{"id":10359,"date":"2019-06-07T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:57:00","slug":"channeling-joseph-goebbels-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10359","title":{"rendered":"Channeling Joseph Goebbels, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This screed by Sean Hannity, approvingly tweeted by the Liar-in-Chief, is a good example of a commonplace with this administration: Big Lies, repeated as universally acknowledged facts.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMueller\u2019s report was pure, political garbage!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanhannity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SeanHannity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lRjtoPTiO8\">https:\/\/t.co\/lRjtoPTiO8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1136890966533660674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We are not talking about &#8216;spin,&#8217; embellishment, or any such thing; we are talking about self-serving fictions peddled as well-known facts.  We are talking about the media strategy perfected by Joseph Goebbels in 1930s Germany &#8212; the strategy that Adolf Hitler rode to global catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Do yourself and your country a favor this weekend: Get a copy of the Mueller Report &#8212; and read it.  Some other recommended reading: <i>The Nightmare Years<\/i>, by William Shirer, and <i>The True Believer<\/i>, by Eric Hoffer.  We are reliving, right now, here in America, that awful decade when the loonies seized power and Germany passed into the hands of a malignant vengeance cult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This screed by Sean Hannity, approvingly tweeted by the Liar-in-Chief, is a good example of a commonplace with this administration: Big Lies, repeated as universally acknowledged facts. \u201cMueller\u2019s report was pure, political garbage!\u201d @SeanHannity https:\/\/t.co\/lRjtoPTiO8 &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10359\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10362,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions\/10362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}