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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Trump Can Lie and No One Seems to Care
http://billmoyers.com/story/donald-trump-and-the-walter-winchell-effect/Donald Trump is a serial liar. Okay, to be a bit less Trumpian about it, he has trouble with the truth. If you look at Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning site that examines candidates pronouncements for accuracy, 76 percent of Trumps statements are rated either mostly false, false, or pants on fire, which is to say off-the-charts false. By comparison, Hillary Clintons total is 29 percent.
But if Trump doesnt cotton much to the truth, he doesnt seem to cotton much to his own ideas, either. He waffles, flip-flops and obfuscates, sometimes changing positions from one press appearance to the next, as Peter Alexander reported on NBC Nightly News this past Monday a rare television news critique of Trump.
I say rare because most of the time, as Glenn Kessler noted in The Washington Post this week, MSM the mainstream media just sit back and let Trump unleash his whoppers without any pushback, even as they criticize his manners and attitude.
In an ordinary political season, perhaps Trump would be under fire for his habitual untruths, like the one that Ted Cruzs father might have been involved with Lee Harvey Oswald. This time around, though, neither the media nor the public least of all his supporters seem to care. Which leads to the inescapable conclusion that these days, as far as our political discourse goes, truth, logic, reason and consistency dont seem to count for very much.
But if Trump doesnt cotton much to the truth, he doesnt seem to cotton much to his own ideas, either. He waffles, flip-flops and obfuscates, sometimes changing positions from one press appearance to the next, as Peter Alexander reported on NBC Nightly News this past Monday a rare television news critique of Trump.
I say rare because most of the time, as Glenn Kessler noted in The Washington Post this week, MSM the mainstream media just sit back and let Trump unleash his whoppers without any pushback, even as they criticize his manners and attitude.
In an ordinary political season, perhaps Trump would be under fire for his habitual untruths, like the one that Ted Cruzs father might have been involved with Lee Harvey Oswald. This time around, though, neither the media nor the public least of all his supporters seem to care. Which leads to the inescapable conclusion that these days, as far as our political discourse goes, truth, logic, reason and consistency dont seem to count for very much.
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Why Trump Can Lie and No One Seems to Care (Original Post)
KamaAina
May 2016
OP
For the same reason Hillary can lie, their supporters are authoritarians who blindly follow...
Odin2005
May 2016
#1
I am seriously starting to wonder who the hell Ive been on here with all these years.
bullimiami
May 2016
#2
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)1. For the same reason Hillary can lie, their supporters are authoritarians who blindly follow...
...their leader no matter what.
bullimiami
(13,099 posts)2. I am seriously starting to wonder who the hell Ive been on here with all these years.
MH1
(17,600 posts)4. Sanders' Politifact score is similar to Hillary's. Shall I say "for the same reason Bernie can lie?"
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)5. All that shows is how narrow the Overton Window of American politics is.
That window is so narrow and so skewed to the Right that a centrist like Hillary will score very similar to a real progressive like Sanders, when in reality Sanders should be off the chart to the Left.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)3. Lol...the media is reporting no one cares...that's why
70% or more of women voters will be voting for Hillary...and the other democratic candidates....the landslide is impending
pampango
(24,692 posts)6. Exactly. republicans don't care about his lies and flip-flops.
Very few Democrats don't care. If Donald does not fool women and ninorities, he ain't winning.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)7. Dirty Donald Trump is such a liar and flip-flopper that soon he will say he never promised to make
make America great again, while he's wearing the stupid hat.