Tweety is aggressively trying to confuse Americans as to what is true, what is false or fake, and what is a LIE so he can CONTROL American minds! Autocrats live by the lie.
To start, keep in mind who is the King of Fake news. The fact Tweety is proliferating more fake news than any media is not an exaggeration.
"T r u m p ’ s L i e s"
Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
By DAVID LEONHARDT and STUART A. THOMPSON JUNE 23, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html
Just a taste . . .
"May 8 “But when I did his show, which by the way was very highly rated. It was high — highest rating. The highest rating he’s ever had.” (Colbert's “Late Show” debut had nearly two million more viewers.)May 8 “Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows — there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion w/ Russia and Trump.” (Clapper only said he wasn't aware of an investigation.)May 12 “Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election.” (The F.B.I. was investigating before the election.)May 12 “When James Clapper himself, and virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt, says there is no collusion, when does it end?” (Clapper said he wouldn't have been told of an investigation into collusion.)May 13 “I'm cutting the price of airplanes with Lockheed.” (The cost cuts were planned before he became president.)May 26 “Just arrived in Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of dollars and millions of jobs.” (He's referencing an arms deal that's not enacted and other apparent deals that weren't announced on the trip.)June 1 “China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So, we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020.” (The agreement doesn’t allow or disallow building coal plants.)June 1 “I’ve just returned from a trip overseas where we concluded nearly $350 billion of military and economic development for the United States, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.” (Trump’s figures are inflated and premature.)June 4 “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” (The mayor was specifically talking about the enlarged police presence on the streets.)June 5 “The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.” (Trump signed this version of the travel ban, not the Justice Department.)June 21 “They all say it's 'nonbinding.' Like hell it's nonbinding.” (The Paris climate agreement is nonbinding — and Trump said so in his speech announcing the withdrawal.)June 21 “Right now, we are one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.” (We're not.) "
The Liar in Chief tells fake stories, exaggerates, misleads, confuses facts and issues daily.
Read the articles and get a sense of the poor medias reporting where a notion that 17 intel agencies identified/verified/found/acknowledge Russia hacking. Then think, really think. This article sums the point well. It does not matter if there were 17 if the CIA, NSA, and FBI said there was hacking by Russia to affect our election.
Saying 17 was a foolish exaggeration, that does not negate the fact Russia hacked our election, even Tweety admits Russia hacked us.
We all need to be careful of our facts, handle the truth with care, and AVOID jumping on Tweety every time he speaks, at least not before we check out whether what he said is true or correct.
Media people that assume Tweety is issuing/telling fake stories do so at great risk of undermining their own value if they are wrong! Get it right, to the best of your ability.
Tweety lies 70% of the time, statistically speaking, by his campaigning record, but we have to understand that leaves 30% which can occur where he is telling a version of the truth.
"Trump Misleads on Russian Meddling: Why 17 Intelligence Agencies Don’t Need to Agree"
By MATTHEW ROSENBERGJULY 6, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/politics/trump-russia-intelligence-agencies-cia-fbi-nsa.html
"WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that only “three or four” of the United States’ 17 intelligence agencies had concluded that Russia interfered in the presidential election — a statement that while technically accurate, is misleading and suggests widespread dissent among American intelligence agencies when none has emerged.
The “three or four” agencies referred to by Mr. Trump are the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the F.B.I. and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, all of which determined that Russia interfered in the election. Their work was compiled into a report, and a declassified version was released on Jan. 6 by the director of national intelligence. It said that all four agencies had “high confidence” that Russian spies had tried to interfere in the election on the orders of President Vladimir V. Putin.
The reason the views of only those four intelligence agencies, not all 17, were included in the assessment is simple: They were the ones tracking and analyzing the Russian campaign. The rest were doing other work."
More.
" . . . there is no evidence that significant uncertainty or dissent exists across the intelligence community, simply because not all 17 were involved in the assessment of Russian interference."
"A rather large New York Times correction" [Maybe just a regular correction of a misleading statement?]
by Becket Adams | Jun 30, 2017,
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-rather-large-new-york-times-correction/article/2627527
"The Times story originally included the following line [emphasis added]: "The latest presidential tweets were proof to dismayed members of Mr. Trump's party that he still refuses to acknowledge a basic fact agreed upon by 17 American intelligence agencies that he now oversees: Russia orchestrated the attacks, and did it to help get him elected."
That figure is not accurate. [Lots of news outlets said 17, so many got it wrong, not just the NYT.]
The Jan. 6. hacking assessment was a conclusion drawn by analysts representing three intelligence agencies acting "under the aegis" of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, former DNI chief James Clapper testified on May 8."
Let's not go too far the other way in this dialogue tho. Do ot for one second think there was less truth about the Russina hack because the number drops to 3 from 17, or maybe 4 from 17. The three" are the Big Three: CIA, NSA, and FBI.
