In the fast-paced world of the current President’s policy pronouncements, consisting mostly of verbal diarrhea, smart, passionate truth-telling is quickly discounted and replaced by his absurdity. A little over a week ago Democratic Representative Adam Schiff of California, righteously and rightfully admonished his sheepish Republican counterparts with something they are not used to hearing from their leader, the truth. Schiff, a former prosecutor, laid out a case so solid it would have made Jack Nicholson climb down off “that wall.”
Judging by the look on the face of the former House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Devin Nunes, during Schiff’s tongue lashing, he ‘can’t handle the truth.’ Part of the reason the public is unable to digest a brilliantly delivered presentation by Schiff is that we are constantly dining on the fast food foolishness served on a Trump tray. What bothers me, even more, is the absurdity of political experts endowing the nonsense of the President with the respect of honest debate. Just in the past 24 hours, he told a throng of MAGA hat wearers and an assemblage of NRCC ( National Republican Congressional Committee) members that the noise from windmills may cause cancer. He also reiterated his baseless assertion that something is funny with the vote “tallies” when he or his Party loses. Of course, he pulled the facts from his ample backside like most of his moronic proclamations of alternative facts; 91 billion to Puerto Rican hurricane relief, 3 million illegal voters, and “nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” Everyone in politics knew, with the exception of the President. Remember he thought he was breaking news when he told us that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, “Most people don’t even know he was a Republican, right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that. We have to build that up a little more. Let's take an ad. Let's use one of those PACs."
Every weekday at noon CNN’s John King assembles a diverse set of political reporters and pundits and seriously discusses the President. Five days a week at 5 pm Chuck Todd does the same thing on MSNBC. Discussing the seriousness of the policy positions of Donald Trump, in what has become a boring and useless exercise in futility, makes as much sense as Halle Berry and Kendall Jenner calling the Joker for makeup advice; off-color and ridiculous. I realize the obligation of the press is to cover the President and convey to the public his meaning and intention. We have reached a point where it is not insulting to professional ethics to say, before we start, most of what we will discuss is not true, and the rest is intellectually questionable.
A lot of press members will say that it is beyond their purview to add that sort of commentary. Famously Chuck Todd once answered a question about the provable lies and other mischaracterizations about the Affordable Care Act with the logic, it's not his job to correct Republican lies on Obamacare, it was simply Obama's job to "sell" his program. As the 4th Estate if the job is to traffic in truth, when do you stop a liar?
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