There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018 [1]
The above quote was offensive enough even before we knew that Hannity had texted Mark Meadows 82 times. Hannity says that he’s not a news broadcaster. He hosts a show. F-You, Sean, your viewers see you as “the media” and someone bringing them the news, or you wouldn’t be paid eight figures a year. We know who Trump was talking about. Trump was referencing the media that wasn’t taking his side in everything, the media telling the truth.
Meanwhile, the adult president, the educated president, the president that cares about other people, and the one that actually does love this country said:
And at home, a poison is running through our democracy of all — all of this taking place with disinformation massively on the rise, where the truth is buried by lies and the lies live on as truth.
What’s clear — and I mean this from the bottom of my heart — that you, the free press, matter more than you ever did in the last century. No, I really mean it.
– Joe Biden, April 30th, 2022
And the Lincoln Project recognized the power of Biden’s remarks immediately. Because, at least with Joe Biden, when he says he means something from the bottom of his heart, he means it from the bottom of his heart:
Truth matters. pic.twitter.com/R7ZABq1S2Y [2]
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 1, 2022 [3]
Yes, truth does matter.
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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman