The media and their alternate reality of lies and deceit!

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.

Its contents were explosive, embarrassing, enraging, and just plain weird.

We only tell little lies!

Three years after Kellyanne Conway introduced the doctrine of “alternative facts” on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd. Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it’s a lie with tiny crumbs of truth mixed in — and then convert whatever controversy arises into go-get-em points with the base, while pocketing for the party a juicy dividend: additional mistrust of the news media to help insulate President Trump among loyalists when his increasingly brazen actions are reported as news.

Let's be clear here folks. The biggest disinformation lie during the Trump era has been the Russian Trump conspiracy theory. You take all of the other lies, put them together, and it maybe makes up 10% of the grand lie of "collusion". People like Chuck Todd take issue with the size of the inauguration crowd as if that matters, but seemingly see no problem with falsely accusing (over and over and over) a sitting President of committing treason. Moreover, the entire conspiracy treason concept was an obvious lie. The FBI found no evidence of conspiracy. Yet the media lied. The Senate and House investigations found no evidence of conspiracy. Yet the media lied. After 22 months, the Special Counsel found no evidence of conspiracy. Yet, some in the media "still lie".

I might argue that when we look back in five or ten years that the Ukraine situation might turn out to be the next biggest lie after Russia. From the media insistence that Burisma corruption has been "debunked" (when it hasn't) to the idea that "quid pro quo" is a crime (which it's not) to the idea that Ukraine couldn't have interfered in 2016, because the Russians did (and apparently there is a limit of one regarding how many countries can interfere in an election), the media has gone down the same path that they took with the Russia Conspiracy theory. Where there is smoke, there must be fire. Where there is no smoke, there must be a cover-up. Anonymous sources can always be trusted (even over actual sources with evidence to the contrary). Hearsay evidence is just as good as or better than real evidence. Give a standing ovation to a witness that not only knew nothing, but wasn't even employed with the State Department at the time. Just keep hammering the idea that something is amiss and it must be illegal (or at least impeachable). Because the bad orange man must be brought down.

Truth be damned.