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President Obama constantly told falsehoods to the American people about how his policies worked, how they would be implemented, and what the benefits were. His most famous one, “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” got him the Lie of the Year. But when President Trump does his own spinning, it all of a sudden becomes a moral conundrum for the liberal media. The stacked anti-Trump panel on NBC’s Meet the Press proved this point on Sunday when they debated when to call him a liar.
Moderator Chuck Todd actually set aside time in the program so he and his stacked panel could go over recent statements by the President and rake him over the coals. “You have to be a sort of taxonomist of falsehoods. I mean, traditionally, the President’s stock and trade has been to traffic in a substance that's identical to my initials,” declared New York Times columnist and faux conservative Bret Stephens.
Having found great amusement in the low-brow joke, Todd reminded viewers that Stephens’ initials were B.S. The columnist then appeared to push the CNN-backed conspiracy theory that something was wrong with the President’s head. “And there's always a question also about the President's state of mind because he says stuff and then often doesn't seem to remember what he had said the day, the hour, the minute before,” he suggested.
Todd thought it was a “fair point” and “funny” that Stephens would question the President’s “mental capacity” even though neither had training in the field. He then promoted the ramblings of “conservative” columnist Andrew Sullivan you “went there”:
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