would you tell them. i think we moved into a different moment. what i found when i was covering iowa in 2007, 2008. all the voters had heard this stuff. whether it was on the internet or talk radio. we were being to squeamish to refer to. this seems totally insane and here s a bunch of reasons to think it s insane but i m not going to do the clean hands thing of saying i won t touch it. that was appropriate with the muslim stuff, when donald trump started talking about the birth certificate but the media did not say we are going to cut that portion of what he said. here s all the reasons it s nonsense but we will restate the claim. it s not an exact parallel but we are living in this world b where there s tons of unverified information and we have to figure out ways to help our audience navigate and reckon with that. rather then just to ignore it.