Dig deeper, possible downgrade being decided

parkcobound wrote: it is entirely possible the press might not hound him so much if he didn't lie all the time. I believe there is even a web site now that tracks his lies because he says so many. If he wanted the 60% approval rating maybe he should not spout off with the ridiculous, easily refutable lies. Add to that his nasty name calling rhetoric and yea, the press are on him.

Go dig through the news from any former president though since the technology age began - he is not the first that has been hounded not even close - but he really does dig his own hole.

And I'm not even going to get started on the fallacy of the "booming economy" again. Trump wants everyone to believe it's great. Some of us know better.

Maybe it is bad for you, but my nest egg has doubled since President Trump was elected and it is actually close to tripling now. Amazing growth for only two years.

There is no doubt - he is a good con man. But life is not about the money.

You are right Hilfarmer, in the words of my long deceased partner Money isn't everything, health is 2 %.
Thank God that the WaPo fact checked height of the Big Macs. Now they can fact check, "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

So you are maintaining that he does not lie and therefore there is no reason for anyone to fact check? Certainly I will agree that the ridiculous stuff is ridiculous and I don't know why he feels the need to try to exaggerate everything in the first place. My point is that if he did not troll out the ridiculous stuff - along with the outlandish, as well as incorrect pertinent facts, there would not be entire web sites dedicated to fact checking him. Go back and dig through old articles - he is not the first president to be subject to people fact checking what he says - but he is, as far as I can tell, the first one to almost daily misstate the facts and; he has basically dug his own hole in doing so.

Please. Measuring burger sizes on a jokey statement just proves how biased the media is. They devoted more time to that than when President Obama lied about that you can keep your insurance plan. The media need to look inward and decide if they are going to report impartially or if they are going to be advocates and refuse to tell both sides like the Indian-student incident near the Lincoln Memorial this week. The older I get, the more I realize the world isn't as black and white as it can look, lots of different shades of grey.

FredHayek wrote: Please. Measuring burger sizes on a jokey statement just proves how biased the media is. They devoted more time to that than when President Obama lied about that you can keep your insurance plan. The media need to look inward and decide if they are going to report impartially or if they are going to be advocates and refuse to tell both sides like the Indian-student incident near the Lincoln Memorial this week. The older I get, the more I realize the world isn't as black and white as it can look, lots of different shades of grey.

In part I agree with you, HOWEVER, I would rather not be a mushroom and live in the dark.

Sourcing MULTIPLE media outlets and then making an educated assessment of TRUTH is
what the goal should be. STRATFOR is one of those sources.