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Mac McCall, in his editorial on March 1, says that he “values our culture, our goodness, the rule of law, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights”. He said he was “normally an optimist believing that good conquers evil but is worried about massive government corruption and dumb, self-serving, megalomaniacal politicians."

Who did he have in mind? Apparently not our President. The caption over the article was: “Can we trust the FBI, CIA, journalists”?

The caption may or may not have captured what Mac McCall wanted readers to take away from his editorial, but the question deserves a response.

There is a lot of great journalism and there is a lot of garbage disguised as journalism. Social media and the talking heads only add to the challenge of discerning truth from fiction and political spin from weaponized misinformation. Fact checking and research are simply a must in processing today’s “news” unless you are simply looking for words that please your pre-existing biases.

Obama did not as McCall claims illegally spy on the Trump campaign, James Comey was not fired for nefarious efforts to take down the President and if clear evidence were required for the appointment of a Special Council, we wouldn’t need one but rather an indictment.