NOW there’s fake news?
A few hundred carnival barkers hiding behind call screeners on 1200 radio stations have been blasting the country with think tank-scripted lies and distortions for 30 years, and now 200 propaganda web sites get everyone excited?
This summer talk radio spread the meme that president Obama and the Democratic Party were fighting voter ID laws because they were giving driving licenses to millions of ‘illegal’ aliens so they could vote in the 2016 elections.
Is it really a lie if tens of millions of people heard it repeatedly without correction?
That’s the only reason they get away with the lies and bullshit. It’s already been pounded into the earholes of 50 million Americans for weeks before liberals notice.
Since they put Bush in in 2000 they’ve been selling their voter fraud stories heavily on talk radio to help them pass voter suppression legislation.
Democrats just keep playing catch up.
The Democratic Party and allies need to train media so that whenever Trump or one of his surrogates lies (or opens their mouth) the response is something like “Well, that’s what Limbaugh said...” or “Just because Limbaugh said it a thousand times doesn’t mean it’s true...”, and so on.
If the Democratic Party and progressive organizations are going to keep pretending RW talk radio is irrelevant this isn’t going to get any better in 2 years. Trump can do anything he wants and they’ll keep convincing that massive near-captive audience in all those red states with too many senators that it’s Hillary and Obama’s fault. And their base will show up, outraged that liberals won’t give Trump a chance. And many of the rest will stay home, disappointed with Democrats.
Boycott every business with ads on Trump radio, protest the 88 universities that support 257 Limbaugh stations, and Democrats can get the House and Senate in 2 years.