McCain had a moment when he famously corrected a white woman about Barak Obama's status as an American. He paid dearly for being honest and honorable in that moment.

How many of today's Republicans would do that? I suspect few, if any. And THAT is the power of the propaganda of right-wing media, which is why people (on both sides) need to source reliable media rather than the hysterical ranting sources many on the right rely upon (and a few on the left, but it mostly seems to be a right-wing problem).

At the time, I had never heard of Obama. I had a friend who was emailing his friends all sorts of nonsense. But I didn't know it was nonsense, so I was looking stuff up. And when I'd share what I found (i.e. it was nonsense), the group turned on me. Lost my best friend from high school because he couldn't accept that Obama was a natural born US citizen, among other things. Silly me...I thought those people wanted to know actual facts. They just wanted justification for their prejudices. (Tried reaching out a few years ago...silence. Apparently I'm not forgiven for seeking truth.)