Taking Carley to task

Editor, I sure got a chuckle out of Michael Carley’s Aug. 29 “A World without Facts” commentary. In it, Carley suggested “it has become clear that Republican politicians do lie more often than Democratic ones” and that President Trump lied six times more often in his first six months in office than President Obama did his whole time in office.

Aside from Carley’s tacit admission that President Obama and the Democrats are also liars, what makes the piece laughable is his reliance on the New York Times as a source, followed by his assertion that “limited evidence” supports the notion of the “supposed liberal bias of the media.”

The New York Times’ liberal bias is undeniable: it has not endorsed a Republican presidential candidate in over 60 years, numerous polls document that its readers recognize its left-wing bent and its “public editor” Daniel Okrent even admitted the bias in 2004.

Its left-wing hypocrisy was recently shown when it refused to fire an editor who made overtly racist statements because the statements were directed against white men.

The media’s openly anti-trump and anti-republican bias and even hatred are so obvious that Carley’s refusal to acknowledge them is cause for concern. After all, as a well-trained researcher, Carley is surely aware of the bias, which can only mean he is denying it in hopes of bolstering his questionable arguments.

Not only does this call his integrity into question, the irony is priceless; he lies and propagates fake news in a commentary which chastises Republicans for lying and propagating fake news.

Steve Silver Porterville