Samantha Bee Shreds The Pernicious Media Philosophy Of False Equivalency

The woman who should have been given The Daily Show says, “Calling a liar a liar isn’t an opinion if you can prove it. That’s what we call a fact. The idea that news network executives traded their balls for ratings — that’s just my opinion.” Watch both segments.

 

Bee: “Maintaining the image of fairness requires them to portray Hillary and Trump as equally flawed candidates even though they know that’s incorrect. On the one hand, you have the most breathtakingly unqualified ignoramus to ever heave his spray-tanned balls within striking distance of elected office. A race-baiting bully who, according to two meticulously researched biographies, is a tax-cheating, investor-swindling, worker-shafting, dictator-loving, pathologically lying, attorneys general bribing, philandering, mobbed up, narcissistic serial con artist who hasn’t got the attention span to read a fortune cookie, much less a fucking intelligence briefing. While, on the other hand, Hillary Clinton used a private email server. See? Perfectly even.” Laura Bradley@Vanity Fair (9/13/16)

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