In The Boston Globe

I'm not gonna get my hopes up too much, but this seems like good news - like maybe the Press Poodles are starting to understand a thing or two about how telling us a politician is lying to us (when that politician is fucking lying to us) - like maybe that's part of the media's job after all.  Hmm.

Boston Globe:

The immediate media response to the debate was to grant Mike Pence the victory, largely on style points. Kaine was “trying too hard,” wrote The Washington Post. The same paper’s Chris Cilizza called Pence the winner because he “repeatedly turned to the camera when he answered questions, making clear he understood that the real audience wasn’t in the room but watching on TV. The Indiana governor was calm, cool and collected throughout — a stark contrast to the fast-talking (and seemingly nervous) Kaine.”

Kaine interrupted too much and tried to say too much. Pence was folksy, down-to-earth, and used his previous experience as a radio show host to deftly deflect Kaine’s attack lines.

But there’s one major problem with this analysis: It ignores the fact that when Pence wasn’t misrepresenting the statements of his running mate, he told one lie after another.

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If journalists and pundits have one responsibility to the body politic it is to make clear that when a politician is lying, we call it a lie — not give them credit for lying with style.

Yay

No poodles here