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Blind Frog Belly White5/27/2018 10:58:23 am PDT

re: #282 Anymouse 🌹

Of all businesses, only the press has a constitutional protection and right to exist.

That protection is there because an uniformed public cannot participate meaningfully in a democratic republic.

The press is not there to praise politicians. They are there to hold them to account, and that includes saying when they lied.

Calling lies “demonstrable falsehoods” removes the agency from the person propagating that falsehood.

I can say something which is false. That makes that something a “falsehood.”

I can deliberately propagate a falsehood, knowing or not caring if that statement is true or not. That is a “lie.”

The comparison of “Ms. Haberman calling a lie ‘a lie’ just like the claim ‘Why didn’t Obama use the word terrorist’” is a faulty analogy.

Conservatives lied about Obama. He did use that term.

Ms. Haberman is doing what she can to maintain her access journalism. Her paycheck depends on what she writes.

Churches and the Post Office would like a word…