Donald Trump says the media is dishonest in their reporting on him. Matt Taibbi says the media has rolled over for Trump because he's good for business and it's making America stupider.
And speaking of stupid, a lot of people sure seem to think Barack Obama was the president who screwed up on Hurricane Katrina. I get the feeling that some of them, once informed of their error, don't care if their stated reasons are true of not.
Jonathan Chait says we should brace ourselves for an avalanche of lies, the main one being that the economy is in desperate need of lower taxes on really, really rich people.
Matt Yglesias on how all this talk of "simplifying" your taxes is smoke and mirrors. No matter what else they may say about their goals, the point of every Republican-backed tax plan or proposal is to lower taxes on really, really rich people. Ain't we got fun?