The media would then fact check him and a ten minute press conference would turn into a forty minute correction, clarification, exposure of the lie fest the nation had just been subjected to. The media got so many people contacting them telling them to give the old man a break that they decided to use a new tactic and put on a Democrat to rebut the crap. This turned into a "he said, he said" fest which then turned into the smash mouth politics that got great ratings for the last 20 years. But people are fickle. They get tired of that stuff and the Republicans don't help because they are like a broken record. Ya see, they're too stupid to think on their feet so they are coached with the same talking points from the Party. This creates the absurdity of a small time state house representative sounding exactly like a big time Washington Senator as if someone pressed the same bleached white flour and used the same asshole as a cookie cutter.
It doesn't help that the media was infiltrated long ago by the right wing and consolidated and reduced to infotainment to take away it's power. There was a time when getting exposed by the media was a big deal, especially when it came to the things that matter but Republicans lied us into a war and there's Chuck Todd acting like it was the fault of Democrats who should have done a better job selling their message.
In a sane world every one of the people in the media who played along with the Republicans would have been out of a job and never been allowed to step before a camera again. Hell, this didn't even happen for the "experts" on the financial networks who told their viewers to buy on stuff that crashed. There has been ZERO accountability on media figures. O'Reilly even got an abortion doctor shot down in a CHURCH and he's still on the air.
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