Excerpted from "935 LIES: The Future Of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity"
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2017/02/sunday-morning-party-line_13.html
In other words, it was eight years during which the media (which was now rotten from top to bottom with former Bush Administration speech writers, toadies and water boys) let the Right get away with more and more brazen lies and openly treasonous behaviors while ever more aggressively marginalizing the dirty Liberals who were warning (just as they had in 1994 and 2000 and 2004) that letting Republicans lie with impunity about the disasters they were creating and the conspiracies they were concocting and the scapegoats and straw-men they were inventing would lead to disaster.
Which bring us back to the here-and-now:
Just read the whole thing.