2016 Postmortem
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/conservative-radio-host-weve-created-this-monster-of-fact-hating-right-wing-voters/Conservative radio host: Weve created this monster of fact-hating right-wing voters
Tom Boggioni
15 Aug 2016 at 13:24 ET
Supporters of Donald Trump at rally (Photo: Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock)
In an interview with Business Insiders Oliver Darcy, a conservative radio host lamented the fact that conservative media has conditioned its followers to distrust the mainstream media so much that they have become fact-free monsters.
In a tweet promoting an upcoming piece on rightwing media, Darcy posted an excerpt from an interview with conservative radio host Charlie Sykes who claims candidates like Donald Trump can say anything on the stump without fear of being fact-checked by the likes of Fox News or conservative websites.
Weve basically eliminated any of the referees, the gatekeepers. Theres nobody. Lets say that Donald Trump basically makes whatever you want to say, whatever claim he wants to make. And everybody knows its a falsehood, he explained. The big question of my audience, it is impossible for me to say that. By the way, you know its false. And theyll say, Why? I saw it on Allen B. West. Or theyll say, I saw it on a Facebook page. And Ill say, The New York Times did a fact check. And theyll say, Oh, thats The New York Times. Thats bullshit.'
According to Sykes, any attempts to continue fighting back against misinformation is dismissed with complaints that he has sold out, adding, Then theyll ask whats wrong with me for not repeating these stories that I know not to be true.
Sykes warned Theres got to be a reckoning on all this.
Weve created this monster, he warned. Look, Im a conservative talk show host. All conservative talk show hosts have basically established their brand as being contrasted with the mainstream media. So we have spent 20 years demonizing the liberal mainstream media. And by the way, a lot has been justifiable. There is real bias. But, at a certain point you wake up and you realize you have destroyed the credibility of any credible outlet out there.
And I feeling, to a certain extent, that we are reaping the whirlwind at that, he continued. And I have to look in the mirror and ask myself, To what extent did I contribute?'
Coventina
(27,121 posts)Just as he says, he'll get labeled as a sell-out or traitor.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)If the so-called mainstream media are so liberally biased, why aren't Bush, Cheney and other members of that administration badgered into submission over their lies and mishandling of the invasion of Iraq and sitting in prison as war criminals?
The so-called liberal media keep playing the RW's game with Benghazi, as if terror attacks and killings on U.S. operations overseas are rare. Yet, there were at least a dozen such attacks that resulted in four or more deaths under W's watch. Did we have nonstop coverage on that? What about the 1983 terrorist attack at Beirut under Reagan's watch that resulted in over 240 American deaths? If these sorts of events had happened under Obama's watch, can you imagine the nonstop attacks on him?
If the media are so liberal, why does Reagan enjoy this aura of being an infallible icon with conservatives when his policies and actions are polar opposites on things such as taxes, smaller government, debt, job creation and family value issues such as divorce, out-of-marriage pregnancies and abortion?
I guess if you're using Faux Snooze as your baseline for comparing news objectivity, the NBC's, CBS's, ABC's and CNN's appear to be liberal. Faux is so off-the-charts RW while other media are still far-right to a lesser degree.
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)I've been looking for this info. Hope you don't mind if I post it elsewhere.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Trump's knuckle dragging deep base will rip him and threaten him. The hardcore one step up from skinhead faction will crucify him.
I would hire a top flight bodyguard too.
get the red out
(13,467 posts)As he goes to the bank to cash his paycheck.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)If you set your rates too low, that's not our fault.
Botany
(70,520 posts)..... 2000, we have to go into Iraq to keep ourselves safe, and President Obama has
pro Muslim leanings lies too. Did he stand up and call Trump out for his "sending
good people to Hawaii" to check out Barack Obama's place of birth?
7962
(11,841 posts)O'reilly was another one who dismissed it for the nonsense that it was
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)to Hillary witch hunts (Whitewater, Benghazi, etc) and comparing it to the amount of time spent covering Trump's 3500 lawsuits pending. All we ever get about Trump is his daily outrages. And those are said to distract from the previous outrage.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)Vince Fosters 'murder'. (That's sarcasm. But Newsmax has a new book out about the Clinton bodycounts). I saw it on a store shelf. I'd google it for the title but then I'd get a lot of popups from RW websites from here to eternity, so I won't bother.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...destroying themselves.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)caquillo
(521 posts)Yeah, 'cause facts have a liberal bias, asshat.
canuckledragger
(1,644 posts)In an article complaining about their followers being facts free, they STILL lie and go fact-free!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Those people look like they'd fail that test.
eissa
(4,238 posts)Meanwhile, Hannity is still foaming at the mouth on Faux.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Culturally it's liberal--media gets big bucks from sensationalizing liberal ideas. Politically and financially it's CONservative.
I hate that UN-nuanced chorus line..."Liberal media! Liberal media!! Eek!"
You have to separate and consider the components to respond to these assfasteners effectively.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)he will be all set to lead the poor misguided trumpers and the enlightened walker supporting gop base to a new fascist nirvana.
he is a snake
he has always been a snake
he will always be a snake
if trump implodes conservatives could take a real hit....he sees this, he is getting in front of it.....
when you got a lemon....he is making lemonaide
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)Butt-saving "epiphany." Still, it's more self-reflection than I've ever seen from a rightwing talking head.
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Lobo27
(753 posts)Remind me again who has the channel that makes them dumb?
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Nt
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)multi billion dollar industry that has been shaping political discourse in this country for at least 30 yrs - it sure as heck is "mainstream". What is not "mainstream" about it?????????????????
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Still had to take a shot at the small amount of liberal bias in the MSM, didn't he?
Initech
(100,081 posts)They're just now figuring that out?
berksdem
(595 posts)credit where credit is do... and he is right. the GOPhers created this mess and hope it is a monumental landslide.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)My first thought exactly!
glennward
(989 posts)years. I don't think they really grasp the consequences of fact-hating and truth-hating or the consequences of embracing willful ignorance.
How do you get the social institutions that you spew hate about to ever be in a position to actually help you? How do you expect government to serve and protect you when you don't support it? How do you expect to have a great nation when you don't want to pay for it in a way that all its people are able to rise to their best potential? How do you expect to have peace when all you preach is war? WTF is wrong with people?
rafeh1
(385 posts)Gloom and doom to old folks is greatly profitable
Bozvotros
(785 posts)Take a good long look at the hatefilled slack-jawed drooling idiots you and your audience left in Congress and State houses all across the land. I'd say a whole f****** lot.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)The research study that supposedly proved that was full of holes.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 17, 2016, 03:10 PM - Edit history (1)
to his interview of Trump in Wisconsin that basically showed how to effectively question the slippery Trump. The demolition of the GOP began with the absence of facts on right wing talk radio, replaced by the incessant vomiting of hate. But the biggest wrecking ball was enthusiastically wielded by Fox News and the so called 'journalists' that prostituted themselves there. They are the primary ones responsible for creating the rotting swamp out of which Trump crawled. How they can morally and professionally live with themselves is beyond me. Maybe they do not realize the national damage they have done. Well I don't expect Hannity to - he is way too dumb!
Jnew28
(931 posts)And only about 16% are able to participate in democracy....
http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2016/08/16-percent-trump-voter-aptitude-participate-democracy.html
louis-t
(23,295 posts)Supposedly smart people in my office who make lots of money are still in love with Drumpf.
rladdi
(581 posts)Donald Trump is doing. Then we have Radio Talk host Hugh Hewitt spewing LIES about Clinton and continues to praise Trump in his speeches. Are these Radio Talk host brainless, or it it they just don't care what they say or who they support. I believe Hewitt would support ISIS if they ran under his party ticket.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 21, 2016, 03:13 AM - Edit history (1)
maybe back then it was balanced, and THAT'S why repuke whores cried foul - they needed a network that ONLY talked conservative garbage, and that's how FOX NEWS started
and f*** this guy - he was fine with it when repukes were winning and he was pimping for Scott Walker