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Demovictory9

(32,493 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 06:40 PM Jan 2019

Media exec spent part of Tuesday in strategy sessions about how to respond to the lies

When it comes to the border and the wall, his willful estrangement from reality is so profound that network executives and newspaper editors spent part of Tuesday in strategy sessions about how to respond to his inevitable barrage of falsehoods. Should there be a crawl of words on the bottom of the television screen that correct him in real time? Could fact checkers work speedily enough to post rebuttals online within minutes of his misrepresentations, before they took root? This is where we find ourselves. Other presidents have been untrustworthy, and others have had to be called out on it. But not like this. This is surreal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/trump-speech-border-wall.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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Media exec spent part of Tuesday in strategy sessions about how to respond to the lies (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jan 2019 OP
STOP saying falsehoods you useless nitwits. pangaia Jan 2019 #1
Perhaps the best response would be to fact check in real time. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #2
Stupid asses. tazkcmo Jan 2019 #3
They already know what most of his lies will be, because he has repeated them so often, tblue37 Jan 2019 #4

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
1. STOP saying falsehoods you useless nitwits.
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 06:45 PM
Jan 2019

They are LIES

LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES

go it?

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. Perhaps the best response would be to fact check in real time.
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 06:47 PM
Jan 2019

And to make it quicker, prepare fact check rebuttals to his most frequently repeated lies.

tazkcmo

(7,306 posts)
3. Stupid asses.
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 06:55 PM
Jan 2019

It's very simple. Don't give him air time. See? Simple. Makes all your other worries disappear.

tblue37

(65,550 posts)
4. They already know what most of his lies will be, because he has repeated them so often,
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 06:58 PM
Jan 2019

so they can have the correct info ready to go before he begins speaking. Maybe there will be a few new ones they will have to scramble to correct, but mostly he just repeats the same bovine excrement over and over and over again.

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