Joe Biden may have stumbled in the face of Donald Trump’s torrent of falsehoods last week, explains CBS News’ John Dickerson, but which is worse, a liar or a fragile truthteller? This is the false choice many in political media have come up with to help mitigate the fallout from the president’s historically disastrous debate performance.

Trump lied. And, yes, Biden stumbled — and blatantly and repeatedly lied. ...

These are lies about defining issues of Biden’s presidency. Inflation. The border. Foreign policy. We also shouldn’t forget that Biden would be impelled to lie a lot more if he were regularly asked tough questions.