There was a time when, if a president delivered a speech that was so packed with lies that it was instantly, and conclusively, contradicted into oblivion by fact-checkers that the speech might be seen as a failure.
There have been moments in our history when, if a president was seen to be so self-serving and committed to trying to deceive the American people that most major television networks saw his speech as meaningless propaganda and did not carry it, that the speech might be seen as a failure.
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