Faux News

   The president's reliance on the Faux News network as an echo chamber for his propaganda is becoming more blatant daily. Meanwhile, other TV networks are refusing to carry some of his more virulent lies, including a 46-minute video he recorded, in which he again spouted his complaints.
   Also, during a campaign visit to Georgia supposedly in support of Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate in a runoff election scheduled for next month, major news networks carried only some of his remarks. The Faux News network, meanwhile, carried the entire speech live.
   Other news programs noted that many of his remarks were false, misleading or incomplete, and they provided examples. It's noteworthy, however, that traditional broadcast facilities increasingly use the term "flat-out lies" when referring to some of the president's comments.
   It didn't used to be that way. The L-word was so strong that traditional print and broadcast faculties did not use it. Now, however, the president's lies are so blatant and frequent that it's not possible to describe them as anything else.
   Meanwhile, he continues his diatribe that the election was rigged, his opponents cheated, and that really, he won. His lawsuits, however, are regularly dismissed for lack of evidence, and he continues to act as if he really will remain the current president of the United States.
   Expect him to formally announce his candidacy for the 2024 election at noon on January 20, the same hour that Joe Biden takes the oath of office as president.
   The saddest part is that so many Americans believe everything he says, despite clear evidence that he is not only mistaken, but that he lies.
   As for his claim that millions and millions of fake ballots were printed and distributed, and that's how the election was rigged, consider this: There are 50 states, the District of Columbia, 435 districts that elect members of the House of Representatives, all of whom face election every two years, one-third of all the senators, plus thousands of state, county and municipal candidates to be listed on separate ballots for each election district.
   So how many election districts are there in each state? How many in the entire nation? Is the president insisting that a single provider print separate ballots for each and every district? Or is he insisting that there is a single ballot for the entire country?
   If so, how long would each ballot be?
   Reality check: Each district sets up its own ballot operation, some for printed ballots, some for machine balloting, and some with a combination.
  So the likelihood that a single source could print and provide ballots for each of the thousands of election districts in America is ...