This Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Chuck Todd and his panel debated how often the MSM should call Trump a liar (essentially concluding it cannot be done often enough) while telling multiple easily checked whoppers themselves[1]. They probably could have benefited from reading a piece that Sharyl Attkisson, a multiple Investigative Emmy award winning reporter formerly with CBS[2], posted a week earlier.
She then proceeds to present her list of 50 examples which I urge everyone to check out at the link above. While I'm still reading through them so far each is studiously documented (which is why I didn't try to simply re-post them) and don't contain a legion of examples that strain the definition of lie to the breaking point much like the various lists of the "lies" that have circulated on the internet about past (and the current) presidents over the years by various detractors.
The difference today is that unlike in the past when the media tended to avoid such scurrilous lists like the plague they now gleefully cover them as serious news stories without even bothering to note how many of the supposed lies are simple mistakes and differences of opinion. Of course back then most of those in the MSM at least tried to present a veneer of unbiased neutrality.
Count down to hand waving in 10, 9, 8, 7...
1. One example is grumbling about how Obama was "uniquely" nailed with the Lie of the Year label by PolitiFact for his "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it" falsehood and Trump hasn't, which is patently untrue.
2. And left in part due to increasing hostility at the network after she exposed Hillary Clinton's bogus claim she dodged sniper fire in Bosnia and later the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal.
She then proceeds to present her list of 50 examples which I urge everyone to check out at the link above. While I'm still reading through them so far each is studiously documented (which is why I didn't try to simply re-post them) and don't contain a legion of examples that strain the definition of lie to the breaking point much like the various lists of the "lies" that have circulated on the internet about past (and the current) presidents over the years by various detractors.
The difference today is that unlike in the past when the media tended to avoid such scurrilous lists like the plague they now gleefully cover them as serious news stories without even bothering to note how many of the supposed lies are simple mistakes and differences of opinion. Of course back then most of those in the MSM at least tried to present a veneer of unbiased neutrality.
Count down to hand waving in 10, 9, 8, 7...
1. One example is grumbling about how Obama was "uniquely" nailed with the Lie of the Year label by PolitiFact for his "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it" falsehood and Trump hasn't, which is patently untrue.
2. And left in part due to increasing hostility at the network after she exposed Hillary Clinton's bogus claim she dodged sniper fire in Bosnia and later the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal.
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