We are so accustomed to reporters staying quiet and allowing politicians to lie, that when a reporter points out a lying politician, it makes news.
Take Mitch McConnell for example. On Sunday, the Republican leader of the Senate went on television and lied to the American people, as he has done too many times. He expected to continue his lies without interruption, but John Dickerson on Face The Nation had truth on his side and he wasn’t afraid to use it.
The video shows McConnell trying to justify the unjustifiable – his decision to deny President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination pick. You remember Merrick Garland? McConnell refused to do his job and denied Garland a hearing… for a year!
So to explain his decision, McConnell talked about “history,” and how he followed precedent in refusing to have a hearing on a president’s nominee. But as you’d expect, the Republican had selective memory.
Watch what happened;
