Sometimes one side vomits a clusterfuck of absolute lies which should be called out as such.

Called out at most, and then dropped from discussion, not brought up endlessly as though, "oh, maybe there's something to this after all." It's like Rick Perlstein said in that op-ed -- you didn't see Walter Cronkite "debunking" the theory that President Kennedy was building concentration camps for right-wing dissenters. It was ludicrous, fantastical nonsense, not news, and so it wasn't even worth a passing mention. How have we gotten stupider in the past 40 years?