This column states:
“In contrast, when judging a falsehood that makes a favored politician look good, we are willing to ask, “Could it have been true?” and then weaken our condemnation if we can imagine the answer is yes. By using a lower ethical standard for lies we like, we leave ourselves vulnerable to influence by pundits and spin doctors.”
Here are the results of a Pew Research Poll.
There’s some good stuff in here.
Democrats feel less positive about elected officials who compromise than they did in the past.
Even though the have the presidency and congress, the majority of Republicans (53%) feel that their side is losing.
Trump said Senator Tester should resign because he spread allegations about Dr. Jackson.
If that’s the criteria, Trump should resign too. He makes unsubstantiated allegations (which I think of as lies) all the time. Just last night at the rally according to the article:
“I know things about Tester that I can say, too,” Trump said at the rally. “And if I said them, he’d never be elected again.”
How is that different than what he accuses Tester of?
Sad!
and there’s this:
I didn’t think Ronny Jackson was qualified to head the VA but it was unfair of Senator Tester to put the allegations against him on TV before they had been verified. It would have been sufficient for him to say they were investigating claims without providing specifics. Now, the White House says Jackson didn’t wreck a car. I don’t know how much to believe anything the White House says but I do think that it was wrong to just put the charges out there.
Even the Kansas Republican Party objected to the comparison. Sad!
“By and large, Democrats accept global warming and urge tougher policies to stop it, while many Republicans are skeptics. In the March poll, Gallup found that 91 percent of Democrats worried “a great deal/fair amount” about global warming; the comparable Republican figure was only 33 percent. The gap has grown. In 2000, it was 78 percent to 64 percent. “
This is a great point! You can’t have it both ways! Trump just lies and lies and doesn’t realize that his lies contradict each other.
Trump keeps claiming that Comey leaked classified information.
Don’t forget that Trump gave classified information to the Russians.
The image of Trump and Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, was taken by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Sad! 