Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Par For The Course

Chris Cillizza continues to cement his status as the world's biggest hack by reporting - credulously - Trump's claim to have shot a 68 on a PGA course. 

Paul Campos does a good job of breaking down why Trump lying about his golf score is a bigger deal than just the latest manifestation of his narcissism. But it's also worth noting that Cillizza's uncritical stenography is fundamentally at odds with the mission of journalism.  In a sane world, this would be cause for demotion, if not outright firing. 

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