Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus DELIBERATELY got Trump to watch only Fox News - Polidicks

The headline and the main content of the story is about Trump and Sean Hannity's relationship, but it quickly goes into other alarming details. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/sean-hannity-donald-trump-late-night-calls.html ... During the first months of the administration in particular, the tweets launched at the beginning of the day landed like bitchy little grenades directed at the programming and personalities that angered him on MSNBC and CNN. ... Senior staffers worried about this pattern of behavior: By the time his day was formally under way with the daily intelligence briefing in the Oval Office — scheduled as late as 11 a.m. — the whole world was often thrown off course, wondering whether there were “tapes” of his conversations with a fired FBI director (May 12, 2017, 8:26 a.m.) or if a TV host had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift” at Mar-a-Lago (June 29, 2017, 8:58 a.m.). With the hope of calming him down, then–chief of staff Reince Priebus and then–press secretary Sean Spicer began a subtle campaign. “It got to the point that they were just like, ‘We need to get him off these channels and onto Fox & Friends or else we’re going to be chasing down this crazy-train bullshit from MSNBC and CNN all day,’ ” one former White House official said. ... Priebus and Spicer worked talking points about the network’s high ratings and importance to his base of supporters into conversation until, eventually, it stuck, so that the president’s television consumption is today what the current White House official called “mainly a complete dosage of Fox.” The former official added, “Trump’s someone who loves praise more than he likes hate-watching Morning Joe.” But the current official acknowledged that it has created a different set of problems: “Sometimes on Fox, a lot of stories are embellished, and they don’t necessarily cover the big news stories of the day. When they cover the smaller stories, if that gets the president riled up, then that becomes an issue. Whenever he tweets, all of us do a mad dash or mad scramble to find out as much information about that random topic as possible. We’re used to it in a lot of ways, so it’s part of our morning routine.” So in order to make an unmanageable idiot more manageable, they shoved him into a propaganda echo chamber where he won't be challenged by inconvenient facts nearly as often. Nobody could have ever predicted this would have any downsides.

We actually live in a satire some asshole is reading right now

I've never been a firm believer in the theory that our universe is a simulation but fuck me if the last two years hasn't felt like someone unlocked the Disasters panel.

So a entertainment outlet influences our President's decisions almost completely. Said entertainment cause Fox is anything but news. If it is any news, its packaged in a slimy pile of corporate, right-wing fearmongering bullshit.

One thing is for sure. Trump's presidency is going to go down in history. We'll be telling our grandkids we were there and shit was wild.

Ima love the political cartoons that comes out, not gonna lie. Im already imagining at least one "FOX and Friends" being a literal fox talking to other ravenous animals saying detrimental stuff and there being an orange rabbit or something being like "yeah, rabbits are overrated" or something to that effect.

damn conservatives and their safe spaces where they cant be challenged by different opinions

I had never heard of "The Intelligencer" before and the name read like satire so I checked out the other columns, and was immediately greeted with this http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/poor-peoples-campaign-begins-with-protests-and-arrests.htm which, somehow is not satire.

Priebus and Spicer worked talking points about the network’s high ratings and importance to his base of supporters into conversation until, eventually, it stuck This right here is more important than it first looks. This is in the context of tricking Trump into believing that watching only Fox News was his idea as a way of having him not stubbornly reject his advisors' advice. That last sentence alone is a bit of a stunner, but on the topic of the quote, this suddenly makes Trump's periodic statements on Twitter about Fox News' viewer count/popularity and the ratings of the shows he religiously watches have a whole new subtext: When Trump is bragging on Twitter that Fox & Friends had the highest ratings last week because of whatever, he is promoting F&F and giving them free advertising as well as demonstrating his obvious obsession with the unofficial state propaganda channel that treats him nicely, but he is also validating his own decision to be a devout Fox viewer and not hate-watch shows/channels critical of him. Trump on Twitter: "Tune into Hannity tonight, highest ratings on any network last week!" What all of Twitter thinks is happening in Trump's head: "Come to the bosom of my propaganda machine, fresh minds." (alt-right Twitter would approve of this, mind you, more redpilled voters) Inside Trump's head, probably: "Hannity's ratings are the best because he's a winner and that's why I'm going to watch his show, because winners should only pay attention to other winners."

This is like giving a baby their bottle. Or, moreso, convincing a baby that suckling on a bottle was their idea.

I could be wrong but Fox relabeled themselves as "infotainment" when they found out they could get sued for lying about news, which is something they don't really do anymore anyway, probably because the Mueller probe has gotten so far ahead that no lie they could tell would be enough to contain the truck of reality that's about to hit the Trump administration and its supporters at Mach 1. Instead they just sweep it under the rug, which isn't illegal but it's effectively still propaganda. Whole lotta good that regulation did anyway, if all that's needed is a different marketing detail. Germany's most-sold designer toilet paper, BILD, also stopped calling itself a newspaper because if you don't call yourself news, people won't hold you to that standard even though they'll still believe everything you say. Actually, people have no standards for their news either way.

I was so proud when the CRTC denied Fox News a broadcasting license in Canada because of that shit. We don't have any such loophole up here. Pretty much. btw rating is for the subject of the post, not you.

And it's for creative writing too, they're actually trying to intentionally fail the class by shit posting a book as hard as they can

ya except in gta one could get away with fixing this issue, here, no so much.

Imagine being such a petulant little child that the only way your "peers" can keep you from throwing tantrums is to sit you down in front of a TV and put on your favorite show -- in this case a show written and directed for the singular purpose of saying nice things about you.

They might've lived through The Great Depression, but we'll live through the Big SAD.

"The Big Sad" is honestly the most appropriate moniker for this stretch of years I've heard. It perfectly captures just how fuckin' stupid and weird all this has been.

Calling the last few years The Big Sad, just makes the whole situation we are in seem silly, momentary, softens the severity of what is actually at hand for the US, the west. The nickname I would give for these few years would be The Great Rabbit Holes Dilemma,

We could call this era of time The Big, Bad, Not-Rad Sad. Covers most of it.

https://i.imgur.com/iVlGqE1_d.jpg This was January

A gorilla channel for Donald Trump? Satire tweet fools 1,000s | .. and it's also so obviously fake I'm shocked anyone fell for it

It's not even "obviously fake", it's entirely believable but unfortunately it just isn't true. https://twitter.com/cameobraid/status/949114515785793537 it really is sad because that means this isn't real either https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132/640d169b-c90b-4e7b-be0b-f86189c38888/image.png

The gorilla channel sounds like a good watch tbh

It's believable as far as the gorilla channel, which isn't too absurd and you could imagine someone making a mistake like that. After that though it's clearly satire, and living proof how ready people are to believe anything they read, especially if it's politically in their favor.

https://i.imgur.com/kxneV6Q.png This part makes it quite clear it's fake in my opinion.

You would think so, if not for the fact that most school text books come from Texas. With so much mud in the water and clear bias, Good luck

It tricked a lot of Trump supporters too tho.

I mean it's not like it takes much to fool them though, lol.