DT gets away with outrageous lies & contradictions because mainstream media & the public let him
This article is from May 16, but Trump's font of lies still continues. This article is a good one to be passed around on the web. Given M$M's participation in the bedlam raised over the GOP's Big Lie that Clinton lied when she said none of her emails were marked classified, their nonchalance of the torrent of lies Trump ejaculates endlessly deserves some attention....
Why 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.
The question is why.
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