I don't generally, ever, really, voluntarily watch clips form "Morning Joe" but I had one sent to me this morning in which Joe Scarborough walks back his statement yesterday that Kellyanne Conway was a liar.
This matter of slicing and dicing the definition of "liar" in order to let a massive and pathological media liar like Kellyanne Conway off the hook for her very consequential lies, told in an unending flow, virtually whenever she opens her mouth in front of a mic has got to stop.
ANYONE WHO IS RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE, HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE, WORKING FOR SOMEONE IN PUBLIC OFFICE, SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE IN PUBLIC OFFICE OR IN A CAMPAIGN TO GET SOMEONE INTO A PUBLIC OFFICE WHO ASSERTS ONE OR MANY UNTRUTHS MUST BE ASSUMED TO BE LYING INTENTIONALLY AND FOR ONLY MALIGNANT PURPOSES, MOST LIKELY INVOLVING THEFT AND POWER GRABBING.
It is not as if Kellyanne Conway hasn't been caught in enough lies, as if her male colleagues Sean Spicer, Steve Bannon, their fake-fur-fuhrer, Donald Trump haven't been caught and called on lies scores of times, in some cases hundreds of times, in public. It's not as if any of their public and publicly consequential lies were a once or even dozenth exception to a history of truth telling. These people lie like most people exhale. And they do so while holding serious positions of the most serious power in the world.
They don't get the benefit of a doubt when they lie, the media that has them on, over and over had the record of their serial lying back when no one thought that by a fluke in our brain-dead constitution Donald Trump as Commander in Chief could actually happen. Now that that horror is playing out right before our horrified eyes, they don't get to get them off the hook.
I do perceive in their line since the Michael Flynn scandal broke that they are trying to protect their back up option of Mike Pence. When it's clear that Joe and Mika are seeing the end of the Trump regime and getting ready for the former and disastrous governor of Indiana to take his place, that they're trying to shield him from the firestorm that is inevitable. And that's assuming that the Republican-fascists in the Congress will go that route and remove the clearly insane Donald Trump from the presidency. That's not a sure bet, if Mitch McConnell suspects that his idiot constituency would turn him out of office if he did that, he would keep Trump in office no matter what a disaster the consequences are.
The media, the free and unregulated press created Trump, TV and Hollywood created Trump. They created him with lies, fictions, make-believe and salesmenship. The same values that cabloid "news" are run by. The very least they can do for penance is to stop shielding the liars they put in charge of our government.
The founders in their inexperience and philosophical fantasy had no idea for the potential the media could have to install a dictator over us, there is no reason for us to not learn from this disaster and fix their lapse. The experience of the past two centuries, not some superstitious, Ouija board "originalism" is what we need. Anyone, even someone who graduated from Harvard Law and clerked at the Supreme Court who denies we must take advantage of those hardest of hard lessons should be taken seriously for a single second. They are legalistic and political flat-Earthers lying for the same oligarchs who imposed Trump on us.
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