On a related issue about bias online, I went to the online Webster dictionary to look up the definition of the old-time English insult ‘mountebank’ (frauds and swindlers) and here are the examples of usage provided. Bias against conservatives, indeed:
Examples of mountebank in a Sentence -
Recent Examples on the Web:
He was ignored on almost every major issue by the incredible cast of fools and mountebanks with whom the president* has surrounded himself. — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, “The Rex Tillerson Story Is Full of Holes,” 13 Mar. 2018
Laying it off on senior administration officials will no longer fly given the liars, hustlers, incompetents, poseurs and mountebanks who dominate this West Wing. — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, “Press gives Trump ‘fake news’ ammo when it predicts things that don’t come to pass,” 9 Mar. 2018
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Just Google “Neil Degrasse Tyson” and look at the parade of glowing coverage of this garbage scammer leftist idiot. There’s plenty of negative articles if you use other search engines.