Trump, about 2 days ago: No place for hatred in this country; Now's the time for unity

Au contraire.  It worked out perfectly for "Haters and Losers".  Their man - the number one Hater and Loser - is in the White House.





More pictures of  groups of happy celebrants over the dead and injured in Dayton:





Poor Fox News has fallen out of favor:  Too many reporters have stopped fawning and started showing him for what he is.  It was only a matter of time before a new outlet cropped up to get his favor and his mentions.

Ernest Champell realized there was something unusual about One America News Network during his first day on the job as a writer, when the young staffer assigned to show him the ropes announced matter-of-factly, “Yeah, we like Russia here.”

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OANN launched in 2013 as an answer to the chatty, opinionated content of mainstream cable news channels—and a place for viewers too conservative for Fox News.

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Nearly all of OANN’s 24-hours of daily programming is centered at an anchordesk, with a polished TV anchor delivering headlines and introducing packaged segments in the time-honored manner of Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite. But there’s a twist: The segments, the interviews, the words the anchors are speaking and even the crawl at the bottom of the screen are a slurry of fake news mixed with genuine reporting; internet conspiracy theories blended with far-right rhetoric and drizzled with undiluted Kremlin propaganda.

  The Daily Beast

The next step in Russian propaganda embraced by Trump, who I'm considering more and more to be the Russian asset some people accuse him of being. After all, he's building his empire on laundered Russian money.

If you don’t live in a world where Donald Trump’s inauguration drew record crowds, Roy Moore won the Alabama special election in a landslide, and Hillary Clinton has her political enemies assassinated, viewing OANN for a couple of hours is a surreal experience that inspires the same vague, uneasy dread you get from a David Lynch movie.

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When interviewing conservatives, “they would tell me what questions I wasn’t allowed to ask,” said one anchor. "I'd ask anyway and they'd call me into the office and complain." And it became common for [millionaire founder and owner Robert Herring Sr.] to emerge from his upstairs office with some piece of news he’d picked up from a fringe website like Infowars or Gateway Pundit, insisting that OANN put it on the air.

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“It was just an old guy with a bunch of conspiracy theory stories and we had to write it,” said [another] former anchor. “They were known as ‘H stories.’ If there was story that was unbelievably ridiculous, it was an H story.”

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“It was just an old guy with a bunch of conspiracy theory stories and we had to write it,” said a third former anchor. “They were known as ‘H stories.’ If there was story that was unbelievably ridiculous, it was an H story.”

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Herring insists that OANN stories lavish praise on Trump, and [...] OANN airs all of the president’s rallies live, said the former employee.

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Trump is now mentioning the channel regularly. In a tweet on Monday, he congratulated the network “on the great job you are doing and the big ratings jump.”

"I bet that just makes Mr Herring so happy,” said the former worker. “That was the goal all along. He wanted to be mentioned by Donald Trump.”

Well, and get all Trump's followers as viewers. Perhaps to make OANN the Fuhrer's propaganda outlet.

I find it cosmically fascinating that OANN's founder and owner is R Herring.

UPDATE: