Why do politicians get away with peddling porkies and 'alternative facts'?

You won't get away with presenting a hunch as fact at my place, so it's astonishing that so many politicians get away with it when the stakes are much higher.

Perhaps it's the relentless nature of the 24-hour news cycle that's left little time for political fact checking, or perhaps they're just a bit lazy.

Either way, some strange ideas about government and public policy are spreading and masquerading as fact when they are not.

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