cretin dan rather is so steeped in fakeness, he actually believes the propaganda he continually spouts.
He doesn’t believe any of it; he was in the lying business long before this gem from Mika: “Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job”