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Are still supporting those hate groups? Just curious if your double standards are perpetuated.
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Fox’s dissemination of propaganda has dire consequences for the health of our democracy, the foundation of which is an informed citizenry. https://woods.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/files/Global-Warming-Fox-News.pdf from a Stanford University political scientist found that watching Fox News made viewers less likely to accept scientific statements on global warming. That same year, researchers at Ohio State University https://www.alternet.org/media/science-fox-news-why-its-viewers-are-most-misinformed saying, “People who use Fox News believe more of the rumors we asked about and they believe them more strongly than those who do not.” And a 2012 study by the Poynter Institute found that Fox News viewers were more likely to be uninformed than if they had watched nothing whatsoever.
Read that sentence again. Literally banging rocks onto other rocks would be a more productive way of understanding the day’s news.
It is notable that one such misled audience member is reported to sit around in his bathrobe, watching Fox News and tweeting in support of its stream of disinformation from his bedroom at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But this issue is less about where Trump gets his news and more about the harm that the president’s favorite network is doing to the American people. The purpose of journalism is to speak truth to power by arming citizens with information. Fox is doing precisely the opposite.
Fox’s dissemination of propaganda has dire consequences for the health of our democracy, the foundation of which is an informed citizenry. https://woods.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/files/Global-Warming-Fox-News.pdf from a Stanford University political scientist found that watching Fox News made viewers less likely to accept scientific statements on global warming. That same year, researchers at Ohio State University https://www.alternet.org/media/science-fox-news-why-its-viewers-are-most-misinformed saying, “People who use Fox News believe more of the rumors we asked about and they believe them more strongly than those who do not.” And a 2012 study by the Poynter Institute found that Fox News viewers were more likely to be uninformed than if they had watched nothing whatsoever.
Read that sentence again. Literally banging rocks onto other rocks would be a more productive way of understanding the day’s news.
It is notable that one such misled audience member is reported to sit around in his bathrobe, watching Fox News and tweeting in support of its stream of disinformation from his bedroom at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But this issue is less about where Trump gets his news and more about the harm that the president’s favorite network is doing to the American people. The purpose of journalism is to speak truth to power by arming citizens with information. Fox is doing precisely the opposite.
Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization. ... On the contrary: it is now the establishment that is rushing to accommodate him—from the president, who met with him at the White House on Thursday, to the leaders of the Republican Party, who are discarding their long-held scruples to embrace his radical positions.
He has received the support he needed to win, and the adulation he craves, precisely because of his outrageous threats. Trump rally crowds have chanted “Lock her up!” They, and he, meant every word. If Trump does not go after Hillary Clinton on his first day in office, if he instead focuses, as his acceptance speech indicated he might, on the unifying project of investing in infrastructure (which, not coincidentally, would provide an instant opportunity to reward his cronies and himself), it will be foolish to breathe a sigh of relief. Trump has made his plans clear, and he has made a compact with his voters to carry them out. These plans include not only dismantling legislation such as Obamacare but also doing away with judicial restraint—and, yes, punishing opponents.
To begin jailing his political opponents, or just one opponent, Trump will begin by trying to capture members of the judicial system. Observers and even activists functioning in the normal-election mode are fixated on the Supreme Court as the site of the highest-risk impending Trump appointment. There is little doubt that Trump will appoint someone who will cause the Court to veer to the right; there is also the risk that it might be someone who will wreak havoc with the very culture of the high court.
And since Trump plans to use the judicial system to carry out his political vendettas, his pick for attorney general will be no less important. Imagine former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or New Jersey Governor Chris Christie going after Hillary Clinton on orders from President Trump; quite aside from their approach to issues such as the Geneva Conventions, the use of police powers, criminal justice reforms, and other urgent concerns.
In a new interview, President Trump once again telegraphed his desire to see the Justice Department investigate Hillary Clinton over the array of https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/10/31/trump-and-his-allies-are-laying-the-groundwork-for-a-saturday-night-massacre/?utm_term=.0c2d908af97c (fake scandals) that he and his allies have been talking about in recent weeks. But in this case, he went further than that. Asked by radio host Larry O’Connor about demands that the Justice Department probe those scandals, Trump openly stated his frustration with his inability to get the department to do his bidding in this regard:
“The saddest thing is, because I am the President of the United States, I am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. I’m not supposed to be involved with the FBI. I’m not supposed to be doing the kind of things I would love to be doing. And I am very frustrated by that. I look at what’s happening with the Justice Department, why aren’t they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with her dossier, and the kind of money — I don’t know, is it possible that they paid $12.4 million for the dossier, which is total phony, fake, fraud and how is it used?
“It’s very discouraging to me. I’ll be honest, I’m very unhappy with it, that the Justice Department isn’t going — maybe they are but you know as President, and I think you understand this, as a President you’re not supposed to be involved in that process. But hopefully they are doing something and at some point, maybe we are gonna all have it out.”
“It’s very discouraging to me. I’ll be honest, I’m very unhappy with it, that the Justice Department isn’t going — maybe they are but you know as President, and I think you understand this, as a President you’re not supposed to be involved in that process. But hopefully they are doing something and at some point, maybe we are gonna all have it out.”
Everyone is making a big deal about that last line, as if it suggests that Trump is going to “have it out” with the Justice Department if it doesn’t do his bidding. But Trump could have meant that eventually, an investigation might take place, and then the (fake) facts will come “out.”
Instead, the important news here is that Trump signaled that he wants to be able to get the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate his political opponent. What is “discouraging” and “frustrating” to Trump is not simply the fact that the outcome he wants — an investigation into Clinton for whatever fake scandal might provide the pretext for that to happen — isn’t taking place.
