McCain warns of growing inability to 'separate truth from lies'



BY MARK HENSCH - 02/17/17 02:23 PM EST  46

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday said the line between fact and fiction is growing increasingly blurred.

“What would von Kleist’s generation say if they saw our world today?” he asked at the Munich Security Conference, referencing Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, a member of the 1944 plot to assassinate Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

"They would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism," McCain said. "They would be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see toward immigrants, and refugees, and minority groups, especially Muslims.


"They would be alarmed by the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth from lies. They would be alarmed that more and more of our fellow citizens seem to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticizing it as our moral equivalent.”

McCain then challenged listeners to recall that “we stand for truth against falsehood, freedom against tyranny, right against injustice, [and] hope against despair.”

“I am proud, unapologetic believer in the West, and I believe we must always, always stand up for it — for if we do not, who will?” the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee asked.

Von Kleist founded the Munich Security Conference in 1963 and was the oldest surviving member of the plot to kill Hitler before his death in 2013.

McCain’s remarks follow a Thursday press conference where President Trump hammered the media’s accuracy.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/320140-mccain-growing-inability-to-split-truth-lies

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