Tag Archives: post-truth

My hate mail from the Fox News viewers of Michigan

By Mark | August 17, 2017

A few days ago, a friend of mine in San Francisco, in an attempt to better understand how Facebook’s ad targeting system works in practice, invested a few dollars and boosted a recent article of mine about Trump’s response to the white nationalist terrorist attack in Charlottesville. As I understand it, he specifically targeted Fox […]

Posted in Marketing, Media, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Barcelona, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, Facebook, facts, FOX News, General Pershing, pig blood, racism, social media, terrorism | 14 Comments

Having attempted unsuccessfully to convince us that his sympathies don’t lie with Nazis, Trump returns to racist form

By Mark | August 15, 2017

Yesterday, we saw a focused, scripted Donald Trump attempt to put our minds at ease and convince us that, despite what it might have looked like in the days following the attack on Charlottesville, he really shares our believe that white supremacists are repugnant. Well, as that particular speech didn’t yield the results that our […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alt Right, alt-left, birther, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, George Washington, Heather Heyer, lies, Nazi, post-fact, racism, racist dog whistle, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Terry McAuliffe, The Central Park Five, Thomas Jefferson, white nationalism, white power, white supremacist | 45 Comments

For those of you who think Fox is just too impartial, we’ve now official state television offering “the real news”… Introducing Trump TV

By Mark | August 6, 2017

Yesterday, CNN contributor Kayleigh McEnany announced that she’d be leaving the network. And, today, we found out what she be doing… Ladies and gentlemen, I give you “the real news”! WATCH: @kayleighmcenany left CNN yesterday….today, she made her debut on Trump TV sharing "the real news". pic.twitter.com/joqxNfgDuf — Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 6, 2017 Having […]

Posted in Marketing, Media, Politics | Also tagged fake news, Hitler, Kayleigh McEnany, Lügenpresse, Parallax View, propaganda, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sean Spicer, state television, Trump Tower Live, Trump TV | 8 Comments

Donald Trump implicated in making the decision to use the Seth Rich conspiracy theory in order to divert attention from the Russia investigation

By Mark | August 2, 2017

In time, every lie of the Trump administration will unravel, and the truth will be known. It’s just a matter of time. Today, thanks to a lawsuit that was just filed against Fox News on behalf of former D.C. homicide detective Rod Wheeler, we’re finally beginning to understand just how it was that, in the […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged collusion, conspiracy theories, Democratic National Committee, DNC, Donald Trump, Douglas Wigdor, Ed Butowsky, election rigging, EOS, FOX News, hacking, James Comey, John Podesta, lies, Malia Zimmerman, murder, Rod Wheeler, Russia, Russiagate, Sean Hannity, Sean Spicer, Seth Rich, Wikileaks | 32 Comments

How does one celebrate Independence Day in a country where our President has declared all out war on the free and independent press?

By Mark | July 2, 2017

Well, it’s been about three months since Alex Morris’s “Why Trump Is Not Mentally Fit to Be President” ran in Rolling Stone, and I think you’d be hard pressed to find a mental health professional to say that our President, in that time, has shown any signs of improvement. In fact, it would appear that, […]