Have we reached the point in this country where the truth no longer matters?  When it comes to Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, it looks that way.  You can’t blame him, though.  If you know the media will praise whatever you say, and will ignore, subvert, or discredit any inconvenient truths that may contradict your words, why would any politician ever tell the truth.  The truth is too confusing.  It contradicts with your stories, and with your agenda.  I gives credence to the notion that mere citizens actually have the right to know what’s really going on, and fosters the notion that mere citizens actually have the right to decide what kind of government they will have.  There was a time, not so very long ago, when I would have said of a politician, “He/she (or choose your own pronoun) won’t get away with that.  The public isn’t stupid enough to believe it.”  Now, I’m not so sure.  There used to be a firewall between the bald-faced liars of the government and the public.  The press, the media, the Fourth Estate, always was there to set the record straight.  The term Fourth Estate is attributed to British politician Edmund Burke.  In England, the three estates (powers) were the King, the clergy and the commoners.  In the United States, the press complemented the three branches of our government.  The purpose of this fourth element was to act as an counterbalance, an opposite force that was to report, verify and question matters of governance.  It was accepted that politicians couldn’t be expected to state the facts and uphold the truth without the coloration of political agendas, ideologies and opinions.  The Fourth Estate was to be different.  Its primary obligation was veritas.  It was the servant of the Truth.  We could rely on the press to serve its purpose.  We celebrated the independence of the press in our culture.  The reporter was revered as the guardian of the truth, always there to protect the citizenry from unscrupulous officials.  In Inherit the Wind, the reporter Hornbeck says, “Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”  And so it was.  The press reported the doings of the government, but made sure never to get too close to it, for fear that its corruption might rub off.  Remember, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence?  There, the reporter, Mr. Peabody, has this reaction to a proposal that he join the government, “No!  I … I’m a newspaperman, not a politician!  No, politicians are my meat – I build ’em up and I tear ’em down but I wouldn’t be one I couldn’t be one – it’d destroy me.”  And so it has.  For today, the Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column, whose purpose is to undermine our system of government in favor of a Utopian socialist workers’ paradise.  It’s madness, of course.  Only madmen/women/persons could zealously preach about imagined threats to their freedoms and independence, while at the same time ushering in a form of government that has hitorically destroyed press freedom and independence as its first official act.  Only a mass delusion can explain the mainstream media’s insistence on validating every lie uttered by Joe Biden and his Administration.  It can’t be Trump Derangement Syndrome.  They got rid of Trump.  The only explanation is that the media has concluded that the truth no longer matters.  Or, to put it another way, that the “truth” is what they say it is.  How else to ignore a President so steeped in personal corruption?  Witnesses come forth who attest to corrupt business deals.  His son’s laptop is full of images and messages admitting kickbacks to “the Big Guy.”  The media say it’s not true, it’s unproven.  It could be a Russian plot.  After his election, Joe Biden made a speech praising the “constant, unrelenting stream of immigration, not in little trickles but in large numbers,” that would change the demographic makeup of America.”  As President, he threw open the borders to a constant and unrelenting stream of illegal aliens, who will number more than 2 million by the end of 2021.  With a straight face, Biden tells us the border isn’t wide open, and the aliens aren’t really here.  DHS tells us the border is secure.  The media accepts this.  Biden tells us the military never warned him it was a bad idea to remove all troops from Afghanistan before getting civilians out.  This week, his generals swore they told him to keep troops in country, and Biden ignored them.  Biden’s stupidity cost the lives of 13 Marines, and permanently maimed dozens of others.  The media doesn’t talk about them.  It covers for these lies.  Inflation is significantly up for the first time in 40 years.  Food prices skyrocketing, the price of gas and oil up dramatically.  You know bad it is?  We had low inflation for so long that we had dollar stores, everything $1.  Now, the Dollar Tree has announced it’s raising prices.  It won’t change its name, just the prices.  Biden claims that runaway spending doesn’t affect inflation.  Economists will happy to learn this.  The media says nothing.  Right now, Democrats are trying to pass two bills that would add $6 to $7 trillion to the budget, destroy industries, greatly increase the tax burden on every American, severely damage our economy, give aid and comfort to our enemies, and usurp the election authority that our Constitution gives to the States.  Biden says that only the taxes of those making more than $400,000 will go up.  It’s a lie.  He says it really won’t cost anything, because it’s “paid for.”  I’m not even sure what that means, but I’m pretty sure it’s a lie, and a really stupid lie.  The media won’t call him out.  Senators Manchin and Sinema, so far, are standing in the way of passage of the $3.5 trillion (some say $5.5 trillion) ruinous bill.  They are being attacked by Joy Behar no less (and there is no less) as “enemies of democracy.”  No, Joy.  As the representatives of the voters who put them in office to carry out the will of the electorate, they are champions of democracy, not enemies.  The result of the media’s refusal to expose Joe Biden for the lying, cheating, thieving, senile crumb that he so clearly is, is that its credibility has been destroyed.  Nearly 3 out of 4 people don’t believe what’s being reported.  This is a healthy sign for our nation.  Maybe you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.  The media may have gone past the point of no return, and done itself permanent damage.  And for what?  To paraphrase Saint Thomas More, “It profits a newsman nothing to lose his soul for all the world, but for Joe Biden?”