We are still climbing through the wreckage and aftermath of Tuesday’s presidential debate debacle, and the shamefulness in the media extends well beyond the moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis. Across the media landscape, there have been rave reviews for their performance, despite the blatant departure from decorum and ethics, as we watched at times when Donald Trump was debating not Kamala Harris but the journalists seated before him.
One of the more galling reactions from the press was at CNN, where their revered fact-checking “expert,” Daniel Dale, came out with his rendition of the results. Dale tabulated, by his fractured measure, that Trump lied approximately three dozen times or so. Now, this is always an inflated figure as things such as opinions or projections made get flagged as “a lie” due mostly to interpretational judgment.
Daniel Dale looked at the…
