{"id":35080,"date":"2019-01-26T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35080"},"modified":"2019-01-26T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:23:51","slug":"twitter-use-sure-why-not-fake-news-epithet-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35080","title":{"rendered":"Twitter use? Sure, why not? ‘Fake News’ epithet? Unacceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have learned to accept that Donald Trump is going to use Twitter to express himself whenever he wants. I don’t like it, but that’s his way of communicating, so I’ll let that aspect ride.<\/p>\n

What I cannot let stand is his continual use of the term “fake news” to describe media with which he disagrees.<\/p>\n

He said this regarding the Davos economic summit, which he decided to skip\u00a0 because of the partial government shutdown:<\/p>\n

Last time I went to Davos, the Fake News said I should not go there. This year, because of the Shutdown, I decided not to go, and the Fake News said I should be there. The fact is that the people understand the media better than the media understands them!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

C’mon, Mr. President! Knock off the “fake news” epithet.<\/p>\n

He throws that term out whenever he describes media outlets that report news he finds objectionable, which is another way of saying he dislikes media that report the news accurately.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the president of the United States is the uncrowned king of fake news. He foments lies continually. He has continued to speak untruths about current events, about his political foes, about the media. He promotes “fakes news” whenever he opens his trap and says things such as:<\/p>\n

Barack Obama was ineligible to run for president because he wasn’t a U.S. citizen; he witnessed thousands of Muslims cheering the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9\/11; millions of illegal immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016; the “caravan” of refugees fleeing Central America contained many “Middle Eastern” terrorists intent on killing Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s just a sample of what I am talking about. The president is the master of “fake news.” For him to accuse the media of promoting “fake news” is just, well, another example of Donald Trump’s penchant for prevarication.<\/p>\n\n

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I have learned to accept that Donald Trump is going to use Twitter to express himself whenever he wants. I don’t like it, but that’s his way of communicating, so I’ll let that aspect ride. What I cannot let stand is his continual use of the term “fake news” to describe media with which he … Continue reading Twitter use? Sure, why not? ‘Fake News’ epithet? Unacceptable<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95,540,1424,6712,2139,2239,4931],"class_list":["post-35080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-95","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-twin-towers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35082,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions\/35082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}