{"id":4509,"date":"2018-05-21T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/a-fake-news-smear\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:01:39","slug":"a-fake-news-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/a-fake-news-smear\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Fake News&#8217; Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Donald Trump baits the so-called journalists of the lamestream media with his largely, but not entirely, true accusations of &#39;fake news&#39; and what do the &#39;journalists&#39; do? They bite. They take the bait.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In their TDS-driven rage they verify the accusations by violating their own professional standards. Well, keep it up knuckleheads! You are destroying what is left of your credibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">By the way, when John McCain and others accuse Trump of attacking the Fourth Estate they are merely flailing about in frustration.&#0160; Trump is rendering a salutary service by punching back effectively at the patently biased and leftward-leaning mainstream\/lamestream media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Trump&#39;s genius is that he knows how so to needle them that they show their true colors. Or as Dan Bongino rather less delicately put it the other night, &quot;He gets them to pull down their pants and show their asses.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Bongino then went on strangely to remark that he didn&#39;t mean the comment literally! No?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The only thing wrong with Trump&#39;s &#39;animal&#39; comment is that it is not fair to animals. They don&#39;t have free will; MS-13 gangsters do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It is clear proof that&#0160; leftists in high positions in the Fourth Estate are moral scum that they could with impunity slander a duly elected president in such a vicious and absurd way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0223c84cab12200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Animals\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0223c84cab12200c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0223c84cab12200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Animals\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump baits the so-called journalists of the lamestream media with his largely, but not entirely, true accusations of &#39;fake news&#39; and what do the &#39;journalists&#39; do? They bite. They take the bait.&#0160; In their TDS-driven rage they verify the accusations by violating their own professional standards. Well, keep it up knuckleheads! You are destroying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/21\/a-fake-news-smear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A &#8216;Fake News&#8217; Smear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,26,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","category-immigration","category-media-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}