"Fake news." We've heard about that for some 9 years now. Yesterday we all learned – if we did not know already – where it came from.
It's totally projection.
David Pecker testified yesterday that his publication, The National Enquirer, would make up good stories about one candidate and would make up bad stories about the candidate's opponents. They would publish "fake news" (Mr. Pecker called it "embellish" the news) to help The Guy, and to hurt anyone else that The Guy fingered. Sometimes they wouldn't even wait for the finger, they would make up the negative stories themselves, like they did about Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, and Hillary Clinton.
"Fake news." David Pecker. And Projection. When you live in a world where everything you publish is fake news, calling everything else "fake news" even though you know it isn't, comes naturally.
"Fake news." When you write it yourself, you may delude yourself that's what everyone does for a living, not just David Pecker and you.
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