Inside the Right-Wing Media Bubble, Where the Myth of a Trump Win Lives On

[Nevilledog]

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“We’re in this feedback loop where the [right-wing] media give the audience weapons and tools with which to deny reality...And the audience disciplines the media by threatening to go somewhere even wackier if they don’t toe the line.” Via @jwpetersNYT
The aggressive campaign by President Trump and his media boosters to insist with each new setback that the election is far from settled isn’t letting up.

Inside the Right-Wing Media Bubble, Where the Myth of a Trump Win Lives On
The Electoral College has affirmed Biden’s victory. That doesn’t mean that Trump-friendly news outlets have accepted it.
nytimes.com
3:02 PM · Dec 15, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/us/politics/trump-media.html

President Trump’s media criticism is usually binary — there are “good stories,” favorable to him, and then the other category.

Most news coverage on Monday fell into that other category. One by one, presidential electors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia formally recognized Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the president-elect, the latest and most significant rejection so far of Mr. Trump’s desperate attempts to undo the will of the voters.

But inside the sprawling and self-reinforcing network of websites, podcasts and video news that has fed some of the most reckless and unrealistic claims about the election, the myth of Mr. Trump’s political survival endures.

The lead story on the Gateway Pundit, which researchers have identified as one of the major sources of pro-Trump misinformation online, floated the idea of a “BOMBSHELL” ruling in a case on Monday that the site teased as a possible game-changer: “Will a Small County in Northern Michigan Be the Key to Overturning the Nation’s Election Results?”

On a podcast hosted by Mr. Trump’s former White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, a conservative activist vowed to file a new lawsuit seeking to reverse the electors’ vote — adding to the dozens of suits so far, nearly all of which have been dismissed. “Intimidation and fear is not something that works in a democracy,” said Phill Kline, the director of the conservative Amistad Project, vowing to continue the fight.

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[underpants]

1. Read this this morning.

Frankly I was expecting more. I saw the author on Morning Joe and thought this was an expanded report. As someone who is keeping hours (teleworking) where I in the car during the day. Rush, Beck, the morning guy who has some serious props but is still a shill, afternoon guy who just a pro talker. You have no idea how entrenched this is. They take their bizarre truths and expound and extrapolate them.

[Nevilledog]

2. The mental gymnastics they perform is disturbing.

SCOTUS rules against Trump? Justices are deep state
McConnell recognizes Biden? He's an agent of China and Russia

Now I'm reading shit that they think the Chinese Army is invading Wisconsin.

[d_r]

3. these two trump fans pass away from covid and then

they get to the pearly gates and St. Peter says "it's your lucky day, our special today is that you can ask any question and receive the answer."

The first guy says "great, how much did trump really win by?"

St. Peter says, "I'm sorry, trump lost the election."

The first trump fan looks at the the and says "this conspiracy goes even higher than we thought."

[Nevilledog]

4. Ha!