Seriously. Does every major campaign need their own propaganda wing?
Give it a catchy name like BLT, so unassuming people think they are reading an independent news outlet.
#PartisanSpin
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Trump Launches "Big League Truth" Team To Provide All The Facts
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Seriously. Does every major campaign need their own propaganda wing?
Give it a catchy name like BLT, so unassuming people think they are reading an independent news outlet.
#PartisanSpin
If it's the other side, it's a lie. If it's your own side, it's just your opinion. If it's bad enough to stay in the news cycle. "I just misspoke."
Snowybreak
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B Spot in Cleveland has the best BLTs, especially when you add a fried egg.
Mmmm... Made one of these the other day with pepper bacon...
Can't be... Phazon at least has the decency to be terminal. This just keeps on gaining strength
The Lamonster
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I think the more appropriate headline is Trump Campaign Uses Different Verbage to Encourage Supporters to Give Them Their Contact Information
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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So good. Pepper bacon is a Big League Truth.
Fixed.
DragonSworne
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One step closer to a group dedicated to ethnic cleansing.
The openness of the propaganda machines for both parties is disgusting.
Most likely, but part of it is also presumably there so he has something to refer to later on after all those other dastardly fact checkers cast aspersions on his idea of the truth.
See also "every Internet poll says we won the debate."
I prefer Big League Chew.
JABEE coming in hot with his #bothsidesarethesame takes.
JABEE coming in hot with his #bothsidesarethesame takes.
No, that'll be WET.
Honestly? I think some people would gladly accept a dictator like Trump as long as they were convinced that they would not be targeted and their lives would be better.
Sho_Nuff82
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See: Putin, Erdogan, and Duterte.
Yup. Especially people that live unhappy lives and are filled with hate. He'll stick it to the minorities and make America White again like it once was, basically. As long as others are worse off than them, they can feel better.
I don't think they would openly admit it, not most, but it does explain why they readily dismiss everything he does that shows he is exactly that.
Lord Frieza
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I don't think many people really appreciate how big of an undertaking creating a news network actually is. Not only would you need a huge amount of capital, you need a large amount of capital to maintain it as well. Without any kind of major network backer I don't see how it's possible. Even if they chose to keep afloat by public donations, I don't think they'd be able to consistently get enough money to keep going without advertisers, and unless the network is a hit right out of the gate, I doubt they will get many advertisers.
Fox News already has a stranglehold on the conservative news market, and they're already the "fair and balanced" one that "tells it like it is." Another network coming in with the same shtick is going to have a hard time fighting against the established one, especially when the only gimmick they will have is the name of a cult of personality.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump tried it, since Trump has a history of really, really horrible business decisions, but I think it'd be DOA pretty quickly. I don't think he'll go for that, though. I know some people are looking at him as some type of revolutionary right now, but I think after he loses, he'll go more the route of Sarah Palin. Lots of book deals, lots of speeches, etc. He'll get dragged out of the closest every once and awhile, mostly by comedians for a good laugh, but the actual establishment will more or less shun him and treat him like an embarrassment without outright saying it.
Fox News already has a stranglehold on the conservative news market, and they're already the "fair and balanced" one that "tells it like it is." Another network coming in with the same shtick is going to have a hard time fighting against the established one, especially when the only gimmick they will have is the name of a cult of personality.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump tried it, since Trump has a history of really, really horrible business decisions, but I think it'd be DOA pretty quickly. I don't think he'll go for that, though. I know some people are looking at him as some type of revolutionary right now, but I think after he loses, he'll go more the route of Sarah Palin. Lots of book deals, lots of speeches, etc. He'll get dragged out of the closest every once and awhile, mostly by comedians for a good laugh, but the actual establishment will more or less shun him and treat him like an embarrassment without outright saying it.
Nah. Trump is a buffoon. They just use the same instruments.
Kor of Memory
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I don't know what this is, but I feel like I can hear Mac from Always Sunny saying it.
Sho_Nuff82
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If anything I think that Trump has shown that there is definitely a market for entertainment news that is further right and less fact-checked than Fox. I think a website would be more likely than a cable news network though.
Lord Frieza
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Yeah, a website is more likely. A network would die pretty quickly.
QuantumZebra
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FACT 2: Trump has the best facts
Breitbart and The Drudge Report would like a word with you
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Someone needs to make Bigger League Truth that exclusives fact checks Big League Truth in real time
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