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At the vice presidential debate on Tuesday night, the CBS News moderators fact-checked J.D. Vance a single

time. Once. That was all it took to trigger Donald Trump and his MAGA allies who fanned out

and hammered CBS relentlessly for that enormous transgression. All this opens a window on a larger story, the degree to which Trump's campaign

is built on top of an immense superstructure of endless and shameless lies. Bullying the media into

not fact-checking Trump advance is essential to that larger project. Today we're talking about

all this with Jameson Fosier, who writes regularly about media

capitulation to the right wing on his substack, finding gravity.

Thanks for coming on, Jameson.

Thanks for having me, Greg.

So at the debate, J.D. Vance exaggerated wildly about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio,

an obsession of his, suggesting

that they're here illegally. CBS's moderator pointed out that they're actually here legally

on temporary protected status. Vance objected saying, hey, the rules were that you're not

supposed to fact check. That triggered MAGA. Trump erupted on truth social. Other Republicans

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