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Media: Donald Trump Is Gaslighting Us
freebeacon.com ^ | 1/31/17 | Blake Seitz

Posted on 01/31/2017 12:35:50 PM PST by ColdOne

Concerned members of the media claim that President Donald Trump is abusing them psychologically in order to drive them insane, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Pundits say that Trump and his henchman are "gaslighting" them, taking a cue from a Teen Vogue article that CNN's Don Lemon called "hard hitting." The term comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight, where a malevolent husband (Charles Boyer) tricks his wife (Ingrid Bergman) into believing she is nuts.

"[Gaslighting is] a form of psychological abuse where the victim is manipulated to doubt their own sanity," said Lauren Duca, author of the Teen Vogue article.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: first100days; gaslighting; media; msm; potus45; trump; trump45; trumpmedia; winning
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To: ColdOne

I would call them corrupt and crooked, before I called them nuts, but I’d have no problem calling them all three.


41 posted on 01/31/2017 12:47:39 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: ColdOne

There’s no doubt about it .. today’s LEFT are lunatics.


42 posted on 01/31/2017 12:48:17 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: HamiltonJay
the bogus polling and false reporting for 18 months was Gaslighting...

Technically, that is "astroturfing," making people think there is a larger "grass-roots" support for something that isn't really there.

The MSM inflated polls to make Americans think that Clinton was the favorite so that a bandwagon effect would cause people to side with the apparent winner. They also covered up stories of Clinton hatred in the heartland and faked enthusiasm at her rallies by photoshopping crowds.

-PJ

43 posted on 01/31/2017 12:49:13 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: ColdOne

It is all too easy to fool the fools.


44 posted on 01/31/2017 12:49:21 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: ColdOne

Driving the media insane would be a short trip indeed. It would be faster to walk.


45 posted on 01/31/2017 12:49:51 PM PST by IronJack
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To: ColdOne
I agree with the concept of President Trump as the Newser Abuser, He watched, as we all did, as the mainstream media destroyed President Bush, and Mr. Bush would not defend himself.

My tagline: Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.
46 posted on 01/31/2017 12:51:12 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: ColdOne

Because they cannot ever believe that they have been wrong, they must find other reasons to explain why they are being rolled daily...no matter how improbable their rationalizations may become.


47 posted on 01/31/2017 12:51:17 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: ColdOne

The need to start reporting stuff and quit just making it up and trying to attack their targets.


48 posted on 01/31/2017 12:51:44 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: ColdOne

This is fun.

5.56mm


49 posted on 01/31/2017 12:52:54 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: ColdOne

Crazier than they are NOW? Impossible. Back to your Starbucks and designer cool-aid media fools!


50 posted on 01/31/2017 12:53:16 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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To: ColdOne

Too
Freakin’
Funny!!!


51 posted on 01/31/2017 12:54:08 PM PST by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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To: ColdOne

OH! OH! YOU BIG MEANY!!

52 posted on 01/31/2017 12:55:30 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: ColdOne

It’s not taking much, they’ve been going ape$hit since the day after election day.

I appreciate the article, at least they now realize they are crazy.

My advice, take lots of drugs and drink lots of alcohol.


53 posted on 01/31/2017 12:56:00 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ColdOne

Utopia crumbling before their eyes.

Reality-fatigue.


54 posted on 01/31/2017 12:56:51 PM PST by fruser1
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To: ColdOne

55 posted on 01/31/2017 12:57:34 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: ColdOne

Driving them insane,are they kidding?For most of them it’s a short walk....


56 posted on 01/31/2017 12:59:14 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: ColdOne

haha. He is actually doing the liberal press a favor by REVEALING to them that they are insane, so they can get treatment.


57 posted on 01/31/2017 1:00:18 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: ColdOne

Other way around - the media is gaslighting most americans especially the low information ones.


58 posted on 01/31/2017 1:00:18 PM PST by aquila48
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To: ColdOne

Anyone paying attention to the details knows who’s living in an alternate universe. The “Progressives” will repeat the mantra that Trump’s EO is against Muslims without any proof.


59 posted on 01/31/2017 1:01:39 PM PST by griswold3
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To: Farmer Dean

I’m not concerned because Dan Rather is on the case.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


60 posted on 01/31/2017 1:01:43 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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