June 19, 2016 --

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chatted with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” program, June 5. Mr. Stephanopoulos invited Ms. Clinton to bork Donald J. Trump, and she did so, enthusiastically. Mr. Stephanopoulos did not, however, inquire of Ms. Clinton as to her qualifications to charge that Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president. He did ask if she was suggesting that Trump is “mentally unstable.” No , Ms. Clinton replied, “he’s temperamentally unfit.”

LPR is reminded of the elderly sisters who, in the movie “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” told the judge at the sanity hearing for Longfellow Deeds , testified that Deeds was “pixilated.”

Where, for LPR, Mr. Stephanopoulos went way overboard was when, interviewing Republican Senator Bob Corker, he told the senator that Ms. Clinton “made her case” against Trump.

For Mr. Stephanopoulos, and for John Dickerson (Face the Nation) and Chuck Todd (Meet the Press), reality is what their favored candidates say it is. If we had truth in Sunday morning TV talk program, Mr. Dickerso would be host of Face the Left, Todd, of Meet the Left, and Stephanopoulos, of This Week with the Left.

By the way, the June 5 This Week transcript, as LPR read it, never identified Stephanopoulos as a senior aide to President Bill Clinton.

The accusation that Donald J. Trump is “temperamentally unfit” to be president suggests to LPR that dissent, with Hillary Clinton as president, will be regarded as a mental disorder, with dissidents sent to mental institutions, as was the practice in the former Soviet Union.