Thread by @mattsheffield

Kellyanne Conway just blamed the Biden administration for Donald Trump getting impeached.

This isn't her being stupid though, rather it's her being willing to say literally anything (true or otherwise). She and others in GOP elites were doing this long before Trump.

As a coda, I have to say that it's been so unfortunate seeing Harris Faulkner deliberately change her views and style to appeal to the Fox audience. She was a normal and credible anchor for years but seems to have decided to give the Fox fans the GOP bias they crave.

Sorry, had to run an unexpected errand. Back now to turn this into a thread. Kellyanne Conway's willingness to constantly and shamelessly lie about anything is why she's banned by most TV news operations.

Fox News loves having her on though, because their hosts act the same way

The GOP base isn't shy about telling you what it thinks, it says what it believes. Ditto for lower-level ideological activists.

But Republican elites operate in a constant state of deceit. Seeing this was one of the last straws for me in leaving the right.

GOP elites never tell the truth, except to their closest confidants. This was finally put on display today by Liz Cheney who read off Fox hosts begging Trump to call his mob off on 1/6.

That same night, they lied &blamed antifa. They knew it was Trumpers.

Ingraham: "The president needs to tell ppl in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy."

Hannity: "Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave Capitol."

Fox & Friends cohost: "Please get him on TV. Destroying eveying u have accomplished."

That night, Laura Ingraham lied to her viewers about who did the Capitol attack.

Right after she begged Trump to tell his thugs to go home, Ingraham pretended that the event couldn't have been done by Trump acolytes, as @mmfa reported. mediamatters.org/fox-news/laura…

Sunday political shows are desperate to find Republicans who won't obsessively repeat Trump's total lies about losing in 2020.

Every week, engage in the same act. Search for a "reasonable Republican," only to have it blow up in their faces as the pol fears to admit Trump lost.

Every single one of these GOP pols knows Trump lost in 2020, after being the most unpopular president in the history of polling. It's obvious that he lost.

But they won't admit it because 1) It's the perfect tool to whip up the crazed base, and 2) They fear others who wield it

Every competent political reporter in DC also knows the above two points.

But they are afraid to accurately report them, because their bosses fear the loss of ad dollars, traffic, or access from snowflake Republicans who demand to be lied to bc they cannot handle reality.

Lying about everything is core to the American right-wing brand. That's why I predicted in 10/2015 that Trump would become the GOP nominee while conventional pundits thought that would never happen.

(Lots of people saw this also, kudos if you saw it at the time!)

Ever since Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species," the American far right has been in a deceptive war with reality. It's time to admit this and deal with it. Especially if you work in big-time media.

Stop protecting deceivers and coddling the delusional. /end