As you know, Politifact announced their “Lie of the Year” yesterday, and emphasized that the lie was so outrageous that there was unanimity among their staff about its particular outrageousness.
“They are eating the dogs in Springfield.” The lie was so outrageous that you could practically feel the tears of rage and empathy for Haitian migrants dripping onto the keyboards of the fact-checkers.
In a way, you can sympathize. Trump was able to refocus the country on the migrant crisis rather than the phony JOY! that the Pravda Media and Kamala Harris were trying to sell us. If I were one of the partisans at Politifact, I would be outraged, too. Despite the media and many observers thinking that Trump lost ground during the debate, it turns out that the “eating the pets” meme was the only memorable part of it, and Trump clearly won that…
