By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--May 1, 2017
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“The effort today to get this best obtainable version of the truth is largely made in good faith,” Woodward said. “Mr. President, the media is not fake news. Let’s take that off the table going forward.” (Variety) “This is no time for self satisfaction of smugness,” he said, while also noting that late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee once said that the more aggressive the reporting is, the more offended the public may be.”
“Pundits say that Trump and his henchman are "gaslighting" them, taking a cue from a Teen Vogue article that CNN's Don Lemon called "hard hitting." The term comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight, where a malevolent husband (Charles Boyer) tricks his wife (Ingrid Bergman) into believing she is nuts. "[Gaslighting is] a form of psychological abuse where the victim is manipulated to doubt their own sanity," said Lauren Duca, author of the Teen Vogue article. "Is Donald Trump gaslighting us?" asked CNN correspondent Brian Stelter. "Does he know what gaslighting means?” “Curiously, few in the media claimed the Obama administration was manipulating or psychologically abusing them when it used an "echo chamber" of advocates to disseminate administration spin about the Iran nuclear deal. Or when the administration denied paying ransoms to Iran. Or when it claimed Obamacare would not disrupt coverage for people satisfied with their health care network. Or when it claimed the health care law would "bend the cost curve" down.”It’s not Trump “gaslighting” the media that we rubes are worried about, but the media gagging the public. These tyrants in tuxedos outdo the cowardice of the snowflakes in their search for safe spaces. Meanwhile, it’s all over but the hangovers this morning, but unfortunately the media hangers-on, now fully-fledged hype-sters rather than journos, will continue to try to present America to the outside world as a sick joke that ignores hostile threats from North Korea and Iran while continuing on with the big lie that Russia stole the election—all because they can’t live with the guilt of knowing their most recent election predictions on polls were a mainstream media fraud.
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