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This morning, Victor Blackwell at CNN lead with a story about a new study that has determined that President Trump has lied 1,950 times since he took office.

Well, I didn’t even get angry. I was too busy laughing, almost spit up my coffee.

“Gaslighting” has been around forever.

But it only works on the ignorant and easily led.

CNN and their ilk have lost their credibility. They would have gone broke by now except for the built-in income they get from cable networks. That’s right, they get paid even if few are watching.

If the cable and syndicated networks didn’t have such a monopoly with sweetheart contracts all over, the CNNs, et al, would have to improve their programming.

When more streaming services that have a true pick and choose programming start to dominate, “gaslighting” and other fake news will die off to just their moron diehards.

“Gaslighting” has been around forever. But it only works on the ignorant and easily led. --- “Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to re-establish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.” ― Thomas Paine, The Rights Of Man

But it only works on the ignorant and easily led.

Nope, it works if you trust the person lying to you.

You do not trust CNN (at least I hope you don't) so you were able to laugh it off.

If you were dealing with someone you trusted on another subject you would probably fall just as easily into the trap.