Memo To The Media: Stop The False Equivalency!

"As Americans gear up for the election, Bill Adair warns of an 'epidemic of lying' in U.S. politics -- particularly within the Republican Party. Adair joins the show to discuss his new book "Beyond the Lie." As founder of the fact-checking website PolitiFact, Adair is well placed to account for where disinformation comes from, how it spreads, and the danger it poses to democracy."

Click on the link below for the effects of accepting the lies of the Republicans/MAGA/Trump:

PolitiFact Founder Explains the “Epidemic of Lying” in American Politics

Lying: Essentially the ONLY Tool Of The Republican Party

Lie: 

(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

There is NO equivalency between the two major US political parties and their promoters and supporters regarding communication of truth:

• Trump's false or misleading claims totaled 30,573 over 4 years (link)
• Telling lies has become the norm for today's Republican Party (link)
• Lies, conspiracy theories, and the Republican Party (link)
• 27 Donald Trump election lies listed in his Georgia indictment (link)
• The modern GOP is built on lies (link)
• Fact-checkers find that Republicans lie up to 3 times more than Democrats (link)
• Fact-checkers are shown to be unbiased in their findings (link)(link)(link)
• The recent Republican debate was full of lies and misleading statements (link)
• The US Constitution is clear about the separation of religion and government but Republicans lie about such and attempt to force harmful and false religious dogma into our secular laws (link)
• In general, Republicans reject the findings of science if such interfere with their unsupported ideology.

The Liar In Chief

"For those tempted to shout “Fake News” at Obama’s claim, do yourself a favor. Go next door, ask to borrow your neighbor’s Google machine, and look it up.

"Then, perhaps, you might stop repeating this former reality TV host’s lies, start focusing on what really ails America and leave the dark, twisted fantasies to Donald Trump." 

 When it comes to lying, Trump is nonstop

 

Trump Is The Symptom, Lying Is The Disease

"As we head into the final days of a presidential election in which Trump is concocting deliberate lies about the electoral system’s integrity, possibly to incite his followers into insurrection, truth has never been more important."

We as a nation must insist that the truth matters

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article111167667.html#storylink=cpy"

The Culture Of Fact Is Lost

“'The culture of fact': the idea that an observed or witnessed act or thing—the substance, the matter, of fact—is the basis of truth and the only kind of evidence that’s admissible not only in court but also in other realms where truth is arbitrated."

"In Lies We Trust"

The following is a sad commentary regarding what US voters are willing to tolerate in their candidates for the Presidency of the USA.  So much for evidence-based thinking from both the candidates and the electorate:

All politicians lie, some more than others