Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   "Fake news".....the new ism/phobia/... Date:   12/7/2016 10:42:26 AM (updated 12/7/2016 10:56:12 AM)

I had to violate my self imposed moratorium in Off Topics because of the new tactic of the left.  After seeing sexism, racism, homophobia, ACC denial, Alt Right (whatever the heck that is), etc. fail miserably at the election booth they have now decided that all their woes are caused by "fake news".  I have to give them a measure of credit.  Despite being completely in denial that they are no longer a national party but a party of the elite whites/environmentalists/LGBTQRSPOUSOB/minorities living in urban areas they are ingenious in devising a new strategy to try to fool enough people that their ideas have merit.

We saw this with their decades long war on carbon.  First in the 70's CO2 prevented the sun's warming rays from reaching the earth and man was going to freeze to death all because of oil and coal.  Then unexpectedly the climate entered a warming period.  Suddenly we had "anthropogenic global warming" (AGW) caused by the very same CO2/oil/coal.  Then about 20 years ago the climate unexpectedly stopped warming and the climate models (almost the entire rational tying CO2 to the climate) were wildly wrong.  Ruh roh Rastro!  Suddenly we had "anthropogenic climate change" (ACC) so they could blame man and CO2 and oil and coal for whatever the weather does.  It's our fault if it gets warm, it's our fault if it cools, its our fault if it stays the same.....it's always our fault.  Brilliant right?  When you are wrong about everything, never admit it but just pretend there's something or someone else to blame.  The essence of leftism.

So we have Obama telling us the election was lost because Fox News was on in every bar in America.  And now the mainstream media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) have embraced the concept that they didn't lose because their ideology wasn't working, has never worked and will never work and Americans have rejected it on a massive scale.  Nope, it was because too many stupid Americans in fly over country believed the "fake news".  And I put "fake news" in italics for a specific reason.  Because I can guarantee you that their definition of "fake news" is going to be any news story that highlights the failures and lies of their ideology or is adverse to their political, social or economic goals and objectives.  So their pitch is going to be that all news sources that are not the networks/pmsnBS/HuffnPuff/CNN/WaPo/NYT/LAT, etc. are defacto "fake news" sources.

Brilliant right?  You never have to actually engage on the merits, use facts, logic or reason or really provide any substantive response other than to brand the story as "fake news".  Watch and see.  The leftist mainstream media are going to be all over this concept and will be marching in lockstep to brand anything they don't like to be "fake news", not be be believed nor even worthy of a response let alone a refutation.  Nope, that's "fake news".....no need to respond, no need to do our own investigation, not something we need to cover, time to move onto their version of "real news", which of course will be any story, true or false, that promotes their ideological bent.  Watch and see.  Drudge Report?  "Fake News".  Rolling Stone Mag?  Above reproach!  If it weren't so transparent and pathetic you would almost have to admire their chutzpah........