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Trump Wasn’t Wrong About the Fake News
The media tells us how to feel and what to say, and we don’t know how to think.
In 2001, the media made us feel patriotic, so we went to war. In 2021, the media told us the lives we’ve destroyed for two decades need our compassion, so we showed our sorrow. We didn’t think about Afghan lives when the media told us war would avenge the horrors of September 11th, 2001. We never even thought to question why anyone would want to attack the US, but why would we? The media told us how to feel and did the thinking for us.
Every time there’s something to hide, the media invents a new issue. Obama appointed the bankers who caused the housing crisis as Federal Reserve directors and bailed out the banks, but his birth certificate. The media could have reported his affiliation with Wall Street and the decision to ignore John McCain’s proposal to provide mortgage aid to Americans so that they could pay the banks, but it didn’t. While conservatives obsessed over Obama’s birth certificate, liberals fixated on the obsession, and no one thought any of this was a distraction.
Rachel Maddow’s stern scolding is the liberals’ moral compass, and their media delivers nothing but the facts. Understanding why Clinton lost to Trump and why Biden narrowly beat him requires thinking, but the media gave…
