As close as I’m getting to an election post
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
— Abraham Lincoln
He may have suspended habeas corpus, but he sure had a way with words.
The issue, as I see it, is that the people aren’t getting ‘the real facts.’ What they’re being given is presented as truth and as such they take it. I’m a firm disbeliever in the whole ‘liberal media’ nonsense, but I do wholeheartedly believe that we as a nation are being done a disservice by neutered journalism.
Which is, I suppose, where the beer comes in.