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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sano ✶✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Misleading headlines
Date: 10/24/25 8:19 AM
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CNN displayed more courage than the BBC... if BBC's issue was lack of journalistic fortitude.

CNN Headline: "What the Ronald Reagan ad that got Trump so angry was really all about"

The CNN article didn't beat around the bush. CNN quickly covered 4 of the 5 Ws -who what when where -

" President Donald Trump has canceled trade negotiations with Canada over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-tariff speech delivered by conservative hero and former President Ronald Reagan. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute also said the ad misrepresented the former president’s words.

It wasn’t fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech — an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube — railing against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade.


On the 5th W -why- they punted " It’s not clear why Trump called the ad “fake,”

WHY?

It's because he's a shrewd liar whose cult gobbles his bullshit as fast as it spews forth from his 10k gold-plated crapper.

He knows it's Grade A zone-flooding shit...but it's netting him a $300,000,000 million dollar jet upgraded with $750,000,000 taxpayer dollars for 4 years of hobnobbing with people way above the social station of a mediocre developer who married a soft porn model and used TV to effect a con like nobody has ever seen. .

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