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A pro-criminal “reform” agenda cannot win public support if presented honestly.\u00a0 That’s the reason its advocates more or less continuously lie.\u00a0 Their marquee lie (or perhaps I should be charitable and call it merely an article of voodoo-like faith), is that the problem is the behavior of the system rather than the behavior of the criminal.\u00a0 Their second most important lie (and this is nobody’s mere article of faith) is that the sober measures we implemented in the Eighties and Nineties\u00a0 —\u00a0 more police, more proactive policing, more incarceration and more law-driven sentencing\u00a0 —\u00a0 had little or nothing to do with the enormous drop in crime that began after they took hold.\u00a0 The audacity and belligerence of this lie has been something to behold.<\/p>\n

As Mike reminds us<\/a>, the Left is now engaged in rampant lying about the scope and nature of the riots they pretend not to want.\u00a0 But Mike is not the only one to notice; Bill Barr has noticed, too.<\/p>\n

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The reporters at TownHall tell us:<\/p>\n

Wrapping up a three-day tour in Chicago, Phoenix and Cleveland [last] Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr took on the media during an exclusive interview with Townhall.<\/p>\n

“They’re basically a collection of liars. Most of the mainstream media. They’re a collection of liars and they know exactly what they’re doing. A perfect example of that were the riots. Right on the street it was clear as day what was going on, anyone observing it, reporters observing it, it could not have escaped their attention that this was orchestrated violence by a hardened group of street fighting radicals and they kept on excluding from their coverage all the video of this and reporting otherwise and they were doing that for partisan reasons, and they were lying to the American people. It wasn’t until they were caught red-handed after essentially weeks of this lie that they even started feeling less timid,” Barr said on the flight back to Washington Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

“The press has dropped, in my view – and I’m talking about the national mainstream media – has dropped any pretense of professional objectivity and are political actors, highly partisan who try to shape what they’re reporting to achieve a political purpose and support a political narrative that has nothing to do with the truth. They’re very mendacious about it,” he continued. “It’s very destructive to our Republic; it’s very destructive to the Democratic system to have that, especially being so monolithic. It’s contributing to a lot of the intensity and partisanship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The entire article is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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