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http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/14/media/trump-russian-lawyer-veselnitskaya-theories-obama/index.html"Over the past three days, members of the pro-Trump media have settled on their answer, characterizing the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, as a leftist with ties to the Obama administration. The idea quickly drifted upward to some of the most influential figures in right-wing media, and then ultimately to President Trump himself, who referenced some of its underpinnings during a Thursday press conference in France as he attempted to explain away his son's meeting with the Russian lawyer.
The theory is based on bits of fact that have been taken out of context or spun in misleading ways to paint a picture that the President and his supporters prefer to the one currently dominating much of the media."
"All that right-wing media needs to do is just throw out some things that appear to be substantive that have some stray facts that the cult will hang on to, and the cult will do everything else themselves," John Ziegler, a conservative media columnist and former talk radio host, told CNN. "They don't need a full theory. No one ever provides a narrative that explains all this. It's just poking holes and pretending the whole story is fake news. It's a classic trick really. It's a shame that's what the right-wing media has been reduced to."
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,108 posts)The only way they can get people to vote for them is by lying about what they are really up to, to the point where they have to lie all the time and it's become normal for them.
Initech
(100,174 posts)They have no other reason as to why they win.
Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)believe the lies.
Mostly it's because they're guilty of something.
Trump lies because he doesn't know how to tell the truth.
Sneederbunk
(14,321 posts)Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)That's why they bully through one. No real answers to give.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)They need to sow distrust of our institutions among their followers: Don't trust Democrats. Don't trust government. Don't trust the media. Don't trust your neighbor. Don't trust your own lying eyes. Trust us. We're the only ones you can trust. The party is mother, the party is father. Others lie to you, but we don't. We always tell you the truth. From now on, you put all your trust in us, see?
If you think it looks like a cult, there's probably a very good reason for that.
Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)Quanta
(195 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)dchill
(38,675 posts)doc03
(35,488 posts)person that claims to believe in God could vote for a pathological lying, crooked, racist that admits to assaulting women.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)...even and especially if this includes lying. Lying is permitted if it leads to better things.
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