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After the audience applauds Clinton’s bad answer, the news media replays the clip as an example of how soundly she defeated her debate opponents. Accounts of her supposed victory are dutifully and gleefully circulated by the usual suspects in the press and soon saturate social media. “Hillary Clinton had the perfect response,” proclaims a post-deba
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Yes, Libya is Clinton’s baby and she would tout it as a success story. Her success story. But it would soon become one of the most monumental foreign policy disasters of the decade. Obama and Clinton had no effective plan for post-Qaddafi Libya. In the ensuing vacuum, ISIS was born and Libya became a failed state. A breeding ground for Islamic extr
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Snopes also sometimes takes sides on political issues that are far from factually settled. An article by Peter Hasson in the conservative Daily Caller noted in 2016 that Snopes recently “tried to pose as a political fact-checker” but that its fact-checking “looks more like playing defense for prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton.”
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
After the McGovern convention in 1972, the Democratic Party became the home of educated professionals, racial minorities, and the shrinking unionized working class. The more the party identified with the winners of the new economy, the easier it became for the Republican Party to pull away white workers by appealing to cultural values.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
About this time, Trump is beginning to get pounded mercilessly in the media for saying “all Mexicans are rapists.” Except he never said that. The widespread mischaracterization of his words is stunning from my viewpoint as a traditional journalist.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Hasson suggests there’s a reason for that. Snopes’s political fact-checker Kim LaCapria is a liberal who has referred to Republicans as “regressive” and afraid of “female agency.”
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
But what is their definition of the oppressed? It is not the economically oppressed that they have come to defend but the culturally oppressed.