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Rick Massimo's avatar

“Why interview Bannon? He has a direct line to the Republican presidential nominee. To understand what a second Trump presidency will be like, listen to what Steve Bannon is saying.”

Except that when you don’t tell Steve Bannon, or more importantly your audience, that what Steve Bannon is saying is morally wrong, factually incorrect, explicitly anti-American and with strong echoes of Nazism, because that would be “biased,” people get the impression that maybe what he’s saying is OK. Our wealthy media class loves to congratulate themselves on “educating and informing the public,” but only sometimes. Nobody said “Well, here’s what Osama bin Laden has to say, and it’s not up to us to say whether it’s true or right,” and yes I am comparing the two.

As for the debate, I’ll say what I said last week: If you’re not going to fact check Trump while he’s lying to your face, why bother doing it later? Does the truth matter, or does it only matter when Donald Trump isn’t around to get mad at you? At best, you’re just pretending that fact checking Trump is a difficult, time-consuming process; Daniel Dale himself has said his job used to be difficult but it isn’t anymore because the lies are always the same.

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Becky Daiss's avatar

Thank you Mark! I am so grateful at this moment for substack and like platforms that provide an outlet for amazing thinkers and writers and provide an alternative for those of us who can no longer stomach main stream news.

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