A question for the talking heads: is it really too much to ask that when someone you are

[Atticus]

interviewing says something that is EITHER a bald-faced LIE or an example of their amazing IGNORANCE you simply immediately ask them which it is?

"Are you lying to us or are you THAT ignorant?"

Rep. Miller-Meeks' recent statement that we've known for a year that "children don't spread covid" is just one example of when that question would have been cheered by thousands of viewers.



CE

[The Wielding Truth]

1. I've been saying this for years. When not corrected, the lies are propagated.

[Towlie]

2. Sounds good except that then they wouldn't come on the show.

 
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[dickthegrouch]

5. That's perfectly acceptable

They can’t spread the lies then either.

[progressoid]

3. Iowa newspaper gives her a "D" for her statement.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/105110846

But her claims about children not transmitting the virus are inaccurate. Kids can and do pass the virus, although at much lower rates than adults. If Miller-Meeks had qualified her statement even a little, saying children usually don’t transmit the virus, she’d be correct. But she didn’t. And she uses the claim as a reason for saying children don’t need to wear masks in school — a conclusion that contradicts new CDC recommendations.

Her statement that “elementary age students rarely die or are seriously ill” is true, which saves her overall grade from an F. Instead, we give her a D.

- The Gazette is Iowa’s independent, employee-owned source for local, state, and national news coverage.

[underpants]

4. I'd like to actually see this