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The Liberal Media Just Loves the Fascist Fringe.
Now that the GOP will shortly be commencing its second week of showcasing the behavior of the dumbest bunch of political officeholders to ever occupy the same space at the same time, we will also be treated to a phantasmagoria of liberal commentary on how bad the political process has become.
It’s started off this morning with a long piece in Salon by Chauncey DeVega, which asks us to consider the following question: “How can we prevent another Donald Trump, another fascistic, sadistic demagogue, from ever coming to power?”
DeVega goes on to tell us that Trump and his gang are ‘plotting in public’ to overthrow American democracy and that he has tens of millions of followers who are “potentially willing to engage in acts of violence, and perhaps even die, at his command.”
Salon covers its sorry ass by describing this horsesh*t as ‘commentary,’ which means that the writer doesn’t have to align a single word he says with anything remotely considered to be a fact. In other words, if it’s an opinion, it doesn’t have to be tested in any way to be judged true or false.
But I thought the whole point of liberal media was to align its content with the facts. I thought that everyone knew that when Donald Trump ranted about the ‘fake news,’ he was really talking about himself.
Wrong. Totally and completely wrong. Not only is this Salon piece an obvious attempt to promote the worst, the most stupid and false narrative about the Right as…