bluethread wrote:
Yah, enjoy your Kool-Aid. I'm not going to get drawn into a comparison of the pros and cons of MSNBC and FOX. All I am saying is that even Alinsky anarchists and conspiracy theorists should have access to the market place of ideas. I believe light is one of the best disinfectants.
On second thought, if you mean classic liberal(libertarian), I think you have a point. However, if you are referring to Progressives, enjoy the Kool-Aid.
I am not the only one who has noticed that Donald Trump is "divorced from reality."
2/6/17
'Divorced from reality': CBS anchor slams Trump after wild day of inaccurate comments
CBS News anchor Scott Pelley threw shade at President Donald Trump on Monday night, following a day of head-scratching comments from the president and his team.
"It has been a busy day for presidential statements divorced from reality," Pelley said on Monday's edition of "CBS Evening News."
Pelley pointed to multiple factually suspect claims from earlier in the day.
First on his list was Trump's stunning claim, made in a speech to military leaders in Florida, that media outlets had deliberately not reported incidents of terrorism.
"They have their reasons and you understand that," Trump said.
The White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, initially declined to provide specifics, telling reporters, "There's a lot of instances that have occurred where I don't think that they've gotten the coverage it deserved."
By Monday night, the White House had released a list of 78 incidents it said "did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources." The list, however, featured several high-profile, widely covered incidents, including the terrorist attacks in Paris; Orlando, Florida; and San Bernardino, California.
Earlier in the day, Trump vented about his approval rating, which according to multiple polls is the lowest ever for a new president.
"Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election," Trump said on Twitter. "Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting."
Pelley connected the comments to equally unfounded claims Trump made last week, including his insistence that as many as 5 million of the votes from November's election were cast illegally. Trump has maintained the supposed illegal votes are responsible for his popular-vote loss to Hillary Clinton, though there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the US.
"The president's fictitious claims, whether imaginary or fabricated, are now worrying even his backers," Pelley said. "There's not one state election official, Democrat or Republican, who supports that claim."
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbs-scot ... ity-2017-2
This is the one instance in which billionair child of privilege Donald Trump is actually one with the people who elected him. Trump is the public face of that segment of the American population that is totally divorced from reality. As dangerous as it is having an individual who is divorced from reality being the leader of the free world, the silver lining may turn out to be that it shines a very bright spotlight on the problems that being divorced from reality present in the modern world, giving us all a lesson in why our leaders need to be grounded in reality, and have an actual grasp on the facts. This could be a distinct learning prospect for many Americans. Hopefully we will survive the next four years and benefit from the experience.
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this." -- Albert Einstein -- Written in 1954 to Jewish philosopher Erik Gutkind.
