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Dan Rather: Trump criticism of media is 'straight out of Orwell'
The Hill ^ | July 28, 2018 | Jacqueline Thomsen

Posted on 07/29/2018 5:55:46 PM PDT by Zakeet

Veteran journalist Dan Rather said on Friday that President Trump’s false statements about and attacks on the media are "straight out of Orwell."

The former longtime CBS News anchor told CNN’s Don Lemon that Trump is "authoritarian" and wants people to believe that "the one and only truth comes from him."

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"As several people have said before me, he is not just attacking the truth, he wants to annihilate the truth," the former anchor added. "He wants to move us completely into the post-truth political era in which there’s no such thing as objective facts."

Rather added that there "has been some desperation" in Trump's recent attacks ... "And as he gets more desperate he takes bigger risks in telling bigger lies or more often telling lies. And telling people, 'look, don’t believe what you read or see anywhere else, just come to me. I have the ultimate truth, I am the way,' " Rather said.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boogedyboogedy; danrather; fakebutaccurate; fakenews; journalism; lamestreammedia; liberalagenda; liberalmedia; mainstreammedia; ministryoftruth; minitrue; orwell; orwellian; rather; trumpmedia; whatsthefrequency
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To: Zakeet

Dan Rather is a moron. Like all good liberals-progressives, they fail to look at themselves in the mirror when they make these statements, all the time. They never examine themselves. How about news media being a propaganda organ of a state political party, Dan?


81 posted on 07/29/2018 8:35:26 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: MrEdd

Pretentious bullsh*t. Another legend in his own mind. Your last self obsessed reply mentioned all of recorded history. Are you also immortal?

on top of all if the other errors you’ve made in this thread in just a few replies, you’re also arguing a ridiculous (not to mention boring) point.


82 posted on 07/29/2018 8:45:46 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Zakeet

Orwell is the rat and RINO government combined with a complicit media.
Stupid Rather.


83 posted on 07/29/2018 9:13:18 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Michael.SF.

84 posted on 07/29/2018 9:18:00 PM PDT by Zakeet (If laws could stop evil, then why are there still Clintons?)
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To: Zakeet

Sounds like Kenneth still doesn’t know the frequency.


85 posted on 07/29/2018 9:26:14 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: fhayek

I remember the gold ‘ole days, when Dan Blather would go to the Gulf Coast or the Carolinas just as a hurricane was making landfall.

There would be ‘ole Danny boy on camera, wearing a hoodie and struggling to stand up while grabbing a street lamp, looking like a drunken old whore.


86 posted on 07/29/2018 11:12:29 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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To: Zakeet

Wonder if anyone thought of building a Dan Rather sex bot just to bend it over and......


87 posted on 07/30/2018 12:41:57 AM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: RayChuang88

Even a few libs caught on earlier, one such creating “reporter Dan Randall” in the then chilling to me Babylon 5 episode “The Illusion of Truth”, in 1997.

OT: I just noticed that episode was directed by the late Stephen Furst.


88 posted on 07/30/2018 2:25:50 AM PDT by Paul R.
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To: Zakeet

Mr. “Fake but True” defending the whole Fake-but-True enterprise.....can’t make this crap up....


89 posted on 07/30/2018 4:01:48 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: JohnBrowdie

There once was a government supervisor who hired his mistress into a slightly lower supervisory position. The employees in line for that position sued, and later they were caught in a Monica Lewinsky pose.

The senior government supervisor had been doing everything in his power to keep this situation to his advantage.

By the time this sordid affair worked its way through, six people were dead.

Fill in the rest of the details. If the press didn’t make stuff up to cover what had been happening You will know. There was, afterall a lawsuit in the middle of this so it wasn’t hard to figure out.l
on the other hand, if you don’t know, if you cannot fill in the details...then the mainstream press as a whole has been part and parcel of bigger crap than the TANG story.


90 posted on 07/30/2018 4:05:20 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Zakeet

Dan Who?


91 posted on 07/30/2018 4:47:30 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

That bastard told America lies about the Viet Nam War from Siagon!


92 posted on 07/30/2018 4:48:40 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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To: Zakeet
Fake news from Dan Rather and Orwell's Ministry of Truth:


93 posted on 07/30/2018 4:52:39 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 trillion dollars.)
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To: Zakeet

Rather Biased, no? ...


94 posted on 07/30/2018 11:15:08 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Enjoy the SUCK! , 'Rats ..)
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To: Zakeet
Dan, Dan - what’s straight out of Orwell is monopoly journalism in lockstep with the head of the government. Not what we have with Trump, certainly what we had with Obama - and Clinton.

95 posted on 07/30/2018 12:55:42 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: Zakeet
"authoritarian" and wants people to believe that "the one and only truth comes from him."

Do any of these demwits have a thought of their own or do they ALL follow the dem talking points using the same words?

96 posted on 07/30/2018 1:01:30 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: fhayek
Go read the book again, asswipe

No joke. Big Brother WAS the media, for pete's sake.

I bet the schmuck has never even sat down with the book.

The man who laid the cornerstone (and many an egg) of the 'fake but accurate' empire.

97 posted on 07/30/2018 1:05:51 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Zakeet

Why his is mouth puckered like that?

Whose bung is he about to kiss this time??


98 posted on 07/30/2018 1:06:52 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Zakeet

99 posted on 08/06/2018 9:06:27 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

James Woods is the Master of the Twitter Kill Shot.


100 posted on 08/06/2018 9:09:52 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Big City turn me loose and set me free...)
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