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Hucksterbee 0

Sarah Huckabee Sanders behind podium labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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How Stuff Works, Trickle-On Economics Dept. 0

Title:  Trickle-Down Economics.  Image:  Man begging on street in snow storm holding sign saying,

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Land of Plenty 0

Donald Trump's mouth turning into a cornucopia spewing lies.

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A Charted Flight of Fancy 0

Stephen Colbert explores Louie Gohmert’s chart of crazy.

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All the News that Fits 0

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The Court Is in Sessions 0

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How Stuff Works, Trickle-On Economics Dept. 0

Directors in

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Thom and Greg Palaste discuss the Republican operatives who are attempting to discredit Roy Moore’s victims and their histories of gutting out the vote.

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The Toll of Trumpled Truth 0

At Der Spiegel, Roger Cohen mediates on the dangers of Trumpery. A snippet:

Yet, he is dangerous. Trump has already blurred the line between truth and falsehood. He has attacked the judiciary and a free press. I had an alarming experience recently. Trump had lied, as he routinely does, about two phone calls, one from the president of Mexico and one from the head of the Boy Scouts. The calls, supposedly to congratulate him, did not exist. They were pure inventions. Asked if Trump had lied, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “I wouldn’t say it was a lie.”

I actually remember shrugging. And it was the shrug that was terrifying. This is how autocrats – or would-be autocrats – cement their power. They wear you down. They take you down the rabbit hole. They want you to hear the great leader declare that 2+2=5 – and shrug.

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Tin-Pot Trumpery 0

We are doomed.

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The Fox Fear Factory 0

Thom looks back on Fox News’s greatest greatest hits and how Fox lies got us to where we are. Pulled together in one summary, it’s an impressive resume of serial dishonesty in pursuit of political gain.

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The Court Is in Sessions 0

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Misdirection Play, Twits on Twitter Dept. 0

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Lietany 0

Man saying,

By the by, there are 36 items in the list up to the “et ceteras.”

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Perfidious twits.

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A Trumple of Lies 0

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White House Chief of Stuffing It 0

General John Kelly, holding paper saying


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The Tampa Bay Times opinionates.

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Falsified Flags 0

News reporter says,

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Facebook Frolics 0

Phoney phrolics.

At this point, outrageous U. S. political stories on Facebook should be assumed to be false unless they can be confirmed from an independent source.

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How Stuff Works, the Right-Wing Noise Machine Dept. 0

In the midst of a larger article about Trump’s fumbled fulminations about expressing condolences to the families of the four soldiers who fell in Niger, Paul Waldman describes the wingnut propaganda process. You can follow the link for the complete article, but here’s the crucial bit:

Now here’s why this matters. Yes, many news outlets pointed out that Trump wasn’t telling the truth. But there are probably three interns at Fox News who are now scouring old news reports to find some family member of a fallen soldier who didn’t get a call from Obama. If they find it, that person’s story will then become the subject of a segment on Sean Hannity’s show, and it will then get retold on a hundred talk radio programs and conservative websites as proof that Obama was a monster and the media are all lying about this. (Trump’s insistence that there was “fake news” at work is another way of telling his supporters not to believe whatever they hear about this subject that comes from sources not explicitly supporting him.) And I promise you that if you took a poll two weeks from now, you’d find that 40 percent of the public (or more) believes that Barack Obama never called the family of any fallen soldier, and only Donald Trump has the sensitivity to do so.

(Open tag fixed. Darned computers expect you to splet stuf rite.)

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