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Old 12-21-2016, 08:20 AM
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What the wrong wing has done with the concept of "Fake news" is quite similar to what it has done with the concept of Christianity - distorted it all out of proportion to serve the ends of those whose ideas cannot flourish in an atmosphere of truth.
Their fixation on obfuscation and mislabeling of fake news is done for several reasons -to discredit real news that reflects poorly on Trump, to distract from Trump and Flynn consuming and spewing fake news themselves, and to poo-poo its possible influence on the election. Whell has taken it upon himself to pursue this same strategy on these pages. His objective is clear, but nobody's buying it.

This latest fake news projection and misdirection campaign comes on the heels of a decade's long effort by the GOP to discredit mainstream news sources in favor of conservative "news" sources (Fox News, talk radio, Breitbart, InfoWars ...) that can be depended upon to reliably carry their water. The nation's attention to "fake news" revelations threatens to harm the credibility of conservative media (and Trump) and they (and their minions/pawns/stooges like Whell) are striking out to ensure that conservatives continue to trust the stuff coming from these sources. What good is propaganda if people stop believing it?
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