Truth Is The New Hate Speech - Trump Surrogate Tells Radio Audience That "There Is No Such Thing As facts"
Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes made an appearance on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show on Wednesday. She made the incredible statement that, “There are no such things as facts.”
“Well, I think it’s also an idea of an opinion. And that’s — on one hand I hear half the media saying that these are lies, but on the other half there are many people that go, no, it’s true,” Hughes said. “And so one thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts, they’re not really facts.”
She went on, “There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts. And so Mr. Trump’s tweet amongst a certain crowd, a large — a large part of the population, are truth . When he says that millions of people illegally voted, he has some — in his — amongst him and his supporters, and people believe they have facts to back that up. Those that do not like Mr. Trump, they say that those are lies, and there’s no facts to back it up.”
Politico's Glenn Thrush was present at NPR and this was his response:
Thrush responded, “First I’ve got to pick my jaw up off the floor here. There are no objective facts? I mean, that is — that is an absolutely outrageous assertion. Of course there are facts. There is no widespread proof that three million people voted illegally. It’s been checked over and over again. We had a Pew study that took place over 15 years that showed people had more likelihood of being struck by lightning than voting illegally in an election.”
I don't mean to be chicken little, but seriously, the dumbing down of America has led to precisely this moment in history. This statement of Hughes' is positively Orwellian. The bottom line is that most of the people in this country cannot distinguish between a fact and an opinion. If somebody that the low information trogolodytes have imbued with authority, such as our Orange Prophet president-elect says something, that becomes concrete, indelible fact in these peoples' "minds," no matter how preposterous the assertion might be.
They are incapable of critical reasoning. "Trump's tweet is truth," Hughes tells us. Facts or no facts, Trump's tweet is truth. The people who are listening to Trump and to Hughes don't even know the definition of the word propaganda.
If Trump’s tweet is truth then why not add, “Freedom is Slavery.” “War is Peace.” And this will put chills down your spine, “Ignorance is Strength.”
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People will become comfortable with "post-truth", many are already.
She's not a trump surrogate. Ironic, huh?
did Glenn thrush clear this statement with the Hillary campaign ? Or is he off the leash?
I call someone who defends every Trump lie to the last breath a Trump surrogate. That was certainly her role on CNN over the past year and a half.
Dictionary.com
surrogate
noun" When they arrived in Dallas, she
introduced Trump onstage. "That's
really what put my name and Trump in
the same sentence," she told me."
"She stands five-foot-ten-and-three-quarters inches, with the camp appearance of a country singer—all big blonde hair and false lashes that cast a shadow over her heavily lined lips. In the grand tradition of female talking heads, she wears bright shift dresses that are almost exclusively the colors of jewels. She says they make her closet look "like a rainbow." For the past 16 months, she's worn many of them on television, where she's served as one of Trump's most faithful and pervasive campaign surrogates. She talks fast in her Hendersonville twang, sometimes so fast that her words seem to run out in front of her before she's fully considered them. "I saw real quickly that Donald Trump was kind of like a little spark that turned into a forest fire," she told me once. That tragic metaphor was intended as a compliment, and in her charming way, it sort of sounded like one.
... Of course, Hughes has good reason to know what will and will not explode. In the vast and unsettling constellation of surrogates yammering on behalf of Trump, she has the distinction of being the OG. Hughes signed on in July 2015, a few weeks after Trump announced his candidacy in the atrium of Trump Tower. At the time, she'd been working for the Tea Party News Network and appearing on cable—CNN, though also Fox News and Fox Business—to little fanfare. But she caught the eye of Sam Nunberg, the blustery Trump campaign hand who would soon be fired after the emergence of racist comments he'd made on Facebook some years prior. Nunberg called her with the invitation to become an official Trump surrogate—telling her that the campaign would help book her on more shows to talk up Trump's candidacy. "'We noticed you've been saying positive things on air,'" she remembers him telling her.
Although at the time she hadn't made up her mind whether to support Trump or Ted Cruz, she accepted.
Two months later, she found herself on the tarmac at LaGuardia, onboard Trump's plane, marveling at the humble spread of Subway sandwiches and bottled water. "It's like the song from Journey," she said, remembering the moment, "just a small-town girl!" Trump called over to her: "Hey, you want to go up there for takeoff. You will want to remember this." She made her way up to the cockpit and watched the pilots steer the jet into the sky. It was, she said, "amazing." When they arrived in Dallas, she introduced Trump onstage. "That's really what put my name and Trump in the same sentence," she told me."
Did Trump appoint her to speak for him?
Yes.
Okay. Score one for John.
such as our Orange Prophet president-elect
If this absurd article can reference Trump's physical appearance turnabout is fair play . Obama's lying black ass doesn't know what facts are & almost never bothers to use them . But he does know how to placate his liberal base by telling them the lies they want to hear ! And they believe him BECAUSE HE'S BLACK ! Can there be a stupider motive than that ?!