art credit: zero hedge
Dave Merrick
published a piece yesterday in the Canada Free Press on why “Fake News Works,”
and it hits the nail on the head. The entire essay is here. Below are some
extracts:
I have watched many lawyers
imitate the following scenario when addressing a witness on the stand ...
“Isn’t it true that you saw Mr. So-and-so get into his car and drive away after
he committed the murder?” To which the opposing attorney will, if he is earning
his wage, instantly respond, “OBJECTION! Counsel is leading the witness, your
Honor! We don’t know that Mr. So-and-so committed any murder!” To which the
examining attorney will just as instantly return with: “I withdraw the question,
your Honor.” But the seed was planted, nonetheless. And that was all the
attorney wanted to do. Jurors are impressionable - because they are people. He
planted his seed to shape an opinion.
. . .
Professional politicians and
their allies the liberal media . . . fully anticipate the naïveté, short
attention spans and impressionability of their audiences, who no longer put
forth any effort to make sure of anything (beyond perhaps doing an occasional
appeal to an obviously left-leaning Snopes). (I encourage my readers to verify
the accuracy of Snopes, especially “fact checker” Kim Lacapria).
YouTube is overflowing with video examples documenting liberal liars, starting
with our former chief executive and including ‘news’ journalists, lying their
heads off. Most people will never take the time to go looking for these
mini-documentaries that only take a few minutes to review. [click here and scroll down for
those videos]
. . .
And lies distract us from the
really important things that can destroy us as a nation.
The time that is wasted in a
nation fumbling around with ‘scandals’ that don’t even exist is more time for
the cancer of simple division and its festering rancor to continue in
disintegrating what’s left of our unity and strength. As I have said many
times, Donald Trump has got to be the single most slandered and berated
president in all of American history. Everybody, from an outraged liberal
media/ entertainment industry trying to regain its control - to nearly every
second rate, has-been actor or musician pursuing a mother lode of free press -
has of late climbed aboard the “I Hate Trump” train like sucker fishes hanging
on a great white shark.
. . .
Now, finally, the authors of fake
news are beginning to be exposed for what they are: sheep in wolves’ clothing
who lie for a luxurious living.
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