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‘Merica’s addiction to fake
#31
RE: ‘Merica’s addiction to fake
(August 4, 2022 at 7:40 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Rachel Maddow's lawyers used a defense pioneered by the Coca Cola company: that no reasonable person would believe what she says, therefore it's OK for her to lie. But she affects what people think, nonetheless. 

Odd that you'd select her rather than Tucker Carlson. Fox's attorneys pioneered that line of argument defending him about a year before Maddow borrowed it.

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RE: ‘Merica’s addiction to fake
(August 6, 2022 at 5:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(August 4, 2022 at 7:40 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Rachel Maddow's lawyers used a defense pioneered by the Coca Cola company: that no reasonable person would believe what she says, therefore it's OK for her to lie. But she affects what people think, nonetheless. 

Odd that you'd select her rather than Tucker Carlson. Fox's attorneys pioneered that line of argument defending him about a year before Maddow borrowed it.
And considering I have yet to see Maddow's peddle white nationalist rhetoric that inspired a racist mass murderer to go on a rampage it becomes even stranger.
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#33
RE: ‘Merica’s addiction to fake
The American Dream should no longer be the country's motto.

It should be Fake it till you make it.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: ‘Merica’s addiction to fake
(August 6, 2022 at 10:09 pm)Tomato Wrote: The American Dream should no longer be the country's motto.

It should be Fake it till you make it.

To paraphrase George Carlin: "It's called The American Dream because you gotta be asleep to believe it."

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