Today Trump blamed the "fake media" for General Flynn's departure from his NSA appointment. This is disturbing on several levels including that term. The fake media Trump points at is not the infamous media that runs headlines such as "Contraceptives Make Women Ugly" but the long respected reporters, newspapers, and shows that certainly have shortcomings but do far better than Trump's chosen favorites.
What is worse is that Trump isn't really pointing the finger at the news distributors, he is pointing the finger at the intelligence agencies that produce the reports. When he does that, he calls into question their conclusions. Trump's method is to castigate the messenger and the message. If we cannot trust our intelligence agencies, who were merely reporting what had been observed and recorded, had made those reports to Trump in a timely fashion, and then been described as liars by him, then we are left with no confidence in those agencies on which we depend. That is if we are as credulous as he believes we are.
When I was a very young girl I read all of L. Frank Baum's Oz series. The man behind the curtain is now in front of the curtain telling us not to believe. Don't believe him.
And for those who insist that this be quilt related, I have two flowers and then leaves left on the first half of the first border. This is a labor intense quilt.
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