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Stuff [in Bob Woodward\u2019s book] made up out of whole cloth from anonymous sources, denied by two four-star generals, one of the President\u2019s lawyers, the UN secretary, and vociferously by many who work with the administration, like Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Sen. Ted Cruz, is hogwash.<\/div>\n
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Trump is so successful (on many planes): including now the securing of a 5th conservative Justice at SCOTUS, that the sore losers who despise Trump simply can\u2019t handle it. They haven\u2019t found one iota of Russia collusion evidence, so now (having tried the whore \/ porn stars tell-all stories route) they have lowered themselves to accusations of mental illness and unfitness for office.<\/div>\n
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I feel like President Lincoln, talking about Gen. Grant. He was told that he was an alcoholic and said, \u201cHe fights! Be sure to give whatever he drinks to all the generals.\u201d May whatever mental malady Trump suffers from be spread far and wide to as many as possible.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If 5, 6, 7 people in Obama\u2019s administration said that Woodward made up stuff they said, I would condemn that just as much, because I condemn dishonest journalism (just as I condemn dishonest apologetics or biblical exegesis). It\u2019s irrelevant what the political views of those targeted in such a way are.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I don\u2019t say it\u2019s all lies, but I say it is lies, when the people who reportedly said something negative about Trump, deny in no uncertain terms that they said them. Those<\/em> things are lies. Enough of those bring the author\u2019s credibility and trustworthiness into question. It matters not how great Woodward\u2019s past was. Dan Rather had to retire in disgrace. NBC is now being discredited, due to its treatment of the Weinstein scandal.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Oh, how I miss Tim Russert. I really miss him so much it aches. That era of intelligent, fair liberal journalism seems as far back as the 1930s now.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Once again, I don\u2019t like lying<\/em><\/strong>. I don\u2019t care who it\u2019s against. The target is irrelevant. Lying is wrong. If it\u2019s a liberal vs. Trump, liberals believe the liberal, facts be damned. I go with the facts wherever they lead<\/strong><\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I also said recently that if five of Obama\u2019s top aides disavowed alleged statements about them in the book about Obama, that I would have the exact same opinion. Before I was simply noting that it is (broadly considered) \u201cfair\u201d if a journalist is critical of someone in his own political group. Liberals act as if it is the most amazing, surprising, implausible thing in the world: the notion that a liberal journalist may have destroyed his own credibility. They\u2019ve never heard of Dan Rather? Brian Williams was suspended for six months without pay, for lying about a helicopter that he was on in Iraq in 2003<\/a> being supposedly hit by enemy fire and forced down.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Now we have the NBC scandal, involving trying to cover up the Weinstein story. Likewise, Woodward has decided to lower himself to National Enquirer<\/em>\u2013 \/ Omarosa-type gossipy undocumented trash: at least in the instances where the people \u201cquoted\u201d have vehemently denied that they said these things. It\u2019s sad. I don\u2019t rejoice about it; because I have liked Woodward. But this is what liberalism has become these days, and I suppose the temptation was just too great for him to avoid it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s that because Woodward has won Pulitzer Prizes, therefore, he couldn\u2019t possibly have lied in his new book. So I gave the counter-examples of Dan Rather and Brian Williams, and mentioned that NBC is currently in a huge scandal over covering-up Weinstein. In other words, nothing new: \u201creputable\u201d liberal newsmen soiling themselves and losing credibility.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I follow facts and I actually change my mind, such as regarding waterboarding (2015: from neutral \/ agnostic, to thinking it is an abuse and ought not be done) and capital punishment (this year: from terrorists and mass murders only, to none at all).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve been defending Pope Francis for five years (so much so that Karl Keating\u2019s recent book about these controversies cited me about 99 times). But I\u2019m already on record stating that if he is negligent in sexual abuse matters, that he should resign for the good of the Church. My record speaks for itself. It\u2019s certainly documented in my billions of words online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Evidence of media bias has been evident for at least 35 years, with consistent reports in studies showing that mainstream media (like much of academia as well) is 90+% liberal \/ Democrat in allegiance. No sane, sentient creature could possibly deny this, if they are at all familiar with all the studies. Here is a recent one from Harvard<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Note that Fox News had 52% negative coverage if Trump and 48% positive: precisely as they claim: \u201cfair and balanced.\u201d That\u2019s why I watch them, since I want to hear both sides and they provide it. Their bias (which everyone has) is conservative, but a lot less blatantly so than the liberal networks\u2019 liberal bias. Ask the typical liberal what Fox News\u2019 bias when covering Trump is, and I guarantee that they would think \u201c80-90%\u201d in his favor. The actual documented figure is 48%: not even above 50%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The interesting thing now will be to watch where the media and Trump-bashers (and more extreme Trump-haters) go next. It seems like we\u2019ve heard every imaginable charge so far. What\u2019s left<\/em>? He murdered someone back in 1992? Tried to blow up federal buildings? (oh no: that was Obama\u2019s friend Bill Ayers). Maybe he\u2019s a closet atheist? Or a secret ISIS recruit? An alien from another galaxy? An evil robot? It\u2019s truly hard to imagine. The critics have exhausted their whopper-bombs.<\/p>\n

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Related Reading<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Streep Stupidity (Enduring Forced\u00a0Non Sequitur<\/em>\u00a0Lectures) \/ The Media Whopper-Lie That Trump Mocked a Reporter\u2019s Disability<\/a>\u00a0[Facebook, 1-12-17]<\/div>\n
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Documentation of Outrageous Media Bias in Reporting that President Trump Supposedly is Going After the Constitution and Particularly Checks and Balances<\/a>\u00a0[Facebook, 5-1-17]<\/div>\n
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Journalism is Dead \/ Dialogue is Dead (RIP)<\/a>\u00a0[6-19-18]<\/p>\n

Discussion on Pervasive Liberal Media Bias<\/a>\u00a0[Facebook, 7-25-18]<\/p>\n

Biblical and Apostolic Condemnation of the Left-Wing Media\u2019s Fanatical Frenzy of Hatred and Lying Against President Trump as Literally a Madman (Joined by Many Never-Trumper Christians)<\/a>\u00a0[Facebook, 9-6-18]<\/p>\n

Political Polarization and Demonization: Reflections<\/a>\u00a0[11-1-18]<\/p>\n

Old Liberal Moral Causes (The Post<\/em>) vs. Tabloid Liberalism<\/a>\u00a0[11-16-18]<\/p>\n

Discussion on Whether the Mainstream Liberal Media Lost all Credibility After its Ridiculous Two-Year Fanatical Mania Over the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax<\/a>\u00a0[Facebook, 5-28-19]<\/p>\n

C. S. Lewis: Criticism of Theological & Political Liberalism<\/a>\u00a0[10-22-19]<\/p>\n

C. S. Lewis on Ubiquitous Media Bias & Incompetence (Some Things Never Change)<\/a>\u00a0[10-22-19]<\/p>\n

G. K. Chesterton on the Incompetence of Journalists<\/a>\u00a0[11-26-19]<\/p>\n

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Photo credit:<\/strong> journalist, Christian apologist, and social critic G. K. Chesterton<\/span> [public domain]<\/p>\n

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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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