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June Rose's avatar

Don't forget that during Obama's 2 terms the Republicans lied relentlessly (and effectively to their supporters) about the economy being in shsmbles and I don't recall that they were ever challenged. I remember Graham & McCain being on tv criticizing what the described as a dangerous foreign policy decision as well as directly claiming that Obama ruined our economy, with no pushback from the press.

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Theodora30's avatar

I am glad that you made it clear that this didn’t start with Trump. For decades the mainstream “liberal” media has refused to say that Republicans are lying to us. I believe it was Paul Krugman who said they started down the path to their alternate reality when Reagan started pushing that crackpot supply-side economic snake oil with its magical cost-free tax cuts. It was over 20 years before I saw anyone in the media debunk that costly fairytale and that WaPo article didn’t even mention Reagan. The media still holds him up as some kind of economic genius.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113002190.html

It was Karl Rove who is believed to have told Ron Suskind that Republicans create their own realities. It’s not like they have been subtle about this so why is the media so reluctant to say they are deliberately lying to us? Of course after all these years it appears that a lot of Republican leaders, especially the younger Tea Party types truly believe those lies.

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