Trump’s legal action against the media is not about revenge, payback, or getting even — it is justice.
Every American to the right of Ocasio knows that the mainstream media lie and lie. Even much of truth and facts can be honestly, inadvertently tilted. Other facts can be deliberately slanted, though technically true. That is why Kellyanne Conway was right when she uttered her much-mocked assertion that there are “alternate facts.” Certainly, facts are facts, and they do not care about your feelings. But facts indeed can be slanted into alternate facts. Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure. And the media often go beyond reporting facts into concocting outright lies. Think of the Charlottesville lie. It will never stop being spread, even though the video exists all over YouTube, even though left-wing Snopes declared it a lie. Yet, Biden lied, saying that the Charlottesville press conference was why he ran for president. Such a liar, from his first gulp of mother’s milk to his future final injection of morphine. Then Harris repeated the same debunked lie in her presidential debate with Trump. The moderators, who kept fact-checking Trump throughout the debate, never fact-checked Harris, even though Charlottesville is the most famous lie since Gamal Abdul Nasser announced in June 1967 that Egypt had just wiped out the Israeli air force. So, even “fact-checking” often is rooted in and based on lies.
