![]() ![]() On the one hand, not much of this is new. U NIDENTIFIED M ALE: I tell the truth, I tell the truth. A line from the transcript released by CNN reads: Honestly, there was so much loudmouthed soothsaying that it was hard to tell who was saying what. Cruz tried to break in, noting that Rubio had called him a liar, too. And not for nothing has he been called a big, fat Pinocchio with his pants on fire by the fact-checking teams at the Times, the Washington Post, and Politifact, whose careful reports apparently have little influence on the electorate, because, as a writer for Politico admitted, “Nobody but political fanatics pays much mind to them.” “You lied,” Marco Rubio said to Trump during the truth-for-tat February debate. Not for nothing has he been called the Human Lie Detector. Trump thinks a lot of people are liars, especially politicians (Jeb Bush: “Lying on campaign trail!”) and reporters (“Too bad dopey lies!”). Ted Cruz’s campaign autobiography is called “A Time for Truth.” “This guy’s a liar,” Donald Trump said at a recent G.O.P. Lynch sees threats to our capacity to reason. ![]()
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