But the biggest problem with this century are the lies. The media outlets no longer are content with telling just one side of a story. No, now they make things up and report on imaginary facts. The Russian election interference hoax was used to discredit the 2016 election. The insurrection hoax was used to discredit legitimate concerns about the 2020 election and to throw shade on the 2024 election.
Democrats in Colorado and Maine are pretending there was an insurrection to invoke the 14th Amendment ban on Confederates seeking federal office — congressman, senator and elector in the Electoral College — to ban Trump from the presidential ballot.
Rather than mock these loons by pointing out the fact that he was never charged or convicted of insurrection, the media promotes this idiocy.
AP reported, “Congress did remove that disability from most Confederates in 1872, and the provision fell into disuse. But it was rediscovered after January 6.”
How could Congress magically remove a section of the Constitution without ratification by three-fourths of the states? AP does not say. Instead it says the ban magically “doesn't require a criminal conviction to take effect.”
Says who?
The story does not say. In fact, the story quotes no one on anything. There are no citations with the exception of quoting the Constitution. The story pretends to give both sides to the legal argument without bothering to talk to any of the lawyers. It is the weirdest thing that I have seen in journalism.
Which means it totally fits in the 21st century.