Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Trump and 'The Truth

The Review's daily, always absorbing look at media goings-on raises the question of how to talk about, well, a lying rat of a president: a distinction most media institutions have awarded Donald Trump.

The Review says "The argument consumed political media conversations on Twitter for much of the weekend." Some Twitterists thought Haberman's charge a little mild.

The anti-Trump media are nuts if they think they're improving their status in 21stcentury life.

Good luck with that! "Speaking truth to power" - an old Quaker ideal beloved of modern Thought Leaders - involves telling Trump voters they laid an egg.

Maybe also the lack of trust that previous media forays against previous presidents have engendered.

Media fury at one Donald Trump is sowing worrisome consequences for the future.

The lying so-and-so, as most of the media view him, is going to be gone one day: possibly with the media's invaluable assistance.

I cannot see the anti-Trump media adding to our depleted storehouse of trust.

I see the media's angry judgmentalism - its love of crying "Liar!" - making things far angrier, far more divisive, than they are now.

https://spectator.org/trump-and-the-truth/

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