To the Left, owning the winning narrative is all

Andrew Klavan writes at PJ Media,

Democrats have lied about the facts and have done so for scurrilous reasons. Hillary’s lies about Benghazi, for instance, were meant to protect her reputation and Obama’s re-election campaign talking points. The mainstream media have not only buried those Democrat lies and failed to report on them thoroughly, they have positively cheered the lying Democrats for lying well.

...The left cheered Hillary’s testimony as one of her best campaign appearances and “presidential,” not because she told the truth, not because her lies were plausible, but because her lies were well-delivered. Her performance was the sort of thing an ordinary stupid voter might fall for. So like… hooray.

Tapscott is right that lying is our biggest political and media problem — but only commentators on the right think it’s a problem at all. To those on the left, it’s a feature not a bug. The leftwing media are living in a post-modern world where words mean nothing, truth is relative and owning the winning narrative is all.

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