once a yahoo always a yahoo(he might be the one who said it first):

“The technique of raising a completely bogus idea and then demanding that its critics debunk it—by proving a negative—is a favorite technique of conspiracy theorists, and more recently it’s become a favorite technique of the Trump team.

“Here’s how the post-truth sausage gets made. The president-elect, for example, will moot the idea that there were millions of illegal votes cast in the election, despite overwhelming evidence that the claim is false and no evidence it is true. His defenders will, nonetheless, then demand that the people who think vote fraud is false prove it is false. By the end of the week, Reince Priebus—the chairman of the GOP, Trump’s chief of staff-designee, and one of the mainstream, establishment members of his team—can go on national network television and say he doesn’t know for sure whether millions of illegal voters cast ballots, and that ‘it’s possible.’”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/the-inevitability-of-more-comet-pizza-incidents/509567/?utm_source=twb&utm_source=nl-politics-daily-120516

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