Sucker-Ass Chump Nation

"Look like"?

 Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Between Maria Butina and Sacha Baron Cohen, Conservatives Look Like the World's Biggest Suckers

Discussion:

Undercover Blue / Hullabaloo:   Has Putin compromised the GOP too? by @BloggersRUs

Alan Elsner / Washington Post:   Unquestioning support for Israel isn't a policy position. It's borderline fanaticism.

Salon:   “Putin's congressman” and the Russian bombshell: Maria Butina case looks bad for Dana Rohrabacher

Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed News:   Maria Butina Spent Years Wooing US Conservatives. Here's How She Did It.

"Middle-class sheep/Nation of rubes ..."

 Kristy Roschke / News Co/Lab:

Study: “fake news” associated with local news 3% of the time; those who associate “news” with “fake” have more trouble telling fact from opinion  —  A survey by the News Co/Lab at Arizona State University and Google Surveys.  —  Executive Summary |

Discussion:

@news_collab:   A significant amount of people - nearly 25% - who labeled news as ‘#fake’ find it very difficult or difficult to tell the difference between #news and #opinion for news in general. But only 15% of those who did not label news as ‘fake’ reported difficulty. http://newscollab.org/... http://twitter.com/...

The next time someone says "fake news", assume she or he is a cretin who is terminally disconnected from anything resembling reality or the truth. Try hitting them w/ a 2x4 a few times to unjam their brains.