A Pre-Debate Question of the Day

Does it matter anymore whether a candidate lies openly, since the media isn't concerned with a candidate's honesty? Charles P. Pierce has this to say about it:

"Far too many people in this business have accepted the Etch-A-Sketch argument to the point at which whether something is true or not is measured by its effectiveness as a tactic. 'He had to run to the right in the primaries and then 'pivot' to the center in the general' — that's something that makes the political wiseguys look smart, but, taken literally, it means that the entire election process in the world's oldest self-governing republic is a contest to find out who can most smoothly move from one set of lies to another, and it is also a recipe for depriving the people who ultimately will make that decision of the kind of information they need to do so."

We're at a tipping point in more ways than one. The most dishonest candidate in modern times is close to winning the election from the incumbent, and the Beltway media is focused on body language and tactics. Shame on them, and on us for not demanding better.