The new meme that gives you a get out of jail free card from debating any topic on its merits.
Beyond stupid. It's second only to dissing sources.
Either way both are used as an escape from exercising your ability to articulate an argument for an opposing position.
It was amusing for awhile but too many are using it as an excuse for a lack of debate now.
I agree - it's being thrown out a lot now as opposed debating it.
Here's the thing about fake news - real fake news, not just news you happen to disagree with. What sort of position should you articulate when it's clearly fake beyond showing that it's fake? It takes time and energy to articulate a position. So why waste on something like "Trump takes victory tour to Red Square"? People no longer seem to be checking sources for accuracy - they see it, they believe it because it fits their particular view, and they throw it into the arena and expect everyone to debate it. Sometimes I just wonder if it's worth it.
Why should we waste time debating leftwing fake news? Their sources have all discredited themselves. Nothing they publish can be believed. That's the bottom line.
Agreed! Tell us which reporter got caught helping any Republican! This is why, like it or not, the left no longer has sources that any REASONABLE person would believe. They keep getting busted attempting to help liberals because most reporters ARE liberals.
The left and the MSM has done this to themselves, we have not done it to them. The MSM has managed to destroy their own credibility, and with it anything the left says that is linked to their sources.
I would like the left to consider this, and I am being 100% honest-----------------> If Mcain had gotten elected in 2008 and this dossier story would have dropped out of a respected MSM outlet, Mcain's whole administration would have been in trouble, and virtually EVERY conservative Republican on this site would have been in deep despair.
Why?
Because no matter how much BIAS the MSM had, they, and you, were still credible. Fast forward to today! Know what, we are LAUGHING at all of you because we know that the odds almost always better than 50-50, you people are making it up! We seen the leaked e-mails, we know how far reporters will go to push their agenda. And, if the MSM outlets wanted to even TRY and reestablish their credibility, the reporters in question would have been FIRED for ethics violations! How many were? 1? 2? Or was it none!
Nah, you people used to talk in circles every time we said how biased the media was. Prove it you would smugly say. Remember! Well, now the shoe is on the other foot; you have to prove in our opinion, that you are NOT bias. Good luck with that-)