It’s not fake news that the yearbook says that.
No, it’s not. But most of the sources reported it as him heading the fascist club. It’s not what I personally call fake news, but rather bad reporting. Fake news is deliberately made up shit. (And normally does not get retracted or corrected.) Regardless, for the folks here using “fake news” in that manner, you (and news sources) said he founded the fascist club at his high school. He did not.
It wasn’t fake news that Obama’s literary agent published a booklet that said he was born in Kenya.
This error wasn’t “discovered” until years after the zero-evidence birther conspiracy theory started. Trump pushed this bullshit for years with no evidence whatsoever, and a mountain of contrary evidence.
I wonder if Trump was stupid enough to believe this nonsense, or just cynical and dishonest enough to use it for popularity.
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This is correct. That was true. Are we calling that “fake news” now, or not? Does “fake news” mean anything anymore?
Fake news is just another partisan bludgeon. It no longer means anything to the general public.
Any surviving record of my teenage years would include a lot of statements that ranged from stupid to outrageous to possibly illegal, so I assumed it was tongue-in-cheek as well.
That being said, the discovery that in the National Lampoon’s Prep School Academy version of his life Gorsuch probably would’ve been cast as one of the rich asshole antagonists isn’t that much of a revelation.
Hell, I was a Rush Limbaugh-listening young Republican my senior year of high school. I even bought two of his books and watched his wreck of a TV show. I’ll chalk that and Gorsuch’s yearbook thingie up to teenaged dumb-assery.
Trump trashed that term pretty fast. It was used to mean lies masquerading as news in order to influence politics for like a week until he started calling everything fake news. Now it’s a meaningless insult. Kinda impressive and horrifying.
Yeah, I realized after I wrote “does [it] not mean anything anymore” that the window of time that it meant anything substantive was pretty narrow.
Not sure where to put this. Its not worth its own thread so I’ll ask it here.
What ever happened to those accusations that Trump illegally offered Carson a job in exchange for his endorsement? This was a thing for about 2 weeks back in March of last year, but I can’t find any mention of it after April 1st.
Given that Trump has now offered Carson a cabinet post for which Carson is supremely unqualified, fulfilling his end of the Quid pro Quo, one would think that this would have come up in the confirmation hearings, or at least in the left wing echo chamber, but everyone seems to have forgotten it. Any idea why?
This happens all the time. Obama offering SoS to Hillary, for example.
Are you claiming that was illegal?
I’m claiming it happens all the time in American politics.
…then provide a cite of it happening then. For starters provide proof that Obama gave the SoS role to Clinton in exchange for her endorsement: and provide other examples of it happening as well.
Yawn. Its quid pro quo in Washington and always has been. But you are free to believe what you want. Thus is not a partisan issue.
…concession accepted.
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I don’t know why she didn’t just send a letter or an email, but whatever. Hatch will vote for DeVos.