Chris Quinn, editor of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, explained why the newspaper’s coverage annoys Trump supporters:

Categories Extremism, Freedom of the Press, Lies, Media, Ohio, Trump

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Bob Shepherd says:

April 7, 2024 at 10:10 am

The facts are crystal clear except to our Just Us system.

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Roy Turrentine says:

April 7, 2024 at 10:36 am

I agree heartily that truth is the north star in journalism. Still, it is a stretch to say that Trump is unprecedented in his attempt to commandeer the presidency in 2021.

Andrew Jackson was probably right in calling Henry Clay “Judas” when he swapped his votes for the position of Secretary of State in 1824. Up until then, the next president had come from the position of Secretary of State. Whatever you think of Jackson, he was right about that. The deal certainly paled by comparison to Buchanan’s inactivity on the eve of the Civil War. Any active statesman would have been scrambling to keep the union intact. Not surprisingly, some historians have accused him of sabotaging the union.

This may be a stretch, but political support of white supremacy during the period from 1876 -19?? borders on the same idea as MAGA, that some should rule, and some should be ruled. After all, Trump did not invent the White Supremacist mobs in Wilmington, Tulsa, and Memphis. He did not invent red lining. It was not his idea to jettison potential voters who might undermine the Republican ascendancy.

It is easy to say that we will support the truth about January 6. We should also support the truth about less obvious but equally provable attacks on the idea of government of the people and for the people. It is also important to support historical truth in journalism and academic study, lest more subtle tyrants follow Trump in their attempt to take from us the power to govern by the people–all the people–not just our tribe of people.

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Yvonne says:

April 7, 2024 at 10:41 am

it gets worse…OMG!

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-virtues-video-astonishing/

Frightening.

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- Lenny Rothbart says:
  
  April 7, 2024 at 12:55 pm
  
  …a man who takes ketchup on his steak…
  
  …and his walls.
  
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retired teacher says:

April 7, 2024 at 10:42 am

Quinn does not want to alienate his readers, but he feels an even greater obligation as a journalist to the truth. Right wing extremists exist in an ideological bubble that feeds them a constant stream of misinformation, but they do not have access to the truth. Trump is using the same fascist playbook that Nazi’s used in the 1930s to divide and conquer. January 6th was a well documented attempt to overthrow a legitimate government. How any patriotic American can deny these facts is shocking? Another sad reality is that Trump, if elected, will do nothing other than perhaps a meager token gain for the working class. His allegiance is to the corporations and billionaires that fund his campaign. Just like Trump called those that serve our military “suckers,” he is using working people to achieve his goal to regain power. His minions are merely a means to an end.

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NoBrick says:

April 7, 2024 at 11:50 am

Supremacy…Once conditioned to imagine your State concocted-Score Based-Avatar, AKA, DEGREE, cast a glow of superiority over less titled mortals, the stage is set for cognitive dissonance.

I feel, therefore I am, fights with, I think, therefore you are…

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Lloyd Lofthouse says:

April 7, 2024 at 12:04 pm

There are facts and then there are alternative facts, a term invented by Kellyanne Conway, (now divorced due to her obsessive support of the traitor) a member of the Traitor Trump Delictum Syndicate (another fancy term for mafia).

“Alternative facts have been called many things: falsehoods, untruths, delusions. A fact is something that actually exists—what we would call “reality” or “truth.” An alternative is one of the choices in a set of given options; typically the options are opposites of each other. So to talk about alternative facts is to talk about the opposite of reality (which is delusion), or the opposite of truth (which is untruth).”

I think we should send Trump a gift, a lifetime membership to a turnkey country club like New York’s Rikers Island, where he can cheat at golf all he wants in his penthouse located on his Rikers Island 413-acre estate.

Maybe New York state will name Traitor Trump’s tiny patch of Rikers Island after Mar-a-Lago and install a gold painted toilet just for him to use.

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- Lenny Rothbart says:
  
  April 7, 2024 at 12:36 pm
  
  Wait… Rikers Island has a golf course?😀⛳️
  
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Ed Johnson says:

April 7, 2024 at 2:06 pm

Quinn goes on, offering:

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Personally, I find it hard to understand how Americans who take pride in our system of government support Trump. All those soldiers who died in World War II were fighting against the kind of regime Trump wants to create on our soil. How do they not see it?

The March 25 edition of the New Yorker magazine offers some insight. It includes a detailed review of a new book about Adolf Hitler, focused on the year 1932. It’s called “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power” and is by historian Timothy W. Ryback. It explains how German leaders – including some in the media — thought they could use Hitler as a means to get power for themselves and were willing to look past his obvious deficiencies to get where they wanted. In tolerating and using Hitler as a means to an end, they helped create the monstrous dictator responsible for millions of deaths.

How are those German leaders different from people in Congress saying the election was stolen or that Jan. 6 was not an insurrection aimed at destroying our government? They know the truth, but they deny it. They see Trump as a means to an end – power for themselves and their “team” – even if it means repeatedly telling lies.

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Now, for example, what’s to be said about any self-identifying “Black” voters who’d vote for Trump as a means of protesting Biden and Democrats for not having already delivered instant pudding solutions to their life (economic, social, education, and environmental) problems? Really, what?

Why are such voters seemingly no longer willing to align on a north star for democracy, let along keep to “the long arc of the moral Universe that bends toward justice?” Really, why?

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- Threatened Out West says:
  
  April 7, 2024 at 3:16 pm
  
  i am a fellow for a Holocaust museum. In July 2016, I was part of a group of fellows at a conference that saw a new (at that time) film on the Nazi rise to power and genocide. We all knew this, of course, but it really hit home that day. We all shifted uncomfortably in our seats and gave each other horrified looks. We knew what we were seeing, and it was terrifying. And that was a lifetime ago it seems.
  
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