The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our media, But in ourselves, that we are fakenewsed. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/upshot/biased-news-media-or-biased-readers-an-experiment-on-trust.html …
But the proposition “we must respect due process” does not become less true simply because someone who currently benefits from it is bringing it up. We are not judging the trustworthiness of the speaker here but the statement, which can be somewhat independently assessed.
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Since there is very little truth at all in politics, its truth is indeed (vacuously) unaltered. It's the idea that statements (esp. moral and political ones) can be assessed independently from the source that I find dubious. Like a base-rate fallacy, almost.
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*shrug* Thar be nihilism I prefer to give truth a chance
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