Lies, etc.

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them was a seminal book by Al Franken published in 2003 in the aftermath of the blizzard of falsehoods spewed by the Bush administration in the run up to the Iraq War and the WMD fiasco.  The subtitle of the book, "A Fair and Balanced look at the Right"  earned a Faux News lawsuit which actually boosted book sales for Franken as he literally laughed the suit out of court.   The latest iteration of the GOP in Congress and the administration has taken the Franken premise to new heights.  Rather than fudge statistics or slant the news in a favorable way, Trump and his sycophants in Congress have told demonstrably untrue lies flagrantly and continuously.  They have basically overwhelmed the media's fact checkers and turned the news into a guessing game as to its veracity.  The authoritarian mindset of the republican base is prepared to accept anything said by the Trumpsters at face value.  Knowing this, frees administration and congressional spokesmen to make up their own version of facts and use the wingnut talking heads who regularly appear on mainstream media platforms to validate these fantasies.   I'm sure Senator Franken would love to do an update of his classic, but the footnotes would probably overwhelm the text.