Friday, February 12, 2016

Patterico's Pontifications » Stop Applying a Different Standard to Donald Trump

Patterico's Pontifications » Stop Applying a Different Standard to Donald Trump: Journalists do not hold Donald Trump to the same standard as other candidates. When he makes grand, sweeping, and ridiculously unsupportable statements, they let it go — apparently thinking that the silly nature of the statements is self-evident. Maybe they are — to educated, intelligent, and informed people. But those aren’t the people still making up their minds about who should be President.

This idea that we apply a different standard to Trump is likely to be a running theme here. Today, let me start the discussion by showing you this video:

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