Thread by @kurteichenwald

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ Because you have made reasonable statements, I'm going to respond here. The issue I have with Fox is not that it is conservative. Take this example: National Review was great...I read it all the time. Now, not so much. But the interesting this is, it is LESS conservative than...

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...it was. And when I say conservative, I mean a philosophy, not how someone identifies themselves. What changed? An abandonment to the concept of knowledge and facts. Much of the magazine starts now with belief and then marshals bits and pieces of fact to prove it. This is not..

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...unusual, but it destroyed National Review as an outlet for considered conservative thought. Now, go to Fox - which is this issue on steroids. Fox is NOT conservative. If it was, they would be going berserk about attacks on free trade, attempts to politicize the Fed, calls...

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...pump up cash in the system to get a strong economy moving even higher, as if there is no business cycle that will come crashing down when that manufactured bubble pops. They are about "team." That's it. If they advanced ACTUAL conservative thought, they would have...

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...to acknowledge - as every republican official did before the election - that trump is not a conservative. So, what is Fox? A driving outlet for misinformation. Example: When unemployment dropped from 6.9% to 6.3%. Fox put up a graph showing 6.3% as HIGHER than 6.9%. If the...

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...viewers paid very very close attention, they would have realized that the chart was a complete lie. But when I tell you this, you know EXACTLY who the president was, because they do not do these things when a Republican is president - they do the opposite. This is just one....

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...example of what they do every single day. It is impossible to know that Fox is lying without reading other sources of information - but look what you repeated. Every other source cannot be trusted. How do you know this? Because Fox told you so. That is a standard propaganda...

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...technique, driving people to only accept the delusions by blocking out other sources of information that are not also Fox-ish. It also feeds rage addiction (studies on this are frightening.) The end point is, the Fox world view of fantasy becomes accepted dogma and then...

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...those who are already enraged get enraged at anyone who falls off of that dogma. But it is not a dogma of philosophy. It is a dogma of fake facts. Conservative thought is a philosophy and a set of values. Those are then applied to facts. Here, Fox twists it all on its...

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...head by making the facts malleable, and the philosophy irrelevant. The philosophy now is this: If the dems do it, it's wrong. If the GOP does it, it's right. Own the libs. And then endless use of fringe libs portrayed as mainstream. This is standard propaganda technique.....

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...policy and issues are hard. "Just hate the other side" is very simply, easy to absorb and easy to prove. Just don't present reality, and that answer is always true.

So, my advice: Read things that ARENT conservative. Read books that are by scholars about topics. Read....

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...original government reports. Hell, if you read the 11 Benghazi reports, including the ones written by republicans, you will find that everything you were told on Fox was false. Even GOP politicians lied on tv, then told the truth in the reports. That has nothing to do with...

@mhendr61 @KevinSLeahy @AshaRangappa_ ...conservatism. That is about a twisted business model and politicians using it to retain power.

(And imagine what Fox would've said if Obama said "We wont turn over any Benghazi documents or let anyone testify." Righly, would go nuts. But how they feel about Trump doing it?)