Tom Hanks: ‘Fake News’ Goes Back to the Election Between Adams and Jefferson

RUSH EXCERPT:
HANKS: "Alas, there has always been fake news, there has always been alternative facts. The danger lies in someone hiding behind that truth, as opposed to exposing them. You go back and study the first true contested election in the United States of America, between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, after Adams' first term. That was probably the first time really there was fake newspapers. There were editors that put out absolute blatant lies. I think the danger is there, in which someone says, because there is fake news-- I wonder who we're talking about right now, by the way-- because there is fake news, you cannot believe anything. It is the death of truth. No, no, the hard work then is discerning what that truth is, the important work of democracy and liberty and our republic comes in to determine what is the truth. But hasn't truth always been this incredibly illusive quality that people either pursue or obfuscate?"