Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumRobert Ferdman (WaPo) on Huffpo Bernie Reporter
https://twitter.com/robferdman/status/735145581123899393
How is this (the highlighted) acceptable again?
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)reality-based world.
CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)anotherproletariat
(1,446 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)LonePirate
(13,446 posts)The truth is often not comfortable or pleasing so people (some, not all) prefer news or journalism that reinforces their world view.
TwilightZone
(25,517 posts)and his supporters are buying every word.
Hell, they think he's going to win 70% of California.
ismnotwasm
(42,028 posts)In other words very similar to this quote by Mr. trump
I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration and a very effective form of promotion.
http://www.snopes.com/donald-trump-lie-truth/
Or, repeat a lie often enough and you'll get some people, anyway, to believe it--as the saying is.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,028 posts)It's very funny actually, in a sad way
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)He's a fantasy writer who thinks that if he wishes for a pony long enough it will miraculously appear on his doorstep.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Fuck him, seriously. People posted that swill like it was the gospel truth and it was our job to refute it. Massive fail.
caquillo
(521 posts)Could someone please enlighten me?
Blue Idaho
(5,070 posts)How is that different from: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Joseph Goebbels
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Which multinational conglomerate owns them now?
I mean, I know the authors there have to be a little whacked already, to be writing for a corporation for free and all, but still, even a modicum of self-awareness would be appreciated
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)That guy is so full of shite the whites of his eyes just turned brown!
He said that seeing the truth is boring and depressing so we should vote for a metamodern thought experiment named Bernie Sanders because universal wavelength function means that anything is possible! And then he name-drops David Foster Wallace, who would have been nauseated by the tortured mess he just published.
"Ive been a metamodernist creative writer for many years now, but had not seen an opportunity to bring this earnest, optimistic, and loving art practice into my professional writing activities until Bernie Sanders came along." AKA "I have just been making shit up all along and y'all have been silly enough to buy it"
Which in all fairness is what pundits do all the time anyway.
So when is HA Goodman going to 'fess up to his hallucinatory, post-postmodern confabulations?
JSup
(740 posts)Just working on some experimental writing...
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)realmirage
(2,117 posts)Chant it enough, people think it's a fact.
skylucy
(3,749 posts)lambasted by males for having the audacity to actually aspire to be President...as Mr. Ferdman puts it "since that moment in the 1990's when Hillary Clinton decided she would become President." Gee, Mr. Ferdman, how very uppity of her. So much for telling children in this country that anyone can grow up to be president. Of course, if you don't have a penis, that ambition will be held against you and used by political hacks to equate any dream you might have (to hold an office that only men have held for hundreds of years) as evidence that you are...what? Ambitious? Hardworking? A Dreamer? Want to lead and improve our country? Feel you could be a positive force for the USA? What a sexist double standard. Right up there with Ferdman's ridiculous mega-sentence about why it is ok to lie about a failed campaign and basically create his own "reality".