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The media is trumpeting the Obamagate conspiracy theory because it gets traffic from Trumpists eager to show their paranoia is accepted and hate-shares from people recognize the danger of validating this madness.

This environment made it possible for Trump to win at all.
You can’t explain our current crisis without examining the role of mass media in profiting off irresponsible stories and spectacle. Their constant addiction to profit, even at the consequence of destroying culture, played a huge role in all of this.
It remains true that Trump is the best thing that ever happened to news networks. That fact is a damning indictment they should never live down.

Remember that. These entities profit explicitly off the destruction of shared society and basic human dignity.
The sad truth is if this criminal regime runs an authoritarian show-trial of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or whomever these cretins want to make an example out of, it would be a ratings bonanza and be greeted as manna from heaven.

That? That tells you what you need to know.
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