I am so discouraged by our ‘choice’ (bwahahahah…choice? We don’t need no stinkin’ choice) in this awful year’s election that, like the last time around (when baboon boy became ‘king’), I’m having difficulty working up any motivation TO vote. I tell you Marilyn, that before our roll hits the very bottom, I hope I’m dead. Whatever you want to believe is true and you figure, that’s good enough. When you accept only the “comfortable,” you don’t have to read or research. It’s so much easier to believe what you want to believe because that’s so much easier than believing something which you might find disturbing or uncomfortable. I don’t mean they have a “low IQ.” I mean they are too limited, lazy, selfish, and foolhardy to learn the truth. We are on a razor-thin edge between what we used to think was freedom versus a plutocracy or oligarchy - if we haven’t already crossed that line. If you are don’t believe reality, you are going to live with something worse. Only an elected pathological liar could do that. They don’t erase the truth about a president. Do they make mistakes? Yes, but they correct themselves and apologize. The news is as true as the people who research and write it can make it. They work hard trying to get at the truth - even when they know people aren’t listen. The other reporters, photographers, directors, and producers? Theytold the truth, too. He tells the truth and so did his colleagues. He was occasionally asked to omit something or spin the truth, but he didn’t do that, either. Reporters are human beings and we are imperfect, but none of the errors was intentional. The news has always been as truthful as the people who do the job can make it. Whatever they do at Fox, the news isn’t it. Moreover, none of his colleagues lied to the public either. He made mistakes now and then - but not often - and sometimes made the wrong choice about what story to cover, but never at any point in his long career did he intentionally lie to the public. As a woman whose husband was a television news reporter for more than 40 years, I’d like to point out that not once in his entire career did my husband haul his tired ass out of bed so he could get up to fabricate lies for the public. They watch “the news” and believe it’s all lies because an orange-skinned bloke says so.
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