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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 2 Dec 2018
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    I know I'm a broken record on this, but it really is disturbing how every mass media outlet immediately transforms into a cliche-spouting groupthink factory the moment high-profile political figures die. All critical thinking, skepticism, and debate are essentially prohibited

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      2. Robert Wright‏ @robertwrighter 2 Dec 2018
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        Replying to @mtracey

        Trump has accentuated this tendency in cases like GHWB and McCain, because the narrative becomes how un-Trump they are. But, yes, it's long been a pretty pronounced tendency for highly prominent politicians in general.

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 2 Dec 2018
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        Yup:https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1069054765789847552 …

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        Unless the subtext wasn’t obvious: HW Bush’s illustrious career as a CIA chief, party insider, etc. makes him the consummate “institutionalist,” which is thought to be a rebuke of Trump, who has destroyed all institutions or something. That’s why the coverage is extra glowing
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      1. Full_on_Cynic‏ @Full_On_Cynic 2 Dec 2018
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        in order to ignore the horrors that america constantly inflicts on the world, you have to whitewash the ghoulish behavior of the leaders.

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      2. REALz--IG:REALITY201‏ @REALITY201 2 Dec 2018
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        Replying to @joelgombiner @mtracey @ggreenwald

        So when we killed #OsamaBinLaden...we should have praised his fight against human rights??

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      1. 𝐊𝐢𝐦 𝐋𝐲𝐝𝐨𝐧  🐘 🐘‏ @virgogirl 2 Dec 2018
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        I think you're correct - but I also think it's like going to a funeral. At a funeral you don't start talking about all the horrible things the person has done, you only mention the good. Maybe it's wrong , but I think I'm ok with it.... The bashing can come later.

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      1. Johnny Argent‏ @JohnnyArgent 2 Dec 2018
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        Whatever else we can say about DT (I didn't vote for him), he's brought the "Fake News" trope into the dialogue & it's not the punchline the useful idiots are trying to make it. Just look at the canonization of Bush. The MSM gives 'fake' a bad name. They have no shame.

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      2. Ziggy ⏳Jesus was a Socialist 🌷‏ @ZiggyRichards 2 Dec 2018
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        Can you name a time where mass media outlets aren't "cliche-spouting groupthink factories"? I mean we have had #Russiagate for 2 years, Iraq WMDs before that, there's a tonne of examples.

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      3. #PresidentBernieSanders‏ @wewilovercome 2 Dec 2018
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        MSM is a Weapon of Mass Distraction

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      1. Ted McKinnon‏ @tmckinno 2 Dec 2018
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        I agree, but you are a broken record. Kindly move on to the next outrage. There’s never any shortage.

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      2. Dan Mitchell‏ @Fortunes_Wheel 3 Dec 2018
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        Replying to @jason_pontin @mtracey and

        Both of these cretins have me blocked, but it's not even "manners" -- it's simple truth. Greenwald and Tracey can't get their minds around the fact that most people are complicated. Bush did some truly horrendous stuff. He was also a real statesman who cared about public service.

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      1. Sle 🌻‏ @SleSharon 2 Dec 2018
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        We have traditions that long have required a respect for our dead. Trump broke the rules for civilized behavior with John McCain's death. We needn't do this as well. There is time after the mourning period for a critical examination of a public figure's work and actions.

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      1. Juan Cera‏ @JuanCera 2 Dec 2018
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        Yep, you’re a broken record. Playing on an old hi-fi in the Brazilian rainforest being powered by @ggreenwald’s anti-everything treadmill.

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      2. George Colombo‏ @georgecolombo 2 Dec 2018
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        You'd be surprised apparently at how many people are put off at the idea of trashing someone who just died. Absent some pressing issue or some egregiously bad acts, I believe most people think, "Can't you just be a human being and give it a rest for a few days until he's buried?"

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      3. Teamwork makes the dream work‏ @Parisire 2 Dec 2018
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        Some people apparently have the notion that if they don't start trashing a deceased former President right now this very moment, right after he has passed, the opportunity will never exist for them to be able to do so.

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      2. Regmyster‏ @regmyster1 3 Dec 2018
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        Also ate them

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      1. James King‏ @JamesKi85463586 2 Dec 2018
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        Isn’t this basically true as far as many issues of the day are concerned? It’s a little more obvious in regard to the deaths of persons who can be used to advance the prevailing group-think agenda. But the media has completely sold out so that it no longer even pretends.

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      1. 𝕵𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚‏ @Jayarava 3 Dec 2018
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        It is a long standing tradition not to speak ill of the (recently) dead. Funerals are not the place to tear down any person, let alone one who served their country. It is a time to honour their contribution. We have plenty of time to judge the dead. Get over yourself.

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