WAPO: Few stand in Trump’s way as he piles up the Four-Pinocchio whoppers

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/few-stand-in-trumps-way-as-he-piles-up-the-four-pinocchio-whoppers/2016/05/07/8cf5e16a-12ff-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html

At the Fact Checker, we have often said we do not write fact checks to change the behavior of politicians. Fact checks are intended to inform voters and explain complicated issues.

Still, most politicians will drop a talking point if it gets labeled with Four Pinocchios by The Fact Checker or “Pants on Fire” by PolitiFact. No one wants to be tagged as a liar or misinformed, and we have found most politicians are interested in getting the facts straight. So the claim might be uttered once or twice, but then it gets quietly dropped or altered.

But the news media now faces the challenge of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Trump makes Four-Pinocchio statements over and over again, even though fact checkers have demonstrated them to be false. He appears to care little about the facts; his staff does not even bother to respond to fact-checking inquiries.

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Taco Don - if his mouth is open, he's lying.

[glowing]

1. So what? WaPo to republicans is a liberal source that is out to

smear and lie about republicans. His supporters
Could care less what WaPo thinks... And after the hit jobs they did on Sanders, their corporate opinions are more than telling, along with their inside the bubble think that is quite incestuous with money, pols, lobbyists, and "journalists".

[Gothmog]

2. Trump does not care about facts

[spanone]

3. 'astonishingly, television hosts rarely challenge Trump'

NO SHIT!

our media is DEAD.

[gratuitous]

4. Well, gee whiz!

You can't expect teevee hosts to have a bunch of facts right at hand that contradict whatever falls out of Trump's mouth at any given moment. They'd have to be some kind super-duper looking-stuff-up guys, and who's got the time? Some of those millionaire personalities barely have a dozen staff people!

[spanone]

5. i believe either of our candidates can beat trump....

not sure we can beat trump and the entirety of the media.....hope so