I am not defending Putin, nor should that be your takeaway from my attempts to engage with you in good intellectual faith here.

I enjoy discussing the media and how it shapes our views.

Run the story when it is sourced and provable.

So, I just saw this one.

The human body is a marvelous mechanism.

Certainly you can construct your own rules of trust. We all have to decide what sources of information we are willing to expose ourselves to.

Please stay on this beat. Thanks.

Maybe he just conflated some stuff like Brian Williams, (or Hillary Clinton).

With the right essentially having their own media arm, the lack of critical thinking in schools, and the ossification of “socialism is bad” the spectre of socialism has largely disappeared as a counterbalance.

Think of all the people who beat the war drums for Bush, and how hard that train crashed.

heh-heh...“Left”

Biji, as you surely know I pound the drum about religion (Sky Fairy Concepts) and its seemingly inevitable, “and now we must kill each other” effects.

I hope he does have Liz Warren on, that would be fantastic.

The Intergalactic Freedom Tree needs watering.

That is good news.

I side eye anyone that brings up Rachel Maddow, so here we are.

For sure. I think the complaint is that the debates are set up to be like a reality TV show fight, and also just devolve into scripted talking points.

I didn’t even see Austin Powers lurking down there!

Good point.

What a fucked up system.