Facts are indeed facts and I am not a fool. You often don't bother to cite facts, you often blurt out opinions with no backup and it makes you look foolish. I don't really think that you are a fool and it puzzles me when you do that. I do think you make assumptions and form opinions (or at least state them here) based upon those assumptions and I think that is foolish but even smart people do and say stupid things sometimes.

I don't doubt that the administration manipulates and distorts information for political reasons. That is nothing new at all. Those who protest against such manipulation and distortion most often do the same thing themselves. It's the same game.