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NeoConvict » 12 Oct 2017 1:58 pm » wrote:The media is guilty of pushing a number of false narratives.

You mean narratives like how thousands and thousands of Muslims were dancing on the rooftops in New Jersey celebrating the towers falling on 9/11, or the narrative that up to 5 million people voted illegally in 2016?
No one has ever pushed more false narratives than 45 himself.

NeoConvict » 12 Oct 2017 1:58 pm » wrote:Trump was not a bigot when he spent 35 years in our living rooms. He was only demonized by the media after he pushed the birther nonsense.......

No, he was a bigot all along.
Those of us who lived in NYC knew it from the time he was sued for housing discrimination in the 70's to what he said about the Central Park five in the 80's and even after they were exonerated in 2002.

NeoConvict » 12 Oct 2017 1:58 pm » wrote:.......that originated with opposition research conducted by Hillary Clinton.

Uh, that would be a false narrative.
A volunteer with her campaign forwarded a birther email, was let go immediately and an apology was issued to the Obama campaign.

In the spring 2008, as Clinton’s chances of winning the Democratic primary grew thin, some of her hardcore supporters circulated rumors that Obama may not be a U.S. citizen, picking up on some of Martin’s innuendo and extending it further.

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy.
She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” read one of those emails posted, at the time, by Snopes.com, a site that attempts to debunk internet rumors.

On Friday, Clinton’s former senior aide Patti Solis Doyle acknowledged that a volunteer coordinator in Iowa forwarded a birther-related email.

“Hillary made the decision immediately let that person go,” she said.

“We let that person go. It was so beyond the pale of the campaign Hillary wanted to run and that we as a staff wanted to run that I called David Plouffe who was managing Barack Obama to apologize to say this is not coming from us, that this was rogue volunteer.”

“The campaign nor Hillary did not start the birther movement, period,” she said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/b ... ton-228304