“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” – Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The conservative media entertainment complex aka the Republican propaganda machine has been trying to turn this adage on its head for decades. In a famous exchange between a George W. Bush administration official and journalist … Read more
The Trump administration and its state propaganda media arm, Fox News aka Trump TV, are so interconnected with one another in the conservative ecosystem as to be indistinguishable. They are effectively one and the same. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that President Trump has built his impeachment defense team from celebrity-lawyers … Read more
Republican defenders of Donald Trump deny reality and create an alternate reality where truth goes to die. In an interview today with CNN’s Manu Raju, Arizona Rep. Debbie Lesko demonstrated that she is the “queen of denial” and/or a shameless liar. But you already knew that. Steve Benen reports Arizona Republican in denial about core impeachment … Read more
The conservative media entertainment complex (fascist propaganda) had pinned its hopes on Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation that led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. For years, Donald Trump, congressional Republicans, and the conservative media entertainment complex engaged in character assassination and a smear campaign against every … Read more
John Neely Kennedy, the junior senator from the state of Louisiana, only plays the stereotypical dumb hillbilly character on TV to be relatable to his constituents. He is not a dumb hillbilly. Kennedy graduated from Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia School of Law before attending University of Oxford (Magdalen College) in Oxford, England. … Read more