America might get used to lies. It is normal when Tweety lies, maybe normal for politicians to lie. But it is NOT normal in my opinion for all Americans to lie.
If the Prez lies blatantly, as he quotes stories he should know are not true from INFO WARS, Brietbart, or Fox News phony or at least wrong minded and confused experts, what do we do? Nothing?
Tweety blames his source for the lies, but he knows they are lies and tricks us into taking his excuse. Unanimously!
Not any more!
It must stop today!
Our President cannot be so blatantly nefarious, devious, mean spirited.
Tweety at least has to try to be an example of honesty; at least try to be an example of decency! American kids look to our President as I looked to Eisenhower and Kennedy, and I ignored Nixon. Even though guy LBJ did good things.
I grew up in the '50s as did Tweety. How can he get telling, speaking the TRUTH so wrong? We had the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Howdy Doody, Space Patrol, Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Bonanza, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, and many, many shows where Americans honored truth a the paramount ideal of how we live our lives.
Everything in America in the '50s seemed based on good, respectful, honest, caring people. I loved Jesus back then, and I am still a spiritual person, trying to share what wisdom I may have gathered in 44 years.
Is America getting used to lies? Is truth dead?
"“Is Truth Dead?” asks Time Magazine. Seriously?"
The curious thing is the timing of Time magazine’s question.
Glenn Stanton
Apr. 4, 2017
Glenn is clever, even right, but he is avoiding the current real crisis driven by the President of the United States. Glenn, maybe truth has been beat to death many years ago, but not so blatantly by the President of the United States.
Glenn you are missing he point that when the Prez tells America that the truth does not matter, THAT normalizes lying by EVERYONE ALL THE TIME, even you, Glenn.
Glenn, you want us to recognize politicians lie, OK, Politicians lie. Maybe Time lies, although I do not believe Time is a magazine that lies on purpose like Tweety Twump lies,. Tweety lies intentionally. But I will not accept a notion from anyone that Tweety is not liar and it is not normal. Tweety is not normal from any perspective.
"The curious thing is the timing of Time’s question. Concern for the dignity of truth seems to ebb and flow with such consistency one can easily detect a pattern. It was a question of great pertinence during the Reagan presidency. We were told the man had a very tenuous relationship with the truth and regularly dismissed or papered over it with a unique and artful flair. It’s what made him so dangerous. George W. Bush’s precarious rapport with it gave our political lexicon a new word: truthiness.
And now President Trump. Yes, yes, we know. Even Melania has muttered, “Why does he keep saying this stuff?” more times than she can count. But why do the elites get so exercised about the health and well-being of truth only during certain political cycles? (It’s largely the same with democracy and WaPo’s bold new mantra.) William Safire was labeled a meanie when he charged Hillary Clinton with being a “congenital liar”. And that was in 1996."
OK, Glenn, you've had your say. You are wrong to pick out elites like they are the only ones that are whining about Tweety playing off the truth. Give us a break. Your vision is too limited Glenn, so stand down, please.
The point you are missing is that anyone can lie, but when the President of the United States lies as much and about what he lies about, the world is affected, not just the United States.
Glenn, are you ready for war? Tweety can tweet us into a war with lies.
"When a President Can't Be Taken at His Word"
Nancy Gibbs
Mar 23, 2017
http://time.com/4710615/donald-trump-truth-falsehoods/
"In April 1966, the streets of America were crime-ridden, Southeast Asia was threatened by "godless communists," and some radical theologians were weighing the heretical question that TIME asked on its cover: Is God dead? It was "a summons to reflect on the meaning of existence," and while the story was as much about the state of the church as the health of the deity, it nonetheless inspired angry sermons, heartfelt letters and a lively debate at a time when 97% of Americans told pollsters they believed in God.Half a century later, I suspect that about as many would say they believe in Truth, and yet we find ourselves having an intense debate over its role and power in the face of a President who treats it like a toy. The old adage that "a lie gets halfway around the world before Truth has a chance to get its pants on" was true even before the invention of Twitter. But it has been given new relevance by an early-rising Chief Executive and his smartphone."
More . . . we are talking about evidence, Glenn, proof.
" . . . he (Tweety) is the President, however, he speaks on behalf of the country, and his words have a vastly different weight. The prospect of a hastily tweeted insult provoking a nuclear-armed rival gives new urgency to the helpful suggestion "Delete your account." For a leader who condemns the media so viciously, Trump consumes it voraciously, and what he takes in has become a matter of global significance, most recently when he accused President Obama of outsourcing illegal surveillance to British intelligence. If he believes accusations leveled by a pundit on Fox News, whom the network's own anchors dismiss as uninformed, it reveals a great deal about the sources and standards of evidence the President lives by."
Is the following article defending Tweety or just critical of Time? I can't tell.
"TIME Magazine’s Assault on Truth"
Latest cover a perfect example of apocalyptic 'yellow journalism' in the Trump era
March 27, 2017by Eddie Zipperer | Updated 27 Mar 2017 at 7:16 AM
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/time-magazines-assault-on-truth/
"TIME magazine offered its declining readership a nostalgic dose of ‘member berries with its new cover. There’s no artwork or graphic, it’s simply red words against a solid black background, and it reads, “Is Truth Dead?” The cover is a knock-off of a 1966 cover, which asked the question, “Is God Dead?”
The cover story in this issue attempts to frighten readers and perpetuate the left-wing narrative that President Donald Trump’s Twitter account is all four horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse — something TIME magazine tried just two weeks ago when the cover article opened, “At 6:35 a.m. on March 4, President Donald Trump launched an attack against the government of the United States.” The line was a perfect example of America’s new yellow journalism, where tweets are grenades and red MAGA hats are armored tank divisions."
It seems to me this author and this web source wants America to accept Tweety's lies. This will normalize lying for all Americans.
"Instead of “Is Truth Dead,” the cover should ask, “Is Truth Dead Yet?” Because TIME magazine has been trying to kill it for years:"
This is a stupid article. Period.
