CNN's contribution to fake news through their headlines - "Trump Winning Effort to Demonize Mueller"

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&stop=1

with whom? those already trumpers?

Based on what info?

THIS is what we are up against. A horserace media that feels it is above the fray, protected, working to get clicks, eyeballs and money.

Bullshit...and shame on them!

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Just not forget who the Players are

that are driving this meme. CNN-Zucker,one of the Apprentice Production Staff. Andy Lack-MSNBC/NBC ,again,Apprentice Staff. Are we seeing Frank Luntz and Company once again,sure smells like it.

[Wwcd]

2. Yes indeed. Goebbels would be proud of this global propaganda machine.

http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html

Snip

"He was elected to the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1928. By exploiting mob emotions and by employing all modern methods of propaganda Goebbels helped Hitler into power.

His work as a propagandist materially aided Hitler's rise to power in 1933.
When Hitler seized power in 1933, Goebbels was appointed Reichsminister for propaganda and national enlightenment.
From then until his death, Goebbels used all media of education and communications to further Nazi propagandistic aims, instilling in the Germans the concept of their leader as a veritable god and of their destiny as the rulers of the world. In 1938 he became a member of the Hitler cabinet council. Late in World War II, in 1944, Hitler placed him in charge of total mobilization.

[Thomas Hurt]

9. Fascist Selective Populism

13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view—one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against “rotten” parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was “I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples”—“maniples” being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.

Umberto Eco - Ur-Fascism 1995

[Wwcd]

12. Excellent post.

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"Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism."

This statement is evident & growing in force in America...everywhere we see.

From the 3rd Reich Republicans to the constant face of the fringe pols.
Money & Media wants us to believe whatever has always stood as the solid strength & keeper of our free society, no longer represents the "voice of the people".
That's the Lie.
That's the schtick that convinces a nation to "burn it all down".

Thanks for your informative post.

[Thomas Hurt]

14. In Trump's case he does not attack the parliament, so much..

so much as he is attacking the media, courts, law enforcement or really any individual who challenges his imagined autocratic power.

I have no doubt that Trump is a wannabe dictator and will get to Congress eventually.

[Wwcd]

15. I think its a massive faction & Trump, being the public voice, has been allotted his role

..but certainly the role of dismantling the US govt structure comes from another faction (of the same head) & far more educated in what must be done to chip away at our foundation.

They know our govt structure & its vulnerability.
They work behind the 24/7 bluster of obnoxious Trump, and know exactly how a Democracy or Republic can gradually be turned to fascism.

The playbook has already been written, they just have to apply that handbook to the USA .
Mueller's dagger is zeroed in on the heart of the corrupt entity.

This medusa has many snakes & Trump is one of them. Its the head of the beast that must be completely destroyed before it destroy us.
Its a large & dangerous organization, & Mueller gets one chance at taking it down.
He cannot make one mistake.

Serious & deadly stuff we have here.

[pwb]

3. Anyone who thinks any cable channel is on our side? Think again?

Cut the cable. Dump that opinion crap. Highly paid talkers is all they are.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. yes - it is why we turned it all off 10 years ago.

[Blecht]

7. THIS

There are too many people blind to this simple fact.

[malaise]

4. This too

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210667890

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. yup. morning, friend!

[Fullduplexxx]

8. Here's how to contact them

fyi FeedbackWe'd really like to hear what you have to say. Please use the form at the right or e-mail us at: [e-mail]. 
http://www.cnn.com/fyi/legal/feedback/index.html

[treestar]

10. Typical of the Stupid Dotard

To think he has to demonize the person involved.

Any other prosecutor could take the job and find the same evidence.

He thinks it is about who is the better person? Then how does he think he will ever win?

[workinclasszero]

11. The MSM love Trump

They are owned by GOP fascists.

They want the Republic of Gilead as bad as the worst knuckle dragging MAGA zombie!

[spanone]

13. Another CNN story: Fake news machine gears up for 2020

There's a whole industry dedicated to producing fake US news in Macedonia -- and it's gearing up for 2020.Source: CNN Money

https://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2017/09/12/the-macedonia-story-full-clean-lon-orig.cnn-money

[Vinca]

16. In the end, it won't matter. The law is the law is the law and Don's PR campaign won't save him.

[oasis]

17. +1