Daniel Dale needs a deep breath and a drink of water (or something stronger) every time he has to cram hours’ worth of fact-checking into two minutes. Kudos.
Fusillade of lies. Salvo? Volley? Barrage? Hailstorm? We are going to run out of adjectives before Trump is gone. A new collective noun, perhaps: a twitter of lies?
Dale congratulated(?) Trump just days ago for a lying personal best:
In what may be a new record for President Donald Trump, he made four false claims in one sentence of a tweet on Saturday.
The sentence was about Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 election opponent, and Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director and acting director of the FBI.
As James Fallows recommended, to prevent a repeat of the 2016 tragedy, reporters and networks need to “drop the pretense of both-sides-ism, and channel the analytical ability that goes into tactical commentary in order to plainly say who is lying and who is not, and what is at stake.”
And in real time, please. Or else use George Lakoff’s “truth sandwich” method. Daniel Dale cannot do it all alone.
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