Most people have the ethics of animals, in that if you aren’t caught and punished for doing something, then obviously that “something” should be done again.

People didn’t seem comfortable with accusing the President of lying in 2003 or 4, but that wasn’t because they thought he was honest. No, it seems more like people won’t talk about lies or accept them, unless those lies are being challenged and successfully challenged.

And what’s worse, this same media is campaigning hard to establish “shield” laws for their members. Many states have them already and the effort continues at both the state and the federal level.

As Orwell noted, “All animals are equal; some animals are more equal.”

They have been lying about guns for decades - only the thing you have to realize is they aren’t lying: they are telling the truth that they see, and if it’s contradicted by numbers and statistics that you put in front of them, well: those must be wrong. The fact that when people are allowed to have guns crime goes down is excessively counterintuitive for them to process, so therefore it can’t be true, period. The fact that the minute guns are outlawed, as in England and Australia, crime goes through the roof is equally counterintuitive to them, and equally cannot be true, and the hell with the fact that we all know London has become the most dangerous city in Europe.

It’s an illness, I think: a uniquely liberal one.

But don’t get the idea it’s free for them. Who the hell watches ABC news? At CBS nobody’s watching Katie Couric outside of her immediate family, and nobody was watching NBC to begin with. They’re paying. The NY Times will righteously run itself face-down in the dirt - and take to the end the belief that they know more than everybody else and were correct about everything all the way.