It's being catch-phrased in the 'fake-news' witch hunts.
Keep an eye out for it and get ahead of it.
For over 30 years, I have seen Dem after Dem fall in line with the talking point that all of the Clinton scandals are just Republican attacks. Can’t get more ‘post-truth’ than that.
Liars prefer to control the definition of truth.
international word of the year?
Never heard it before.
Sounds like Newspeak
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I think it's wonderful to hear them whine.
Fox News will keep REMINDING the lamestream media HOW WRONG they were.
Some of the other "snooze" [pun on "news"] networks MAY cease to exist.
pot meet kettle.
If the truth is against you, make up a new word. Even if the new word is Self-contradictory.
I wonder if this liberal word means that liberals think that Trump constantly lies, or whether they think that that there no longer is such a thing as truth. It no longer exists, so they can say whatever they like.
I think probably the latter. Most liberals wouldn’t understand what truth means if it hit them on the head.
Stephen Colbert is incensed that ‘post-truth’ ripped off his original formulation of ‘truthiness.’
Screw those language-masturbators.
The demise of truth in journalism was seen by anybody who read The WSJ over the past 15 years. In 2000 before News Corp purchased The Wall Street Journal there was an editorial rule that every statement of opinion needed to be directly followed by the facts that supported it. After News Corp took over the paper that rule was no longer enforced.
On the other hand, The New York Times always went with emotional backing of an opinion. If you could find one person who agrees with a thought, you could hold it as true. So lets say that McDonalds raises the price of chocolate shakes by a quarter. If you can find a mother who says her child will now starve, thats ok. Print the headline that McDonalds are causing children to die. And if that mother is poor and black and lives in the intercity. You can extrapolate that to “McDonalds is killing black intercity children”
While The WSJ has not fully devolved into the emotional stylistic propaganda of The NYT. It certainly is on its way. And Post-Truth has seeped into the another of the few places where truth was valued and protected. There aren’t many left.
the past 8 years have been the ‘post truth decade’ where dear leader would say the most outrageous blatant lies imaginable, the msm would gobble them up like manna from heaven- their scribes writing each of the blatant lies down and binding them into a holy book that they now pledge their lives to-
Everything about the last 8 years has been a fraud- portrayed as gospel truth- by an adoring groveling, sniveling press
The thing about liberals is that they project THEIR shortcomings onto republicans- they accuse republicans of things that they, liberals, are guilty of
Liberals turned truth into fiction, and fiction into gospel truth with the help of the msm- now they are turning around and accusing trump of ‘post truth’? Really? Again- ANOTHER blatant lie that the msm will peddle as gospel truth
Snakes- every last one of them!
Can I point out the obvious. Post-Truth as a term is often used about Trump and Brexit. Thats because the left likes to make up such terms. The right uses the old terms, Lie, Liar, and False. As in Hillary is a Liar. We also like words such as crooked and corrupt. As in, Hillary is crooked and corrupt.
Then Trump needs to plead guilty.
I voted for Trump, and I haven't written a critical word about the guy since he locked up the nomination six months ago.
However, a central part of Trump's popularity was based on his promise to deport all illegal immigrants.
Five days after the election, this is what Trump told 60 Minutes:
“Lesley Stahl: What about the pledge to deport millions and millions of undocumented immigrants?”
“Donald Trump: .....After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about...”
That is almost a word-for-word quote from Marco Rubio’s Gang of Eight Senate Amnesty Bill.
Then, six days after the election, Trump hired Reince Priebus as his Chief of Staff.
This is what Reince Priebus told CNN after Rubio’s Bill passed the Senate:
“We need comprehensive immigration reform,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told CNN in an interview in his Capitol Hill office.”
Pitiful.
Only college educated smart people can be so stupid. Idiots in their ivory towers do nothing but collect HUGE pay checks and invent garbage like this to keep stirring up their students.
Seems to me I remember this phrase being bandied about by happy pundits, at the time.
Funny, I haven't heard the phrase used in a long while.