Liars, Damned Liars, and Republicans!

The fact that the controlling party in our country consistently lies to the American people, and that it rejects science, facts, and reality?  Oh, can’t say that. Wouldn’t be balanced, you know.

 

Look, let’s face it, the press has been enabling Trump in particular and the conservatives in general by the way it has been addressing the blatant lying, deception, misdirection, and other forms of lying.

For the most part, the press reports the disagreement between parties as legitimate differences in opinion, long after it’s become obvious that one side is lying. For example, for decades, now, Republicans have been justifying giant tax giveaways to the rich and corporations under the guise of trickle-down, supply-side, job-creators or some other claim that what’s good for the rich is good for all of us. But it’s literally never been demonstrated. In fact, the data shows that there is no correlation whatsoever between the top marginal tax rate and economic growth. None. Zero. Nada, Zilch. The same is true for job creation.

Yet nominally liberal outlets like NPR have been allowing serial liars like Paul Ryan to claim the connection exists without noting it doesn’t. Oh, I suppose it’s possible that Ryan is an idiot, not a liar, but either way, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and a host of other “liberal” outlets report on Ryan’s or Trump’s or McConnell’s claims as if they were plausible, then report on the Democrats’ rejection of the trickle down as if it, too were simply one of many possibilities, leaving out the obvious reality that there’s an objective truth out there that shows one claim to be a lie, the other true. The fact that Democrats are often complicit with Republicans in passing policies that favor the rich makes the press’s failure all the more serious.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/01/12/why-fact-checking-gives-liars-free-pass

WE know that the M$M is complicit in this deliberate deception. The consolidation

of major media outlets into the hands of a few agenda-fueled wealthy idealogues

along skids greased by their reprehensitives in the purchased House of our government

has made this inevitable. We also know that they fully intend to quash dissent online

with Article 13 now poised to damage all online user content.

We should learn from our onetime benefactors the French:

The Gilets Jaune  have the right idea…STRIKE!

To the Ramparts mes amis! You have nothing to lose but your chains…