You do not need to know if this would be the path the Media would take. All you have to do is realize they would go somewhere and just give themselves enough room to hang themselves.
Everybody uses hyperbole during their life and their conversations. Only conservatives and Christians are castigated viciously for anything they use hyperbole on, because then it is obvious they are lying.
“Everybody uses hyperbole during their life and their conversations.”
Exactly.