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The Left's Once Mighty Echo Chamber Is Losing Power
American Thinker ^ | February 17, 2017 | David Prentice

Posted on 02/17/2017 4:26:06 AM PST by Kaslin

The left and its echo chamber are convinced they are taking out Trump. It's their "narrative" and they actually believe their own PR. They don’t see how they have driven themselves over the edge of reason and can no longer convince others. The only people they have convinced are themselves -- of their own righteousness. And they actually believe they have succeeded.

Again.

This echo chamber once held great power. They used to be able to form "narratives," ( activist storylines to decide and interpret news), persuade the powerful, and terrorize the right. They could make most Republicans quake just by pulling out the race card or the half dozen other narrative cards they have used for so long. The chamber was constructed over decades. Leftist educators and pols used this Alinskyite playbook to ascend to power, and damn, they were good at using it. One of their pols, or media stars would say something, often perfectly false, and voila! the media, and their fellow Democratic Party pols would echo it and repeat it so much, it would literally become true in the minds of the majority of the public. The ideas that Republicans were racist, or against science, or had brazenly ruined the environment, are great examples of what they accomplished.

Now, the echo chamber is losing its power. The tricks the left used to nominate and elect a man who literally had no business running for any office -- that's President Obama, who had no qualifications for the office - no longer work. These same tricks were used to try to elect Hillary, they even doubled and tripled their usage of the echo chamber. Yet Trump is now president instead of Clinton

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KEYWORDS: fakenews
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To: 1Old Pro

I’m amazed how the derogatory term “fake news,” which was designed by the leftists to smear conservative news sites, got turned around and is now identified with the propaganda MSM. And the Marxists can’t get out from under the lights of being identified as “fake news.”

HaHa!


21 posted on 02/17/2017 6:51:58 AM PST by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one.)
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To: sergeantdave
I’m amazed how the derogatory term “fake news,” which was designed by the leftists to smear conservative news sites, got turned around and is now identified with the propaganda MSM. And the Marxists can’t get out from under the lights of being identified as “fake news.” HaHa!

Yep, I noticed that too, lol

22 posted on 02/17/2017 6:53:32 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin

Trump’s town halls equate to trying them in the public square. Instead of allowing the DNC to control the message, Trump is pushing back and refuting their facts by rising about all the noisy hestyria.


23 posted on 02/17/2017 7:05:22 AM PST by Jumper
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To: Kaslin
We were so close to the edge. I was convinced there was no way back. Now I am living an American Renaissance thanks to President DJT.
24 posted on 02/17/2017 7:11:47 AM PST by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: Kaslin
To all things a season...

It's time to put a rototiller into this garden of tarns, till it under and replant for a better harvest.

25 posted on 02/17/2017 7:18:16 AM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Kaslin

M.S.M. is DEAD. DEMOCRAT PARTY is DEAD.

I don’t call it “democratic party”. That name has held a
lot of people fettered by its cool sounding name for a very
long time. - DEMOCRAT PARTY.


26 posted on 02/17/2017 7:37:21 AM PST by Twinkie (The MSM is DEAD. - John 3:16)
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To: GBA

D’oh, I meant “tares”, not “tarns”.


27 posted on 02/17/2017 7:39:46 AM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Twinkie

Call them the Democrat Party.

Because, as this past primary season clearly illustrates, there is absolutely NOTHING democratic about them.


28 posted on 02/17/2017 7:45:07 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

Buried in many stories are still facts, if you ignore the narrative and just list out the facts; the facts are damning

But they are damning to the Democrats and the leakers, criminally damning


29 posted on 02/17/2017 7:51:50 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: GBA

“Tarns” works. They’re kid of swampy, if you get my drift.


30 posted on 02/17/2017 8:27:37 AM PST by Chaguito
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To: mission9
What do you think Media Matters does?

"Media Matters' puts the image of George Soros and every other out-of-touch liberal elite on the face of the Democrat Party... Because the press is lazy and democrats are greedy - the damage to the democrat party will continue until the party is dead.

31 posted on 02/17/2017 8:36:10 AM PST by GOPJ (The swamp is much deeper than any of us suspected... Freeper jimwatx...)
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To: Chaguito

Lol! You’re definitely right about that!


32 posted on 02/17/2017 6:45:41 PM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: Biggirl

“The left is dying.”

I doubt they are dead, but Trump has demonstrated that somebody with the balls can take on political correctness and the media..

It remains to be seen, if any others on the right take heed.


33 posted on 02/17/2017 6:51:00 PM PST by truth_seeker
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