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BUMP!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Thank you.

As you know I have long thought that civil action should, nay must, be brought against “the media.” And the question is, “Who will bell the cat?” Who can and will face the heat “the media” will bring down on anyone who dares be the plaintiff? Sure would love to could get a base for launching such a suit.

And last nite it came to me that some state government - the redder the state, the better - should do it. Launching from a red state would give you a favorable jury pool. And the whole point is to get a jury to give us a fair hearing - and therefore, by our lights, to find for us - on the facts.

What we actually want is to obliterate Joe Biden’s posited distinction between “truth” - his truth, and AOC’s truth - and facts. If there is such a thing as libel there is such a thing as truth indistinguishable from fact.

“My truth” and “your truth” is sophistry. Philosophy rejects any such dichotomy. IMHO.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

From my #51:

the self-serving propaganda campaign to the effect that “journalists are objective” . . . is fatuous and incorrect, in that objectivity is a (laudable) goal but not a state of being. Trying to be objective is hard work, and knowing that you are objective is impossible. ^{In that sense it pretty much implies that the claimant does not take the discipline of trying to be objective at all seriously. It seems that whatever effort they make towards assuring objectivity is strictly pro forma.} Whether or not you belong ^{And belonging} to a mutual admiration society claiming objectivity for you ^{does not change the fact that no one can be sure of his/her own objectivity - let alone be able to prove it.}