**What Fox News And tRump Have Done To America**

[Grassy Knoll]

[murielm99]

1. Wow. Just wow.

[trueblue2007]

31. how can you post this Gif on Twitter ?????

[Canoe52]

55. Yea, just wow...I've got family that would agree with him

[ProudLib72]

2. Good question

Why was Obama not in the Oval Office during 9/11? Why wasn't he there when we invaded Iraq twice? Why is he not there right now?

MAGA man should not be allowed to vote. Period! I don't care what anyone else says. If you are that incredibly stupid when it comes to government, then you should not get to vote.

[Leith]

18. Don't Forget Katrina

Why was Obama so slow with the federal response?

[certainot]

42. it's not fox, it's talk radio

fox is talk radio's stupid little bro and until liberals figure that out we're fucked, attacking symptoms like fox

[sharedvalues]

53. It's both.

But yes talk radio is important

How would you measure the relative roles of radio and Fox news?

[certainot]

54. fox is the visual icing on the lie turd pie of talk radio

- talk radio is unique - it is the only major medium with NO poltical challenge from the other side of the spectrum
- fox cannot create like tr - people are monitoring it, there is one basic point of dissemination, with a handful of people looking into cameras and trying to look certain when they lie
- it cannot do the unchallenged repetition needed for creating big lies - a few hundred liars on 1000 radio stations all telling the same lies with their own flavor is a monstrous buzz
- there are free easy political alts to fox just a click away
- there are no free easy alts for politics on the radio in most parts of the US - esp those 40 states with 80 senators
- talk radio stations can be coordinated locally- they can spread the exact same national bullshit and trump excuses, swiftboating of trump critics, keeping blue dogs and wayward repubs in line, or they can do local propaganda coordinated for attacking ossoff in GA, or fighting local legalization or environmental legislation, or sell another wall mart or publicly funded stadium for billionaires to profit from, for eg.
- there's no monitoring or study of rw radio - it's basically invisible to those it attacks and has been attacking for 30 years
- and that's the biggest political mistake in history

[sharedvalues]

57. So how do we stop it?

What can you and I do?

[certainot]

59. some suggestions:

the dem party but particularly the progressive groups have to do something. i can't do it.

Poll — Polling rarely distinguishes talk radio from other media. Polling is an easy way to measure its effects. This should be the bare minimum for analysts trying to understand why US democracy has become so corrupt, dysfunctional, and hostage to an alternate reality.

Monitor — This is another minimum for the Democratic Party if it wants to stop playing catchup. A software combination should be developed to automatically record and transcribe major talkers on the national and state level so they can be searched. Patterns of repetition of distortions, exaggerations, and lies will help measure talk radio’s impact. Democratic candidates need to know when and who those stations attack —  before they start showing up in the newspapers as letters to the editor or in think tank-written op eds and papers. The material can be used for alerting and correcting media, in advertising campaigns, and in debates. Public access to such material will inhibit politicians and media from repeating the lies and distortions.

Credit the messengers —  One major reason talk radio is so effective is that it is ignored and unchallenged. Democrats need to put a RUSH tattoo on Trump’s forehead and that of every Republican politician and media hack who repeats the same talking points. Democrats can win merely by responding to lies with a preface like “That’s what Limbaugh says, but...” 

Boycott — While Stoprush and Flushrush weren’t really boycotts they had that effect. That whole effort and boycotts needs to extend to all businesses that advertise on any rw radio station. While it will hurt liberal radio the rtadio is about 95% — 5%. When the monopoly is broken stations will open up for liberal talkers. It's easy and fun to listen to the local stations live or online and get some phone numbers and better yet emails addresses from their web sites. emails may be more likely to get to the boss and linger. And thank them for trump, russian stooges, global warming, loss of health care for your family, loss of net neutrality, and so on.

Protest — the radio stations, but maybe better than that:

88 universities that help Republicans deny global warming and minimize protests

[RKP5637]

3. Who is that, Captain Stupid? n/t

[Doodley]

4. Just asking the question: Is it fair to humiliate somebody in this way?

[First Speaker]

5. Yes. I'm sorry, but my patience for this sort of ignorance is over...

[Doodley]

12. I agree. I notice the most outspoken Trump fans are the most clueless.

[luvMIdog]

7. That's a good question . I have decided that since these people repeat rumors without ever fact

checking and cause the victims of their rumors great headaches and inconvenience and sometimes loss of careers ..yeah it's fair.

[Doodley]

13. They are open to being brainwashed because their worldview is based on bigotry and resentment.

[jaysunb]

24. +1000 n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

8. I Think He's Humiliating Himself

[Doodley]

14. Agree. He chose to be outspoken about something he knows nothing about.

[susanna]

39. The capacity to say, honestly, "I don't know"

is nearly lost in this country. Most everyone thinks they are a super genius.

What have we become?!

on edit: I over-generalized because I say "I don't know" all the time

[sammythecat]

62. You're so right.

I see this all the time and it's infuriating. I'd guess men are the worst offenders, like admitting they don't know is some kind of weakness or something. It also seems, as I think of some I know, they're often boring, uninteresting, and pretty much incurious. People with a good measure of curiosity have more answers, and if they don't have the answer they'll look for it.

[susanna]

67. Yes! I think you explained it really well.

Some of them do seem to have very low levels of intellectual curiosity. Since that is foreign to me ("I'm the original 'but why?' kid), I really have a hard time empathizing.

I have learned a ton of useless information over the years, usually because someone asked me a question I did not know. Then I had find the answer because I hate not knowing things.

[Squinch]

9. Yes. Especially if the person humiliating him is himself.

[Doodley]

17. He is probably not normally humiliated saying this kind of thing among his social circle, but now

perhaps he can wake up to the truth and realize he has been manipulated by misinformers.

[Squinch]

21. Don't hold your breath. He'll think the person who tells him that Obama wasn't in office on

9/11 is spreading fake news.

[Doodley]

26. What I mean is when he sees himself being mocked on the internet - forums like this, Facebook, etc.,

it will be a sharp learning experience for him.

[tblue37]

34. One he clearly needs. nt

[Squinch]

49. And I'm saying that I think all that will do to this guy is make him more smugly certain

that he is smarter than all those "libtards" who don't even know that 9/11 was Obama's fault.

He will learn nothing.

[Takket]

10. no one forced him to do anything

[Doodley]

20. no one forced him and he may look back at this moment of idiocy with regret for the rest of his life

[Squinch]

22. As he should.

[Grassy Knoll]

6. You Just Know, He's Not Alone In That Thought....

...Republiconism Is a Bigger Disease Than The Black Plague.

[dalton99a]

11. "Obama could have prevented the Korean War, but he was too soft on North Korea"

I actually heard that on the radio.

They are fucked up beyond repair.

[tblue37]

35. Just as Andrew Jackson could have prevented the Civil War, but at least

Frederick Douglass has done good work that is becoming more and more recognized.

[dalton99a]

52. Yep.

[Chipper Chat]

15. one of obama's biggest mistakes was

Supporting England in the Falkland islands war. Even tho he was best buds with Juan peron! Inexcusable.

[Squinch]

23. And all that money he spent on that Erie Canal! And who ever uses it????

[Chipper Chat]

63. Trump promised new york, ohio, and Indiana that he was going to rebuild the Erie canal.

Barge builders Wil rejoice.Also poles on the shore will be ressurected. Not to mention toll house renovations and mule popularity again

[Squinch]

64. Which, of course, set the buggy whip makers into a jealous tizzy. And don't even ask about

those hoping for a return of the schooner whaling industry.

[D_Master81]

16. watch the whole video

watched the whole video on youtube. daily show reporter goes around interviewing people at a trump rally and 1 woman actually said she wouldnt believe Obama was an actual citizen unless there was a witness that was in the room that came forward. He said "what about his mother?" to which she replied, "no, she's biased, she would lie". haha! he challenged her about trump and she said she believed his birth certificate b/c "he's been her forever". oh i laugh to keep from crying, a once proud country has degenerated into this.

[Doodley]

25. Their bigotry and resentment determines their propensity to hate Obama and love Trump.

She demonstrates that nicely.

[Grassy Knoll]

19. ..

[krakfiend]

27. Found it

I can't believe people like this exists.

I believe this part was around 3:25 minute mark

[Grassy Knoll]

30. Thanks....

... I Don't Know What State That Was, But I guess It Doesn't Matter.

[Elwood P Dowd]

40. Wisconsin and Ohio were mentioned in the video. (nm)

[trueblue2007]

33. NONE OF THOSE PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO VOTE.

[orleans]

37. holy shit! they're dumber than i realized

which, i guess, makes me kinda dumb too

[DFW]

60. These people couldn't find Australia

Even on a map of Australia.

[Phoenix61]

28. Ranks right up there with

I don't care what you do to Obamacare, I got my insurance though the ACA.

[CentralMass]

29. That made the lights dim

[Grassy Knoll]

32. Look At The Big Brains Of CONservatives....

[Elwood P Dowd]

36. Don't forget Obama signed the Treaty of Tripoli with the Muslims.

If Fox News or Trump said that, most of their fans would believe it.

[Grassy Knoll]

38. Obama Let Hitler Shoot Himself Before Capture....SAD!!

[Elwood P Dowd]

41. Wasn't Bill having an affair with Eva Braun?

[Grassy Knoll]

44. Yes, Sean Hannity Has Exclusive Footage...

..The Most Trusted Name In News.

[Elwood P Dowd]

46. Did it give him a little woody like the Donald does?

[Grassy Knoll]

48. I Think It Was More " What About Mary" Hair Gel .....

...

[catbyte]

43. I also read a study where more than half the GOP respondents blamed Obama for the

poor federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

You can't fix stupid.

[Bluepinky]

45. That's really sad. Those people have cotton instead of a brain inside their heads.

[PatrickforO]

47. Indeed. I wonder if this imbecile could point out the United States on a globe.

What??? You mean the world isn't flat? You must be some kind of LIB-ER-AL. Let me get my gun!

[TrishaJ]

50. I respectfully disagree....

this is what this man's PARENTS did to America - produced an uneducated, illiterate DUFUS that has been exploited by the GOP and FOX News.

[Different Drummer]

58. "Sherman, set The Wayback Machine for 1945."

"We're going to go to New York City to try to prevent Donald Trump's parents from creating him."

[Lil Missy]

51. The stupid - it hurt's.

[sarcasmo]

56. Stupid is easily brainwashed.

[Johnny2X2X]

61. Sad

This is decades in the making. An educated and awake populace cannot be ruled like this. These people take willfully ignorant to another level, they are proud to be ignorant and proud to be ruled.

It's not funny in the least, these are the people who would gladly man the gas chambers should their leader tell them to. And make no mistake about it, there are those in the White House (Not just Bannon) who think a good purge of 50 million or so Americans would be great. If they could execute 50 million liberals, minorities, gays, and Muslims, they would, they do not think the opposition party are humans.

[FlightRN]

65. Help us all

this is the man that votes not only in an ignorant and ill informed way, because he's clearly totally clueless. But more disturbing to me is his blatant racism. These loonies are cropping up so fast it is astonishingly scary.

I don't want to live in this new America that Trump created. He should have been arrested at his rallies for inciting violence. Look what MSM did by giving this man a platform, all for ratings.

[BadGimp]

66. Yep

[ProfessorPlum]

68. I saw the same thing when the deplorables were blaming Clinton and Janet Reno for Ruby Ridge

People in my own extended family. Incredible.