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<\/a><\/p>\nThey weren’t, of course; Target has always been socially progressive to a fault; by 2010, they spun themselves into a fair tizzy over every PC fad that came along. \u00a0They still do.<\/p>\n
But they’d donated money to the Tom Emmer campaign. \u00a0And Tom Emmer opposed same sex marriage – exactly as the majority of the DFL did, on the record, at that point.<\/p>\n
And so the “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” created a wave of “fake news<\/a>” (and even more mangled advocacy reporting<\/a>) to attack Target and Emmer. \u00a0Waves of paid and DFL-affiliated “protesters” descended on Target; after that, the media breathlessly proclaimed their campaign was having an effect on Target’s share price (it wasn’t<\/a>) based on a report from a “progressive” fund that owned pennies on pennies on the Target dollar<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0The media, played enthusiastically along<\/a>, for the same reasons they did with Hillary. \u00a0 In one cast, CBS news collaborated, willingly or not, with a local left-wing advocacy group to create an entirely fake news story<\/a>.<\/p>\n The goal, of course, was to simultaneously attack Emmer\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>try to intimidate Minnesota businesses into\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>donating to Republicans; if they could cause problems for the mighty Target, what could they do to a machine shop in Owatonna?<\/p>\n So when Democrats whinge about “fake news” – they sowed the wind,<\/p>\n But did they reap the whirlwind?<\/p>\n Hillary is\u00a0blaming “fake news” for her loss:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year \u2014 it\u2019s now clear the so-called fake news can have real-world consequences,\u201d Clinton said during a speech on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n Some Democrats have argued the spread of anti-Clinton fake news online contributed to her electoral loss to Donald Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Several problems with this theory:<\/p>\n The mainstream media is less fake than “Occupy Democrats” – but it’s a matter of degree.<\/p>\n\n