This "fake news” hysteria on the left. Help me understand. Just desperate attempt to avoid responsibility for 2016 failures? More sinister?
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 8, 2016
I believe, yes, it is more sinister. You see, the media has pulled almost the same nonsense before and for the same reason:
someone said Fake News is 2016's version of 2013's Climate of Hate– an easy, fact-free concept for the media to bash GOP with
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 8, 2016
Ding, ding, ding!
Is #FakeNews the 2016 version of the bogus "civil tone" noise of a few years back? @jaketapper
— No Schiffshow Ever Got Over Macho Grande (@smitty_one_each) December 7, 2016
Yes, it is. It’s once again a way for the mainstream media to be Democrat agenda-pushers, rather than journalists.
It was 2011. January of 2011 2 months after the 2011 shellacking. See the parallels? https://t.co/EeMnBSO71i
— Debra Heine (@NiceDeb) December 9, 2016
2010 shellacking that is
— Debra Heine (@NiceDeb) December 9, 2016
Precisely. And that is not just enraging; It’s downright chilling. And media malpractice, as it was during the “climate of hate” and “new tone” pearl-clutching. Remember that? That “new tone” nonsense that we were all lectured about embracing for some unfathomable and delusional reason. We were to reach across the aisle, only to be shivved in the back. Well, this was the reason then too: Because, Democrats lost. Bigly. And the media, Democrat activists with bylines, could not and would not have that! How on earth could they possibly be bested by those hateful rhetoric-espousing extremist rubes! Something had to change. Enter, “new tone” diatribes, all while they literally accused Sarah Palin of inciting murder. They will make things up out of whole cloth as retribution or as a way to gain an end. The end justifies the means and all!
Was (falsely) accusing Sarah Palin "crosshairs" map of inspiring Gabby Giffords shooting.
— sam spade (@debitdoctor) December 9, 2016
Which is what makes their "fake news" narrative so gallingly hypocritical.
— Debra Heine (@NiceDeb) December 9, 2016
Yep. Here is a flashback of what media/Left pulled back then(Yes, I’m just block-quoting one of my own pieces from back then. Because, lazy: I’m exhausted by all the Schadenfreude these past few weeks! Plus, it remains true):
Of course, this new tone doesn’t apply if one is speaking about Sarah Palin, who is apparently the cause of All Bad Things Ever, in perpetuity. Even here, we are on day three of no school due to snow. In South Carolina. Does Palin’s evil reach have no bounds?!
The Left and the media, as always concentric circles on a Venn diagram, attempted for days to spin a false and odious narrative placing blame for the shooting in Tucson on Sarah Palin and everyone like her. Because, vitriol. Or something. Days of vile political opportunism, on the backs of the dead. Days of disgusting smears the likes of which I’ve never seen before in my lifetime. Days of giddily and gleefully exploiting deaths, including those of a federal judge and a nine year old child, all in an attempt to score political points and to silence and demonize those with whom they disagree.
That the facts did not support such claims even one iota meant nothing. In fact, they absolutely ignored all evidence and truths and proceeded to just make stuff up. All focused on Sarah Palin, who miraculously manages to be a dumb old chick from the sticks and the most evil person alive. She’s kind of like George W. Bush that way, I suppose. Chris Matthews went so far as to put a graphic up during his show last night with Sarah Palin’s picture, reading underneath “Silent: On The Lam.” On. The. Lam. As if some fugitive, implying that she, along with the tea party, is somehow responsible for a massacre perpetrated by a madman.
This “fake news” business is the same deal. And now? “Fake news” isn’t a thing when it comes from mainstream media itself or the Left, natch. Just like the “new tone” nonsense: The Right need not apply. They, of course, could still be viciously attacked and maliciously smeared with nary a true fact in sight. This was, and again is, all because Democrats lost. But, guess what? We dumb old hillbilly deplorables and bitter clingers no longer cave. Feckless? No more. Spineless? No more. We refuse to roll over any time there is an attempt to lecture and shame us. Because, now more Americans than ever know this:
Another banner day for the media.
"Trust us," they lied.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 8, 2016
Happy warriors, we cannot let them repeat the same lie often enough so that it becomes the truth. LIES have an agenda. What doesn’t? The truth. The time to push back is NOW. And continuously, until the false narrative attempt is crushed.
I think they're gaining ground with their "fake news" narrative.We need to keep throwing it back in their faces.
— Debra Heine (@NiceDeb) December 9, 2016
AMEN.
P.S. Need more proof many journos are Democrat activists with bylines? Here you go:
This memo, despite the misspellings, is real. It describes an off-the-record gathering of journalists to "frame the HRC message" #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/ObUKvYg1oJ
— Jason (@jasonelevation) December 9, 2016
Related: What Harry Reid wrote in the NYT is insane. Ready for what came next? (It’s mock-tastic)
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