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The lie heard round the world: Trump's reckoning with the media continues to reverberate.
By ian douglas rushlau
Saturday Sep 17, 2016 Ā· 8:04 AM MDT
Trump and his crack political advisers (or is that crack-smoking advisers?) almost certainly assumed they could play the networks, the big newspapers, and the AP for the fools they collectively have been. They clearly thought they could set the terms of conversation about Mr. Trumpās āputting an end to this whole birther thingā (if you havenāt had a chance yet, go back and watch his crew of surrogates attempting to use the same schtick theyāve been employing all year on CNN and MSNBC throughout the day yesterday).
Didnāt turn out the way they anticipated.
As other DKOS commenters have amply documented, Trumpās announcement was eviscerated from the moment he uttered it, and each and every attempt by his directorate of truthiness to shout over rebuttals, deflect, or ignore being called out as disgusting racist liars was skewered, relentlessly. The AP story, running in major newspapers across the country this morning, finally introduced the word ālieā to the lexicon (via Talking Points Memo):
WASHINGTON (AP) ā After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama's birthplace, DonaldTrump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born in America. He then immediately peddled another false conspiracy.
"President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period," Trump declared, enunciating each word in a brief statement at the end of a campaign appearance. "Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again."
But as the GOP presidential nominee sought to put that false conspiracy theory to rest, he stoked another, claiming the "birther movement" was begun by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. There is no evidence that is true.
But when things start to ripple outside the political coverage bubble, itās indicative that effects may be more pronounced, and that the impact will be wider, than the typical scroll across the news cycle.
A few weeks back, Wired.com, a technology and science focused site, took the unprecedented step of endorsing Hillary Clinton (it had never made an endorsement before). Today, you can find them covering the story of Trumpās lunacy and racist lies, and the media coverage of his statement, extensively. To put it mildly, this is not typically in their purview:
DONALD TRUMP TRIED to magically mask his years of paranoid speculation about the whereabouts and authenticity of President Obamaās birth certificate today with a 23-word statement at his new hotel in Washington D.C. In it, he erroneously blamed the so-called ābirther movementā on Hillary Clinton, and falsely claimed that he was the one who put those rumors to restā¦
As weāve noted before, Trump has a habit of running his campaign like a Twitter feed, issuing constant updates, each one more absurd than the last, to push his most recent scandal farther down the feed. Who has time to talk about the Trump Foundation scandal when itās Birther Day on CNN? But this tactic only works when the media takes Trumpās every utterance at face value.
Did he finally admit President Obama was born in the US? Sure. But did he also lie and fail to apologize for starting that rumor while doing it? You betcha!
By ian douglas rushlau
Saturday Sep 17, 2016 Ā· 8:04 AM MDT
Trump and his crack political advisers (or is that crack-smoking advisers?) almost certainly assumed they could play the networks, the big newspapers, and the AP for the fools they collectively have been. They clearly thought they could set the terms of conversation about Mr. Trumpās āputting an end to this whole birther thingā (if you havenāt had a chance yet, go back and watch his crew of surrogates attempting to use the same schtick theyāve been employing all year on CNN and MSNBC throughout the day yesterday).
Didnāt turn out the way they anticipated.
As other DKOS commenters have amply documented, Trumpās announcement was eviscerated from the moment he uttered it, and each and every attempt by his directorate of truthiness to shout over rebuttals, deflect, or ignore being called out as disgusting racist liars was skewered, relentlessly. The AP story, running in major newspapers across the country this morning, finally introduced the word ālieā to the lexicon (via Talking Points Memo):
WASHINGTON (AP) ā After five years as the chief promoter of a lie about Barack Obama's birthplace, DonaldTrump abruptly reversed course Friday and acknowledged the fact that the president was born in America. He then immediately peddled another false conspiracy.
"President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period," Trump declared, enunciating each word in a brief statement at the end of a campaign appearance. "Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again."
But as the GOP presidential nominee sought to put that false conspiracy theory to rest, he stoked another, claiming the "birther movement" was begun by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. There is no evidence that is true.
But when things start to ripple outside the political coverage bubble, itās indicative that effects may be more pronounced, and that the impact will be wider, than the typical scroll across the news cycle.
A few weeks back, Wired.com, a technology and science focused site, took the unprecedented step of endorsing Hillary Clinton (it had never made an endorsement before). Today, you can find them covering the story of Trumpās lunacy and racist lies, and the media coverage of his statement, extensively. To put it mildly, this is not typically in their purview:
DONALD TRUMP TRIED to magically mask his years of paranoid speculation about the whereabouts and authenticity of President Obamaās birth certificate today with a 23-word statement at his new hotel in Washington D.C. In it, he erroneously blamed the so-called ābirther movementā on Hillary Clinton, and falsely claimed that he was the one who put those rumors to restā¦
As weāve noted before, Trump has a habit of running his campaign like a Twitter feed, issuing constant updates, each one more absurd than the last, to push his most recent scandal farther down the feed. Who has time to talk about the Trump Foundation scandal when itās Birther Day on CNN? But this tactic only works when the media takes Trumpās every utterance at face value.
Did he finally admit President Obama was born in the US? Sure. But did he also lie and fail to apologize for starting that rumor while doing it? You betcha!
