(New England Patriots beat Atlanta Falcons in overtime.) Trump, in a Saturday interview (broadcast on Sunday), insisted the US was morally equivalent to Russia under Putin. Trump: …It’s better to get along with Russia than not. O’Reilly: But he’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer. (more…)
(Borrowing from a nice NYT article by Charles J. Sykes.) The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth. — Garry Kasparov The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell It’s noticeable calmer when Trump is on vacation, so...
A federal judge issued a stay against the Trump Muslim Ban Executive Order, temporarily blocking travel ban, effective nationwide. White House officials (Spicer, Priebus, et al) lied, saying that it effected only 109 people, and then lied again, saying they weren’t badly affected. At this point, Customs has denied over three hundred people, who were either turned back or sent to other foreign nations (where...
Protests continue against President Trump’s Executive Order temporarily banning immigration, refugees, and potentially, legal green card holders. Kellyanne Conway repeated the lie about President Obama’s purported six-month ban on the Iraqi refugees. She went on to make a new lie about two Iraqis who to the US and became the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. That’s because there was no such event. She’s just...