? If the answer is yes, the information is made-up and the people behind that information are dishonest dopes jealous of Trump’s incredible abilities and good looks.

I know Trump is infallible because all information to the contrary is deeply flawed, the work of shrill liberals who want to destroy America. Duh.
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