re: #277 makeitstop

I meant to mention this earlier, CNN has started doing something that’s new. They do instant fact check on Donald Drumpf. They may do it on Hillary, I haven’t seen it. Here’s what they do, I just saw it, they just ran a graphic, chyron graphic, one of those banners at the bottom of the screen, and here’s what it says verbatim: “Drumpf says Obama founder of ISIS” then parenthesis, “he’s not,” end parenthesis. And in very tiny, a very tiny font underneath that, they make some reference to CNN’s fact-checker. But you don’t see that, you don’t see that what this is is a — yeah, there it is, “Drumpf calls Obama founder of ISIS (he’s not), fact check: Al-Baghdadi” — it’s editorializing.

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If Hillary had gotten up to claim that, say, George Bush had founded ISIS, they would have been all over it, not rationalizing, relativizing it or calling it “sarcasm”.