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November 28, 2016
The newest media tactic: Calling Donald Trump a liar in the headlines
By Ed Straker

I was struck by the severity of the CNN headline: "Trump falsely claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote."  They were calling him a liar.  They didn't even wait for the body of the article; they wanted people to know it in the headline.

The L.A. Times headline was identical.  (Hate minds think alike?)  The headlines of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Politico are almost identical, all calling Trump's claim "baseless" or "a conspiracy theory."  (Note that if you check the links now, the headlines may have changed slightly, as they sometimes do.)

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Re: The newest media tactic: Calling Donald Trump a liar in the headlines
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2016, 02:31:48 pm »
Donald Trump IS a liar.

Here Donald Trump tells Wolf Blitzer that he doesn't believe Rafael Cruz was involved in the JFK assassination but he said it anyway because he wanted to win.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Py66shufl0

Telling people things you know to be untrue is pretty much the definition of lying.

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Re: The newest media tactic: Calling Donald Trump a liar in the headlines
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2016, 02:48:10 pm »
He absolutely is a liar. Said during the debates he never said climate change was a hoax. They have a tweet of him saying it.

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Re: The newest media tactic: Calling Donald Trump a liar in the headlines
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2016, 02:52:07 pm »
Of course Trump lied. He should be held to account.

But IMO the story here again is so has Obama. Early and often. Great, big obvious lies.

Yet one side is held to a strict std and the other gets off scott-free.

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Re: The newest media tactic: Calling Donald Trump a liar in the headlines
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2016, 03:12:25 pm »

"Trump falsely claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote." (typical propaganda)
as opposed to:
"Trump claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote." (what a normal 'news' headline should look like)


This is an opinion and a conclusion wrapped in a headline. There is no question that any objective person would declare this to be blatant propaganda. The widely discredited press in America does this routinely. Gotcha spin words like 'tries' or 'fails' are so often injected into headlines, that it is an everyday event.


"Trump tries to regain momentum."
"Trump fails to refute the claims of his critics."
(who determines whether he tried or failed? obviously it is the reporter or his editor)


This is exactly why no one believes the America media anymore. This is why they could not control the outcome of the election. They no longer have any power because they have abdicated their role as reporters. They have become propagandists and agents of the Democrats. Everybody knows this, so they just ignore them, or take what they say with a grain of salt. And the more the media is called out on their lying, manipulating, and distorting, the more they double down on it, directly in the face of the public. They simply don't care.
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists.

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Re: The newest media tactic: Calling Donald Trump a liar in the headlines
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2016, 05:39:11 pm »
"Trump falsely claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote." (typical propaganda)
as opposed to:
"Trump claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote." (what a normal 'news' headline should look like)


This is an opinion and a conclusion wrapped in a headline. There is no question that any objective person would declare this to be blatant propaganda. The widely discredited press in America does this routinely. Gotcha spin words like 'tries' or 'fails' are so often injected into headlines, that it is an everyday event.


"Trump tries to regain momentum."
"Trump fails to refute the claims of his critics."
(who determines whether he tried or failed? obviously it is the reporter or his editor)


This is exactly why no one believes the America media anymore. This is why they could not control the outcome of the election. They no longer have any power because they have abdicated their role as reporters. They have become propagandists and agents of the Democrats. Everybody knows this, so they just ignore them, or take what they say with a grain of salt. And the more the media is called out on their lying, manipulating, and distorting, the more they double down on it, directly in the face of the public. They simply don't care.

If the claim is false, stating so in the headline is not opinion.

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Re: The newest media tactic: Calling Donald Trump a liar in the headlines
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2016, 07:07:34 pm »
 :shrug:  Trump needs to handle himself better. He opens himself up to these types of attacks.


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