They undermine their own case with the example of Hillsborough, and a national newspaper slandering basically a whole city in the worst possible terms, stuff that would make Trump blush and getting away with it, just to avoid responsibility for causing a tragedy. And how technology, in that case would make sure the truth got out, as we see with multiple examples of poorly trained cops being caught on camera.

Though now I think of it, there's still the birther/truther/sandy hook hoax element where facts really don't matter. You'd hope they were really out on the fringe, but since one of them is running for president, I guess not.