So It Begins, the making of sense.

Here's the problem: the news media is not giving us valid information on a reliable basis. Now there are several interpretations of this. The right wing regards the misinformation as a leftist conspiracy. Unfortunately what they seem to consider factual bears little or no resemblance to the facts.

That is an opinion I have expressed. I have not given you any facts to back that up. That is what I call not making sense. It is an abstract attack having no validity whatsoever as a legitimate argument. In order to be making sense I would need to give you the reasons why I said that.

If you agree with me you would say, "He's telling the truth!" If you are one of those right wingers I can't even begin to imagine what you would say or what you might call me. But it wouldn't be good.

This is what I am going to be blogging about: the vast body of unproven opinions that dominate our political dialogue. In fact the very expression, "political dialogue" has come to be what we would call a body of bullshit.

I am going to try to give specific examples of the illogic that pervades the media. Donald Trump will certainly be one of the stars as he manipulates the inability of reporters to see through the rhetoric into the essential truth.

One quick example: Trump stated that he was going to deport 11 million illegal immigrants. He said that literally hundreds of times. Now he has backed away from that absolute statement. The media is asking what they seem to think are intelligent questions about what this means. They listen to a run around as Trump and his spokespeople explain that he has not actually changed, that he is clarifying. Reporters need to clearly and unequivocally call, "Bullshit", on the twisted logic of saying that he's evolving deeper levels of the same idea. Not deporting 11 million people is a blatant contradiction of deporting 11 million people. It's not a clarification of a concept. It's not an evolution of an idea. It's simply a complete change and the media need to call him on that.

Well, all for now. Talk to you again soon.