This disinfectant issue is a great way to see how the media constructs fake news.
A. Absolutely ignore their own reporting inside the press conference, where a reporter asked if he meant injecting people with disinfectant. Trump said no, he was talking about areas and surfaces, like a normal person.
B. Post on social media, get people riled up, make it a story. “Stupid Trump says inject Lysol in your body!” Blue checks go crazy with it.
C. AP creates a story about how this “disinfectant issue” is part of Trump’s anti-science agenda. (this article is linked elsewhere on FR)
D. Snopes.com posts an article “Did trump really say to inject yourself with bleach?” Rates it as true. Mentions Trump’s clarification, but says it wasn’t clear. Huh?
E. Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats repeat the talking point, giving it legitimacy.
F. The whole fake issue is now part of the national dialogue.
Even Trump himself got tangled in this when he said he later said he was being sarcastic about suggesting injecting it into people. This was an unforced error on his part, because now those of us who were defending him, using his own words in the press conference, have been sidelined. The Leftists are already lining up saying “If he didn’t say it in the presser, why is he saying he said it, even as a joke?”
The media have proven, for the millionth time, they are true enemies of the people.
These false themes are going to keep coming on a regular basis since the President has the somewhat refreshing tendency to speak his mind more than the establishment politician who learned long ago to speak like a robot in the presence of the media.
Very few people outside of newsrooms and faculty lounges care about these “gotcha” themes, they come and go on a regular basis and fail to move the political needle, but in general terms, it would be good to go more on the offensive against the globalists rather than sitting back waiting for them to chatter.
“Let’s give them something to talk about” would be my preference, such as indictments (Arkancide must be some sort of crime, right?) and more of a spotlight on China (not our friends by any stretch of the imagination).
We are all getting tired of the orange man bad b.s., the orange should be on some other people, criminals who are allowed to roam free without consequences for their bad acts.
Absolutely but I wanna add he misspoke saying disinfectant. I didn’t know what he meant. UV light is no disinfectant.