Great news for people who enjoy lies: CBS News won’t allow its vice presidential debate moderators to engage in any fact-checking.
That is an excellent decision. For starters, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is severely allergic to facts – that is a fact – and nobody wants Tuesday night’s debate stopped midway through while aides to the Republican vice presidential nominee rush onstage to jab him with EpiPens.
More important, facts are for losers, and fact-checking makes Republicans in general, and Donald Trump in particular, SUPER mad.
At the first presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis corrected four of Trump’s approximately 18 million lies. That caused GOP pundits and lawmakers and, of course, Trump himself to collectively freak out over what they saw as a wholly unwarranted act of journalism.
The CEO of the online right-wing falsehood factory called The Federalist calmly and rationally posted on social media: “Remove ABC's broadcast license and criminally charge the moderators and executives for campaign finance fraud.”
The audacity of those journalists to correct Trump when he repeated the racist and entirely fabricated allegation that legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating people’s pets. Real-time fact-checking like that is definitely a criminal offense, as long as you live in a world where the presentation of facts is........