> when Rightist positions conflict with reality This election proved liberal bias in the mainstream media. They did not see this election result coming, and th

> when Rightist positions conflict with reality This election proved liberal bias in the mainstream media. They did not see this election result coming, and they admit it. This is not just the polls, it is the articles, the choice of front-page stories, when to release feature stories, what headlines to use, etc. They know that all their friends are liberal. All their staff is liberal. The NYT Editorial Board is all liberal, and have pretty much always endorsed a liberal candidate. This new thing of "fact-checking" is terrible. Fact-checkers rely on making assumptions. There is a ton of judgement calls made in evaluating something. They are just another source of journalism. They are not an arbiter on truth. They change between the literal meaning and the metaphorical meaning depending on what suits their agenda. If they stuck to the exact words and dictionary definitions for all, then this would be consistent, and would be better. But then they also get to choose which "facts" to evaluate. "Trump has lied X more times than Hillary according to fact checkers" was a very common retort from Dems - but is utterly meaningless. :)