Somehow I get the impression that had Trump and his hordes, er crew read 1984, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, or Fahrenheit 451, they would take those as blueprints and then wonder what went wrong when their heroes (the antagonists) got their comeuppance at the end of the story.
I don’t see how pointing out a lie can be called partisanship. I think IGNORING a lie can definitely be called partisanship, as when Breitbart and FOX parrot Trump’s lies. But when The Donald states as fact something that is clearly not true… isn’t the press shirking when it equivocates? “Spin” is one thing but an out-and-out LIE ought to be called just that, shouldn’t it?
Not that in the article the writer makes the point that calling something a lie is a judgment that not only is the stated fact not true, but that there was an intent to deceive on the part of the liar.
Maybe they don’t have to use the “L-word.” Maybe they can just say “this statement is wrong.” Wrong is a statement about the alleged fact itself and leaves out any mind-reading of whoever said the wrong thing.
ThelmaLou wrote: “Maybe they don’t have to use the “L-word.” Maybe they can just say “this statement is wrong.” Wrong is a statement about the alleged fact itself and leaves out any mind-reading of whoever said the wrong thing.”
Yeah, they could just be stupid…real stupid. Dumber than dirt so dumb that the other dirt makes fun of it.
*Well now, Kellyanne Conway has lately conceived
Of a new understanding of what to believe
When the truth gives you heartburn, don’t worry, relax
You can always resort to alternative facts!
Oh it works for the Donald and all of his hacks
As they go ’bout promoting their retrograde acts
Don’t fret if your documentation is lax
You can always get by with alternative facts!
Don’t fear all those women with signs on their backs
The straight and the queer, the whites and blacks
You can trivialize them with snide little cracks
And wash them away with alternative facts!
Just as loggers might swing an alternative ax
And fell a great tree with alternative whacks
When the truth won’t cooperate, try some new tacks
We live in an age of alternative facts!*