(08-07-2017, 03:52 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: This son of a bitch is now at a point where he can no longer use the excuse of "fake news" / "the lib media is out to get me" etc.
I can't think of a single President during the cognizant part of my lifetime (essentially from about '68 onward) who's been such a whiner and cry baby about the big bad media / the big bad (fill in opposition faction).
Enough already!
It's not simply the liberal media -- it's the lying, loser liberal media! (snark intended)
I have heard politicians bait the news media, and almost every one of those pols was deep in a scandal of some kind that eventually brought down the pol.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.