The old Edward R. Murrow, eat-your-broccoli version of the news was banished long ago. Once such whiny purists were driven from editorial posts and the ad people over the last four or five decades got invited in, things changed. Then it was nothing but murders, bombs, and panda births, delivered to thickening couch potatoes in ever briefer blasts of forty, thirty, twenty seconds
Nobody cares about the truth. It is "too dry" as my brother once told me about this blog. It doesn't come from this article either. That is, the respect for truth doesn't shine through. It is still written from the left wing perspective. The author is all too concerned about Trump's alleged lapses in truth telling, but isn't the least bit concerned that Hillary lied about the video causing a riot that killed four Americans.
If America is too dumb, could it be because the left has had all this success in dumbing down the country? The media is controlled by the left, and has been for decades. Who's fault is it then that nobody respects the truth anymore?
What gets lost in this article is how Trump's message had some truth in it. Factually, it may have been debatable as to whether or not he saw thousands of cheering Muslims on American soil on 9.11, but there have been corroborations of the fact that it did indeed happen. All the Rolling Stone guy does is whine about that fact as if the slight exaggeration was the most salient fact. What is salient about the fact is that there are terrorist sympathizers in this country and nothing is being done about it. In fact, the situation is getting worse.
It's too bad that the left doesn't seem to want anybody to know about that. There's no respect for the truth, and won't be until those who refuse to respect it are driven out of the public square.
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