The Reality-Based Community

E.J. Dionne does not say that the President of the United States is a damned liar. That would be shrill. Instead, he says things such as:

A very intelligent political reporter I know said the other night that Republicans simply run better campaigns than Democrats. If I were given a free pass to stretch the truth to the breaking point, I could run a pretty good campaign, too.

It’s the old McCarthy problem: When a politician campaigns on flat-out lies, should reporters just report the lies and the denials, or should they do the fact-checking and report the results?

Posted: Friday, September 24th, 2004 at 9:18 am
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