I was listening to LBC radio earlier today when the host – Matt Frei – who was doing a phone-in about the upcoming USA presidential elections – received a call from a chap who said (and I'm paraphrasing from here on in), “Trump didn't instigate the temporary imprisonment of children in cages at the USA border; that was done by Obama”. Frei immediately cut him off and said, “I lived in the USA during the Obama era and I can say categorically that Obama didn't instigate the imprisonment of children in cages. That statement is false.”
Of course, Frei – having cut off the caller in question – didn't give him the right of reply so Frei's statement stood as a 'fact' according to him and by extension, LBC.
Unfortunately, facts don't care about people's opinions and Frei was dead wrong. Even the left-leaning “Snopes” website admits that it was the Obama administration that installed and used the cages:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-build-cages-immigrants/
So my question is thus: Why are people in the mainstream media so quick to cover Obama's backside – even resorting to flat-out lies in an effort to protect him from criticism – when they hysterically decry falsehoods emanating from Trump?