I ' m sorry you have to endure your own writing <| sep |> Well said , but I think there ' s something deeper , too . Fake news is meant to play to your biases , and the left and the right have some very different values . So it makes sense that I would see a news article like the one you mentioned as obviously fake , while people who want to believe that kind of thing are fine with it . Recently Rush Limbaugh c ommentedlimbaughconsentus 57 fee 9 aae 4 b 0 e 8 c 198 a 6076 d paraphrasing that the left is okay with any kind of sex act as long as there ' s consent . I agree completely with that , and I ' m not sure why saying those things would make conservatives angry with liberals . But he ' s built a long and prosperous career out of firing up conservatives , and I ' m sure he knows how to do it . To him and to his audience , condemning those values is just doing what ' s right upholding Christian values , I guess . But I feel like he said a code word that only makes sense to some people like he just said pickles ! and his supporters nodded knowingly . It ' s like Darmok Jalad , a language that is incomprehensible to nonspeakers , because we don ' t have the same cultural references .