Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
mk · 4406 days ago · link · · parent · post: What Does Romney's Campaign of Lies Say About Our Country?
IMO his campaign hit a new level for recent times. When I read about the campaigns of several decades ago, it seems that candidates lied with impunity then. Of course, this reflects upon Romney, but IMO more importantly, it speaks to the current state of the US media. Of course, in most people's eyes, if you call out Romney's lies, it's because you are a liberal. That's part of what keeps news services that try to be objective from confronting this. Truth-out can say it, but it doesn't matter so much that they do. Even non-partisan fact checkers are suspect when their results seem uneven, despite the fact that the offenses might be so.