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 America has just lived through another presidential campaign week dominated by Donald Trump’s racist lies. Politicians targeting minorities, foreigners or women have always existed in the culture. I don’t know.” 
 
 — Donald Trump, campaign rally, Keene, N.H., Sept, 30, 2015 
 
 “So when I heard 10,000 and 3,000, a number, you know, from one of you — I’d say all right. And now I hear we want to take in 200,000 Syrians, right? This could be the — it’s probably not, but it could be the great Trojan horse of all time, where they come in.” 
 
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 Here’s Joseph McCarthy in 1950: “Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. And I’m saying we’re going to take in 200,000 people that we have no idea where they come from?” 
 
 — Trump, interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Oct. 4 
 
 Like a broken record, businessman Donald J. Trump keeps repeating a statistic with little basis in fact — that the Obama administration wants to accept 200,000 refugees from Syria. Instead, as Mr. Trump stays at the top of the Republican field, it’s become a full-time job just running down falsehoods like the phony crime statistics he tweeted, which came from a white supremacist group. John Kasich, have spoken out against some of Mr. Trump’s more outlandish comments. History teaches that failing to hold a demagogue to account is a dangerous act. It’s no easy task for journalists to interrupt Mr. Trump with the facts, but it’s an important one.
– This may not displease Donald Trump, but he has most definitely drawn the ire of two media establishment heavyweights over recent comments on three issues in particular—his claim that big crowds were cheering the 9/11 attacks in New Jersey, that President Obama plans to bring in at least 200,000 Syrian refugees, and that African Americans are behind most white homicides. All are lies, say the newspapers, and both back up their use of that word. A sample of their scathing editorials: Washington Post: "The growing ugliness of Donald Trump's campaign poses a challenge to us all," write the editors. Trump is deliberately spreading lies and appealing "to the basest instincts in supporters," as "narcissistic bullies" always do. It's time for the virtual silence from his fellow candidates and GOP leaders to end. "The only way to beat a bully is to stand up to him." Full editorial is here. New York Times: The editorial draws comparisons between Trump's "racist lies" to statements uttered by the likes of Joseph McCarthy and George Wallace. "His right to spew nonsense is protected by the Constitution, but the public doesn’t need to swallow it," write the editors. "History teaches that failing to hold a demagogue to account is a dangerous act. It’s no easy task for journalists to interrupt Mr. Trump with the facts, but it’s an important one." Full editorial is here.