...One episode provides clarity in the rise of the GOP's "post-truth"
politics. As you may recall, on September 12, 2009, FreedomWorks and
Fox News host Glenn Beck manufactured the "9/12 Rally"
in Washington, DC. Citing the fire department, ABC News estimated the
crowd to be as large as 70,000 Tea Partiers. But among the usual
suspects within conservative media and the right-wing blogosphere, the Tea Baggers tried to put a different number in our faces. The real attendance figure, they crowed, was two million....
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Post Truth GOPering
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