Popular vote loser Donald Trump isn't a happy boy. Isolated in the White House and stewing over voters' lack of deference to him (forget that he's done nothing to earn their trust), Trump really needs to be coddled and patted on the head and the media just isn't cooperating. How dare they report protests and insist on spreading the truth.
Not on Sebastian Gorka's watch! Gorka, deputy assistant to Trump, said Monday that administration officials would keep brandishing the term "fake news" until reporters surrender their facts and bow down to Trump and his delusional version of the world. Chris Massie writes:
"There is a monumental desire on behalf of the majority of the media, not just the pollsters, the majority of the media to attack a duly elected President in the second week of his term," Gorka, a former Breitbart editor who also holds a PhD in political science, told syndicated conservative radio host Michael Medved.
"That's how unhealthy the situation is and until the media understands how wrong that attitude is, and how it hurts their credibility, we are going to continue to say, 'fake news.' I'm sorry, Michael. That's the reality," he added.
It's a vast factual conspiracy, folks, and news organizations are both obsessed and complicit. After giving Trump a pass on lying for most of the election (because most reporters wrote off Trump’s candidacy), all this insistence on accuracy and numbers and holding Trump to account now that he's pr*sident is "unhealthy" and just plain "wrong."
Some poor caller to the show endeavored to suggest that "not everything's fake news." That was a mistake ...
"You know, I would beg to differ," Gorka shot back. "Every single organ that generates these kinds of stories comes from the same clique of media organs that predicted that Hillary (Clinton) would win and that Brexit wouldn't occur. I know what fake news is."