I have no obligation to be honest with the media because they are just as dishonest as anybody else.
So let's take a step back and take a look at where we are: It is okay to lie to the media. Corey feels no obligation to tell the truth. Think about the implications of what Lewandowski said:
1. His "obligation" to be honest is predicated on his perception of the media. He feels no personal obligation to be honest for the sake of being honest.
2. Do you believe the reason Lewandowski lied is because he thinks the media lied? Or is the reason that he simply did not want to tell the truth, because the truth would have made the President uncomfortable?
3. If Lewandowski feels that he has no obligation to tell the truth to the media, does he not understand that he is then lying to the American People? Does he not understand that lying to the media is lying to the American People? How do we trust any statement he makes to the media?
Again we return to Res Ipsa's tag line, which becomes more important as the thinking behind the Trump administration reveals itself:
Helen Arendt wrote:The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
If someone would like to defend the idea that a person has no obligation to tell the truth when talking with the American People, I'm all ears...