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It’s true that President Trump often says untrue things in an effort to spin a narrative to fit his agenda. But if there’s one thing the liberal media hates, it’s someone horning in on their turf. This was clearly apparent during Tuesday’s edition of AC360 when host Anderson Cooper bemoaned how the President was ‘gaslighting’ America by telling people not to believe all the biased news stories against him. But, in order to chastise him, Cooper and his guests twisted reality.
Cooper was hyperventilating because, during a speech before a VFW gathering, Trump told them to “just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.”
“[I]t's what dictators, it's what authoritarian rulers say. It's kind of unbelievable in the truest sense of the word,” he declared to former presidential adviser David Gergen. “It reminds me of there was a quote from Orwell in 1984 that said “the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final most essential command.” It certainly sounds a lot like what the President is saying.”
It’s ironic that Cooper would invoke a reference to George Orwell’s classic 1984 novel during the segment, because what followed next seemed like something the book’s “Ministry of Truth” would pull off.
Gergen agreed with Cooper’s pontifications and equated the press with the “whole essence of the First Amendment” and suggested the President was strangling it. “[T]he President for a while now, but more relentlessly and coldly is trying to suppress the voices of democracy, suppress the voices of the press, denigrate the press,” he proclaimed.
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. Dylan Price
