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Mortos

(2,391 posts) Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:19 AM Jan 2019

How mainstream news gets spun into right wing talking points

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I am attending a law enforcement school. We are assigned roommates and live in barrack style dorms. My roommate is a 60 year old veteran who lives in a rural area. We have avoided political topics until this morning. He was looking at his phone (I am pretty sure I overheard it last night blaring some right wing conspiracy website with some crazed white male (Not Alex) screaming something "very bad" was going to happen on January 18th) and he looks up at me and says, "Did you hear them Democrats was going to go on vacation and Trump put a stop to it?" I said, "No, I hadn't heard that." He continues, "Yeah, that Nancy Pelosi," and then he does an imitation of a high pitched woman's voice chattering nonsense words. "was trying to use military planes to go on vacation in Europe."

And that's how right wing lies become fact to the uninformed.

Jesus Christ! I have 3 and half more months at this school.

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How mainstream news gets spun into right wing talking points (Original Post) Mortos Jan 2019 OP

apostrophe out please... jodymarie aimee Jan 2019 #1

Did you laugh in his face? leftynyc Jan 2019 #2

Ask him how he feels about this one? Sherman A1 Jan 2019 #3

She was going to Afghanistan to visit the troops and a briefing. You should either correct your still_one Jan 2019 #4

Oh God. It's going to be a long tour. Good luck. Study hard. Ignore the ignoramus. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #5

whenever one of my wacko relatives went this route I would play dumb and ask them to.. samnsara Jan 2019 #6

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)

1. apostrophe out please...

Reply to Mortos (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:23 AM

Jan 2019

grammar helps your credibility...

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)

2. Did you laugh in his face?

Reply to Mortos (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:23 AM

Jan 2019

Because that's what I would have done and then I would have told him visiting the troops in Afghanistan is NOT a vacation and allowing the pilots rest in Belgium is strict policy. Ask him where does he get this stuff. I had a friend who USED to believe all kinds of nonsense until several of us had an "intervention" and hammered him for the kinds of sources he used. He's much more normal now.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

3. Ask him how he feels about this one?

Reply to Mortos (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:23 AM

Jan 2019

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142246994

If a Congressional Fact Finding Trip was cancelled because of the shutdown should this one have not also been cancelled?

still_one

(92,528 posts)

4. She was going to Afghanistan to visit the troops and a briefing. You should either correct your

Reply to Mortos (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:27 AM

Jan 2019

associate, or inform him that you are here to learn not to discuss politics

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

5. Oh God. It's going to be a long tour. Good luck. Study hard. Ignore the ignoramus.

Reply to Mortos (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:43 AM

Jan 2019

samnsara

(17,665 posts)

6. whenever one of my wacko relatives went this route I would play dumb and ask them to..

Reply to Mortos (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:59 AM

Jan 2019

...'tell me more about it' and WOW I would say... 'lets see where they were ALL going to vaca together'...or 'lets just see what those dumbass congress people were gonna do!' ...OH you would say when the truth pops up.. 'darn they were just going to work.. sounds pretty boring to me!' Look over their shoulder feign interest,forge them forward until they have to admit they were full of shit.

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