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What can we expect from the Left now?  The local Washington D.C. media is already interviewing government employees that are frightened they will lose their jobs under a second Trump administration.  Once the DOGE starts with cuts, the media will be trotting people out who will claim they can't pay their bills or are about to be homeless by losing their jobs.  Government employees who felt they were secure for life in their petty little positions will, for the first time, have to face the realities that everyday Americans do in regards to work.  Inside the beltway, there will be pity, but outside, in the rest of the country, no one will shed a tear.  This will be amplified when the media starts parading those impacted by deportations.  There are already cries that this will break up families.  Be prepared to see a staggering number of news stories alleging hardship and even brutality with deportations.

About the Supposedly Devastating Impact of that Supposed Transgender Ban in the American Military.  The news media is calmly warning that Donald Trump is planning to ban transgender servicemembers from the American military, which will absolutely gut the armed forces. [...] We'll practically have no military left!  It would be like a whole infantry division suddenly just vanishing:  15,000-plus transgendered service members.  You're going to see this number a lot in the weeks ahead.  The New Republic, today: "Donald Trump's plan to ban transgender people from the military would have a devastating effect:  At least 15,000 members would be forced to leave."  That number comes from a 2018 report by the now-defunct Palm Center, a pro-LGBT independent research institute in California, which reached this conclusion: "Transgender troops make up 0.7% (seven-tenths of one percent) of the military (Active Component and Selected Reserve)."  Their best guess about a total number: 14,707.  The media is just rounding that number up to the next thousand.  The Palm Center... extrapolated a lot, let's say, in good part by multiplying their guess about a percentage, derived from a grossly inadequate survey of a select number of active duty troops, times the total number of servicemembers.

An Electoral Awakening Worth Celebrating.  [Scroll down]  Since Biden's 2020 (s)election, Big Tech has actively censored Americans who highlight evidence of electoral fraud.  The propaganda press has labeled us "election deniers."  The DOJ, FBI, and too many partisan judges have treated J6 defendants worse than alleged murderers.  Protests for free and fair elections have been preposterously described as an "insurrection" worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and the Civil War.  The mix of rhetorical overkill and political persecution have had a salubrious effect: an increasing number of Americans now recognize that the federal government conspires with social media companies to censor Americans' speech in violation of the First Amendment and that the criminal justice system is filled with corrupt and evil actors.

Trump Derangement is the Stupidest Political Phenomenon of My Lifetime.  The dismal cabal of hysterical adult children that makes up the alleged American cultural "mainstream," the responsible people you see on television and in the op-ed pages — Anne Applebaum, Tom Nichols, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Joe Scarborough and his idiot wife, Jonathan Capehart, Max Boot, Jen Rubin, David French, Bill Kristol, Ruth Marcus, Nicolle Wallace, Dana Bash, and on and on, all of them completely interchangeable, one set of asinine talking points with a series of different faces sewn on the front — has spent the last year or ten descending into a urine-soaked psychotic tantrum.  They don't know anything, they don't understand anything, they don't say anything of value, they don't contribute anything, ever, and their voices are ubiquitous.  Living in this media environment is like living in a place where the air is made of manure.  They have absorbed no lesson.

The Media Isn't Terrified That 'the End of Democracy Is Nigh' — They're Terrified of Being Wrong.  A few days ago, I wrote a story about CBS reporting that FEMA had pulled back teams in North Carolina, partly because of an email from one park ranger claiming armed gangs of good old boys were out "a-huntin'" FEMA Feds.  Of course, there was no such thing.  Gangs of Appalachians' huntin' for Feds was about as likely as Jussie Smollett being attacked by two MAGA-hat-wearing thugs who happened to have a noose and a bottle of bleach at 2 a.m. in the middle of a Chicago snowstorm.  No sane person believed that sort of nonsense.  Well, Kamala Harris did, which gives us a hint into her critical thinking skills.  Kool-Aid-drinking Democrat cultists believe those stories because the priests of their religion have told them it's true.  Cultists never have to think — they just need to believe.  That's how cultists roll.  The congregation believes that, if elected, Trump will cause the "end of democracy."

Media Suddenly Covers Trump Rallies Again Because of Potential Assassination Attempts.  Conservatives started asking why the mainstream media suddenly decided to broadcast Donald Trump rallies, even though they've been avoiding doing that for a very long time.  According to the observant Americans, it is because they were informed in advance that the third assassination attempt on Trump would happen.  On Sept. 21, 2024, Trump War Room was the first to raise the question by posting screenshots from the propaganda industry's outlets like controlled opposition Fox News and openly leftist CNN, MSNBC and News Nation.  [Tweet]

Deep State Democrats and the Continuing Attempts to Kill President Trump.  What triggers the left-wing media?  Outrage and their ego.  They're outraged by sarcastic memes about illegal migrants eating cats and geese.  They're upset at those memes from "unsubstantiated" political remarks that mock the Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden for overwhelming a small town in Ohio.  What is "substantiated" is that Biden and Harris have sent an unwanted 20,000 or so impoverished migrants from violent Haiti to Springfield, OH.  Yes, this an outrage!  The Democrats will not be ridiculed, especially not with memes.  But a president murdered before an election?  That doesn't stoke media's indignation.  "Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself," said NBC's Lester Holt.  "Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in [Springfield] Ohio."  And former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...] argued the most important thing is that the news media is not doing enough to portray Trump as a threat to democracy.

Vermont becomes the second US state to issue stay-at-home orders because of deadly mosquito-borne virus.  Vermont just became the second state to postpone public events in order to curb the spread of a deadly virus in the state.  The Green Mountain state joins neighboring Massachusetts in recommending their citizens stay home at night, amid high reports of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).  This rare sickness is carried by horses and spread by mosquitos, and in about 30 percent of human cases, can cause brain swelling, vomiting, seizures and death.

The Editor says...
The article above is an example of baseless news media hysteria.  The article says, "This rare sickness is carried by horses," so go about your business and stay away from horses!  There is no justification for "stay-at-home orders."  Tyranny is worse than disease.  The government is (again!) testing you to see if you will comply with their orders, no matter how pointless they are.

PBS and the False Narrative of "Slowly Dying" Coral Reefs.  Coral reefs are some of creation's most strikingly beautiful places.  Clean and clear blue water, graceful whales and sea turtles, swarms of dazzling fishes, and amazing coral.  We can't get enough of coral reefs, so we adorn our walls with paintings and photos.  Saltwater aquariums abound in households, restaurants and businesses around the world.  Naturally, we want to protect all this goodness and beauty.  Stewardship is in our DNA.  Our emotions can kick in when a threat is perceived.  Unfortunately, nefarious people know this about us.  People whose agenda has more to do with global power and control than with protecting coral reefs. [...] Take for example the PBS News feature titled "Conservationists take drastic measures to save coral reefs from climate change."  Published earlier this year, the video begins by falsely claiming that coral reefs around the world are "slowly dying."

Twisted Truth:  Lies, Extreme Lies, and Climate Statistics.  [C]laims of the hottest surface temperatures ever on record are made regularly for various locations across the US.  But, as noted in meteorologist Brian Sussman's new book Climate Cult, 20 states registered record maximum temperatures of at least 109 degrees Fahrenheit, all occurring in the 1930s, a decade that also contained the infamous Dust-Bowl years.  Yet a June New York Times article on the "not normal" summer heat conveniently displayed a graph with temperature trends beginning in the 1940s.  Fortunately for much of main-stream media that pushes a climate-disaster agenda, the public can be easily duped when temperatures are extra hot and knowledge of the climate record is extra low.  Standard statistical ploys using incomplete datasets or cherry-picked values are circulated on not just temperature levels, but also severe weather frequency and intensity, sea level fluctuations, and ice cap extents.

When you have junk science, you end up with mad scientists.  If journalists were curious, instead of talking puppets pushing the Democrat agenda, they could ask a simple question like I did, and use a search engine to find the answer:  "What are the warmest summers on record?"  The following information populated:  The warmest summer on record was in 1936 during the Dust Bowl, which was before we had central air... so it was colder for more than eight decades, while the population was rising rapidly, and while our use of the natural resources (which supposedly causes warming) was exploding.  (It should be noted that there was essentially no air conditioning of any type in 1936.)  Some of the other warm summers were 1934, 1901, 1911, and 1913.  They were clearly not caused by gas-powered cars, so getting rid of them can't possibly change the temperature.

Big Media conducted polls to determine which climate terms induced the most hysteria.  As it turns out, all that hysterical language, tsk-tsk finger-wagging at we commoners to abandon our modern luxuries like personal vehicles and gas stoves, and temperature map graphics with exaggerated red shading to suggest that we're in an emergency situation didn't do anything but turn the people off of to the whole "urgency" of the narrative. [...] Now to backtrack a little bit:  According to Williams, in April 2019, a "team of advertising consultants" published another study that suggested the climate terms commonly used at the time ("climate change" and "global warming") didn't do enough to whip the average media consumer into a panic — they suggested buzzwords like "climate crisis" and "environmental collapse" as it elicited a stronger "emotional" response.  Yes, you read that correctly:  They didn't want to encourage a more rational response, or be more objective, but play to a person's emotions... and exploit them.  Without facts on your side, what else do you have?

Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions.  [Scroll down]  Today, killer heat waves are the new climate horror story.  In July President Biden claimed "extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States."  He is wrong by a factor of 25.  While extreme heat kills nearly 6,000 Americans each year, cold kills 152,000, of which 12,000 die from extreme cold.  Even including deaths from moderate heat, the toll comes to less than 10,000. Despite rising temperatures, age-standardized extreme-heat deaths have actually declined in the U.S. by almost 10% a decade and globally by even more, largely because the world is growing more prosperous.  That allows more people to afford air-conditioners and other technology that protects them from the heat.

Don't Buy the Media Lies About Crop Production.  One of the mainstream media's favorite pastimes in recent years has been trying to scare the pants off everyone by suggesting that climate change is decimating crop production around the world.  They are either lying intentionally, or mistaken.  However, in either case, there is some journalistic malpractice going on, as well as a notable failure of logic.  We have all seen the stories, the favorites of the media usually have to do with foods that are popular semi-luxury items, depending on where you live, like cocoa beans, coffee, and wine.  For instance, Forbes put out an article claiming that cocoa, olive oil, rice, and soybeans are all "particularly vulnerable" to the effects of "climate-induced stressors."

How the media coordinated the failed assassination of Donald Trump.  Two months ago, I predicted that the media were laying the groundwork for justifying the assassination of Donald Trump after the New Republic published an entire issue depicting the former president as Adolf Hitler.  I wish I could claim some supernatural gift of foresight, but it was not the first time I had made this prediction, and I was not alone, as several other pundits, including Tucker Carlson, had also seen the writing on the wall.  The attempted assassination of the leading presidential candidate on Saturday was shocking, but in many ways it felt inevitable.  The American media have been steadily intensifying their anti-Trump rhetoric for years, whipping their audience into a murderous frenzy.  The disgusting freaks who constitute the regime press are not concerned or outraged at the attempt to murder Trump; they are simply disappointed that the instrument of their vengeance was a bad shot.

The Press and Pundits Make Wild Claims in the Wake of the Court's Immunity Decision.  On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow warned that the Supreme Court had just unleashed death squads to roam our streets.  CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen announced that murder was now legal (at least for presidents), while others predicted that the ruling on presidential immunity would invite "tyranny."  Anyone reading the coverage would conclude that James Madison has been replaced by John Wick in a new "Baba Yaga" Republic.  President Biden fueled the sense of panic in an address that repeated widespread false claims about the decision in Trump v. United States.  Biden told the country that "for all practical purposes, today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do."  That, of course, is not true.  I have long opposed sweeping presidential privileges and powers.  I have long argued that a sitting president can be criminally charged in office.  But the portrayal of this Supreme Court opinion by the left and the media is wildly off base.

World's sleep being chipped away by hotter nights, global warming, Climate Central study says.  Climate change is not only harming the planet[,] it's also ruining our sleep.  A new report from Climate Central says rising nighttime temperatures are chipping away at human sleep across the globe.  Scientists found global mean temperatures have risen by more 34 degrees Fahrenheit since 1850, setting a new record in 2023.

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World's Sleep Being Disrupted By Global Boiling.  It's amazing what a 1.7F increase (or 2.2F, depending on which climahysteric outlet you listen to) over 170+ years can do, eh?  All while the Warmists are trying to take air conditioning away from Other People, and stop those people in places like Africa from getting it[.] [...] ["]Scientists found global mean temperatures have risen by more 34 degrees Fahrenheit since 1850, setting a new record in 2023.["] [...] According to NASA the mean global temperature is 59F.  Are we seriously supposed to believe that it was 25F in 1850?

How the Met Office and BBC Try to Fool Us All.  As we all shiver in the autumnal weather during what is meant to be summer and some of us have even turned our central heating back on or continued using our winter duvets, there is one certainty — in a few weeks time, the good folk at Met Office and the BBC will tell us that we've just had the "warmest June on record".  After all, the Met Office and the BBC made the same claim about appalling April and miserable May.  In fact, the weather has been so wet that there is a risk of a potato shortage later this year.  So, what will be intriguing will be the mathematical contortions the Met Office and BBC will use to justify their preposterous nonsense.

The Editor says...
The article above was published on June 20, so it was a bit premature to say, "we've just had the 'warmest June on record.'"

BBC Pushes U.S. Heatwave Story But Buries 'Junuary' Winter Storm Story.  The BBC has a story today about the heatwave in May and early June the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.  Apparently, a report by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group has claimed that climate change made the heatwave 35 times more likely, though exactly what that means goes unexplained. [...] The interesting thing about that BBC story is the complete lack of any mention of the spectacular plunge in temperatures across the northwestern United States as a major winter storm crossed over the Rockies into Montana and Idaho.

Groups urge FEMA to treat extreme heat as a major disaster.  As the first significant heat wave of the season sweeps across the country, several organizations are urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to classify extreme heat as a major disaster.  Tens of millions of Americans face dangerously hot temperatures this week in a heat wave moving from Midwest states like Ohio to cities in the Northeast.  "It's going to feel like the upper 90s, may even feel like 100 a couple of the afternoons," said Randi Rico, a WLWT meteorologist.

The Editor says...
[#1] Sometimes the weather in June is quite warm.  That is not a crisis or a disaster or an emergency.  There is no need to beg for money from FEMA.  The government can't control the weather.  [#2] It "may even feel like 100 a couple of the afternoons," the WLWT weather lady.  So what?  Other parts of the country are way ahead of you, in that regard.  Deal with it.

Climate Propaganda Cabals Ramp Up the Heat for Summer.  [Scroll down]  They will be pumping this junk out all summer — telling us that summers are hot.  We already know that.  If you can tell the difference between a 90°F day and a 91°F day without a thermometer, or without a "climate journalist" to tell you that that "one more degree" is caused by driving your classic '55 Chevy to the summer car show, you are a better person than I.  They are collaborating, they are conspiring — both in the open and behind closed doors — and they are will say anything they think the public will swallow.

The Mirror goes mega-viral for saying UK will be "blasted" by 78°F "heatwave".  [Scroll down past several advertisements and tweets]  It's headed to 93°F today in Michigan, where I have the inexhaustible pleasure of writing this article.  We have moose that reside in our state.  They don't seem to mind the occasional hot day.  [Advertisement]  Meanwhile, Brits apparently melt if the mercury rises above room-temperature.

Top Study Confirms UN's 'Climate Crisis' Claims Are a Hoax.  A top study has confirmed that fearmongering claims made by the United Nations (UN) to support the "climate crisis" narrative are a hoax, directly contradicted by data.  Despite claims from the UN and other unelected globalists, the study has found that alleged "climate disasters" are not increasing.  In fact, eminent Italian researchers Gianluca Alimonti and Luigi Mariani found that the environment has been significantly improving in recent years, with climate-related events decreasing.  However, the researchers found that, while "climate disasters" have been decreasing, fearmongering studies and corporate media reports linking "global warming" to weather events have increased dramatically, creating the illusion of a "crisis."  The study observed trends in climate disaster reports between 1900 and 2022.

Stop Making Plane Turbulence About Climate Change.  Passengers "smashed" into the ceiling, blood stained the carpet in the aisles, luggage flew through the cabin, and there was "awful screaming": Is what happened on a Singapore Airlines jet on Monday evening going to become a regular occurrence?  The plane, which was flying from London to Singapore, reportedly encountered "severe turbulence" about 10 hours into the flight, while 37,000 feet above southern Myanmar.  Multiple passengers were injured — 20 were still in intensive care this morning — and one man died:  a 73-year-old British citizen who appears to have gone into cardiac arrest.  Within hours of reporting the incident, major news organizations were wondering:  Will this be the new normal, in the age of global warming?  "Is climate change making turbulence worse?" asked the BBC.

Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?  They are wearing us down with shocking headlines and opinions.  They come daily these days, with increasingly implausible claims that leave your jaw on the floor.  The rest of the text is perfunctory.  The headline is the takeaway, and the part designed to demoralize, deconstruct, and disorient.  A few weeks ago, the New York Times told us that "As It Turns Out, the Deep State Is Pretty Awesome."  These are the same people who claim that Trump is trying to get rid of democracy.  The Deep State is the opposite of democracy, unelected and unaccountable in every way, impervious to elections and the will of the people.  Now we have the NYT celebrating this.  And the latest bears notice too:  "Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe."  The authors are classic Deep Staters associated with Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush.  They assure us that having an Orwellian state is good for us.  You can trust them, promise.  The rest of the content of the article doesn't matter much.  The message is in the headline.

No, Sun Sentinel, Florida Isn't Under Future "Climate Threats".  A recent article in the South Florida Sun Sentinel (SFSS) newspaper, titled "Florida in 50 years:  Study says land conservation can buffer destructive force of climate change," makes some catastrophic claims about what Florida's climate will be like in 50 years.  The article relies heavily on climate model projections, that are undermined by real world evidence and by the fact that the climate models in question have been shown to create "implausibly hot forecasts of future warming."  As outlined in Climate at A Glance:  Climate Model Fallibility peer reviewed science has shown that climate forecasts like the one cited by the SFSS have no basis in reality because comparisons of actual measured atmospheric temperature data to model forecasts show up to a 200% discrepancy between model temperature outputs and observed temperatures.  Because the temperature forecasts are wildly implausible, the claimed disastrous impacts that are forecast to result from those unbelievably high temperatures also lack credibility.

BBC weather map row heats up over confusing colours.  The BBC has been criticised for the colour scale it uses to represent temperatures, with lows of 11C shown as yellow while 41C is depicted as dark red.  The broadcaster has triggered confusion among some viewers with its temperature contour map, which switches to orange when temperatures hit 13C.  The colour scheme was introduced in 2017, with the BBC at the time saying it was intended to help those with colour blindness.  Toby Young, the founder of website The Daily Sceptic, suggested that the BBC was "going a bit far".  "How is it going to represent temperatures above 20C?  Fireballs?" he said.  A weather forecast on Tuesday night showed most of the country yellow and orange for Wednesday when temperatures were predicted to hit as high as 20C.  One viewer wrote on social media that the system was "utterly farcical".  "I'm not a massive conspiracy theorist but I have to agree with those who castigate the utterly ludicrous use of bright yellow and orange/red on the weather maps to indicate temperatures of 18/19 degrees!" the viewer wrote.

The Editor says...
When television was received on black-and-white receivers, 50 years ago, no consideration was given to "color blind" viewers.  We were all color blind.  At the same time, much less emphasis was placed on sensational (and highly speculative) forecasting beyond the next 24 hours, hardly any TV stations had their own weather radar, nobody had any delusions about the government being able to alter the weather, and absolutely nobody considered carbon dioxide to be a threat.

The Price of Surrendering Speech.  Our mainstream media has been surrendering its freedom for years, not by any dictate from the top but by a seismic shift in its values and self-perceived role in society.  The process started slowly, long ago, when publishers and editors discovered a gold mine in obsessing over celebrity heroes, then accelerated when they found that a celebrity villain offered the same rewards.  They learned to favor sensation over substance, never worried that their chosen villains are not always evil, nor their heroes always virtuous.  For them an off-color remark or over-the-top boast from one of their celebrities becomes more important than any substantive dialogue about policy. [...] The celebrity fixation justified, even required, hyperbole, since their stars need to be larger than life, meaning the media accords them vastly more authority, and credibility, than they deserve.  Eventually for the legacy media everything — from the climate cycle to devolution of rights to states, passage of school choice laws and scores of invented microaggressions — became existential threats.  George Bernard Shaw once complained that the media can't distinguish between "the end of the world and a bicycle accident."  Shaw was engaged in hyperbole when he spoke those words but they are no longer exaggeration.

Why are states and counties declaring emergencies for the solar eclipse?  [Scroll down past numerous tweets]  A lot of it is tied back to the creation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 1979 by President Carter.  The federal government doesn't have jurisdiction at the local level (in principle, at least), so local jurisdictions declaring emergencies is basically the first step of a formal invite for state and federal manpower to come in and help fix a particular problem.  Since we have super-short term memories, let me remind you that this happened for the 2017 eclipse too. [...] If there's a conspiracy here, it's the observation that using a process meant for true emergencies as a "Get out of Jail Free Card" for every inconvenience is really [read:  REALLY] bad for a free society that doesn't want rule by martial law.

The Editor says...
Solar eclipses happen every few years, but there has almost never been so much hype about an eclipse before.  The eclipse of August 21, 2017, was apparenly good for the news media, because they are really talking up this one, and that is what's causing "emergency" declarations all along the eclipse's path.

How is this not "hate speech?"
'The View' Co-Hosts Launch Into Lengthy Man-Hating Tirade.  "The View" co-hosts jumped into a lengthy man-hating tirade Friday, calling straight ones "useless."  The co-hosts responded to a TikTok trend asking women if they need men, agreeing with the majority who answered "no." They adamantly assured they are not including gay men in their criticism.  "Because men are useless," co-host Ana Navarro said.  "I mean — and by the way, I wanted to differentiate between straight men and gay men because I think I would die without gay men.  No one can gossip like a gay man, no one can help you accessorize like gay men, and nobody can help you from doing harm to yourself like gay men."  She said her husband would be "emaciated, starving and living in his own filth" without her.

Synthetic Controversy.  In media, including legacy/mainstream, social and other alternative media, controversy sells.  And it often seems like all media has become much more about sales than about sharing factual information.  Controversy generates clicks, re-posting, and message amplification.  The controversy can focus on either a substantial or a trivial issue.  In modern PsyWar, with its emphasis on censorship, propaganda, and psychological shaping or manipulation, facts and reality are increasingly irrelevant.  It is no longer necessary for the controversy to be fact-based.  We all know about the power of "fake news" to capture the attention of the general public, and in many ways it is far easier to drive views and clicks with unsupported statements and speculation than by doing the research necessary to comprehend a topic.  Facts can be difficult and inconvenient things, but when reality becomes defined by feelings and opinions rather than objective facts, then development and exploitation of false narratives becomes child's play.

Activist Media Outlets Run Cover for Fulton County DA Fani Willis, Claim Scrutiny Is Motivated by Racism.  It was only a matter of time before folks on the left began throwing race into the saga surrounding embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.  Activist media outlets have begun spinning the narrative that the criticism and scrutiny of the prosecutor isn't about her inappropriate romantic relationship with one of the prosecutors she hired to handle the election interference case against former President Donald Trump but about the color of her skin and her sex.  The New York Times and Associated Press have published pieces intimating that the furor over Willis' alleged corruption was due to racism and sexism and not the fact that she clearly engaged in a torrid affair with prosecutor Nathan Wade.  The only thing surprising about this is that it took them so long to begin weaving this narrative.

2023 Was Not the "Hottest Year on Record" for Over 70% of the World's Population, Data Show.  Further doubt has been cast on the widely-broadcast alarmist temperature claim that last year was the hottest since records began.  A deep dive into figures published by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reveals that the 'hottest ever' claims did not apply to large areas of the world including Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, East N. Pacific, Hawaiian region, Arctic and Antarctic.  Investigative science writer Larry Hamlin notes in the science blog Watts Up With That that at least 58% of the Earth's land surface where 73% of the world's population lives did not experience the hyped 'highest ever recorded' average temperature anomaly.

Separating fact from fiction on 'climate change'.  Here are some legitimate scientific facts:  I was in Denver on December 23rd, 2023, and the national weather report was talking about how warm the country was; the temperature was 55°F, which was 12° above normal.  Then, the meteorologists showed that the record high in Denver for that date was 74° in 1901.  Then on December 24th and 25th, the high was around 30°, which was 13° below normal.  Here are the only truthful statements that can come from those facts.  Temperatures fluctuate, and Denver's temperature has been colder "than normal" on December 23rd for the last 122 straight years.

Hottest In 125,000 Years?  Just about all of the media have been peddling the "Hottest for 125,000 years" claim, which suggests a very concerted effort by the climate establishment in the run up to COP28.  The claim is self evident and baseless nonsense for a number of good reasons:
  •   There is no such thing as "a global average temperature"
  •   Even now we have very sparse coverage of temperature measurements.  Prior to satellites, we had virtually no data outside of the US, Europe and a few other built up areas
  •   The temperature record we do have is thoroughly corrupted by UHI, and only dates back to the late 19th C[entury]
  •   Natural variations, including ENSO, volcanic activity etc, can easily cause temperature swings of a degree Celsius from year to year, and decade to decade.  But historical proxies don't have the fine resolution to pick these up, they merely give an idea of average temperatures over decades and even centuries.  Consequently you cannot compare one year now with the general climate of, say, 2000 years ago.
But forget about all of these theoretical objections, because the climatic evidence we do have is overwhelming, and it tells us that the climate has been much warmer than now for most of the last 10000 years, since the end of the ice age.

Not the Babylon Bee.  What exactly a "climate disease" is is a mystery until you realize this term was invented to make a snappy headline.  In non-headline speak, these are diseases that are spread by more frequent interactions between people and wild animals driven out of their natural environment due to climate change.  Or they are diseases we are to believe are made more common due to climate change.  Color me skeptical.  Malaria, Dengue fever, and other diseases have been with us for millennia, and new diseases have been springing up throughout human history.

The Truth about the Jeffrey Epstein John Does.  There is a certain level of difficulty in reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell saga, much of it having to do with what the authorities haven't revealed: the web of Epstein's network (much of it still secret), the ties to intelligence (of which documentary evidence is still hidden from public view), the internal deliberations that went on at Main Justice in Washington, D.C. when Epstein got his sweetheart plea deal (again, not yet publicized).  Add to that the false media reports and blatantly inaccurate social media posts that spring up every time there's any small development in any Epstein or Maxwell case.  Like today, for example.  The Daily Mail led the way, reporting that a federal judge "has ruled to unseal documents that would name 177 Does who are Epstein's friends, recruiters and victims within the coming weeks." This was followed by a flurry of social media takes — especially on Twitter — promising there will be serious revelations from these records or claims that "177 Jeffrey Epstein high profile associates will be revealed in the new year."  There's a problem with that sensationalism: it's inaccurate.

More media drumbeating on the global warming nonsense from USA Today.  We are told that the science is settled, that the last 160 years of our using natural resources have led to record high temperatures on Earth and that the ocean is rising to unsustainable levels.  [A recent] article from USA Today says the Earth used to be much hotter, so why do they tell us constantly that the Earth has reached record high temperatures and that we don't have much time to save the planet[?] [...] Of course, they never explain how the Earth cooled from 1940 [to] 1975 when they say all these things cause warming.  Facts haven't mattered to green pushers for a long time.  And of course, the solution is big government and taking away our freedom of choice of what we drive and how we power our houses and appliances.  We are supposed to capitulate to radical green pushers which makes us poorer and them much richer.

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How could the ocean be "rising to unsustainable levels?"  What's easier to sustain than sea level?

Globalists Fear the Unconquerable.  State-controlled news media blare continuous warnings that citizens should fear racism, "white supremacy," misogyny, imperialism, colonialism, paternalism, Christianity, Israel, hydrocarbon energy, heterosexuality, capitalism, exercise, Karens, Chads, Western civilization, personal liberty, country music, Southern states, suburban moms, political speech, scientific debate, masculinity, democratic elections that don't elect Democrats, Donald Trump, limited government, nuclear families, gun-toting Americans, psychologically healthy adults, Christmas decorations, assimilation, accurate history, cultural appropriation, national borders, due process for conservatives, misinformation, malinformation, disinformation, and stable marriages.  On the flip-side, the atheistic priests of the "woke" church insist that opposition to either gay pseudo-marriage or the new fad of "transgenderism" represents some kind of irrational "phobia" that must be overcome immediately.  In other words, the new world order demands that Westerners fear almost everything except bearded men crushing women half their size in competitive sports.  Talk about lunacy!

USA Today article seeks to gin up class hate.  There's apparently no end to how far the mainstream operatives will go in their quest to destroy the virtues of the West, and a USA Today article published last week is a prime example.  The man behind the piece, Daniel de Visé, essentially implies that anyone not born into tremendous wealth doesn't have a chance at success, and those who are rich only got that way by mere circumstance and birthright, overtly implying that capitalism has caused this problem and that, we must work harder for equality.  There are huge problems with de Visé's article, but I will do my best to tackle a few of them to explain how the premise is entirely wrong.

Climate Change Is Not Threatening Human Health.  The mainstream media has increasingly used words like "catastrophe" and "uninhabitable" to describe the condition of the planet.  This is despite the fact that data show weather is not getting worse.  Creating climate anxiety is explicitly the goal of media climate reporting.  Bombarding their audiences with scare stories, facts to the contrary be damned, is aimed at motivating people into "taking action" and supporting severe restrictions on fossil-fuel use.  Survivors of a natural disaster may also struggle with PTSD or similar ailments, but it doesn't mean that climate change is the cause.  VOA reporting that climate anxiety is a result of climate change itself is frankly disgusting.  In the end, objective scientific data does not show that human health is being negatively impacted by climate change, and it is certainly not the biggest health threat facing humanity.

This Summer Was Not Even in America's Top 10 Hottest, Say Scientists.  The mainstream media continue to fall hook, line and sinker for the tempting alarmist bait set by urban heat corruptions.  The Guardian said a record was set this year in the U.S. city of Phoenix during a "hellishly hot summer" with the most hot days over 110°F.  The BBC's report on Phoenix took the opportunity to add that heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense, "because of human-induced climate change".  It is often hellishly hot in the desert state of Arizona, and in fact last summer was the warmest in Phoenix going back to 1933.  But strip out the heat created in the ever-expanding concrete and tarmacked metropolis, and it turns out the area was only the 11th warmest on record.  If the record hot summer in Phoenix was due to global warming, as claimed in almost all media, then it would show up at weather stations surrounding the city — "right?" asks Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

ABC News:  Thanksgiving Dinner 'Could Soon Become Another Victim' of Climate Change.  Thanksgiving "could soon become another victim of climate change," a recent report by ABC News warned.  The report said rising temperatures "threaten the abundance and quality" of ingredients that make up a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.  "As a result, these essential food items could become increasingly scarce and more expensive, potentially forcing families to omit or make substitutions in key recipes on their Thanksgiving menus," the report said.

Joe Biden supporters had an especially paranoid couple of days.  It's amazing that this man was once a congressman, because he clearly has zero understanding of both political philosophies and the American political system — for the umpteenth time, fascism is a leftist ideology and America was never supposed to be a democracy — and on a recently-broadcast televised MSNBC segment, Joe Scarborough issued an ominous warning: if President Trump secures a second term, he will "imprison" and "execute" any and all political opponents that he can.  Projection much?  Who's really been imprisoning and executing political opponents?  Does the name Ashli Babbitt ring a bell?  What about Craig Robertson?  Owen Shroyer?  Or how about the J6ers?  Or, is this a signal of guilt?  Has he done something criminal and he's starting to sweat?  Talk about paranoia!  But it wasn't just Scarborough because Scary Larry, a prominent Twitter Democrat, announced that another Trump presidency meant an official Brownshirt squad, and Trump already had his gang ready to go:  [Tweet]

Another Long, Hot Summer.  [Scroll down]  Every year, it's "the sky is falling," until it's not.  Then, with egg on their faces, the forecasters crawl back into their studios and begin whining about another potential catastrophe, almost as if they're wishing one would happen.  I am genuinely happy that Idalia did so little damage and that casualties were so low.  I'm not sure the mainstream liberal networks were happy about it. [...] There was no flooding in my community despite our proximity to [Hurricane] Idalia's cone.  I sat comfortably in my house, reading and working, hardly aware that a hurricane was passing by.  We did not lose power, no trees were down, and there was no wind damage.  The reporters were getting wet, the signage around them was bending a bit, and their voices were full of manufactured urgency.  But there was no urgency where I sat.

The Weather Channel's Absurd 'Hot' Propaganda.  The Weather Channel is absolutely ridiculous.  The channel's "Weather Across the Country" map on their homepage for September 19 had red colors EVERYWHERE!  Because it's HOT HOT HOT!  No area of the country is experiencing normal weather for mid September, apparently.  Chicago, for instance, was displayed as red to deep orange.  Warm, right?  I can tell you from personal experience:  It was "freezing" on Tuesday, September 19 in Northern Illinois for a day that is still technically summer.  It rained all day and barely got over 60 all afternoon.  I regretted not wearing a jacket to the office.  On this map, Seattle is in "yellow/green" denoting cooler weather, but I can assure you that today in Chicago felt like Seattle ... and it probably felt a lot warmer in Seattle where The Weather Channel said, and showed with color, that it was significantly "cooler." [...] Minot, North Dakota was allegedly 86 degrees today and is in "cool" yellow.  Jacksonville, Florida is one degree higher at 87 and is in "deep red hot."

Ignoring History Means Choosing Windmills Over Whales.  What we do know is that the media will hysterically opine about climate change records.  Except that they'll be wrong (as always).  There's nothing exceptional about the current heat we're experiencing:
  •   Death Valley, California, holds the world-record temperature high:  A whopping 134 F measured on July 10, 1913.
  •   North Dakota hit its historic high of 121 F in 1936.
  •   Montana experienced its highest temperature of 117F in 1937.
  •   Despite being the USA's warmest state, Florida's record high is only 108 F, and that occurred in 1931.

Control Versus Choice.  COVID cases are up.  Hospitalizations climbed 24% last week.  But the media make everything seem scarier than it is.  The headline "Up 24%!" comes after dramatic lows.  Hospitalizations are still less than half what they were when President Joe Biden said, "The pandemic is over." [...] This month, several school districts in Kentucky and Texas closed.  "The safety and wellbeing of our students, staff, and community is a top priority," said the school superintendent in Texas.  But kids rarely get very sick from COVID, and schools aren't COVID hotspots.  Studies on tens of thousands of people found "no consistent relationship between in-person K-12 schooling and the spread of the coronavirus."  A Lancet study found Florida had the 12th-fewest excess COVID deaths in the country, even though Florida students went back to school without masks relatively soon.

Independent Journalists, the Frontline Workers in the War on Truth.  Truthful and comprehensive journalism is at the heart of whether we will continue to devolve, or whether we regain our national footing.  By their nature, journalists have a platform with the public, and a tremendous ability to influence it; people believing in and then acting on erroneous information yields destructive consequences.  In this way, journalists as a whole advertently support the interests of the Democrat Destroyers; think of the "every man for himself" hysteria stories or the suppression of the efficacy of certain medicinal drugs when COVID first appeared.

In California This Weekend, We Saw, Again, How Easy It Is to Panic Americans.  I am writing this column on a beautiful sunny day in Southern California.  It is a Monday in mid-August, so it is not a national holiday, yet in Los Angeles County, where I live, all the schools and all government offices are closed.  Why?  Because, for the past week, the National Weather Service, state and local authorities, and national and local media have been ceaselessly warning that a tropical storm would hit Southern California on Sunday night and Monday with a "life-threatening" intensity not seen since the last tropical storm hit California in 1939, 84 years ago. [...] Unlike the invisible COVID-19 virus, the reason for panic this time was completely visible.  All these people needed to do was walk outside of their home or hotel — or just look out the window.  Had they done so, they would have seen that steady but moderate rain was falling.  Just rain.  No high winds, no downpour, no storm, not even thunder or lightning.

'Global Warming' Morphs Into 'Global Boiling' as the Global Climate Hoax Turns Up the Heat.  On July 27, 2023, the United Nations turned up the heat on the global climate hoax by declaring "the era of global warming" has now morphed into "the era of global boiling." With typically hysterical rhetoric, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that, "short of a mini-Ice Age" in the coming days, July 2023 would likely "shatter records across the board." [...] This all-too-obvious coordinated drumroll of frightening climate change warnings has become the propaganda technique of choice for international organizations who presume responsibility for controlling Earth's climate.  The only problem with the current theme of the month — namely, that July 2023 was the "hottest" month on record — is that it is NOT true.  But truthfulness is apparently a less worthy goal to the UN, the WMO, and the European Commission than making sure we stop using hydrocarbon fuels, the energy that has allowed modern industrial states to prosper during our good fortune to be experiencing an interglacial warming period.  The whole point of these announcements is to scare people.  "Climate change is here," the UN chief said.  "It is terrifying.  And it's just beginning."

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It's only terrifying if you watch TV, and believe everything you're told.  If you turn off the TV, it's just a hot summer.  Winter will be here soon enough.

Warming-obsessed media wrong again.  There is not much new about media hyperbole in weather reporting, but July's climate alarmism may be more breathless than usual.  Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media were inundated with posts containing flaming red maps of Southern Europe and Northern Africa.  [Several tweets]  "July 2023 will probably be the world's hottest month in hundreds, if not thousands, of years," said top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt.  One Twitter user (with 22,000 followers) claimed, "After the hottest day and week, we are now experiencing the hottest month ever (in about 120,000 years, based on paleoclimatology).  As we keep warming the planet, we will soon experience global temperatures not seen in the past million years!"  When questioned about the justification for his claims, the tweeter responded that scientists had "discovered there was a glacial period, which many people know about from a movie called Ice Age."  Imagine substantiating scientific claims by referencing a Hollywood movie!  Such is the sorry state of critical thought.

The press is trying to scare us about heat deaths to promote its global warming agenda.  We are supposed to be scared because 13 people, mostly older, died from heat in the current hot weather, and we are told that heat deaths are becoming more common. [...] Good journalists who care about informing the public, instead of indoctrinating them to push an agenda, would do some research to put the heat related deaths in perspective.  Sadly, the current crop of journalists seems much more interested in getting the public to capitulate to the radical green agenda to remake or destroy America, instead of informing them.  According to the CDC, the most recent data show an average of 702 people die from heat related illness each year.  To put that number in perspective, around 3 million people die each year from all causes, so less than three-hundredths of one percent of deaths each year are caused by heat.  How many of the 702 would have died from other causes that year?  My guess is, just like with COVID, they had other significant health problems?

'115 Degrees Fahrenheit' screams the New York Times headline.  But in point of fact, instead of seeking to scare people with high temperatures, most of the reporting lately talks about the heat index.  The purpose is to make people think it is warmer than it is. [...] If you Google the question: What is the highest heat index ever recorded, you actually get the highest actual temperature ever recorded which was 134 F. which occurred in Death Valley California in 1913.  A lot of other heat records occurred during the 1930's, so why do they keep telling the public that these are the hottest years on record and then claim that humans, cars, CO2, Coal, methane etc. have caused the high temperatures?

All Of A Sudden, Outbreaks Of Malaria, H5N1, Swine Flu And Monkeypox Are All In The News.  After a bit of a lull, it appears that pestilences are going to start making headline news once again.  Of course that is the last thing that many of us want to hear.  Many Americans are finally getting their lives back to normal after the last pandemic, and a lot of people are hoping that we won't have to go through another for a long time to come.  Unfortunately, the truth is that we have entered a period of history when major outbreaks will be quite common.  In secret labs all over the planet, mad scientists are monkeying around with some of the deadliest bugs ever known to humanity, and as we have seen, it is way too easy for an "accident" to happen.  One of the diseases that our scientists have been playing around with is Malaria, and now there are four confirmed cases in Florida and one in Texas.

Human groundwater usage causing earth to wobble?  According to the pajama boys over at thehill.com, a new study has found that humans have pumped so much groundwater out of the earth that the planet has begun to detectably wobble on its axis.  They admit the "magnitude of the new wobble is slight — a matter of millimeters, which puts it in the same approximate speed category as Earth's slowly drifting continents."  So, perhaps the wobble is actually related to the Earth's slowly drifting continents?  The Hill says the findings, recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, purport to "show the extent to which human action — in the form of dam construction, groundwater drilling, and the burning of fossil fuels — are impacting the very position of the Earth." [...] The "scientists" conducting the study allegedly found that, between 1993 and 2010, human society, largely due to agriculture, had depleted 2,510 gigatons of groundwater, the equivalent of half the volume of Lake Huron.  Half the volume of one lake?  Is that really that calamitous?

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The migration of the poles did not begin in 1993, and there is no reason to believe that human activity caused it.  More comments below.

Earth's tilt has changed by 31 inches thanks to humans — and it could make climate change even WORSE, study warns.  Our insatiable need for water may be keeping us alive, but it's shifting the tilt of the Earth, a new study shows.  Researchers in Korea say the removal of groundwater around the world for drinking and irrigation is altering the Earth's mass and in turn making its axis 'wobble'.  According to the team, we've shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted 31 inches (78.5 cm) east between 1993 and 2010 alone.

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Socialists think you're really stupid.  Does anyone believe that anything we do could make the earth wobble?  Does anyone at the Daily Mail understand how big the Earth is, and how little 31 inches is by comparison?  Is anyone harmed by the migration of the poles?  Apparently the article above is sounding an alarm about a 31 inch peak-to-peak excursion over a period of 17 years.  What happened before 1993?  Is there any historical data showing that the poles did not migrate before the industrial revolution?  Even if everything in the article above is true, and it isn't, what would it take to stop the wobble a planet that has a mass of 5.9722 x 10²⁴ kg?  The only reason to write an alarming newspaper article about a non-problem (that can't be fixed even if it is a problem) is deception:  If the writers can convince you that driving your car is destabilizing the whole world, they might talk you into giving up the freedom that your car represents, along with other freedoms.  I suspect the Earth has been wobbling since about 4,000 years ago, a couple of weeks after Noah got aboard the ark.  Note:  ["]The International Latitude Service was created by the International Geodetic Association in 1899 to study variations in latitude caused by polar motion, precession, or 'wobble' of the Earth's axis.["]  How many cars were on the road in 1899?  How many electric power plants were on line back then?

NBC's Chuck Todd Discovers That Black Teenagers Are Shooting Each Other.  Delivering statistics on gun deaths among teenagers, NBC News Chuck Todd discovers that black teenagers are killing each other at a much higher rate than white and asian kids.  Todd is shocked, shocked, at the outcome.  [Video clip]

The media's role in mass shootings.  The past few years have seen long stretches of calm, despite the propaganda from the biased and suspect "Gun Violence Archive," which seeks to label almost every petty crime incident as a "mass shooting" in the mind of the public.  On occasion, the peace is interrupted, with mass shootings taking place at predictable intervals after each miscreant from the previous shooting is elevated in the media to anti-hero status.  This is the well known and well studied phenomenon of media contagion, with each subsequent attack being predictable as clockwork.  So why aren't the nation's socialist media taking responsibility for its actions in causing these tragedies?  Why does it appear that they would rather exploit other people's pain for their political gain than save lives?

What's the Real Reason Political Anxiety Is So High?  [#1] Governmental power and control.  The only reason we have anxiety, stress, and worry about what happens in government is because the government is ridiculously, uncomfortably powerful.  If our political enemies (whoever they happen to be) take power, they could exert tremendous control over our lives.  So on some level, a bit of anxiety is reasonable.  [#2] It doesn't help that we're in the era of the 24-hour news cycle.  Media companies come in all shapes and sizes, from corporate juggernauts to independent journalists, and everyone is racing to publish news stories for the public to consume on a constant basis.  There is no more reading the morning paper; we are constantly bombarded with information.  Even if some of this information is positive, it's easy to become overwhelmed and feel anxious as a result.  [#3] Bad media incentives.  It's ironic that the very news organizations publishing stories about high rates of political anxiety are the same ones (perhaps) intentionally stoking those anxieties.  Media companies aren't necessarily incentivized to tell the truth or commit to quality journalism; instead, they're incentivized to get clicks and attention.

Perpetual pessimism:
Huge Rain Finally Comes to Drought-Stricken California, Media Predictably Moans.  It should be good news:  large rainstorms have been dumping huge amounts of rain and snow on the drought-plagued Golden State, and much more is expected.  After draconian water restrictions were placed on many residents last summer — with many forced to watch their lawns disintegrate into a crispy death — one would think all this water would be welcome.  But if you read a lot of the media out there, you'd think storms were a bad thing; we should get rain and snow — just on our terms, not the weather's.

Don't Let Police, Media Mislead You About Fentanyl Exposure Overdoses.  Once again, media outlets are rushing to sow panic by blindly accepting a police department's claims that an officer may have accidentally overdosed by being in close physical proximity to fentanyl, reinforcing the false message that you can potentially overdose on the drug even if you don't intentionally consume it.  This time we head to Tavares, Florida, where the Tavares Police Department distributed to the local press body camera footage of Officer Courtney Bannick appearing to collapse and pass out after encountering what turned out to be fentanyl and meth in a rolled-up dollar bill she found in a routine traffic stop.  Local news outlets lapped it up (the story, not the fentanyl) and the video footage ran on WESH (the local NBC affiliate), FOX 35, and elsewhere.  In none of the initial stories does anybody so much as question whether what they're seeing is actually being caused by exposure to fentanyl.

"Some of the Worst" News Media.  About 15 years ago I co-authored a book about air pollution and the Clean Air Act.  I know — you'll just have to contain your excitement.  One of the things we found was an example of what might be called the reverse Lake Wobegone Effect, i.e., according to local media every local area had "some of the worst" air pollution in the whole country!  Every metro area was below average!  Of course, if every place has "some of the worst" of anything, then no place really does (as the government's air quality data bear out*). [...] Actual EPA data shreds these claims, but environmental advocacy groups (especially the American Lung Association's annual "state of the air" report) produce cookie-cutter press releases claiming that each local area suffers "some of the worst" pollution in America, and the media dutifully repeats these claims.  This is why most environmental "reporters" are really just stenographers for environmentalists.  This ought to be embarrassing for any serious editor or publisher, but there aren't many serious editors or publishers any more.

11 Years Ago, Democrats Got Everything Wrong.  They Are Doing It Again.  On January 8, 2011, shortly after 10:00 AM, Democrat Representative Gabby Giffords and 18 other people were shot.  Six died.  Within minutes, every form of media was set ablaze with speculation. [...] By early afternoon, Jared Loughner a white male, had been identified as the shooter.  Loughner was instantly linked to neo-Nazis and white supremacists.  He was linked to the Tea Party and then to the "right wing" generally. [...] By mid-afternoon, a graphic with crosshairs "targeting" Democrat districts was shown on CNN, MSNBC, Huffington Post DailyKos, and dozens of other shows and internet sites about every 30 seconds.  The map, they loudly claimed, was definitive proof that Sarah Palin's PAC map had incited Loughner.  Palin was to blame.  The right was to blame.  All Republicans were to blame.  By nightfall, the torches were lit and the pitchforks were out. [...] Almost nothing media initially reported was accurate.  Palin had nothing to do with Loughner's personal grudge against Giffords.  Within weeks, America knew conclusively that Loughner never saw Palin's target map, and that "target maps" have been used for decades.

Hurricane Hysteria, Hype, and Histrionics.  Hurricane season is upon Southeastern America and that means hair-on-fire hysteria from the media and the political left.  After Hurricane Ian ravaged southwest coastal Florida, we have heard nothing but hype from the corporate media, eager to connect every hurricane to catastrophic global warming, climate change, or whatever excuse they are currently using to usher in the Green New Deal and tyrannical top-down control of all aspects of our lives.  Hurricanes are not new and are a staple of southern coastal regions since long [ago].  Yet judging from media histrionics, severe hurricanes are only a recent phenomenon, ignoring hundreds or thousands of years ago when Florida was nothing but a swamp.  Hurricane harpies in the media, practicing one of the Democrats' favorite strategies of never letting a crisis go to waste, were quick to pounce on tragedy for political gain.  Look at some of the headlines, all singing in perfect harmony. [...]

While Reporters Crowded Around Biden's Airport, 12 Suspected Terrorists Were Caught At The Actual Border.  Think America's legacy media can't get any worse at their job?  Think again.  Following reports that Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., would be sending a plane full of illegal immigrants to a local airport in Georgetown, Delaware, near the residence of President Joe Biden, reporters and self-proclaimed journalists flocked to the location of the supposed drop-off on Tuesday, waiting with bated breath for an event they could spin to fit their anti-GOP agenda.  The only problem for the press, however, was that the plane in question wasn't carrying migrants and didn't even land in Delaware.  As reported by left-wing NBC News, "by late Tuesday, no plane had arrived [in Delaware]" and instead "landed in Teterboro, New Jersey," with no migrants "aboard the plane."  "Earlier in the day, DeSantis stoked the coals of speculation by declining to confirm or deny whether the plane would even take off — his administration later refused to say if the plane that landed in New Jersey was part of his program to relocate migrants — in an intentional effort to keep the issue alive," the NBC report claimed, citing an unnamed, anonymous source as evidence of its assertions.

MSNBC Praises 'War Hero' Biden Who Was 'Chopping Wood' in the Mountains 'Til His Country Called.  Do you envision Joe Biden as a war hero?  Do you see him shirtless and sweaty, axing oak for the fire he's busting at the biceps to build?  From the sound of things on MSNBC, it wouldn't be wrong.  Last week on Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace welcomed network contributor and Morgan State University journalism Professor Dr. Jason Johnson.  Discussion turned to the Charlottesville conflict of August 2017, during which a man drove his car into a crowd.  Horrifically, he killed one person and injured several others. [...] Did Joe Biden — who previously held no interest in ascending to the land's highest office — see the shock of Charlottesville as a sign he had to suit up and save America?  It seems Dr. Jason believes so.

Is Extreme Weather Causing the World's Rivers to Dry Up?  A recent CNN article entitled "The World's Rivers are Drying Up from Extreme Weather.  See How 6 Look from Space" purports to argue that rivers such as the Colorado, Yangtze, Rhine, Po, Loire, and Danube are dwindling due to "a painful lack of rain and relentless heat waves." [...] Let's start close to home.  The Colorado River is cited as the first example, and, although CNN attributes its drying to the "historic drought in the US West," they do not suggest that this drought is human induced.  They do mention, however, that "around 40 million people in seven states and Mexico rely on the river's water for drinking, agriculture and electricity."  But an evaluation of the current conditions from the USGS National Water Dashboard indicates, as shown below, that many stream gauge stations in western Colorado and Utah are near normal, and in New Mexico and Arizona, they are above and much above normal.

The vast majority of pharmacology, psychiatry, vaccine science and published research is a complete fraud.  [Scroll down]  As a hilarious example of the junk science lunacy of the climate cult, look no further than the corporate-controlled media which now claims that every country in the world is heating up faster than every other country in the world.  Such a claim is mathematically impossible, yet it has become the default lunatic claim of the climate cult media, regardless of its incomprehensible nature.

CNN'S 'Climate Correspondent' Predicts All Life on Earth Is About to End.  Nearly all media cooperate in disseminating climate change fear-porn.  When hot months come because the northern hemisphere is closer to the sun, temperatures go up.  Changes in temperatures are reported in media with alarm and always denoted on graphics in blood red.  A few days ago, I saw this graphic of July temperatures in Europe.  The split screen shows different colors, although the temperatures are just about the same.  The replies were swift to point out that other stations reported hot weather temperatures as a red graphic in 2017.  In any event, the effect of coloring land in red is to cause people to feel the emotional burn.  Feel the fear.  [Tweet]

NBC Panics Over Climate Change, Blames Manchin for Blocking Biden.  On Monday's NBC Nightly News, after spending the first five minutes of the broadcast panicking over a heat wave in the middle of July, anchor Lester Holt and correspondent Anne Thompson chalked the warm weather up to "climate change" and sought to blame Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) for blocking the Biden administration's radical climate change agenda which would drive inflation up further by pumping more money into the economy.  "This severe weather certainly underscoring the increasing role of climate change and the challenges America faces in trying to combat it," Holt whined before turning to Thompson to give her report.

Weather forecasts now use a deep, dark red to represent glorious sunshine.  Why?  People are starting to notice some, uh, less-than-subtle psychological conditioning rearing its head in modern weather forecasting.  What was once the smiley, happy face of the sun letting us know we could strip off and run through the neighborhood sprinklers [...] has been replaced with the deepest, darkest red that corporate media graphics departments can create, designed to summon forth notions of hell on Earth.  Observe, back in 1995 — when "John Kettley was the weatherman, [...] — a temperature of 30 degrees celsius was reflected with a gentle orange.  That's 86 degrees to you Americans.  Or "sweater weather" if you're in Arizona.  It wasn't a deep orange.  It wasn't an offensive orange.  It wasn't even as orange as a former President freshly emerging from his tanning bed.  No, by July 2022, the same temperatures (30 degrees), at the same time of year, are reflected with the most sinister red you could imagine.

Can a Crisis Happen If No One Pays Attention?  It's hard to pay attention to fake crises when there's a real economic crises.  Politics as entertainment is most appealing to those who are basically comfortable and aren't worried about basic bread and butter issues.  That's now a smaller demographic than it used to be.  There's also a shortage of actual crises.  People are worried about crime, the actual everyday kind that they might experience, as opposed to the abstract "we need gun control because of occasional mass shootings" agitprop.  The number of actual people whose lives have changed or will change because of the Dobbs decision is tiny.  On the other hand, people are canceling summer plans, moving and scrimping because of crime and the economy.  The pandemic actually affected a lot of people, the current wave of political crises does not.

L.A. Times' 8 'Bombshells' from Hutchinson Testimony Are All Duds.  The establishment media treated the testimony Tuesday of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson at the January 6 Committee as if it were damning for Trump — before her claims began to fall apart.  The fact that Hutchinson was seen actually hugging members of the January 6 Committee, as if they were partners in some joint enterprise rather than investigators seeking the truth, ought to have raised red flags — but did not, until it was too late.  The Los Angeles Times, among others — including Fox News — set aside the basic rules of journalism, accepting as fact the sudden claims made by a witness whose testimony was based entirely on hearsay and who was never subject to cross-examination.  The Times published a list of what it called eight "bombshells" — some of which were soon debunked, some of which remain dubious, and some of which were just a repetition of things that were already common knowledge or that other witnesses had already told the investigation.

Just 5% call abortion [their] top concern.  Abortion, the No. 1 concern in today's media and politics, ranks nearly dead last among areas voters care about as they struggle with paying daily bills, soaring inflation, and interest rate hikes, according to a just-released survey.  While the Supreme Court's decision overruling the 1973 Roe v Wade right to abortion has dominated today's network and cable coverage, the latest McLaughlin & Associates poll said just 5% of voters call it a top concern.  Just below abortion, at 1%, is reviewing the 2020 election, over which the media are also obsessing.

The Hysterical Media Reactions Flow Immediately After Overturning of Roe v. Wade.  As Redstate reported, in one of the biggest and most impactful stories of the last 50 years, Roe v Wade has been overturned by the US Supreme Court.  The leaked draft decision that pushed conversation and outrage for the last several months was real, and it has now been made official.  States now have the right to regulate the brutal practice of abortion as they see fit, a move toward respect for human life and basic morality we haven't seen in this country since slavery was abolished.  It's hard to overstate how big of a day this is for those who have fought so diligently to protect the lives of unborn babies.  No, this doesn't provide a federal ban on abortion, but it does ensure that the federal government can no longer dictate to Americans and their state representatives that they must legalize and support such barbarism.

January 6 committee has hired a former ABC News executive to produce Thursday's 8pm hearing as if it is a blockbuster documentary, report claims.  A former news executive has been recruited by the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol to produce the Democrat-led panel's upcoming primetime hearing, a Monday [6/6/2022] report claims.  James Goldston is a former president of ABC News.  Before that he ran the mammoth-sized operations at Good Morning America and Nightline as executive producer.  And he's now an adviser to the group of lawmakers who are set to present their case that Donald Trump's efforts to undermine democracy culminated in the deadly events of January 6, according to Axios.

Journalist Tries to Crash Uvalde Victim's Funeral, Bikers Have a Different Idea.  The funerals for those killed in the tragic school shooting that occurred in Uvalde, TX, have started to take place.  That comes amidst the relentless politicization of the event by the left and the media — despite the fact that in such a moment, there's typically nothing a family wants more than privacy.  Yet, a "health reporter" from The Houston Chronicle (again, trying to politicize what happened), attempted to crash one memorial in order to take pictures.  Fortunately, a group of bikers, who were there providing security, had other ideas.

The media's role in creating mass shooters gets less attention than it deserves.  Politico published an interview last Friday with two criminologists who have studied mass shootings.  Jillian Peterson is a professor of criminology at Hamline University and James Densley is a professor of criminal justice at Metro State University.  Together, they've created a database of mass shootings since 1966 along with a detailed life history of 180 shooters.  Their research points to a number of commonalities among them.  Right away, they highlighted the role of the media and social contagion in these events, suggesting a connection between the Buffalo shooting and the one in Uvalde.

Mass Shootings: The Media Misinformation Campaign.  If there is any maxim religiously observed by the corporate news media, it is this:  "If it bleeds, it leads."  Moreover, if the blood in question gushes from gunshot wounds inflicted by a deranged mass murderer, the major news outlets uniformly portray the crime as evidence of an ever-increasing wave of violence caused not by criminals but by their weapons.  This narrative is a textbook example of misinformation whereby news organizations studiously ignore data and definitions on mass shootings developed by Congress, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other law enforcement sources.

Was Canada's orgy of self-recrimination over...nothing?  Last year, Canada began an orgy of self-recrimination when researchers claimed to have found a mass grave at a residential school in British Columbia with the remains of more than 200 indigenous children.  The problem is that the ground-penetrating radar used to make this "find" yielded highly suspect results and not a single grave has been confirmed through an archaeological dig.  Now, a group of dissident scholars is calling foul on this entire narrative.

Time Mag is Wrong, Climate Change Will Not Make Food Scarce.  A Time Magazine article ascribes the potential for a major food crisis to two sources:  the war in Ukraine and climate change.  Concerning the latter claim, Time is simply wrong.  While the war in Ukraine and sanctions on Russian exports have had an impact on food prices, there is no evidence climate warming has or will harm food production worldwide.  The Time piece, titled "The Food Crisis Can't Handle Ukraine War and Climate Change," says the current high grocery prices are merely a sample of an even worse crisis to come.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Health Journalist Revealed the Real Purpose of Masks in 2018: Fear.  Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award winning journalist Laurie Garrett gave a refreshingly honest and clear-eyed assessment of the usefulness of masks in fighting coronavirus pandemics.  Unfortunately, her assessment, given as the Keynote Address at the National Academy of Medicine in December 2018, was given prior to the Covid-19 outbreak.  Garrett, a Council of Foreign Relations member, spilled the beans in a presentation called "From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic to 2009 H1N1 Pandemic to Now:  Is the World Ready to Respond to the Next Outbreak?"  After her presentation, which periodically cast doubt on the historical utility of general public masking around the world, she fielded a question from a member of the audience on such measures.  This was her candid response.  [Video clip]

CNN Claims Pro-Life Supporters Will Turn Violent with SCOTUS Victory, Amish Extremists now Threatening ANTIFA Peacekeepers.  This example is just another example of how the Ministry of Truth operates.  Political violence is speech, unless actual speech is heard from their opposition; then, it becomes violence.  War is peace.  Water is dry, etc.  George Orwell sighs.  Knowing there is an increased likelihood of violence incited by far-left democrat activists and the White House, CNN moves their advance narrative engineering team into place to lay the blame for violence at the feet of their political opposition.  With Roe v Wade potentially being overturned, Amish extremists are now going to lay siege to the peaceful assembly of ANTIFA in DC, or something equally stupid.  [Video clip]

Was the Alito Opinion Leak a Distraction?  This Conservative Radio Host Thinks So.  According to Wayne Allan Root, a conservative radio host who is also a brilliant writer, it was the result of something more sinister:  it's meant to be a distraction from the bombshell that Dinesh D'Souza dropped in "2000 Mules," his documentary about the voter fraud that he contends took place in 2020. [...] While a good point, Root isn't the only one claiming that this is a coverup, with others saying that the leak was actually an attempt to cover up the recently released Pfizer vaccine data, another sacred cow for the mainstream media, social media censors, and leftist Fauci-enthusiasts.

NBC Host Suggests Republicans Are Nazis.  Elon Musk slammed NBC News on Monday [5/2/2022] in response to a rant from a far-Left MSNBC host who claimed that Musk bought Twitter and turned it over to "the far-right."  MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, who has compared non-Muslims to "cattle," tried to downplay America's far-Left by claiming that they only want to "give us free health care and free childcare" while claiming that the far-right "wants to give us white supremacy and no democracy."

CNN Analyst Melts Down Over Musk's Purchase of Twitter.  The same leftists who claimed social media isn't censoring conservatives are melting down over Elon Musk's decision to buy Twitter.  Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion dollars last week and the left is not taking it well.  Musk has stated that he believes 'free speech' on social media should match the law of the country.  "I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law," Musk said.  The Biden Regime is so frightened over Musk's decision to buy Twitter that they responded by creating an Orwellian, unconstitutional "Ministry of Truth."  Twitter censored the Hunter Biden laptop story shortly before the 2020 election so Joe Biden is working overtime to make sure he has full control over the internet.

The Media's Latest Attempt at Creating Another COVID Panic Is Beyond Pathetic.  Unlike liberal America, everyone has learned to live with COVID.  It's endemic.  It's going to be here forever.  Haven't had COVID, you're lucky.  You might get it; you have the rest of your life to catch 'rona.  Others who've had it should be prepared to get it again.  It is what it is, folks.  It's the latest edition to cold and flu season; COVID will just be the third person at the party.  It's seasonal.  Get over it.  Take your stupid mask off.  We have therapeutics and vaccines.  The era of lockdowns is over.  Philadelphia idiotically reinstated their indoor mask mandate.  NO ONE followed suit which shows you where everyone is now.  The upcoming 2022 elections have also played a part. [...] And these clowns wonder why everyone is sick of this circus.  It's damaged kids psychologically beyond repair.  The mental health crisis for adolescents is going to be a nationwide epidemic, but at least they wore masks, right?  Liberals' abuse of children in schools over COVID shouldn't shock anyone.

It was Watergate until it wasn't.  During the Trump presidency, I observed the following rule about breaking news, especially negative ones about President Trump.  I would hear the news and wait a day or two.  Why?  Because there was a good chance that the news would turn out to be fake news.  The latest example was the famous "phone time gap."  Where was President Trump during those hours?  Was he hiding in the basement planning the attack on the Capitol?  The media went crazy, from another round of experts to outrageous speculation.  Some even brought up the tired line about this being "worse than Watergate."  How did it turn out?

Oops! Another 'walls closing in' narrative about Trump hiding phone records with a 7-hour 'gap' falls apart.  A couple days ago, the press was wildly celebrating the demise of Donald Trump over Jan. 6 matters.  They breathlesslyclaimed there was a seven-hour stretch of congressionally subpoenaed phone records that was missing from the White House transcripts on Jan. 6. It had to have been removed.  There had to be a coverup!  It's the coverup that'll getcha.  The walls were once again closing in on Trump.  Gotcha. [...] Worse than Watergate, they hollered.  Except that ... oops, they actually found all of the tapes.  There was no gap.

What the Forever Crises Are Really About.  Thomas Hobbes wrote that people are willing to surrender their liberties to government out of fear.  Fear is what compels us to flee to the foot "of the mortal god" that is the state for the promises of protection and security.  Free us from the danger of harm is the impetus of the slow growth of authoritarian government that becomes totalitarian government over the course of time: government's totalizing control over all aspects of our lives.  And what has the century of perpetual crisis revealed?  Precisely this.  If we consent to the government solution in all these crises, we will be free from the danger and harm that threatens our lives.  So we are inundated by the media and the rhetoric of our politicians with the constant threats which rely on a sense of fear to surrender our liberties.  If we do not, then they employ the fear of social and moral shaming:  how dare you not have compassion for your neighbor or grandma!

Another 'Walls Are Closing on Trump' Story Has Collapsed.  How many of these stories do we have to endure from the liberal media before they understand that Donald Trump is not going to be indicted on anything.  The "walls are closing in" stories are too many, but each one has the same ending:  Trump wins.

Former News Executive Reveals the Government 'Warning' Given to Networks to Air Covid Propaganda.  The Covid pandemic response beginning in 2020 was one of the most sweeping cases of media propaganda in world history.  Governments not only lied to the masses ("15 days to slow the spread," e.g.) and made dubious claims based on poor evidence ("mask up" to end the pandemic), but it censored even civilians for doubting the mainstream narrative.  Now, a former news executive at international network Sky News, as well as a veteran of ITV, has come forward to reveal what news audiences have only previously been able to surmise:  Some news networks must have been ordered to adhere to the government's pandemic narratives or risk serious consequences (such as losing broadcasting licenses and other reprisals).  Mark Sharman revealed his disturbing insights into the astoundingly coordinated media coverage of the Covid pandemic in a sit-down interview on British channel GBN's "The Lockdown Inquiry" with host Dan Wootton.

Anyone Else Starting to Get a Bad Feeling About All This Ukraine Worship?  Two things can be true at the same time:  Ukraine is being mauled by vicious invaders, and globalists are laying the foundation to leverage this crisis that they've been building up for months.  The alacrity with which the establishment has thrown its full weight behind the plucky Ukrainian rebels is setting off all my alarm bells. [...] I know a stampede when I see one.  We're still in the death throes of the last one, COVID-19.  Before that, it was Black Lives Matter.  There was also the dreaded Jan. 6 "Insurrection" and Russian Collusion in there somewhere.  The ruined lives, fraud, wealth transfers, and costly infrastructure from those pushes are still stacked up all around us, but Big Global has such an effective machine in operation at this point that they can keep hitting us with ginned-up crises before we have a chance to clean up the mess from the last ones.

The Truth About Biden's Fake War With Russia.  Biden tried to be FDR and failed at that.  Now he's settling for playing a senile elderly JFK.  If you watch 5 minutes of CNN or any cable news network, you might believe that we're on the verge of war with Russia.  That's what the same people who claimed that President Trump was working for Putin want you to believe.  Their new war with Russia is as real as Russiagate.  Democrats want to fight Russia to the last Republican.  They aren't about to fight a real war.  Their fake wars with Russia are an attack on Republicans.  Russiagate came after Democrats spent eight years giving Putin everything he wanted as Hillary toted a Reset Button from a swimming pool and Psaki posed in a sickle and hammer hat.  And that was just what we knew about.

The Unbearable Racism of COVID.  The media like to say that "COVID has struck minorities harder than other races" or, as the Washington Post has it, COVID "ravages" minorities rather than other races.  This is a loaded and utterly dishonest statement, and one with racist undertones to boot.  First of all, COVID is not an agent that decides to "ravage" one race rather than another.  Actually, COVID does not "ravage" anyone.  One contracts COVID, as one would any other disease, and one does so in a number of ways and situations.  Second, there's that word "minorities."  By this the media do not mean minorities in the sense of those who constitute a minority of the population, as do all races, depending upon how and where they are counted.  What they mean are blacks and Hispanics, but primarily blacks.  And among blacks, they do not mean IBM executives or sports billionaires — they mean poor blacks.  The media goes out of its way to find individuals of partially African descent who are unsuccessful, and it then claims they are the victims of "systemic racism."  In truth, they are no more "victims" than is any one of us.  Every person alive has faced challenges.  Some have faced them and surmounted them; others have not.

"The View" Panel Accuses Clarence Thomas of Being a Race Traitor, Says 'He Doesn't Represent the Black Community.  What is Clarence Thomas?  An amazingly thoughtful and intelligent Supreme Court justice?  A hero of sorts that overcame the disadvantages of his upbringing, the prejudices of his time, and the damage done to his career by affirmative action and ended up at the very top of the legal system?  Well, yes, those are both correct answers.  But the jabbering parrots on "the View" didn't arrive at that answer.  No, according to those bitter, cackling hens, Clarence Thomas is a "race traitor."  Yes, they really said that.  Oh, and they implied that Amy Coney Barrett is a traitor to women.  Those comments, indicative of the hate-filled nonsense that suffused the entire segment, are both truly reprehensive and are quickly becoming mainstream thought on the left, which is firmly committed to the radical ideology of CRT and remains stuck on other grievance studies.

Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Publishing Official COVID Narratives Without Questioning Them.  In August, Germany's top newspaper, Bild, apologized for the outlet's fear-driven Covid coverage — with special message to children, who were told "that they were going to murder their grandma."  Now, a newspaper in Denmark has publicly apologized for reporting government narratives surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic without questioning them.  "We failed," reads the article's headline from tabloid Ekstra Bladet, which goes on to admit that "For almost two years, we — the press and the population — have been almost hypnotically preoccupied with the authorities' daily coronavirus figures."

Dr. Nicole Saphier throws cold water on media's 'flurona' fear mongering: 'It's no surprise'.  Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier appeared on the network's "Fox and Friends" Thursday to shed light on what some are calling "Flurona," a medical condition so named for those who have been diagnosed as having COVID-19 and the flu simultaneously.  Host Ainsley Earhardt laid out examples of the condition, noting that the CDC has reported only 79 cases of the double infection so far in the entire nation.  Dr. Saphier said, "I love the way that the media loves to sensationalize something, and I guess this will be our new headline for the next month."  She explained that the "Flurona" is not a new mutagenic or variant of the COVID virus, rather it's simply part of getting sick.

German Paper Apologizes for Scaring Kids With Panic-Driven Coverage of Covid.  In a shocking example of media honesty, the editor-in-chief of Germany's top newspaper, Bild, has apologized for the news outlet's panic-driven coverage of the China flu.  He specifically singled out children who were told "that they were going to murder their grandma."  Editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt videotaped his apology and told the children of Germany he was sorry for Bild's coverage, which was "like poison" and "made you feel like you were a mortal danger to society." [...] You won't see this in most news reports, but the Delta variant of COVID is less dangerous than the variant that China released in 2019.  It has caused far fewer deaths and hospitalizations.

Brilliant Video Shows How Media, Joe Biden and Govt Health Officials Drove the Omicron Fear Narrative.  The Omicron doom and fear narrative became a parody of itself.  One brilliant videographer has put together a mashup showing what took place in the past ten days.  It all started with ultra-progressive Harris County, Texas, Judge Lina Hidalgo holding a dramatic press conference to report that an unvaccinated man in Houston, who was in his 50s, had died from the omicron variant.  However, only one journalist actually called the hospital to check the claim and discovered what progressive Judge Lina Hildago claimed was actually false.  There was no unvaccinated 50-year-old man who died from Omicron in the hospital.  It was all made up by the judicial version of AOC.  Unfortunately, once the media, medical establishment and politicians had that press conference soundbite, from a judge — not a doctor, they were off to the races.  This video brilliantly shows what happened next.  [Video clip]

Inside the Omicron fear factory.  The official response to the Omicron variant provides a case study in the deliberate manufacture of fear. [...] We hear constantly that 1,300 people are dying a day from Covid.  By comparison, about 2,000 people die each day from cancer, and 1,600 from heart disease.  Their deaths get no coverage.  Covid was the leading cause of death in the US only in January 2021, even among those eighty-five and older.  Since then, it has ranked as the third most frequent cause of death both in the overall population and in the elderly.  To read the press coverage, however, you would think that nothing approaches Covid in fierce lethality and that all public resources should be directed to stopping its spread, no matter the costs to the education and socialization of children, to physical and psychological health, and to economic opportunity.

The Corporate Media Freakout Over The Omicron Variant Isn't Normal, It's Psychotic.  Omicron is here, and with it comes death and destruction — unless, that is, you cancel Christmas, hide in your homes, get all the boosters, double mask, and demand to see negative Covid tests and proof of vaccination for anyone who darkens your doorstep.  Any precautions, no matter how seemingly outlandish, are seen as justifiable to protect yourself from this new and terrifying variant.  So it is, anyway, with a disturbingly large number of reporters and commentators in the corporate press, whose coverage and individual responses to Covid have become increasingly divorced from that of the rest of America.  To watch CNN or read The New York Times, you'd think omicron was the most deadly strain of the virus to date, poised to overwhelm hospitals and leave a trail of death behind it.  The reality, which most Americans have readily grasped, is just the opposite:  Omicron appears to be the least dangerous strain of the virus yet.  After five weeks of omicron's spread in South Africa, where the variant first appeared, the news is encouraging: mild to nonexistent symptoms, hospitalization rates nine times lower than previous surges, and extremely low rates of severe illness and death even though only about a quarter of the population is vaccinated.  Here in the United States, only one person has died from the omicron variant thus far, even though omicron cases accounted for nearly three-quarters of new infections nationwide last week.

Professional sports again prove the folly of vaccines and 'COVID protocols'.  Some of the healthiest people on the planet are being managed by some of the dumbest people on earth.  According to Vice, the NFL is now a "COVID superspreader."  With the playoffs beginning in almost exactly one month, there are — as of this writing (the list has been growing daily) — nearly 100 (out of approximately 1700) players on the NFL's COVID-19 list.  Tellingly, Vice notes that "Sixty-five players have tested positive in the last two days, including a single-day record on Monday of 37 new cases."  So again we have an "outbreak" among those who've merely "tested positive" for the Wuhan Virus.  The Vice article goes on to mention how the NBA and the NHL are dealing with "outbreaks" of positive Wuhan Virus tests.  Without one mention of a player who's actually sick, seven times the Vice piece uses the phrase "tested positive" or a close derivative.  Several more times Wuhan Virus "test" or "testing" is mentioned.  No mention of hospitalizations, no mention of deaths, just "tests."  What's more, over 94% of NFL players are "vaccinated" (that definition keeps changing).

MSNBC's Heilemann Claims '30 Million People Right Now' Ready to Take Up Arms for Trump.  MSNBC network national affairs analyst John Heilemann said Sunday [12/12/2021] on NBC's "Meet the Press" that there were "30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms" for former President Donald Trump.

Actor Denzel Washington Infuriates the Leftist Media Because he Tells the Truth About Race in America.  Hollywood has avoided discussing racial issues with several black Hollywood actors for a long time, when they slip up and ask someone like Denzel Washington their race-baiting questions they quickly get destroyed.  Listen as time and time again the legend himself, Denzel, doesn't fall for the race-baiting and instead flips it back to people being individuals, not a collective as the commies and socialists in the USA are hoping for.  [Video clip]

PBS: Kids Are Justified in Feeling Panic Over Climate Change.  On Wednesday's show PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff relayed results from a poll commissioned by PBS NewsHour and Generation Lab, finding that substantial percentages of children believe climate change will effect important life issues for them later on like having children or where they live.  The show then devoted eight minutes to the issue by showing a pre-recorded piece by correspondent William Brangham.  One high school student featured in the piece, Sofia Palau, recalled suffering from panic attacks, and having difficulty studying for the ACT because she kept thinking of the "impending doom."

The Editor says...
The main reason kids have any concern about the climate is that they've been soaking in alarmist propaganda dispensed by the public schools and outlets like PBS.  Today's world-wide average temperature is indistinguishable from 75 years ago.  There is no impending doom.  There is no crisis.  There is no emergency.  There is no reason to be afraid of carbon dioxide.  Many other things should be of greater concern than next year's weather.  Wasting taxpayer money on PBS, for example.

Chicago Tribune Throws Gas on 'Racism' Fire.  [Scroll down]  [The] "World's Greatest Newspaper" slogan later disappeared from the front page [of the Chicago Tribune] on December 31, 1976.  Had it not, this week would have prompted its immediate removal, as the 2021 lame version of the Tribune foisted an incendiary and poorly-sourced news item on readers with the headline "Study shows any contact with police may be detrimental to health, well-being of Black youth."  Call me crazy, but it seems to me that in a city that is already the undisputed Murder Capital Of America (thanks, Lori Lightfoot) and which this week actually saw demonstrators picketing and demanding the removal of the CEO of McDonald's for the "microaggression" of implying gangbangers may not make good parents... a newspaper throwing gasoline on the "racism" fire is probably the last thing any responsible publication would do. [...] The entire basis of this article is a "study" printed in September in the Journal Of The American Medical Association's Pediatrics Review... not exactly a voice of reason.

A Flood Of Superficial Climate Reports.  This past week, the Biden administration doubled down in its campaign against climate change with the release of a suite of four reports, on national defense, financial risk, homeland security, and migration.  These reports all start with the common premise that the climate crisis is now upon us in full fury.  Moreover, they also all insist that the issues at hand are nonpolitical, and that the objective at all times is "to be guided by the best available science and data."  To say the least, however, the claim looks hollow, given that none of these reports offers any data whatsoever to support its major contentions. [...] Sadly, instead of asking any hard questions, these reports just take the worst-case scenario for granted and move on.

The crafty language of climate alarmism.  When really bad, damaging weather hits it is normal to declare a federal disaster.  This which allows Federal agencies to take certain actions, including loans and tax relief.  This is done at the county scale.  So [The Washington Post] looked at all of the disaster declarations in the last three months and determined the cumulative fraction of the US population that lived in those counties. [...] The stretching begins when they report their study.  First we get the headline, which is all that most people will read.  Here is the main headline:  "Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer"  This assumes that somehow every person living in every county "experienced" the local disaster.  The number of people that physically experienced these disasters is actually quite small.  In some cases, like flash floods, most of the county never knew it had happened until they heard the news.  In the hurricane cases a lot of people were not there, while others simply watched it rain really hard.  Losing electricity, while unpleasant, is hardly experiencing a disaster.

Media Test Positive For Corrupt COVID Coverage.  Policymakers and public health officials need to be held accountable for their miserable pandemic failures.  So should the media, which have no interest in objective news, and are following an agenda that is both repulsive and poisonous.  Among the media's favorite stories of the past 18 months are the deaths of the unvaccinated and those who expressed skepticism about the lethality of the Wuhan coronavirus.  A recent example is the death of a 40-year-old California woman, who, according to the British Daily Mail, "regularly posted anti-vax, anti-mask content, proclaiming herself a 'free thinker' who 'questions everything.'"  The mother of four — who also considered herself "unmuzzled" — "had been battling COVID-19 and resulting pneumonia ahead of her passing."  Tragic as her death was, it would not have been covered by the media had she been vaccinated and cheerfully compliant with lockdown and mask rules.  But in the twisted minds of most of today's journalists, it's a story that has to be told to boost their vanity.  They are our moral superiors.

ABC Takes Victory Lap After Smeared BP Agents Are Put on Desk Duty.  Border Patrol was already stretched dangerously thin but on Wednesday [9/22/2021], ABC's World News Tonight celebrated their job getting harder as multiple mounted agents were ordered to "administrative duties" after the rabid left and liberal media smeared them with lies about using "whips" on Haitian migrants.  As NewsBusters had documented all week, ABC anchor David Muir and correspondent Kenneth Moton were committed to parroting the ignorant White House talking point about how the images were "horrific."  "This scene along the southern border tonight.  Texas Governor Greg Abbott using state-owned vehicles to create what he's calling a 'steel barrier,' with the migrant crisis on the border.  And there is news tonight involving some of those Border Patrol agents seen on horseback, confronting migrants," Muir announced in his opening tease.

There Are No Bathrooms at the Border, and Other Shocking Revelations.  Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the Los Angeles  State Media  Times was literally shook to discover just how "dismal" things have become in migrant camps along the border.  I don't mean to make light of the harrowing conditions at the border.  Regardless of the cause, it's not nice to witness humans in peril, even of their own making.  What I am making light of is the L.A. Times and their ilk finding a "story" in the obvious and calling it news.  The very obvious truth is and has always been the same:  there aren't restrooms at the border.  It's not because the United States hates desperate immigrants or even desperate Haitian immigrants or the despotic coyotes who exploit them.  There are no bathrooms at the border because bathrooms don't belong in the middle of nowhere. [...] It obviously comes as a shock to people like Molly Hennessy-Fiske, who clearly have not spent much time in the middle of nowhere and thus do not understand that bathrooms don't grow in the wild.

Nicolle Wallace Tells Brian Williams Current Deadly Covid Surge is Like a 9/11 'Every Two Days'.  Anchoring coverage of 9/11 memorials on Saturday, MSNBC's Brian Williams and Nicolle Wallace discussed the historic significance of masks at the events and covid overall in comparison to the terror attacks of that terrible day.  Williams brought up the subject by way of mentioning the ever-present covid masks.  "Are you ever struck by the thought that on the 40th, 50th anniversary we will look back, perhaps, at some of these pictures and be reminded, oh, yeah, that's when we were all wearing masks?" he said to Wallace.  "That's when even our presidents and former presidents had to wear masks in public because of our uncontrolled pandemic in 2021?"  "Well, I think there are so many parallels to how much more difficult it is to do any of the things that anyone who has spoken today has done, to call the country to a higher purpose," Wallace replied.  "You've got politicians and prominent folks in the media outraged by steps that a president, not too many presidents after the one we heard from today, would try to save his country from an unthinkable death toll."

The Editor says...
[#1] There is no "uncontrolled pandemic."  If you turn off your television, you won't see sick people anywhere, and your life will return to pre-2020 normal in no time.  [#2] I'll take my chances with the relatively small "death toll."  Tyranny is worse than disease.  Diseases eventually go away.  Tyranny does not.

CNN Host, PBS Star Agree 1/6 Is As Big as the Civil War, World War 2.  As we have all learned from Joe Biden's presidency, the phoniest/baloney-est claim from liberals is that they have a deep desire for national unity.  There is no unity in compromise, only in surrender to the Left.  At the end of Sunday's [9/5/2021] Reliable Sources, fill-in host John Avlon interviewed the PBS gasbag Ken Burns, asking him about national unity, and he's as phony as Biden.  This is CNN, so Avlon demands unity in exaggerating the January 6 riot:  [Video clip] [...] How does anyone compare the January 6 riot to World War II or the Civil War?  It's like comparing Hiroshima to the Portland riots.  Liberals love to pose that they are against "partisan echo chambers."  They actually say this with a straight face on CNN... and on PBS.

It's the old "phony struggling against the wind" act.
Weather Channel Busted In Their Coverage Of Hurricane Ida:  Utility Worker Trolls Fake News Reporter.  On the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, some forecasters said Hurricane Ida would be as intense as last year's Laura and the Last Island Hurricane of 1856.  Both were among the strongest storms on record to make landfall in Louisana.  According to CNN, about half a million people were without power in the region. [...] The situation is already serious and there is no need for the media to make things [appear] even more serious.  A quick clip caught a man doing a cartwheel during Weather Channel reporter Jim Cantore's live shot on Sunday amid Hurricane Ida. [...] In another video, Jim is looking like he is on his last legs but the situation at the moment is probably not that serious as a utility worker trolls him.  [Video clip]

Chicken little is real.  A recent front-page headline in my local paper read as follows:  "County bordering on high virus transmission rate."  A doctor with a large regional health system was concerned that the COVID-19 transmission rate had increased by 37% in one week and stated, "A transmission rate above 5% from the prior week is very scary."  It seems useful to provide some context regarding numbers such as these, considering all the numbers being thrown around regarding COVID-19, the apparent push to create a panic over the Delta variant of COVID-19, the obvious push for everyone to get vaccinated, and the fact that the United States is ranked so poorly in math and science.  The first number to be considered is the 37% increase.  It certainly looked pretty bad, but percentages do not always provide an accurate picture.  The county-wide cases went from 11 to 15 during the week in question, an increase of four cases.  So, a 37% increase does not seem to be all that concerning given a population of over 91,000 people.

MSNBC Contributor Spews HATE: Fox News Is Al Jazeera, Trump Is Bin Laden.  Jonathan Capehart's Sunday show on MSNBC devoted a segment today [8/1/2021] to slamming Fox News for its coverage of the January 6th Capitol breach.  And NBC contributor Dean Obeidallah slimed Fox News as Al Jazeera and analogized Donald Trump to the greatest mass-murdering terrorist in US history.  When columnist Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts asked what people would sacrifice, Capehart responded by claiming that Fox News and Republicans on Capitol Hill "have sacrificed their soul."  A bit later, Capehart, somewhat out of left field, blurted out that "whiteness is a [...] drug."  But capping all the inane commentary was Dean Obeidallah.  He said that Fox News is "the Al Jazeera of America after 9/11."  Plumbing even more absurd depths, Obeidallah claimed that President Trump is "the Osama bin Laden of January 6th."

The Panic Pandemic.  The United States suffered through two lethal waves of contagion in the past year and a half.  The first was a viral pandemic that killed about one in 500 Americans — typically, a person over 75 suffering from other serious conditions.  The second, and far more catastrophic, was a moral panic that swept the nation's guiding institutions. [...] The panic was started, as usual, by journalists.  As the virus spread early last year, they highlighted the most alarming statistics and the scariest images:  the estimates of a fatality rate ten to 50 times higher than the flu, the chaotic scenes at hospitals in Italy and New York City, the predictions that national health-care systems were about to collapse.  The full-scale panic was set off by the release in March 2020 of a computer model at the Imperial College in London, which projected that — unless drastic measures were taken — intensive-care units would have 30 Covid patients for every available bed and that America would see 2.2 million deaths by the end of the summer.  The British researchers announced that the "only viable strategy" was to impose draconian restrictions on businesses, schools, and social gatherings until a vaccine arrived.  This extraordinary project was swiftly declared the "consensus" among public-health officials, politicians, journalists, and academics.

Dear Reporters:  The Capitol Riot Was Not 9/11, and the story is not about the media.  There is a faction of the news media that seems stuck on January 6.  They need to get some perspective.  And political hucksters who claim that the Capitol riot was worse than the September 11 attacks deserve all the derision they get.  One symptom of the January 6 fixation is a recent Vice article entitled, "'So, So Angry': Reporters Who Survived the Capitol Riot Are Still Struggling." [...] Get over yourselves.  The Capitol Hill press corps are not the first people to deal with a traumatic event and be expected to keep doing their jobs.  This was not the worst of those, and some of those other events were also wholly or partly the work of political actors.  Ask any of us who went through September 11.

Pandemics are staged on Television.  When a new epidemic is launched and promoted, despite the lack of good science and good evidence, it is jacked up on television screens.  Images begin to flow:  An emergency medical vehicle on a street.  EMT personnel, in hazmat suits, load a man strapped down to a stretcher, into the van.  On another street, a man collapses on the sidewalk.  We see a quarantined man sitting inside a huge plastic bubble on a third street.  Cut to an airport lobby.  Soldiers are patrolling the space among the crowds.  Cut to a lab.  Close-up of vials of liquid.  Camera pulls back.  Techs in light green scrubs are placing the vials into slots of a table-top machine.  Auditorium — a man on a platform, wearing a doctor's white coat, is pointing a wand at a large screen, on which a chart is displayed, for the audience.  Back to the street.  People are wearing face masks.  These images wash over the television viewer.  Meanwhile, the anchor is imparting his prepared meaning:  "The government today issued a ban on all travel into and out of the city... hundreds of plane flights have been cancelled.  Scientists are rushing to develop a vaccine..."  The television audience has an IMPRESSION of knowing something.

The Left Is Now Scaremongering The COVID 'Delta Variant'.  COVID-19 infection rates are down.  Deaths are down.  Vaccinations are up.  So what's the response from the left?  It continues a desperate attempt to scare the public and blame Republicans.  The left's bellwether outlet, the New York Times, perfectly sums up this agenda with a story headlined "Red America's COVID Problem," in which the Times writes that "COVID remains a serious threat to unvaccinated adults, especially those middle-aged or older" and that it's rising in Trump-supporting areas of the country where vaccination rates, they say, are lower.  "No wonder, then, that the number of new cases keeps falling in Biden counties, while it has begun to rise in Trump counties," the Times goes on.  The Washington Post's increasingly leftist "conservative" columnist Jennifer Rubin declares that "Red states are dangerous to America's health."

Washington Post reporter troubled by 'racist legacy' of some birds.  According to The Washington Post, it's hunting season for cancel culture and its latest targets are "racist" birds.  The Post ran an expansive report on Thursday, titled "The racist legacy many birds carry," focused on the "birding community," which apparently is having a difficult debate "about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers."  "Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies," Post environmental justice reporter Darryl Fears began his piece, noting she was hired to "break down barriers" at the Georgia Audubon nature preserve.

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Lots of places and things are named after badly flawed people.  Get over it.  The people insisting on renaming them all are at least as badly flawed.

Someone Needs to Do a Wellness Check Over at CNN.  You'd think a "news" network that exists to shill and promote the party that gained power in the 2020 election would take a deep breath, but things have only spiraled further for the liberal outlet. [...] CNN and the media at large have reached the point of complete derangement.  They see doom and destruction around every corner, well, unless it's coming from any facet of the left.  In that case, they'll make excuses for torching cities and killing cops.  Regardless, imagine waking up this morning and putting together that homepage and thinking you are emotionally healthy?

How the American Media Perpetuates and Profits from Mass Shootings.  The American media currently has no industry standard practices for how to cover either suicides or mass shootings.  However, one can easily see the difference between how mass shootings and suicides are covered.  Whereas suicides are treated as somber tragedies, mass shootings often have the sensationalism turned up to 11.  There's a detailed discussion of the shooter's life story, motives and methods.  Strong evidence suggests that this both encourages and instructs potential mass shooters.

Oprah's new AppleTV+ show says celebrities aren't like the rest of us.  If you want to know what's going on in the world, don't (really, don't) look at the New York Times or Washington Post.  From them, you get only Democrat partisan spin.  Instead, check out the Daily Mail, an enlivening mix of news and gossip that, despite grammatically awful writing, manages to get a lot of information (and dreck) across.  What it succeeded in doing on Friday was to reveal the mental damage that affects so many of the celebrities who opine about and dangerously affect America's values.  AppleTV+ has released a series of interviews between Oprah and Harry (the prince formerly known as Prince) in which we are given a pathetic insight into the mind of a marginally intelligent, minimally informed man who tragically lost his mother in the most explosive way.  It shouldn't surprise anyone that he has emotional issues or that he married a woman who knows how to manipulate all of them.

If There's Nothing to Hide, Why Are Democrats Freaking Out about the Arizona Audit?  If you have been keeping an eye on the election audit taking place right now in Maricopa County, Arizona, then you also know that Democrats, news propagandists, and "concerned" NeverTrump Republicans are beginning to sound more and more like trapped rats squeaking in fear.  An army of lawyers — many of the same political operatives who manipulated the November election by contravening existing election laws and flooding battleground states with uncontrolled and unverified mail-in ballots — are begging state and federal courts to stop the audit midcourse and petitioning Arizona's Democrat secretary of state and Merrick Garland's Department of Justice to intervene under the absurd pretense that ensuring election integrity somehow deprives voters of their civil rights.  Arizonan and Biden-supporter Cindy McCain has publicly called the vote recount "ludicrous" because "the election is over."  And MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is so terrified of what the auditors might find that she insists that the whole exercise is not only "dangerous," but also the "end of democracy."

Are Covid Fatalities Comparable with the 1918 Spanish Flu?  [Scroll down]  It is common to invoke comparisons with the 1918 Flu Pandemic, as that was an extremely devastating virus that rocked the world.  The article makes multiple references to the 1918 pandemic but there are a couple that raise interesting questions for further investigation.  The first point is as follows, "Combined with deaths in the first few months of this year, Covid-19 has now claimed more than half a million lives in the United States.  The total number of Covid-19 deaths so far is on track to surpass the toll of the 1918 pandemic, which killed an estimated 675,000 nationwide."  Comparing the death counts between the 1918 Flu and Covid-19 without adjusting for population growth is extremely misleading.  In 1918 the population of the United States was roughly 103 million, while near the end of 2020 it stood at roughly 330 million.

The True Lunacy of Reparations.  With race relations apparently having a permanent place in the headlines and radical race activists doing all they can to keep us at each others' throats, we once again have the race-baiters out there calling for — you guessed it, reparations.  And when I say "back in the headlines," I mean that the "racial tensions" are a story because the media have a massive vested interest in keeping them in the headlines.  One of the media's goals is to keep Americans angry and believing that we all hate each other, because the headline "Everyone Is Getting Along Today" doesn't sell newspapers or advertising space and doesn't generate the Almighty Click.

Derek Chauvin — The great white defendant.  Cable channel HLN has covered the trial from gavel to gavel.  When bumping in and out of commercial breaks, HLN displayed a graphic, accompanied by foreboding music, showing two fists tearing an American flag in half, with the caption "America's Very Soul Is on Trial."  Black Lives Matter activist Maya Echols, in a since-deleted TikTok video, said:  "If George Floyd's murderer is not sentenced, just know that all hell is gonna break loose.  Don't be surprised when building are on fire.  Just sayin'."  And Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., says she is "hopeful" of a conviction, but if not, Waters said:  "We've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational.  We've got to make sure that they know we mean business."  No, America's "very soul" is not on trial.

Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails.  The mainstream media is pushing a non-stop narrative of covid mutation hype.  We hear about UK and Brazilian variants on a weekly basis, and the assertion has been that surely, these variants will be more infectious and more deadly that the original virus.  There is still no proof whatsoever to confirm this, but the globalists only care about planting the idea in people's heads.  They only care about reigniting the fear.  My feeling is that this strategy is going to fail, at least in the US.  Too many Americans are aware of the con game, and a new virus threat is not going to have the same effect as Covid-19 did in the early months of the pandemic.  None of us really knew what we were facing back then, and caution was a practical response.  Today, we know for a fact that covid is not a concern for the vast majority of the public.  Media attempts to amp up the threat will be ineffective, but they will of course still try.

Coordinated propaganda:
Major News Outlets Pledge to Begin Calling 'Climate Change' a 'Climate Emergency'.  A number of major news organizations worldwide, ranging from Scientific American and The Columbia Journalism Review to The Guardian and Al Jazeera, have signed a pledge to begin referring to "climate change" as a "climate emergency" in their reporting.  "Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term 'climate emergency' in its coverage of climate change," the publication announced Monday in a tweet to its 3.9 million followers touting "the impact we hope it can have throughout the media landscape."  "We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We're Going to Say So," the headline of a Scientific American commentary published Monday declares.  Claiming that that climate change is "the biggest environmental emergency to beset the earth in millennia," the piece announces the name change:  "Given the circumstances, Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term 'climate emergency' in its coverage of climate change."

CBS reportedly paid $7M for Prince Harry, Meghan Markle interview.  CBS reportedly paid more than $7 million for the rights to air Oprah Winfrey's highly anticipated tell-all interview with Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.  The two-hour interview, set to air at 8 p.m. Sunday [3/7/2021], cost the network a pretty penny — likely somewhere between $7 million and $9 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.  CBS bought the lucrative rights — the network is charging $325,000 for every 30 seconds of commercial time — from Winfrey's Harpo Productions, and can also license the interview in international markets.  A spokesman for the Sussexes' told the Journal they were not paid for the interview.

Press focuses on Ted Cruz, ignores the building crisis at the border.  The media is intent on reporting on Ted Cruz's one-day trip to Cancun, because it wants to divert attention from Joe Biden's intentional destruction of America.  It is the same reason they lied that Biden was a 'moderate' during the election and why they buried the stories of all the Biden family corruption while they were effectively campaigning and de facto contributing to Biden.  The truth would have destroyed Biden.  The media manipulated and colluded in the election more than Russia or even China has ever done.  Biden is violating his oath of office to uphold immigration laws while flooding Texas and other states with illegals, including many violent criminals, yet Cruz should resign because he left the U.S. for a day?

Fake News Wannabes.  We had a pretty good snowstorm the other day.  I switched on the local news when I got up, naively imagining that they would give me a little useful information in between their usual dire warnings not to leave my home.  For the first time that I can remember they weren't much interested in ice or snow.  They were concerned, instead, that the weather not deter me from going to my local vaccination center.  They wanted to educate me, too, that today was the first day of Black History Month, that blacks die at three times the rate of whites from COVID-19, and that the black vote was suppressed in the recent election.  You remember that election?  The same one that the same station had declared, with smug satisfaction, that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won easily.  On the following day, a glutton for punishment, I watched these journalistic titans show a teaser for their upcoming investigative report — on the topic of the rise of extremism in America.  I didn't need to actually watch to know that they would not be talking about Antifa or Black Lives Matter.  Their extremists are my friends and neighbors.  The American middle class.  You know — that majority far-right fringe.

How your Washington news gets distorted by media priorities.  You may not see much news coverage on the world's 100,000 airplane flights that land safely every day.  Let one of them crash, however, and you'll see smoldering wreckage and sobbing relatives for 24 hours.  It's the same in news coverage of U.S. politics.  Now for the first time in memory a research team has examined thousands of news interview transcripts and documented what might seem an obvious but very important conclusion:  Extreme views and words by far get the most attention, air time and views online.  People who speak in moderate tones with reasonable views pretty much get ignored or forgotten. [...] The lesson in all this — especially for House members who must campaign every two years — is that being the mouthiest, loudest, most extreme interview and speaker is the way to get noticed by mass media.  And they often stage conflict and confrontations to obtain media attention.

California, land of delusion.  The latest verbal gymnastics our local San Francisco Bay Area, 11 o'clock news team tried and failed to explain was why, when COVID cases are rapidly plummeting, we are not opening the state.  There are only five counties that have "graduated" out of the deadly Purple Tier as of this morning [2/21/2021].  After months of touting the so-called crisis in ICU capacity, now we get no mention of that issue.  Instead, we're treated to ten minutes of proud stories about massive new vaccination sites.  These are immediately followed by stories about the lack of available vaccine doses.  It's almost funny.  We are exhorted to do our duty and get vaccinated, for the common good, if we can find any vaccine.  I know people who desperately wanted it and had to drive for hours to locate doses.  Personally, I wouldn't get the vaccine.  But that's another story.

Expect Overheated Climate Reports Advancing Radical Energy Agendas.  Don't be either surprised or alarmed to see lots of authoritative-sounding "hottest time ever" media reports in advance of President Biden's pledge to recommit America to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and support for his all-out war on fossil energy aimed at eliminating carbon emissions from electricity by 2035, and achieving "net-zero carbon emissions" by 2050.  An example appeared in a January 26 Wall Street Journal editorial "World's Ice is Melting Faster than Ever" citing "a new satellite study" which concluded that global melting had dangerously accelerated 65% between 1994 and 2017.  The research was conducted by a team of legitimate scientists from the U.K.'s University of Leeds Centre for Polar Observation and Modeling, the University of Edinburgh, University College London and an Edinburgh-based climate data company called Earth Wave Ltd.  Where the study conclusions go feverishly wrong concerns altogether unsupportable speculations that the melting was "driven by rising atmospheric and ocean temperatures resulting from greenhouse gas emissions."

Something's in a nosedive.  Scary news stories are the norm in the Age of COVID.  Earlier this month, on January 2, 2021, The Hill reported that experts at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) predicted 150,000 deaths by the beginning of February.  Just one problem:  Recent data suggest that the worst of the pandemic is over.  In the interest of unity, let's analyze the COVID data on daily new cases and deaths from the New York Times — in particular, the seven-day moving averages.  Using a moving average is important since there are obvious reporting problems from the relevant state agencies.  The raw daily data have a suspiciously consistent saw-tooth pattern.  There is an unrealistic drop on weekends and holidays and a corresponding explosion during mid-week.  Using the seven-day moving average effectively eliminates the reporting problems by incorporating data over the prior week.  Looking at the curves for new cases and deaths, the NYT data show something perplexing.  As seen in the graphs, the curves are going the wrong way for nightmare scenarios.  According to the NYT data, the IHME's January model's prediction of 150,000 deaths is a fantasy.

First Duty of the Press:  Make It About Race.  Even after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, the media felt the need to pile up the false accusations.  Their first order of business was to turn it into a story about race.  The Trump riot has as little to do with race as any story in 21st-century America.  COVID, immigration, tax cuts, the stimulus — I could come up with a racial angle for any of those.  Your assignment:  Make the siege at the Capitol a story primarily about race relations.  You, a normal person, one week later: I'm stumped.  But to our media, the main point to be made about the riot was:  Can you imagine what would have happened if black people had done that?

Imagine being this detached from reality.  This installment of unhinged hysterics comes to us from NBC News.  ["]WASHINGTON — After last week's deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, members of Congress are expressing something once unthinkable:  that some of their own colleagues may be endangering their lives.  Not in a rhetorical sense, but in a direct and immediate way.["]  Yes, some Democrats in congress are genuinely worried that their conservative colleagues are going to actually murder them.

Do Not Believe These People.  Maybe I'm just cynical, which I know I am, but every single time one of those teleprompter-reading TV personalities masquerading as journalists use a phrase like "It's a sad day" or "It's impacted all of us," I want to throw up.  There has never been a phonier, less trustworthy group of people with more influence in history.  When idiots stormed the Capitol building, the pearl clutchers went into overdrive with the "this is horrible to see" and some "this is a tragedy" talk.  Yes, both are true, but does anyone believe they actually feel any of it personally?  Why would anyone care about a country when they hold half its citizens in contempt?

News readers consider themselves heroes, until the moment they consider themselves victims.
Jim Acosta goes after Trump supporters: 'A number of us received death threats... we feel endangered'.  CNN's prima donna White House correspondent Jim Acosta became a household name not for his reporting, but for his politically-motivated clashes with President Donald Trump.  Acosta has also targeted the president's supporters, only to then complain that he was receiving death threats, which helped ensure that he remained the center of attention.

The worst-case scenario is the only one that sells newspapers, books, or cable news.
MSNBC Doom and Gloom Doc:  Don't Get Overly Optimistic About the Covid-19 Vaccine, We're in For a "Decades-Long Battle".  MSNBC rolled out a doom and gloom doc Thursday morning [12/24/2020] who warned Americans not to get overly optimistic about a Covid vaccine because we are in for a "decades-long battle."  Dr. William Haseltine promoted his books on Covid as he fear-mongered.  Dr. Haseltine doesn't want Americans to forget about Covid and go on with their lives because he has books to sell.

How dumb would you have to be, to believe this?  So dumb that you'd intentionally watch CNN?
CNN's Sciutto:  Trump Not Conceding Could Put America in 'Potential Danger' for Another 9/11.  CNN anchor Jim Sciutto said Wednesday on CNN's "Newsroom" that President Donald Trump's refusal to concede the 2020 presidential election could put America at risk for a terrorist attack like the 9/11 attacks.  Co-anchor Poppy Harlow asked, "Yes or no, are the actions of the president is taking now putting this country in danger?"  Former Bush administration assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith said, "Clearly, it's not great for our democracy."  Sciutto said, "Yep, that's it fair.  Let's put some teeth on that if we can for a moment because they are sitting members of Congress who were around in their positions at the time of 9/11, and the 9/11 commission report specifically cited the shortened transition after the 2000 election for having an impact on national security.  I'm quoting here, 'It hampered the new administration in identifying, recruiting, clearing and obtaining Senate confirmation of key appointees.'[...]"

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Whose fault was that?  Who tore all the "W" keys off the White House typewriters in January 2001?  It wasn't a bunch of Republicans!  This whole argument is a red herring anyway, but the Left could at least come up with an honest analogy.

COVID Panic Porn is Meant to Suppress Trump Vote, But It May Do the Opposite.  Right on schedule, the panic pornsters are shrieking in unison that COVID-19 cases in the United States are on the rise.  Virtually overnight, dozens of stories have appeared in the press, on the internet, or broadcast on the nightly news about the renewed danger. [...] Grim-faced broadcasters on CNN and MSNBC might as well be wearing death masks as they solemnly intone the latest numbers of those who test positive.  They even throw in the story of an untimely death or two to add a human interest element to their tale of woe.  Somehow, however, they never find time to mention that mortality rates are way, way down.  It's always how we're all going to die from the China Virus.

'Truth' Over Facts.  In his memoir, Banana Sunday, the late British newspaperman Christopher Munnion described his first encounter with what was then called New Journalism.  This was a style of newswriting that got going in the 1960s and 1970s.  It was more like long-form fiction than conventional reporting. [...] The new style of journalist came to the story with a narrative in mind.  He was a storyteller who would provide the reader with a sense of what it was like to be in the story, at least the story the writer wanted to tell.  As Munnion explained, the journalist showed up with a prepared narrative and then went around looking for people, events, and images to fill in the details.  The facts were mere ornaments to decorate the story, not the point of the story.

Vile Scarborough:  You're 'Un-American' If You Vote for Trump.  While most left-wing journalists try to channel all their anger at President Trump, they will occasionally go straight to the punch and just start attacking people who support him.  On Tuesday morning [10/20/2020], the co-hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe scolded American voters who dare, for any reason, to vote for Trump.  With Election Day exactly two weeks away, and millions of Americans already voting, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski decided it was time to launch a brutal verbal assault against Trump supporters.  Apparently triggered by Trump speaking publicly about the Biden family's alleged corruption on Monday, Scarborough whined that it's unacceptable to vote for him for any reason.

QAnon: The Media's Latest Obsession.  Big media has had multiple obsessions during President Trump's first term.  From Stormy and Avenatti to the myriad tell-all books about Trump, his administration, and his family.  From Russia and an innocuous phone call to Ukraine, to his taxes and how many scoops of ice cream he is served.  These are all red herrings, a way to pick at Trump while studiously avoiding serious policy issues, what he is actually accomplishing as president, promises made becoming promises kept.  The latest obsession is QAnon, in the media and recently at the NBC town hall event.  Despite being billed as a question and answer session, it was more of a debate between President Trump and NBC's partisan newsreader Savannah Guthrie.  Of all the issues facing America in 2020 and of concern to voters, QAnon is not on the list.  Yet she laser focused on QAnon starting with[,] "Let me ask you about QAnon" to which Trump responded, "I know nothing about QAnon."  Rather than moving on to the economy or healthcare, she obsessively persisted, insisting that Trump denounce "the fringe conspiracy theory."

The End of Covid Hysteria.  Most of the nation was stunned by the news that Donald and Melania Trump had contracted COVID. [...] The amount of insanity and hysteria poured into Trump's diagnosis by the Democrat/media complex the rest of the weekend was almost funny to watch.  Did his doctor lie?  Did he lie?  What about the 25th Amendment, the procedure of presidential replacement, the coming election, the pending Supreme Court appointment, the number of people surrounding him who were infected?  How dare he take a five-minute ride with Secret Service agents to thank his well wishers!  Non-stop around the clock hysteria.  Almost none of it was helpful, and most of it was true as believing the sky is falling.  Gotta love our responsible, fact-driven media.

Corporate Media Is Vomiting Trump Coronavirus Reporting All Over The Bed.  The latest news cycle over President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis illustrates yet again how destructive the U.S. corporate media are to national unity and a clear understanding of reality.  While we are all aware that COVID-19 can be a truly devastating and deadly disease for some, despite the volume of media coverage dedicated to it in the past seven months, the American public still lacks crucial context for understanding Trump's diagnosis.  Not only has major media coverage not brought clarity, but it has also, as usual, obscured reality.  This is especially harmful to a story with such significant potential ramifications for the nation and world.  As the president himself has alluded to in his post-diagnosis social media posts, it's common knowledge that the Wuhan virus hits the elderly especially hard.  Trump is 74.  Yet even among his age demographic, surviving the disease, not death, is by far the norm.

Here Were CNN's WORST Moments Immediately After Trump's COVID Diagnosis.  Throughout Friday's early hours, CNNers repeatedly expressed best wishes to President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump after having tested positive for the coronavirus.  But behind those best wishes, CNN not only levied their usual, poisonous rhetoric, but plenty of subliminal levels of apocalyptic brainstorming, gloating, and calls for a return to global lockdowns.  Perhaps worst of all, it led off CNN analyst and former Obama flack Sam Vinograd claiming the President's diagnosis could "be the most dangerous moment that the U.S. government has ever faced."  No word on why the Civil War, Cuban Missile Crisis, four presidential assassinations, September 11, 2001, or two World Wars tested America and her government less.

Please spare me the maudlin rhetoric about Ginsburg's 'tragic' death.  The insufferable Chris Wallace of Fox News kept referring to the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as "tragic" on yesterday's [9/20/2020] edition of Fox News Sunday.  While I am full of sympathy for her family, loved ones, and friends who all have lost someone they deeply mourn, I cannot see how her death is "tragic" — unless one is a partisan Democrat fearing loss of control of the Supreme Court.  Justice Ginsburg lived to a ripe old age and remained active until almost the very end of her life.  As even President Trump stated, she lived an "amazing life" and lived it to the full until the end.  We all are mortal!  Dying itself, while sad for those left behind, is not a tragedy.

What Has 2020 Taught Us?  [Scroll down]  Then the riots started.  Then the fires, the hurricanes, the election.  I do hope that with all this practice we've learned courage, and that we've learned we must depend on God and His infinite mercy.  We cannot fight this on our own.  We also should have developed an antipathy towards the media.  They have been culpable in spreading and stoking these fears.  They have twisted statistics, adulterated the language, slung clueless accusations, and propped up asinine excuses for the violence.

Eyes Are Rolling After 'Journalist' Jon Karl Equates Covering Trump Rallies to Taking Family Trip to Fallujah.  Every once in a while, the masks completely slip off and supposedly objective journalists accidentally reveal in no uncertain terms what their political colors to their readers and viewers.  Such was the case earlier this week when former White House Correspondents' Association president and ABC News White House correspondent Jon Karl talked to National Journal, which did a story on how "the White House press corps finally drew the line" Sunday on covering President Trump's indoor campaign rallies, which they apparently find hazardous to their health in the age of the Wuhan coronavirus.

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The left-wing news media wants everyone in America to live in constant fear of the coronavirus (and the rioters, and the Russians, and 5G telephone service, and earthquakes, and hurricanes).  They want Americans to believe that it's dangerous to walk into a crowd without a face mask.  I'm not buying it.  It wasn't unsafe a year ago, and it's not unsafe today.  From where I'm sitting, it appears that the coronavirus crisis, if there really was one, is over now.  As soon as the presidential election is over, the news media will forget all about it, because America can go back to (the old) normal at any moment — just as soon as somebody sends out the "all clear" decree.

The Truth About Slavery.  We are continually misled by progressive propaganda on the issue of race.  Misinformation bleeds over to the conservative realm as well.  The media, Hollywood, and academia are consumed with race, tribalism, and hatred for our Founding.  The real agenda here is power, divide and conquer to pursue some ill-conceived Utopia.  The truth is that violence is part of the Left's playbook.  They are opportunists and provocateurs ready for any excuse to attack our freedom.  Much of the violence we see is a planned political strategy taking advantage of the crisis du jour.  Racism is not our Achilles Heel.  It is the ubiquitous manipulation and exploitation of race and racism that threatens our way of life.  Political operatives masquerading as journalists feed the hate 24/7.

The Black New Deal: 1) Abolish Welfare 2) Incentivize The Nuclear Family.  [Scroll down]  The time for black complaints is over.  Slavery happened in America like it has happened in every culture around the world since the beginning of time.  Slavery has been prohibited in the West, and apart from communist China and parts of Egypt, most of the East.  Moreover, as recent studies have shown, racial police brutality has declined to the point of statistical insignificance.  The raison d'etre for the Black Lives Matter organization is a rounding error.  Recent spikes in crime aside, broadly speaking, America has never been safer.  So why does everything feel worse?  For one, media and technology.  Mainstream media, citizen journalism, and nonstop social media all contribute to the sense that our racial divide is at the root of all evil.

MSNBC's Biden Backers Demand Voters End Trump's 'Reign of Terror'.  On Sunday afternoon's MSNBC Live with Alex Witt, during a discussion of President Donald Trump's use of federal agents to counteract rioters in Portland and how it might impact this year's presidential election, MSNBC contributor and liberal historian Jon Meacham conflated segregationist Democrat George Wallace with non-segregationist Republican conservatives like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater.  After Meacham encouraged viewers to vote against President Trump's "reign of terror" in November, MSNBC Republican Michael Steele agreed with him and encouraged Democrats to turn out to vote against the President.

The Left is signing up citizens to physically remove President Trump from office if he loses.  The left continued to spread the narrative that President Donald Trump may refuse to leave the White House if he loses the election in November.  And left-wing political commentator and Young Turks host Cenk Uygur added to the conspiracy theories on Tuesday [7/21/2020] as he, too, offered a way to rid the country of the president in case the United States military "does not remove him from office" after a supposed loss in November.

Media Malpractice on COVID Numbers.  COVID-19 data are and have been all over the map since this entire mess gained steam earlier this year.  It has gotten to the point that any "numbers" presented as news are suspect at best and fraudulent at worst.  Is this media incompetence or malpractice?  Ignorant or deliberate?  Fox News ran a constant side bar in the early days of the pandemic, with U.S. death counts, much in the way cable news business shows run a ticker of the Dow or S&P 500.  How morbid, but it provided fodder for media talking heads to run around like Kevin McCallister in Home Alone, waving their arms and screaming in panic.  Now that death counts are dropping to the point that they blend in with normal birth and death statistics, the media have predictably pivoted to case counts as their new hair-on-fire statistic to stoke fear, keep the economy shut down, and hopefully banish their nemesis back to the land of Mordor, also known as Mar-a-Lago.

The Press Is Already Trying To Whip Up A New Pandemic Panic.  Oh, no!  With the planet still unlocking and some parts still tightly buttoned down, and with the world economy plummeting, "China Researchers Discover New Swine Flu with 'Pandemic Potential,'" blares CNN.  "Scientists Say New Strain of Swine Flu Virus Is Spreading to Humans in China," shrieks the New York Times.  Say it ain't so!  Okay, it ain't so.  Not in any meaningful way.  The media should go back to "murder hornets," or find another asteroid with a chance in a zillion of hitting Earth.

Not dying is bad for headlines.  As the bumpy COVID-19 path back to normalcy bounces along, you would never know that we were headed in the right direction.  Teasers on television and headlines in newspapers report a "surge" in new cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations.  The teasers and headlines fail to mention that the most important measure of our progress in getting ahead of the virus is the number of deaths recorded.  The fact that the rate of fatalities to infection is very low now is seldom if ever mentioned. [...] The CDC data show that as of July 1, 2020, death in people younger than 25 is less than 170 out of a total of 120,000.  It is almost non-pronounceable to state a fatality rate — too many zeros after the decimal point.  My point is this:  if you are young and healthy, you have nothing to fear from the coronavirus except the fear-mongering from the media.

The Huge Law Enforcement Scandal that Cries Out for Justice.  In the American Thinker (June 30), Jack Cashill offers an eloquent plea for an Atticus Finch to take up the cause of George Zimmerman in suing those responsible for perpetrating the Trayvon Hoax.  There is another case, also in Florida, awaiting its Atticus Finch, the product of an earlier moral panic, the now largely forgotten "mass sex abuse in daycare" hysteria.  These cases, replete with lurid charges the media mindlessly and breathlessly disseminated in the 1980s and '90s, are today widely recognized as a modern version of the Salem witch trials of the 1690s, down to allegations of Satanic rituals by caregivers.  Despite this, one victim remains incarcerated.  Frank Fuster has now served thirty-five years in prison for a crime not only that he did not commit, but that never happened.  His first parole hearing is scheduled an unbelievable 114 years from now — in March 2134.

Media Begging for a 'Second Wave'.  The media is churning out countless alarmist stories each day about the threat of COVID-19 and the dangers of societal reopening.  "Risk of new lockdown rises with fear of second COVID-19 wave," writes Reuters, as one example of the genre.  These stories generally incite, rather than inform.  They cherry-pick facts and lack context.  Only when the COVID picture is viewed in perspective are people able to make wise decisions about their actions.  It should be safe for society to continue broadly reopening while directing resources to specific at-risk populations, such as nursing homes and prisons, which are more vulnerable.

Don't fear a coronavirus spike.  Mainstream media are sounding the alarm about coronavirus cases spiking across the South and West.  They're distorting the facts to cause panic, instead of reporting the whole truth.  Gov. Cuomo is piling on, accusing states that have reopened of playing politics instead of acting "intelligently." Sorry, but "intelligent" isn't the word that describes his administration's pandemic response.  He caused carnage by forcing nursing homes to take in infected patients.  He also has no good answer for why New Yorkers unfortunate enough to catch the virus had a worse chance of surviving it than people in other states.  The Empire State ranks 48 out of 50 states for survival rates.  Dodging accountability for these [...] facts, Cuomo is bragging about his results and bashing President Trump for encouraging states to reopen.  Cuomo is flat wrong:  The US daily death count from the virus is down nearly 80 percent from its peak in March.  It's telling that the likes of Cuomo and his media allies don't focus on death and hospitalization rates anymore, but almost exclusively on infection rates, to build their doom-and-gloom scenarios.

Brad Parscale:  Campaign Was Not Duped, Media Scared Supporters from Tulsa Rally.  Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale on Sunday [6/21/2020] berated the media for savaging the campaign's small crowd size in Tulsa on Saturday, despite boasting a million campaign ticket requests beforehand.  "For the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting but typical," Parscale wrote in a lengthy statement to reporters.  "And it makes us wonder why we bother credentialing media for events when they don't do their full jobs as professionals."

Pandemic to Protests:  Coverage Shifted But Outlooks Didn't.  After three months of wall-to-wall television coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost overnight the live infection dashboards and often-uttered phrases like "social distancing" have all but disappeared, replaced with images of a nation in racial turmoil.  How are the major cable news channels covering the protests and what do their different narratives teach us about how the media frames national events?  The data provide some clues.  Since late February, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News have spent at least 15% of their daily airtime on the pandemic, based on data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project.  CNN displayed a live dashboard of infection and death counts a total of nine hours a day, seven days a week.  As much as half of all news coverage worldwide mentioned the virus.

How do we explain the many thousands of Americans who believe they are entitled to steal?  Night after night, we have watched thieving thugs break windows of small and large businesses, charge into them, and run out with as much merchandise as they can carry. [...] It is very likely that they are proud of themselves.  The media certainly support them, seem to give them permission.  Why do the media do this, support the rioters?  Ratings, of course.  They love riots, cherish their power to get them going.  They love filming the looting without any police presence to stop it.  Do they care about the lives of the business-owners that are destroyed in the process?  Not one bit.  There is not an anchor or guest "analyst" on CNN or MSNBC who feels an iota of compassion for the victim of the destruction wrought by these riots.  To a person, they lend their on-screen approval to the rioters.

Imagining covid-19 under a normal press.  [The New York] Times embraced abnormalcy in August 2016 when it demanded journalists abandon objectivity when covering Donald John Trump.  The Times demanded that journalists treat every statement by him as a lie that he must somehow prove.  The Times also demanded that journalists no longer seek his side of the story when reporting the news. [...] The Pandemic Panic is on the press, not the president.  The press has politicized the covid-19 response.  A normal press would have been careful and balanced in its reporting.  This press is loony.  At one press briefing four different reporters in four different ways asked the president if calling the Chinese Virus the Chinese Virus was racist.

Showboating With 100,000 Dead.  On May 27, the American coronavirus death toll rose to six figures:  100,000 lives lost.  That's a very sad number, made sadder when we ponder that the virus prevents loved ones from saying goodbye in person and makes any funeral an extremely small event.  America's largest national newspapers have all made dramatic front pages out of the number.  The New York Times came first on Sunday [5/24/2020], filling its entire front page and three more pages with names of the victims.  USA Today followed on Wednesday with an entire front page in black and white and photos of the dead.  The Washington Post waited until we reached the horrible number but still printed some stories on the front page.

Carlson: Liberal Media Are 'Thrilled' with Division, Want People to 'Hate One Another'.  Between Wednesday [5/27/2020] and Thursday nights, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson was in rare form when discussing the riots in Minneapolis supposedly in appropriate response to the heinous, police-involved killing of African-American man George Floyd.  Carlson didn't mince words, noting that "news organizations like CNN" want Americans to "hate one another" and wondering if liberals would still support rioting if it involved destruction of their property.  On Wednesday night, he reminded viewers of how "[r]ioting is a form of tyranny" and "oppression," but "CNN welcomes it, however, in fact encourages it" since rioters are instead called "protesters."  Carlson added (as he would on Thursday): "America is a diverse country.  Diverse countries only survive if the groups within them can coexist peacefully and thankfully, almost everybody in America wants to coexist peacefully."  However, he noted that liberal media outlets like CNN don't seem keen on that: "[N]ews organizations like CNN do not want that and that's why every day they work hard to fan racial resentment to make different groups distrust and hate one another."

Trump wins the lockdown wars.  President Trump has won the lockdown wars as coronavirus-related restrictions on businesses are eased across the country, so far with few signs of dire health consequences for the population.  Just weeks ago, the question was whether to reopen, with the first states to press ahead accused of engaging in human sacrifice and killing their residents to appease the "Trump death cult."  New York Times columnist Paul Krugman asked, "How many will die for the Dow?" as recently as Thursday [5/21/2020].  Now, the debate is primarily over how quickly and to what extent reopening should take place, with the stragglers mainly blue states.

CNN Becomes Unhinged Because Trump Decided to Golf... Without a Mask.  CNN has made a name for themselves as one of the most anti-Trump networks out there.  After all, they heavily pushed "Russia!  Russia!  Russia!" When Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no collusion took place between the Trump campaign and Russia, CNN focused their coverage on Ukraine and a supposed quid pro quo.  Then it was impeachment.  Anything that is anti-Trump can be found on CNN.  So it's no surprise that one of their photographers captured pictures of President Trump golfing *GASP* without a mask on Saturday.  Not only was he golfing with a few other people but he was riding in his own golf cart.

Liberal Media Hypocrisy Never Ends.  If you watched CNN or MSNBC you'd probably think you're going to die. [...] Daily, viewers and readers are told they're going to die, that Republicans want them to starve and Democrats are their only hope... and they believe it.  They all believe it.  If it's unproven and scary, there is no shortage of media outlets lining up to spread that story.  Is there a link between coronavirus and Kawasaki disease, and inflammatory illness the strikes children?  Journalists have no idea, but there is no shortage of stories about how there might be.  Words like "tied to," "believed caused," and "possibly linked" are common in headlines trying to scare [...] parents thinking about going outside as their states reopen.  Lacking evidence used to stop a story from being run, now it's the basis for them.

Limbaugh says the media is using their climate change playbook on coronavirus reporting.  Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh compared the coronavirus to climate change and accused federal health officials and the national media of using a global pandemic to scare American citizens.  "It seems like every day we get some new scare tactic from some supposedly credible source," Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated program Thursday.  "And what generally happens is after some reporting of what everybody would consider good news, in less than a day, a couple of stories come along, maybe three, that try to throw cold water on the good news and make it sound even worse than it was the day before — and that's what this is."

CNN's Brian Stelter Melts Down Over Conservative Media Exposing Russiagate Conspiracies.  Call it a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome, CNN's Brian Stelter suffered an on-air meltdown Sunday [5/10/2020] over conservative media paying any attention to arguably the largest spy scandal in American history instead of breathlessly covering ongoing public health pandemic, which, center-right outlets are still doing.

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I think this exposes the real purpose of the coronavirus hysteria:  The media-induced virus panic is deflecting attention away from the Obama spying scandal, just as it comes to light in the middle of an election year.

CNN, MSNBC Suffer EPIC Meltdowns Over 'Nuts,' 'Terrifying' Flynn Decision; 'The Fix Is In!'  In a Thursday afternoon that felt like a trip back to life before the coronavirus pandemic, CNN and MSNBC were not only apoplectic over the Department of Justice dropping its case against retired General Michael Flynn, but despondent over the "demoralizing," "destructive," "nuts," and "terrifying" "injustice" that signaled "the collapse of the Justice Department" and "the rule of law."

The Media Racket And The Coronavirus Numbers Game.  The coronavirus is real, and tens of thousands of people around the world have died from it.  But it is not the pandemic we were told it was going to be.  That's not a complaint.  If anything it's gratitude.  Thank God it hasn't been worse.  Unfortunately, in the build-up to our current reality, the media noticed something — their ratings were up.  Obviously, people were tuning in to find out if they were going to die or not.  Telling them it was highly unlikely that they would only drive them back to their old viewing habits and away from cable news.  Print media found the same thing with their traffic.  This terrified Democrats too, with CNN and MSNBC, along with most newspapers, firmly in their camp and eager to spread fear and blame, something had to be done.  They broke out the boxes — a running total, always on screen, of cases and deaths which, without context, can only scare.  The context is never, ever given.

COVID-19 [is] turning out to be huge hoax perpetrated by media.  A recent Stanford University antibody study estimated the fatality rate from the virus is likely 0.1% to 0.2%.  The World Health Organization (WHO) had estimated that the death rate was 20 to 30 times higher and called for isolation policies.  On which version do you think the media focused? [...] The media has been hyping COVID-19 since Day One, alarming Americans to the point where they voluntarily went along with shutting down the entire economy — a mistake that will likely reverberate for a decade or more.  Even as U.S. states begin to re-open — based on the data, which shows a far lower fatality rate than reported and a much wider spread of the virus — the media continue to report on what they deem frightening numbers over the deadly virus.  They aren't, and it isn't.  COVID-19 is a bad flu at worst.  And the media should be held accountable for telling us otherwise before they knew the facts.

The Most Tragic Case of Governmental, Medical, and Media Malpractice In the History of the World.  [Scroll down]  The little real anecdotal evidence accidentally seeping into mainstream media indicates that the actual fatality rate in our nation from COVID-19 is less than the fear-merchants are displaying on their "Death Dashboards."  Potentially, far less.  Unbiased professional reporting could tell us the real numbers.  But then, that's the rub.  Much of the liberal mainstream media signed up for team "Doom and Gloom" from day one.  At first, they did so to create as much fear and panic as possible so they could use COVID-19 as the mother of all click-bait cash cows.  Once that was accomplished, many in that same liberal media chose to keep the fear-mongering going as a political tool.

A CNN journalist pens a fascinating insight into the left's dystopian worldview.  On April 7, Bill Weir, CNN's Chief Climate Correspondent, had a son.  Weir wrote an open letter to his son telling him that he was born into Hell on Earth, also known as the modern Western world.  The letter perfectly encapsulates everything the left hates and wants to see destroyed. [...] Weir is a tragic figure because he has eyes but cannot see.  The real tragedy, though, is that people like Weir, through the power of the media, drive too much of America's political agenda.

Chris Cuomo's coronavirus performance shows he is an insecure blowhard.  On Monday [4/20/2020], CNN posted video of pseudo-newsman Chris Cuomo "finally" emerging from self-quarantine in his Southampton basement — despite Cuomo having been out and about in East Hampton just last week, getting into a fight with a "jackass loser fat-tire biker" who dared to ask why an infected Cuomo was breaking quarantine.  Without a face mask.  "Who [...] are you?" Cuomo replied.  "I can do what I want."  Yes:  If we've learned anything about Chris Cuomo these past three weeks, it's that he's an insecure, self-important, entitled blowhard who suffers in the shadow of his much more accomplished and respected brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The Left Is an Existential Threat.  The March 2020 issue of Fortune magazine focused on the "existential threat" to the Earth posed by global warming, despite the fact that no significant global warming seems to be taking place.  With its appealing cover art — an image of the Earth tied up in a plastic trash bag — this issue is just what I'd expect from a liberal outfit.  It's typical of climate alarmists to begin by assuming their premise:  warming is an existential threat because, well, it is.  And anyone who questions that premise is a criminal.  Just what is meant by "existential threat" is a bit vague.

Chuck Todd Is Wrong (Again): There Are Huge Downsides To The Media Being Overly Alarmist.  There are no costs associated with being "overly alarmist" in the face of a global pandemic, "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd claimed on Sunday.  His comment encapsulates the attitude of the media and other elites as they drive people and state and local governments deeper into a panic that has resulted in the loss of tens of millions of jobs, the likely permanent closures of hundreds of thousands of businesses, a general inability to pay rent and other monthly bills, a lack of treatment for non-coronavirus health problems, the closure of churches and schools, the exacerbation of disparities by socio-economic status in educational attainment, disruptions to the supply chain, and the destruction of trillions of dollars of American wealth. [...] The problem is that the experts who are being listened to so carefully are solely focused on minimizing mal effects from the coronavirus, all other considerations notwithstanding.

President Trump needs to set the country free now.  For weeks now, nearly every media outlet has behaved as though the Covid19 virus was a cause for celebration.  They broadcast the numbers like they show the stock market or election returns.  It is positively ghoulish.  Even Fox News, which used to have more sense, has capitulated to the hysteria; that network, too, is all in on manufacturing panic and fear.  They are engaged in panic-mongering.  They are encouraging the wholesale destruction of the American economy.  The worst are hoping and wishing for that outcome.  That is how much they are willing to sacrifice to see the president defeated.  The American mainstream media is the most dangerous enemy of America.  There can no longer be any doubt about that fact.  For nearly four years, they have worked hand in hand with the Democrat party to do whatever harm it can to this country if it will take Trump down and out.

Does America need Journalists?  Here's a free tip for the media:  If you don't want to be accused of bursting with glee over America's misfortune, it is generally helpful to not cheer America's misery while doing all in your power to amplify and extend it. [...] Here are a few obvious suggestions.  For one, a journalist's reporting on the current crisis would show some sense of proportion and would weigh tradeoffs between protecting America's physical and economic health, since they can't be uncoupled.  In the long run, economic destruction if allowed to proceed unabated will do far more damage than the virus can ever achieve. [...] What we have are the media that cried wolf, completely incapable of informing when an actual crisis shows up since their faux outrage is always cranked to max power, even if indeed they wanted to inform.

Trump's not scaring people about the coronavirus:  The media are.  I understand critical reporting, but if anyone is guilty of scaring the public, it's the national media.  They have reported on this pandemic and the administration's response to it as though it were something out of the Book of Revelations.  Every single death is characterized as an avoidable tragedy — something that we should have been able to stop if not for an inept president.  In fact, the experiences of many countries not led by Trump has been strikingly similar.  The truth is that no one, not the president, not scientists, and certainly not the media, has a firm grasp on what will happen with the coronavirus.  So far, we've identified trends in how it affects people, and we have some projections about how bad things will get, but that's about it.

Trump's Kiplingesque Coronavirus Leadership.  [Scroll down]  The yellow journalism storm hit hurricane strength when Fox's Tucker Carlson told the Trump base that America would end unless the president came forward with a comprehensive national plan.  Even then, President Trump's next proposals were moderate.  They mostly loosened government rules restricting private medical responses and still emphasized federalism and decentralization.  But in the face of the media blizzard and Congress' belief that spending trillions was the only way to "do something," all Washington agreed on the need to throw trillions of their borrowed money at the crisis and exert drastic new controls.  The executive finally accommodated to this panic.  Even then, he expressed hope that extreme controls would last only for a limited time, setting the restrictions for 15 days.

Fear and Panic for A Purpose — The Coronavirus Evolves Into "The Blue Plague".  The "Blue Plague" is an intentional effort by various interests to create fear-porn amid the American population by intentionally hyping a mass hysteria about the coronavirus.  In many ways the Blue Plague is exponentially more dangerous than COVID-19 itself.  Earlier today [3/26/2020], The New York Times became the epicenter of the Blue Plague by stating people in hospitals throughout the city were dying, as desperately under-prepared and under-equipped doctors and nurses could not find ventilators for thousands of arriving patients in a state of panic.  This was/is incitement at its worst.

Explosion of leftist hate aimed at Dr Birx after she demolishes media's panic narrative.  Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, has proven to be a voice of reason in a time of crisis — much to the angst of the hostile, anti-Trump media.  The hair-on-fire media is pushing a panic-inducing worst-case narrative in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak, focusing on predictions of alarming increases in those who contract the Chinese virus while reporting on dwindling hospital supplies and do-not-resuscitate orders allegedly being discussed to free up more beds.  Yet, Birx stands calmly before the American people at the nightly press briefings and reminds agenda-driven journalists of a little thing called facts, beseeching them to be more responsible in their reporting.  "There is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion," she implored.

We Should Start Mocking The Media More; Two Suggestions They'd Hate.  The corporate political news media in America is an absolute disgrace that deserves something far less respectful than criticism.  They deserve mockery.  If you're paying attention and I don't blame you one bit if you're not, then you know that our nation just watched the corporate media in America 1) create a national panic meant to inflict economic and social destruction that they could weaponize and use against President Trump, and 2) further bolster that attempted domestic terrorism by siding with the Chinese Communist Party's every lie and attack on our nation and the Trump administration.  As if the last four years of being useful idiots for Russia and doing everything they can to stoke division, distrust and discord in America weren't bad enough — the corporate media in America, aka the swamp's marketing arm, are now actively trying to create economic and social carnage in America while literally cheering on the Chinese Communist Party's attacks on our President and nation.

The Manchurian Media.  Last Thursday [3/12/2020], the Media Research Center assembled a video clip of the media melting down over Republicans correctly noting the origin region of the coronavirus, screaming that it's rrrraaaaaccccccism and/or xenophobia to refer to it as either "the Chinese Coronavirus" or "the Wuhan Virus" — along with 35 times the media referred to the virus as "the Chinese Coronavirus" or "the Wuhan Virus." [...] I'm pretty sure that John Frankenheimer didn't intend for The Manchurian Candidate to be a how-to guide.  But if the media were paid Chinese agents, could they do more to harm this country than they're already doing now?

A little perspective helps.  What's worse?  The rapid spread of a novel virus which originated in China or the media hysteria created and broadcast around the world?  If it was the intent of the American media to create a state of fear and panic, they've succeeded brilliantly.  The dissemination of information pertinent to the virus has morphed into a murky river of rumors, innuendo, outright lies and blather proffered by pundits who are neither doctors nor experts on much of anything other than opinionating.

If It Bleeds, It Leads:  The Morbidity Of The News.  New York Magazine ran an article in 1989 titled "Grins, Gore, and Videotape — The Trouble with Local TV News" by journalist Eric Pooley.  Pooley was angry about the quality of the stories being published locally and the sheer volume of stories whose subject matter was grim and menacing.  Pooley said, "The thoughtful report is buried because sensational stories must launch the broadcast:  If it bleeds, it leads." The media in and of itself is a physical manifestation of our primal desires and fears, and they take great joy in using it for their own political purposes.  Most likely, the populace is the very cause of the demand.  Ever notice the number of rubbernecking motorists who slowdown in order to see something on the other side of a road or highway, often the scene of a traffic accident.  It's the same thing with this Covid-19 outbreak.  If it bleeds, it leads, and they are doing their best to panic America.

Here's Why the Deep State and Wuhan Virus Are Like White on Rice.  The Democrat-media complex and their Deep States allies have elevated the Wuhan virus crisis to virtually a mass hysteria over the past couple of weeks.  Their goal is transparent, of course:  to instill fear, to tank the economy, and to ascribe blame for everything on President Trump as a means of setting the table to take him out in the November election since their impeachment farce (and other gambits) have failed to get the job done beforehand. [...] This is precisely the reason why the Democrats and their lickspittle media are weaponizing the Wuhan virus crisis.  It is yet another overt attempt on their part to take out the president.  Compare their hysterical actions over the past few weeks to the virtual silence during the 2009 H1N1 swine flu epidemic.  Obama didn't even declare a national emergency until over 1,000 Americans had died of the disease, yet President Trump has been repeatedly castigated for his supposedly "chaotic response" to the Wuhan virus.

'Trump's Chernobyl': Media Wuhan Virus Hysteria Stokes Public Panic.  Since the coronavirus came on the horizon, media figures have been stoking panic, leading to mass shortages of basic health supplies, business travel cancellations, and market drops, all while the confirmed disease number hiked yesterday [3/10/2020] to around 0.000002 percent of the U.S. population.  So far, U.S. cases of the basic seasonal flu outnumber coronavirus cases by a factor of 45,000 (using federal stats for this year's flu and real-time tracking of coronavirus confirmations).  The flu season has even been especially bad this year, with between 20,000 and 52,000 deaths, compared to 29 so far from coronavirus.  According to infectious disease expert Dr. Paul Carson, who works for the North Dakota public health department, the flu appears to be about five times more contagious than coronavirus, which means containment is possible, although especially for the elderly coronavirus appears to have higher death rates.

Dr. Drew Pinsky slams media for inciting coronavirus 'panic'.  Celebrity physician Dr. Drew Pinsky said the media is stoking the flames of coronavirus "panic" in the United States, and the industry should "be held accountable."  "What I have a problem with is the panic and the fact that businesses are getting destroyed, that people's lives are being upended, not by the virus, but by the panic," Pinsky said in an interview with CBS last week.  "The panic must stop.  And the press, they really somehow need to be held accountable because they are hurting people."

Coronavirus By The Numbers.  Big media is all about ratings, view, and clicks, hence their axiom, "If it bleeds, it leads." A viral outbreak is the perfect story, on par with a missing Malaysian airliner or a celebrity football player named OJ on trial for murder.  The added bonus is that any negative news can be laid at the feet of a president loathed by the media, who just so happens to be running for reelection.  The media is in full campaign mode, trying desperately to drag the carcass of one of their corpselike candidates across the presidential finish line.  Stoking fear over quarantines and supply chain disruptions have sent the stock market on a downward roller coaster ride.  One of President Trump's major achievements is the roaring economy.  Taking the stock market down 25% or more may help the Democrats. [...] Look also at past viral illnesses, far more lethal than coronavirus.  The fatality rate for MERS and SARS was 34.4 and 9.5% respectively.  Neither illness generated as much media hysteria as coronavirus.

Can the Coronavirus-Panic-Creating Media be Sued for Closed Businesses and Lost Jobs?  The deliberate panic created over the coronavirus is not victimless.  Far from it.  When the radioactive dust settles from this orchestrated panic-strategy, potentially hundreds of billions will have been lost, thousands of businesses closed, and millions of employees fired.  When the coronavirus first reared its ugly head, many in the media instantly saw it as a cheap and easy way to increase clicks, newspaper sales, viewers, listeners, and most especially Ad revenue.  In the guise of "informing the public," they intended to run scare headlines and stories to spike attention to their sites.

Latest Climate Report Feeds into Alarmist Fearmongering.  The latest National Climate Assessment, released just last week, aims to plant yet another seed of climate catastrophism into the mind of the public.  Predictably, its worst-case scenarios got huge play in the media.  After all, disaster sells.  But the doomsday scenarios that animated talking heads throughout the weekend aren't just highly unlikely; they're close to impossible.

The Coronavirus Numbers Are Not Quite What They Seem.  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the articulate, veteran director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, described at the presser how the efforts to prevent the spread — or "contain" the virus — would continue, but warned that we should expect the number of coronavirus cases in the United States to increase.  Fauci emphasized that the chance of becoming infected remains low and that the majority of those who contract the virus — 75 to 80 percent — will experience it like a "bad flu or a cold."  The other 15 to 20 percent, he said, may need "advanced medical care."  "For the most part, the people who get in trouble and ultimately tragically would die from this are people who are elderly and or have underlying conditions ... heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, obesity," Fauci said.  Some of the "if it bleeds, it leads" media immediately jumped on the 15 to 20 percent figure, multiplied it by the entire U.S. population of about 330 million, and concluded that we might need 50-60 million hospital beds, for which we are unprepared.

Think Trump is 'outrageous?' He's nothing compared to these past presidents.  Unprecedented, unprecedented.  Everything is unprecedented.  Nothing like this has ever happened before.  Except it pretty much has.  Whenever you see the word "unprecedented" in the media, you should ask yourself:  Has this reporter ever read a history book?  Make the case against Trump if you want to, but if you pretend the sorts of things he does are without precedent, you simply make yourself look ignorant.

How Dumb Are America's College Students?  It is an article of faith on the Left that college girls are raped at a rate orders of magnitude above the national average.  If that were true, not only would law enforcement be devoting much of its resources to the college rape epidemic, but 18 year old girls and their parents would avoid our universities and colleges like the plague.  But, of course, that isn't happening.  The whole thing is nonsense.

Media Spread Gossipy Barr Resignation Rumor.  "Sources" tell ABC News that "Attorney General Bill Barr told people close to Trump Tuesday that he is considering resigning over the tweets."  Right.  Do any of these corporate media outlets have any credibility?  No, but it keeps the news cycle saturated with hysteria and occasions them a freak out on their political snuff shows and Twitter.  "News" of the Barr resignation was first reported by one the largest purveyors of fake news and gossip:  The Washington Post.  Shortly after the resignation rumor was reported the DoJ shot it down.  "Addressing Beltway rumors:  The Attorney General has no plans to resign," DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec tweeted.  It would be absolutely tragic if Barr were to leave because Trump would never, ever be able to get a good replacement.

Really Bad Things the Media Is Ignoring Because of Impeachment.  Have you heard that the president has been impeached?  Seriously, the trial is happening right now in the U.S. Senate.  I'm kidding.  Of course, you can't escape the news because it's the only thing the "news" is talking about.  We're in the middle of the most choreographed foregone conclusion in history and the media is treating it like a whodunit.

Nets Hype Alleged Trump Audio Only ABC Has Heard, Refuses to Air.  Without providing any evidence, ABC News made headlines on Friday when they claimed they had heard an audio recording of President Trump ordering the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine to be fired, something that would supposedly aid Democrats with impeachment.  Both CBS News and NBC News pounced on the reporting during their evening newscasts despite the fact ABC had not released the audio or commented on its authenticity.  For something that was supposedly a bombshell uncovered by his own network, World News Tonight anchor David Muir sure kept his distance when he kicked off the program with the report.

Don't buy the media hype over the new China virus.  A CNN reporter broadcasts from Wuhan, China, on the recent viral outbreak.  There is nobody near who could possibly infect him — unless the cameraman has Guinness Book of Records coughs and sneezes.  So why does he insist on wearing a blue surgical mask while talking?  It's called "drama," which is badly needed, because there appears to be nothing very special about this outbreak of the 2019-nCoV or Wuhan virus.  It should actually be called the DvV, or Déjà vu Virus, because we have been through these hysterias before.  Over and over.  Heterosexual AIDS, Ebola repeatedly, the H1N1 swine flu that was actually vastly milder than the regular flu and, especially, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003.  Once you start debunking mass hysteria over outbreaks, it gets easy, because the same patterns repeat themselves.

Another dud in the string of bombshells.  [Scroll down]  If it takes exhaustive and complicated explanations to pinpoint precisely why something is a "bombshell," then it is not a "bombshell."  That is the point of a "bombshell."  It is so powerful that it does not need to come wrapped in complicated explanations.  But there is no rabbit hole these people will not venture down in pursuit of President Trump.  There is no zany conspiracy theory they will not gulp down to keep the party going.  And there is no arcane strip of federal code from centuries gone by that they won't dust off to construct their rickety case for impeachment.

Greg Gutfeld Loses It Over the Pomp and Circumstance of Impeachment.  [Scroll down]  ["]We know this was an emotional tantrum directed at daddy who won the election, and they're mad at daddy.  So we have to go through this phony procession.  Ooh, let's show pictures of the cloak room!  Ooh, let's watch them walk down the halls!  Ooh, this is breaking news!["]

The Fantasy War That Never Was.  Over the past few weeks, the media have been singing in 100-part harmony that America is headed to war.  From Fox News and CNN, to MSNBC and the New York Times, media magpies have been proclaiming that America is going to war with Iran, thanks to the rube-in-chief who has no idea what he is doing.  The New York Times declares the U.S. and Iran are, "At the edge of war."  The Wall Street Journal at least asks, "Will the U.S. and Iran blunder into war?" [...] We have been at war with Iran for 40 years, since the Georgia peanut farmer thought the semi-thuggish Shah of Iran was a bad guy, and a religious fanatic would be a better choice to lead the country.

CNN's Brian Stelter Does Deep-Dive Data Analysis on Trump's Twitter Typos.  CNN's Brian Stelter used up three-and-a-half minutes of his basement-rated Sunday show to blow the lid off of President Trump's Twitter typos.  Well, two things we can all spell is "3.6 percent unemployment" and "a 40 percent decline in viewers."

When did routine bad weather become such big news?  Bad weather on Thanksgiving week can be stressful in the best of circumstances.  But this week's outbreak of TV weather hysteria was a sight to behold.  For days on end, even Trump news was booted from the top of the network evening newscasts by dire warnings of the "triple storm danger" heading across the country and the "holiday travel nightmare" likely to result.  The reports hit all the usual TV-weather bases: shots of skidding cars and chugging snowplows; airport scenes of passengers stranded by flight delays; Al Roker bounding among the weather maps as though he were plotting a military operation.  And, as always, the alarming statistics: 21 million people under winter-weather alerts; 97 million vulnerable to high winds; "2,000 miles' worth of winter-storm watches, advisories and warnings," stretching from California to the upper Midwest.

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On the other hand, very cold weather at Thanksgiving, including snow in southern California, is newsworthy because it's a little early in the year for all this snow.  What happened to "global warming?"

Everything You Hear About Billion-Dollar Disasters Is Wrong.  The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) counts the number of disasters in the United States that result in losses of greater than $1 billion, starting in 1980.  Over the past three decades that count has shown a sharp increase, from five or less such disasters each year in the decade of the 1980s to ten or more in each of the past 4 years.  That increase must be due to climate change, right?  Actually, no.  The billion-dollar disaster tally is easy to understand, simple to communicate, but — regrettably — incredibly misleading and just plain bad economics.

CBS Anchor Advertises Televised Impeachment Hearings Like Fight Entertainment.  By her excitement and choice of words, one could easily think failing CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell was promoting a pay-per-view boxing or pro-wrestling match during Wednesday's [11/6/2019] newscast.  But no, she was hyping the televised impeachment hearings that would start next week.  In addition to that, NBC Nightly News chided Republicans were wanted the public to know the identity of the infamous anti-Trump whistleblower who helped to start the investigation.  "Tonight, lights, cameras, testimony.  The stage is set for the first televised hearings of the impeachment inquiry," O'Donnell excitedly proclaimed during the program's opening tease.  "We now know when they will happen and who may be the Democrats' star witness."  Once they were finished with the teases, O'Donnell could barely contain her glee as she sprinted to call them "historic," adding, "televised impeachment hearings begin a week from today, and it promises to be must-see TV." [...] She was acting more like a fight promoter for a UFC match than a journalist.  S

Democrats may come to regret choosing impeachment over independents.  Ukraine.  Doral.  Impeachment.  Syria.  Schiff and Pelosi.  Hunter and Joe.  Trump and Trump.  Impeachment.  Secret hearings and secret Russian "assets."  Impeachment.  The media can't get enough of it.  Most people have had enough already.

Local California CBS reporter fired after jumping on, damaging cars during live news segment.  A local CBS reporter in California was apparently fired after he — during a live news segment — climbed atop classic, privately-owned cars, even seemingly damaging one of them in the process.  Angel Cardenas, a correspondent with KMAX-TV's "Good Morning Sacramento," was on air Sunday at the Sacramento International Auto Show, a weekend-long event at Cal Expo that was about to begin its final day.  Someone who caught the segment on air, Adam Copeland, posted a clip of it to Facebook, as he has "never seen such a disregard to someone else's vehicle."

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I've seen several so-called reporters over the years who played the role of out-of-control daredevil/buffoon on the Big Morning Show.  This is the reporter who is the first to ride a new roller coaster at Six Flags, or the one who goes bungee jumping on live TV, or goes rappelling down the side of a building.  (In larger TV markets, the Happy Team of Steve Serious and Suzie Plastique "anchor" the Big Morning Show, but after the first ten minutes, they've run out of news.  At that point they may have to resort to pie-in-the-face slapstick to retain viewers.)  At times, you may hear Steve and Suzie, back in the studio, gasp in phony astonishment at the risks being taken out in the field.  And then, after no more than three minutes, the buffoon in the field will wrap it up.  This is all done for the purpose of grabbing the audience's attention through whatever means necessary, much like a two-year-old screaming in a restaurant.  In this case, the buffoon/jackass thought he could get away with anything, and found out otherwise.

How the American Media Perpetuates and Profits from Mass Shootings.  The American media currently has no industry standard practices for how to cover either suicides or mass shootings.  However, one can easily see the difference between how mass shootings and suicides are covered.  Whereas suicides are treated as sombre tragedies, mass shootings often have the sensationalism turned up to 11.  There's a detailed discussion of the shooter's life story, motives and methods.  Strong evidence suggests that this both encourages and instructs potential mass shooters.  Statistically speaking, mass shootings represent a tiny portion of all deaths in the United States. [...] Despite the low frequency of these tragedies, the media pays outsized attention to them for self-serving reasons, which are both political and economic:  There's a demonstrated anti-gun agenda amongst America's media.  And there's the ongoing shift in the media's business model to attention-based revenue that results in ever-more sensational news coverage and "clickbait" headlines.

Anti-Trump Psychodrama 10.0?  What do the Kavanaugh hearings, Jussie Smollett, the Covington kids, the Mueller investigation, and now the Trump phone call all have in common?  Staged melodrama, media collusion hysteria, progressive demands that justice be served immediately, promises of walls-are-closing-in blockbuster revelations from new witnesses, supposed surprise revelatory documents, fusions between Democratic politicians and Washington bureaucrats — and then bust, nada, and teeth-gnashing as the truth catches up to various rumor-mongers.

Disappointing State Department IG Meeting Deflates U.S. Media.  For two days the mainstream media were breathlessly reporting on an "urgent request" from the State Department Inspector General for a closed-door meeting.  Media sources whipped their left-wing audiences into an anticipatory frenzy with predictions of devastating information soon to come from an "explosive" and "highly unusual" request.  It must must be connected to President Trump and Secretary Mike Pompeo hiding devastating information, they said...  Well, the super-anticipated 'closed door' briefing was held today, and the IG handed out packets of information related to revelations of Democrats colluding with the Ukraine government.  The exact opposite of what the media and the professional left anticipated.

They Demand Our Respect, Yet Treat Us Like Fools.  Six months ago I wrote about the liberal media masquerading as journalists to scam the American people down a rabbit hole with their contrived high noon drama-filled fake news scandals. [...] Unfortunately, we are still bored with these manufactured scandals.  These snake-oil salesmen Washington "insiders" have not figured us out yet.  But we've figured them out.  They are desperados who cannot survive without their 'sky is falling' narratives.  As pathetic as these high-brow so-called intellectuals are, they are simply people who stayed in Washington long enough to drink the Potomac Kool-Aid, catch the fever, and delusively believe the universe centers on them — that all of America is riveted to their televisions and newspapers yearning to hear what these chatterboxes have to say.

CNN Counts Down The Number Of House Democrats Who Support Impeaching Trump With 'Impeachment Clock'.  CNN is anticipating impeachment proceedings to begin against President Donald Trump with an "impeachment countdown clock."  The network has a graphic behind the anchors that is adding up the number of House Democrats who support impeachment.

California ramps up efforts to combat invasive swamp rodents.  The swamp rodents, called nutria, are setting off alarms in California.  They weigh about 20 pounds (9 kilograms) each and eat the equivalent of about a fourth of their weight each day by burrowing into riverbanks and chomping into plants that emerge from the water.

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Nothing new here.  They've been around Houston for decades.

Network Morning Shows Hype Trump Impeachment 17 Times [in One Day].  On Monday [9/23/2019], the network morning shows managed to feature some variant of the word "impeachment" a total of 17 times while reporting on President Trump's phone call with the President of Ukraine about corruption allegations against Joe Biden's son Hunter.  In addition, ABC, NBC and CBS eagerly touted a letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accusing Trump of "lawlessness."

White House Press Secretary Says Daily Briefings On Hold Because Grandstanding Reporters Trying To 'Get Famous'.  During [George W. Bush]'s time in office, the White House press secretary held a briefing nearly every day.  Reporters crammed into the smaller-than-it-looks Brady Briefing Room and badgered the secretary with questions, usually for about an hour.  Some in the first row, usually employed by a TV network, would drone on and on, holding court, asking questions that sometime ran for two minutes (air time, don't you know).  And some, like NBC's David Gregory, would ask five, six, seven questions, often as his colleagues behind him moaned.  Barack Obama held fewer daily briefings, and under President Trump, they barely ever happen.

Yellow Journalism to Fake News:  Media lies against Justice Kavanaugh.  [Scroll down]  The stories were frequently alarming, nudging readers toward hysteria and, as the case usually was, largely fiction.  Today its lineage has continued to other gold medal aspirants:  The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, and others. [...] But the gold medal remains in the hands of the so-called Gray Lady:  The New York Times.  Frank Luther Mott identifies yellow journalism based on five characteristics:
  •   Scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news
  •   Lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings
  •   Use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudoscience, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts
  •   Emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips
  •   Dramatic sympathy with the "underdog" against the system.
Yellow journalism has had its day reaching its pinnacle during the early 20th century.

Good News.  I rarely watch cable news anymore.  It's all hysteria, all the time.  CNN: "We are destroying the planet."  MSNBC: "The middle class is disappearing!"  President Donald Trump says drug trafficking "is worse than ever!"  I'm glad my favorite magazine, Reason, cuts through the gloom and tells us the truth:  There is less war and more food.  We live healthier and longer lives. [...] It's a surprising message, since most journalists tell us everything's terrible.

There's A Good Reason People Hate The Media.  On Tuesday morning [9/10/2019], the liberal media was in a tizzy — National Security Advisor John Bolton had been fired or resigned.  It didn't matter which, there was a "shake up" in the Trump administration and these Democrats with press passes were ready to pounce. [...] The American people aren't watching, they aren't interested.  Who cares if Bolton was fired or resigned?  That he's gone now is all that matters, and that only matters to a very few.  The opening left by Bolton will be filled by someone else, and life will continue.  By next week, fewer people will remember this than care about it now.  The Bolton exit is the latest "STOP THE PRESSES" moment from an opposition media desperate to find something, anything with which to damage President Trump.

CNBC's Jim Cramer: 'The Only People Talking About a Recession Are Us'.  Have you noticed all the talk recently by the mainstream media about a recession?  Of course, many members of the MSM can barely contain their glee at the prospect of an economic downturn hurting President Trump's prospects in the election next year.  Well, Jim Cramer on Thursday's [9/5/2019] Squawk Box told host Joe Kernen that the only people talking about such a recession are "us," meaning members of the media.

Media Meltdown over Trump's Hurricane Predictions.  The Trump-hating media has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder since November 2016, relapsing into insanity after each Trump tweet.  The latest trigger is Trump's tweet about the potential course of Hurricane Dorian. [...] It's a typical Trump tweet with presidential well wishes ahead of a massive potential hurricane.  It took only one word to send the media into a psychotic state.  That word was Alabama, one of several states that could have been affected by the hurricane.  CNN, blissfully unconcerned that Joe Biden often doesn't know where he is or who he was vice-president for, was outraged that Trump is "spreading false information during an emergency situation".  This is even more of a national crisis to CNN than when they learned that the President gets two scoops of ice cream.

Is It True That 'Getting Killed by Police Is a Leading Cause of Death for Young Black Men,' as the LA Times Claims?  As is the intent, the headline is an attention-grabber. [...] Most readers of course will not delve beyond the headline, but even those who do will not encounter anything resembling journalism as it was once practiced.  Rather, they'll find more than 1,400 words devoted to the racial-grievance agenda that drives so much of what appears in the Los Angeles Times.  And worse, not only is journalism itself perverted with the story, but so is science, for the story is presented as such on the page and was written by Amina Khan, who is billed on the paper's website as a "science writer."  So, if you dare to quibble with any of the story's details, or heaven forbid question its very premise, it makes you a "denier," one to be cast out into the darkness with climate-change skeptics, believers in sex differences, and all the other benighted deplorables who are so sneered upon among our sophisticated betters in the media.

How The Media Enables Destructive Climate Change Hysteria.  At a 2005 London conference of "concerned climate scientists and politicians" that helped launch contemporary climate rhetoric, attendees warned that the world had as little as 10 years before the Earth reached "the point of no return on global warming." Humans, they claimed, would soon be grappling with "widespread agricultural failure," "major droughts," "increased disease," "the death of forests," and the "switching-off of the North Atlantic Gulf Stream," among many other calamities.  Since then, the Earth has gotten greener.  This year, for the first time since we began logging data in 2000, there were no "extreme" or "exceptional" droughts across the contiguous United States — although we've come close to zero on numerous occasions over the past decade.  Every time there's a drought anywhere in the world, climate change will be blamed.  But world crop yields continue to ensure that fewer people are hungry than ever.

NASA map shows Africa has more fires burning than Brazil.  The dust up with France's Macron and the President of Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro regarding the fires burning in the Amazon left out one small detail.  Africa is on fire as well.  NASA maps show that there are more fires in the African region than in the Amazon.  The on again off again acceptance of money to fight the Amazon fire lost sight that we have fires everywhere.  The G-7 Summit raised $20 Million to assist in putting out the fires in Brazil.  No doubt more proof that humans are just too destructive to the "lungs" of earth.  Another detail never mentioned is that long before planes and humans, fires raged across the planet.  It was nature's way of regeneration.  Old growth was removed and new growth lead to food sources for animals and birds.

Don't Panic:  Amazon Burning Is Mostly Farms, Not Forests.  "Amazon rainforest is burning at an unprecedented rate," declares CNN.  The Daily Beast gives us "Record Number of Wildfires Burning in Amazon Rainforest."  Here's NBC News:  "Amazon wildfires could be 'game over' for climate change fight."  Interestingly, when NASA released the satellite image on August 21, it noted that "it is not unusual to see fires in Brazil at this time of year due to high temperatures and low humidity.  Time will tell if this year is a record breaking or just within normal limits."  So why are there so many fires?  "Natural fires in the Amazon are rare, and the majority of these fires were set by farmers preparing Amazon-adjacent farmland for next year's crops and pasture," soberly explains The New York Times.  "Much of the land that is burning was not old-growth rain forest, but land that had already been cleared of trees and set for agricultural use."  It is routine for farmers and ranchers in tropical areas burn their fields to control pests and weeds and to encourage new growth in pastures.

Yes, Immigrants Should Be Less Dependent On U.S. Welfare, And So Should Everyone Else.  The Trump administration announced long-awaited "public charge" immigration regulations this week, and the furor immediately kicked up to derangement level.  Reason's Shikha Dalmia called the policy a "complete abuse of the original understanding" of the law.  In the Washington Post, opinion writer Paul Waldman said the policy sends a message:  "We hate you and we don't want you here, and if you come we will treat you with all the cruelty we can muster."  CNN's legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin went so far as to call the proposed regulation "un-American."  There is very little nuance left in political discourse.  Every administration policy is said to be the key to saving America or the final step in dooming it, depending on your point of view.

(Anti-)Social Media Inciting Hatred.  Twitter artificially increases circulation of the most divisive and polarizing topics by making them Trending.  It directly benefits from inflaming conflicts through increased user engagement, translating into higher ad revenues.  It indirectly benefits from such conduct because lib jornos, MSM, and other agitators enjoy such conflicts and promote Twitter to further the contention.  Twitter was praised for fueling the Ferguson riots in 2014.  Facebook apparently so envied Twitter that it hired left leaning reporters to manipulate its own Trending section.

Press exploits the kids of illegals hauled off in immigration raid.  The press is having a field day exploiting children to attack President Trump and his effort to re-establish rule of law in immigration.  Tossing all previous compunction about showing a child's face on national television out the window, they put the cameras right in a little girl's face to get her to talk and cry about a recent immigration raid in Mississippi.  No blue dot for her over this little girl's face, they went full frontal instead, as if a child that young were capable of giving consent.  Now the video will follow the girl all her life, and will likely end up a topic for mocking memes, something no 11 year-old deserves.  Not a problem for the big-buck press, though, such as CBS, which in fact, does this a lot.

Red Flags and White Supremacists.  For the past two years, the left's 'go to' words were "Russia," "Mueller," and "collusion."  Mueller's investigation and report were a big swing and a miss and not surprisingly these words have quickly been erased from the vocabularies of cable news anchors and their panels.  On a dime, coincident with a handful of mass shootings, the left's new favorite words are "racist" and "white supremacist."

The Media's Disgusting Bloodlust.  If you pay serious attention to network and cable commentators after a mass shooting, you will see something nearly as alarming as the atrocities themselves.  Set aside, for a moment, the horror of the event about which they are holding forth and it will become obvious that their solemn expressions are well-rehearsed affectations that mask a morbid glee.  As you lament truncated lives and traumatized survivors, these creatures count eyeballs and clicks.  While you worry about the health of our society, they search for a connection to some conservative cause or politician.  And the print media are just as ghoulish.

The Media Crossed a Line This Week and There's No Going Back.  [Scroll down]  It really does feel like we are coming apart at the seams, with near majorities of the country being accused of "white supremacy" by some major figures simply for supporting a politician.  Driving the division, broad brushing, and hatred this week had been the liberal media.  Whether it's newspapers amplifying the disgusting rhetoric of people like Beto O'Rourke and Elizabeth Warren or the constant stream of divisive, racially tinged editorials that are being pushed out, there's no question of their role.  The cable news beat has been even worse, with one MSNBC host actually saying that Donald Trump wants there to be mass shootings while another threatened business owners as complicit in white supremacy who donate to the GOP.

CNN roasted over debate production, format: 'A disservice to serious people'.  CNN faced backlash for its first primary debate of the 2020 campaign season, with members of the media comparing its production to a sporting event or movie trailer and others lamenting the time spent to kick off the event.  Journalists noted that the event started on Tuesday night [7/30/2019] at 8 p.m. with an introduction video, a commercial break and opening statements.  The first question to one of the ten candidates was not asked until 8:23 p.m., however.

The latest pathetic chapter in CNN's quest to 'prove' Trump is a racist.  As LU's Howard Portnoy noted yesterday [7/21/2019], the first of what are likely to be a rash of stories in which "a person of color claims that he was told by a person of pallor to go back where he came from" occurred over the weekend.  The alleged victim, who has since walked back her accusation, is a black Georgia state lawmaker named Erica Thomas, whose title instantly catapulted the story to national news status.  The alleged perpetrator is a white man who was standing behind her in a grocery checkout line.  Enter CNN, which is never slow to jump on liberal bandwagons.  The network posted an "open casting call" to its Facebook page asking "immigrants" who have been victimized by Donald Trump or his policies to come forward and share their stories.

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The story turned out to be a fake hate crime.

Media cried wolf:  Calling every Republican a racist lost its bite.  Once upon a time in the world of cable news, a guest or host or anchor calling anyone a racist would have considerable impact.  From what we've seen this week, when it comes to that word, those days are long gone.  A person simply can't turn on the news or scroll Twitterfor even more than a minute before hearing the word "racist" or "racism."  For example, CNN and MSNBC said the word "racist" more than 1,100 times from Sunday to Tuesday, according to a tally conducted by Grabien Media, an online media production and news prep service.  The count, which doesn't include on-screen graphics commonly known as chyrons, [...]

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Joe Concha:  According to Grabien Media, Since Sunday, Word 'Racist' [has been] Said on CNN, MSNBC More than 2,200 Times.  There is an actual number around this that since Sunday [7/14/2019] according to gradient [sic] media, the word racist has been said on CNN and MSNBC alone, more than 2200 times.  I don't even know if that is physically or magnetically possible, but that is what has been happening this weekend the myopic focus completely.  [Video clip]

Greg Gutfeld Mocks CNN, MSNBC for 1,100 Uses of 'Racist' in Two Days on Trump.  On Tuesday night's episode of The Five, Fox News pundit Greg Gutfeld mocking the collective mass hysteria of CNN and MSNBC over President Trump's latest tweets against radical first-term Congresswomen.  Gutfeld summarized the hysterics to a T with a simple word count:  "We are reaching peak racism right now.  CNN and MSNBC, according to The Hill this morning, had said the word racist 1,100 times.  That was this morning [7/16/2019] since Sunday [7/14/2019].  Ok, so today's Tuesday... I think when it's 1,100 times by Tuesday afternoon, I'd call that maybe an overreaction.  It's hysterical and it's hysteria."

Media coverage of Hurricane Barry was the real disaster.  There will be no media awards for Al Roker or the Washington Post in recognition of their coverage of Hurricane Barry.  At least if the people living in New Orleans have a say in the matter.  The weekend weather event, fortunately, was nowhere nearly as bad as was predicted in some media accounts.  That's a good thing.  The bad thing, though, is the over-hyped media coverage of Tropical Storm Barry that briefly became Hurricane Barry (a Category 1 storm) before it returned to being a tropical storm.  Barry made landfall Saturday at Intracoastal City, about 160 miles west of New Orleans.  Unfortunately, to read or listen to media coverage, you would have heard calls for mass evacuation in New Orleans, well outside of where the storm hit.  The word "evacuation" has its own connotations for residents on the Gulf Coast and it is not a word to be used lightly.  For a television weather forecaster to suggest such an action when the local authorities are not calling for it, the situation can turn unnecessarily dangerous.

Power Outage in New York — Dramatic Media — Rest of Country 'Meh'.  Fox News talking hair Leland Vitter uses his best dramatic voice, channels his inner Shep, and proclaims the end of the known universe is nigh, because the power went out in a part of Manhattan, New York City.

Could I have some news with my emotions, please?  Emotion now blankets the media landscape like an infant's crib at bedtime.  Google "Shepard Smith emotional," and up come nearly 3 million results, many of them focused on the Fox anchor's recent visceral response to immigrant suffering.  A search of "Rachel Maddow crying" delivers more than 1 million offerings, many for the MSNBC host's reaction to border detentions and the Mueller report.  "Brooke Baldwin tears" uncovers nearly 2 million entries for the CNN reporter's reaction to a variety of news events.  They are not alone.  Contemporary culture trusts feelings over facts, rewards heated emotion — tears or anger — and rejects medium cool.  The effect on journalism is unmistakable.  And a lot of the blame can be placed on those all-too-common twin devils:  television and the internet.

Debunked: The absurd story about smartphones causing kids to sprout horns.  The Washington Post on Thursday [6/20/2019] published a story suggesting that the use of mobile devices is causing young people to sprout horns from their skulls.  But a look at the scientific data behind the story finds that such a splashy takeaway is tenuous at best — and atrocious reporting at worst.  The Post's story was primarily based on a study published back in February 2018 by two Australian researchers.  It earned fresh attention last week after being mentioned in a BBC feature on how modern life is supposedly transforming the human skeleton.  The study was published in Nature's open source journal Scientific Reports, which is supposedly peer-reviewed.  But the study has significant limitations and flaws, and the Post breezed over them for a sensationalized story.

No, Teen Vogue, you should not promote prostitution as a career choice.  The Internet is a crazy place, made crazier with a desire from many platforms to be shocking just to get readership.  Clickbait headlines and outrageous, negative stories complete with aggressive phrases like "owned" and "called out" litter websites and their corresponding social media accounts, which all do their best to out-shock each other to capture readers' limited attention.  While this insanity is definitely detrimental to our health as a society, it deserves even more scrutiny when directed at children.

Arsenic found in bottled water sold at Whole Foods, Walmart, Target.  When you pay premium prices, you expect a premium product — but that's not necessarily the case with bottled water.  California nonprofit Center for Environmental Health has revealed that water bottle brands Peñafiel, owned by Keurig Dr. Pepper, and Starkey, owned by Whole Foods, contain levels of highly toxic arsenic that are above the legal limit. [...] Other symptoms of arsenic poisoning include stomach pain and nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, numbness, even paralysis or blindness.

The Editor says...
This is nothing but alarmism, brought to you by an environmental activist group and gladly passed along by the New York Post.  There's not enough arsenic in bottled water to give anyone arsenic poisoning.  The "legal limit" for arsenic content in bottled water is probably so low that it's easy to exceed that limit.

No, Your Kid Isn't Growing Horns Because Of Cellphone Use.  This week, the Washington Post grabbed plenty of attention for a story that claimed that kids are actually growing "horns" because of cell phone use.  The story, which leans on 2016 and 2018 research out of Australia, was cribbing off of [a] more nuanced piece by the BBC on how skeletal adaptation to modern living changes are kind of a thing.  The Post's more inflammatory take was accompanied by a wide variety of other stories proclaiming that today's children are growing horns and bone spurs because they use their [...] cellphones too much!

ABC's '08 Prediction:  NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015.  New York City underwater?  Gas over $9 a gallon?  A carton of milk costs almost $13?  Remember when that happened on June 12, 2015?  No?  This was the wildly-inaccurate world of 2015 predicted by ABC News 11 years ago this week.  Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.  The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015.  One carton of milk is $12.99."  (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.)  Another clip featured this prediction for 2015 "Gas reached over $9 a gallon."  (In reality, gas cost an average of $2.75 four years ago.)

Paper to staff:  Use 'climate crisis' ... 'change' is 'too gentle'.  Staff at the Guardian newspaper of London, England, has been directed to address "global warming" more aggressively and use "climate crisis" or "climate emergency" instead of "climate change," which it considers "too passive and gentle."

The Media Press Dems for Impeachment Porn.  [This article examines] the motivation of the media as they continue to peddle impeachment.  They know it would be political suicide for the Democrats because only a minority of voters supports removing the President, yet they crave the countless clicks and eyeballs the circus would inevitably produce.  But the Democratic leadership, their antipathy for the President notwithstanding, is loath to take the leap just to provide impeachment porn for the media.

Climate change scare stories reach the point of psychological terrorism.  The corporate media cartels have become hubs of hatred and "journo-terrorism" that targets the psyche of the masses.  The quack science hoax of so-called "climate change" is used to terrorize the public into believing that their planet will somehow be destroyed by carbon dioxide — the very molecule that has been rapidly re-greening the Earth over the past four decades, according to NASA.  Now, a new round of "science" has been studying the mental stress of the victims of this psychological terrorism pushed by the dishonest media, and they've reached an even more bizarre conclusion.  Scientists now claim that climate change is causing "mental anguish" among humans.  Seriously.  Of course, the real source of the mental anguish is the lies and panic propaganda of the corporate media and the pathetic scientific establishment which has figured out that if you want more government grant money, you have to conduct "research" that identifies some new crisis to be blamed on climate change.  In fact, the very phrase "climate change" isn't scary enough yet to achieve the desired goal of mass mental terrorism, so media outlets around the world are now ordering their obedient writers to start using the phrase "climate crisis."

The hoax and due diligence.  Nothing illustrates the decline of serious journalism more than the fact that many of the major media, particularly CNN and MSNBC, have participated (and to some extent continue to participate) in massive hoaxes which would have been easily disproved with basic due diligence.  The first and least important hoax was that of Michael Avenatti.  He appeared on CNN and MSNBC more than 100 times where he was touted as an expert on many things, particularly the alleged misdeeds of President Trump.  Fawning hosts on these networks even referred to him as presidential material — yet he was nothing more than a conman.  He now faces about 400 years in prison if he is convicted on the many charges in several different courts.

Jussie Smollett [is] just a symptom of the fake outrage disease.  Remember folk expressions about the wisdom of being careful?  "Look before you leap."  "Measure twice, cut once."  "Don't go off half-cocked."  All of this should go double for online culture.  Instead lives are being destroyed over misleading, unfair or just plain false accusations.  People are being turned into public enemies or even fired after being framed for racism, homophobia or other perceived social crimes.  Others are casting themselves as victims of hate in order to line their pockets.  These days anyone with a phone in his hand can be P.T. Barnum.  And people who congratulate themselves for being unusually tolerant, kind-hearted and impervious to misinformation are the leaders of frenzied online mobs who are pitchforking innocent people.  Fake news is bad enough.  Fake outrage is even worse.

Climate hysteria.  The UK Guardian Newspaper decided that you're not sufficiently alarmed about climate doom.  Climate change is no longer the term of choice with the Guardian and other news outlets.  Get ready to hear the newly invented terms, "climate emergency," "climate crisis," "climate breakdown," and "global heating."  By the way, when did it become the job of a news organization to hype public concern over an issue instead of just reporting the facts?

Will the Media Ever Pay a Price For Its Irresponsibility?  [Michael] Avenatti was entirely the creation of the media, right down to the idea, which CNN and MSNBC took seriously, that he could be a presidential candidate in 2020.  It is emerging now that the media knew first hand that Avenatti is a first class jerk, from the outrageous and rude way he treated the low- and mid-level media people (producers, etc) he dealt with in his nonstop media campaign.  But because he was saying what the media wanted to hear (Trump is a horrible human being), the media were willing overlook all of the slime this reptile was leaving in media green rooms and on TV sets.

Democrats Claim 'Constitutional Crisis,' Media Repeat It 386 Times.  Evidently Democrats need only utter the words "constitutional crisis" for the media to report it as fact.  Watch cable "news" these days, and you'll surely see talking heads parroting the Democratic line that the Trump administration's noncompliance with House Committee subpoenas amounts to a constitutional crisis.  While a small handful of analysts and guest legal scholars disagree, TV hosts continue to push the idea uncritically, with some even urging the alleged crisis be used as grounds for impeachment.  MRC analysts looked at all coverage on broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) and liberal cable (CNN, MSNBC) networks from May 8 to 12, finding 386 utterances of the term "constitutional crisis" by hosts, analysts, or guest journalists.  This count did not include cases in which the term was used by political partisans, such as members of Congress, former administration officials, or Democratic and Republican strategists.

Children Have to Listen to Fake News, Too, and It's Not Good for Them.  [Scroll down]  Kids are being propagandized about the ticking climate clock in school, on TV, and everywhere on social media.  It just doesn't help when the parents are scared, too.  A 40-year-old Salt Lake City mother said the release of the U.N.'s latest climate report caused her three teenage daughters a severe emotional crisis.  "There was a lot of crying.  They told me, 'We know what's coming, and it's going to be really rough.'"  Because mom believes it, too, there's not much help she can offer.  "I want to have hope," she said, "but the reports are showing that this isn't going to stop, so all we can do is cope."  I don't believe that these children are really studying climate reports; it's the media's hysterical coverage that's upsetting them.

CNN's Jim Acosta Makes A Fool Of Himself At The WH Medal Of Freedom Ceremony.  CNN's Jim Acosta is in a running gun battle with April Ryan for the worst White House reporter currently on the beat.  Acosta's self-aggrandizement and constant editorializing in briefings have become the butt of jokes everywhere.  His false sense of grandeur has led him to write a book proclaiming how dangerous it is to "tell the truth" in America.  Because Acosta's life is so harrowing.

Scarborough: 'History Has Chosen' the Dem Party to 'Stand Up and Defend the Rule of Law'.  As President Donald Trump continues to spar with House Democrats over subpoenas, MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough applauded Democrats, saying that "history has chosen" their party to "stand up and defend the rule of law" in America.  Scarborough said that as a former Republican, it makes him "sad" to see the GOP "breaking the law."  "You can look at all of the document requests that they've ignored," Scarborough outlined.  "They're in contempt of Congress."

What did she say that isn't absolutely true?
What strange personification:  Does History take a vote, or what does it take to make up History's mind?

Parts of the American Media Are Willfully Twisting News to Stoke Racial Tension.  President Trump is cheering on someone who has not only supported the President, but withstood an online campaign of harassment for doing so.  The media would prefer to make this a race issue and fan the flames of racial tension.  It is unfortunate.

MSNBC Reporter Sticks A Mic In Robert Mueller's Face After Easter Services.  MSNBC reporter Mike Viqueira confronted Robert Mueller with a microphone and camera crew after the former special counsel exited Easter Sunday [4/21/2019] church services with his wife.

CBS Incites Violence Against Political Opponents.  "It's time to punch a few Nazis."  It's hard to shock me, but I was shocked by the trailer for CBS's "The Good Fight." [...] Promoting violence in the abstract is not illegal.  According to the Supreme Court case Brandenburg v. Ohio, speech is legal unless it "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."  The trailer showed an unprovoked assault against a real person.  It told viewers it is time to punch Nazis.  If this isn't a call to violence — at least against Richard Spencer — what is?  If the show had named almost anyone else, there would surely be criminal charges.  While we are to attack "neo-Nazis," communists or non-white extremists are apparently off limits.

Mainstream Media's Worshipping of Michael Avenatti.  Remember celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti, the man who represented porn star Stormy Daniels?  Well, the media's favorite guest is back in the news after being indicted on 36 charges Thursday [4/11/2019].  Two hundred fifty-four — that's how many times Avenatti was featured on major TV networks in one year, according to NewsBusters.  CNN alone featured Avenatti a staggering 121 times.  Now he has been charged with numerous crimes, including tax evasion, fraud, and stealing money from clients — including scamming a paraplegic man out of a $4 million settlement.

Media exaggerate impact of US-Mexico border closure.  Let's hope that President Trump's "one-year warning" issued to Mexico Thursday to halt the flood of illegal drugs and migrants entering the U.S. — or face a border closure and new tariffs — will influence Mexico to make some real changes.  Unfortunately, the media's continual exaggerations of the dangers of closing the border may give Mexico the idea that the U.S. lacks the willpower to carry through on the president's threat.  If Mexican leaders conclude Trump is bluffing, there will be little reason for them to change their behavior.

Media ignore border debacle to feed us avocado stories.  Here at the Mexican border in San Diego, the local television press is always looking for ways to Get Trump.  The illegal immigrant sob stories aren't working all that much anymore.  So now they're reporting on President Trump's threatened border shutdown over it as a matter of the price of avocados in San Diego. [...] Obviously, the intent is to create a unified voice to whip up opposition to Trump's vow to shut the U.S.-Mexican border on public hysteria grounds, supposedly because we San Diegans just can't possibly live without our guac and margaritas, we're too la-la over here, and someone messing with our avocado supply should be enough to trigger the fury of Surfer Dude Nation.

Press goes Code Avocado against Trump.  How can you take seriously an occupation that repeatedly dives off the deep end over the tiniest of items?  Avocado sales in the United States are a little more than $2 billion a year.  In a $20 trillion dollar economy, that is 1% of 1% of all activity.  Mexico's $1.2 trillion economy will not suffer much either.  While shutting the border would be a hardship for avocado growers, open borders cost hundreds of Americans their lives every year.  But thanks to the media savvy of Steve Barnard, president and chief executive of Mission Produce, the largest distributor and grower of avocados in the world, the press is on a mission to save avocados, not American lives.

The Mueller-Industrial Complex Collapses.  So much media is premediated now, it's almost impossible to find something whose payload isn't partly composed of practice for future events.  Most of the time, nobody even notices this phenomenon.  Premediation works because it homes in on natural anxieties or desires amplified by the hyper-mediated ecosystem in which television, smartphones, social media, and all the rest rot and reanimate.  Whom should I consider voting for in the next election?  Am I going to die if I board a plane?  Those are questions whose future answers seem to demand consideration today.

CBS & NBC Cheer Student Climate Strike, Warn 'Future Might Not Exist'.  On Thursday [3/14/2019] and Friday, CBS This Morning and NBC's Today show celebrated left-wing student activists around the world preparing to walk out of their classrooms to "demand action on climate change."  The CBS report took a particularly dark turn as correspondent Tony Dokoupil warned of "a future that might not even exist" for the young protesters.  "Groups of students across America say they will skip class tomorrow for the first national school strike over climate change," co-host Gayle King proudly announced on Thursday's CBS This Morning.  "Tomorrow's protests are planned in more than 130 U.S. cities and about 90 countries worldwide," she added.

Study: White People Responsible for Blacks' and Latinos' Higher Exposure to Pollution.  A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that white people contribute more to pollution than black and Latino people, but the latter suffer from it more than the white polluters.  "The air that Americans breathe isn't equal," USA Today says in its report on the study.  "Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately breathe air that's been polluted by non-Hispanic whites, according to a study," USA Today says.  "This new research quantifies for the first time the racial gap between who causes air pollution — and who breathes it."

Rebuttal:
Who Declared this to Be Crazy Week?  There are so many things stupidly wrong with this whole story that I don't even know where to begin.  First, this study, and many others like it, anchor their alarm on the supposed fact that particulate pollution causes about 42,000 premature deaths in the U.S. every year.  Though the EPA relies on this figure, the epidemiology behind it is very weak.  But without this scary statistic, a lot of regulations would fail even the most generous cost-benefit test.  Second, particulate levels have been falling fast for the last 25 years, and will continue to fall in the future.  Most studies such as this one are relying on obsolete data.  What this means is that most black and Hispanic Americans, even in the places that still have the highest air pollution levels like the Los Angeles basin, are breathing air today that is lower in ambient pollution than white people inhaled 20 years ago.  Don't expect NPR or anyone else to put it in perspective this way.  They've got an agenda and a narrative that needs to be kept up.

Alabama Tornado Victims Ask Trump To Sign Bibles; Meltdown Ensues.  Another day, another obtuse, ridiculous meltdown in the media over something Donald Trump did.  This time we head to Alabama, in the wake of dozens of deaths and hundreds who lost everything due to a vicious string of tornadoes. [...] This kind of petty craziness, played on a loop daily by our media, is why Trump has a much better shot of winning in 2020 than he otherwise would have.

American Air Is Clean And Getting Cleaner.  [A]ir quality is very good pretty much everywhere in the United States.  This fact stands in stark contrast to utterly absurd claims in the media, such as blaming air pollution for killing 155,000 Americans.  Why is there such a disconnect between reality and what the media say?  Because bad news is intrinsically more interesting than good news.  It's the same reason that murder and violence grab top headlines, even though both are near historic lows. [...] Air pollution is not a problem in the United States.  It is a problem in Europe, and it is a monumental problem in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Media Hypes Roger Stone 'Revelation' That Has Been Public For A Year.  News outlets and media pundits on Friday [2/15/2019] seized on a court filing in the special counsel's case against Roger Stone that referred to communication the longtime Trump confidant had with WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, the group of alleged Russian operatives suspected of stealing Democrats' emails during the 2016 campaign.  The court filing, which was touted as new, bombshell evidence by numerous news sources, including CNN and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, may be less than meets the anti-Trump eye.

Let's Chill about Hate Crimes.  "Jussie Smollett, one of the stars of the television show 'Empire,' was attacked in Chicago by 2 assailants who yelled racial and homophobic slurs," tweeted the New York Times on January 29.  Mark the tone of absolute certainty about an unconfirmed claim.  Many other news outlets took the same tack.  "Celebrities, lawmakers rally behind Jussie Smollett in wake of brutal attack," reported ABC News.  "Jussie Smollett Performs at Troubadour Just Days After Chicago Attack: 'I Had to Be Here Tonight'" read a Los Angeles Times headline.  Many commenters linked the alleged attack to larger alleged sicknesses:  "The racist, homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is far-right America's endgame," tweeted GQ, in a sentiment echoed by many others.

Bezos vs. the Enquirer Could Be a Watershed.  What to make of the battle between Jeff Bezos and the National Enquirer, which we will delight in calling the affair of Bezos, Pecker and de Becker?  Under any circumstance, the world's richest man cheating on his wife with a sexy helicopter pilot, supported by racy texts and photos, would be a story for the National Enquirer.  Tasteful Americans may wish it weren't so, but Mr. Bezos is a public figure in the Supreme Court's definition.

WaPo Spends $5.2M on Vanity Ad in [the] Wake of 1,200 Media Layoffs.  After some 1,200 people lost their media jobs last week, the far-left Washington Post spent $5.2 million to run a vanity ad during the Super Bowl.  You have to watch the Post ad to understand just how vacuous it is.  What we have here is the highest form of propaganda narrated by a Big Movie Star (Tom Hanks), produced only to give you a chronic case of the FeelSoGoodz.

The MAGA-phobic manure-spreaders of media sensationalism.  [Scroll down]  Question:  How many racist, homophobic menaces wander around the upscale Streeterville neighborhood of liberal Chicago at 2 a.m. carrying rope and bleach, yelling about "MAGA country?"  Question:  How many racist, homophobic menaces have ever heard of "Empire," could recognize Jussie Smollett, or know or care anything about his sexuality?  Despite TMZ's claim that Smollett had the "hell beat outta him" and attackers "broke his ribs" plus subjected him to a chemical attack, an ambulance was not called and he instead "self-transported" to the hospital.  CWB Chicago, a local public safety watchdog site, reported on police dispatch records documenting that Smollett's friend "Frank" refused EMS services for Smollett; no mention of bleach was made; "no or minor injury" was observed; and "officers never sent a 'flash; message with offender descriptions to field units."

An example of news media sensationalism:
It Could Take Joshua Tree 300 Years to Recover From the Government Shutdown.  Though the government shutdown may have ended last Friday [1/25/2019], Joshua Tree National Park will be feeling the ruinous effects of it for hundreds of years.  Throughout the duration of the shutdown, which lasted a record-long 35 days, national parks greatly suffered: human waste piled up, lands were littered with trash, and some campgrounds and other public areas even closed to visitors, as the parks weren't adequately staffed to stay open.  It wasn't until after Joshua Tree closed on January 2, though, that humans became excessively reckless, during which they off-roaded, graffittied rocks, started campfires in illegal areas, and cut down protected trees.

The Editor says...
Sounds like a wee bit of an exaggeration.  Human waste does not stick around for 300 years.  Neither does litter.  Neither do tire tracks.  But aside from that, the obvious solution is to privatize the park.  (By the way, graffiti is not a verb.  Neither is off-road.)  But this whole story seems very far-fetched.  Were a bunch of anarchist maniacs taking advantage the government shutdown, during which they could enter the unattended national parks and spread garbage and feces everywhere?  Sounds like a false flag to me:  Somebody went into the park and trashed it, in order to make the "government shutdown" as ghastly as possible — something that must be avoided at all cost — when in reality very few people outside of a 200-mile radius from Washington DC even noticed the five-week shutdown.

The Famed 'Doomsday Clock' Is Little More Than A Liberal Angst Meter.  When the Doomsday Clock launched in 1947, the initial setting was seven minutes to midnight.  Since then, it's gone up and down.  The furthest it got from doomsday was 17 minutes in 1991.  But it's clear from its movements over the past seven decades that the Doomsday Clock is more about politics than any sort of scientific measure of the risk of nuclear annihilation.  After all, the Clock routinely counted down after a Republican wins the White House, and ticked up when Democrats reclaim the presidency.

Apocalypse Creep.  Nothing says "end of the world" like a big fake clock.  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists gave its annual Doomsday Clock presentation on Thursday [1/24/2019] and announced that it's still two minutes to midnight.  Last year, the group of 15 scholars and scientists moved the phony minute hand of fate 30 seconds closer to Armageddon, from two-and-a-half minutes to midnight to its present setting, 11:58 pm sharp.  By the Bulletin's logic, we're as close to the end as we've ever been.  The whole thing is adorably retro.

How the media convinces us we're all outraged — even when no one cares.  Lazy media reporters who are too lazy to even actually speak to people anymore are instead constructing Potemkin Villages of fake hate, fake disgust and fake outrage.  They're Contemptkin Villages.  No one really lives there.  The laziest hacks can build them using tweets, even tweets from anonymous Twitter accounts.  Somehow these hacks are employed at places like the BBC and the [New York] Times. [...] Shameless online editors today figure that readers will click through to anything that is supposedly making anyone mad.  And if the underlying story doesn't actually contain any evidence that anyone has blown his lid, too late!  Made ya click.

Government shutdown lessons — We could take a chainsaw to so much of government.  This government shutdown is now longer than any in history.  The media keep using the word "crisis."  "Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!" says The Washington Post.  "Pain spreads widely."  The New York Times headlined, it's all "just too much!"  But wait.  Looking around America, I see people going about their business — families eating in restaurants, employees going to work, children playing in playgrounds, etc.  I have to ask:  Where's the crisis?

Media's anti-Trump addiction amps up the outrage and fuels the public's suspicion.  Alas, much of today's political journalism has fallen into advocacy, intentionally inflammatory, using or omitting selective details, quotes and background to make a case against President Donald Trump.  The criticism generally centers on something he did or said he would do — or something someone, usually unidentified, said he might do or is considering possibly doing.  And then in a kind of staged Kabuki dance, journalists run to gather reaction from waiting opponents who provide a predictably outraged quote calling for counteraction.  Yes, this president's name boosts ratings and clicks from both sides.  But the media's addiction to anything Trump lets this president manipulate them, which he does skillfully.  It squeezes out other important news.  And it denies Americans a set of generally-accepted facts to debate, merely providing fodder for an anti-Trump agenda and more argumentative ammo for both sides.

How many times have the media predicted doom because of Trump, and how many times have they been dead wrong?  On Thursday [1/10/2019], there was a screaming headline on Drudge saying, "Doomsday."  The article was from NBC News, and the source of the doomsday report was the ever reliable Mark Zandi of Moody's.  The purpose of the report was not to be objective news, because anyone with a brain knows that the shutdown will end soon.  The purpose was to scare the public, tamp down economic growth, and destroy Trump.

Sorry, I Don't Feel Sorry For Furloughed Feds.  Now that the nation has heard the President explain how he wants to address our immigration crisis, and we have all enjoyed the comic relief offered by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in lieu of a serious response, the media have launched a propaganda campaign they hope will pull the Democrats from the ditch they have driven into regarding "the wall."  But our friends in the Fourth Estate are approaching the project in a manner that merely highlights how divorced they are from the world beyond the Beltway.  Their primary focus involves the heartrending human tragedy of... idle bureaucrats.

The Media Was Still Unglued in 2018.  The comparisons to dictators (especially Hitler) were once shocking, but no longer.  These smears arrive almost daily.  Take perpetually malcontent Steve Schmidt lecturing on MSNBC. Trump "creates a mass sense of victimization amongst his base," he said.  "And then he asserts extraordinary claims of power to protect the victims from the scapegoated populations and the nefarious conspiracy.  That is fundamentally illiberal, deeply un-American, and, frankly, could be straight out of Munich circa 1928."  Then there's the racial panic.  "Killing black people is an old American tradition, but it is experiencing a revival in the Trump era," wrote New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.  Trump & Co. is responsible for encouraging the murder of blacks?  O-o-K.  Krugman wrote this junk after a lone gunman killed two African-Americans at a supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky.  Any terrible event can be quickly blamed on Trump.

Chuck Todd's Perpetual Hype Machine: 'What If the President IS the Crisis?'.  Meet the Press host Chuck Todd has proclaimed he thinks NBC and MSNBC are a very "fact-based environment," unlike Fox News.  But his opening to his show on Sunday sounded like a dramatic editorial, underlining all of Trump's problems with Republican leaders and conservative radio and TV hosts, throwing together the shutdown, the resignation of the defense secretary, and the stock market decline into one grand opinionated summary:  [Video clip]

Flashback: Media Silence After Obama Fires General Mattis Without Even a Call.  The liberal media and DC establishment suffered a complete meltdown on Thursday [12/20/2018] after the sudden resignation by Secretary of Defense James Mattis.  Talk of impeachment, coups, and suicide abound over fears that Mattis was the last 'adult' keeping President Trump in check.  Mattis resigned as Trump moved to assert mastery over his presidency this week in key areas after nearly two years on the job.

Recap and overview of the Jim Acosta tantrum:
Profiles in Absurdity:  Jim Acosta as First Amendment 'Hero'.  The underlying facts are by now well-known:  The insufferable Acosta, surely the most obnoxious "correspondent" ever to hold a White House press pass — a dubious distinction in a competition that includes Sam Donaldson (ABC) and the late Helen Thomas (UPI), among others — had his credentials suspended after a particularly abrasive encounter with President Trump at a November 7 presser.  In a widely publicized incident, Acosta harangued at length, refused to relinquish the microphone when directed to do so, and pushed away a young female intern who was trying to pass the mic to another reporter.  White House press passes have always been viewed as discretionary and subject to regulation, in order reasonably to limit the size of the press pool and ensure proper decorum.  Reporters are expected to be courteous and to exhibit professional behavior.  The attention-seeking Acosta, as is his custom, was grandstanding at the press conference, and breached longstanding protocols by insisting on arguing disrespectfully with the president.  For this, his "hard pass" — necessary to gain entrance to the White House — was temporarily suspended.  CNN was not barred from the White House; only Acosta was.

Like Drug Addicts, Reporters Demean Themselves For Just One More Trump Story.  But, it's not enough.  It's not getting them the high they want.  The high they crave.  The traffic, the clicks, the views, the response... none of it is the same.  There's gotta be a stronger dose somewhere.  So, when it comes time to cover the funeral of the former president, they seek out something stronger.  Trump is sitting by the Obamas and the Clintons!  He's not reciting the Creed!  He is doing this or not doing that!  And in the process, the funeral is no longer about George H.W. Bush.  It is about Trump.  It's wrong.  They know it's wrong.  They can't help themselves, though.  They are addicts.

A little hysteria can make the news go down.  The mainstream/legacy/hothouse media has been rubbing sticks together for months, trying to start a fire under the White House to frighten the administration into abolishing fossil fuels before Christmas.  Hysteria used to be the sworn enemy of newspapers.  (Television, not so much.)  Now everyone manufactures it.  Helene Cooper of The New York Times thinks it's OK to spread a little hysteria because becoming "hysterical" is the right and proper response.

Trump hatred fueled media's yearlong obsession with Avenatti and Stormy.  2018 was the year the mainstream media willingly handed whatever was left of their credibility and dignity over to an aging porn star/stripper and her odious, ethically challenged attorney. [...] At one point, Mr. Avenatti had become such a fixture on certain cable networks that it almost appeared he had joined the prime-time lineup.  Analysts at the Media Research Center categorized his appearances on CNN over a two-month period.  The results are as startling as they are embarrassing.

Another nothing-burger?  Catherine Herridge breaks down Michael Cohen's guilty plea 'bombshell'.  Early Thursday morning word broke that President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen had pleaded guilty to lying to Congress during its investigation into possible Russian collusion.  Following the announcement, the perpetually hysterical left broke into cheers of gleeful applause over the belief that the president would soon be the next one to be indicted.

Trump has the goods on Democrats.  CNN was so excited on June 6, 2017.  Jim Comey was going to testify in Congress in two days.  The fired FBI director would start the ball rolling on the impeachment of the Orange Man.  The cable outlet posted a story, "Comey expected to refute Trump."  Wolf Blitzer cranked up his self-righteousness to Pope Level.  CNN attached a countdown-to-Comey clock to its chyron.  Then Comey released his opening statement to the public a day early.  Blitzer dialed down his attitude to DMV clerk.  The countdown clock disappeared.  The story was downgraded to "Comey unlikely to judge on obstruction."

Jim Acosta Will Only Behave When There's A Democrat In The White House.  President Donald Trump says he's drafting rules of decorum for White House reporters in the wake of the lawsuit involving CNN's aggressively misbehaving reporter Jim Acosta.  Funny how unruly press behavior never comes up when a Democrat is president.

White House has to tell reporters how to act like adults.  Sarah Sanders today issued rules of conduct for White House reporters.  Everyone in the press room should be embarrassed because like kindergartners, they have to be told to share the microphone and take turns asking questions.  These geniuses brought this nonsense on because they were too pathetically lame to tell Jim Acosta to sit down and shut up.  Instead, their self-important White House Correspondents Association issued a statement of support, "Journalists may use a range of approaches to carry out their jobs and the WHCA does not police the tone or frequency of the questions its members ask of powerful senior government officials, including the President.  "Such interactions, however uncomfortable they may appear to be, help define the strength of our national institutions.  We urge the White House to immediately reverse this weak and misguided action."

CNN Requests Emergency Hearing After Trump Warns Acosta's Press Pass in Jeopardy Again.  CNN host Brian Stelter reports that the White House may once again revoke White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a judge ruled to reinstate the "hard pass" last week.  The network has asked for an emergency hearing in response to the threat.  "Friday's court ruling means that a temporary restraining order is in effect for 14 days.  But W.H. officials sent Acosta a letter stating that his press pass is set to be suspended again once the restraining order expires," Stelter tweeted late Sunday [11/18/2018].

The Editor says...
The suspension of a press pass for a single ill-behaved reporter is not an emergency.

White House Notifies CNN Journalist Jim Acosta of Rules to Permanently Revoke "Hard Pass".  The White House sent a letter to CNN narrative engineer Jim Acosta notifying him his pass granting him temporary access to the White House grounds could be suspended after a temporary restraining order runs its course.

Acosta decision could make it easier for White House to kick reporters out.  In short, the judge said to the White House:  You can't throw out a reporter without going through a process.  But if you go through a process — which you, the White House, can design — then you can throw the reporter out.  In the end, it could be that Kelly's ruling will make it easier for the White House to oust reporters in the future — and to make the decision stick.

Jim Acosta is smug, and no court ruling changes that.  CNN's Jim Acosta scored some court points with a ruling that orders the White House to give back his press pass, at least for the time being.  But he still presents as a smug elitist.  He presented as an out-of-touch elitist the day he jerked away from the arm of the reaching White House intern — the day he refused to cede the microphone and cede the floor and cede his time to the many other journalists who were patiently waiting to pose questions to the president.

Jim Acosta and the Hubris of Celebrity Journalism.  When do Jim Acosta's 15 minutes of fame expire?  Has there ever been anyone less deserving of the spotlight who has managed to hog it quite so thoroughly as CNN's White House show horse?  Most recently, on Nov. 7, Acosta gave President Trump a moral lecture in the form of a loaded "question" about why Trump called the migrant "caravan" an "invasion."  According to Acosta, it is not an invasion because the migrants were hundreds of miles away, and besides, the migrants aren't going to be "climbing over walls and so on."  One week later, as we all know, members of the caravan (and of course it's not really a "caravan") were sitting astride the border wall and invading U.S. territory.  So much for Acosta's credibility.  Mind you, the president answered Acosta's "When are you going to stop beating your wife?" question, and acknowledged that he and the reporter have a difference of opinion about what an invasion is, but Acosta was pressing his left-wing agenda and not actually trying to elicit information with his "fake question."

Acosta Gets His Press Pass Back, But Trump Is the Real Winner.  It would be the easiest thing in the world for the White House to turn Acosta into a non-entity, just another cable-news squawker tut-tutting the president's decisions into a camera from the White House lawn.  Call on him, give him bland answers to his silly questions, and move on.  Or don't call on him at all!  Instead, time after time, Trump and press secretary Sarah Sanders have allowed Acosta to harrumph them into tiffs that become news stories in themselves.  Last Friday's foolishness, with Acosta white-knuckling the mic and Trump shouting and that poor intern visibly wishing she'd taken some other gig, was just the latest, greatest example.  Why?  Because the White House loves it when Acosta is in the spotlight.  He's the perfect foil to Trump, the perfect face for the administration's constant campaign against the "fake news media."

Trump everyone's hard passes then.  A federal judge today [11/16/2018] ordered President Trump to restore Jim Acosta's hard pass access to the White House despite Acosta's belligerence at a press conference.  Just about every media outlet who gets hard passes sided with Acosta. [...] Revoke all the hard passes.  Make them stand in line each day with every other reporter from outlets not so privileged seeking access.  The press wants to play hardball, so play hardball.  Why give them this privilege when they hate him?

Everyone Is Wrong About The Jim Acosta, White House Battle.  Jim Acosta is a pundit who works for CNN.  He was credentialed to attend White House press briefings, which he routinely used as opportunities to share his personal political views and animosity toward President Donald Trump.  The situation with Acosta, who is known as a shameless grandstander who seeks personal attention rather than a journalist who seeks to cover the news, came to a head last week when he repeatedly violated decorum at the White House by offering personal opinions in the place of actual questions, fighting with the president, interrupting the president, and belligerently refusing to return the White House microphone to a staff member.

Levin: 'No reporter has a constitutional right' to be in the White House.  Tuesday [11/13/2018] on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin called out the ridiculous stunt of CNN's lawsuit against the Trump administration over the antics of reporter Jim Acosta.  "The purpose of a presidential press conference is to allow as many reporters as possible to ask pertinent questions, and for the president to answer them.  In other words, a press conference is for the American people.  One of the difficulties the other members of the press and the president are having communicating with each other ... is Jim Acosta.  When Jim Acosta disrupts the press conference, monopolized the time, and basically gives his political opinions about a president who he constantly calls a liar, we learn nothing," Levin said.

Trump White House Responds to Judge's Ruling that CNN's Jim Acosta Has Right to Disrupt White House Pressers.  On Friday morning [11/16/2018] a federal judge ruled that the Trump White House must restore jackass Jim Acosta's hard press pass.  This is unbelievable.  In any other business this jackass would be fired — at CNN he is defended in court.

CNN's Acosta stopped being a journalist long ago.  Invariably, [Jim] Acosta makes his interactions with Trump all about himself.  The fact that the CNN reporter had his press credentials pulled — even if only temporarily — will surely feed the legend and perhaps add a couple of zeros to his speaking fee or a future book deal.  Still, Acosta deserved the rebuke.  He was arrogant, rude and sanctimonious.  He was sent to cover the story, and he made himself the story.  He was supposed to ask questions, but instead he tried to "challenge" the president about the refugee caravan.  He asked several questions, instead of one.  And when he got answers, he rejected them.

When reporters stick together — as a mob.  [Scroll down]  Acosta wasn't there to ask questions.  He was there to lecture and make accusations, as were they all.  But Acosta's disrespect and contemptuousness is special... especially obnoxious.  He is a hothead and, knowing his act, why he gets a front row seat at these briefings would be my first question.  He is no reporter, but rather a Resist Trump community organizer.

Progressive Politics Are Not Really Progressive.  When CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta stages his periodic psychodramatic shout-downs of Sarah Huckabee Sanders or Donald Trump, he is no Edward R. Murrow bucking Joe McCarthy, but rather he is one-upping his progressive like-minded journalists, virtue-signaling to his CNN liberal audience, and scoring career chits with his left-wing bosses and employers.

Jim Acosta isn't disliked because of his 'hard questions' but because he doesn't ask any real ones.  There are a lot of ways to describe what CNN's Jim Acosta does when he shows up for a White House press briefing or a press conference with President Trump: stunt, showboat, grandstand.  But you cannot say he's there to ask "hard questions," as the New York Times characterized his routine in an editorial Thursday [11/8/2018].

Fearmongering on the Left Has Been Ignored in 2018 Coverage.  A CNN screen graphic bluntly asked on the morning of Tuesday's midterms elections, "Will fear win?" I think the answer is "yes," but not necessarily for the same reasons as the Chyron With Attitude.  CNN was referring to President Donald Trump's aggressive rhetoric against illegal immigration, sending troops to the border, and warning of the consequences of Democratic victories in the 2018 elections.  It wasn't alone in portraying the race as Democrats Vs.  The Fearmongerers.  The Washington Post reported Sunday that Trump is "painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaign's final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty."

Senate report paints devastating profile of Justice Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick.  A new Senate committee report questions the credibility of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's three main accusers, dishing out the worst criticism at gang-rape accuser Julie Swetnick.  The 400-page report by the Judiciary Committee's Republican staff paints a devastating portrait of Ms. Swetnick.  She made the most sensational charges of the women accusers and won airtime on national TV.  The report depicts her as dangerous, a serial complainer, a liar, mentally unstable and cruel toward her parents.  It turns out that in one of Ms. Swetnick's previous sexual harassment complaints she was represented by Debra Katz, the Democratic-connected attorney who took the case of Christine Blasey Ford.  The Palo Alto, California, psychologist emerged as the first accuser of Justice Kavanaugh, who ultimately won Senate confirmation on Oct. 5 to the Supreme Court.

Democrats have intentionally divided the country and stoked fear among the public for a very long time.  Democrats have always tried to scare the people on food stamps, Medicare, social security and Medicaid.  Republicans want to starve children.  Democrats support Iran that spreads terrorism and pledges death to Israel and death to America.  Democrats are the ones who support Louis Farrakhan, not Republicans.  Democrats are the ones that had the KKK leader as an honorable leader in the Senate for years, not Republicans.  Democrats are the ones that pushed the fictional "hands up don't shoot" narrative to gin up racial hate and hate towards cops, not Republicans.  Who knows how many deaths and how much violence that caused.  Democrats are the ones who created a fictional dossier to destroy a political opponent and used the Justice Department to spy on them.  The person that shot up the Jews in Pittsburgh hates Trump yet somehow the media blames Trump.  The media has supported Democrats no matter what they say or do and now they are willing enablers and participants in seeking to destroy Trump and other Republicans no matter how much propaganda they have to spread.

'Nothing to Gain,' Kavanaugh Accuser Raises Nearly $1 Million.  During the crucible of Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats repeatedly asserted that Christine Blasey Ford had "nothing to gain" by coming forward with her explosive accusation of attempted rape against the Supreme Court nominee.  "You had absolutely nothing to gain by bringing these facts to the Senate Judiciary Committee," Sen. Dick Durbin said during her testimony last month.  This sentiment was echoed by other Democrats, who presented it as evidence that Ford was telling the truth.  "I want to thank you," added California Sen. Kamala Harris, "because you clearly have nothing to gain for what you have done."  In fact, Ford stands to gain some $1 million and counting from national crowdfunding campaigns launched by friends and other supporters, while she is said to be fielding book offers.

Avenatti's media honeymoon is over following Kavanaugh accuser backlash.  No private citizen has enjoyed more free airtime on two-thirds of the major cable news networks than Michael Avenatti has in 2018.  Tune in to CNN and there's a decent chance you'll find him there.  If he isn't on CNN, there's an equally good chance he'll be on MSNBC.

Are We on the Verge of Civil War?  The internet and social media often descend into an electronic lynch mob.  In a nanosecond, an insignificant local news story goes viral.  Immediately hundreds of millions of people use it to drum up the evils or virtues of either progressivism or conservatism.  Anonymity is a force multiplier of these tensions.  Fake online identities provide cover for ever greater extremism — on the logic that no one is ever called to account for his or her words.  Speed is also the enemy of common sense and restraint.  Millions of bloggers rush to be the first to post their take on a news event, without much worry about whether it soon becomes a "fake news" moment of unsubstantiated gossip and fiction.

CNN's Jake Tapper Dedicates Segment to Trump's Penis.  CNN aired a segment about Stormy Daniels' new book that described what Donald Trump's genitals looks like on The Lead with Jake Tapper Tuesday [9/18/2018].

Weather Channel Defends Reporter Mocked for 'So Dramatic' Hurricane Florence Coverage.  The Weather Channel is defending one of their own after a video of Hurricane Florence coverage went viral.  The video, uploaded to Twitter, shows Weather Channel meteorologist and reporter Mike Seidel bracing in the wind during a live shot in Wilmington, NC.  As he is struggling to keep his footing, two people walk behind him showing no signs of struggle.  Twitter was not impressed.

Hilarious video shows journalist 'bravely' reporting on Hurricane Florence — until two men in shorts casually stroll past.  A Weather Channel reporter looked to have played up the drama and severity of Hurricane Florence in a hilarious video that has been circulating on Twitter.  Weather Channel reporter Mike Seidel was shooting a live segment in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday [9/14/2018] as winds barreled around him.  In the clip, Seidel appears to brace his feet deeper into the grass so that he won't go with the wind.

Teens Stroll Past Reporter Who Can Barely Stand in Raging Winds.  Weather Channel correspondent Mike Seidel in Wilmington, North Carolina, looks like he's gallantly fighting the raging winds as he courageously reported live from Hurricane Florence on Friday [9/14/2018].  "This is about as nasty as it's been," Seidel said dramatically.  Shortly after he made the comment, two teens in shorts are seen in the background strolling along, taking cell phone photos, having no problem at all. [...] As an aside, did you notice how the media now counts homes without power?  They don't count homes, they estimate the number of people who might be in a home and multiple [sic] it by the actual homes.

Media Hype:  Mueller Probe 'Bombshell' Turns Out To Be Major Dud.  According to various mainstream media figures this week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was all but certain to drop a bombshell Friday [8/31/2018] that would shake Washington, D.C., to its core.  It didn't happen.  NBC's Meet the Press host Chuck Todd on Thursday kicked off the Mueller "bombshell" frenzy, warning viewers that Friday could go down in history as a turning point in the Russia investigation.

The 'Echo Chamber' Isn't A Conspiracy Theory, It's A Fact.  When I finally got to the end of a supposed blockbuster piece by the New Yorker's Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow regarding a dark conspiracy theory that had been spreading within the Trump White House, I was struck by two things:  1) the innocuousness of the memo in question, and 2) how the basis of the memo was plainly true.  The piece, in fact, goes a long way in substantiating the memo's contention about the media, allowing former Obama administration officials and their allies to offer ludicrous claims without even a scintilla of journalistic skepticism.

After Trump's "Worst Week" his approval plummets — I mean, barely changes.  The convictions of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen had #TheResistance giddy with excitement.  This was the end.  He's a gonner.  WORST WEEK EVER. [...] The NBC/WSJ polls is almost exactly what Rasmussen finds as of August 24, 2018, 46% approval.  On August 24, 2010, Obama had a 45% approval rating according to Rasmussen.  So despite a massively negative media environment for Trump and a massively positive media environment for Obama, Trump's approval rating is the same as Obama at a similar time in his presidency.

Liberal media's desperate push for Trump impeachment may actually hurt Democrats.  The liberal news media have a new favorite word to use when discussing President Trump:  impeachment.  For example, MSNBC and CNN reporters, anchors and guests said "impeach," "impeachment" or some other form of the word on the cable news channels an incredible 222 times between 6 a.m. and 11:59 p.m.  Wednesday [8/22/2018].  And of course, they talked about possible impeachment other days as well, and newspapers and websites were also filled with impeachment speculation.  Most Democrats in Congress and their leaders are shying away from talking about impeachment before the November midterm elections — but that's not stopping the anti-Trump media.

All the Talk About Impeaching the President Is Nonsense.  The television-news media desperately need to fill twenty-four hours every day in order to sell advertising to support their stations, their management, their employees, and their negotiated settlements and non-disclosure-agreement pay-outs to women whom they must silence after one or another of their male employees has violated them. [...] So the television-news media have to keep the money pouring in.  Same with the print media.  They need to grab your attention and hold it all day and night, every day. [...] So they have to figure out how to keep the ratings up.  They love a murder — oh, how they love a murder!  Especially of a young pretty White girl.  That grabs the attention of everyone:  men, women, liberals, conservatives, young, and old. [...] Even an isolated unsolved murder of a single young White woman gets the media exercised into a frenzy:  Jonbenet Ramsey, Elizabeth Short, Chandra Levy, Kate Steinle, Mollie Tibbets.  The Seedier Media obsess over these individual murders round-the-clock until it emerges that the murderer was an illegal alien.

Summertime and the media are embarrassing — from hating America to loving Antifa.  In the space of one week, the press downplayed a Democrat governor saying America "was never that great" and watched as the governor's brother/CNN anchor defended Antifa.  Another CNN commentator bashed America and mocked a conservative while she told of the discrimination her disabled son faced.  And former CIA director John Brennan, now an NBC national security analyst, recanted his claim that President Donald Trump committed treason and spent the week whining about losing his security clearance.

CNN's Philip Mudd Tells Paris Dennard to 'Get Out' for Telling the Truth.  CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd exploded at conservative CNN contributor Paris Dennard on Friday evening when Dennard made the completely factual claim that former government officials with security clearance can land top D.C. jobs.  Mudd and Dennard were debating on Anderson Cooper 360°, guest-hosted by Jim Sciutto, over the question of whether President Donald Trump had been right to revoke the security clearance of former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan.

Newsroom commando Ralph Peters cashiers [him]self.  This weekend, retired lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters went on CNN's dubiously titled Reliable Sources and, in the presence of the show's serially unreliable host, Brian Stelter, and all those unfortunate souls in airport waiting areas across the nation being force-fed this liberal Sunday-morning drivel, cashiered himself.  It appears that fulminating Trump Derangement Syndrome brought this former Fox News military analyst to perform this sad ceremony. [...] As a combat veteran, which Peters is not, I have to wonder if this sneering, whiny-voiced news show commando has a clue as to how many millions of his military family he has just branded as destructive, vengeful, racist couch-potato anarchists, followers of a false messiah and derelict in our oaths to the Constitution.  It is a fact that a substantial majority of military personnel, whether active-duty, retirees, or veterans, are conservative in their politics, so Peters had to know he was spitting in the faces of millions of his former comrades.

Enemies of the People.  [T]here is a certain equanimity that comes with realizing that so many of the daily crises are not crises at all, and that so much of the media screaming is like visiting an ice cream store — each day a different flavor, but all the same basic product ready to kill you if you don't control the portions, the frequency...

How Far Will the Left Go?  All the Way.  [Scroll down]  Each day brings a new outrage, a development enthusiastically promulgated by a brain-dead media that thinks a headline must contain the words "sparks outrage" or "comes under fire," to be newsworthy.  The foxes of anger and resentment have been set among the hens of political cohesion, and every day the squawking grows louder — as it will until that day comes when there are no more hens left to lay the eggs.

As the Swamp Turns.  It never ends, does it?  The daily cable-news soap opera installment.  A new crisis every day.  Sex.  Money.  Secret tapes.  A stripper whose upper torso gives new meaning to the term Silicon Valley.  And then her media-frenzied lawyer steeped in his own fun-to-watch divorce.  Bring out the popcorn.  Pull out some Raisinets.  Refill the Coke and Pepsi.  Sneak in a few plastic straws.  Another day's episode of "As the Swamp Turns."  Children separated from their parents.  Parents sent back with their children — and then telling the authorities:  "Naah, we'll go back, but leave the kids separated here."  Kids who do not even belong to the parents.  Russians — even red-headed Reds.  Secret courts.  Spies.  Married paramours exchanging mysterious messages:  "Andy."  "Secret plans."  An "Insurance Policy."  Smells at a Virginia Walmart.  Secret tape recordings.  The only thing missing is the "other woman" with the unwanted and hidden pregnancy, suddenly revealed — and the drama of whose baby it is.  Enter Bill Clinton!

The Conspiracy Theory That Ate New York.  This is the helpful illustration that New York Magazine published to help readers understand its convoluted — and, needless to say, #FakeNews — cover story alleging a Trump-Putin plot that began in... 1987.  Before the Soviet Union fell.  Before Putin had assumed any sort of true power.

What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit.  When Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin ended their joint press conference in Helsinki, the punditocracy predictably swarmed all over it like ants around a pile of crumbs.  Was Trump winking at Putin?  Did he really say he believes Putin more than he believes Robert Mueller about whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election?  Former Gus Hall enthusiast John Brennan, off his meds again, tweeted that the presser was "treasonous."  Professional chatterer Anderson Cooper said it was "perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit."  Every phrase, every gesture of the event will be picked apart and second-guessed to death in the next few days.

The Jim Jordan Hit Job Implodes:  Ohio State Held Hearing on Reputed Sex Abuser in... 1997.  I did some research on the story alleging that our warrior patriot, Rep. Jim Jordan was aware that his wrestling team members were being molested and did nothing about it. [...] We all have the facts and know that Rep. Jordan is not guilty of this allegation.

How to Read the News:  A Guide for Truth-Seekers.  The recent MSM and celebrity hysteria about the illegal immigrant children being separated from their alleged parents would have had some impact with voters had not the truth been exposed in the Internet on unbiased websites and twitter posts.  Those pictures of immigrant children sleeping in cages brought tears (crocodile?) to MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, who apparently failed to note that these heartbreaking photos were taken in 2014 during the Obama administration.  The detention center used by the Trump administration was a far cry from Obama's if one viewed them on one of the more credible news sites like Breitbart.com.

The Zombie Media.  Journalism schools do not teach journalism anymore.  They teach persuasive storytelling.  They teach the Machiavellian black art of propaganda.  Like most black arts, left-wing "journalism" relies heavily on its own peculiar dogma of magical rites and incantations.  To shut down Herman Cain in 2012, our leftist adversaries invented (or at least exaggerated) the ever popular sex scandal — the trusted and true kill shot they have used to assassinate troublesome public figures for decades.  Republicans nailed by a weeping and well paid accuser have typically curled into the fetal position and faded away.

Chris Matthews Urges Communist Revolution to Stop Supreme Court.  So the Chris Matthews [plan] is for the Democrats to declare a Communist revolution, call in the Russians for help, start executing their own people for being insufficiently left-wing, go down to defeat, flee the country while kidnapping a bunch of children and stealing all the gold?  Actually I think that is their plan.

Journalists circulate conspiratorial claims against DHS Doc claiming it has Nazi code.  Multiple journalists circulated a conspiracy theory on Twitter that a document from the Department of Homeland Security contained a Nazi code Thursday [6/28/2018]. [...] The tweets reference a press release from DHS titled "We Must Secure The Border And Build The Wall To Make America Safe Again" and was released in February, garnering little attention until recently.

Ex-CNN producer blasts Jim Acosta for 'self-serving antics'.  A former CNN producer took to Twitter on Friday [6/29/2018] to blast Jim Acosta, the network's White House correspondent, for what he called Acosta's "self-serving antics," saying they "give all good journalists a bad name."  The posts by Steve Krakauer, a former senior digital producer for the network who is now is a top executive at Commerce House, a Dallas-based advertising firm, were prompted by a question that Acosta shouted to President Donald Trump on Friday [6/29/2018] during a White House event on the economy and tax cuts.

Immigration 'crisis' brought to you by the Media Matrix.  Starting a week ago Friday, the media discovered (surprise!) that the Trump White House is taking a hard line on illegal immigration — and the pharisees of CNN and MSNBC began dressing themselves in sackcloth and ashes to impress us with the sincerity of their shock and dismay at finding out that children coming across the border illegally are separated from the adults who accompanied them (not necessarily their parents).  Honestly, if you need a give-away (a "tell" as they say in poker) that the left-wing media is conspiring to damage this president, all you need to do is click back and forth between CNN and MSNBC for about three hours.  If every time you turn on one of these channels they are parroting the same story back at you with different talking heads pouring ashes on each other and cursing Trump, then you know you are in the middle of a feeding frenzy.

Delusion About Detentions:  On Family Separation at the Border.  Upstanding journalists, their fellow right-minded pundits, and progressive elected official friends are outraged!  According to them, the Trump Administration's approach to immigration enforcement is cruel, un-American, inhumane, barbaric, and even medically dangerous. [...] The problem is the facts are at odds with the conventional media interpretation of existing legal precedent, prior administrations' practices, and even relevant federal statutes.  You know, the law.  But being wrong on the facts has never stopped the media and their useful idiots in the commentariat from maligning the Trump Administration unfairly to suit their agenda.  Now they're shrieking about "baby jails."  It's insane.

News Fatigue?  Join the Club.  A Pew Research study recently found that nearly 7 in 10 Americans suffer from "news fatigue" — a phenomenon even more pervasive among Republicans.  The survey focused on the volume as much as the quality of the offerings.  But why wouldn't the public be emotionally expended from the anger and accusations, bullying and backbiting, "fake news" and "fact checks," insults and innuendo, posturing and protests, threats and trolling, and virtue-signaling and violent rhetoric and imagery spewed from every direction today?

The Editor says...
Whenever a big furor suddenly and simultaneously appears on every television "news" channel, there's a reason for it.  It is almost always a manufactured crisis designed to displace some other story.  The "anchor baby prison" and "kids in cages" hype is a false description of conditions that are nothing new.  The same laws and policies have been in place for months and years.  The reason all this is now front and center is that Donald Trump's popularity is steadily increasing — now surpassing that of Barack H. Obama — and it appears that he is about to single-handedly end the Korean War.  That is an accomplishment that must not be allowed to stay in the hourly news cycle if the news media's preferred party is to have any power.

Desperately Seeking Supremacists.  Talia Lavin is (or was, at last word) a fact-checker for the New Yorker.  She achieved overnight Twitter-fame by accusing an ICE agent of being a white supremacist. [...] Part of the story, I think, is that the Left is hard up for white supremacists.  Liberals talk about them all the time, but to the best of my knowledge, I have never met one.  Have you?  Liberals need to come up with someone other than Richard Spencer; hence the eagerness to libel a heroic ICE employee.

Update:
New Yorker staffer resigns after falsely accusing ICE agent of having Nazi tattoo.  The fact-checker for the New Yorker who mistook a Marine veteran's tattoo for a Nazi symbol has resigned, saying the "small mistake" has ruined her life.  Talia Lavin is out of a job following her June 18 tweet that caused mass outrage.  "I feel like I made a small mistake and it's destroyed my life," she told New York Magazine's The Cut.  Lavin's since-deleted tweet was about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Justin Gaertner, whom she falsely accused of having a tattoo of the Nazis' Iron Cross.

Drive-By Media Bombarding Americans With 'Manufactured Crises' to Distract from IG Report, Robust Economy.  The liberal media has been manufacturing crises ad-infinitum to divert the public's attention away from the Trump administration's tremendous achievements and the Democratic establishment's corruption, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh warns.

The Astonishing Silliness of CNN.  The good people at CNN can do what they want, but this blatant chyron-splaining sends a rather clear and unfortunate message:  that they think their audience is daft and incapable of figuring things out for themselves.  CNN is frequently breathless when no one should be breathless, which would be kind of exhausting, if anyone cared.  Take this headline from the network's website this week:  "The 45 Most Astonishing Lines from Donald Trump's Nashville Speech."

Lost Children?  Detention Cages?  Baby Prison Bus?  Trump's Critics Will Believe Anything.  Over the long weekend, President Trump's critics were in a sputtering rage over his supposedly losing 1,500 illegal immigrant children, sticking them in cages, and putting others on specially equipped prison buses.  Turns out, it was all 100% bogus.

Mainstream Media's Credibility Problem Is Of Their Own Making.  So, not only are the mainstream media biased, they're also incompetent.  Headlines and scandalous snippets that the news shows can flash on chyrons trump facts, and they are what is important to the mainstream media.  They eschew fact checking in favor of sensational headlines.  They create salacious news narratives, meant not to inform but to sell advertising.

The Firesign Theater Media.  The "mainstream media" (CNN, MSNBC, the three networks, the major newspapers, et al.) are so consumed by Trump hysteria that it places them squarely in this Firesign Theater zone.  Nicholas Kristof and his wife talk about the president in bed.  Brian Stelter describes himself as "Trump addicted."  Any psychiatrist can tell you that monomaniacal, pathological hatred has its surreal aspects.  Trump as the great white (orange?) whale and the media as Captain Ahab.  MSNBC's exegesis of the importance of the Mueller investigation in its various guises is a good example of this "Credo quia absurdum" (I believe because it is absurd) approach.  Rachel Maddow, Stephanie Ruhle, and Chris Hayes constantly strain to outdo themselves with conspiracy theories.  One would think there were more Russians involved with the Trump campaign than populate the pages of War and Peace.  More entertaining are the nightly shouting matches on Don Lemon's CNN show.

Mueller Year One:  The Real Heroes in Journalism.  CNN won an award for its January 2017 report about President-elect Trump being briefed on the bogus Steele dossier.  While we now know the story was improperly leaked by former Director of National Intelligence (and virulent Trump foe) James Clapper to shotgun the Trump-Russia collusion plotline days before the inauguration — and the celebrated CNN reporters did little more than regurgitate talking points spoon-fed to them by political operatives (one is known to have close ties to Fusion GPS) — the network was applauded for its "depth of reporting."

Estimate:  Cable News Nets Have Given Michael Avenatti $175 Million Worth Of Airtime.  [Scroll down]  Another thing:  He's doing it with no help from Fox.  If I'm not mistaken, the only FNC show he's been on is Shannon Bream's in March.  He was, allegedly, scheduled on Martha MacCallum's show recently but canceled at the last minute.  Tucker Carlson invited him on but Avenatti told his producer that he only wants to do Hannity's show, an obviously deliberate slight to Carlson.  (Or is it a compliment, with Avenatti suspecting he'd have a harder time outmaneuvering Tucker in an interview?)  Whether he's avoiding Fox because he's wary of the hostile reception he'd get there or because he's building a brand as a #Resistance hero and wants viewers to identify him with anti-Trump CNN and MSNBC, the fact remains that he's somehow achieved cable ubiquity without any exposure on the most highly rated cable news network in the country.

Court Documents Show Porn Star Lawyer Reported $8 Million Windfall in Feb.  When he Took on Stormy.  The Michael Avenatti Files — How did a bankrupt attorney come across $8 million after picking up porn star client Stormy Daniels?  Porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti is a huge hit with the Democrat-media complex.  The attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels has held 108 interviews on cable news outlets MSNBC and CNN since March 7th.

2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction.  When I trained as a journalist, we reserved a "Revealed" or an "Exposed" for those special occasions when we were able to bring to the reader information those in power did not want known.  These were the rare moments when as journalists we could hold our heads high and claim to be monitoring the centres of power, to be fulfilling our sacred duty as the fourth estate.  But today's Guardian's "exclusive" story "Revealed:  UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance" is doing none of this.  Nothing the powerful would want hidden from us is being "revealed". No one had to seek out classified documents or speak to a whistleblower to bring us this "revelation".  Everyone in this story — the journalist Patrick Wintour, an anonymous "Whitehall official", and the named politicians and think-tank wonks — is safely in the same self-congratulatory club, promoting a barely veiled government policy: to renew the Cold War against Russia.

CNN Hosts Porn Star's Lawyer Michael Avenatti 59 Times in Less Than Two Months.  CNN has exhibited a fetish for the Stormy Daniels story, particularly for her Trump-smacking lawyer, Michael Avenatti.  In less than two months (from March 7 to April 30), Avenatti has been a guest on CNN a total of 59 times — an average of more than once per day.  MRC analysts combed through transcripts of all of CNN's 2018 coverage looking for references to interviews with Avenatti, and then double-checked using our video archive.  Since Avenatti's first appearance on March 7, he has been interviewed on CNN a whopping 59 times, more than one-third of which (19) were with Anderson Cooper — who, of course, interviewed Stormy Daniels on CBS's 60 Minutes back in March.

Black Coffee:  The Starbucks Story Is Trash.  This is a country of 325-million people.  If two guys getting tossed out of a coffee shop is news, then things in Donald Trump's America must be going [very] well.  But if the story were only meaningless trash, it would just be typical of American journalism.  But it's pernicious trash meant to advance a false left-wing narrative, which is — oh yeah! — typical of American journalism.

CNN's dicey interview with student on lockdown after Maryland school shooting.  CNN engaged a student to pass along casualty stats from a school shooting, even though the student himself made clear that his own familiarity with the details was limited.  And then, when police showed up to escort him and his classmates from the school, CNN asked him to stay on the line, presumably to get a guided audio tour of the aftermath.

A User's Guide To Media Coverage Of Political Protests.  Liberal protests are newsworthy because they're disruptive; conservative protests are too orderly to be worth discussing.  The news angle with the gun protests was the disobedience involved in walking out, something to be celebrated.  Leftist protests demand police activity because leftists break stuff, and they demand to be arrested because it somehow makes them heroic.  One hundred thousand conservatives could show up on the National Mall in our nation's capital and not leave behind so much as a candy wrapper on the ground.  Bo-ring.

The 'scandal' of Perla Morales-Luna's arrest is fake news.  The arrest of Perla Morales-Luna on March 3 in San Diego is an absolute nonscandal.  Yes, at first glance the video looks a little concerning.  It shows a mother being separated from her screaming family as Customs and Border Patrol officers struggle to put her in the back of a vehicle.  But only at first glance.  Because if you watch again you'll see that the CBP officers use proportionate force and good efficiency in getting Morales-Luna off the street and into custody.  That's the best way to ensure no one is harmed and the situation isn't escalated unnecessarily.  Moreover, the CBP wasn't simply detaining Morales-Luna because she was just a random illegal immigrant.

Nikolas Cruz Is the Result of 'It Takes a Village'.  Does everyone see what the Democrats have done?  They've pitted children against us, thereby mainstreaming and normalizing child exploitation.  What the Democrats did to Parkland student Emma Gonzalez was as sickening a display as any I've ever witnessed.  They coaxed an understandably distraught child to spew one debunked Democrat lie after another — and, of course, plenty of invective toward President Trump.  David Hogg, a 17-year-old Parkland student, asked on CNN:  "If you can't get elected without taking money from child murderers, why are you running?"  Normal question from a 17-year-old, right?  Wondering aloud if he came up with that question all on his own, with such emotionally vivid lingual sophistication and political acumen, must make me a grumpy old gun nut who thinks our youth are stupid.

The Portraits and the Obama Reality Distortion Field.  [T]he Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. [...] This isn't journalism.  It's not a free press.  It's a bunch of cult members rushing out to explain that the flawed thing is flawless.  You're the flawed one for not seeing its gloriousness.  All hail the beloved leader.

Joe Concha:  Media's Trump Anger Mostly 'Performance Art at This Point'.  After it was made public that President Trump had requested the Pentagon to plan a military parade through Washington, DC, there was a steady stream of forceful condemnation of the President in which they claimed he was imitating foreign dictators.  And in an appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight Thursday [2/8/2018], Hill media reporter Joe Concha knocked them for playing up their outrage and playing to an audience.

CNN: Undetected Asteroids Could Threaten Earth During Government Shutdown.  Two CNN correspondents claimed during an episode of The Lead with Jake Tapper that an asteroid could potentially threaten the Earth if the government shutdown continues.  CNN correspondent Tom Foreman recalled the time NASA could not monitor "potentially dangerous asteroids" for over two weeks, implying that NASA would not be able to prevent an asteroid attack if it hit Earth while the government shut down.

TV crew busted trying to sneak fake bomb into airport.  Seven members of a cable TV crew were arrested at Newark Airport on Thursday [1/18/2018] after trying to film themselves passing a fake explosive device through a security checkpoint and onto a plane, according to reports.  The crew was working for the cable network CNBC, according to nj.com.  The fake explosive device was in a carry-on bag and never made it past security, Transportation Security Administration spokesman Michael McCarthy said.  "They failed, were caught and were arrested on multiple charges," he said, without elaborating on the charges.

CNN's Sanjay Gupta Diagnoses Donald Trump With Heart Disease.  Wednesday [1/17/2018] on CNN's "New Day," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the network's chief medical correspondent, proclaimed that based on President Donald Trump's coronary calcium scores going back to the previous decade, Trump has heart disease.  Gupta's diagnosis came a day after Trump's doctor, Navy Rear Adm. Dr. Ronny Jackson, offered his assessment of Trump's health at a White House press briefing.

Armchair diagnosis of a patient he has never examined:
Sanjay Gupta:  By all standards, Trump has heart disease.  CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, said Wednesday that he believes tests reveal that President Trump has heart disease.  Gupta said dating back to 2009, Trump started to have "these tests that are actually looking for the presence of calcium in the blood vessels that lead to the heart."  "Steadily, up until just this past week when he had it performed again, those numbers have gone up," he said.  "When they get to a certain range ... that means he has heart disease."

Leftist Toilet Mouths Condemn Trump as They Corrupt Nation.  President Trump denies having used a vulgar term last Thursday [1/11/2018] to describe dysfunctional Third World countries.  Yet there's no denying that the leftist media, believing he did, responded by repeatedly disgorging the term in a childish orgy of decadence.  Of course, the media no doubt think they're damaging Trump — but they're actually damaging society.  Let's be clear:  Leftists certainly object to the substance of Trump's comments, that we shouldn't continually absorb poor, unskilled, often functionally illiterate and unassimilable people from Third World nations.  But they also object to his alleged style, labeling as obscene the use of s-hole (toilet) to describe such places.  So to show us how bad such language is, the Crude News Network (CNN), for example, used it at least 36 times on Thursday.  It's sort of like inveighing against animal abuse and then bludgeoning dozens of dogs to death on air to prove your point.

CNN Leaps Into The Toilet:  Network Aired 195 Uses of 'S***hole' on Friday.  In the contest for Most Offended News Network after President Trump reportedly referred to African nations as "s***hole" countries, CNN wins hands down.  NewsBusters staff combed through CNN transcripts on Nexis for the S-hole word in the 24 hours of January 12 — the first full day after The Washington Post reported the controversy — and found CNN staffers and CNN guests uncorked the profanity 195 times in one day.  That doesn't count Saturday, Sunday or Monday.  They could be headed for 1,000 by now.  It also doesn't count the amount of time they put the S-word on screen (sometimes twice, as you can see on Cuomo's temporary prime time show.)  Compare that to Fox News Channel.  Their curse count was zero.  FNC told staff and guests not to say it.

Revealed:  Trump guzzles Diet Coke.  [Scroll down]  If not for Fox News we'd be totally in the dark, about everything, and it was from there that I first heard about CNN's alarming report:  [Something important?]  No, not exactly.  Rather, it's been reported, first from The New York Times, that Trump likes Diet Coke.  Wait — it gets worse.  He guzzles down a dozen a day.  So given such a scoop, CNN could not resist breaking it at around the same time that [a terrorist attack] was going on at Port Authority.  New Yorkers were running for their lives... but first things first; Trump is a glutton for Diet Coke

What Were the Motives of the Port Authority Bomber?  What were the motives of Ayaked Ullah, the Port Authority bomber in yesterday's attack?  There are many news headlines that address the issue, and they advance differing theories, each of them presented as fact.

CNN Promotes 'White Nonsense Roundup:' White Liberals Who Save Victimized People Of Color On Social Media.  In a piece titled "These are your white allies on Facebook," CNN enthusiastically introduces us to a group called "White Nonsense Roundup" (WNR).  Essentially, the group of roughly 100 "white ally" volunteers take turns swooping in to save African American people (already suffering from the "emotional labor" of systemic racism) from social media arguments when issues of race arise.  You know, because these white liberals are "woke" enough to recognize their inherent sin of whiteness and, apparently along with CNN, think people of color need white people to fight their social media battles for them.

New York Times forced to heavily amend another supposed K.T. McFarland 'scoop'.  The New York Times got ahead of itself again with yet another supposedly hot scoop involving former deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland, the Russians and the 2016 presidential election.  The story, now titled "McFarland's Testimony About Russia Contacts Is Questioned," reported originally that an email sent by the former Trump transition official indicated she lied to Congress this summer when she was questioned about disgraced Gen. Michael Flynn's communications with the Russians.  The article has been heavily amended since publication so that it is now mostly innuendo.  The initial references to the emails have been removed, and the story now leans mostly on Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., who only questions whether McFarland was forthright in her testimony.

How D.C. political assassins use media to oust Rex Tillerson.  If several major media outlets are to be believed, at least two senior administration officials say Chief of Staff John Kelly has drawn up a plan to replace Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who would be replaced by Sen. Tom Cotton by year's end or soon after.  The Washington media lap up these anonymous leaks like starving kittens.  Personnel contests, like shallow election horse race stories, are easy to do, appear to contain drama and inside info and elevate the reporter to someone-in-the-know.  The fundamental problem with these self-serving reports is the sources are unknown, so news consumers cannot judge their trustworthiness and motivations.  Which, of course, is the point of hiding their identities.  Consumers must trust the reporters and media outlets, a dubious act in this era of rampant Trump antipathy.  The New York Times started this latest Tillerson-is-a-goner meme.

Unhinged coverage of Trump is hurting the media.  Not only is everything (still) hyper-politicized, but the lines between news media, lifestyle media and flat-out activism have faded into irrelevance.  On Wednesday [11/22/2017], the lead story in Teen Vogue, next to stories about how "I Will Never Use Regular Soap Again After THIS $6 Foam Body Wash" and "Everyone Basically Wore Lingerie to the VS Fashion Show After Party," was this screaming headline:  "The United States Voted 'No' on an Anti-Nazi UN Resolution."  It ran over a terrifying picture of crowds carrying banners, some featuring swastikas, with smoke in the background suggesting a terror attack.  Only when you click through do you discover that there is no news here whatsoever:  The US votes against this meaningless, nonbinding UN gambit every year because the US has this thing called the First Amendment.  President Obama's appointees also opposed the resolution.

A Year to be Thankful For.  I'm thankful my fears about Donald Trump seem to have been unfounded.  Not a fascist.  Not a secret liberal.  Not an incompetent.  ISIS is defeated.  GDP at 3% plus.  Some 60 great originalist judges nominated.  Regulations cut back at an amazing rate.  Our lying leftist press humiliated and discredited.  I'm thankful because, whenever I get tired of watching an America in crisis, all I have to do is turn off the mainstream news and America is not in crisis anymore.  In fact, America is doing quite well.

Whittle: The News Media Knows How To Stop These Massacres, But Refuses To Do It.  In his latest video, conservative commentator Bill Whittle discusses the most effective way to end the surge of mass murders that America has suffered in the last twenty years — and it's one that falls squarely at the feet of the national news media.  Citing forensic psychologist Park Dietz, who has studied mass murderers extensively, Whittle contends that we've seen a wave of mass shootings like Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs because the media insists on providing 24/7 coverage of the tragedies, turning suicide massacres into a chance for glory for the sociopaths carrying out the heinous acts.

The Puerto Rican Genocide That Wasn't.  The death toll in Puerto Rico currently stands at 48.  Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20.  As we approach October 20, the death toll from the hurricane is a lot less than the death toll from the deadliest month in Chicago.  Despite media arm waving, with only 117 people not accounted for, the actual death toll in Puerto Rico isn't likely to rise very much.  And even a death toll of 48 was only achieved by listing people who died of heart attacks and other medical problems that could not be treated because of hurricane damage.  It's unknown whether some of them might have lived without the hurricane.  It's guesswork.  The previous, incomplete death toll showed that the actual hurricane seemed to have only killed 19 people.  2 suicides were also attributed to the hurricane.  As were respiratory failures "indirectly linked" to the hurricane.  But the media has been working hard to inflate the death toll.  "We'll probably never know exactly how many people died," the Washington Post speculates.  "Hurricane Maria likely killed more people than Puerto Rico says," the Daily News ghoulishly insists.

No, Mr. Krugman, There is Not a Cholera Outbreak in Puerto Rico.  Yesterday [9/30/2-17], liberal pundit and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman incorrectly tweeted that cholera, a deadly bacterial disease caused by unsanitary water, had resurfaced in Puerto Rico. [...] Then moments later, he corrected himself with a follow up tweet. [...] You will notice his fake news has amassed thousands of retweets and favorites, while his correction has not.

Hurricane Irma And How The Left Has Politicized Even The Weather.  A number of years ago, I sat down with the general manager of a major television news station.  He told me that in their own survey, viewers tuned in for "weather first, sports second, and news last."  Therefore he stressed, weather forecasters were the "cash cow" of the station.  He further explained that much of television weather forecasting was a "sham."  He said that decades ago, they would give a "one-day" forecast.  But then Station B across town went to a "two-day" forecast.  So then they countered with a "three-day" forecast," until everyone went to the "useless seven-day" forecasts.  He emphasized that it was all done for reasons of competition and ratings and that with a "seven-day" forecast, the station and the networks were playing viewers for "fools," because they normally "couldn't even get the forecast for tomorrow correct."

While People Die, Washington Post Obsesses Over Melania Trump's Shoes.  Searching for a scandal the way a crackhead hunts for crack, the media decided that the real story of the natural disaster ought to be Melania Trump's shoes.  Because that is what the media is now.  Melania Trump wore high heels while getting on Air Force One.  The media howled that she was heading to a flood zone while wearing high heels.  Never mind that she was still far from the zone and was just boarding a plane.  Then she landed in Texas, wearing sneakers.  And that was also bad.

Between alt-right and 'antifa,' media still manages to be worse.  The only people dumber than the Neanderthals and Brass Knuckle Draggers are the insufferably tedious referees known as the Stupid Media who shape the country as a barking mad carnival, whipping up hysteria for every armed showdown.

CBS News joins O.J. Simpson on the hunt for the real killers.  In the wake of O.J. Simpson's parole last week, CBS News has a story today titled "Who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman?" Curiously, the story doesn't attempt to answer that question.  Instead, the entire premise of the story is that the investigation into the murders is officially still open in Los Angeles.

Worst media moments of the week:  NY Mag climate screed wins!  [Scroll down]  "There are now, trapped in Arctic ice, diseases that have not circulated in the air for millions of years," goes one of the milder passages.  It was so bad that climate alarmist and hockey stick creator Michael Mann teamed up with two others to write a response, arguing, "Doomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial."  Mann and his compatriots criticized the New York Mag piece as painting, "an overly bleak picture, arguing that climate change could render the Earth uninhabitable by the end of this century."  They also called it out for errors.  Mann made an interesting comment that seems to go right over the head of eco-journalists, explaining, "fear does not motivate, and appealing to it is often counter-productive."  Yet fear is about 99.99 percent of all media climate catastrophe coverage.

"The more it sensationalizes the commonplace, the more boring its coverage becomes."
The Media's Endless Anti-Trump Show Trial.  It is a measure of the anti-Trump media's stupidity and malpractice that the phrase "breaking news" now elicits eye rolls.  The media's "breaking news" about Trump is rarely breaking or news.  It is usually recycled and old — some stale piece of information, relating to a practice both parties long ago adopted, that is sensationalized and dished up as novel.  Into this category falls much of its breathless "Trump-Russia" coverage, including its all-hands-on-deck stories about Donald Trump Jr.

The media's mass hysteria over 'collusion' is out of control.  Hysteria among the media and Trump opponents over the prospect of "collusion" between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin may have hit its crescendo this week.  That's right:  The wailing from the media and their allies about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with some "Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer" (whatever that means) may be the last gasp of this faux scandal.  Good riddance.  Predictably, the New York Times started the ball rolling with front-page coverage, going so far as to argue, "The accounts of the meeting represent the first public indication that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help."  As if this were some breakthrough moment.  The Times followed up with a headline yesterday [7/10/2017] that the meeting request and subject matter discussed in the prior story were transmitted to Trump Jr. via an email. [...] The Times is so desperate to move the story that the meeting's arrangement over email is being made into Page 1 news.

What counts as treason differs depending on the letter after your name.  In 2012, Obama met with Russia and said he would be more flexible if he was re-elected.  The media and Democrats had no problem.  There were no investigations and no spying on Obama looking for collusion.  The Clintons, the Clinton Foundation, and their close associates got huge amounts of money from foreign governments including Russia.  In return, Russia got uranium, some of which it transferred to Iran.  There were no investigations by the FBI; Democrats and the media didn't care.  Kickbacks for uranium to the enemy looks like actual treason. [...] But Donald Jr. had a ten-minute meeting where he thought he might get dirt on Hillary in which he got nothing and gave nothing in return, and he and his father are essentially accused of treason.

Byron York:  Trump-Russia investigation takes sharp turn toward the dumb.  What a mess for the White House.  And all for nothing.  When the meeting actually happened, at Trump Tower on June 9, there was a reason Jared Kushner left after a few minutes and Paul Manafort spent the whole time staring at his phone.  The "Crown prosecutor" of Russia — there is no such position — was actually a shady lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who had no "official documents" to offer but wanted to harangue Trump Jr. about U.S. sanctions on Russia.  Trump Jr. quite reasonably saw there was nothing there and cut the meeting off after about 20 minutes.  But in a capital consumed with Trump and Russia, the revelations, first reported in the New York Times and then substantiated by Trump Jr. himself, blew up into the Scandal That Ate Cable TV.

Some subways are literally held together with zip ties.  At more than $1 million per subway car, you'd think they'd be held together with something more than zip ties. [...] An MTA spokeswoman said Wednesday that the zip tie was being used as a temporary fastener to attach a cable to the new R186 cars while a special part is being made.  She added that the cable is attached another way, and the zip tie is just a back-up.

The Editor says...
The article immediately above, as you can see from the two sentences excerpted above, is an example of self-contradictory sensationalism.

NYT's Latest Trump Story Follows A Familiar Pattern Of Breathlessly Reporting Routine Procedures.  The establishment media's hysteria is once again in high gear after news that members of the Trump transition team were ordered to preserve documents and other materials pertinent to the investigation into Russian interference of the election.  Trump's transition team's counsel, issuing a memo to satisfy routine requirements in any investigation, hardly called for the tone and seriousness with which it was reported.  The New York Times asserts that the request "illustrated the seriousness of the inquiry" conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller, and how "deeply they are delving" into President Donald Trump's activities.  Such rhetoric follows a longstanding pattern of the establishment media's propensity to overreact to even the most routine circumstances with anything related to the president.  The Washington Post's Tom Nichols says that media personnel "seem determined to overreact on even ordinary matters."

Winners and Losers from Comey Hearing.  Mainstream media cable networks like CNN had countdown clocks.  Broadcast networks covered the hearing as if it would go down as one of the most seminal events in the history of the country.  "Never Trump" Republicans were getting ready to be used as the mainstream media's useful idiots and get their predictable television hits and quotes in mainstream media publications.  Left-wing Democrats were dreaming of drafting articles of impeachment.  They lionized Comey as their hero who would help them destroy Trump once and for all.  Not so fast.

I think they do this intentionally.
Grrr 59% say news media make them angry, dissatisfied.  Nearly six in 10 Americans are upset with the news media, claiming in a new poll that it makes them angry and dissatisfied.

CNN Goes Bonkers:  Spends 10 Hours on Comey Before a Single Word of Testimony.  Former FBI Director James Comey has not said a single word in public, but the liberal media have been salivating for days over his upcoming testimony on Thursday.  Case in point:  from noon on Thursday (June 1) when the date for the testimony was set, until noon today (June 7), CNN has already devoted more than 10 hours of coverage to testimony that has yet to even occur.

The Media Is Now Leaking Classified Info Just Because They Feel Like It.  This morning, The New York Times brought us another breathtaking exposé of classified national security information that is really important for the public to know because... um, well, because they just kind of felt like it.  The story is about a contractor for an international shipping company who was captured and held hostage by rebels in Yemen before being released last year.  Without the man's permission or cooperation, The New York Times gives details of his capture and imprisonment, his name, his age, his exact job description with the shipping company, and the location where his wife and children lived at the time (none of which I will repeat here). [...] The whole report is inexplicable, and you get the sense that the reporters just wanted to tell a splashy, thriller-like story.  Except that there's a larger pattern:  it has become acceptable to open the floodgates of classified information because Trump.

The News Is Propaganda.  Non-stop distractions are deliberately used by those in power as instruments of policy for the purpose of preventing people from paying attention to reality.  Propaganda is used by those in power to manipulate language, thought, and opinion in a way that causes the progression from thought to action artificially.  When the public is reduced to a state where people no longer care about the truth and are unaware of what that truth even is, propaganda takes hold and shows them what to do. [...] Under the conditions in which we find ourselves living crisis to crisis, there can be no thought as the steady stream of propaganda is fed to us in the form of "news" that never strays from a certain narrative.

The Anonymous Sources Of Washington Post And CNN Fake News.  Media fake news is everywhere.  No, the new health care bill does not treat rape as a pre-existing condition and Republicans did not celebrate its passage with beer.  The latest media outrage is driven by a Washington Post story about intelligence disclosures based on claims by anonymous sources.  The Post's big hit pieces are mainly based on anonymous sources.  Its latest hit piece runs a quote from, "a former senior U.S. official who is close to current administration officials."  That's an anonymous source quoting hearsay from other anonymous sources.  This isn't journalism.  It's a joke.

Anonymous Nation:  America's Papers of Record Have Turned into Tabloids.  Donald Trump made a name for himself in part by regularly appearing on the cover of New York City tabloids in the 1980s and 1990s.  Fast forward to 2017, and the guy is now president, still appearing on the cover of various grocery store check-out scandal sheets — like the New York Times and the Washington Post.  Journalists from these institutions conduct their reporting like they're covering Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's divorce.

Hysteria, overblown hooey part of the fake news cycle.  Turns out Mr. Trump is a germaphobe and wasn't in that Russian hotel room.  The bust of Martin Luther King is still in the Oval Office.  He didn't abandon conservatives by naming his sister to the Supreme Court.  Mr. Trump's Tower — and people involved in his campaign — were, in fact, surveilled.  Slowly, agonizingly, Truth becomes very inconvenient for all these people predicting Mr. Trump's certain demise.  In the end, they are all left clinging to the smallest Styrofoam shard of their original story, bobbing in the harsh sea of Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome.

How many buzzwords can the liberal media write in one sentence?  I was reading a very poorly written Los Angeles Times article about North Carolina legislators introducing a bill to define marriage as between a man and a woman, and I was surprised to read the following sentence:  ["]Opponents of the legislation castigated it as an unnecessary step that will stoke division in a state still reeling from the fallout of a controversial bill regulating which bathrooms transgender people can use.["]  I have rarely seen a sentence so sensationalistically, so chock-full of so many liberal buzzwords.  The over-dramatization of facts makes this news article read like an action thriller.

Trump's Budget is an Attack On the Bureaucratic State.  So according to journalists, Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts are "big," "deep," "dramatic," "massive," and so on.  With each breathless adjective — often coupled with excellent verbs like "gut" and "slash" — they add to the apocalypticism that's engulfed the Left.  "Reading through the Trump budget," tweeted The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, "I feel as the Romans must have felt in 456 AD as the barbarians conquered and ushered in the dark ages."  Vox claimed that the budget plan is a proposal to "dramatically remake the federal government."  If only.  In perspective, all of this melodrama is over probably less than 1 percent of the national budget.

Fake News Frenzy — Remember the Great Black Church Burning Hoax?  The recent "fake news" about bomb threats at Jewish Community Centers and desecration of Jewish cemeteries recalls a much earlier chapter in the history of Fake News — the Black Church Burnings of the 1990s.  Bomb threats phoned in to Jewish Community Centers across the country caused a spasm of "Trump is not denouncing these fast enough" tweets.  At around the same time, there were multiple cases of reported desecration of Jewish cemeteries, including the toppling of tombstones.  All this was presumed to be part of an imagined Trump Effect: [...] When Trump suggested that some of these might be typical Hate Hoaxes, he was denounced for that, too.  Well, it turned out that many bomb threats could be traced to one black disgruntled reporter (Juan Thompson) who was attempting to lay the blame on his white girlfriend.

ICE Calls Out CNN, NBC, Etc., For "False, Dangerous & Irresponsible" Fake News Reporting.  President Trump told a gathering of news media yesterday, namely the Mainstream Media that is not accustomed to having its status questioned, that they were constantly perpetrating fakes news to create an intended reaction from the American people.  ICE, the nation's largest immigration enforcement agency, just did the very same thing, calling out the media for its fabricated/highly slanted coverage of recent immigration raids and reminding everyone that under previous administration these raids were far more numerous — and the media then said NOTHING.

ICE: Raid reports fake news, Obama grabbed 350% more.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pushing back hard on media reports that President Trump has unleashed a mean-spirited national raid on immigrants, noting that it rounded up over 350 percent more during one sweep under former President Obama.  In a series of tweets, ICE called the reports, in the Washington Post and elsewhere, "dangerous and irresponsible."  The agency this week said that had made 683 arrests of mostly criminal illegal immigrants, or those with multiple cases against them beyond illegally crossing the border.

NBC News Spreads Fear, Lies With "Ghost Gun" Fake News.  Here's the thing: former ATF agent Rick Vasquez and Jeff Rossen are boldly and directly lying to the viewers/readers of NBC News.  I know this from firsthand experience, as I've built semi-automatic firearms from the ground up, including AR-15s and an AKM.  You cannot buy "all the parts" for any firearm online and simply slap the pieces together to build a functioning firearm as they mislead viewers, and this is a very easy claim to debunk.  Every firearm made or imported into the United States has a part of the frame or receiver that the ATF recognizes as the actual firearm that carries the serial number.  All the other pieces are just parts.

Iceberg Story, Slim.  In the post-November 8 universe, one man's fake news is another man's vitally important scoop.  The third-most emailed article in today's [2/7/2017] New York Times is surely both things depending on who's reading it. [...] Here's the gist of it:  A crack is growing in the Larson C Ice Shelf, "in an area already vulnerable to warming temperatures" and may soon create a very large iceberg. [...] This is literally a story about an iceberg that could form — and then do no appreciable damage.  And lest you think there's any new information here, the Times reports that scientists have been monitoring the thing since 2014.

NBC's Holt Lectures Viewers on the Meaning of the Statue of Liberty.  With the debate over the legality of President Donald Trump's immigration and travel ban still raging Monday evening [1/30/2017], NBC broadcasted their Nightly News program "from the shadow of the Statue of Liberty" accompanied by a lecture from anchor Lester Holt. [...] But neither ABC nor CBS treated it as a time to seemingly pontificate about the morality of the issue, let alone march out to the Statue of Liberty and use it as a prop.

Trump's Reassertion of Common Sense is a shattering experience for death-wish liberals, bishops, and RINOs.  The grandstanding hysteria over Trump's travel ban on people coming from seven terrorist countries falls into the category of sound and fury signifying nothing, save the persistence of death-wish liberalism in our politics.  It happened so "abruptly," harrumphed the chattering class.  Really?  Trump has only been talking about the ban for over a year.  People in those countries had since his victory in November time to "prepare" for it.  Besides, since when has it been a constitutional right for peoples residing in terrorist hotbeds to travel inconvenience-free to America?

The Famed 'Doomsday Clock' Is More Like A Liberal Angst Meter.  When the Doomsday Clock launched in 1947, the initial setting was seven minutes to midnight.  Since then, it's gone up and down.  The furthest it got from doomsday was 17 minutes in 1991.  The closest was 2 minutes to midnight in 1953.  But it's clear from its movements over the past seven decades that the Doomsday Clock is more about politics than any sort of scientific measure of the risk of global nuclear war.  After all, it has routinely counted down after a Republican wins the White House, and ticked up when Democrats reclaim the presidency.

Grasping for Metaphor, Reporters Flock to Burning DC Garbage Can.  As chance would happen, many of the people upset by the presidency of Donald Trump took to the streets of Washington today [1/20/2017] to express their displeasure with the new administration.  Shortly after Trump was sworn in, a large march organized by the DisruptJ20 protest group set out from Union Station to McPherson Square, where it is holding a large rally.  When the march passed by 13th and K streets, Northwest, some in in the demonstration broke away and started throwing newspaper boxes, garbage cans, and other objects in middle of K Street and set them on fire, using Trump T-shirts as kindling.  And as any event involving the combination of garbage, fire, and a large crowd — coupled with its convenient location right outside the office of a major news organization — does, the small blaze caught the attention of seemingly every reporter within sprinting distance.

No, Trump's Dismissal of Obama's Ambassadors Is Not an Unprecedented Crisis.  President-elect Donald Trump's order for all politically-appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day is "breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods," according to the New York Times.

The Election Was Not Hacked.  Despite the histrionic claims of the press, the election was not hacked.  The Democratic National Committee's lousy IT security allowed someone to access their emails which were then leaked.  Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta fell for an age-old phishing scam that was as believable as getting millions of dollars from a Nigerian prince.  Using the spotty media understanding of cybersecurity, they can claim that the DNC and Hillary's campaign were "hacked," but the election decisively was not.  And the press knows it.  In order to "hack" an election, a nefarious group would have to inltrate the voting systems of 50 states, plus DC and territories.  All of these systems are unique, with completely different architecture, ballot formats, tabulation processes, etc., etc.  This did not happen.  In fact, some hackers tried breaking into a few different states' systems weeks before the election, were quickly identied, and prevented from doing so.

'Russian hackers' penetrate US power grid with 'outdated Ukrainian malware'.  A Vermont utility sounded the alarm after finding malware code on a laptop that the FBI and DHS had touted as associated with Russian hackers.  However, cybersecurity specialists say the code came from an outdated Ukrainian hacking tool.

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This is one of the biggest mountains ever made out of a newsroom molehill.  Utility companies don't transact their business or control the power grid with laptop computers.  In any event, the presence of malware on one computer doesn't mean that any other computer was affected — or even the one with malware.  This story is a whole lot of nothing, probably intended to make Russia look like a villain, at a time when president-elect Trump is showing he's far more capable of dealing with Russia than Barack H. Obama ever was.

Russian Hacking Malware Found on Vermont Utility Computer.  Malware associated with Russian hackers was found on a computer belonging to a utility company in Vermont, according to the company.  After being alerted last night by the Department of Homeland Security about malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, Russia's hacking campaign against U.S. political institutions, Burlington Electric Department performed a scan, the utility said in a statement.  "We acted quickly to scan all computers in our system for the malware signature.  We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization's grid systems," the statement said.  "We took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alerted federal officials of this finding."

Washington Post Publishes False News Story About Russians Hacking Electrical Grid.  The [Washington] Post [12/30/2016] story was titled, "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, officials say."  The story said, "A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials."  The Post published the story before being able to get comment from the two utility companies in Vermont.  The Burlington Electric Department would end up putting out a statement showing the premise of The Washington Post story as being untrue.

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Wait, Never Mind, Russia's Not Trying to Destroy Vermont After All.  Hey, remember that ominous Washington Post story about Russia hacking a Vermont electrical company, and the scary warnings from Vermont Democrats that Vladimir Putin was attempting to shut down the grid in the middle of winter?  This morning [1/3/2017] the Post reports, "Whoops!"

Vt. utility not specifically targeted for hack, official says.  Federal investigators have found no information suggesting this city's electric utility was specifically targeted after Burlington officials found malicious software linked to Russian hackers on a department laptop, the utility's general manager said Saturday [12/31/2016].  Evidence of Internet traffic associated with Grizzly Steppe, a notorious Russian distributor of malware, was disturbing but did not pose a threat to Burlington Electric Department's highly computerized grid or its customers, said Neale Lunderville, general manager of the city-owned utility.  The stealth software, isolated on the one laptop, was discovered Friday [12/30/2016] as part of ongoing routine vigilance.

The Great Hacking of Vermont's Electrical Grid That Never Happened.  For starters, the computer that had the malware was an employee's laptop, and it was never connected to the Vermont electrical grid itself.  Vermont had not been specifically targeted, and the Post's original headline — "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say" — was false.  The statement from Burlington Electric Department General Manager Neale F. Lunderville not-so-subtly urges the media covering this news to get their facts straight: [...]

Washington Post corrects story on Vermont utility breach.  The Washington Post has corrected a story that originally said Russian hackers penetrated the U.S. electric grid by breaching a utility company in Vermont.  "An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid.  Authorities say there is no indication of that so far.  The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid," an editor's note attached to the original article said.  The original story was published Friday, one day after the Obama administration announced new sanctions against Russia for its cyber activities.

Washington Post retracts story about Russian hack at Vermont utility.  The Washington Post has retracted its story about Russian hackers penetrating the nation's electricity grid with a virus found in a Burlington, Vt., electric company laptop.  "Authorities say there is no indication of that so far [that Russians had penetrated the US electric grid]," according to an editor's note attached to a corrected version of the story on the paper's website.  "The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid," the editor's note read.

These Are the Media's Top Ten Embarrassments of the Year.  According to the major networks, Fidel was awesome, Hillary rallies are the best, and white people ruined America.

The Scourge of Dumb News.  Media is a product.  Firms that provide this product are servicing a need, and we'd only be kidding ourselves to claim news consumers desire only to be informed.  This isn't a matter of simple bias confirmation.  News outlets have begun to cater not just to partisans but the minimally informed for whom fleeting and shareable controversies provide a sense of feeling informed. [...] "Fake news" is a real problem, but it attracts a credulous audience because news consumers have been primed to expect emotional satisfaction from the news.

12 Fake News Stories from the Mainstream Media.  [For example,] Dateline NBC rigs a truck to explode:  In 1993, NBC News delivered a historic public apology for staging the test crash of a General Motors pickup truck for the Dateline NBC program.  The reporters wanted to demonstrate that gas could leak from the truck's fuel tank and cause a dangerous fire after a crash, so they rigged it with explosives. [...] Dateline NBC was far from the only example of dubious product-safety reporting.  It wasn't even the first time a vehicle was rigged to explode for a major network consumer report.

Amanpour: Media Should Fight Trump Because He Might Start Putting Us In Cages.  CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour urged journalists Tuesday night to protect their profession from the "existential threat" of President-elect Donald Trump, who she implied might try to put the media in "cages."  Citing Trump's tweet about the media "inciting" some of the protests against him following the election, Amanpour warned gravely of authoritarian leaders who dismantle the free press and imprison journalists.

Corporate Media Berating Fake News Should Look In Mirror.  The corporate media has been abuzz recently about the surge of fake news stories tainting our digital ether, cautioning consumers against being conned by those pushing fantastical falsehoods online.  The glaring problem with this:  the messenger.  As reflective as the Democratic (and Republican) establishment should be in the aftermath of the Trump-nado that swept itself into the White House, the elites in our media should be looking themselves in the mirror morning, noon, and night, perhaps more than any other institution in the U.S.  Complacent for decades in a system of its own tone-deaf creation, political media elites have long operated by chasing the "horse race" of he-said, she-said politics — or in Trump's case, he-tweeted, she-tweeted.

Trump Sticks with People Who Stuck by Him, Media Bewildered.  As soon as the news broke that President-elect Trump had named Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist, the media began acting as if he'd just freed Charles Manson and given him the launch codes.  After helping Trump win in states where Republicans have sought nothing but moral victories for decades, Bannon seemed like a perfectly logical choice to keep close in an advisory capacity.

The Misinformation Age.  Consumers of mass media are not seeking to be informed, because they assume it is all nonsense.  They just want to be entertained.  It's probably why Trump is one nominee and Clinton is the other.  Everyone is looking forward to the brash bully tearing into the corrupt old cow.  It may be awful for the country, but it will make good TV.

Obama's legacy:  Dead cops.  [Scroll down]  For one thing, if Obama did his homework at all, he would know that what appears to be an explosion of killings-by-police is actually just an explosion of media hype on the rare occasions when it happens, often without any of the context that would help people explain why a certain thing happened.  A responsible president would urge people to wait for the facts and recognize that even though they can make mistakes, police officers have dangerous, difficult and crucially important job such that they do not deserve to be painted with a broad brush as a bunch of racists.

CNN's Liberal Meltdown:  Brexit Means 'Xenophobia,' 'White Identity' Win.  Liberal CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour suffered an epic meltdown on Thursday night [6/23/2016] as it became clear that Britain was asserting its national sovereignty and voting to leave the European Union.  The sneering Amanpour repeatedly derided it as an example of "xenophobia" and "white identity" politics.  Early in the evening, with the result still in doubt, Amanpour told Anderson Cooper:  "A lot of the Leave movements are led by the hard-right, very, very xenophobic, anti-immigrant, very populist, nationalist, white identity politics."  Later, as reality set in, the journalist referenced the current issue of The Economist and raged, "This marks a victory for the kind of economic nationalism, to quote this article here, for the kind of xenophobia, that will imperil the liberal world order that has guaranteed western prosperity and stability since World War II."

'This is the end': Media hysterical over Brexit.  Reporters around the world were left terrified, heartbroken and angry over the vote in the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union.  "No words.  The dream is over.  Britain has voted to fall into the sea.  This is the end," Fusion's Felix Salmon opined on social media.  "I despair.  This is not my England."  "I feel like there's been a death in the family.  There needs to be some kind of funeral," he added.

My Shared Shame: The Media Helped Make Trump.  Those of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump's rise on the Republican Party's toxic manipulation of racial resentments over the years.  But we should also acknowledge another force that empowered Trump:  Us.  I polled a number of journalists and scholars, and there was a broad (though not universal) view that we in the media screwed up.  Our first big failing was that television in particular handed Trump the microphone without adequately fact-checking him or rigorously examining his background, in a craven symbiosis that boosted audiences for both.

Hillary's Really Bad Week No One Heard About because Guess Who.  Hillary Clinton had a gaffe-filled, staggeringly bad week last week.  It started with her politicizing Nancy Reagan's funeral and ending with more explosive allegations that her informal adviser Sidney Blumenthal had directly cut and pasted classified intelligence into an unsecured personal e-mail account.  But you wouldn't know it from media campaign coverage, which has been far more occupied with the GOP primary and the escalation of violent incidents at rallies.

Of Course Whites Commit Most Of The Crime In Fargo You Idiots.  It's time for another fantastically stupid "exclusive" news story from the folks at Fargo-based television news station Valley News Live.  Their big revelation?  White people commit most of the crime in Fargo.  A city where, according to the U.S. Census, is 90.2 percent white.

The myth of the cop killing 'epidemic'.  To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport.  Except that these homicidal goons are wearing the blues and badges of American police departments.  It's the narrative that's given rise to the protest movement Black Lives Matter and to a growing public mistrust of the police in general.  From Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., to the recent shooting of a middle-aged woman and a teen in Chicago, the body count seemingly keeps rising, exacerbating racial tensions and keeping the nation on edge.  And each incident is breathlessly reported by a media determined to show that America remains deeply, irredeemably racist.  Problem is, it's simply not true.

5 Devastating Facts About Black-on-Black Crime.  The mainstream American media is, again, happily hitting the Black Lives Matter crack pipe in its pernicious pursuit of high ratings. [...] [T]he ugly truth behind #BlackLivesMatter is that black people killing other black people does nothing to advance its political power in the same way that one white cop killing a black criminal can.  Despite the media's overindulgence on white cops killing blacks, there is still a far-larger amount of black bodies being sent to morgues by black killers.  Here's five devastating facts, liberals can't deny, that prove it.

The System Worked, So Why The Protests In Chicago?  The truth is the awful death is demeaned by another outbreak of the nation's protest industry, one that unfortunately doesn't move itself overseas.  The telling tip-off is the presence of Jesse Jackson.  Or Al Sharpton.  And protest leaders' choice of target, in this case a nationally familiar tourist area that — Oh, look! — is handy to all the local TV newsrooms.  And it piggybacks on a traditionally slow news day's fascination with holiday shoppers.  A perfect public-relations storm for protesters.

Don't Believe the Media!  You must keep in mind that the media industry is exactly that; an industry.  They must make greater and greater profits to satisfy their stockholders.  Dramatic reports of a child that is shot by another child increase ratings much more than reporting that 28 women used a gun to fight off rape today and every day, for that matter (the national average).  A heart rending image of a mother who just lost a child to a drive-by shooting drives ratings much higher than a dry report that violent crime is down in states with the least amount of gun control.  The simple fact is that violence sells! [...] Splashier news makes for more profit.  You can't blame someone for wanting to make more money, even if you disagree with how they do it.  So, it is imperative that you remember that those in control of the media have their own agenda and that agenda does NOT serve YOUR best interest.  Since violence sells and legal unrestricted gun ownership reduces violence, it is in the media's business interest to promote restrictions on legal gun ownership.

Media Coverage Foments Copycat Suicides, Including Mass-Shooter Suicides.  Earlier this year, the deranged 26-year-old gunman who snuffed out the lives of nine innocent human beings before taking his own life on the campus of Umpqua Community College provided some real insight into the minds of the young men involved in what is a disturbing — and growing — trend in America:  mass-shooter suicides.  And that's what these are, these mass shootings.  They are suicides that would not be big national stories without a body count that included innocents killed in movie theaters, churches, schools.  And, to judge from the shooter's words, they are mass shootings that might not have happened at all had there been no prospect of mass-media coverage.

No, You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day.  If there is one health myth that will not die, it is this:  You should drink eight glasses of water a day.  It's just not true.  There is no science behind it.  And yet every summer we are inundated with news media reports warning that dehydration is dangerous and also ubiquitous.  These reports work up a fear that otherwise healthy adults and children are walking around dehydrated, even that dehydration has reached epidemic proportions.  Let's put these claims under scrutiny.

The Plight of the Unarmed Perp.  This is the point I really want to make: the constant emphasis on police shootings of unarmed men that we see in the press is, for the most part, crazy.  If you are a perp, or a suspect, or an inoffensive person walking down the street, you may be unarmed, but the police officer is not.  Nor, in most cases, will he have any immediate way to know whether you are armed or not.  If you attack him, what do you expect him to do?  Challenge you to an arm-wrestling match?  He is entitled to use deadly force to defend himself.  Attacking a police officer rarely ends well.  Likewise with fleeing a police officer who is ordering you to stop.  If there is a problem here, it does not demand a thorough revamping of American police practices.  Rather, it suggests that those who have influence with a small demographic group — 6% of the population, according to the Post — impress upon them that they should not attack police officers under any circumstances, and if told to stop, they should stop.  If they put their hands up, they are not going to get shot.

Priceless Liberal reactions to allegedly violent black burglar shot by police.  We don't know all the facts.  Maybe he fought with the cops and they shot him in self defense.  Maybe he didn't fight at all and they still shot him.  What we do know, however, is that he rammed a dealership with his car and started to deface the cars in the lot.  He wasn't shot walking home from the library; he was shot while committing an act of violence and destruction of property.

Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed College Football Player.  Officers were responding to a burglary call about 1 a.m. Friday [8/7/2015] in Arlington when they discovered someone had driven a vehicle through a front window of the Classic Buick GMC, according to a statement from the Arlington Police Department.  The statement said police approached the suspect and a struggle ensued.  At some point during the struggle, an officer shot Taylor.

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Why is the perpetrator identified, every time this story comes up, as a football player?  What difference does it make if he plays football?  He certainly wasn't playing football in the closed showroom of a car dealership well after midnight.  The clear implication is that the liberal press considers football players to be on a plane above all others.

In Zimbabwe, We Don't Cry for Lions.  When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered:  One lion fewer to menace families like mine.  My excitement was doused when I realized that the lion killer was being painted as the villain.  I faced the starkest cultural contradiction I'd experienced during my five years studying in the United States.  Did all those Americans signing petitions understand that lions actually kill people?  That all the talk about Cecil being "beloved" or a "local favorite" was media hype?

Nets Spend 30 Minutes on Lion; Censor Abortion Videos.  The broadcast news shows covered Cecil the lion more in one day than they spent on the Planned Parenthood videos in two weeks — and that discrepancy only continues to grow.  In two days, ABC, NBC and CBS have spent 30 minutes, 1 second on Cecil, a famed African lion shot by an American dentist.  But anchors couldn't spare nearly as much time for the videos exposing Planned Parenthood's harvesting of aborted baby parts.  Since the release of the Center for Medical Progress' first video two weeks ago, the networks have spent only 11 minutes, 13 seconds on the story.

World Explodes over Dead Lion, Ignores Planned Parenthood.  On Tuesday [7/28/2015], the world lost its collective mind — whatever is left of it, anyway — when media discovered the identity of the killer of a Zimbabwean named Cecil.  Cecil is a lion.  Cecil, a lion, was by most accounts "one of Africa's most famous lions."  Cecil, incredibly, was famous for being a lion, not for curing cancer, although you wouldn't know that by the media coverage.  The man who shot Cecil, a lion, to death is Dr. Walter Palmer, a big game hunter who allegedly paid $55,000 for a big game permit.  He hired a guide, who lured Cecil, a lion, out from a protected area, where Cecil, a lion, then met his end.

The War on Black People in South Carolina: the First Casualty is Truth.  Mass murder was not enough.  Not for the army of reporters who soon after the South Carolina killings surrounded this truth with a bodyguard of lies.  The shooting was part of a pattern of white on black violence wildly out of proportion, journalists told us over and over.  The tragedy also reminded many scribes of the so-called epidemic of arson against black churches in the 1990s.  Neither of which are true.

If You're Going To Fake A Rape, Remember To Take Off Your Fitbit.  Technology can be a useful tool for the rape hoaxer, but inevitably it leads to the hoaxer's downfall.  Social media can catapult a mattress-carrying liar all the way to the State of the Union Address, but then her text-message record can show her for the fraud she is.  (And if she subsequently decides to post amateur porn online, well... )  A once-respected magazine can put a rape hoaxer in the headlines, but then a handful of bloggers questioning the story can bring it all crashing down.

ABC's '08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015.  New York City underwater?  Gas over $9 a gallon?  A carton of milk costs almost $13?  Welcome to June 12, 2015.  Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago.  Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.  The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015.  One carton of milk is $12.99."  (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.)  Another clip featured this prediction for the current year:  "Gas reached over $9 a gallon."  (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)

Media distorts Bibi's statements, then claims he's walking them back.  The distortion of Benjamin Netanyahu's pre-election statements on a two-state solution and Arab voting was a classic Obama and media distortion.  If you take the actual text of Netanyahu said, he never ruled out a two-state solution and never discouraged Arab voting.  But those were the headlines and the foaming-at-the mouth hyperbole, fomented by the Obama administration in numerous anonymous statements to the media.

58,000 children 'abducted' a year: yet another fishy statistic.  [Scroll down]  In other words, these numbers come from an era that predates the wide use of mobile phones, which allow parents to keep much closer track of their children, or the creation of the Amber alerts (which are also on phones, in Facebook news feeds and so forth).  There is an update in the works but the results will not be released until sometime later this year.  So, first off, you see this is an estimate, based on a survey, not based on actual incidents.  NBC News claimed this was FBI data, which makes it sound like actual reports, but instead this was simply derived from a study conducted by academicians for the Justice Department.

NBC Devotes Nearly Four Minutes to Dress Debate, Seconds to Clinton Corruption.  On Friday [2/27/2015], NBC finally noticed the corruption scandal swirling around Hillary Clinton.  However, the coverage on the Today show was relegated to a 49-second mention within a story slamming Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.  By contrast, the morning show devoted 3 minutes 56 seconds to a social media debate about the color of a dress.

Another Bogus Academic Study Creates Bogus Headlines.  Thanks to the Washington Post, we have new entry in what is surely the fastest-growing industry in academia: bogus studies that purport to show there is no difference between black and white rates of crime. [...] This latest headline from the Post tells a shocking story:  "Black teens who commit a few crimes go to jail as often as white teens who commit dozens."  Or it would be shocking if it were true.  But it is not.

Reporter is Maced After Storming a Police Station with Protesters.  If you run with radicals, expect to be treated like them.  You storm a police headquarters and you get maced for being part of the mob.  Oh, boo hoo!  This reporter should not have expected anything less.  He's lucky he didn't get shot.

CBS: Voter ID Laws Are Like Violent Attacks on Blacks at Selma.  The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday [12/15/2014] compared the violent, bloody attacks on African Americans during civil rights marches in 1965 to voter ID laws passed by various states in the last few years.

The great campus rape hoax.  Americans have been living through an enormously sensationalized college rape hoax, but as the evidence accumulates it's becoming clear that the entire thing was just a bunch of media hype and political opportunism.  No, I'm not talking about the Rolling Stone's lurid and now-exploded fraternity gang-rape story.  Whatever the truth behind that story, it's now clear that basically nothing that Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely told us happened, actually happened.  But the hoax is much bigger than one overwrought and perhaps entirely fictional tale of campus goings-on.

Hysterical Media Tell Us to Calm Down.  In the past week, The New York Times has ridiculed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie for having "fed panic" by ordering quarantines for health workers arriving from Ebola-plagued countries.  [...] I haven't noticed any panic.  If you want panic, review media coverage of the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.  That hair-on-fire coverage was based entirely, it turns out, on the media's gullibly swallowing inaccurate accounts of the incident.  For decades liberals have terrified soccer moms about a slew of imaginary terrors:  global warming, Alar on apples, breast implants, heterosexual AIDS, nuclear war, and Republicans taking away their birth control.

Ebola and the Media's Multiple Personality Disorder.  While The Daily Mail suggests that terrorists could transform the virus into a weapon, The Daily Beast declares that the "Ebola Panic Is Worse Than the Disease."  Fox raises the specter of illegal immigrants bringing the virus over the border, and MSNBC assures us that the authorities have things in hand.  One outlet asks an author of medical thrillers to speculate about the ways the threat might mutate into something more frightening; another declares that we're watching an "epic, epidemic overreaction."  Wait, sorry:  Did I say that was "another" outlet?  Actually, those last two both came from CNN.

Media Should Stop Lecturing Americans About Their Ebola Concerns.  The very moment that the news was confirmed about Dr. Ebola, various reporters started telling everyone to calm down.  But nobody was panicking.  I mean, expressing interest in an unbelievably deadly disease that has spread quickly is not panicking.  Panicking is loading up your car like a prepper who just won the Lottery and heading to your cabin in West Virginia.  I mean, maybe there's someone who has done just that.  But there is no evidence that we have any serious problem with people panicking.

Race-Baiting CNN Falls For Another Trayvonesque Hoax.  Desperate to frame the shooting death of Michael Brown in racial terms, CNN has bitten hard on what appears to be faked evidence.  The network did the same thing during the Trayvon Martin case.

Ebola Optics and Questionable MSM Smiley Narratives.  Conservatives can be forgiven if, after having carefully reflected upon a sampling of MSM Ebola narratives, they conclude that something seems a bit askew.  Certain optics and associated stories appear to put a giant smiley face on the Ebola situation.  Nothing to worry about here.  Move along.  However, certain omissions raise troubling questions in regard to what we have been told — especially when the omissions are conjoined with scientific findings on Ebola. [...] The MSM is obviously populated by many people whose mouths are as big as their brains are tiny.  It is therefore no surprise that many such people do not know how to recognize when a question is really statistical in nature and, if it is, how to analyze it.

About That 'World-Ending' Solar Storm...  News of a devastating solar storm 'just missing' Earth in 2012 made the rounds last week.  Turns out that storm was nowhere near us, and similar storms have happened before.

Taliban sets oil tankers on fire in Afghanistan.  Television footage showed black smoke billowing above the site of the attack, with the charred wreckage of dozens of trucks scattered around a vast parking space.  The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the trucks carried fuel intended for U.S.-led NATO forces.

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The sensational headline would lead most readers to believe that somebody had set fire to two or more ocean-going oil tankers.  In reality, only a few thousand gallons of oil — in ordinary trucks — appear to be involved.

U.S. passenger jet nearly collided with drone in March: FAA.  An American Airlines Group Inc aircraft almost collided with a drone above Florida earlier this year, a near-accident that highlights the growing risk from rising use of unmanned aircraft, the U.S. air safety regulator said.

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Don't be deceived by the sensational headline.  It was a small plane, a small drone, no collision, very small story.

Barbara Walters is TV personality, not a journalist.  Walters broke into the media business as a behind-the-scenes writer at NBC, eventually working her way up to be co-host of "Today."  She entered the network news world with no journalistic credentials, a fact that bothered the grizzled news veterans of the day.  She made history in 1976 when ABC hired her to be the first woman to co-anchor a network evening newscast.  The gimmick of hiring a "Today" host to do a serious newscast never worked.  Walters had built her career as a morning gabber, and that didn't translate to the serious news anchor desk.

Dateline producer suing NBC.  Women working at NBC's Dateline show are regularly asked to pose as 'sexual bait' for stories about prostitution, sex trafficking, and sexual deviants according to a female producer who is now suing the network.  New York-based Kimberly Lengle, 33, says she quit the program last April after a senior HR director failed to follow-up on her complaints about the practice.

Logic Gets Sucked into the Polar Vortex.  North America is presently experiencing the kind of abnormally cold temperatures that can wreak havoc on computer climate models.  The mainstream media is overflowing with headlines about coldness raging unexpectedly across Canada in January, Jack Frost nipping at people's noses, and other signs of the Apocalypse.  Naturally, then, it was only a matter of time before these media outlets — aka the global Ministry of Propaganda — let the other shoe drop, and explained how all this routine winter weather is the result of man-made global warming, and therefore can only be halted by international totalitarianism.

Obama portrayed as victim.  Some may think reporters and editors are simply clumsy or indifferent writers, and sometimes they are.  But much of the time they choose their words (and photos) with exquisite and subtle care.  They also realize that most people only look at the headlines and photos of most articles, and that those are therefore the most important elements, and that even people who do read the article often read only the first few paragraphs.

The media war over George W. Bush's stent.  From Benghazi to the health of former President George W. Bush, wild unsubstantiated assertions by the news media take the place of real reporting.  Fox News is left to set the record straight, yet frequently it doesn't get the credit it deserves.  The stent placement in President Bush's coronary artery is the latest example of the world of Fox News versus wild speculation.

Media Coverage of Benghazi Leans Toward Political Theater.  First, we learned from the Obama Administration that it was a YouTube video that sparked the protests — a false narrative gladly perpetuated by the media as long as possible.  Currently, the media and the administration are pushing the story that attempts to investigate Benghazi constitute a Republican vendetta, the perpetuation of a "phony scandal" to incite the populace against the President and former Secretary of State — and presidential hopeful — Hillary Clinton.  To this end, it is not surprising that key details of the recent congressional hearings on Benghazi went largely unnoticed by the mainstream media.

Art Horn Letter to Connecticut State Department of Agriculture.  Hurricane Sandy was not a "Super Storm".  This label was assigned by the news media.  Those who called Sandy a Super Storm did so because they liked the sound of "Super Storm."  Having worked in television news rooms for 25 years I am well acquainted with these exaggerations.  The term "Super Storm Sandy" sounds much more dramatic than "Sandy is a category one Hurricane on a scale of one to five" which is what it was.

Breaking News! Seventh First Climate Refugees Discovered!  BBC, your climate reporting is pathetic.  Doesn't anyone there think to check up on some dewy-eyed reporter gushing on about the tragic fate of the latest batch of pseudo-refugees?  Missing the facts in this story would have been understandable a decade ago, but in 2013, you guys are a running joke.

The Media's Moral Decline: Standards, Story Selection Now Tabloids On Steroids.  For those who don't live in New York and aren't familiar with the Daily News, it should be noted that while it sometimes reads like a tabloid, it is a legitimate news source and is mentioned in the same breath as The News York Times and New York Post one of the city's top newspapers.  In fact, the Daily News has won ten Pulitzers and is the fourth-most circulated newspaper in the United States.  To that end, these headlines aren't too different than what we see dominating national or local cable news today, and by extension (since we cover this stuff), Mediaite as well.

An Abortionist's Unglamorous Victims.  He's allegedly killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy combined, but most Americans have never heard of him. [...] We have wall-to-wall coverage of Jodi Arias, a lone nut who admits to killing her boyfriend in Arizona, but a blackout on Kermit Gosnell.  And why wouldn't we?  The Arias trial involves nude pictures, kinky sex, and an attractive woman.

The 10 Absolute Worst Media Reactions To The Boston Marathon Bombings.  In the media business, what's the one thing you can consistently expect from reporters, pundits, "experts," and anchors on the day of a major news event?  Speculation.  Wild, unabashed speculation.  Oftentimes, their conjecture is based on their own political beliefs and agendas.  And this can lead to some particularly ugly comments while the wounds are still fresh during major tragedies like the Newtown and Aurora massacres... and Monday's Boston marathon bombings.

The Media's Privacy War.  Sensationalizing the news and publicizing the story non-stop allows advertisers to count on human nature.  The public tunes in and/or buys the newspaper.  Media networks bet that if you get hooked on the drama, the personalities of the reporters, you will keep watching or buying the particular outlet for your news.  High viewership and readership increases the likelihood of advertising sales.  The media wages a privacy war for money.

Woodward-Sperling Flap May Turn Tide.  The more superficial the brouhaha the bigger its impact.  What public figures say is more important than what they do, because cable TV and political blogs can cover a mud fight more cheaply and more easily than they can a real story.

Geraldo Rivera and Common Decency.  There are those who will dismiss Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera's announcement that he is considering running for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2014 as a Republican as just one more publicity stunt in a career replete with them.  Rivera's public record is mixed, as it has combined serious advocacy on a number of issues with the sort of foolish excess that has given a bad name to tabloid journalism.  If people think of him more as a celebrity than a journalist, it is his own fault and not something that he has seemed to mind very much.

The media love maniacs.  The same media that pointedly ignore frequent life-saving defensive uses of firearms consistently pours hours and days and weeks of attention upon the latest maniac who chooses a firearm as his tool of mass murder, so that the next potential insane villain cannot fail to notice the easy path to fame and immortality that the misuse of a gun can bring.  But the greatest fame will only attach if they can beat the previous body-count record, a number constantly and loudly broadcast, so that no one can fail to hear it.  The message to the unstable is clear:  Come on, you crazy guys, can't you at least murder your way to thirty?

Newtown is the Latest Example of Media Overkill.  On behalf of all us, I beg the media:  Please go away.  Please stop cold calling my friends who live in Sandy Hook for potential news nuggets.  Please stop harassing people like my mother as they leave funerals.  Please stop parking on people's lawns without permission.

CBS presents hype as news.  Does anyone remember when CBS used to be a respected news organization that did its own research — or at least quoted independent experts?  Or even conducted interviews?  When it comes to health and science news, alas, it seems like they've been reduced to rewriting alarmist or sensationalist press releases.

The 'Screw Science' Media and Super Storm Sandy.  When science departs from the scary-story script, journalists are the first to dismiss its importance.

"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."

— David Brinkley *    

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2024 by Andrew K. Dart

News Media Dishonesty
  ... aside from the specific cases cited above and elsewhere.

Overview and recap articles:

If it's in the media, it isn't true.  We cannot trust anything uttered by any politician or mainstream media outlet.  Nothing.  If the politicians and media are saying it, we would be safer to assume, until proven otherwise, that they are lying, treat it with suspicion and look very very closely at it.  A safe rule of thumb is: if it's in the media, it isn't true. [...] One thing that is becoming a strong feature of the current political puppet show is that nobody is proposing any real actions to improve the life, liberty, pursuit of happiness and overall survival level of the honest citizenry or to resolve the real problems that trouble, impede and suppress that citizenry.  If you look closely at what these con men are saying, you will discover mostly, if not totally, mere waffle and spin with no substance.  We are at the same time constantly and relentlessly told how bad everything is. [...] Thus we are encouraged to view the world as worse than it actually is.  That is not to say that there are not bad situations, just that they are always presented as worse and more frightening than they actually are.

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TV weather reports always make approaching storms seem more dangerous than they are.  Reporters try to make global warming sound like more of a threat than it is.  There is no "climate crisis."  The TV reporters certainly made Covid-19 sound worse than it was.  DDT never hurt anybody.  The polar bears aren't disappearing.  Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.  The official explanation of WTC Building 7 is a pack of lies.  The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — ditto.  The Crash of TWA 800 — ditto.  The Kennedy assassination — ditto.  (Just ask Dorothy Kilgallen.)  Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.  Neither did Vince Foster.  Nobody knows who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.  Nobody knows who left a packet of cocaine in the White House.  Nobody knows who leaked information from the Supreme Court.  Nobody knows who left dummy pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 6, 2021.  (But if you took a cell phone to Washington DC that day, they know exactly where you are today!)  Islam is not a "religion of peace."  Riding on mass transit is not safe.  The 2020 presidential election was stolen.  Barack H. Obama is a Muslim, his birth certificate is a forgery, and he uses somebody else's Social Security number.  Numerous other examples of news media dishonesty can be found on this page.  I'm not the only skeptic in America.  There is no longer any good reason to have a TV in your house.  The TV is a liar.

The Media-Democratic Fusion.  If one were to listen during the last few years to NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, or CNN, or read the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, or the Los Angeles Times, then one would have believed the following:  A) Donald Trump worked with the Russians to throw and win the 2016 election.  As part of that skullduggery, frolicking amid prostitutes he urinated on a Moscow hotel bed to spite Barack Obama.  B) He was mentally incapacitated as president and should have been removed under the 25th Amendment.  C) In 2020, his campaign once more worked with the Russians to create an exact replica of Hunter Biden's laptop, replete with dozens of lurid fake photos and hundreds of cleverly doctored emails to smear the Biden family and aid his own reelection effort.  D) Trump as chief conspirator preplanned a violent and armed insurrection that sought to storm and permanently occupy the government, violently hijacking the balloting and seizing the presidency — resulting in the murder of a Capitol police officer and the subsequent deaths of other traumatized officers.  E) For the last eight years, none of Trump's political opponents have ever destroyed subpoenaed evidence, conspired to hire foreign nationals to compile false and lurid files on him to subvert his political campaigns, or used their political offices to help solicit foreign money for family lobbyists.  F) Trump is the first major candidate and politician who allegedly overvalued his real assets to obtain a loan that he repaid; the first to have concluded non-disclosure agreements with potential embarrassing liaisons; the first ex-president to remove sensitive files to his personal residence; and the first to phone a state official to whine about the integrity of the vote count.  G) He is the first losing presidential candidate or major politician to question an election result or to seek redress through government agencies to rectify the purported corruption of the balloting.

It is no wonder Americans are so confused.  Here are some of the lies the media intentionally spreads as they push the leftist agenda and seek to destroy anyone who gets in their way:
  •   The border agents whipped illegal immigrants.  The media, Justice Department and other Democrats knew this was a lie from day one but didn't care.
  •   Women are going to die because abortion is limited or prevented.  This is a despicable lie meant to scare everyone.  Not one state that restricts abortion prevents the termination of a pregnancy when the mother's life is in danger.
[...]
  •   The "Hands up don't shoot" lie was meant to gin up racial hate and division against white cops.  How many cops have been injured or killed because so many in the media and others spread this lie?
  •   That January 6th was an armed insurrection.  The FBI determined it wasn't planned or organized and no arms were confiscated. [...]
  •   That the 2020 election was pure as the driven snow.  The media and other Democrats know that many states intentionally violated election laws and that Mark Zuckerberg's money violated laws but don't care.
  •   The Antifa and BLM riots were mostly peaceful
  •   That the U.S has always been a racist country, that all whites are racist and privileged, and all other races are oppressed.
  •   That the vaccines will prevent the virus.  The media sought to silence anyone who disagreed with the false narrative.
  •   That the CDC based everything on science.
[...]
  •   That the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.  They made this up to bury the story before the election as they campaigned for Biden.
  •   That the science is settled that humans, fossil fuels, and CO2 cause warming.  There is not one piece of scientific data from the last 150 years that supports this theory, only easily manipulated computer models that have always been wrong.

Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization.  Conservatives have always been amused by the liberal biases of the old network news and big-city print media.  But they grudgingly admitted that many liberal journalists of the last century were mostly professionals.  News divisions mostly reported the news rather than simply made it up.  Not so now with Big Tech and 21stt-century [sic] "woke" journalism.  Few reporters have yet offered apologies for helping hatch and spread the Russian collusion hoax that paralyzed the country for three years.  Few have admitted culpability for reporting as fact the various fantasies surrounding the Duke Lacrosse team prosecution or the Covington Catholic kids deception.  Many in the media ran uncritically with the Jussie Smollett concoction and the "hands-up-don't shoot" Ferguson distortions.  Journalists promulgated misinformation about the "white Hispanic" George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin encounter, and doctored photos and edited tapes.  They invented the myth of the supposedly brilliant — but now utterly disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo — as well as the "Russian disinformation" yarn that allegedly accounted for the missing Hunter Biden laptop.  Most recently, reporters spread serial untruths surrounding the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

When all the media narratives collapse.  [Scroll down]  Think of the other narratives the MSM pushed in recent years that have collapsed.  They viciously defamed the Covington boys.  They authoritatively told us that bounties had been placed on US soldiers in Afghanistan by Putin — and Trump's denials only made them more certain.  They told us that the lab-leak theory of Covid was a conspiracy theory with no evidence behind it at all. [...] Wrong.  Wrong.  Wrong.  The MSM took the ludicrous story of Jussie Smollett seriously because it fit their nutty "white supremacy" narrative.  They told us that a woman was brutally gang-raped at UVA (invented), that the Pulse mass shooting was driven by homophobia (untrue) and that the Atlanta spa shooter was motivated by anti-Asian bias (no known evidence for that at all). [...] More recently, the MSM were telling us for months that inflation is a phantasm. [...] Any concern was "fearmongering politics."  And now we wake up to the highest inflation in 30 years, counter-balancing wage increases. [...] We were told that vaccines would end the Covid pandemic. [...] We were told that the migrant surge at the border was just seasonal, and nothing out of the ordinary, even as 1.7 million migrants were illegally trying to get into the country in the last year. [...] We were — and still are! — being told by most of the media that critical race theory isn't in high schools at all.  Meanwhile, a tsunami of evidence is out there showing that it absolutely is — in every subject, and every class, as the central philosophy behind many states' education policies.  We all get things wrong.  What makes this more worrying is simply that all these false narratives just happen to favor the interests of the left and the Democratic party.  And corrections, when they occur, take up a fraction of the space of the original falsehoods.

Radio Free America — Rush's Legacy.  For decades — before the internet and satellite TV — news in America was controlled by a select few entities, all of which were closely aligned with the Democrat party.  ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN controlled television and radio news.  The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times set the tone for printed news.  The media and leftist politicians they supported were creating narratives to shape public opinion.  They crafted their narratives by being selective in what news they presented, or by outright distortion of facts. [...]
  •   Walter Cronkite told us the Vietnam war was lost after the Tet Offensive.  In fact, Tet was a devastating loss for the North Vietnamese.
  •   We were told that socialism was superior to capitalism.  It just needed to be implemented correctly.
  •   We were told that Ronald Reagan was a fool and a dangerous warmonger.  Yet he won the Cold War without firing a shot.
  •   We were told that Cuba was a workingman's paradise with free education and medical care.  Yet people were fleeing the island on anything that would float.
We knew what we observed didn't quite fit the narrative being presented, but we weren't sure why.  We began to question our worldview.  We were being gaslighted.

The Media That Cried Wolf.  "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is one of many of Aesop's fables. [...] The moral is that nobody believes a liar, even when he is telling the truth.  How is a twenty-five-hundred-year-old story relevant today?  Let's rewrite the fable bringing it up to date.  The shepherd boy today is the collection of social justice warriors throughout the media, academia, and entertainment worlds, basically the core of the modern Democrat Party.

The Trump Nail in the Media Coffin.  When Cronkite returned from Vietnam after the 1968 Tet Offensive and declared the war stalemated and unwinnable, no one dared to offer the dissenting viewpoint that Tet was actually a decisive American victory.  The mainstream-media narrative in 1963 that Lee Harvey Oswald, the Castroite, Communist assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was a product of right-wing Texas hatred was completely crazy — but largely unquestioned. [...] MSNBC anchor Brian Williams sermonized about the so-called "fake news" epidemic.  Williams failed to remind us that he was removed as NBC's evening news anchor for serving up all sorts of fake details about his supposedly brave trips abroad in search of edgy news stories.  After the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the co-hosts of the show CNN Newsroom collectively put up their hands in "hands up, don't shoot" solidarity — echoing a narrative of police murder later proved to be completely false by a lengthy federal investigation.

The Myth of the Good Old Media.  Donald Trump recently noted that the media had become much worse since Walter Cronkite, which is an honest mistake by a man who grew up as a Democrat leaning to the left.  But there was no "Good Old Honorable Media."  The establishment media have been utterly biased and often outright dishonest for many decades.  The 1965 CBS documentary Hunger in America began with outright lies, citing an infant dying in a hospital as the victim of malnutrition, which was pure invention.  The 1971 CBS documentary The Selling of the Pentagon actually took the answer of an assistant secretary of state to one question and edited it so that he was giving the answer to another question — and the documentary did that over and over again.

Journalistic standards have had nothing to do with the truth for a long time.  The media knows that Trump gave aid to Ukraine with nothing in return and Obama/Biden withheld aid and only gave a loan to Ukraine after they demanded and got a prosecutor fired, but they say Biden/Obama did nothing wrong and Trump should be impeached.  We don't have the right to hear from anyone who disagrees on climate change.  How does so much of the U.S have exceptionally low temperatures if 150 years of fossil fuel use, 150 years of CO2 increase and an exponential increase in the number of people worldwide causes warming?  While the media intentionally hides the truth for things negative to Democrats, they collude with Democrats to perpetrate a known lie that Trump colluded with Russia in 2016.  They perpetrated gossip to take out Kavanaugh in 2018 with no evidence.  They intentionally lie about what Trump said about Charlottesville to gin up racial hate and violence.  They treat congenital liars Schiff, Brennan, Clapper, Rice and others as credible people as they seek to destroy Trump and elect democrats.

If Anyone Should Be Impeached, It's the Liberal Media.  For decades now, in violation of the public trust, liberals in the American mainstream media — including the news, information, and entertainment media — have willfully corrupted the values and institutions that made the United States of America into the greatest nation in the history of humanity.  Their lies and immorality have wrought havoc on families, churches, schools, businesses, corporations, governments, and so on.  Contrary to their sacred duty to provide what is truthful, they have willfully presented false and misleading information to the public at large concerning, but not limited to, the following:  [#1] The election of Democrats over Republicans. [...] [#2] The role of good government — especially in most every fiscal matter. [...] [#3] The nature and details concerning radical Islam and Islam in general. [...] [#4] The nature and details of the burning of fossil fuels as it relates to global climate change — specifically what is often referred to as "global warming."

Trump, Kavanaugh, Lewandowski and our malignant Left.  This new attempt by the NYT and two wholly unethical reporters at that paper again crosses all lines of respectable, legitimate journalism.  The NYT is no longer, and has not been for ages, an honest broker of the news; it is rag that dispenses fake news intended to deceive.  The facts of this campaign to ruin Kavanaugh and his family, because the left wants to protect unimpeded abortion rights, are well-known and obvious.  They are also a stain on all those who participated in the scheme, a scarlet letter of a sort.  Nothing any of them ever writes again can be or will be trusted.  Nothing published by the NYT can be trusted.  Nothing on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or NBC can be trusted.  They are all agents of corruption and deceit.

The Best Of CNN 2018.  CNN's version of "news" has become outright parody so many times in 2018 it was difficult to keep track of.  Thankfully, Mark Dice has done just that with a "Best of CNN" video that lays out just how idiotic the Establishment Media now is as they get completely lost within their own anti-Trump hysteria.  Anyone who still considers CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, etc., actual news needs to get their collective heads examined.  It's globalist propoganda — all of it.  [Video clip]

Who Watches the Media Watchdogs?  Who was it that told America Al Gore won the 2000 election?  Who told us the Fort Hood shooter wasn't an Islamist terrorist?  Who told us a meek and mild Michael Brown was shot with his hands up, begging to surrender?  Who told us CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood front in the U.S., is a "civil rights organization"?  Who is still telling us that after 9-11, there was a violent "backlash" against Muslims in America?  Who told us climate change is settled science?  Who ducked the story about abortionist Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia slaughterhouse?  Who told us all the troubles in the Middle East are caused by Israel?  Who told us that Robert Mueller's list of indictments proves Trump colluded with Russia?  Who told us it was Trump who initiated the "policy" of family separation at the southern border?  Who ran a fake magazine cover to show Trump looming over a crying Honduran toddler?

Hall Monitor Nation.  The media relentlessly lied to the public about Hillary's health, denouncing conservatives as "conspiracy theorists" for mentioning it.  Then an alert citizen with an iPhone captured Hillary having to be carried to her car at the 9/11 memorial service in 2016.  Mainstream media outlets painted a cherubic picture of Michael Brown after he was fatally shot by Missouri.  He was a "gentle giant," gunned down like a dog as he plaintively cried, "Hands up! Don't shoot!"  HEY!  Wait a second!  How did that video get out of Brown manhandling a tiny Indian man while robbing a convenience store?  That should have been suppressed like the Broaddrick interview!  Would we ever have known about Monica Lewinsky, but for the Drudge Report publishing the blockbuster story that Newsweek had killed?  Currently, the establishment media are in a rage that the public has found out about the modern genocide being waged against white South African farmers.

The 2018 Breitbart News Fake News Awards.  Until you actually take the time to research the amount of lies and lies and lies the establishment media deliberately spread, you can't begin to fathom just how bad things are.  By the time I was done going through the entire year, I literally, no joke, had 11 pages of headlines to choose from for these awards.

Timely news and commentary:

Revoke the media's License to Lie.  60 years ago, the liberal Supreme Court in 1965 gave the press a License to Lie in the NYT v.  Sullivan case in which the Times ran a libelous ad by civil rights activists against police in Birmingham, Alabama.  The court said, well, unless NYT meant actual malice, the libel was not a libel.  Despite this iron wall, President Trump sued George Stephanopoulos and Disney's ABC for one billion dollars.  Rather than make Stephanopoulos face deposition this week, the network agreed on Saturday to pay $15 million to Trump and a million to his lawyers, and make its No. 1 news reader apologize on the air.  After six decades of not being held liable for libel, corporate media knows Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito are itching to overturn Sullivan and revoke that License to Lie.

Is It Any Wonder That No Sane Person Takes Fact Checks Seriously?  Making fun of Pravda media "fact checks" is, perhaps, a little too easy at times.  But doing so is a good reminder of just how distorted their worldview is.  Without being reminded, we might fall into the bad habit of taking these people more seriously than they deserve.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  The Politifact "fact check" on conservative complaints (I'm pretty sure that the complaints are more "common sense" than conservative) that aid to Africa has nothing to do with aid to North Carolina is a perfect example of how the government hypnotized think.  Having worked in government and around politicians, I can assure you that from the perspective of the bureaucratically minded, the dissociation between spending in one area and that of another is indeed totally disconnected.  People in government think in terms of bureaucratic fiefdoms, and the budget of one fiefdom is in a different universe than that of any other.

Some of the lies the mainstream media and liberal politicians are demanding we believe.  There is an epidemic of white police officers killing unarmed black men, we must block the puberty of children born in the wrong bodies to prevent them from killing themselves, the Russians control Trump through a sex blackmail operation, the Covid vaccine prevents infection, millions or billions will die from starvation and harsh weather from climate change, there's no way a Covid virus could have escaped from a lab, mass migration improves societies with no trade-offs, it's best for addicts if we give them hard drugs to use in special sites downtown, we need the government to fight misinformation online in order to save democracy, Biden is sharper than ever, Kamala is 100% prepared to be president, and anyone who disagrees is racist, sexist, and/or fascist.  While many Americans are increasingly and at least partially aware that all of the above are lies, we are still a long way from coming to grips with their enormity, their monstrous consequences, and the totalitarian ways in which the mainstream news media, many employers, and governments demanded that we believe them.  [Tweet with video clip]

Harris Campaign Advisor David Plouffe Accidently Exposes How Legacy Media Lied to the American People With Junk Polls.  There have been extensive postmortems on Kamala Harris's failed campaign and the absolute drubbing she received from Donald Trump.  Democrat strategist James Carville said the moment he knew the campaign was doomed was when 'The View' co-host Sunny Hostin asked Harris, "If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?"  Kamala answered, "There is not a thing that comes to mind."  But legacy media keep gaslighting voters with polls showing Harris neck and neck with Trump and even leading in some surprising places.

An epidemic of lies.  [Scroll down]  Fortunately, people have noticed and it looks like we've all had enough.  Americans don't like being lied to.  Our trust in our own government and the media have been declining for years and we're increasingly turning to independent sources.  MSNBC and CNN have reportedly lost a large portion of their viewership, and rumors abound that Elon Musk may even purchase the former.

The 2024 Presidential Election Landslide.  The people are not stupid, despite what the self-styled "elites" believe.  Ordinary working folks are trying to raise families and earn a living.  They don't have the time to be fully versed in day-to-day politics.  In the past, they've relied on the legacy media to report objectively.  It is clear, though, that in the 2024 election, the people rejected what the legacy media was spinning.  The legacy media abdicated their responsibility to educate, inform, and report the day's news objectively and fairly.  They failed in their role as a watchdog to serve as a check on government abuse of power.  The legacy media devolved into an activist partisan organ that parrots the talking points of the Marxist left and government.  Media outlets both outright lied and concealed information from the people without any remorse.  The legacy media gaslighted the people for "wrong" thinking when challenged by common sense critiques and questions.

Media Describes Muslim Terrorist as "Homeless Florida Man".  Harun Abdul-Malik Yener considered joining ISIS, had been looking into bombmaking since 2017 and boasted, "I feel like Bin Laden."  So clearly this is a Florida homeless man problem.  And not another Muslim terrorist problem.

No one should believe economists — they are apologists for bad policies.  This article in USA Today is so full of misinformation that it's hard to know where to start.  They work very hard to absolve Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their policies for the rapid rise in inflation — but the actual evidence shows how responsible they really are. [...] Foremost, these economists blame the pandemic for the inflation, but looking back at the data reveals that inflation stayed somewhere below 2% for the year of the pandemic (2020) before Biden was even in — it was 1.4% when Biden actually took office, and had remained low even with all the stimulus that was approved during Trump's last year of his first term.  Next, they intentionally lie that Biden-Harris policies brought the country out of the downturn.  The economy was soaring prior to Biden taking office.  The recession was the shortest ever, ending two months after it started in April 2020.  For the next eight months of 2020, jobs were coming back at over 1.6 million per month and yet the inflation rate was still 1.4%.  Next, they falsely try to deflect blame for the high inflation to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, which occurred in February of 2022.  This is so easy to disprove, it is laughable that anyone believes it.  The price of oil, which affects everything, started soaring as soon as Biden got in because Biden campaigned on destroying the oil and natural gas industries.

Some Democrats Are Admitting They Lied Before The Election.  [Scroll down]  Before the election, no media leftist would dare to have said anything of the sort.  It was all, "Crime is down," even though the books had been cooked by not having the statistics from the largest Democrat-controlled cities in the country where the crime problem lives.  They knew it, but they insisted otherwise anyway because they wanted to win.  Illegal aliens committed fewer crimes than we stinking Americans, they insisted, even though the collection of data on the immigration status of criminals was forbidden in blue states, making it impossible to prove.  That also made it impossible to disprove, which was the point.  "Migrants are a boon to the economy," they cried while demanding more money from the federal government to help support these bipedal economic stimulus packages that were starting to bankrupt city budgets with their "economic growth."

Here Lies the Mainstream Media.  On Tuesday night, roughly 72 million Americans buried the reeking carcass once called "legacy media." [...] Trust in the news outlets that were, many ages ago, the hallmark of integrity and investigation has plummeted — steeply.  Why?  Because we found out that the mainstream media has been lying.  When it became blatantly obvious to much of the nation that Biden may, in fact, be suffering from cognitive decline, memory lapses, and possibly even dementia or Parkinson's, mainstream media covered it up, as they had covered it up for years.  ABC News even offered the sitting president an opportunity to persuade voters on air that he was fit as a fiddle.  When Harris took Biden's place as the Democratic presidential candidate, mainstream media rushed to downplay her extreme, left-wing record.  When the vice president sat down for an interview on CBS News's famous "60 Minutes" program, the news team apparently doctored the recorded interview, cutting and pasting Harris's incoherent answers to match questions that might make more sense to viewers.

How media fails.  Of all the institutions that have failed us in past years, none has been worse than the media. [...] The total lack of reporting and curiosity about what was really going on at the southern border was beyond the pale.  The flow of 10 to 20 million illegal immigrants was barely reported for three years until, again, the ramifications were becoming evident to too many people.  Where were the nightly photos of immigrants from some very dangerous places flooding over the Rio Grande?  If you looked at a few conservative outlets you were aware of it.  If you only looked at the traditional media, you weren't.  They just reported the obvious misinformation coming from the administration that the border was secure.  We should demand better from the press.  They can't understand why the public holds them in such low esteem but they have earned the current lack of trust.

Whom Should the Media Blame for Harris's Defeat?  [Scroll down]  In all of these discussions, the media do not point to a prominent element common to each of the perceived problems: the media themselves.  Of course, the media were too compromised by partisan motives to report what they had known for most of Biden's term: he clearly suffered from advanced dementia.  As Axios political reporter Hans Nichols recently noted on Fox's America's Newsroom, the media came down hard on any reporter who proposed a well sourced story on Biden's lack of acuity, because that would help Trump.  Publicizing this infirmity would have had several salutary results.  Obviously, as all disappointed Democrats now appear to admit, Biden should have dropped out of the race earlier.  But the same media relaying this judgment do not point a finger at themselves for aiding and abetting his clueless clinging to power.

Say, What Happened To 'Closest Election In History'?  For months running up to the Nov. 5 election, the "experts" told us that this would be the closest in history.  Over and over again they said it.  Always with great certainty.
    "This could be the closest presidential election since 1876"
    "Uncertainty reigns in an election closer 'than any I have ever seen'"
    "Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump is the closest presidential race of the century"
    "2024 Election Is The Closest Presidential Race In At Least 60 Years: Polls"
    "Coping with election-related anxiety in a razor-thin race"
    "Razor-thin race between Harris and Trump should motivate Democrats ahead of Election Day"
    "Dead-heat poll results are astonishing — and improbable, these experts say"
    "America's dead-heat Trump-Harris election"
    "Poll shows presidential race in dead heat"
Turns out, it wasn't close at all.  Trump is currently ahead by 3.5 points in the popular vote.  That will tighten as the millions of votes in deep-blue states such as California, Washington, and Oregon continue to be counted, but if it holds it will be the first time since 2004 that a GOP candidate won the popular vote and only the second time since 1988.  But unless you failed civics class, you'd know that we don't elect presidents by national popular vote.  And if Nevada, Arizona, and Michigan end up in the Trump camp — he's currently leading in all three states plus Alaska — Trump will end up with 312 electoral votes.

2024's Biggest Loser Is The Corporate Media Industrial Complex.  In the early hours of Wednesday morning, legacy news networks were already sliding toward 2016 levels of melting down about the increasingly definite prospect of a presidential victory by Donald J. Trump.  For them, Harris' stinging defeat is personal — because it's just as much a defeat for them as it is for her.  The corporate media industrial complex has spent Donald Trump's entire political career trying to destroy him.  Hand-in-hand with triple-letter government agencies and Democrats, they ran a hoax painting Trump as a Russian stooge based on ridiculous rumors commissioned by his opponent's campaign in 2016.  They continued to spread the lie for the duration of his presidency, awarding each other Pulitzers for it.  And they've only ramped up their efforts since then.  The problem they're reckoning with tonight is this:  those efforts didn't work.  They're no longer able to control Americans by controlling their information intake, because their credibility is farther deep-sixed than the Clinton family's enemies list.

Media Misinformation Undermines Our Democracy.  Have you ever wondered why the media seems to feel so emboldened when broadcasting unfounded claims about public figures like Donald Trump, as if they're shielded from any consequence?  The answer lies in a questionable Supreme Court decision from 1964 — NY Times v.  Sullivan — which established a novel and radical interpretation of the First Amendment that has, for six decades, let media outlets slander public figures with impunity.  The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, yes, but nowhere in its text does it explicitly allow the press to defame individuals without consequence.  Yet in 1964, in a 9-0 decision authored by Justice William Brennan, a Supreme Court dominated by activist judges established a precedent without clear constitutional grounding, declaring that public figures could only succeed in defamation suits if they could prove "actual malice" — that is, that the media knowingly lied or acted with reckless disregard for the truth.  The justices defined this standard of "actual malice" in a way that makes it exceedingly difficult for any public figure to win a defamation case.

Fight! Fight!  Fight!  Vs. Fake, Fake, Fake.  In the place of news that greatly matters, the propaganda press has filled the airwaves with demonstrable lies in the days leading up to the election.  Fake journalists lie about President Trump taking away birth control and forcing women to have babies against their will.  After covering up Joe Biden's dementia for years, they now lie about Donald Trump showing fake signs of fatigue.  They parrot the FBI's fake crime statistics and lie to Americans about the safety of their communities.  They parrot the CDC's fake COVID statistics and lie to Americans about the success of lockdowns, mask mandates, and fake vaccines.  They parrot fake jobs reports and lie to Americans about economic growth.  Despite the fact that Kamala Harris has the lowest approval rating for any modern vice president, our fake journalists lie to Americans about her remarkable popular appeal.  And after mocking President Trump for being the victim of two separate assassination attempts, the propaganda press now pushes the lie that his words somehow threaten RINO Liz Cheney's life.  The Deep State spews blatant lies, and the propaganda press treats those blatant lies as irrefutable truths.

Here's A List Of Every Garbage Journalist Who Lied About Trump's Liz Cheney Chickenhawk Comments.  Democrats' propaganda press is completely lying about comments Trump made about neocon and former Rep. Liz Cheney in an interview with Tucker Carlson.  Trump called Cheney a "radical war hawk" and pointed out how easy it is to make decisions about the lives of American troops when you are sitting in a cozy, insulated office and have no sense of how it feels on the field of battle to face the life and death consequences of decisions made in Washington.  "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.  Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face," Trump said.  "You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington, in a nice building saying, 'Oh, gee, well, let's send — let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'"  Anyone with a basic grasp of English and a bit of context understands what Trump was conveying.

Corporate Media's Shameless Liz Cheney Hoax Is What Real 'Disinformation' Looks Like.  One of the most powerful and corrupt players in American politics is spreading a sensational lie to manipulate voters four days before the final day of voting in the 2024 presidential election.  The lie is that Donald Trump threatened to execute dynastic war hawk Liz Cheney by firing squad, and the culprit is America's propaganda press.  Anyone who watches the clip of what Trump said will discern that he was obviously suggesting Cheney pick up a rifle and join the thousands of young Americans she's sent overseas to fight in forever wars.  Anyone who interprets it differently is either lying or so stupid he should take a lifelong vow of silence starting today.  "She's a radical war hawk," Trump said of Cheney on Thursday night.  "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?  Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.  You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, 'Oh gee ... let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'"  Cheney, beside herself at the thought of having to do what she asks young American men and women to do, ripped the first half of Trump's comment from its context and claimed Trump had "threaten[ed]" her "with death."  The corporate media didn't issue one of their infamous "fact" "checks" or call Cheney out for her disinformation.  They quickly joined in on the lie that Trump had "fantasized" about putting Cheney in front of a firing squad.

You Are Forewarned:  If Kamala Harris Loses, the Democrats Will Try to Kill Free Speech ASAP.  Upon being badly trounced in a national election, members of the losing party have one of two choices:  They can be introspective, take a long, hard look at themselves in the mirror, and undergo an honest, no-holds-barred critique of all their missteps, poor tactics, and ineffective messaging.  Or they can lie to themselves.  Candid, unflinching self-analysis is torturous.  It puts you face-to-face with your own failings; there's nowhere to hide, nowhere else to point the finger.  And in a presidential campaign with thousands of people, hundreds of regions, and countless moving parts, it also requires you to hold your team members accountable.  Which is why lying is so popular!  Whenever the media talks about lying, they always portray it in a negative light.  (What gives?)  Because when you really stop and think about it, lying is a GREAT way to make people believe something that's totally untrue!

Trump Is Right.  There Is an 'Enemy Within' the United States.  [Scroll down]  The idea that those people might try to use violence to impact the election is so realistic that it should be considered probable, especially if it's close.  Funnier still is the idea that "Trump would use the military against his enemies on election day," since that's what the question was about — election day violence.  Donald Trump, win or lose, will not be President on election day.  I realize reality has no impact on the pearl-clutching class on Morning Joe, but for everyone else that should be an important factoid.  While the goon squad mob on the left are undoubtedly an enemy within our country, so too is the left-wing industrial complex that props it up.  The media — so-called journalists — people who coined and echoed the phrase "mostly peaceful" as people's lives were destroyed, businesses were destroyed and dozens were murdered.  Anyone who could look at that and turn an indifferent eye has something broken in them nothing will fix.

Laura Loomer Files $150 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Bill Maher After He Suggests Secret Trump Affair.  Laura Loomer filed a $150 million lawsuit against Bill Maher and HBO after the comedian made comments suggesting that Loomer "might be" having a secret affair with former President Donald Trump.  The lawsuit filed on Tuesday argues that Maher falsely claimed Loomer was in an "arranged relationship" with Trump, during a "Real Time" talk show taping on September 13th. [...]  [Tweet with video clip]  Loomer has accused Maher of making the false statements with "malice" while causing her significant personal and professional harm.  Loomer's lawsuit goes on to assert that the allegations are "baseless" and "fabricated for attention, notoriety, clicks, and profit."  She also claims that Maher made disparaging remarks in a subsequent segment on the comedic political talk show, titled "24 things you didn't know about Laura Loomer."

Did The New York Times Publish a Hoax?  I am not a ballistics expert and don't play one on TV.  I didn't even sleep in a Holiday Inn Express, so what I write here is based entirely on the analysis of others.  [Advertisement]  But I am pretty sure they are right, given the balance of the evidence and the provenance of the opinion piece published by the New York Times.  [Tweet]  At issue is a piece published by the Times in which 65 medical personnel who have worked in Gaza during the Israeli operation accuse soldiers of deliberately targeting Gazan children, shooting them in the head.  There are lurid stories and X-ray images that purport to show bullets lodged in the head and neck of children.  Those X-rays appear to be — according to doctors and ballistics experts — totally fake.  And even I, a layman, can [challenge] them due to obvious problems that a 10-year-old can spot.  Look at the linked photos in the above tweet, and you will immediately notice a few things:  there are no entry or exit wounds, despite the claim that a military rifle supposedly shot these children with a bullet designed to penetrate armor.  The bullets show no deformation and appear to have been placed under the body.

4 Years After The Biden Laptop Coverup, Media Election Interference Is Worse Than Ever.  Just last week, CBS News used deceptive video splicing to replace one of Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris' answers on "60 Minutes" with one that sounded less awful.  A preview clip of the interview showed Harris responding to a question with nonsensical babble, but when the full interview aired, that answer was nowhere to be seen, having been replaced by a completely different response.  The original answer was also missing from the transcript released by the network, and CBS continues to refuse to release an undoctored transcript.  The most outrageous election interference from the press this cycle might be the pile-up on Trump by ABC News "moderators" when Trump met Harris for a singular presidential debate in September.  They lobbed "fact checks" at Trump left and right while refusing to question Harris' many falsehoods.  Throughout the debate, the format resembled ABC's David Muir and Linsey Davis asking Trump to explain how he could possibly be so horrible and then giving Harris a chance to opine on whether she thought Trump was horrible and why.

They Are Lying To You About Hurricane Helene.  After what we have just witnessed, how will anyone be able to trust those that are running the country ever again?  Hurricane Helene's extremely unusual journey left an immense trail of destruction that was more than 500 miles long, and there are many communities that were completely and utterly wiped out.  Authorities are telling the mainstream media that only a few hundred people died, and so that is what the mainstream media is telling us.  But those that are on the ground in the areas that got hit the hardest are telling us a completely different story.  For example, one woman in Asheville, North Carolina says that thousands of people are missing and that there are still "bodies hanging from trees they haven't gotten to yet" [...] Another local woman is claiming that there are more than 900 bodies at a local hospital in Asheville which still have not been identified[.] [...] Please keep in mind that Asheville is just one of the cities that was absolutely devastated by this storm.  There are hundreds of others that are dealing with dead bodies as well.

Hilarious job numbers from the Bureau of Labor.  As the media campaign so vigorously for Democrats and cheer how great the Biden-Harris policies have been, suddenly, the Department of Labor comes out with an unemployment report that blows away expectations.  Biden and Harris were out bragging as a significant number of people still can't pay their bills without running up new debt or going delinquent on the debt they already had.  Supposedly, 254,000 jobs were created in September.  Isn't that amazing, that this report came out one month before the election?  Of course, the media gave the headline number and never got into the details.  Here is one important detail:  government jobs showed a gain of 785,000 because of the second biggest seasonal adjustment on record.  (It is easy to manipulate numbers when you have "seasonal adjustments.")  This would mean that private-sector employment declined 531,000 with seasonal adjustments.  I would say that is not too much to brag about.  Somehow, the voters don't get to see that number, but they know that the economy has sucked the past four years because they can't pay their bills.

The Democrats Defraud the Voters With A Little Help From Their Friends.  In 2016 the Democrats fabricated the Trump-Russian collusion hoax.  That's far more serious than lying about how a politician voted years ago.  The CIA furthered this lie by enlisting foreign security agencies to generate contacts between Russians and peripheral Trump campaign members to create suspicion against Trump.  After the election, the Democrats used the same fabrication to hamstring Trump's administration and try to drive him from office.  The CIA issued false leaks to the MSM claiming growing evidence of Trump-Russian collusion.  The MSM eagerly published stories day after day claiming "the walls were closing in" on Trump.  But the walls were not closing in.  The claim was a lie.  The MSM is so brazen that when New York Times and Washington Post reporters were awarded Pulitzers for their falsehoods, they proudly kept them even as their falsehoods were exposed.

BBC blames child marriage in Bangladesh on climate change.  WHATEVER the BBC report on climate change, it is pretty good advice to assume the opposite is true!  BBC World Service broadcasts a weekly radio programme called The Climate Question.  A couple of weeks ago the topic was child marriage in Bangladesh, with the claim that extreme weather 'fuelled by climate change' was making farming impossible in many parts of the Bangladesh.  Consequently people were moving off the land and into towns.  As a result, supposedly, young girls were being married off.  But far from farming becoming impossible, the opposite is the case.  Cereal production continues to rise every year to new records, and the area harvested is also increasing.  To cap it all, poverty levels have declined by a factor of eight since the 1980s.  Bangladesh is a success story, but you won't hear that from the BBC.  Everything the BBC has reported is a lie.  They obviously have a problem with admitting the truth about child brides in Muslim countries, so why not blame it all on global warming instead?

On State Department Censorship and Blacklisting.  Last Friday, Josh Christenson at the New York Post published "State Department tried to discredit reporters, Republican pol over conservative 'blacklist.'"  The article described an internal memo showing the State Department strategizing public relations responses to the Washington Examiner's Gabe Kaminsky, me, and Republican congressman Jim Banks.  The memo criticizes Banks in an extremely devious way.  The Indiana Republican last February was quoted by Gabe in the Examiner saying the Biden administration appeared to be "knee deep" in efforts to "crack down" on speech.  The State Department memo listed the Banks quote among its list of criticisms to answer.  However, the agency didn't quote the Examiner.  It claimed to be quoting the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti, giving the impression that Banks offered his criticism of Biden in Russian state media:  [Exhibit]  But Banks never spoke to RIA-Novosti, or any Russian agency.  His quotes only appear in wholesale Russian translations (read: thefts) of Gabe's Examiner article. [...] A miffed Banks just responded with a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.  "The State Department, in defense of its domestic so-called 'disinformation' operation, purposefully spread disinformation about a U.S. lawmaker," he wrote, adding that "this is a sloppy and hypocritical lie and it is typical of the Biden-Harris State Department's repeated attacks on the First Amendment."

The New Yorker Doesn't Care About Facts When They're Making [Stuff] Up About Trump.  Perhaps no period in modern journalism has exposed major structural problems in the media as the Trump era.  Since Trump careened into American politics in 2016, reporters have thrown story after story trying to ensnare Trump with Russia's Putin.  Many of these stories never held up to honest inquiry.  As investigative journalist Jeff Gerth examined in scrupulous detail — a 24,000 word, three part series, in the Columba Journalism Review to be exact — top American journalists misled the public while claiming to cover Trump fairly, dispassionately, and — most important — accurately.  Gerth notes that some of these reporters went on to win awards for their failed Trump stories.  You likely haven't read Gerth's series in Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) and that's for good cause.  Many journalists who wrote misleading stories on Trump refused to speak with Gerth, likely because they'd be hard pressed to defend dubious articles that led to coveted journalism prizes and promotions.

The second assassination attempt was not 'apparent'.  Everywhere I look for news updates on the Trump assassination attempt I'm confronted by the word "apparent."  Headlines all over legacy media (my browser's cache was chockful of them) disseminate variations of "Trump's apparent assassination attempt..."  Up until at least 0930 PST, the day after.  My goodness, the would-be assassin is a Dem donkey's ass-assin, without the wit to repugn the verbal violence from Dem asses against President Trump.  That's apparent, but his acting out is manifest.  The ass-assin wasn't out there shooting birdies with his AK-47 from the out-of-bounds rough on the golf course.  There was nothing "apparent" about it — his intentions (corroborated by his social media profile) were bleedin' obvious.

That media 'narrative' about pets going uneaten by Haitian migrants in Ohio is starting to fall apart.  Yes, they're getting eaten.  ABC News debate moderator David Muir made a big deal of "fact-checking" President Trump when he cited reports at last night's debate that pets were being eaten by Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, whose flooding 20,000-strong presence was creating many problems for the city of 58,000. [...] Well, now it turns out that Muir the self-appointed fact-checker who cited a city manager's claim that he didn't get any reports about it didn't know what he was talking about.  President Trump, however, did.  Reports from a wide variety of sources are starting to emerge about pets and park wildlife such as ducks and geese being stolen, dismembered, chopped, cooked, eaten and used for bizarre voudou ceremonies to summon evil spirits by Haitian migrants, some of them flown in from Haiti by as "parolees" by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

It is a joke when journalists claim they care about journalistic integrity.  A media that spread lies about Russian collusion for years with no evidence does not have integrity.  Journalists who buried the story about the Hunter Biden laptop and Biden family corruption as they campaigned for Joe is not honest.  They have known that the Biden family pockets were lined with kickbacks for years but continue to perpetuate the lie that Joe was not involved and did nothing wrong.  Journalists who have spread the lie for fourteen years that the Affordable Care Act makes health care cheaper while prices have skyrocketed are just Democrat campaign workers.  Anyone who pretends that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are moderates is intentionally spreading misinformation to voters.  No matter what Joe said or did during his first three and a half years in office, the complicit media claimed that he was an excellent president and sharp as a tack.  They continued this lie until the debate.  Journalists who continued to say that Kamala was a drag on the ticket now say she is fabulous.  That is not honesty.

Newspaper article preposterously equates KKK members with Christianity, patriotism.  No matter how much you disdain and despise the mainstream media[,] it is not enough.  Not nearly enough.  Case in point: the newly rebranded "Minnesota Star Tribune" recently ran an article — on the front page of the 'A' section — about the history of the KKK in Minnesota.  The headline read "Her mission:  Documenting history of KKK in Minnesota."  Clever.  The piece never mentioned the Democrat party, never once noted that the party was the home of the KKK, the pro-slavery party, the Jim Crow party, the anti-integration party, the anti-reconstruction party.  Misinformation.  Disinformation.  Mal-information.  Lying by omission.  Shameful.  Instead, the article hinted throughout that it was those with the mindset of today's Trump Republicans that were responsible for the horrors of extreme discrimination.

The Los Angeles Times blames Republicans for California's woes.  One of the hallmarks of narcissism is that when things go wrong, it's always someone else's fault.  Being a narcissist means never having to say you're sorry.  Nothing more perfectly illustrates this truism than an essay from yesterday's Los Angeles Times blaming Republicans for California's myriad woes.  While the author is correct that, when Republicans had the chance, they didn't make smart decisions, the reality is that it's the Democrats who have led California to the desperate place it's in now.  Steve Lopez's essay doesn't make the mistake of blaming Republicans for all the state's problems.  He concedes that Democrats have long controlled the former Golden State, which is plagued by homelessness, crime, out-of-control housing costs, and poverty.  He contends, however, "that none of that happened overnight, nor did it happen exclusively under Democratic leadership."  Lopez believes that Republican mismanagement during the times that Republicans controlled the government is as much to blame as Democrat mismanagement.  The easy challenge to that argument is that, since 1970, the legislature has had a Democrat majority, which became a vetoproof supermajority in 2018.

MSM tells only part of the story, highlights 'record number of deaths' from 'climate change'.  The Hill recently ran an article by Zack Budryk, which highlighted the "record number of Americans killed by heat" last year; here's what he had to say:  ["]Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  At least 2,325 people died from the heat last year, according to the study, which included deaths with heat as both an underlying and contributing factor.["]  If you didn't already figure it out, this piece was on "climate change," and its purpose, like most pieces on climate change, is to get people to capitulate to the radical green agenda.  Why don't journalists ever report on the number of people killed each year by extreme cold, which is much higher than heat deaths?  The answer is that facts don't matter when the media and other Democrats are trying to force people to surrender to their agenda.

The Media Lies Add Up.  During the 2020 Democratic primaries, the general election, and throughout the first three years of the Biden administration, it was evident that Joe Biden was physically and mentally incapable of serving as president.  Yet his aides and the media all misled the American people.  They insisted that Biden was vigorous and sharp.  Then suddenly in June 2024, within a 24-hour period, Biden was declared by these same insiders as unfit to continue as the Democratic nominee.  Their new problem with Biden was not just his long-standing embarrassing dementia.  Rather bad polls increasingly warned that voters no longer believed their lies and thus would likely not reelect Biden but would instead punish most Democrats in the upcoming 2024 election.  So, a new media narrative arose:  the once-hale Biden was forced to resign as the Democrat nominee.  His once widely caricatured vice president, Kamala Harris, just as abruptly was coronated as his replacement candidate by an equally suddenly gushing and colluding media.  In sum, for some nine years, the media and the left have successfully fed the country a succession of rank deceptions and conspiracies.

Hiding Danchenko.  Rolling Stone magazine has just published a hugely perfidious puff piece about Steele dossier source, Igor Danchenko.  Even by the standards of media puff pieces, the article is notable for the sheer amount of misrepresentations of basic facts.  Among many other falsehoods, it misstates how the FBI found out about Danchenko and fails to acknowledge that the FBI paid him several hundred thousand dollars.  Most notably, the article attempts to revive the notion that the dossier was credible, while omitting the crucial detail that Danchenko himself disavowed the dossier in January 2017.  However, what particularly caught our attention was the timing of the piece.  There seemed to be no apparent reason to publish such an article now, several years after Danchenko faded from public view.  Why the need to remind everyone of this deeply sordid chapter in American history?  Every time the media publishes a puff piece for no apparent reason, we must assume they are attempting to preempt some negative news.  But what could this negative news be?

Minnesota news station conveniently "loses connection" when state senator starts ripping them for being Tim Walz puppets.  No "state-run media" happening here folks.  It's just Minnesota's incredibly Democrat- and Tim Walz-friendly media having "technical difficulties" the moment anyone challenges their neutrality.  Check this out:  [Tweet with video clip] [...] I'm not sure that North Korean media could be this blatantly corrupt.  Before the cut, Senator Jensen got some great blows in.  I can't imagine the panic going on in the newsroom when they  cut  lost the feed.

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I worked in broadcasting for 48 years, much of the time occupied in establishing "live shot" signals for remote pickup links, and I can assure you that live feeds of this sort, from a fixed point of origination, NEVER fail without some advance warning (as in this case), except when someone manually kills the feed.  If a signal is about to drop, there's usually some disturbance in the video or audio before they both disappear.  Not this time.  You can safely surmise this was not a case of "technical difficulties" beyond the station's control.  The feed was obviously cut because the Republican politician was developing momentum and had to be stopped, as if the TV station is owned and operated by socialist Democrats.

Mainstream media misinformation, mendacity at PBS.  PBS recently reported that, via a phone call, former President Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to delay a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas until after the 2024 presidential election to benefit himself politically.  Turns out, that wasn't true.  In any way, shape, or form.  Knock me over with a feather.  Imagine my surprise when I found out that this, too, was a lie made out of whole cloth!  "PBS NewsHour"  propagandist  reporter Judy Woodruff subsequently apologized for reporting the story about Trump and Netanyahu "that both leaders have staunchly denied," according to Fox News.

Fear and Trembling in the Deep State.  During the [DNC convention in Chicago], Judy Woodruff reported (using the most authoritative voice and concerned visage she could muster) that Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during which he told him to reject the Biden ceasefire deal because accepting it would help Biden's reelection.  Both Netanyahu and Trump denied the claim upon which Trump was instantly being charged by the usual shills with a violation of the Logan Act.  When pressed to substantiate her charge, Woodruff "clarified" her remarks and said she'd relied on accounts in Axios and Reuters and had done no independent verification.  In fact, neither publication reported what she had said was the content of the conversation.  More damaging to the credibility of her "clarification," days before her assertion both accounts had reported the men denied having any phone conversation regarding the proposal.  Did she misread the articles?  I think it obvious she repeated something someone in the administration told her, someone whose identity she dares not reveal for fear of losing valuable access.

Fake News:  Judy Woodruff does a Dan Rather.  [Scroll down]  The [worst] element of Woodruff's statement, that Trump urged Netanyahu to reject the ceasefire because it would help Harris in the 2024 presidential campaign — never happened at all in either report, not even by wink, hint, or suggestion, not in the corrected or uncorrected versions.  Nothing.  Zilch.  Zero.  Nada.  Trump never did that.  And they never reported that.  Trump wouldn't even need to do that, as Bibi already knows which presidential candidate would be better for Israel.  I knew that claim was fake the minute I read it and put on my skepticism goggles.  It was completely made up by Woodruff.  Yet here Woodruff is, blaming other news agencies for her own error, focusing on some mild to moderately fuzzy elements of the stories open to interpretation, and making a blanket claim that Trump is busy interfering with the peace process in Gaza by phone, and for only the most venal and selfish reasons, to advance his presidential campaign, when nothing of the kind happened nor was ever reported to have happened.

No, illegal immigration does not help the U.S. economy.  The media and other Democrats have been working very hard to say that Kamala has not been responsible for the open border policy that allows millions of illegals, including terrorists and gang members, to flood our country.  Sanctuary cities and states have been whining continuously about Texas sending these illegals to them and begging Gov. Greg Abbott to stop.  They are complaining about how much these illegals are costing and how they are running out of room.  They are begging the federal government for money.  The voters aren't buying these lies so now the Los Angeles Times comes to the rescue with a fictional piece of trash describing how great these illegals have been for the country.  Of course, they don't use the term 'illegal' in their article.

The Guardian Newspaper Says "Two-Tier Policing" Is a Myth Following Years of Making That Exact Claim.  The riots in the United Kingdom have brought the concept of two-tier policing into the limelight once again as the government seems more concerned in targeting those protesting against the consequences of mass immigration than actual criminals.  As we reported earlier, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised a crackdown on rioters with "standing armies" of police officers and 24-hour turnarounds in the courts.  His focus, however, on right-wing rioters has leant itself to the nickname "two-tier Keir."  When it was Brits rioting over the death of George Floyd, a man who didn't even live on the same continent as them, Starmer said "Like you, I was shocked and angered at the killing of George Floyd, and the response of President Trump and the US authorities to the peaceful protesters, to people rightly demanding justice, has been an affront to humanity.

Liberal Gaslighting Goes Global.  The problem with many liberals is they can't live in their own truth.  They abandon ship as soon as it becomes inconvenient to maintain their current persona.  The most obvious and telling recent examples come from the Democrat Presidential candidate-by-fiat, Kamala Harris.  For the last three and a half years, she was 'The Border Czar.'  Everyone knew it.  Biden announced it with much ballyhoo, and she was referred to as 'The Border Czar' by the television, print, and electronic media repeatedly.  As the Vice President, she ran interference for Joe Biden.  (He didn't create the huge border fiasco; she did.) [...] Any stain of failure, especially one tied to the massive disaster of the southern United States border, was a huge threat to her Presidential aspirations.  So, the Democrat political machine, together with their legacy media propaganda juggernaut, went full George Orwell on John Q. Public.  CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Axios, and a score of other legacy media began trumpeting:  'Kamala Harris was never the Border Czar!'  Unfortunately for the gaslighters, and thanks to the internet, there are an abundance of records of them dubbing her with that title.

The Media Still Turn Tricks For The Democrat Party.  [Scroll down]  That's how business works.  Toe the line, or you're out!  The same can be said of all the self-important newscasters, anchors, and hosts whose media bosses quite literally give them their marching orders — or, more accurately, their talking orders.  Not just talking orders, but word-for-word memes, which is why no matter which lefty network or cable show you turn to, they're all using the same vocabulary, the same expressions, and the same keywords.  I first noticed this when Dick Cheney was chosen as George W. Bush's VP candidate.  Suddenly, the media talking heads discovered the word "gravitas"!  We still witness this echo chamber every day.  Objectivity has never been part of the media's agenda, only slavish obeisance to their bosses.  Watch for yourself.  In fact, take notes.  There is a remarkable absence of originality in today's political reportage.  It's all an echo chamber of talking points and leftist propaganda that the anchors and reporters have received beforehand and have literally been commanded to utilize at the risk of their jobs.  There's not an original word, phrase, or sentence!

Turns Out We Were Right:  Dems Were Playing The Long Con.  Back in February, we noticed a spate of articles claiming that there was no way that Joe Biden would not be the Democrats' nominee.  "In the span of two days," we wrote, "articles started appearing making the exact same argument:  That Joe Biden will definitely, no questions asked, be the nominee come November."  We noticed that these articles — all written by supposed political pros — made the same argument:
  •   It's too late for Biden to step aside.
  •   Party elites are all behind Biden.
  •   There's no way Biden would ever drop out.
  •   Nobody wants Kamala Harris to be the nominee.
Horsefeathers, we said, Democrats' only interest is in defeating Donald Trump and keeping power, and they will do whatever it takes to achieve that. [...] Today's mainstream journalists are the domestic version of Baghdad Bob.  The public must learn to start treating them that way.

Slow news month.  [Scroll down]  What goes less noticed is the undisguised political bias of today's "news" media.  Pertinent information?  Nah!  They're in business just to further the partisan leftist agenda.  There is no longer the annual summer season, but rather a three-month severe heat wave.  Kamala Harris is certainly not a cackling nincompoop.  She's the most able holder of the destiny of civilization.  She's not some hack politician.  Instead, she's a "person of color" and of Asian descent... not to mention also a female human being.  This pandering is, of course, protected by the First Amendment.  What is not protected is the intangible concept of credibility.  It keeps getting harder and harder to take these sources seriously.

It's Hoaxes All the Way Down.  Since at least 2015 there is pretty much nothing we read in the mainstream media about politics that is unquestionably true.  That's not to say that nothing true has been printed.  You could produce reams of stories in which the basic facts are defensibly true, although you could probably produce many more reams in which many, most, or all of the facts were lies.  It's just that almost everything written about politics, medicine, public health, the border, Israel, and so many other major issues are driven by narratives completely unrelated to what is really going on.  From the Steele Dossier to "safe and effective," everything we are fed by the mainstream media is built on some hoax or another.

There Never Was A Mythical Time When 'The News Was Just the News'.  Freedom is messy.  As much as anyone, I'd love to have the news media simply present facts to American and world citizens in the form of easily digestible tidbits, allowing us to discern narratives and conclusions as individuals.  But that's simply never been the way that the news media worked in America or anyplace else.  Our Founders were brilliant men who weren't given to fantasies about utopia, and they were realists about the fallen condition of humankind.  You and I may foolishly imagine that it's possible to have a large, nationally syndicated news media that would be stalwartly objective and without projecting any sort of bias.  But the Founders recognized this as impossible.

The Attempted Assassination.  The mainstream media has abandoned their raison d'être:  to be an objective, independent source of information to keep citizens informed about societal matters.  In that scenario, better-educated citizens would join together to take action to support improved living conditions — e.g., by voting for responsible representatives.  Instead, the mainstream media has determined that citizens are incompetent and/or could care less, so they have appointed themselves as the judge and jury as to what needs to be done to improve society.  Of course, they never fully disclose their agendas, as that would expose the reality that they are bluff bidding on a bust hand.  That they continually attack an individual like Trump, is now just an everyday matter.  That they dishonestly portray him in numerous ways (e.g., Hitler), is so commonplace that we think little of it.  "Existential threat" rhetoric is not only false, but specifically intended to inflame[.]

To Call Them Journalists Is A Misnomer.  [Scroll down]  When you listen to the commentary on the mainstream media (the Left supporters) about an event you saw in person, you would think you were at different versions of the same.  An example is the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.  We heard the shots and saw the President grab his ear and drop to the stage for safety.  He reflexively knew to get down behind the bulletproof protection.  The Secret Service agents immediately surrounded him, but he quickly got up and pumped his fist to the crowd with blood streaming down his face.  According to CNN, the President was injured, not shot, and MSNBC said the President fell.  They did whatever they could to downplay the attempt to kill Donald Trump and the way he responded.  It is pathetic and obvious.

Here's How The Media Are Lying Right Now:  RNC Edition.  Now that Republicans have formally nominated Donald Trump for president and the party's convention went off this week without a hitch, it's a good time to check in on how the media processed these past few days.  Spoiler:  not well.

You May Think You Hate the Media, But You Can't Hate It Enough, Chapter 12,186.  When I first started seeing clueless mainstream media headlines pop up on Twitter Saturday afternoon I assumed most of them were fakes, attempts at bad satire, or the Babylon Bee trying to get ahead of things.  But no — these are real:  [Screenshots]

Leftist Media Downplays Trump Assassination Attempt.  Elements of the international media did an impeccable job of covering the attempted assassination of former U.S. president Donald Trump — an attack which also saw one person killed and two seriously injured.  To his credit, the BBC's senior North America correspondent Gary O'Donoghue conducted an insightful on-the-ground interview with a witness shortly after the gunshots rang out.  [Tweet with video clip]  Many have also praised the first-class photographers who potentially risked their lives to secure instantly iconic images that will be printed in the history books.  [Tweets]  Other elements acted shamefully, as readers would expect them too — either downplaying the seriousness of the event or putting a portion of the blame on Trump himself.  Even after footage had emerged which made it quite clear — even if on a very basic level — what had happened, various mainstream media publications pumped out such euphemistic headlines as these:
  CNN: "Secret Service Rushes Trump Off Stage After He Falls at Rally"
  USA Today: "Trump Removed From Stage by Secret Service After Loud Noises Startles Former President, Crowd"
  Associated Press: "Donald Trump Has Been Escorted Off The Stage During A Rally After Loud Noises Ring Out In The Crowd"
These and other headlines prompted recent Trump-backer Elon Musk to criticise the "legacy media" as "a pure propaganda machine."  [Tweet]

The Legacy Media Has Passed the Point of No Return.  A massive poll of 20,000 participants undertaken by the Knight Foundation and Gallup found that Americans' hope for and trust in an objective media was all but lost by 2020.  They saw not only an ever-growing partisanship in news reporting but a determination by the legacy media to push a political agenda instead of honestly disseminating the news.  This poll was one of the most devastating indictments of the media in polling history.  Some highlights:
  84% of surveyed Americans laid either a moderate or a great deal of the blame for partisan hostility at the feet of the media.
  Further, 82% believed news outlets are either deliberately "misrepresenting the facts" or are "making them up entirely".
  This is further amplified as 79% of those surveyed said media outlets are trying to persuade people to adopt a certain opinion about an issue or an individual.
  Similarly, while the respondents in the poll believed that the media is "critical" or "very important" to democracy, 86% say they have witnessed either a fair amount or a great deal of bias in news reporting.

This Won't Be The Last Time Democrats Attempt To Assassinate Trump.  It shouldn't be news by now but if it is:  These people aren't playing games. [...] Democrats and anti-Trumpers have spent the past three years calling the political opposition a life-or-death threat.  They claim they'll be imprisoned and people will die if their opposition gains power, while they themselves attempt to imprison and now kill the opposition.  They called him a fascist.  They called him a dictator.  They called him Hitler.  Literally the front page of New Republic magazine — still influential in Washington, believe it or not — this month portrayed Trump with a tiny mustache to drive home the point.  The vertigo you're feeling is normal.  We don't know yet much about the motives of the shooter.  Perhaps he was simply insane, though it's doubtful.  If he turns out to be politically motivated, there's nothing confusing or inexplicable about this even as news anchors will surely say in the coming days that "we all" bear blame.  We don't all bear blame.  This is one side acting out in fatal violence just as they did through 2020 and just as they did after Trump was elected in 2016.

Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union.  [Scroll down]  Something similar has happened to a calcified America under President Joe Biden.  Like the late-stage Brezhnev, Biden is now a president in name only.  He has outsourced his administration to a vestigial hard-left apparat from the Obama years.  Now, Biden can no longer even perform his assigned ceremonial tasks of putting a moderate veneer on radical, nihilist agendas that are stagnating the country.  Yet our Pravda journalists have sworn to the American people that, in private, the reclusive, three-day-a-week Biden outpaces the energy and drive of those half his age.  Obsequious staffers plant stories in the Soviet-like ears of reporters about Biden's singular dynamism.  Any dissenters are publicly demonized as peddlers of "cheap fakes."  When Biden's reclusiveness prompts too much gossip that he is near senile, he is wheeled out for a staged interview that must be edited before release.  Or he answers questions secretly shown to him in advance.  On sporadic occasions where the state media and the Biden nomenklatura cannot control events — such as rare presidential debates or international summits — our Pravda media go into overdrive to convince the public that what they see and hear is not real.

The Loss of Political Trust.  Trump's epitaph must include credit for injecting "fake news" into the lexicon.  You are reading these words via alternative media born in response to the industrialization of fake news.  The news business is zero-sum.  Every lost NY Times or Washington Post subscriber becomes a Twitter, YouTube, Rumble, Gateway Pundit, etc. viewer.  The industry just experienced a staggering crisis of trust over the Biden coverup.  The overall financial implications of continuous erosion of trust in government have yet to be grasped.  For homework, online search:  fake+u.s.+government+economic+statistics.  Especially significant will be the coming de facto credit downgrading resulting from the Biden fiasco.  Credit is from the Latin credere, to believe.  Biden shines a spotlight on government/media lies of all flavors, awakening creditors to our extreme government trust deficit.

Milwaukee Radio Station Admits To Editing Interview With Joe Biden At Request Of White House.  Joe Biden participated in two radio interviews following his debate with Donald Trump, a debate that raised significant questions within the Democrat Party about the president's ability to win re-election.  The first interview was with WURD, an all-black radio station in Pennsylvania.  The host of the interview, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, admitted she asked the president questions sent to her from the White House.  The radio station fired Sanders later that week, acknowledging that agreeing to pre-determined questions jeopardized the credibility of the outlet.  The second interview was with CivicMedia, a progressive talk-radio network in Wisconsin.  The host of that interview, Earl Ingram, also confirmed that the White House supplied him with questions that he asked Biden. [...] In addition, the Wisconsin station published a press release on Thursday in which it admitted that it made two edits in an interview with Biden at the request of his campaign.

Reporters need to learn to apologize.  Two weeks ago, Georgetown University held a symposium about the state of journalism.  When asked what the main problem facing the press is, Erik Wemple, a media critic at the Washington Post, came up with a surprisingly compelling and honest answer:  Journalists need to learn how to apologize when they make mistakes. [...] Wemple has hit on something profound.  The media are not trusted, and all the conferences and articles in the world are not going to help them out of their hole.

The Editor says...
Lying is probably the news media's most common "mistake," for which they would need to apologize; but the apologies don't come forth because most of the lying is done on behalf of their preferred politicians.

Mediaite Caught Lying in Blatant Distortion of Transcript of J.D. Vance Interview.  Mediaite, a leftist publication, has been caught lying in a blatant distortion of a transcript of an interview that now-Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) did years ago on MSNBC in an obvious attempt to interfere in former President Donald Trump's vice presidential selection process.  The left-leaning anti-Trump publication ran a headline on Wednesday as part of the globalists' last-ditch effort to stop Vance from getting selected as Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election that, if true, would certainly make heads in Trump world turn: "JD Vance Said He Believes Trump's Sexual Assault Accuser in Unearthed Interview."  The problem with Mediaite's headline — and its story — is that this is not an accurate reflection of what Vance said in a 2016 interview with then-MSNBC host Chris Matthews.

Russell Brand Blasts Corporate Media for Normalizing Heart Failure in Young People.  Britsh comedian Russell Brand has accused the corporate media of pushing to normalize the global crisis of young, healthy people dying suddenly from heart failure.  Brand argues that rather than highlight the fact that the surges in cardiac injuries and related only surged after the Covid mRNA shots were rolled out, the corporate media is attempting to gaslight the public into believing it is completely normal.  During an episode of his "Stay Free" podcast this week, Brand said:  "On legacy media, it's quite possible to watch a kind of bright breezy, cheerful news item about heart attacks as if it's like some new trend, as if it's Pogs or Pokemon Go or something.  "It's a new sensation, heart disease in young people."

The Media Is Fully Exposed as Much as Biden in Debate.  The debate showed everyone what happens when the Democratic communications machine, formerly known as the media, is bypassed, and candidates can be seen clearly by the American people without the filters.  The media has been lying — expect this word to come up a lot — to the American people on behalf of Biden and Democrats for years.  But the very second they are unable to control the content and the narrative, the truth comes busting out for everyone to see.  It was glorious and horrific.  President Trump could not have been more right when he said in April 2019 that the media is "truly the enemy of the people."  The Hill (media) said Trump was "ratcheting up his use of the derisive label to attack the news media."  There's some straight reporting.  It quickly evolved in the media narrative of Trump's war on the media, the go-to phrase of the lemming journos.  No.  The Hill was wrong.  It has long been the media's war on the American people who are not bi-coastal elites.  Trump was so right.

Barack Obama and the Stupidity of the American Voter.  Is the American media establishment fair, balanced, and independent?  Do the FBI, CIA, IRS, and Justice Department stand for the rule of law, judicial fairness, and the American way?  Is the GOP a formidable political foe, working hard to contain the excesses of crazed liberal Democrats?  No, not remotely, and you gotta be kidding.  The despicable media spread the lies they're given, enthusiastically and in unison, often using the exact same language.  It's almost as if they've been given a script to follow.  They have.  If the current American justice system didn't have two standards, why, it would have no standards at all!  A simple comparison of the judicial treatment afforded, say, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump makes that abundantly clear.  You're free to burn down a city, if you're BLM, but say prayers across the street from an abortion abattoir, and you're going to prison.  As for the GOP, those pretenders and senders of strongly worded letters and subpoenas that are thrown into the circular file as soon as they're received, they have a perfect avatar in former Senate leader Mitch McConnell:  a chinless, bespectacled turtle.

Biden's Failing Brain Exposes Deep State Treachery.  [Scroll down]  You knew that Biden lost his marbles long ago, but the propaganda press has been telling the world that he's just fine for years. [...] Just as reporters in the first half of the twentieth century lied to the American people about FDR's reliance upon a wheelchair, reporters in the first quarter of the twenty-first century have lied to the American people about Biden's debilitating dementia.  On June 27, the lid on journalists' barrel of Biden-protecting lies shot right off.  Not even halfway through Biden's debate disaster, his communications people were spreading a new lie — that he was suffering from a cold — to explain away his enfeebled and bewildered presence on stage. [...] but the guy had been hiding away at Camp David for over a week!  When you first tell the public that you are unable to perform your presidential duties and prepare for a debate at the same time and then tell them that your weeklong debate camp destroyed your immune system, you aren't in a position to inspire sympathy.

An MSM fairytale.  Since he shuffled into the White House in 2021 we all knew that there was something off about this guy. [...] For the last several weeks, the MSM has been trying to continue the Biden-as-competent fable by blaming Republicans for "cheap fakes."  That was an accusation that Republicans were toying with video and pics of the president to make him look incompetent, as if any such effort was needed to expose his deterioration.  Then the news regarding Biden's absurd debate boot camp.  Why would a professional politician for over 50 years require such an absurdly long and involved prep?  The answer is that the MSM has been complicit in the "fit as a fiddle" charade by fully embracing the regularly administered marching orders and talking points from the White House.  Many commentators are now complaining that they were misled and cannot believe that they were lied to about Biden's infirmaries.  If this is true, it demonstrates a stunning level of naivete.  If they were lied to about something so obvious, what else are they lapping up off the floor?

The Gaza Famine That Never Was.  New evidence indicates that, contrary to claims by top U.S. officials and international media, the Gaza Strip is not on the precipice of a widespread famine that Western experts claimed would endanger millions of innocent Palestinians.  "Famine is imminent" in northern Gaza, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a network of Western governments, the United Nations, and nonprofit groups, warned in March, prompting unfounded accusations that Israel is using starvation as a war tactic.  The IPC's report was quickly amplified by outlets like the Washington Post, which foretold "imminent famine" in Gaza.  Politico, the New York Times, and CNN alleged Israel is guilty of war crimes.  But on Tuesday, the IPC revised its initial assessment, saying that the projected famine in Gaza did not come to fruition in May.  "The available evidence does not indicate that Famine is currently occurring," the organization said in its latest report, which notes that Israel has significantly increased aid and that conditions as a whole in Gaza have drastically improved.  This is the latest example of an international agency walking back its initial assessment of the situation in Gaza.

What to do about woke science journals.  Let me define the "woke" in the title very broadly as promoting any of...
  a) a favored narrative or questionable treatment (e.g., publishing only articles supporting a huge climate change impact or government COVID-19 policies while rejecting high-quality articles with solid evidence to the contrary);
  b) CRT and DEI (e.g., employment processes and medical treatment; justifying BLM rallies during a mandatory and supposedly necessary COVID lockdown);
  c) the trans agenda (e.g., suppression of literature on psychological diagnoses or social media influence; transition surgery for minors; birth certificate with the desired gender of the baby or its parents; males in female sports);
  d) TDS (e.g., numerous get-Trump Lancet editorials having nothing to do with medicine; the Lancet by-passing its usual peer-review process to rush a negative study on hydroxychloroquine to print after Trump said HCQ might work, only to have to retract it ten days later after the data were proven bogus);
  e) rescinding already published or posted articles after pressure from advocacy groups.
There can be overlap between categories.

Wrong, Mainstream Media, Tree Rings Aren't Reliable Indicators of Past Temperatures.  Dozens of media outlets such as ABC News, The BBC, The New York Times, and many more, hyped a study that claims summer temperatures in 2023 were unprecedented over the past 2000 years.  This claim, in fact, can't be verified by tree ring data, which isn't that precise.  Researchers are falsely assuming tree rings are reliable temperature indicators when in fact tree rings can indicate a multitude of different conditions, not just temperature.

BBC Climate Disinformation Reporter Attacks Kenyan Farmer.  On 15th June 2024, the BBC Climate disinformation reporter Marco Silva published a hit piece on the Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu, entitled "How a Kenyan farmer became a champion of climate change denial."  The reporter claims that Mr Machogu, a 29-year-old farmer with many thousands of followers on X for his campaign "Fossil Fuels for Africa," holds dangerous views denying climate change.  I don't personally know Mr Machogu, and I am certain that he doesn't need defense.  I grew up without electricity and I recently explained how I questioned the official climate narrative.  I do find it extremely disgusting that a senior journalist sitting in Greater London, using daily modern technologies powered by fossil fuels, in a country that became rich thanks to fossil fuels (and loot from Kenya), should write such a disdainful piece on one of the biggest media outlets on earth about a young man who appears to have knowledge, hard work, and passion to serve his community and people.  I also find this piece below the BBC's editorial standards which include values such as truth, fairness, accuracy, and impartiality.

The intellectual dishonesty of Democrats proven once again.  The Cleveland Plain Dealer was forced on June 18, 2024 to retract entirely a June 9th op-ed written by Democrat lawyer and political consultant Neil Baron when it was threatened with slander and libel lawsuits from three FBI whistleblowers because of the blatent false accusations Baron included in this op-ed.  Baron's op-ed, which [one] can still read [elsew]here, was mostly a partisan attack on Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and his effort to expose the FBI's non-stop abuse of power.  In doing so, however, Baron accused three FBI whistle-blowers of doing things they did not do. [...] In other words, Baron was making these accusations up, and the newspaper did no fact-checking prior to publication, accepting those bald-faced lies without question.  That they were lies is illustrated by how fast the newspaper reacted when told they were lies, retracting the op-ed only one day after it was approached by representatives of the whistle-blowers.

The dictionary just got a little heavier.
Biden Loyalist Media Are Gaslighting Us Again.  Of all the the 2020 election's dirty tricks, the nastiest was when the media and the IC abused public trust to suppress an entirely-true, but highly damaging story about Hunter's laptop.  Because Blinken leaned on his buddies to suppress the story, the New York Post scoop about Hunter's laptop had been suppressed.  Polls have since told us that enough Biden voters in battleground states would have changed their vote based on that laptop information that the Presidential race would have turned in Trump's favor.  The truth eventually came out — in the Hunter Biden prosecution this month, ironically — but the Biden was sworn in and the damage was already done.  One Conservative voice has given it a name:  Laptopping.  [Tweet]

Obama Seeks 4th Term.  With Obama still at the helm, the fundamental transformation of America continues.  Meanwhile, the entire American news propaganda machine continues to act as if they don't know, including Fox News personalities, referring to Biden as if he really is a President, Harris as if she really is a Vice President, and the 2024 election as if there's any legitimacy to U.S. elections since 2016.  Oh, they know, but they don't dare tell it like it really is, which is why the entire U.S. news industry has a popularity rating even below Biden's anemic levels, and the talk-talk-talk but do-nothing Congress.  People started turning to Tik Tok and other social media platforms in a desperate search for any real news years ago.  That's why everyone in D.C. was united in the power grab of Tik Tok.  Not because of so-called "Chinese spying," but because it was the last place they didn't totally control the narrative for public consumption.

No, ScienceNews, Your "Ocean's Record-Breaking Hot Streak" Claims Are False.  A recent ScienceNews (SN) article claims that ocean temperatures are out of control in a year-long record-breaking hot streak.  This is false.  Numerous ocean temperature data sets show no such record-breaking values and the source SN cited to support its claims was thoroughly discredited when it made similar "record breaking" claims last year.  The entire claim of the article is based on one data set, which is seen below in the SN article: [...] The problem is this single source isn't even an "official" ocean temperature data data set, rather the source is: Source:  Climate Reanalyzer/Univ. of Maine ∙ Visualization:  C. Crockett.  In fact, that isn't temperature data at all, but climate model output.  The data SN cited was not official data, but from a private website run by the University of Maine.  Examining actual data sets show that SN claim of record ocean heat is a gross error.

The Feds Are Itching to J6 Us Again.  [Scroll down]  To this day, White House spokespeople, members of Congress, federal judges, and television news anchors describe January 6, 2021 as a "deadly insurrection."  It does not matter to them that none of the J6 protesters was armed or that the only people killed were Trump-supporters.  It does not matter to them that the vast majority of J6 defendants were engaging in harmless acts of political advocacy.  It does not matter to them that there was never any nefarious plot to somehow topple the federal government.  Reprehensible prosecutors seeking outrageous sentences for questionable trespass crimes and unsympathetic, partisan judges who insist on haranguing defendants for engaging in imaginary sedition have railroaded scores of Americans for the "crime" of exercising their free speech.

A Slate writer gaslights about the allegedly great Biden economy.  Zachary Carter, writing for hard-left Slate, has issued his verdict on the economy:  It's great.  Wholly contrary to popular belief, he assures us, "Inflation Is Not Destroying Joe Biden."  So why can't the rest of America see it?  'Tis a mystery to be solved, and he buries us under "data" to make his point.  Ultimately, his piece is a primal scream of horror that Americans insist on believing the realities of their wallets over the cherry-picked data in his analysis.  First, Carter first declares that inflation is a thing of the past.  "According to the Federal Reserve's preferred measure, prices rose just 2.7 percent between April of 2023 and April of 2024."  The problem with the Fed is that its "core" inflation number excludes the cost of food, housing, and energy — the things that average Americans spend the vast majority of their income purchasing.

June temperatures [are] at half the level of this time last year.  Temperatures in June 2024 are at half the level of 2023, the Met Office has said, although warmer weather is predicted towards the end of the month.  While London was experiencing 32C (89.6F) a year ago, temperatures were around 16C (60.8F) in the capital on Tuesday.  Similarly Cambridge had temperatures of 30.3C (86.5F) on June 11 2023, and 15C (59F) on the same day in 2024.  Temperatures are around 2C (35.6F) below average for the time of year, with scattered showers this week that could turn into heavy rain by Thursday, while some areas could see ground frosts.

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Somehow I would like to rebut the article above without including a cliché like cherry-picking.  Oops, too late.  It's easy to find examples of a high (or low) temperature on some date that was "half" (or "double") the temperature on the same day in the previous year.  This is made easier by the use of the Celsius temperature scale, in which the day-to-day ambient temperatures are recorded with smaller numbers than in areas that use the Fahrenheit scale.  But a decrease from 32°C. to 16°C. does not mean it's only half as warm outside.  On the absolute (Kelvin) scale, that's a change from 305°K. to 289°K.  Hardly any difference.  This is another example of the news media attempting to make problems sound worse than they really are, and hoping you don't know why they are in error.  These are the same people who sound the alarm about a one-half degree average temperature increase by the end of this century.  On the absolute scale, it's almost no change at all.  It's background noise, especially compared to the temperature differences between day and night and between summer and winter.

What the Biden Campaign Doesn't Want You to Know About His Philly Audience.  As I reported earlier, Joe Biden went to Philadelphia on Wednesday to try to make another pitch to black voters to stop fleeing and vote for him and Kamala Harris. [...] In his photos, you can see the people are all in the front of the gym, only about half of it is full and there's a big press bandstand, then a whole press area with tables.  The second photo on the top right shows most of the people although there may be a little more on the left that are not shown.  I'll leave it to you to assess how many people there were, but it wasn't a lot.  Certainly not "packed" or "huge."  Trump has more people waiting for him hours before his events start.  In other words, as the GOP noted, Joe Biden couldn't even fill up a school gym in Democrat-run Philadelphia.

The Top 20 Lies of the 2020s.  Lying is an epidemic even worse than COVID.  Our president and his press secretaries seem to lie with every word they say and deny facts that anyone with a pair of eyes can see for himself.  Scientists and doctors, formerly among the most trusted members of our society, lie to foster popular environmental theories and get government grants, or to promote Big Pharma and deter people from effective treatments.  Our news media no longer report the news; they shape the news as instructed.  Here is just a sample of commonly promoted lies starting in 2020. [...]

They lie because they get away with it.  The death of Morgan Spurlock showed why people in the media lie.  They get away with it and it pays well.  He made a movie for $65,000 called Super Size Me and collected a hefty share of its $22 million gross at the box office.  The premise was he ate nothing but McDonald's food for 30 days and it ruined his health.  The food did not.  He died of cancer not obesity.  His liver likely was in bad shape but it wasn't from milkshakes and Big Macs.  It was from 40 years of drinking, going back to when he was 13.  Nevertheless, the media sold the lie for 20 years, and continued the lie in his obituaries, although a few outlets included a paragraph or two buried in the story that put his lie in perspective. [...] The media heavily promoted him and his movie when it debuted 20 years ago.  Overnight, journalists became instant dietitians — just like they became instant virologists 4 years ago when covid 19 arrived from Wuhan.

How the Propaganda System Works.  This major new piece of distracting disinfotainment is solid misinformation.  It's fortified with pseudo-nutritional lies that support the Official Narrative.  On whatever...  The Covid scamdemic/plannedemic.  Or the "safe and effective" vaccines that keep killing and maiming millions with heart damage, blood clots, myocarditis, neurological disorders, paralysis, autoimmune disease, turbo cancers, infertility, sterility, and death.  Or the apocalyptic "killer virus" that never existed.  It was just another mild seasonal flu, if it existed at all.  Or that whopper, life-threatening man-made "global warming."  Which morphed into the "climate change" hoax.  Or the 2020 US presidential election where vote-counting suddenly stopped in five or six key states so that rejiggering could take place, but you were assured nothing untoward happened — and if you think it did happen then you're a right-wing dupe misled by bad people and conspiracy theories.  Or "Israel's right to defend itself" as it carries out a televised genocide in full public view to complete its extermination/removal/dispossession of the Palestinian people begun in 1947-1949. [...] Inflation is firmly under control, thanks to our great "president" Joseph Robinette Biden, a usurper/imposter like his CIA-groomed puppetmaster Barry Soetoro (aka Obama).  Today a fast-food meal — burger, fries, soda — costs nearly 20 bucks, going up to $26.99 real soon as America's wars continue.

About those 'all electric' 'zero emissions' fire trucks.  They have diesel engines.  When Albuquerque announced plans to acquire a new fire engine, New Mexico's governor lauded the "zero emissions" technology while a fire department spokesman called it "all electric" and KRQE 13 gushed about the "fully electric" fire truck.  San Diego's NBC 7 reported on what it called that city's first "all electric fire apparatus."  When the electric fire engine debuted in Portland, NBC's KGW 8 quoted a fire department spokesman lauding the "monumental" "zero emissions" vehicle.  When an electric fire truck came to Gilbert, Arizona, FOX 10 quoted the fire chief saying that "There's no cancer coming out of the tail pipe and I say it that way because diesel particulates are a contributor for cancers."  Viewers could be forgiven for thinking that the new fire trucks were all electric and zero emissions.  They'd be wrong.  All the fire trucks also have a diesel engine and a tailpipe releases those "cancer-causing particulates."

The Ravings of a Kindly Old Man with a Poor Memory.  [Scroll down]  Speaking of pathetic, who among you believes anything the sad, servile mainstream media parrots?  Do they not lie as easily as they breathe?  Are they not completely predictable as to how they will deal with a given circumstance?  Are they not foul creatures fully under the control of the D.C. swamp?  They are.

Sorry, Climate Activists, Montana Climate Harms Are Not Occurring.  An environmental activist website called The Cool Down (TCD) just embarrassed itself by making provably false claims about climate change in Montana and by showing it cannot read a basic calendar.  On May 7, 2024, TCD published an article titled, "State lawmakers pass unprecedented anti-science law: 'Our families are already suffering.'"  The article begins, "Montana's legislature has passed the nation's most aggressive anti-science law, prohibiting state agencies from considering the impacts of excess heat-trapping pollution when reviewing permits for large projects like coal mines and power plants."  Apparently, TCD doesn't know how to read a calendar.  The Montana legislature passed the law in question in April 2023, more than a full year before the TCD article, which is written as if the law had just recently been passed. [...] TCD's sloppy research is not restricted just to calendar reading.  The article embarrasses itself regarding climate change, also.  According to TCD, "This legislation comes at a pivotal time, as Montana's climate has already changed significantly over the past century.  The state has experienced earlier snowmelt, more frequent heat waves, and a growing risk of wildfires."  Let's examine these three claims. [...]

Fearmongering keeps the elites in power.  [Scroll down]  More recently, experts told us that COVID-19 was so deadly, it could kill us all if we didn't do precisely as they said.  Turns out that what they instructed us to do was deadlier than COVID-19 itself. [...] There are only two types of societies.  When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.  When the government fears the people, freedom can reign.  This explains our current government's reaction to Jan. 6.  (Sadly, "the government" now includes academia and the mainstream media.)

Don't fall for this trap when watching the news.  While watching news coverage of the protests on college campuses, one segment caught my attention.  A TV Anchor reacting to a Forbes report about some employers hiring fewer Ivy League school graduates.  The main reason had nothing to do with the protests but with Ivy League universities' recruiting being more about specialists than well-rounded students.  But this anchor used the report as an opportunity to stir up a culture war.  North vs. south.  Elite private institutions vs. public universities.  All while saying, "See?  This is why they don't want to hire you."  While criticizing a school's handling of a situation is fair and so is student behavior, good journalists know better than to make blanket statements about a group or a place.  Having worked for years as a reporter, I know that within crowds are many stories and journalists should share them and offer context and nuance.

Why would the public ever trust media outlets [...] ?  [Scroll down]  So why would it be a surprise that the people who support Obama and Biden would also support the protesters wreaking anti-Jew havoc across the nation? [...] The media also pretends that Trump politicized the Justice Department[,] when that is most certainly Obama and Biden.  They pretend that Democrat policies want to help the poor and minorities, when the goal of Democrats for over sixty years has been to make more people dependent on the government, instead of giving them more of an opportunity to move up the economic ladder due to the joys of capitalism.  The media and other Democrats acted surprised and shocked at how much damage keeping schools closed caused children.  Only an idiot would be surprised.  They pretend that rich people like Bill Gates, Obama, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, John Kerry, and others care about their carbon footprint as they fly in private jets, own multiple mansions, and buy yachts.  They pretend that rich people buying worthless pieces of paper called carbon credits reduces their massive carbon footprint.  Those pieces of paper do nothing.

Why climate change ISN'T going to end the world.  Young people are terrified that climate change will destroy Earth by the time they grow up, but the world is not actually ending, argues Cambridge professor Mike Hulme.  Humanity is not teetering on a cliff's edge, he says, at risk of imminent catastrophe if we don't reach net-zero carbon emissions by a certain date.  And he has made it his mission to call out the people who claim we are.  In his most recent book, Climate Change Isn't Everything, Hulme argued that belief in the urgent fight against climate change has shot far past the territory of science and become an ideology.  Hulme, a professor of human geography at the University of Cambridge, dubs this ideology 'climatism,' and he argues that it can distort the way society approaches the world's ills, placing too much focus on slowing Earth from warming.

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The article immediately above is accompanied by an Associated Press photo showing brown clouds coming from three vertical stacks.  This is an attempt to depict a factory (probably a power plant) emitting huge quantities of smoke into the air.  Astute readers will notice that the vapor comes out of the big pipes and quickly disappears in the ambient air.  That is the behavior of water vapor, not smoke.  The photo has been doctored in an attempt to make a problem out of something that is not a problem.  That's propaganda.

The imaginary "climate crisis" is a product of climate activists and click-bait media.  The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") reports don't define what a "climate crisis" is.  The crisis that supposedly requires society to achieve zero carbon emissions or, at least, "net zero."  On the contrary, the IPCC's latest Assessment Report ("AR6") published in 2021 points out that corporate media's opinion of climate change has moved away from a neutral position by adopting and promoting terms like "climate crisis," "global heating" and "climate emergency."  Such a statement by the IPCC should leave no doubt that the concept of an ongoing "climate crisis" is a joint product of climate activists and the click-hungry media, lacking a solid scientific basis, Aivar Usk writes.

Truth Has Become A Casualty In Modern Journalism.  Journalism once provided truthful insight into the news of the day. [...] Those days are long past.  We should all be mourning the death of truth, but alas, few recognize what has happened to truth as a tool to strengthen nations and guard against ruinous corruption.  Truth has become a casualty of evil people's schemes.  The murder of truth was intentionally committed by individuals and organizations who cannot accomplish their goals through rational, logical, and reasonable public debate.  The world is in the grips of mass propaganda, deceit, and an otherworldly strong delusion.

L A Times Editorial Claim that "The planet is experiencing a horrifying streak of record-breaking heat" is Unsupported by NOAA's Climate Data.  The opening L A Times editorial paragraph claims that for California "the last few months have been more than 2 degrees hotter than average".  This claim is erroneous as demonstrated in the discussion below.  NOAA's data for the maximum temperatures experienced in California for the month of February 2024 as well as all February months for years from 1895 to 2023 are shown below.  [Charts]  NOAA's data shows the mean February maximum temperature over its base period interval of 1901 [to] 2000 is 55.6 degrees F compared to California's February 2024 maximum value of 56.0 degrees F (0.4 degrees F above the mean) as indicated in NOAA's data table below versus the Times distorted and false claim of "2 degrees hotter than average".  [More charts]  More importantly, the February 2024 maximum temperature of 56 degrees F in California is only the 62nd highest out of 130 total February recorded highest values with the 2024 temperature clearly not representing "a horrifying streak of record-breaking heat" as falsely hyped by the L A Times editorial.

Media Hoax:  No, Israel Did Not Dig 'Mass Grave' At Gaza's Nasser Hospital.  Another day, another Hamas hoax amplified by Democrats and the mainstream media.  This time around, the story is about a mass grave at Gaza's Nasser Hospital that was allegedly only recently discovered, according to workers for the Hamas-run Gaza Civil Defense.  CNN, of course, was among the numerous media outlets to breathlessly report on the story, which strongly insinuated the IDF dug the graves and, in the process, committed war crimes.  Make sure to take note of the framing:  [Advertisement]  ["]The United Nations has called for an 'independent, effective and transparent investigation' into the discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals that were besieged and raided by Israeli troops this year.  The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in a statement he was 'horrified' by the scenes reported from both the Nasser and Al Shifa medical complexes in the besieged enclave.["] [...] Hamas Caucus leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pounced and seized, and demanded to know where the media coverage was, apparently ignoring the fact that national news outlets had already picked up the ball and run with it:  [Tweet]

Divide & Conquer:  The Government's Propaganda of Fear & Fake News.  [T]he political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population. [...] As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer's seat, we'll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.  Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch — and I would posit that it's all reality TV, entertainment news included — the more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce.  "We the people" are watching a lot of TV.  On average, Americans spend five hours a day watching television.  By the time we reach age 65, we're watching more than 50 hours of television a week, and that number increases as we get older.  And reality TV programming consistently captures the largest percentage of TV watchers every season by an almost 2-1 ratio.

The Collapse of the Mainstream Media Part 3: COVID-19.  During a major crisis, the mainstream media has a duty to ask hard questions and scrutinize official claims and thus fulfill its responsibility to provide objective, accurate, and reliable reporting.  During the COVID pandemic, however, legacy media became the mouthpiece of officialdom whose ever-changing and backpedaling claims were unquestionably parroted by their media assets.  As a result, the public's trust dropped, according to Gallup, who noted in October 2022 that "this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage with a great deal or a fair amount combined."  As fears and hysteria over COVID grew and grew, the public looked increasingly to the media for information and assurances regarding the safety and effectiveness of the experimental mRNA vaccines that were rushed to market during Operation Warp Speed.  In response, legacy media dutifully echoed the assurances from the authorities that the vaccines are "safe and effective."  However, these claims were ultimately proven false.

USA Today Wants You to Believe Joe Biden 'Clamped' Down on the Illegal Immigration.  President Joe Biden has "clamped" down on illegal border crossings, according to USA Today — the millions of immigrants still crossing the southern border must have not gotten the memo yet.  USA Today is taking heat after publishing an article on Friday claiming that Biden has done tremendous work on securing the U.S.-Mexico border. [...] Since day one of Biden's term, he has halted deportations, stopped border wall construction, Ended the Trump-era Remain In Mexico policy and Title 42, and reinstated a catch-and-release program — all of which have encouraged illegal immigrants to come to the United States.  As of Saturday, Biden has yet to reverse any of those policies and put his foot down on illegal immigration.  So unless there is an invisible fence along the southern border, the U.S. border is still wide open for aliens to cross.

Former ESPN host reveals that her 2021 Biden interview was scripted.  In a recent interview with Fox News, former ESPN host Sage Steele revealed that her interview from March 2021 with Joe Biden was scripted by network executives.  "That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured," Steele revealed.  She said her superiors asked her to repeat "every word" that they wrote for her and warned her to "not deviate from the script" they'd prepared. [...] Since Steele wasn't sitting with Biden in person, it is quite likely that he was reading the answers from another script before him.  To sum it up, the Steele interview was more like a scripted short video than an interview.

Sage Steele Says ESPN Bosses Made Her Follow 'Every Word' Of Carefully Planned Q&A With Biden.  Former ESPN anchor Sage Steele opened up about an interview she conducted with President Joe Biden while working for the network in 2021, telling Fox News that her bosses made sure she would follow "every word" of the script during her exchange with the commander-in-chief.  Steele, who left ESPN after criticizing its COVID vaccine mandate, said her headline-making interview with Biden in March 2021 was carefully planned out by the network's executives, and she was told "not to deviate" from the written questions.  The interview focused on sports returning to normalcy following months of COVID lockdowns, along with athletes and fans being hesitant to get the COVID shot, Fox News reported.  Biden repeatedly admonished Americans to "follow the science" and get vaccinated during the interview.  "That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured," Steele said.  "And I was told, 'You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script and go.'"

Dems, Media Push New Study Linking Climate Change to Inflation, But Economists Aren't Buying It.  Liberals are touting a new study linking climate change and inflation, but economists say that the real causes are more likely to be massive government interventions in the economy purporting to save the climate.  The study, authored by four European researchers and published in the scientific journal Communications:  Earth and Environment on March 21, argues that "temperature increases cause nonlinear, persistent increases in food and headline inflation," according to its text.  While corporate media outlets, climate activists and Democrats have boosted the study's findings, the forces related to climate change that are likely to drive persistent inflation are massive government taxation, spending and regulation pushed by policymakers to fight climate change, according to economists who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Jon Stewart Falsely Claims Loans to Trump Meant Fewer Loans To Other People.  Claim:  Comedian Jon Stewart said this week that the loans at the center of the civil real-estate case against Donald Trump meant there were fewer loans available to other borrowers.  "Money isn't infinite.  A loan that goes to the liar doesn't go to someone who's giving a more honest evaluation.  So the system becomes incentivized for corruption," Stewart said.  Verdict:  False.  The amount of money available for loans from banks is not diminished when banks make loans to other customers, except in the rare case of a distressed bank that is capital-constrained.  A loan to one customer does not subtract from a fixed pool of loans available to the other customers of the bank.  Stewart's comments reflect a misconception of a bank as a kind of money vault where taking some money out to lend leaves less money out for other loans.

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Joe Biden seems to think the money supply is infinite.  Just look at the federal deficit.  Does the national debt keep him from spending more money?  Both Mr. Biden and Mr. Stewart would benefit from economics classes.

Gaza:  Truths Behind All the Lies.  [Lie #1]  "Occupied Gaza."  Prior to October 7, there were roughly two million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in Gaza.  Gazans in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them.  It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals.  Hamas cancelled all future scheduled elections.  It established a dictatorship and diverted hundreds of billions of dollars in international aid to build a vast underground labyrinth of military installations.  [Lie #2]  "Collateral Damage."  Hamas began the war by deliberately targeting civilians.  It massacred them on October 7 when it invaded Israel during a time of peace and holidays.  It sent more than 7,000 rockets into Israeli cities for the sole purpose of killing noncombatants.  It has no vocabulary for the collateral damage of Israeli civilians, since it believes any Jewish death under any circumstances is cause for celebration.  Hamas places its terrorist centers beneath and inside hospitals, schools, and mosques.  Why?  Israel is assumed to have more reservations about collaterally hitting Gaza civilians than Hamas does exposing them as human shields.

Jon Stewart found to have overvalued his NYC home by 829% after labeling Trump's civil case 'not victimless'.  Jon Stewart is facing online backlash after the comedian opined on air this week that Donald Trump's civil real estate case for overvaluing his properties was "not victimless" — when it turns out the price of a previous home sale finds Stewart doing the exact same thing, The [New York] Post has learned.  On Monday night, Stewart, 61, unpacked Trump's $454 million appeal bond, calling out experts framing the former president's New York civil case as not causing direct harm to any individual.  "The Daily Show" host rolled a clip of CNN's Laura Coates interviewing "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary, who commented that the ruling didn't "go over well" with the real estate industry that was now fretting over the possibility of becoming the next target.

BBC Meteorologist Falsely Claims South Sudan is Experiencing "Extreme Heat" for March.  South Sudan is experiencing "extreme heatwaves" and is shutting schools and cutting power, reports BBC meteorologist Matt Taylor.  "It is exceptionally early for South Sudan to experience such heat — temperatures often exceed 43°C but only in the summer months, according to the World Bank's Climate Change portal," he states.  Hot days in the capital Juba — five degrees north of the equator — are for some a big 'climate change' story, but it is difficult to read into the World Bank data the interpretation that Taylor wants to publicise.  In fact it is impossible, since the data clearly show that average South Sudan temperatures peak in March and then fall away through the wet monsoon 'summer' months.

Tony Bobulinski's Lawyer Threatens Lawsuit Against Fox News' Jessica Tarlov for Dishonest Accusation.  Tony Bobulinski's testimony before Congress is upsetting all the right people.  As a former associate of Hunter Biden, he has been spilling the tea about the Biden family's business dealings, which isn't sitting well with folks on the left.  They responded to his involvement with House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden by doing their level best to smear and discredit the witness.  However, Bobulinski has been fighting back.  Jessica Tarlov, a left-leaning co-host on Fox News' "The Five," stepped in it on Wednesday when she claimed, without evidence, that Bobulinski was being funded by Super PAC aligned with former President Donald Trump during a recent broadcast.

Liberal FOX News Host Jessica Tarlov Forced to Issue On-Air Correction About Tony Bobulinski.  Jessica Tarlov, one of the rotating liberal hosts of The Five on FOX News, was forced to issue an on-air correction about former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski on Thursday.  On Wednesday, Tarlov made some comments about who is paying Bobulinki's legal fees.  His lawyer was quick to react and apparently threatened a lawsuit.

Larry Summers:  Inflation [is] Much Worse Than [the] Government Says.  Lawrence Summers, Treasury Secretary under Clinton and economic advisor to Obama, is likely getting himself into trouble once again with the Left.  While president of Harvard, he blurted out the obvious fact that men and women may be different, leading to a vote of no confidence by the faculty of Harvard, and since Biden's election he has been critical of the president's economic policies, warning that they were harming the economy.  Well, he's done it again, this time in an economic paper that provides the explanation for what the Left calls the "vibesession" — the persistent belief by Americans that the economy is much worse than the official statistics indicate.  [Tweet]

Trump talks 'bloodbath' in auto industry if cheap Chinese EVs flood the market — Dems pretend he called for violence.  The media and other Democrats know that Joe Biden and his policies are unpopular, so for the last eight years, they've sought to destroy Donald Trump, no matter how much they have to intentionally lie and mislead the public, and this latest iteration is beyond absurd.  While speaking at a recent campaign rally, Trump said there would be a "bloodbath" in the auto industry if China flooded the American market with cheap electric vehicles flowing through Mexico — but instead of showing the full quote, much of the media, along with Biden campaign workers and Democrats like Pelosi, decided that with polls as bad as they are, they should intentionally mislead the public that Trump had called for violence if he doesn't win in November.

Regime Media:  ABC World News Tonight Advances The Bloodbath Hoax.  Despite clear, documented context to the contrary, ABC continues to push the discredited piece of Biden campaign propaganda known as the Bloodbath Hoax, and ties it to the Capitol Riot.  Additionally, ABC promoted a 2024 version of an immigration narrative that was trotted out both in 2015 and 2019.  Watch as ABC's Chief Biden Apple Polisher Mary Bruce broadcasts campaign disinformation from behind the anchor desk, framing correspondent Maryalice Parks' video package:  [Video clip]  As I said during my recap of the Sunday shows, to accept the idea that people who are the elite in the industry of communicating with words are suddenly unable to comprehend plain English requires multiple significant suspensions of disbelief.  That's not to say that some of these elites are not intellectually deficient.  But not to this extent.  Which leaves willful deception as the only likely reason why reporters, correspondents and anchors would, in near unanimity continue to promote Trump's assessment of damage to the American automotive industry under a second Biden term as both a violent threat and a January 6th-adjacent attack against democracy.

President Trump Warns of a Looming Bloodbath in the Auto Industry Related to Chinese EV Plants in Mexico - Media Go Bananas.  Having previously written about the issue of three major Chinese EV makers putting massive investment into production facilities, the remarks by President Trump in Ohio warning of a "bloodbath" in the auto industry are exactly accurate.  According to media, last December the three Chinese auto manufacturers, MG, BYD, and Chery, announced they were going to spend billions building new EV manufacturing plants in Mexico.  Each Chinese auto manufacturer was going to spend between $1.5 to $2.0 billion.  The Chinese don't make that much of an investment in something unless they are sure the U.S. government is going to force the EV market to exist.  These manufacturing plants would crush the U.S[.] EV market.  Drawing attention to the issue, President Trump said he can stop the pending crisis.  However, if he did not win the election the American auto industry would end up with a "bloodbath" of closed plants, lost jobs and diminished labor union workforce.  Trump is not wrong.  [Video clip]

Media Bloodbath:  Elon Musk Is Now More Trustworthy Than Every Major News Outlet.  Shortly after Donald Trump made remarks at a rally in Ohio, Joe Scarborough posted on X: "Donald Trump's America.  And he is proud of it.  Promised another 'bloodbath' if he loses again."  The picture was from the Jan. 6 riot.  Soon after, however, Scarborough deleted the post.  We can't say for certain why, except that he hit the delete button shortly after Elon Musk responded to "Morning Joe" with this comment:  [Tweet]  At least Scarborough had the good sense to take back his inflammatory and wildly out-of-context portrayal of what Trump had said.  The same can't be said for almost every other major news outlet, which ran blood-curdling headlines about Trump's supposed call to violence if he loses.

This could be the devastating proof that Hamas is faking its death figures.  One of the marks of anti-Semitism, George Orwell observed in 1945, is "an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true".  Which brings us smartly to Hamas and how the broadcast media, aid organisations, international bodies and world leaders take its disinformation as gospel.  Last week it became clear that this gullibility may have led to a crime against reality.  A new analysis of the group's casualty statistics indicates that the rag-tag terror army may have pulled off one of the biggest propaganda coups of modern times.  The figures, repeated by everyone from the White House to the BBC, are freighted with familiarity: 30,000 dead in Gaza, 70 percent of whom are women and children.  Yet it now seems overwhelmingly likely that these statistics are fabricated.  Professor Abraham Wyner, a data scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, has conducted a thorough analysis.  He found that Hamas's official civilian death toll was statistically impossible.

Reporter Leaves Out Key Facts in Hit Piece on Libs of TikTok.  Vice News published a story last fall asserting that Libs of TikTok, the popular social media account run by Chaya Raichik, was responsible for a rise in school bomb threats.  The reporter, Tess Owen, wrote that "bomb threats targeting schools or school districts following Libs of TikTok posts appears to be a particularly ominous escalation."  She then cited a "disturbing pattern" from 11 school districts.  Newly obtained emails, released Thursday by Raichik, suggest that Owen wasn't completely truthful in her reporting.  In a post on X, Libs of TikTok claimed Vice News and Owen "knowingly withheld critical information about me because it didn't fit their narrative."  [Tweet]

Entire staff at Deadspin fired months after they smeared 9-year-old Chiefs fan as a racist.  Just five months after Deadspin tried to smear a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan as a racist, all of the sports media outlet's employees have been fired as a part of a buyout.  Employees received an email announcing the sale, and some were told at a meeting before their access to the company's digital resources was cut off.  "Recently we were approached by the European firm Lineup Publishing expressing interest in purchasing Deadspin to add to their growing media holdings," the email read in part. [...] Deadspin was excoriated by many after it tried to misrepresent the costume worn by a young fan of the Kansas City Chiefs as "blackface."  Critics immediately slammed the outlet by pointing out that they had used a misleading photo only showing one side of the child's face and not the other, which was colored in red.  In February, the family of the boy named Holden Armenta filed a defamation lawsuit against Deadspin.  The Armenta family said they have received "a barrage of hate, including death threats" as a result of the article.

Trump's Promise — Retribution or Revenge?  [Scroll down]  The New York Times, with a long history of publishing falsehoods about Donald Trump, has already labeled Trump's potential second term, "The Retribution Presidency."  There is a smell of panic rising from midtown Manhattan and from the Beltway.  Is this revenge or retribution?  Is there a distinction? [...] Here is a summary of the two terms.  Words do matter.
  •   Retribution is a form of punishment imposed by law and legally authorized.
  •   Revenge, in contrast, is a form of personal punishment, one not sanctioned by law.
  •   The ultimate goal of Retribution is to punish the wrongdoer or offender and ensure that justice is served to the victim and public as a whole.
  •   Revenge, however, is a form of payback, to ensure that personal justice is served.  Thus, the goal of Revenge is vengeance or getting even.
  •   Retribution is only carried out for crimes and wrongs recognized in the law.  It is not personal and not fueled by a desire to persistently seek the suffering of the wrongdoer.  Instead, it imposes a punishment that is proportionate to the gravity of the crime or wrong.  Furthermore, it is governed by procedural rules and codes of conduct.
  •   In contrast, Revenge can be carried out for various wrongs, injuries, suffering and any other action considered harmful or hurtful.  There is no limit to the type of punishment imposed and the severity of such punishment.  As mentioned before, Revenge is personal and driven by a strong emotional desire to see the suffering of the person who committed the wrong or injury.
Which of these two words describe what the deep state ruling class has done to Trump versus what he will hopefully do if reelected president?

Our Constitutional Republic Has Gone Crazy But There's Nowhere To Hide.  [Laken] Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered in Georgia for jogging alone (as the Associated Press insinuated) or by an "Athens Man" (according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) — anything other than the realities of her alleged murderer Jose Antonio "Athens Man" Ibarra being an illegal migrant from Venezuela, arrested and released once already since his arrival in September 2022.

The MSM Is Corrupt Beyond Repair.  It's not news that the MSM is obsessed with pushing a narrative and that the narrative is grotesquely slanted to the left.  That's why Americans' trust in media is at record lows.  The decline has been rapid, and there is zero chance it will reverse any time soon.  Pretty much the only people who express any trust in the sewage that the MSM pumps out are people who love to swim in it:  Leftists.  But that doesn't mean that the propaganda mills that our media have become don't accomplish the task to which they have been set.  As much as people know that what they have been sold is [worthless], it's still the only news that most people ever get.  By sheer force of repetition, people wind up believing much of what they are told, even though they know it is slanted.  Millions of Americans believe in the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax and a whole host of other lies.  As long as the media selectively edits clips, loudly and often repeats lies, and pushes for the censorship and "fact-checking" of alternative media, lies often become conventional wisdom.

NYT Editor Blames Swing Voters Who 'Don't Know Or Remember' Trump.  New York Times headline, Feb. 20: "A Big Opportunity to Define Trump as Unacceptable."  The short item by Times Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy follows up on an unintentionally hilarious focus group session the paper conducted last week, wherein 11 out of 13 voters who supported Joe Biden in 2020 say they now support Trump.  Among the switching voters was a man who said he would support Trump even though he believed him to have committed "sexual abuse" and two others who said criminal convictions in any of the charges against him would not change their minds.

Gaslighting: To Help Reelect Biden, Media Claim Trump Is Going Senile, Too.  It's quite timely that after writing on article yesterday on media bias, the following headline popped up on my MSN homepage:  "Donald Trump's cognitive decline worse than Joe Biden's due to 2 signs, professor says."  Notice what's assumed (and what's assumed is learned best) in the above headline:  We're to take it as a given that Trump is declining cognitively.  The only question is the severity.  Of course, the message here essentially IS, "Yeah, our guy Biden is senile.  But the other guy is even more senile!  Vote Incumbent Dementia!"  And that, citizens, is what you call gaslighting.  Joe Biden's cognitive decline is obvious and severe.

USA Today can't stop promoting the global warming fallacies.  [Scroll down]  Every one of these articles starts with the intentional lie that people who disagree with the radical green agenda are climate change deniers.  I have never seen anyone deny that the climate changes.  We tell the truth that the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally.  What we deny is that humans and our use of natural resources cause global warming and that warming causes the ice to melt in the Arctic and that melting will cause a massive rise in sea levels.  They also tell us that the warming causes more severe and deadly storms.  We also don't believe that politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, or anyone else can establish policies that control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity forever.  We also don't believe the computer model predictions because previous dire predictions have not come true.

Met Office Says it Cannot Back Up its Senior Meteorologist's Claim on BBC Radio That Storms in the U.K. are "More Intense" Due to Climate Change.  The Met Office has been unable to back up a claim that storms in the U.K. are "more intense" due to the effects of climate change.  The claim was made by senior Met Office meteorologist Claire Nasir on January 22nd on BBC 5 Live Breakfast in the aftermath of Storm Isha, and led to a freedom of information request for an explanation by investigative journalist Paul Homewood.  The Met Office has replied that it is unable to answer the request due to the fact that the information "is not held".

Respect for Authorities 'Died Suddenly'.  Given the U.S. government's love affair with censorship and propaganda, I sometimes imagine future historians piecing through the shards of Western civilization in order to understand the reasons for its collapse.  According to the prevailing "narrative," everything right now is tremendously great!  We are told that the economy is strong, that crime is under control, that our borders are secure, that paying twenty bucks for a fast-food hamburger is cheap, and that endless war produces endless peace.  According to the news media, Americans have never had it so good!

Is the Electoral Fix Already In?  The fix is in.  To "protect democracy," democracy is already being canceled.  We just haven't admitted the implications of this to ourselves yet.  On Sunday, January 14th, NBC News ran an eye-catching story:  "Fears grow that Trump will use the military in 'dictatorial ways' if he returns to the White House."  It described "a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers" that is "quietly" making plans to "foil any efforts to expand presidential power" on the part of Donald Trump.  The piece quoted an array of former high-ranking officials, all insisting Trump will misuse the Department of Defense to execute civilian political aims.  Since Joe Biden's team "leaked" a strategy memo in late December listing "Trump is an existential threat to democracy" as Campaign 2024's central talking point, surrogates have worked overtime to insert existential or democracy in quotes.

Reporter Gets Torn to Shreds for Claiming 'Learn to Code' Was Never a Thing.  It's one of those cases where you know they're wrong.  You could probably ignore them, but it's the liberal media, so you attack at them like a pod of orcas.  Better yet, like orcas, play with your prey before mutilating and devouring it.  That's what's happening with some in the establishment media trying to say that "learn to code" was never a thing and that Joe Biden never said it.  Like their allies in the Democratic Party and now the Department of Justice, these people just lie.  It's a phrase created by this insular circle aimed at working Americans whose jobs were being unnecessarily targeted by Democrats, specifically Barack Obama, who declared war on coal during his presidency.  The PR pitch for destroying the livelihoods of these Americans was that job retraining would be part of their transitioning process into what Democrats feel should be our energy future.  Even labor unions know those two words are snake oil, being sold to them when NAFTA was passed to ease the growing concerns about that trade agreement.

You're Going To Get Dirty.  The trouble I find with conservatives in general and America First people is their demand that everything be pure and sparkling with virtue.  This tendency is what allowed the feds and Democrats to manipulate the January 6th protest into a riot and subsequently into an insurrection.  The immediate response to the horrible events described on that date by a well-known corrupt media should have been:  No, it isn't a riot, it isn't an insurrection, it's a peaceful demonstration.  I noticed on the very day of the event, listening on the radio (probably a federal charge under this DOJ) that the reporting went from:  "It's amazing how many people came out to support Donald Trump and protest the obviously crooked 2020 election" to "It's shameful for these protesters to violate the sanctified halls of congress" in fifteen minutes, by the same broadcaster.  That's a lack of situational awareness and a desire for liberal acceptance.

Another Bogus Border Story Goes Viral and Most Outlets Aren't in a Hurry to Issue Corrections.  The left wing response to the border crisis can be summarized as a series of misleading viral stories designed to vilify anyone who believes border control is a basic operation for a nation.  It started under Trump with the panic over "kids in cages." [...] Then there was the AOC-led campaign to re-label Border Patrol facilities "concentration camps" [...] And lets not forget the viral claim that Border Patrol agents on horeseback were whipping Hatian migrants.  This was such a big deal that President Biden promised the people who did it would pay.  [Tweet]  Once again, it never happened.  Even the photographer said so.  Sec. Mayorkas knew it hadn't happened even before he went to the White House and claimed it had. [...] Given how often the media has jumped on these stories only to have them fall out from under them, you'd think they might learn to be more careful.  But it seems that's never the case.  Two days ago another story went viral.

2023 "Earth's Hottest Year on Record" Claims Fail.  The year-end 2023 global average temperature anomaly measurement data outcomes have climate alarmist media falsely claiming these results established that "2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record" since records began in the mid-1800s.  These "hottest year on record" claims are based on misrepresenting the year 2023 obscure "global average temperature anomaly" outcome that is not applicable to any specific location or region on earth. [...] NOAA's global regional temperature anomaly data establishes that the assertion of year 2023 being the "highest ever measured average temperature anomaly" claim did not occur across the globally dominant regional land areas that include Asia, Europe, U.S., Oceania, Hawaiian Region, Arctic and the Antarctic.

ESPN [has been] forced to return 37 ill-gotten Emmy awards.  ESPN has been ordered to return 37 Emmy awards the sports network received under false pretenses.  For 13 years, ESPN committed "fraud" by submitting fake names to the credit list for the Emmys, according to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).  "Since at least 2010 ... ESPN took the awards won by some of those imaginary individuals, had them re-engraved, and gave them to on-air personalities," The Athletic reported on Thursday.  ESPN gave some of the re-engraved trophies to front-facing figures on "College GameDay," such as Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Chris Fowler, Desmond Howard, and Sam Ponder.  The report claims the on-air personalities were not aware of the scheme as ESPN higher ups convinced them they had won the awards containing their names.  Eventually, NATAS ordered ESPN to return the ill-gotten Emmys, each of which was intended for a behind-the-scenes employee who does not exist.

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Obviously, NATAS is Satan spelled backwards.  Just a coincidence, right?

More Lunatic Legal Coverage.  Reporters keep plunging to bizarre new lows in coverage of Donald Trump.  The new jam: his lawyer argued presidents can assassinate rivals.  Except he didn't, at all.  [Paywall]

Taking a look at my hometown data I discover the very opposite of the 'global warming' narrative is true.  The following are actual pieces of scientific data related to Springfield, Illinois, where I live:  The warmest day recorded in January is 73 degrees Fahrenheit on January 23, 1909, so every day in January, for the last 115 years, has been colder; the warmest day ever in February is February 24, 1930, when temperatures hit 78 degrees; the warmest day in March was March 21, 1907, when the temperature hit 91 degrees.  The average high temperature in Springfield today is around 36 degrees, and this weekend we are supposed to have highs around 30 degrees below normal, with wind chills around 20 below zero.  So, after 160 years of exponential growth of all the things the green pushers say cause warming, we are thirty degrees below normal.  Temperatures have always fluctuated cyclically and naturally.  Humans have no control over them, and there is no correlation between CO2 content, crude oil use, number of vehicles, and temperatures.  Yet, here is an article from two days ago, full of worthless information and repeated talking points, all to push the radical green agenda to scare people into capitulation:  ["]Earth shattered global heat record in '23 and it's flirting with warming limit, European agency says["]

Five Things Every Patriot Should Be Furious About.  [#2] The news is lying:  How can you tell if your favorite news dude/dudette is trustworthy?  Here is a hint:  see how many of these Blue Anon conspiracy theories they pushed:
  •   Trump/Russia collusion
  •   Pee-pee gate
  •   Hunter's laptop is Russian flapdoodle
  •   Ivermectin is only for horses
  •   Masks, lockdowns, and the vaccine will save lives
  •   COVID-19 came from a bat salad
  •   Unarmed grannies tried to topple the government
  •   Biden got 81 million votes and didn't even campaign.
The lying liarheads in the news are your enemy.

Separating fact from fiction on 'climate change'.  Why is it easier to find lies in the media about "climate change" than truthful information?  Why is honest reporting on the environment an outlier instead of a rule?  Media parrots have said for decades that humans, and our use of natural resources are killing the planet, and that oceans, species, and forests are dying.  They report on future predictions, but rarely on scientific facts — so I thought I would fill the vacuum.  We have been told that we are responsible for irredeemable destruction in the Great Barrier Reef, but that is not true.  The reef is making a "comeback," yet we don't see that story because it doesn't push the radical green agenda; [...] It was thinning cyclically and naturally, and it has come back cyclically and naturally.  Humans didn't cause the thinning, and government policies didn't cause the comeback — or we would see the green pushers claiming victory.

Let's Stop Using the Words: 'Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election'.  After almost three years — and as Democrats in Colorado and Maine ban Donald Trump from the Centennial State's ballot — it is beyond time for the media to stop "reporting" that "Trump tried to overturn a presidential election" and to quit referring matter-of-factly: to "the election that Trump lost"; to "Trump's defeat" and his "baseless" "false claims"; and to "Trump is challenging the results" of "Biden's victory (in, say, Georgia)" and to "swing the election in his favor."  It is equally time for news organizations to stop "reporting" that the four (who's counting?) indictments are nothing more than valid or understandable (if ill-timed) reactions to punish Trump for his ("criminal") attempts to "disenfranchise voters" and thus "subvert democracy."  This is not a neutral, objective, and non-partisan view of of the facts of the 2020 election.  Far from it.  No.  It is the (self-serving) DNC version.  It is akin to asking "When did you stop beating your wife?"  Phrases like "baseless fraud claims," "sham election investigations," and "false claims of election fraud" come straight from the Democrat party.

Waking Up to the Age of Deception.  Each day in this "Age of Deception" constantly raises challenges in finding reliable information.  The 2024 election has already demonstrated that disinformation will be used regarding the economy, climate, immigration, voting, and woke thinking.  The legal attacks against former president Donald Trump are a example of vicious deception.  Another example where truth has become a minor consideration is the Israel/Gaza conflict.  We are shown scores of contradictory reports, each of them appealing to our most primitive emotions.  Fake news identification has expanded due to the growth of digital communication and social media.  In the field of journalism, information is power.  It doesn't matter whether it is true or not, only that it is persuasive.  Individuals now have a wider range of news sources, which disseminate biased perspectives.  The echo chamber effect gives self-proclaimed attention seekers the power to spread their deceptive message.

Democrats and Media Deceptively Change Trump's Word 'Retribution' to 'Revenge'.  The latest misinformation that the Democrat "news"-media colluders (hereafter the DNC) to smear Donald Trump before the 2024 election is that Trump called for "revenge" for his political opponents if wins re-election in 2024.  Brett Samuels in The Hill says that "Trump signals he's out for revenge in his second term."  The Daily Mail and the left-wing The Guardian, both in the U.K., makes the same accusation.  Politico states that in a second term, Trump will be seeking revenge.  Felon Michael Cohen, now a regular useful expert guest on CNN, stated to Jake Tapper that he could be the target of Trump's revenge, to which Jake replied, "That has occurred to me too" (thereby admitting that his view of Trump is tainted by self-interest).  The Washington Post, which used to be a newspaper, reports that Trump and his allies plot revenge" in his second term.  The Huffington Post announces that Trump "vows vengeance" against "vermin" in his second term.  CNN states ominously that in his second term Trump will use his justice department "for revenge."

Tesla 'Recall' Is Nothing of the Sort.  If you have any doubt that the MSM and online influencers have it out for Elon Musk, all you need to do is search Google for the fake news about a Tesla "recall."  The news is everwhere.  Tesla must "recall" almost every vehicle they ever sold, proving that the product is defective and that Elon Musk is a total fraud or something.  It is, of course, total bunkum.  That is not even remotely true. [...] I admire that Musk built a new car company out of almost nothing and made it successful.  That's a tough task, and the argument that he did it on the backs of American taxpayers is a bit rich, given how big the subsidies the feds have tossed at other American carmakers.  But as for the cars or the company?  Other than wishing I had invested in the company years ago since I could have easily retired by now if I had done so, I have no special affinity.  With that said I have to laugh at the claim that the feds are issuing a recall on all Teslas, as if owners were being forced to bring their cars into the shop to get some work done.

Reporter Kiera Butler is a Disinfo Dupe.  Kiera Butler is a journalist on a crusade to "save the world" from Donald Trump, "Russian disinformation," and those dangerous "anti-vaxxers."  However the real danger is within the mix of truth, lies, and spin that Butler combines in her reporting at Mother Jones.  Rather than having certain fields in which she seems to excel, Butler's reporting tends to take a confrontational tone in claiming the latest mainstream "current thing" topic is unquestionably correct and anyone questioning it is stupid or has bad intentions.  This type of slippery journalism that seems more concerned with taking sides than the truth is dishonest but also brings us face-to-face with the loss of values such as free speech and civil liberties.

Telemundo Omitted That Killer of Texas Cheerleader Is Here Illegally.  One of the most egregious form of business-interest bias in Spanish-language media occurs when it is deemed necessary to conceal the immigration status of the suspect of a heinous crime.  Such is the case with Telemundo blatantly omitting that the recently-arrested killer of a 16-year-old Texas cheerleader was in the country illegally.  [Video clip]

Reporter claimed Gaza couldn't use cell phones, spokesman proves her wrong.  Major Doron Spielman from the IDF spoke to Sky News about the resumption of fighting against Hamas in Gaza. [...] On the question of Gazan residents being notified of IDF targets while not having power to power up their mobile phones or Wi-Fi, Major Spielman responded, "I think that you and all of your viewers saw our hostages being paraded through the streets as they were released to Israel over those seven nights.  Hundreds of Gazans were holding their phones and videoing them, so clearly, there's enough power to power their phones when they're parading our hostages throughout Gaza.  Now that same power to their phones will be used to get the maps downloaded and look at the flyers [giving them information on IDF attacks]."

Sports Illustrated Published AI-Generated Articles Under Fake Names.  Sports Illustrated was once the benchmark for sports content but today the site has been accused of publishing AI-generated content under the names of authors who are also AI-generated.  Case in point, Drew Ortiz who had a photo and an author biography on the site.  ["]Outside of Sports Illustrated, Drew Ortiz doesn't seem to exist.  He has no social media presence and no publishing history.  And even more strangely, his profile photo on Sports Illustrated is for sale on a website that sells AI-generated headshots, [...]["]

More Media Malpractice.  One of the major reasons why Americans are divided and hostile toward each other is that we live in alternate universes.  Not literally, but functionally.  We have all seen the polls that show Americans have been losing trust in the MSM for a long time.  Only 36% of Americans say they have a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in the MSM, but this fact hides an important distinction: the majority of Democrats trust the MSM, while Republicans have given up on getting anything remotely close to the truth from the MSM.  Republicans have earned their distrust not just because they are often lied about and can't help but notice this fact, but also because they are literally unable to avoid getting the majority of their news from MSM news sources, while consciously exposing themselves to alternative points of view.  Democrats rarely do.  They automatically distrust alternative or conservative media and tend to trust without question what they hear from the MSM. This is not because they are universally stupid or uninterested in the news, but because they are inclined to trust the "misinformation" narrative.

Do we even know what we're dealing with?  If you lived in a cave and the only thing you could view was cable news, what would you see?  That's easy:  Donald Trump, Climate Change, and so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion issues.  There is no fourth place.  These three subjects reliably suck up virtually all the oxygen.  They also serve to misdirect, miseducate, and mis-prioritize our country against the genuine perils aligning against us.  This isn't surprising.  With few exceptions, America's journalists graduated from many of those same radical hotbeds of anti-Americanism that are now, for the first time, showing their true colors.  Students, graduates, and faculty will need a generation or more to grasp the truth if they ever do.

Sidney Powell Didn't Flip on Trump or MAGA.  It is alarming (although not surprising) to see the misinformation in headlines, new articles, and on social media about Sidney Powell's plea in Georgia last week.  Even good Republicans and MAGA supporters seem confused and misinformed about the facts of her plea, many believing she has disavowed her position on the 2020 election and betrayed her supporters or that she has "flipped" on Trump.  First, let's be very clear that Sidney did not plead guilty to a conspiracy with Donald Trump to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election. [...] Claims she flipped on Donald Trump are outlandish and without basis.  We say that someone has flipped when a defendant agrees to testify/incriminate someone else in exchange for a lighter charge or suggested lighter sentence.  But Sidney's plea agreement is for conduct unrelated to Donald Trump and only tenuously related to even Sidney herself.  Simply put:  Sidney agreed to take the rap for the disputed access to Fulton County machines.  Second, keep in mind that Sidney's plea is different from the other pleas.  The media has been reporting on each plea as if each co-defendant is caving and pleading to the same serious charges — admitting the fight for election integrity was a fraud and there was a conspiracy with Trump.  This is not true.

Media Erase Killing Of Jewish Man Like They Erased The Violence Of 2020's Race Riots.  Corporate media banded together on Tuesday to cover for Hamas apologists after a 69-year-old Jewish man was killed due to injuries he sustained at an anti-Israel demonstration in California over the weekend.  Videos show emergency responders in Thousand Oaks, California loading Paul Kessler, who reportedly carried an Israeli flag at the protest, into an ambulance while the anti-Israel crowd chanted and waved Palestinian flags near a pool of his blood on the ground.  At least one police officer was seen trying to discourage a man yelling in a megaphone from disturbing the scene.  [Tweet]  The pro-Palestine demonstrator who allegedly interacted with Kessler has not been publicly identified or arrested but Sheriff James Fryhoff did confirm during a press conference on Tuesday that the 50-year-old's house is being searched.  "These witnesses provided conflicting statements about what the altercation and who the aggressor was," Sheriff James Fryhoff said.  The Ventura County Sheriff's Office, which might investigate the incident as a hate crime, said witness accounts suggest that "Kessler fell backwards and struck his head on the ground."

World 'Recoiling in Horror' at IDF; Nets Smear Israel Not Being in 'Mood to Compromise'.  Between Sunday and Monday, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning and evening newscasts to start a new week of anti-Israel smears and siding with Hamas terrorists as Tuesday marks one month since the latter's animalistic barbarism murdered at least 1,400 innocents and resulted in over 200 hostages.  This time, the networks argued the world's "recoiling in horror" at Israel's 'search and destroy mission" that's "shattering...lives" in Gaza and Israel remaining still "not" being in a "mood to compromise" with Hamas.

The Corrupt Media Tried to Implicate Me in a Mass Shooting Because a Psychopath 'Liked My Tweets'.  According to reporters, producers and editors at major news organizations, my Twitter, which is full of my disapproval of leftists and their policies — somehow contributed to the deaths and injuries of innocent people in Lewiston, Maine.  Those same people would have you then believe that had other conservative commentators and I only not run our mouths, none of his actions would have occurred. [...] Caving or even becoming complacent to the constant attacks and spin from the left will never get us out of the situation we're in.  In the middle of record inflation that includes fuel and grocery prices that are in our faces every single day — it's important to know that we are in an information war with the very people who have traditionally been the providers of information.  And while they're the first to scream "disinformation" at stories they disagree with — they're also the ones who are first to serve us disinformation.

We Must Learn to Ignore the Colin Kaepernick Media Narrative.  The news cycle has been full of stories about Colin Kaepernick and the latest speculation of his signing with another football team.  These stories are similar to those that have circulated for the past seven years.  To recap, Colin Kaepernick played quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers until he was benched and released in 2016. He's also known for his protests against the police by kneeling during the National Anthem.  Nothing else has happened for seven years.  Nothing.  The story has not really been about Colin Kaepernick at all.  The story has been (and is) about how the establishment media creates news out of nothing, and keeps the narrative on life support long after the patient has died.  Since 2016, while nothing was happening, we have been bombarded with "news" stories anticipating yet another milestone in Kaepernick's career.  From reading seven years of headlines, a reader would conclude that Kaepernick has actually played football for various teams during that time.  An October story announced "NFL world reacts as Colin Kaepernick makes major move."  But, if one reads the actual story, one would see that there was no "major" anything behind the headline.  The headlines that pop up on our mainstream news (MSN) home pages are designed to plant a seed in the minds of people too busy to click and read the actual story.

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That's why you shoud be able to spot a click-bait headline and ignore it.

22 Years of Blowback from the USA Patriot Act.  [Scroll down]  News cycle distractions are calibrated to ensure that you lose sight of what the government is doing.  The average American has a hard time keeping up with and remembering all of the "events," manufactured or otherwise, which occur like clockwork and keep us distracted, deluded, amused, and insulated from the reality of the American police state.  Whether these events are critical or unimportant, when we're being bombarded with wall-to-wall news coverage and news cycles that change every few days, it's difficult to stay focused on one thing — namely, holding the government accountable to abiding by the rule of law — and the powers-that-be understand this.  In this way, regularly scheduled trivia and/or distractions that keep the citizenry tuned into the various breaking news headlines and entertainment spectacles also keep them tuned out to the government's steady encroachments on their freedoms.

Here's Why The Media's Lies About Rep. Jamaal Bowman Should Concern You.  During a series of contentious spending votes on Saturday ahead of a looming government shutdown, while House Democrats were trying to slow-walk a vote, Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in a House office building on Capitol Hill, forcing an evacuation.  Bowman's stunt, which is under investigation by Capitol Police, was caught on a security camera.  It's clear he pulled the fire alarm as a delaying tactic, precisely to force the evacuation of the building and disrupt official congressional business (the kind of thing the media would call an "insurrection" if a Republican had done it.) [...] But here's the important thing:  Bowman's claim is that he thought pulling the fire alarm would open the door.  That sounds like an outlandish lie, doesn't it?  The sort of patently false thing no one in his right mind would ever believe or even try to explain.  Just a bone-crushingly idiotic fiction that requires us to believe Bowman is mentally ill or psychotic.  Every single person in Washington knows it's not true.  And yet, every single Democrat and the entire corporate news media immediately responded as if it were a reasonable and acceptable explanation for Bowman's actions, like of course he didn't know what would happen when he pulled the alarm.  He thought it would open the door, OK?  How many of us have encountered a locked door and immediately pulled the nearest fire alarm?

Please Stop Telling Us Everything Is Fine With the Economy.  Two weeks ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman told CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour there is a peculiar disconnect between how the economy is doing and how the public is feeling about it. [...] People think the economy is bad because they are paying, at least here in western Pennsylvania, $3.99 a gallon for gas, and in places such as Arizona, where the state now ranks seventh among the nation's highest-paying markets at $4.69; last week alone it climbed 14 cents a gallon.  In Nevada, it jumped a whopping 33 cents a gallon, with California coming in at a 29-cents-a-gallon jump.  When gas prices rise, food prices rise.

Bring back the chaos then.  Less than a month after President Trump's inauguration, Time magazine rolled out the Democrat-RINO message of a chaotic White House.  Its proof was as thin as the hair atop John Fetterman's head.  Time reported, "Federal judges in four courts froze a hastily issued Executive Order barring certain immigrants from entering the country.  Intelligence officials leaked descriptions of classified intercepts in a winning attempt to force Trump to fire his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who had misled the nation about his ties with a Russian diplomat.  Then more leaks came, from current and former officials to the New York Times, asserting that Trump campaign aides and senior Russian intelligence officials had been in contact during the 2016 presidential campaign. [...]"  That was not chaos.  That was sabotage by the deep state and its seditious resistance.  The leaks were illegal and impossible to fact-check.  But reporters claim they need access and so they go with leaky stories regardless of how true they may be because they need access to even juicier stories that may or may not be true.

Univision Host Amplifies Florida Curriculum Hoax In Fox News GOP Debate.  The Univision co-host of the Fox News Republican presidential debate reinforced false leftist narratives Wednesday night when pressing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on his state's K-12 curriculum.  Univision's Ilia Calderon implied DeSantis promoted educational standards that suggested slavery benefitted the victims.  The question emanates from claims Vice President Kamala Harris fabricated this summer.  "Florida's new Black History curriculum says 'slaves developed skills that in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit,'" Calderon said, ignoring that the left-wing College Board has apparently made nearly identical statements.  "You have said, 'Slaves developed skills in spite of slavery, not because of it.'  But many are still hurt.  For descendants of slaves, this is personal.  What is your message to them?"  The Florida governor attacked the question as a "hoax" engineered by the vice president to smear Republicans as racist.

The Editor says...
Dishonest left-wing talking heads on TV often make little speeches and inject socialist talking points while pretending to ask a question.

Whose idea was it to invite Ilia Calderón?  How many Republicans watch Univision?  How many Univision viewers become Republicans?
Second GOP Debate Marred By Univision Moderator's Anti-American HATE and LIES.  The second GOP presidential primary debate Wednesday night was a case study in why the Republican Party shouldn't award debate moderation privileges to hostile and dishonest members of the liberal media.  While Fox Business Network occupied two of the moderator positions (Stuart Varney and Dana Perino), the third was given to Univision anchor Ilia Calderón.  Her questions were by far the most anti-American and dishonest; ranging from lies about gun violence being "unique" to America to blaming America for the drug trafficking at the southern border, and more.  In a question directed to North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, Calderón peddled the liberal media's BIG LIE about gun violence:  "Mental health concerns are not unique to United States.  But gun violence is."  Back here in reality, Central American and South American countries were some of the most dangerous countries in the world.  Their violence was often cited as a primary driver of illegal immigration to the U.S. According to reporting from NPR, those countries have per capita violent gun death rates many times that of the U.S.

The ten commandments of liberalism.  Liberalism has been likened to a religious movement- a secular quest for heaven on earth.  Like legitimate religions, it has its own tenets.  Thou shalt seek social justice.  We're all in this together. [...] Thou shalt embrace diversity.  Diversity is our strength.  Not really.  Diverse forces flying off in their own direction weaken a society's locus.  Strength lies in overcoming diversity. [...] Liberal activism, especially since the advent of woke progressivism, has evolved into an atheistic, fundamentalist "religion."  Fundamentalism involves strict ideologic adherence, conformity, and maintenance of an in group-out group distinction.  At its core are ideological lay preachers who confer eternal damnation onto those heretics and apostates who challenge its self-appointed role of secular clergy.  Its apostles — media, academia, HR departments — are driven by self-righteous, prejudicial, vengeful hypocrisy.  Liberal dogma knows no compromise.  Nonconformists must be silenced, forcibly if necessary.

BBC 'Disinformation' Reporter Caught Lying on Her Resume.  The BBC's so-called "Disinformation Correspondent" Marianna Spring has added yet more controversy to the corrupt "fact-checking" industry as she was caught lying on her resume.  Spring is facing claims that she filled her resume with "disinformation" about her experience in order to advance her career.  According to a report from the Daily Mail, about five years ago Spring was trying to get work as a freelancer in Moscow for U.S.-based news site Coda Story.  When Spring applied to the website's Editor-in-Chief Natalia Antelava in 2018, she said she had worked alongside BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford.

Climate scientist:  Yes, I cooked my Nature article on global warming — and here's why.  Consider this lengthy essay an exposé of a kind of Unified Field Theory of Academia-Media Corruption.  It's not so much that Patrick T. Brown reveals any new angles, but at the Free Press, the climate scientist connects many of the dots — and from the inside, at least at the time. [...] Brown still stands behind that paper, although he has since left his job in Academia for a non-profit where he can speak and act more freely.  In the narrow confines of his paper, limited to only climate change, he writes that his paper remains accurate and useful.  But because the media and Academia establishments are now limiting all discussion of practically any natural phenomena to "climate change," much of the causes of wildfires remains undiscussed — and so, therefore, do any practical policies that would mitigate them.  That is no accident, Brown argues, and it is very well known in scientific circles: [...]

The public isn't being told the full truth about the climate threat.  Patrick Brown, the co-director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute in California, has blown the whistle on an open secret about climate science:  it's biased in favour of alarmism.  He published a paper in Nature magazine on the effect of climate change on wildfires.  In it he told the truth:  there was an effect.  But not the whole truth:  other factors play a big role in fires too.  On Maui, the failure of the electric utility to manage vegetation along power lines was a probable cause of the devastating recent fires, but climate change proved a convenient excuse.  Editors at journals such as Nature seem to prefer publishing simplistic, negative news and speculation about climate change.  "It is standard practice to calculate impacts for scary hypothetical future warming scenarios that strain credibility," wrote Brown.  So, after learning this lesson the hard way when his nuanced papers were rejected, he adapted his latest to suit their apparent prejudices — and it was published.

A Preview Of How The Dishonest Media Will Lie And Mislead About Trump's Show Trials.  As we wait for the political show trials of Donald Trump to begin, it's good to remember a hard and fast rule:  Quotes and summaries of events reported by the corporate media are always either half wrong or deliberately misleading.  A perfect example of that truism was provided this week by Axios' Mike Allen, who claimed Monday that Georgia Democrat prosecutor Fani Willis included an "Easter egg" in her I'm-a-very-serious-lawyer indictment.  Allen said that a specific portion of the documents had "a twist" that "could spoil" Trump's legal team's effort to have the entire case moved to federal court, a move that could possibly secure him a more favorable jury (as opposed to the pool of "marginalized, underserved and disadvantaged" voters he would surely get in Fulton County).  That "twist" is an open letter Trump sent to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in September 2021, which was after the former president was out of office, thus supposedly undercutting the Trump team's assertion that the criminal charges are purely federal in nature, rather than addressable at the county court level.  In that letter, the indictment notes, Trump solicited Raffensperger to "unlawfully" undo the 2020 election outcome "and announce the true winner."

Fox News and Martha MacCallum Caught Presenting Koch Brothers Activist as Fake GOP Voter in Wisconsin to Support Ron DeSantis.  By now we are all too familiar with the schemes and plots of the corporate media as they participate in the political illusion of choice game.  However, for Rupert Murdoch and Fox News debate moderator Martha MacCallum, this catch shreds the remaining little credibility they carried.  Fox News is hosting the GOP debate in Wisconsin.  During this build up segment, Martha MacCallum introduces the "random Republican voters" in Wisconsin who will watch the debate.  Except, well... there's a little problem.  MacCallum introduces Chris Lawrence as a "Wisconsin GOP voter" who seemingly supports Ron DeSantis.  However, MacCallum fails to mention that Chris Lawrence actually works for the Koch Network, who have recently pledged to spend $70 million to defeat President Trump.  Not only has Chris Lawrence worked for the Koch Network for the past 9 years, he is also the Senior Field Director for the Koch group Americans for Prosperity.  In essence, Lawrence is a political operative planted in the group by Fox News to support Ron DeSantis and make it appear like he is an innocuous voter.

A Reckoning on COVID Coverage.  [Scroll down]  In both the CDC and FDA examples, you didn't need to be a virologist or epidemiologist to expose the glaring weakness of their argument.  Yet no major conservative media did so at the time.  One Fox newscaster repeated the FDA's "You're not a horse" tweet, but he made no mention that IVM comes in human tablet form which the FDA has made hard to get.  Why not? [...] There occurred no critical analysis of an entire host of COVID issues, including lockdowns, medical establishment sabotage of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, vaccine side effects, issues with remdesivir, etc.  (A notable exception is the Epoch Times, which has offered extensive, scholarly and critical COVID coverage throughout.)  Another problem among conservative news outlets was that they routinely, robotically and uncritically printed Reuters and AP articles, taking their COVID reporting at face value.

Stop Saying That 'It Can't Happen Here' — It IS Happening Here.  But make no mistake, tyranny is here.  It's hidden by state-run news outlets that distract us from the truth with stories about little green men and Lizzo's latest chunky stunt.  They lie to Americans on their 24-hour news propaganda platforms about our own president's skullduggery with China and downplay or ignore the ramifications that chicanery presents, such as spy balloons left unfettered, a border left open, secret Chinese police stations, and more than 13,000 military-aged Chinese people flooding into our nation.  Our leaders lie to us with "The sky is falling" flapdoodle about how climate change and phantom white supremacy, not the tyranny they sponsor, will be our downfall.

The climate scaremongers:  Heatwave hysteria.  The New York Intelligencer magazine called it the 'Worldwide Heatwave', which according to the UN has 'engulfed the Northern Hemisphere'.  It was of course nothing of the sort, simply the usual mix of hot and cold weather we see every year. [...] The Telegraph made several claims which were not borne out by events.  For instance:
  [#1]   They claimed that 41.8C in Rome was a record.  However in 2005 temperatures there hit 42C.
  [#2]   They said temperatures in Sicily might reach 48C.  They got to 45C, well below the record of 48.8C.
  [#3]   They said temperatures in Madrid and Rome could reach 'mid to high 40s' — in the event, Madrid got to 39C and Rome to 41C.

Overheated.  The short version is an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano named Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, 490 feet under the waves, massively erupted, bigger than any other modern eruption, even bigger than Mount Pinatubo.  You never heard about it since it was underwater and nobody died.  But the erupting lava instantly vaporized fantastic, unimaginable amounts of sea water, which billowed into the atmosphere, changing the water composition of Earth's atmosphere and heating it up for years. [...] But I bet you never heard anything about Hunga Tonga, did you?  Thanks, media. [...] For the first time since tracking began, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is pegged out at the maximum, across the board.  Here's why corporate media is ignoring the most dramatic climate even in modern history:  because you can't legislate underwater volcanoes.  You can try, but they won't listen.  So what's the fun in that?  Corporate media only exists to further political ends.  Since volcanoes aren't subject to politics, why bother?

How modern media became the world's second-oldest profession.  The New York Times (NYT) and Washington Post (WaPo), from their perch atop the liberal media pyramid as it evolved in the wake of the JournoList, drove the content of the rest of the mainstream media ecosystem.  CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, HuffPo, Slate, Politico, and myriad other liberal outlets took their lead from NYT and WaPo.  As such, seeding a story in either of these outlets guaranteed media saturation.  It's widely recognized that NYT is the outlet of choice for the FBI and the national law enforcement (DOJ...) blob, while WaPo is the go-to outlet for the CIA and other elements of the national intelligence blob.  Both our law enforcement and intelligence communities worked overtime to seed the Russiagate stories, both knowing how false they were, into these outlets and into the conscience of the American public.  The question that must be asked here is, where were the real reporters?  Why would they risk their credibility reporting "stories" always laden with anonymous sources, from both the intelligence and law enforcement communities, without questioning the motives of those sources or outing them once it was known that the information they provide was false?

CNBC releases list of 'best and worst states to live in'.  CNBC recently released a remarkable ranking of "America's 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023."  Unsurprisingly, considering the source, the list consists exclusively of red states.  The rankings were purportedly based on crime rates, environmental quality, health care, quality and availability of childcare, and inclusiveness in state laws such as reproductive rights, protections against discrimination, and voting rights.  Oh, got it.  Guess we know how they weighted these factors.  Access to unfettered abortion ("reproductive rights"), worship of the LGBTQ community ("Protection against discrimination"), and the "right" to vote sans identification, via mail, and early and often, obviously superseded "crime rates."  [Lists omitted for brevity.]  Notice something oddly amusing, gentle readers?  Most of the states CNBC ranked as the worst in which to live and work are the states everyone is moving to, and several of the states it ranked as the best in which to live and work are the ones everyone is moving from.

The Left's 2020 'Fake Electors' Narrative Is Fake News.  Headlines recently proclaimed that eight of Trump's "fake" electors accepted immunity deals.  Of course, in reporting the news, the corporate outlets all missed the real story — that the electors' testimony failed to incriminate anyone, including Trump, and that the county prosecutors engaged in massive misconduct.  Equally appalling, however, was the corrupt media's continued peddling of the "fake electors" narrative.  There were no "fake" electors.  There were contingent Republican electors named consistent with legal precedent to preserve the still ongoing legal challenges to the validity of Georgia's certified vote.  Nor was appointing an alternative slate of electors some cockamamie plan devised by Trump lawyers.  On the contrary, Trump's election lawyers and the contingent electors followed the precise approach Democrats successfully used when the date Congress established for certifying an election came before the legal challenges John F. Kennedy had brought in Hawaii were decided.  And that approach allowed Kennedy to be certified the winner of Hawaii's three electoral votes on Jan. 6, 1961, even though the Aloha State had originally certified Richard Nixon the victor.

Press roosters crow about Joe Biden for a fake economic sunrise.  Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell would have you think what Joe Biden thinks — that he is the hero of the American economy just because inflation has stopped ballooning: [...] It's garbage.  Joe Biden is still attempting to force people to buy electric cars and is handing out green goodies to people who claim they can control the climate.  There is also his intentional destruction of companies that produce reasonably priced energy.  The price of crude oil is down from its high but is still over 75% higher than it was before he took office.  (Note to Catherine: Please describe which of Biden's policies brought crude oil down.)  The price of energy affects everything.  Crude oil is used in over 6,000 products.  Statistical inflation increases have been reduced to 3% or 4% but Americans are still suffering.  He is forcing all federal projects to use prevailing wages which inflate costs.  He is taking away the ability for healthy people to buy reasonably priced health insurance policies.

Don't Believe The Leftist Media Narrative About The State of the 2024 Race.  To the surprise of no one, the leftist corporate media's coverage of the 2024 presidential race has been abysmal.  Predictably, their reporting is full of omissions, half truths, and wishful thinking.  Once again, they only report their preferred narratives, in a desperate attempt to persuade stupid people and gullible news outlets into believing them, including Conservative Inc.  As usual the leftist coastal elites are attempting to shape their perceptions into reality.

Climate Fact Check: June 2023 Edition.  Ten more false climate claims from June have already gone bust and are presented below.  [#1] Canadian forest fires caused by climate change?  Smoky American skies caused by Canadian wildfires are not new.  The historical record shows Canadian wildfires have darkened U.S. skies repeatedly since 1706. [...] [#4] Florida strawberries suffering from climate change?  As shown in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chart [not seen here], Florida's strawberry harvests increased nearly 50 percent between 2001 and 2019.  [#5] Summers getting hotter?  The New York Times reported in "Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S." that: "Summer temperatures have become hotter and more extreme in recent decades."  Fact Check.  The New York Times uses the 1951-1980 global cooling period as the baseline temperature and ignores hot summers before 1940.

The Big Gaslight.  The term "gaslighting" was just selected word of the year because of its overuse.  But why would that usage increase have happened?  Maybe because the practice itself has become more common as a political weapon.  In practical parlance, "gaslighting" means trying to persuade others not to believe their "lying eyes," or not to believe what they already had known as established fact.  Recent examples of such disinformation themes include:
  •   The summer 2020 riots were not really riots but "mostly peaceful" demonstrations.
  •   The Hunter Biden laptop emails are not real but instead a Russian disinformation tactic.
  •   The U.S. southern border is closed.
  •   It was Republicans, not Democrats, who favored defunding the police.
  •   Voter ID requirements are actually voter suppression.
  •   Critical Race Theory is not really racist — and is not being taught in schools anyway.
  •   The Afghanistan surrender/retreat was really a great achievement and success.
Curiously, all these familiar ploys are authored by the same political camp.

13 Reasons Joe Biden Isn't The 'Ethical' President Time Magazine Claims.  The corporate media kicked off the week with another outrageous story to spin President Joe Biden, the man guilty of politically persecuting his chief political opponent and potentially selling American policy out to foreign adversaries, as an "ethical" president.  Biden is "reset[ting] the guardrails against ... abuses of power" and "increas[ing] public trust in government," reads a Time magazine article unironically titled, "Biden Is Resetting the Ethical Norms Trump Trampled as President."  "President Biden is proud to have restored respect for the rule of law and will not exploit his office with convention events on the White House lawn," Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates told the magazine.  "He will not exploit his office for political gain in the way that we saw in the last administration," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added.  Below are 13 reasons Biden is not "ethical," and may in fact go down as one of the most corrupt and immoral presidents in American history.

The press just can't stop propping up Democrats.  I bet no one can recall when the media tried to help George Bush's and Donald Trump's poll numbers.  Nope, they continued their efforts to push them down because they always campaign for Democrats.

The Liberal Media Need Shock Treatment.
  •   The IRS whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden matter are ignored by the liberal media.
  •   Biden steals thousands of classified documents — without the authority to declassify them — when he was a senator and vice-president and the story disappears.
  •   FBI insiders bravely reveal the blatant pro-Democratic bias of the organization and their testimony is sloughed off.
  •   Joe Biden commits one embarrassing verbal gaffe after another, demonstrating an unarguable diminution of mental acuity, and the video clips are nowhere to be seen on the mainstream stations.
  •   James Comer finds one ironclad, tangible example after another of inappropriate, even illegal, financial dealings by the entire Biden family and Comer's investigation is dismissed by the liberal media as unfounded hearsay.
  •   Talk of the 2016 presidential election being stolen by President Trump from Hillary is hailed as heroic, patriotic protest, but presenting the mountains of indisputable evidence of 2020 election fraud committed by the Democrats against President Trump gets you branded as a traitor by the mainstream media.
This list of examples could go on and on, but for the sake of brevity and current relevance, we'll leave it there.

Here's How You Know Conservatives Are Winning.  If you want a good indication that conservatives are, at long last, scoring a few actual victories these days, look at the apoplexy it's causing those on the left.  A prime example is a piece written by Jill Lawrence, a former editor at USA Today, which posted on July 4 on MSNBC and carried the scary title:  "Seeing the erosion of our freedoms makes it hard to celebrate this Fourth of July."   It is a remarkable display of fearmongering, incoherence, and illogic.  "The Supreme Court, conservative governors and gerrymandered state legislatures are racing to shrink fundamental rights and freedoms," Lawrence writes.  "The result is that tens of millions of Americans are being deprived of rights that other Americans have.  The scale of the disparity is frightening and growing."  Ok.  So, how about some examples?

Has the mainstream press lost all desire to investigate climate alarmist claims?  Being something of a questioning soul, I have found mainstream news sources somewhat unsatisfactory in recent years — banal reporting, simplistic (and error-strewn) reporting and homages to vested interests have turned me off the commonly used channels for consuming the output of the fourth estate.  Having leafed through various fairly anodyne articles that mostly avoided the difficult questions of the day, tucked away on page 36 was a small article by the environment editor of The Times entitled "Antarctic Ice Melts to 'Shocking' Low".  Intrigued — because there are some fascinating observations coming from the world's oceans that are worthy of closer investigation — I read the article in more detail.  I was genuinely astonished.  Not, I should say, by the quality of the article, or the incisiveness of the reporting.  I was astonished by the extent — not of any ice loss — but of the twisting of facts to fit an agenda.  Bereft of nuance, we seem to be spiralling into a polarised world where broadsheet 'journalism' can see fit to distill context-free factoids into an easily-digestible apocalyptic pill to be popped down a reader's gullet: [...]

Under Biden, Fake News Soars to Whole New Level.  "Biden calls China's Xi a dictator; Beijing slams remark as 'provocation,'" headlined the Washington Post on June 20.  "Biden calls Xi a dictator, who was kept in the dark about spy balloon," chimed in the New York Times. [...] That is not exactly the same as saying "China's Xi Jinping is a dictator," or "Xi Jinping is like other dictators." Contrary to what the reports assume, Xi Jinping would have no problem with the label.  The People's Republic of China is a Communist country, and in Marxist-Leninist doctrine the dictatorship of the proletariat rules.  Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu-Wen and Xi Jinping are all totalitarian dictators in the true sense.  Marxist-Leninist doctrine allows no party but the Communist Party, and the Party decides who will run the show.  Xi Jinping is the man of the hour, and the notion he "didn't know" about the balloon is ludicrous.

Living in a Media World.  From National Public Radio (aka state radio), I've gained information that while guns are dangerous in the hands of most of our fellow citizens, they are necessary for transgendered Americans, who must stockpile them because of "hateful rhetoric."  Our brave sexual pioneers are being constantly threatened by Christian bigots and other vicious obscurantists.  NPR has also taught me that whatever riots followed the killing of George Floyd were mostly peaceful and that the slaying of Jordan Neely by Daniel Penny was driven by contempt for a minority member struggling with mental illness.  The transgendered youth who murdered six people, including three children, in a Christian school in Nashville did not really cause this "tragedy."  The non-binary shooter was a victim of Christian prejudice and "the gun lobby," and what he did out of emotional desperation led to "an escalation of hate" against the LGBT community.  Yesterday I had the scales fall further from my eyes when I discovered that Hunter Biden had not committed a host of felonies, some of which implicated his dad.  Hunter is a recovering drug addict whom Joe Scarborough on MSNBC is defending against "hyperventilating right-wingers" who have taken their playbook from Joe McCarthy[.]

Did You Breathe Smoke Last Week?  This is Why.  Michael Walsh published the below piece on his the-pipeline.org last week, and in the meantime, the propaganda press has issued one full-throated [objection] after another.  I scan them, not one single writer has ever been to a forest, he is grabbing paras from another, and another grabs another paragraph, all ending in a mess of words that add up to something issued from the WEF's PR Department.  I thought for a split second Jim Geraghty at National Review would be sensible.  He was not.

Media blames 'climate change' for Canadian wildfires despite arrest of multiple arsonists.  Despite the arrest of multiple arsonists, the mainstream media in Canada seems intent on attributing the nation's recent wildfires to "climate change."  As wildfires continue to spread across western, and now central and eastern Canada, burning forestland and homes, the mainstream media continues to imply that climate change is the main culprit, despite a growing number of reports showing that arsonists have been arrested for allegedly setting dozens of fires.

Target Received Bomb Threats From the 'LGBTQ+ Community.' The Media Told a Different Story.  Target stores across America were evacuated over the weekend due to bomb threats that alleged the chain had "betrayed the LGBTQ+ community" and "bowed to the wishes of far-right extremists who want to exterminate us," according to police.  But that's not how some major news outlets presented the story.  The Washington Post, USA Today, and others buried or simply left out the nature of the emailed threats, all of which were false alarms, while prominently mentioning conservative backlash over Target's LGBT Pride merchandise.

The Leftist Green Agenda Is Buying Its Way Into The News.  One recent analysis found AP stories mentioned the phrases "climate change," "global warming," and "Climate disaster" hundreds of times since receiving grants totaling $8 million in early 2022.  The stated purpose of the money is to fund the AP's "Climate Journalism Initiative," which would employ 20 new reporters to "transform how the AP covers the climate story."  Perhaps it also funded the story that gave us Biden's hard-hat environmentalism?  In another example from the story, former top Clinton adviser John Podesta is heavily quoted in his role as overseer of the $369 billion for green energy from Biden's so-called Inflation Reduction Act.  The story fails to mention Podesta's political operative past, including his unofficial title of "White House clean-up chief" during the Clinton years.  Also quoted are the extreme eco-groups the Natural Resources Defense Council and Center for Biological Diversity.  They are all given a lot of space in a story with a lot of reach.  As a wire service, the hard-hat rebranding from the AP will appear in thousands of newspapers across the world as news.  We don't know if the millions the AP received for climate coverage played a role in helping Biden rebrand his energy policy, and that's precisely the point.

Blame the Media for the National Debt.  Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement to lift the debt ceiling, and nothing is going to change in the disturbing pattern of America's national debt climbing by leaps and bounds.  The best reason for pessimism?  Our Democrat-messaging media.  They can't be bothered to offer the most basic facts in budget coverage.  What is the budget for the current fiscal year?  What was the last budget deficit?  How large is the national debt?  These are questions that are rarely answered by news anchors.  What we get is a lot of horse-race jockeying and finger-pointing instead of facts.  They must think the viewers are too stupid to juggle numbers.

'The Official Truth': The End of Free Speech That Will End America.  According to a survey by Rasmussen Reports, 59% of likely voters in the United States view the corporate news media as "truly the enemy of the people."  This is a majority view, held regardless of race:  "58% of whites, 51% of black voters, and 68% of other minorities" — all agree that the mainstream media has become their "enemy."  This scorching indictment of the Fourth Estate piggybacks similar polling from Harvard-Harris showing that Americans hold almost diametrically opposing viewpoints from those that news corporations predominantly broadcast as the official "truth."

Big Picture Explanation of What Happened in the Past 15 Years.  In the 50 years that preceded 2008, those same groups had an approach of distrust toward government, and the media apparatus had a very distinct supportive and cynical outlook, favorable to the leftist anti-government perspective.  Now, all of that has reversed — seemingly flipped.  In the 50 years that preceded 2008, media pushed a one-way narrative in defense of those who were "targeted" by the institutions and mechanisms of government.  As the activists railed against the regime, the media framed narratives to excuse the transparently guilty.  Now, that entire dynamic has reversed.  Now we see the media pushing a narrative in support of weaponized government targeting, and — here's the kicker — framing the transparently innocent.  The activists went from accusing government of wrongdoing and defending the transparently guilty — to aligning with government, excusing government wrongdoing, and helping to attack the transparently innocent.

Corporate Media's Coverage Of The Debt-Limit Fight Is Intolerably Dishonest.  [Scroll down]  Biden and Chuck Schumer gambled that Republicans would never unify around a debt-ceiling hike.  Schumer kept snarkily demanding McCarthy show the public his plans.  House Republicans did — one that "slashes" spending all the way back to 2022 levels and then allows one percent increases per year moving forward.  Everyone on the left, which is to say most people in political journalism, keep framing the debate as if this never happened.  So while we can't bore into the souls of the participants and expose their true feeling about a potential default, the fact is that the only people in that entire conversation who have already passed a hike to the debt limit are House Republicans.  Democrats could just sign off on it if they wanted.  No default.  No one, of course, expects Democrats to unilaterally surrender.  But media always covers negotiations over spending as if the organic center, the endpoint, the only reasonable place to be, stands not between the desires of two competing political parties or two competing branches of government but rather wherever Democrats happen to reside.

Harris-Harvard poll: liberal corporate media is radically out of touch with the views of Americans.  It's not just that corporate media rejects Americans' views.  They don't permit those views to be heard.  To start:  Majorities of Americans say it's *false* that Trump colluded with Russia.  The the Steele Dossier is also "false."  In other words, they view the story the US media aggressively centered for 3 years as a hoax and a fraud, yet NBC and CNN won't even air this view.  Americans also believe that the materials on the Hunter Biden laptop are real, and are not and never were "Russian disinformation."  So again, Americans view the claim that the US corporate media and CIA spread for weeks before the 2020 election — to help Biden win — as a fraud.  Majorties of Americans also believe:
  •   Hunter Biden engaged in criminal influence peddling using his father's name.
  •   The FBI is not investigating these crimes.
  •   Joe Biden participated in Hunter's illegal influence peddling and profiteering schemes.

Moscow on the Potomac.  Picture living in the Soviet Union circa 1980.  You wake up and turn on state-run radio.  The great war in Afghanistan is going exceptionally well.  You know that story is a lie, as your neighbors just buried their son, and your cousin tells of the horrors of fighting the Mujahideen in the frozen mountains.  The next story speaks of the great economic success of the most recent Five Year Plan.  You know that it's also a lie, as there has been no meat in the local stores for weeks, and the lines outside of bakeries are only getting longer. [...] Now, let's move to the present-day US. You get up and turn on any of the morning programs with the presenters who do not know how to stop smiling.  They tell us that the war in Ukraine is so successful that the US and its allies will be sending a few billion dollars more in weaponry shortly.  Next, you learn that inflation is actually good for you, as it is proof of a successful economy.  You see that many items that you used to buy are too expensive, but hey, but now you know it's a good thing.  And forget about baby formula.

An Appeal to the Thinkers Left Politically Abandoned.  [Scroll down]  No matter your political beliefs, you likely align yourself with one of these three broad philosophies [Conservatism, Progressivism, Independent].  News stories would make you think the nation is ideologically split down the middle though, between right and left.  However, 25% identify as Liberal or Progressive, while 73% of Americans identify as conservative or moderate.  You wouldn't be aware of this if you relied on Democrat messaging and a breathless press that constantly "informs" you otherwise.  Moderates historically defect from conservative thought when mainstream outlets do not report important news, or slant events unfavorably.

TV portrays Covid vax victims as Coronavirus deaths.  The three screenshots below come from the closing one-minute segment of the nightly news show News Watch 9 on NHK, the Japanese equivalent to the BBC, which aired on Monday.  The segment title in the top-right reads "Various feelings about returning to normality."  The full segment (which can be viewed with English subtitles [elsew]here) is a montage of footage contrasting Tokyo streets deserted during states of emergency and now full of tourists in addition to the three bereaved people below and photos of their dead family members.  You get the idea.  Now, based on what NHK shows them saying, what would you assume their family members died from?  If you assumed they died from Covid, as the millions of NHK viewers who saw the segment doubtlessly did, you'd be completely wrong.  The three people above are actually members of the Bereaved Families of Covid Vaccination Victims that I wrote about in November.  But the segment didn't mention that fact or anything about vaccines.  NHK's creatively deceptive editing generated such a tsunami of criticism on social media that it issued an apology at the end of News Watch 9 the following night.

CNN shows Anderson Cooper 360 and Primetime make NO mention of discredited FBI probe into baseless Trump-Russia claims network previously claimed were 'corroborated'.  Struggling CNN spent all of primetime ignoring John Durham's investigation that tore apart the FBI for launching a baseless probe into claims of Donald Trump's collusion with Russia.  The network's two highest profile nightly shows - Primetime and Anderson Cooper 360 - each failed to mention the probe by the special counsel in two hours of programming.  CNN was among liberal media outlets obsessed with Trump-Russia collusion claims when they first emerged, with since-fired former anchor Don Lemon claiming the infamous Steele Dossier had been partly corroborated.

The Left's 2020 'Fake Electors' Narrative Is Fake News.  Headlines recently proclaimed that eight of Trump's "fake" electors accepted immunity deals.  Of course, in reporting the news, the corporate outlets all missed the real story — that the electors' testimony failed to incriminate anyone, including Trump, and that the county prosecutors engaged in massive misconduct.  Equally appalling, however, was the corrupt media's continued peddling of the "fake electors" narrative.  There were no "fake" electors.  There were contingent Republican electors named consistent with legal precedent to preserve the still ongoing legal challenges to the validity of Georgia's certified vote.  Nor was appointing an alternative slate of electors some cockamamie plan devised by Trump lawyers.  On the contrary, Trump's election lawyers and the contingent electors followed the precise approach Democrats successfully used when the date Congress established for certifying an election came before the legal challenges John F. Kennedy had brought in Hawaii were decided.  And that approach allowed Kennedy to be certified the winner of Hawaii's three electoral votes on Jan. 6, 1961, even though the Aloha State had originally certified Richard Nixon the victor.  The Hawaii scenario in 1960 mirrors in every material respect the facts on the ground in Georgia on Dec. 14, 2020 — the date both the Democrat and Republican presidential electors met and cast their 16 electoral votes for Joe Biden and Donald Trump respectively.

Weaponizing Death.  Recently, there has been a spate of horrific murders.  The killers, whether committing mass shootings or single homicides, are hard to stereotype. [...] Unfortunately, these tragedies have increasingly become politicized.  Yet our media and politicians do not apply a common standard of reporting about either the victims, the killers, or the apparent motives and circumstances of the violence.  Instead, each horror is quickly analyzed for its political usefulness.  Then its details are selectively downplayed or emphasized, depending upon the political agenda at work.  A sad example was the terrible murder spree at the private Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.  A transgender male shot and killed six people, including three 9-year-old children.  Almost immediately, three media narratives emerged.  One, semi-automatic weapons, not the killer Audrey Hale, were mostly responsible for the massacre.  Two, the shooter's transgender identity profile played no role in the killing whatsoever.  Three, the public had no need to know of the contents of the shooter's "manifesto."

Biden's corrupt?  The MSM shrugs.  The MSM spent 3 years promoting a narrative that they knew was false about Donald Trump colluding with Russia.  Not one of them could possibly believe that it was true because it was so transparently a lie.  Yet they, the intelligence community, and every talking head spoke breathlessly about how the walls were closing in on Trump.  It took the Special Counsel to set them straight, and they still have their Pulitzer Prizes and half the country still believes their lies.  Yet Representative James Comer lays out a straightforward, obvious case that might not stand up in court yet but is clearly true that Joe Biden and his family have engaged in a corrupt influence peddling operation going back over a decade and the press not only shrugs but comes to the president's defense.  Comer didn't pass the "beyond the shadow of a doubt" standard, so it is a big nothing.  Look away.  Those millions of dollars from foreign nationals just MIGHT conceivably be legal or something.  [Tweet]

Most of the media doesn't care about anything unless the story fits their radical leftist agenda.  Every day we hear that there have been hundreds of mass shootings in the U.S this year yet we see the details on only a few.  Why don't we ever see the details of all the mass shootings in Chicago and elsewhere that involve black gang members shooting other blacks?  Why don't we see the names of the victims, the records of the shooters, and the motives?  The answer is it doesn't fit the agenda.  We see little interest in all the subway and street crimes in New York each day, but when a white Marine hero gets involved to protect people from a mentally ill, black, career criminal and accidentally kills him, he is accused of murder and there is endless coverage and violent protests.  A Hispanic commits a mass murder in Texas, and he has magically been converted to a white supremacist and we get huge coverage.  It reminds me of when the media converted the Hispanic shooter George Zimmerman to white in order to gin up racial hate and division.  When a black teen, who had robbed a store in Ferguson, Mo, reached for a white cop's gun, the cop defended himself and killed the teen.  Instead of telling the truth, the media and others regurgitated the fake "hands up don't shoot" narrative to gin up racial hate and violence.  How many cops have been killed and injured because of that false narrative?

How Liars Wreck a Country.  Last year, Forbes concluded that "only 16% of adults in the U.S. say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers, and just 11% said the same for television news."  Anyone confronting these stats must conclude that our media are deeply incompetent or crooked or both.  The New York Times announced a few years ago that defeating Trump was the important thing.  They gave themselves a free pass to lie all they want.  How can they now reclaim their honor or their usefulness? [...] Unfortunately, our liberal journalists do not care about true or false.  When they hear an assertion, they try to determine whether it will help their agenda... their narrative.  If it won't help, they know they must attack the assertion, typically by declaring it debunked, fake news, or misinformation.

Andy Ngô sheds light on bizarre reporting about Allen, TX mass shooter Garcia in thread.  Full transparency, this has been the craziest media push after a mass shooting in a long while, and at this time this editor can honestly not say what is and isn't the truth which is a sad reflection of what our mainstream media have become.  As Twitchy readers know, within maybe two hours of the horrific shooting in Allen, Texas, major outlets were running with the story that Garcia 'may have had white supremacist beliefs' based on a patch someone 'close to the story' said they saw on his vest.  Then came the claims about Garcia's social media and tattoos ... which are all over the place.  Not to mention we're not even sure at this point what Garcia actually looked like because there are multiple pictures of different Hispanic men floating around social media.  So all of that is by itself, insane.  Yes?  But then add in the bizarre claims about Garcia having a white supremacist account created on some Russian social media site?

In a World Gone Mad, the Jordan Neelys Rule.  Jordan Neely was a mentally ill homeless man who had terrorized the citizens of New York — especially subway passengers — for many years.  He had been arrested at least 40 times for crimes ranging from assault to disorderly conduct and fare evasion.  And on the day of his death, several eyewitnesses report that Neely had made repeated threats to the well-being of passengers, "stating his willingness to 'hurt anyone' and saying that he was unbothered by the prospect of returning to jail or being killed," according to NRO.  [Tweet]  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Jordan Neely was "murdered" because he "was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself."  So passengers and bystanders are just supposed to allow Mr. Neely to terrorize and assault them with no thought of defending themselves?  You picked the wrong hobby horse to ride, AOC.  [Tweet]  AOC also didn't mention this attack on the gay community.  [Tweet]

Video Of Jordan Neely Defecating In A Subway Station, Then Walking Around Naked (NSFW).  A video of a schizophrenic homeless man, Jordan Neely, [defecating] and then walking around naked in a NYC subway station has surfaced.  The media and BLM have done their best to portray Neely as a friendly Micheal Jackson impersonator when in reality he was a dangerous individual with a long, violent arrest record with little regard for the law.  [Video clip]

Elon Musk Asks Why the Media Misrepresents Interracial Crime Stats "To Such an Extreme Degree".  Twitter CEO Elon Musk questioned on Saturday why the establishment media misrepresents interracial crime statistics "to such an extreme degree."  The media's lies and false claims result in more innocent people being killed while inciting more anti-white violence than ever. [...] Now under the control of Musk, many hate hoaxes and disinformation is being countered, including media lies regarding Jordan Neely.

The Auckland Mobbing of Kellie-Jay Keen Was Fuelled by Media-Peddled Misinformation.  Kellie-Jay Keen is a five-foot-one, British middle-aged mother of four children who happens to believe that the word "woman" should be reserved for those who are biologically female.  As many Quillette readers and podcast listeners will already know, she headlined a March 25th women's rights event in Auckland called Let Women Speak, which was shut down by protester violence.  Keen has been under fire for years from trans-rights activists (who believe that men can become women, and vice versa, by acts of self-declaration).  And many such activists in New Zealand were quick to smear Keen as a fascist, on the basis that a small group of apparent Nazis had showed up in the vicinity of one of her recent events in Australia.

Senate Republicans Accuse Democrats, Media Allies of Smear Campaign against Conservative Justices.  Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee tore into their Democratic colleagues during a Tuesday hearing on Supreme Court ethics, accusing the lawmakers of joining with their ideological allies in the media to undermine the conservative Supreme Court majority because it stands in the way of their desired policy outcomes.  The hearing was scheduled by Judiciary Committee Democrats after ProPublica published a series of articles detailing Justice Clarence Thomas's relationship with Texas billionaire Harlan Crow.  Despite the fact that Crow has not had business before the Court during Thomas's tenure — with the exception of one case that was never taken up involving a company which Crow had a minority interest in — many Democrats have seized on the report to argue that the Court should adopt stricter ethics rules to prevent undue interference.

AP redefined 'insurrection' to include J6 protests, then redefined it again to exclude TN and MT protests that disrupted legislatures.  Writing in Human Events, Libby Emmons calls out the AP for redefining the word "insurrection" to apply to the January 6, 2021 demonstrators, and then, when that definition was applied by others to the left wing demonstrations that disrupted the Tennessee and Montana state legislatures, re-redefining the term so as to solely apply to its enemies, the pro-Trump demonstrators.  I's an absolutely clear instance of AP acting as a propaganda organ for the left, not as a news agency.

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century.  For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals:  a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues.  Until 2017, that is, when another list of alleged Russian agents roiled the American press and political class.  A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian-affiliated accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election.  Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms, the new centers of power, and using them to covertly direct events inside the United States.  None of it was true.  After reviewing Hamilton 68's secret list, Twitter's safety officer, Yoel Roth, privately admitted that his company was allowing "real people" to be "unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse." [...] When proof emerged earlier this year that Hamilton 68 was a high-level hoax perpetrated against the American people, it was met with a great wall of silence in the national press.

Those scary guns the National Guard leaker possessed?  Airsoft rifles.  This captures so much about the MSM.  It combines total ignorance and open contempt for their audience along with a determined insistence that whatever the intelligence community says must be accepted at face value.  Before I get into the story I want to make clear that am not a fan of dropping classified documents into the public realm, with the exception of whistleblowers revealing the corruption of government.  I haven't followed this story closely, so I really haven't an opinion worth sharing about the whole affair. [...] With that out of the way, I do have a strong opinion about the propaganda we are being fed, and there appears to be proof that we are being lied to.

Teixeira Whistleblower Case Raises Troubling Questions.  Last week, 21-year-old low-level Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Douglas Teixeira was arrested and charged with violating the Espionage Act and leaking sensitive defense material.  Among other things, the leaked top-secret documents show that the Biden administration has been misleading the public about the reality of the situation in Ukraine, overstating the country's success in its war with Russia.  The leaked documents, which appear to include briefings prepared for senior Pentagon leadership, including Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, contained assessments from a multitude of agencies.  The real story, however, is how corporate media organizations, rather than focusing on the content of the revealing documents themselves, chose to focus on finding out who leaked them.  Only after first working to identify Teixeira as the alleged whistleblower, which resulted in his arrest, both The Washington Post and The New York Times began to publish "exclusive" stories about classified information — some of it still unseen by the public — that had been leaked by Teixeira as if the discovery were their own.

'Too Big to Fail' Is Too Big Period.  A recent Gallup poll found that public confidence in our institutions is collapsing.  The only institutions that still garner majority confidence are the military and small businesses.  Nearly three quarters of Americans have lost confidence in government, big business, academia, and the media (among others).  The vast majority of our institutions are failing.  They aren't failing to survive.  They're failing to meet our expectations — which means they're failing to satisfy their reason for being. [...] Media haven't lost our confidence because they're boring.  They have lost it because they are untruthful.  They are pushing a narrative and are unwilling to sell unbiased news or entertainment at any price.

The Most Important Thing To Be Learned From The Teixeira (Ukraine Docs) Leaks.  America no longer has a free press; more specifically, the vast majority of the media are simply mouthpieces for the UniParty and/or the Biden-regime:  [Tweets]  But just keep telling yourselves that 2024 will be different than 2020[,] that all we need to do is nominate Trump or all that we need to do is "move on" past Trump[,] and that magically the media that routinely LIE to us will suddenly become truth-tellers, that the ballot-harvesters will disappear, that the Democrat mega-billionaires who are literally buying votes will go back to buying super-yachts.

BBC News caught spreading Disinformation which accidentally confirms COVID Vaccination is in fact to blame for Excess Deaths.  Official UK Government data has revealed a startling truth that has left the people in a state of disbelief.  England and Wales suffered the highest number of excess deaths in over half a century in 2022, and a non-stop weekly rally of excess deaths since week 16 of 2022 that equates to 62,543 excess deaths as of March 2023.  And thanks to the BBC lying to the public, we know that the main cause of this huge increase in deaths is COVID-19 vaccination.

Elon Musk Takes Ownership of the BBC After Epic Exchange With Dishonest Reporter.  Elon Musk participated in an interview on Tuesday evening and ended up taking ownership of the BBC by the time it was over.  In an epic exchange, the billionaire worked over James Clayton, a reporter from the British network, after he attempted to push claims about "hate speech" and COVID labeling on Twitter. [...] Musk employs a strategy throughout the interview that I've long been a fan of when interacting with the mainstream press.  Namely, he doesn't accept unproven premises that set up biased questions.  When a reporter says something meant to paint you into a corner, make them prove what they are saying is even true.

Miami Herald isn't fit to be fish wrapper.  When I wrote about Rebekah Jones' son's arrest I relied upon the reporting of the Journal for the facts of the case.  I chose to do so despite there being a Miami Herald story because it was biased and left out the most important point:  he wasn't arrested for sharing memes, as they claimed, but for making threats to shoot up a school.  That's a bit different.  [Tweets]  The Herald is still soft-pedaling the story and pushing the notion that Jones is being persecuted somehow.  And Jones is tweeting up a storm with an ever-changing story.  It is a remarkable example of gaslighting, and the Herald is crying about being criticized for pushing the story of an admitted felon.

Trump Isn't A Special Case, He's A Test Case.  Liberals might be scratching their heads over why potential Donald Trump rivals are rushing to denounce his indictment.  The reason is simple.  Conservative Republicans know that if this assault is allowed to stand, they will be next.  The left, as well as the rabble of never-Trump Republicans, like to tell everybody that the unprecedented measures taken against Trump — culminating with this week's indictment — are justified because he poses a unique threat to our precious democracy.  Just to review, we're talking about measures like Democrats impeaching him twice on the flimsiest of grounds.  Like federal law enforcement engaging in a coordinated campaign to smear him as a Russian stooge.  Like journalists dropping any shred of objectivity and professionalism to attack Trump, up to and including peddling obvious falsehoods.

Ukrainian Journalist Uses Makeup And Poses People To Make Them Look Injured.  This is not the first time Ukrainians have used this tactic of using crisis actors with fake blood and makeup to make them look like war victims.  [Video clip]

How the Media Doubles Down on Falsehood.  [Scroll down]  Still, there are people who blindly believe the media.  My older brother called me this week, and, in our conversation, we talked about how people, when challenged about this, would reply, "they can't put it in the newspapers if it isn't true."  Often when you point out the error of such a statement with facts, they give you that "deer in the headlights" look.  Hopefully, some events of late might actually open some people's eyes.  In an effort to look like they are combatting this issue, we are inundated with "misinformation checkers" (aka fact checkers), who often still miss out on important facts and whose checking often leans significantly to the Left.  And what's worse is that people still believe the administration despite its disastrous impacts on our nation: readiness, strength, increased drug traffic and deaths due to the open borders, the COVID and COVID vaccine lies, the inability of almost three-quarters of our youth to even qualify for military service, long-term inflation, high energy costs, woke policies, and so on; all with a complicit media.  And still the public hasn't learned.

Not ALL reporters are trash, but...  There are isolated instances of reporters who actually do their jobs, which last I checked was to provide information to people so that they can make informed choices in their lives.  But these days those reporters are rare, and fewer and fewer exist in mainstream news organizations.  Few politicians have the gumption to call them out, because all people who are required to deal with the media follow the dictum that "it is never wise to pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel."  That used to be true but is no longer.  Reporters don't care what you say, what is true, or whether you play nice with them.  They care about promoting whatever narrative they have in mind.  If you feed them what you want they will make you a hero; if not, expect to be savaged.

Mainstream Media's New Obsession: Labelling Criticism of 15-Minute Cities 'Conspiracy Theories'.  "Conspiracy theories" about 15-minute cities are "false", "unhinged", "dangerous" and "not to be believed", declare mainstream media in unified chorus.  "In recent years, conspiracy theories that were once almost unheard of have spread like wildfire, with a growing number of Australians now sceptical of things like vaccines, 5G and election results," News.com.au reports in one such article, titled, 'Inside the 15-minute city conspiracy theory sucking in gullible Australians'.  The article explains that 15-minutes cities (also called Smart Cities) are a common sense way of attempting to boost liveability for residents.  City dwellers in proposed Smart Cities — including Melbourne, Paris, London, Edmonton and Oxford — will have access to everything they need within a 15 to 20-minute walk, cycle or public transport trip, and that's really all there is to it.  "Anyone who has ever faced a long and painful commute will immediately see the appeal of having the daily essentials at their fingertips," the article assures readers.  However, "gullible Australians" who cannot appreciate common sense or convenience have been "sucked in" to a "dangerous conspiracy".  These "unhinged" conspiracy theorists actually believe that Smart Cities are "part of a secret plan by global elites to restrict people's freedom and movements" — a form of lockdown justified by climate action.

The Editor says...
When the government nannies tell you that "you have everything you need" in your neighborhood, they presume to know what you need, every minute of your life.  In a free country, you decide for yourself what you need, and where you would like to go.

Mainstream Journalism Is Dead, Long Live the Age of the Private Journalist.  You're more than well aware of just how deeply the mainstream media is obedient to the whims of the Democrat Party and leftist agendas.  It shamelessly pushes narratives that encourage strict obedience to the Democrat Party and even activist groups through fear and hate — with an emphasis on the "fear."  For instance, a couple of months ago, ABC News attempted to scare parents by telling them that if they don't cure their child's obesity right now, then they will have it for the rest of their lives and that includes all the health problems and issues that come with it.  The article encourages parents not to do this slowly by changing up their diet and having them get plenty of exercise, but by giving them weight loss drugs.  CBS just so happened to have a report on a new weight loss drug for kids, and it just so happened to be out at the time of the report and at your local drug store no less!

The Editor says...
That's not a news report, it's an infomercial.

Rathergate redux at the NYT?  And the media wonder why no one believes them any longer.  Earlier today, John picked up NPR's critical take on Rolling Stone's coverage of an arrest of an ABC News producer last year.  Be sure to read it if you missed it, but it's not the only mainstream media outlet that should be embarrassed this week.  Over the weekend, the New York Times dragged up the hoary conspiracy theory of the 1980 October Surprise, with a single source claiming he'd been duped into it 43 years ago — Ben Barnes.  Some readers may remember Ben Barnes from another conspiracy theory: the Texas Air National Guard (TANG) story that blew up in the faces of CBS News execs in late 2004.

Rolling Stone Magazine Faces New Journalism Scandal After Misleading Readers in a Big Way.  [Scroll down]  This is not the first time Rolling Stone has abused and discarded facts about a major story in order to (possibly) push an agenda.  The magazine landed in serious hot water several years ago after publishing a "bombshell" report about a gang rape on the University of Virginia campus.  That "bombshell," though, turned out to be entirely fabricated.  That story led to a major defamation case against the magazine.  They were found guilty, and the resulting damages ultimately resulted in the sale of the magazine.  Of course, the magazine has a well-known leftward bent, more recently calling Democrat Joe Manchin a destroyer of worlds and attacking ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The case of Siegel's report on Meek, however, isn't so much a story of lefty reporting.  It's a story of the inherent corruption of the media in general.

Time Is Running Out To Speak Freely About Free Speech In America.  Donald Trump's rise, his successful use of social media, and new media's refusal to join the crusade against Trump caused a fatal case of Stockholm Syndrome, with Big Tech and legacy media outlets welcoming government requests for censorship.  With support from both for-profit and nonprofit organizations and academic institutions, a Censorship Complex emerged, embracing the government's definition of "truth" and seeking to silence any who challenged it, whether it be new media or individual Americans — even experts.  The search for truth suffered as a result, and Americans were deprived of valuable information necessary for self-governance.  We know this because notwithstanding the massive efforts to silence speech, a ragtag group of muckrakers persisted and exposed several official dictates as lies: The Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation, Covid very well may have escaped from a Wuhan lab, and Trump did not collude with Putin.  But if the Censorship Complex succeeds and silences the few journalists and outlets still willing to challenge the government, Americans will no longer have the means to learn the truth.

Democrat Plans [are] Looking Bad, So Biden Pivots Again.  The left knows that the only way it can achieve its long-term goals is if the populace is not paying attention.  If the American people, or a large portion of them, at least, are spending all day on TikTok or Twitter or Facebook arguing about often petty and ridiculous ideas and fads, or, for the ones actually paying attention, are talking about irrelevant issues, the left knows that no one will notice when the left is doing something that will change the course of society for generations, in the most negative ways imaginable, or feverishly covering up the massive failures of their own ideology and policies.  These distractions are not something, at this juncture, that any rational American can afford to pay attention to.  The left is launching an all-out assault on society and the culture, a battlefield maneuver that has failed time and again in the past and resulted in countless deaths around the world.  You cannot afford to be distracted by the media.

Wonder why most of the media aren't trusted?  It is no wonder we have so much political corruption when the media are so biased.  They will create fictional stories to go after Republicans while burying true stories about Democrats.  It is absolutely pathetic!  And not once have they asked for scientific data to justify the destruction of companies that produce reasonably priced energy... because they don't care.  We have an absolutely corrupt and incompetent man as president who is actively destroying America with radical, extreme policies and massive taxpayer money to political supporters, and most of the media cheer about how great his policies are.

Save it for the jury.
Sacramento Bee Apologizes for Saying Charlie Kirk Called to 'Lynch' Transgenders.  The Sacramento Bee, a Northern California-based newspaper, has apologized for falsely claiming that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk called to "lynch" transgenders.  Charlie Kirk had been scheduled to speak at the University of California Davis on Tuesday when Sacramento Bee opinion writer Hannah Holzer called the activist "another fascist" and said that he wanted to lynch transgender people.

The Democrat-Media Insurrection Myth.  The storyline put together by what passes for our news media is that Trump led an armed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 that necessitated a House Committee investigation of what happened that day (actually for the political motive to recommend Trump for an indictment in advance of the 2024 election).  The media's job, including CNN, MSNBC, and most newspapers was to refer confidently to "the Jan. 6 insurrection" as if that were a settled fact already in the history books.  What passes for our news media did not say that some people believe it was an insurrection and others believe it was only a riot by some buffoons and then present the facts and let the peasants decide what they thought about the matter.  No, what passes for our news media needed to state the conclusion of that "investigation" long before it was completed.

They Are Intolerant, Divisive, And Anti-Liberty — Call Them Leftists, Not Liberals.  Democrats have moved so far to the left in recent years that they should no longer be called "liberals," unless the true liberals among them start to stand up to the leftists who have taken over.  The term is misleading, giving the impression that Democrats support individual freedoms and accept people of different viewpoints, when increasingly they do not.  The word "liberal" gives yet more power to those who seek to take more of our liberties.  Right-leaning publications often use the term "liberal" when "leftist" would be better.  On the other hand, left-leaning newspapers such as The Washington Post and The New York Times like to use the word "liberal" to describe their own illiberal political views.  It obfuscates how Democrats and their media allies have become more extreme, supporting censorship, authoritarianism, and racial division:  Twitter staff who denied conservatives their right to free speech and eagerly complied with censorship demands from the federal government were described by the Post as milquetoast "liberal employees."  MSNBC says those pushing the tyranny of wokeness are just naughty-sounding "liberal rascals."

Cable News Is Riddled With War Profiteers.  The problem with cable news is that — outside of perhaps Tucker Carlson, who seems genuinely committed to exposing truths and has paid the price for it in the form of the Majority Leader calling for his censorship from the Senate floor — it's not news.  It's state propaganda, by and for the special interests that have purchased the state.  These special interests include big agriculture, big pharma, and, of course, the private weapons manufacturers that comprise the military-industrial complex.

Trust the Science: White people driving cars are poisoning POC in LA.  When earnest reporters at the LA Times got ahold of the study, they couldn't wait to dissect the possible racism contained within.  Make the scientific argle-bargle accessible to your everyday white drivers (aka "THE BAD GUYS") so they would be educated on their transgressions, feel miserable about themselves, self-flagellate, and change their habits of perpetual vehicular oppression.  [Excerpt omitted for brevity, among other things.]  That lad certainly has all the SJW codewords down.  In another column, a second LA Times type waxes on about his drives, how he tries not to drive, and how guilty he should feel every time he drives.

The actual insurrection in DC went unpunished.  For two years now, we have heard about an insurrection that everyone knows was bogus.  The media deliberately lied in its vain attempt to ruin President Donald John Trump — one in a series of attempts by the real deniers of election results.  Tucker Carlson's revelation that the Capitol Police incited peaceful protesters has been dismissed by a media obsessed with lying.  The key to Pravda — the Soviet version of propaganda — was not to get people to believe it, but to get people to stop following the news.  Judging by television ratings in the 21st century, it is working.  It indoctrinates Americans to believe they are powerless and that resistance is futile.  So the lies continue.

Treason of the Science Journals.  At the government level, pandemic preparedness is as much about protecting critical supply chains as it is about administering medical treatments.  What the COVID-19 pandemic showed is that the flow of information, which may be the single most vital resource in the supply chain, is utterly broken.  In many cases, it was actively undermined by senior public health officials including the former chief medical adviser to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci.  New emails released in a congressional probe show that Fauci helped direct the publication of "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," an influential scientific paper published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, that claimed COVID-19 could not have leaked from a laboratory.  Fauci then cited the paper — in effect quoting himself, since he coordinated the article behind the scenes and was given final approval before it published — as if it was an independent source corroborating his assertions that COVID could only have come from a bat and not from a lab.  "There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve," Fauci said at a presidential briefing on April 17, 2020, exactly one month after "Proximal Origin" was published.

AP Promotes Unfounded and Non-Evidenced Israeli Claim That Pro Trump Twitter Accounts Are Bots Attacking DeSantis and Haley.  As many major stories have shown in the past few years, the big battle over human control is taking place on social media platforms as they continue to be manipulated by government agencies.  The Twitter Files released have shown just how extensive the government manipulation of information has become.  The U.S. State Dept, Dept of Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, DOJ, Defense Dept, and a host of ancillary networked agencies and public-private partnership all occupy this space.  Essentially, it is a fight for control of the public psyche.  In addition to the Twitter Files, stories averse to the interests of the state (Hunter Biden laptop) and fake stories created in the interest of the state (Trump-Russia) are all manipulated by the network of intelligence agencies, quasi government actors and the social media platforms.  This is not debated any longer.  There is overwhelming evidence of this reality now.

The Death of Expertise.  The "experts" told us that inflation was transitory, that the Green New Deal would lower energy prices, that trillions in new government spending costs nothing in taxes, and that Joe Biden's crippling recession reflects economic strength.  They told us that free speech is dangerous; that disinformation governance boards don't promote government propaganda; and that government agencies' blacklisting of news sites, social media content, and public dissent is something other than unconstitutional censorship.  They told us that border walls don't work, that skyrocketing illegal immigration is imaginary, that drug-traffickers aren't killing record numbers of Americans, that illegal aliens cost American taxpayers nothing, and that concern for border security is racist.  They told us that the deadly retreat from Afghanistan was a humanitarian success; that NATO has a military obligation to defend non-NATO Ukraine; that Russia blew up its own Nord Stream natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea; that fighting a lethal proxy war with Russia won't increase the likelihood of nuclear conflagration; and that escalating hostilities with Russia, China, and North Korea won't risk sparking World War III.  The "experts" were wrong again and again, but they held the most fashionable opinions.

CNN and Election Disinformation.  My friend and I sometimes argue about media outlets like CNN and MSNBC.  Why do they spread misinformation?
  A.   Are they grossly uninformed?
  B.   Do they know the truth but tell falsehoods anyway?
  C.   Do they think we are stupid or naïve?
My buddy feels that the media outlets know the truth but lie about it.  To me, it is more complicated.  The nice-looking journalists who read the teleprompters are genuinely ignorant.  On the other hand, the news producers probably know the truth but spread misinformation anyway.  Producers are the ones who select the topics, construct the programs, and hire the special analysts.

The Only Thing Conspiratorial About The Covid Lab-Leak Theory Was Media's Coordinated Dismissal Of It.  This week, Democrat activists posing as journalists were forced to admit a hard truth millions of Americans have known for years: The outbreak of the Covid-19 virus most likely came as the result of a lab leak in China. [...] Conservatives, who had considered evidence of a possible lab leak from the beginning, have seen this routine before and remember well the coordinated squelching of a dissenting origin theory.  We know exactly how these same self-professed truth-seekers went out of their way to accuse anyone who considered the possibility that Covid leaked out of a Chinese lab of promoting a "debunked" "conspiracy theory."  "This question about the Wuhan lab — we know it's been debunked, that this virus was man-made or modified or anything like that," then-MSNBC host Kasie Hunt previously said. "The Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis Is A Conspiracy Theory, Not Science," a June 2021 headline from Forbes reads.  Other outlets that attempted to dismiss the theory include NPR, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, CNN, NBC, and The New York Times, just to name a few.

Former Reuters science reporter: The media is lying about CO2 and a "climate crisis".  This corruption of news reporting into narrative journalism has been apparent for years to climate-hysteria skeptics.  Until recently, however, that revolution-by-evolution process hadn't become apparent to most of the rest of the populace.  Now, however, with all sorts of new data coming out about masks and natural immunity in the COVID pandemic, many more people have seen The Science exposed as based entirely on political agenda.  The mainstream-media refusal to cover new and conclusive meta-analyses of scientific studies that refute their three-year narratives in support of government emergency rule now demonstrates that corruption on a much broader scale.

Habitual liars: Democrats and the media blame Trump for Ohio train carnage.  A disastrous chemical spill occurs in East Palestine, Ohio, and Biden and Mayor Pete don't say a word or visit for weeks.  Shouldn't the media stop pretending that Biden is empathetic?  (Had the event involved a firearm, you know they would have been on site in less than 24 hours to exploit the tragedy as a means to a political end.)  After three weeks, President Trump shows up and the media goes into protection mode, blaming him for the carnage, asserting his "deregulations" were to blame[,] even though his rule-cutting had nothing to do with the cause of the wreck.  Yet, even if Trump's policies were to blame, wouldn't that be all the more reason for Biden and Mayor Pete to go?  I mean, they sure love to blame Trump for everything.  If Trump actually undid crucial safety regulations, shouldn't Biden and Mayor Pete have reinstated the measures?  [A recent] article in Politico shows the deplorable priorities of a significant majority of journalists.  They clearly care more about covering up for Biden's incompetence and inaction than they do about the people suffering from the chemical spill.

America Is Becoming a Corrupt Country.  Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 emails and had her staff literally take a hammer to destroy a hard drive.  Who are we to question the purity of her intentions?  The FBI has been corrupted at the top and lied about Donald Trump as candidate and president.  The great American newspapers published these lies — and won Pulitzers for it.  Now, it's clear their journalists were either duped or knowingly dishonest.  Yet, they still have the Pulitzers.  Fifty-one intelligence officials signed a dishonest letter just before the 2020 elections discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop and claiming it was probably a Russian hoax.  So what?  This steady drift toward dishonesty and toleration of blatant open hypocrisy is a cancer at the heart of American culture.

Are Helicopters Racist?  I call your attention to [...] the Los Angeles Times, more particularly a story that ran in the paper's Sunday print edition but appeared online Friday evening.  Los Angeles Police Department and County Sheriff's Department helicopters fly lower over black neighborhoods than others, we are told, causing all manner of misery for those living below.  Left unsaid but implicit in the article is that the only possible explanation for this is racism among the people flying the noisy whirlybirds.  The article is truly a shining example of agenda-driven journalism, in which the reporter, Jeong Park, had to ignore every last bit of relevant information regarding both air traffic control and crime in South Los Angeles so as to assign malign intent among the airborne cops and bring this embarrassment to print.  He even linked to an FAA document he apparently believed supported the argument, but which in fact undercuts it.  The piece's many deficiencies have been brought to the attention of several editors at the paper, yet as of this writing it remains online and uncorrected.

Truth in Government.  Whether it is the mainstream media, the social media giants, academia, Hollywood, or corporate America, these institutions lie about everything.  They lie that climate change is a mortal threat to civilization.  It's not.  In fact, there has been zero warming for the last eight years.  Has the media reported that?  They lie that gun violence is out of control.  It is not.  Americans are safer from guns 2023 more so than at any time in our history.  Your chances of being killed by a gun is lower by orders of magnitude less than your chances of getting hit by lightning.  They lie about abortion involving women's health when it is really the murder of children in the womb.  They lie that the nation has secure borders as millions illegally enter our country including terrorists and drug runners.  They lie that the rich pay no taxes despite the U.S. having the most regressive tax regime in the world where our richest citizens pay a disproportionate percentage of the nation's taxes.  They even lie about basic biology, exploiting the sad plight of victims of gender dysphoria.  In recent years there has been a 4000% increase in young females claiming to be the opposite sex.  Is no one in our vaunted institutions — academia or the media — interested in how this could be happening?  They lie about the police being murderous brutes when the truth is that overwhelmingly the police are honest, brave, and fair public servants doing a thankless job to keep our citizenry safe from criminals.  Americans need to demand truth from all our institutions.

Poll: Half Say Media Intend to Mislead, Misinform Public.  Fifty percent of Americans say the national media intend to mislead, misinform, and persuade the public, as just 35 percent say most news organizations could be relied upon, a Gallup and Knight Foundation poll found Tuesday.  While 50 percent say the national media tried to push a false narrative, only 25 percent say the national media do not intend to mislead, misinform, or persuade the public.  Twenty-three percent neither agreed nor disagreed.

Canadian Broadcast Corporation: 'Freedom' is a Far-Right Rallying Cry.  I find myself at a loss for words after reading an article from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) on how the word "freedom" has become a "far-right" buzzword.  After pondering and deliberating and contemplating and a lot of other synonyms for "thinking" I found in the thesaurus, I eventually decided the best approach to this topic is an honest one.  This is the craziest, crazy-pants article from Crazytown I've ever read. [...] The premise?  The word "freedom" has become a dangerous "rallying cry" for right wingers in the Great White North, and, presumably, beyond.

Panel that awarded Pulitzers for Russiagate stories mum after scathing exposé on reporting failures.  The panel that awarded Pulitzer Prizes to the New York Times and Washington Post for reporting related to the discredited Trump-Russia collusion narrative has gone mum as it faces new scrutiny following publication of a four-part series in the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) documenting the establishment media pillars' lapses from their claimed journalistic standards.  The 19-member Pulitzer Prize board for 2017-2018 was comprised of various journalists, professors and writers, including several current or former staff members of the New York Times or Washington Post.  Just The News reached out to 13 members of the panel to find out if the CJR exposé had prompted second thoughts about the Russiagate prizes.  Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute had an auto reply set, saying he was out of the office, while Steve Coll, former dean of Columbia Journalism School, had an auto-reply saying he is on sabbatical.  None of the other board members replied.

It is no wonder the media has lost the trust of the people.  No matter how many false predictions the UN, Biden, Kerry, Gore, and others make about natural resources causing an existential threat of climate change, the media just repeats the false predictions and calls it settled science.  People who tell the truth that the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally are falsely called climate change deniers to shut them up.  These false predictions are greatly harming the poor and middle class, but the subjective and biased media clearly doesn't care.  The media claims they care about laws and corruption, but they campaign for corrupt, career criminals like the Bidens and the Clintons.  The media claims that no one is above the law and the Justice Department is now an independent agency that doesn't care about political affiliation.  That is the biggest lie of all. [...] Journalists who believe it is their job to push a political agenda instead of reporting objectively and factually is a much dangerous threat to our survival as a great country than anyone who challenges elections.

The Supreme Court Is At The Heart Of America's Racial Division.  If you are trying to make sense of how our nation has become so toxic, a good starting point is the Supreme Court's 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan.  That case radically altered existing law so that, for the first time in our history, it was impossible for any "public figure" to bring a successful defamation suit. [...] Since the 1960s, progressives have been using the race card to demonize and defame their ideological opponents.  In that vein, it would be hard to imagine a more classically defamatory article than that penned the other day by Renée Graham, an associate editor of the Boston Globe:  "Ron DeSantis's Fear of American History."  Graham outrageously slanders DeSantis by claiming that racism motivated him.  She compares DeSantis's refusal to allow the wildly ideological African American Studies AP Course to be taught in Florida to the actions of a slave owner who refused to allow his slaves to learn to read.  It is, she says, an act of "white supremacy."  Graham paints DeSantis as an evil and immoral person.  This relieves her of the burden of addressing the substance of the DeSantis Administration's complaints about the College Board course.  It is enough that she labels him a racist and white supremacist.

Straight Talk on the Latest Riots.  Riots broke out in Memphis and are rapidly spreading through the usual urban areas.  The purported rationale is the horrific beating to death in Memphis of Tyre Nichols captured on video and released by the police.  As Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) observes, Nichols' beating was administered by "Black officers in a majority Black city with a Black police chief."  The officers involved have been criminally charged, but the media to which every Black killed by a cop is just proof that we are still in the Selma, Alabama world of decades ago — another case of some innocent Black person victimized by racist oppressors.  The odious Joy Reid at MSNBC highlighted a guest who blames Nichols' death on "white supremacy" and CNN's Van Jones opined "The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black.  But they still may have been driven by racism."

Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud.  Ambitious media frauds Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair crippled the reputations of the New Republic and New York Times, respectively, by slipping years of invented news stories into their pages.  Thanks to the Twitter Files, we can welcome a new member to their infamous club:  Hamilton 68.  If one goes by volume alone, this oft-cited neoliberal think-tank that spawned hundreds of fraudulent headlines and TV news segments may go down as the single greatest case of media fabulism in American history.  Virtually every major news organization in America is implicated, including NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and the Washington Post.  Mother Jones alone did at least 14 stories pegged to the group's "research."  Even fact-checking sites like Politifact and Snopes cited Hamilton 68 as a source.

Media outlets keep promoting 'forest defenders' and ignoring that they shot a police officer.  I really believed that once the facts of this story came out it would be over.  There was some room for questioning the story of what happened in the forest south of Atlanta initially.  Police told one story and protesters told another.  According to police, they entered the forest to clear out protesters who are trespassing and preventing construction of an approved project.  They found one man under a tent.  They asked him to come out and instead he fired a gun and hit a Georgia State Trooper in the abdomen.  The trooper was taken to a hospital for emergency surgery.  The protester who fired the shot was killed by police.  The alternative story pushed by protesters and their supporters is that the victim had been unarmed and "murdered" by police.  The trooper who was shot?  They strongly suggested he might have been hit by friendly fire.  Since then the official police version of events has been confirmed by evidence and the protesters' version has fallen apart.

Antagonizing the Scapegoats.  [Scroll down] [I]n view of the press' oft-repeated rush to smear its chosen targets, sinister suspicions suggest themselves.  The maudlin interviewer weepily bearing witness to the moving testimony of Jussie Smollett; the glum commentators endlessly recycling the "fine people" hoax; the monotonous chorus solemnly commemorating the all-but-sacred martyrdom of petty thugs like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown; the casual assignment of guilt by accusation (to police officers, the Covington school kids, Kyle Rittenhouse) — all this arouses our suspicion.  Even when these obscene abuses of the public trust are exposed, there is no retraction or apology; the brazen liars simply soldier on.  Perhaps no institution is more conspicuous in its utter moral failure than the contemporary American print, broadcast, and online media. [...] Contemporary journalists are, as a general rule, embarrassingly unimpressive, poorly educated, self-promoting hacks having no understanding of (or loyalty to) the American heritage (a phrase from which many would probably recoil as a "racist dog whistle").  Journalists represent the worst the American university system has to offer a society its brainwashed graduates routinely degrade.  Any truth a media activist deems detrimental (like the Twitter files) is buried.  Any lie deemed serviceable — no matter how dubious the source or implausible the claim — is amplified and promoted.  Every cherished falsehood is blared at the public until it's exposed, then the activist simply trumpets the next serviceable lie (e.g. "Russia Collusion," "hands up, don't shoot," and so on).

Media Claims 'Largely Peaceful Protest' in Atlanta, Mayor Quickly Demolishes That.  Saturday night brought rioting by Antifa people attacking police targets in Atlanta.  Now, the night started with a protest against the police, in the memory of one of their comrades, Manuel Teran.  Teran had been shot and killed by the police after he allegedly shot a cop, when police came to clear protesters out of an area they had been occupying where the city is constructing a police training center.  The radicals have had several people, in multiple incidents, arrested for domestic terrorism at the site, including for throwing Molotov cocktails at the police.

Who You Gonna Call (When the Cops Aren't Allowed to Help You)?  [Scroll down] If you need further evidence that the [Los Angeles] Times story is an advocacy piece, read no further than the first person quoted.  It is Patrisse Cullors, a cousin of Anderson and, though it goes unmentioned in the story, a major beneficiary of the BLM real estate windfall.  "There is no reason why law enforcement should be the first responders at traffic stops or accidents," Cullors said.  There are actually many reasons they should, but the reporter apparently wasn't up to the task of challenging Cullors.  Next comes the canard inevitably raised in stories like this.  Activists argue, says the Times, "that communities of color have historically borne the brunt of such enforcement."  Put aside the fact that in Los Angeles, as in every other city, "communities of color" are those where crime is highest.

What Is the NOTAM? Flights Grounded Across U.S. After Major System Outage.  All flights have been grounded and paused across the U.S. early this morning until 9 a.m. EST after the Federal Aviation Administration's NOTAM (notice to air missions) system failed, causing travel chaos across the country.  The FAA asked in a statement for time "to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information."  The FAA has said it systems was coming back online but that the NOTAM systems was still being restored.

The Editor says...
A NOTAM is a notice to airmen, not a notice to air missions.

Reluctant correction:
The definition of NOTAM  was apparently changed 12/2/2021 to be more politically correct.

Here's the Problem With Mike Rogers 'Lunging' at Matt Gaetz on the House Floor.  In the midst of the battle over Kevin McCarthy becoming Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Rogers set newsrooms ablaze by "lunging" at Rep. Matt Gaetz.  At the time, Gaetz and others had just finished securing major concessions from McCarthy, and one ballot later, the deal would finally be sealed.  On the prior ballot, though, Rogers, who is set to chair the Armed Services Committee, was apparently angered by Gaetz voting present and chose to lash out.  Because Gaetz was on the receiving end of the rage, the press largely took Rogers' side, exuding a "serves him right" attitude about the ordeal.  That's not a shock given the press will take the side of essentially anyone who opposes someone they themselves oppose.

2022, Perhaps the Apex Year for an Era of Pretending.  In an era of great pretending, when you speak factual and pain truth, people thirsting will come for the sanity.  Yes, there's only so much hypocritical nuttery that can possibly fit into the social fabric of a nation, and we're full.  I see that dynamic starting to play out now.  Mainstream media are openly mocked everywhere for being the Baghdad Bob's they are.  The MSM credibility and influence essentially destroyed by the Potemkin villages and Eco-chambers they built around themselves.  The congressional J6 committee is yet another example of a proclaimed thermonuclear ICBM missile that ended up delivering a contrasting reality.  The fading whistle & pop akin to a dysfunctional bottle rocket.

Why you can't trust 'the science' about anything anymore.  To those who still care about science as a process that uses honest data to produce replicable results, the last couple of decades has been disheartening when it comes to everything from so-called "Anthropogenic Climate Change," to COVID's origins and treatments, to so-called "transgenderism."  Still, we consoled ourselves that there were certain things so cut-and-dried that they could not yield to politics.  For example, how certain diseases affect men and women differently.  A monkeypox study in The Lancet blows even that faint hope to smithereens.  There is something bizarre about a Lancet article entitled "Human monkeypox virus infection in women and non-binary individuals during the 2022 outbreaks: a global case series."  It had all the earmarks of a reputable study. [...] The fact that it referred to non-binary individuals was a bit concerning, but the casual reader would assume that the article focused on biological women, no matter what they claimed to be.  After all, we've long known that diseases affect men and women differently, including the fact that men and women perceive the onset of a heart attack in very different ways.  That makes sense, given that men and women have different organs, bone structures, and hormones.  The devil, as always, is in the details.  It turns out that almost half of the "women" involved in this study about monkeypox in women... were men.

Keystone Pipeline Allowed to Reopen, Media Continues Lying about Spill.  The Keystone Pipeline runs from Alberta to Houston, almost in a straight line south down "Tornado Alley" in America's midwest, running from North Dakota to Texas.  The overall pipeline is 2,687 miles long, is owned by TC Energy, and carries 860,000 barrels of oil per day through its 30 inch diameter tubes.  The current price of oil per barrel is roughly $80.  So the pipeline is moving roughly $68.8 million worth of oil through its pipeline every day, or $25.1 billion per year.  The pipeline shut down on December 7th after a spill of 14,000 barrels of oil in rural North Kansas.  The Calgary, Canada-based company received permission from the Biden administration on Friday to reopen the pipeline, though it did not give a definitive date when it would restart.

A Life Beyond the State.  According to one estimate, the average American adult, whether on the right or the left, spends almost 12 hours a day watching and listening to media, much of it news and political commentary.  This interaction with media is largely a one-way street.  Viewers are not engaged in active discussion or thought; they are told what to think, even as they are encouraged to "like" and "follow."  With most media, such as the mainstream news channels or morning shows, they are harangued by anchors who raise their voices, lift their eyebrows, and employ all sorts of other gestures and expressions to end the discussion even as they read the "news."  Viewers are made to feel that they are ignorant or immoral if they dare to disagree.  This has certainly been the case from the beginning with reporting on COVID, when liberal media endorsed the Chinese lie that the disease originated in a "wet market" and followed up with a string of justifications for lockdowns and restrictions, including long-term school closures.  As with everything else, liberal media served as the handmaiden of the State.  This dependence on media is deadly for the life of democracy.

The 'Twitter Files' are the final nail in the media's credibility.  The vicious and coordinated attacks by mainstream news figures against independent journalist Matt Taibbi in recent days reinforce an essential point about the American news media: they think we are all drooling idiots.  Their response to Taibbi's release of the Twitter Files, which details the company's calculated suppression of a major news story in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, underscores this exceedingly low estimation of its audience.  Outlets like MSNBC and the New York Times seem to hope the American public is ignorant of the fact that they got every aspect of the Hunter Biden laptop story wrong from the start.  While real journalists tenaciously reported the facts, such as the New York Post's Miranda Devine , a disinformation machine comprised of Biden campaign officials, intelligence officials, liberal journalists, and Twitter higher-ups (with the omission of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who was strangely left out of the loop) acted in brazen coordination to suppress the story.

MSM: Democrats Can't Be Election Deniers.  There's always a double standard for the radical left.  There's always a reason why it's "different" when Democrats say something racist, break the law, or question the results of an election.  Case in point:  Time magazine published an article claiming that Republicans who dub House Minority leader-elect Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) an "election denier" are wrong in doing so.  There's no doubt that Jeffries is an election denier.  We have the receipts.  He is actually one of many Democrats who have called Donald Trump an illegitimate president.  According to Time, the term "election denier" has become associated with Republicans who say the 2020 election was stolen because they "assert without evidence there was fraud in 2020 voting."  But the author says that calling Jeffries an "election denier" is misleading and "conflates different issues."  The real issue, which goes unsaid in the article, is that Jeffries and others in his party who have routinely denied the results of presidential elections won by Republicans are Democrats.  Since 2000, every single presidential election won by a Republican has been called "illegitimate" by Democrats.

Leftist Journo Still Believes Hunter Laptop Is Russian Misinformation and Trump Colluded with Russia.  In 2020, when we first learned about Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell," we all knew it was real.  It wasn't until after the 2020 election was over that the mainstream media slowly but surely started to concede the laptop was genuine, but at least one left-wing journalist still thinks the laptop story is dubious.  David Corn, the D.C. bureau chief of Mother Jones and an MSNBC analyst, apparently still believes that the laptop isn't legit.

The Media Undertakers Must be Getting Exhausted.  Among the stories Twitter actively blocked was that of the salacious Hunter Biden laptop contents.  So shocking was the material on this laptop, so revealing of the perversity of Hunter and the corruption of Joe Biden, that one post-election survey reports that 16% of persons who voted for Biden said they would not have had they known of the contents of this laptop.  One major newspaper, the NY Post, did publish a story about it, and several online posters did as well.  The most detailed, should you care to see for yourself what was on the laptop, is [elsew]here.  The laptop reveals not only sexual depravity and illegal drug use, but corruption and influence buying as well.  Taibbi reports "Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be 'unsafe'."  The only person it was unsafe for was Joe Biden, the Democrat party's presidential candidate[.]  Even then, White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about it.  Several insiders questioned what was going on and received the untrue defense that the material was removed because it violated the company's "hacked materials" policy.  The laptop was never hacked.  It was abandoned by Hunter, then was unlocked while in the possession of the NY Post, and it and its contents are authentic.  At any other time in history of which I am aware such a scandal would have been front-page news in the weeks preceding an election.

Vicious dogma.  The COVID pandemic is just a flash in the pan when compared to the dogmatic hysteria surrounding most aspects of weather and climate.  When CBS News periodically covered the enormous blanket of snow that recently fell on Buffalo, NY and environs, they would then immediately jump to coverage of the world climate conference (COP 27) at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.  The abrupt juxtaposition caused me to burst out laughing.  Never once was it mentioned that the historically significant northeast blizzard happened a month before the beginning of winter, i.e., the middle of autumn.  Just about every news story regarding floods, wildland fires, drops in lake and river levels, high tides, etc. winds up including "climate change" as a significant component.  In this year's political season, even candidates for city council included climate activism in their proposed agendas.  Imagine, local political hacks saving their constituents from the weather.

McCarthy: Twitter Disclosures Show Biden Doesn't Want Free Speech, I Wonder What Facebook, Google Are Hiding.  On Friday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Jesse Watters Primetime," House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reacted to disclosures on Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by saying he thinks the disclosures are just the tip of the iceberg, he wonders what internal machinations at Facebook and Google have been hidden, and the disclosures show "why the White House is going after Elon.  They do not want him to tell the truth and they do not want to have free speech."

FTX scammer gets kid gloves treatment by the media.  Sam Bankman-Fried, who often goes by SBF, has been doing a media tour to rehabilitate his reputation after scamming his customers out of billions of dollars.  It's actually going very well indeed for him.  Unsurprisingly so, since his victims were average folks and he spread his ill-gotten gains around to the media and the Democrat politicians. [...] It really has been remarkable how easily SBF has been treated.  His scam wasn't penny ante — it was large enough to rank among the largest ever pulled off.  In less than 3 years he managed to build an empire, acquire the naming rights to the Miami Heat stadium, partner with Mercedes Benz, advertise his wares with some of the biggest stars in the world, become the 2nd-largest donor to the Democrats after George Soros, and be lionized by the media as a savior figure.

IRS Watchdog Destroys Media Claim That Trump Ordered Audits of James Comey and Andrew McCabe.  Liberal media outlets like the New York Times and MSNBC claimed former President Donald Trump ordered audits of former FBI chiefs James Comey and Andrew McCabe for political payback.  According to the Internal Revenue Service's internal watchdog, that's not true.  The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration determined that the IRS randomly selected Comey and McCabe for audits of their tax returns from 2017 and 2019 as part of a program the IRS uses to refine its technology, according to a report released Thursday.  The watchdog found no evidence of malfeasance on the part of Trump or any Trump-appointed officials.

Google Gives Millions To Boost Leftist Disinformation Peddlers Of Legacy Media.  Google and its subsidiary YouTube just gave a $13.2 million grant to the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network to combat "misinformation," in the Big Tech sites' "single largest grant in fact-checking" yet and the latest instance of the medical, political, and media establishments tightening their grip on the free-flowing digital public square.  For years, the world's elites have been trying to recapture the control they lost to the free flow of information on the internet.  They've shelled out millions for celebrities like Prince Harry to slander the First Amendment and hand-wring about an alleged "disinformation" crisis.  They've pressured individual tech companies to ban content, people, and entire platforms.  The Biden administration even tried implementing its own, now-defunct "Ministry of Truth," all to convince us that freedom of speech and inquiry is somehow dangerous and that the threat can only be neutralized by "trusted" experts seizing dominance of the information exchange.

Now the Truth Can Be Told.  In focusing on America's rising rates of violent crime leading up to the midterm elections, Republicans were routinely accused of playing a dirty trick on voters.  "We don't really have a common definition of what crime means," crime-statistics analyst Jeff Asher asserted in an October interview with NPR.  Apparently, the range of activities that constituted a violation of statute made it difficult to discern what voters meant when they said "crime."  And when "crime" wasn't a nebulous concept that eluded the unsophisticated, it was cast as a problem presided over by Republicans.

Our Lying Idiot Media Really Is That Dumb.  It's not just that the media lies all the time in the service of its cause, but that its wretches no longer have the skill or even understanding to tell the lies apart from the truth.  And so they simplify matters in the timeless fashion of extremists by declaring everything they believe to be the truth and everything that they disagree with to be a lie.  Or disinformation.  Faced with Hunter Biden's laptop, they phone up a few experts from their contact list who tell them what they want to hear and the media proclaims it's Russian disinformation.  Faced with actual Russian disinformation accusing Trump of frolicking with prostitutes in Moscow, they cheerfully amplify it as loudly as they can.  And they are too dumb to even know any better.  Like their old Pravda predecessors in Moscow, they don't know anything except the party line.

NPR says bombs in Israel are "rare." They aren't, but the truth doesn't serve their narrative.  These are not "rare" events.  There are an average of more than one pipe bomb every day this year.  If NPR was doing its job, it would have known this information and reported on it way before deadly bombs exploded in Jerusalem.  And it is pretty obvious that the "rare" statement was meant to downplay Palestinian terror, and to avoid mentioning that this has been the bloodiest year for Israelis since 2015, and second deadliest since 2009.

FTX now right-wing according to Forbes.  I kid you not.  FTX — the crypto-fraud firm that just collapsed — is the brainchild of Sam Bankman-Fried, the second largest Democrat donor in the country.  He helped find Joe Biden's campaign, contributing more than any other than our old friend George Soros.  He spent $40 million on Democrats, and promised them $1 billion to help win the 2024 presidential campaign. [...] What is hilarious about this — actually there are many things hilarious about this — is that FTX is actually a darling of Forbes Magazine, who helped it vault to the top of the crypto world.  Forbes hyped the company, hyped Sam Bankman-Fried as a genius, and along with the New York Times turned SBF into a hero, genius inventor.  To the extent that Caroline the fraud was enabled, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, and the New York Times were the chief enablers.

Yesterday's conspiracy theories are today's legacy media news reports.  [Thread reader] NBC Bay Area reporter @BigadShaban reported on the Pelosi attack based on source who saw body cam footage.  It was almost identical to what Miguel Almaguer said 11/4 that got him suspended.  DA says Pelosi will "need to explain... why he did what he did" [...] WashPost reports after all that "secret docs!" drama, Trump raid produced basically nothing of interest. [...] NBC reports the January 6 committee will ignore "law enforcement failures" in final report, instead making it all about Trump. [...] NYT reports the #2 man in the Oath Keepers, Greg McWhirter, was actually an FBI informant, talking to them for months ahead of the Capitol attack.  Oh the day he was supposed to testify in the Rhodes trial, McWhirter, 40, had a heart attack & couldn't. [...] If you said any of this — about January 6 and the FBI, Paul Pelosi, the Trump raid, SBF's virtue signaling — you would have been accused of being a conspiracy theorist.  And now, in the post-midterms news cycle... they are all just true.  Period.

Progressive 'Journalists' Claim Georgia Is Limiting Voting to Celebrate Robert E. Lee.  [Scroll down] In fact, Stacey Abrams, the Voting Rights Maven™, voted for the law about which these people are complaining.  As of this writing, none of the aforementioned media activists have bothered to correct their original tweets with the correct information.  Why not?  Because they are not journalists, they are activists.  Their aim is to influence, not inform.  Sure, we expect authentic reporters to make mistakes from time to time.  But one of the signs that an individual in the media is trying to practice journalism is how they respond when they mess up.  In this case, these folks didn't correct their error because the reality is that none of them care about the truth.  Their audience believes Georgia is stopping voting in order to honor a Confederate general, and that is just fine with them.  No wonder trust in the media is at an all-time low.

We Need To Talk About What Didn't Happen On Election Day.  A number of noteworthy things did not happen on Election Day 2022.  Everyone knows the red wave didn't happen.  But that isn't all that didn't happen.  The chaos at the polls that was going to be caused by the presence of citizen poll watchers did not happen.  Despite being hysterically predicted (hoped for?) over the past 18 months by reporters who wrote the same story with some version of the same headline [...] Every story breathlessly claimed that having citizen observers engaged in the election process was a "threat to democracy," with NBC News warning in early November, "Election officials are bracing for conspiracy-fueled threats — while still hoping for the best..."  The Biden administration did its part to sow seeds of dissension by launching in June 2021 a national hotline at the FBI for reporting "threats to election officials and workers," creating a task force to address "threats against election workers."  But nary a word from Attorney General Merrick Garland about protecting poll watchers, even though federal law makes it a crime to injure, intimidate, or interfere with poll watchers.  Every training conducted by those of us doing such training included instruction about behavior, and that they must be "Peaceful.  Lawful.  Honest."  Yet, without evidence, the closer we got to Election Day, the more hysterical the headlines became, warning of violence at the polls resulting from too many observers watching the process.

Voter Suppression: ABC, CBS Cast Doubt on Midterms, Blaming Violent Right-Wingers.  On Monday morning ahead of Tuesday's almost certain Republican tsunami at the ballot box, ABC's Good Morning America and CBS Mornings moved away from a fixation on abortion or vague warnings about the fate of democracy if voters choose incorrectly.  Instead, they engaged in voter suppression by hinting a vote for Republicans could be enabling violent individuals who'd cause violence and/or cause serious doubts to be raised about our country's future.

Six Reasons Corporate Media Failed to Frame MAGA for Paul Pelosi Incident.  [#5]  The media are trying to frame us for a crime they support — the physical assault of politicians.  [Numerous tweets]  Do the corporate media honestly believe we have forgotten how they laughed and made jokes about a Democrat assaulting Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)?  Do the media honestly believe we have forgotten how after Rep. Steve Scalise was shot by a Democrat assassin, they dropped the story after 18 hours?  Do the media believe we have forgotten how they blamed Trump for the leftists who caused violence at his rallies or how they ignored the firebombing of countless pregnancy centers, the SWAT-ing of Republican politicians, and told us Antifa attacks on state capitols were mostly peaceful?  And do the media honestly believe we have forgotten how after the terrorists in Black Lives Matter and Antifa wounded up to 50(!) Secret Service agents during a 2020 attack on the White House, the corporate media ridiculed Trump over reports of him being rushed to a secure location?

Could [Democrat] Politics Be Even More Childish?  Within the press, the demise of our political system is a talking point that must be repeated.  Jane Pauley, a longtime media operative for the Democratic Party, has tried to convince voters "the very future of our democracy" is in the balance in next week's elections.  Former Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote last spring that "democracy is at stake" because the Republicans will lead a coup in 2024 to ensure the GOP presidential nominee is declared the winner of that election.  More recently, MSNBC political analyst and one-time New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas put the left's madness on full display.  He has decided that the midterms are "a contest between part of the country that believes in continued and expanded liberal democracy, effort to pursue a more perfect union, and a part of the country that is now attracted to the idea of fascism in the United States."  And of course the New York Times can't help itself.  It's screaming that "many voters" are "frustrated and resigned" because they have "fears" over the "fate of democracy."  If they do, it's because the media, in their constant campaigning for Democrats, have unleashed the torrent of lies.

Left-Wing Media Insists the Parrot Isn't Dead.  It's Just Resting.  In a couple of weeks, John Fetterman will be back home in Braddock, Penn., in his loft apartment, playing with his kids and continuing to recover from what we now know was a devastating stroke.  It's what he should have been doing since he suffered the stroke in May.  But because he and his campaign hid the severity of his condition from the media, his party, and especially his opponent, Mehmet Oz, it came as a shock to see the 49-year-old giant of a man in such a confused state.  Whether it was due to hubris or simple denial of reality, Fetterman's vulnerabilities were exposed for all to see.  That is, everyone but a certain segment of the left-wing media that is working very hard to tell us that we didn't see what we actually saw, that Fetterman didn't do that badly.

Seven Times the Media Lied about 'Disinformation' that was True.  Just about every time the mainstream media tells you that something is "disinformation," it turns out that it's the media that is pushing the lies.  Last week, Just the News put together a list of seven important times that the media told everyone something was "disinformation," but that later turned out to be true.  The list includes:
  •   Hunter Biden's Laptop
  •   The origins of COVID-19
  •   COVID-19 vaccines
  •   Pelosi's Jan. 6 role and calling in the National Guard
  •   The mistreatment of Jan. 6 defendants
  •   Irregularities in the 2020 election
  •   Critical race theory in schools

UPI hiding the decline in order to promote climate change agenda.  Last week, I ran across a UPI story that left me scratching my head.  Titled "In a surprise, global greenhouse gas emissions seem to be on the decline" by Daniel J. Graeber, it's purportedly evidence that there's good news on the climate change front.  The Joe Biden Inflation Reduction Act has caused a bunch of people to buy electric cars, and that, along with wind farms and increased solar capacity, shows we may have turned the corner on climate change, according to data.  Except here's the problem.  The data suggests no such thing.

The Mainstream Media Lied to Me About Conservatives.  Looking back, when I was a Democrat, I never personally knew any Republicans or conservatives yet my entire perception of what they stood for was based on left-leaning media filtering.  I felt that I was being informed when I was being highly misinformed about what an entire political spectrum generally believes and advocates for.  Even more so, as a black man, I bought into the bad-faith political position that "all Republicans & conservatives are racist".

Democrats Whistle Past the Graveyard.  November is almost upon us, and the consensus among credible election analysts is that any momentum the Democrats enjoyed this summer has evaporated.  Despite implausible claims about the ephemeral "Dobbs effect," the election was always destined to be about inflation, crime, immigration, and President Joe Biden's job performance — all issues that favor Republicans.  Yet the Democrats and the corporate media continue to engage in magical thinking about the midterms.  Their latest fantasy involves an all-but-extinct creature known as the "split-ticket voter."  After telling us for years that political polarization has rendered such voters very rare, publications such as the Washington Post have suddenly decided that they could be pivotal this year in several key battleground states.  Oddly enough, a number of corporate media outlets have simultaneously come to the same conclusion.

Using a "fact check" to deceive.  "Fact checks" are almost always intended to deceive or distract you.  During the Trump Administration, every "fact checker" in America needed you to know that every bit of hyperbole Donald Trump spewed out was a "lie," not an intentional exaggeration for effect and that the Babylon Bee was not a credible news source.  Fact checks, in other words, are about spinning you.  Misleading you.  Burning up straw men and then declaring victory.

Leftist Newspaper Lies about First-Trimester Abortion.  The leftist publication The Guardian published images of gestational tissue from the first nine weeks of pregnancy and misleadingly called it an embryo.  An article titled "What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks — in pictures," featured eight photos of the gestational sac, implying that it was an embryo, even though the embryo was removed during the abortion.  "Each of the images in the article shows a gestational sac but clearly the embryonic and fetal human beings have been removed from the images," OB-GYN Christina Francis told the Daily Caller.

Democrats take 'fake news' to new lows.  Democrats are expanding their misinformation campaign, devising new avenues to promote a false narrative.  In a stunning revelation, The Washington Examiner reported that over the course of the last year, Democrats have launched fake "local media outlets" to swing elections in favor of their candidates. [...] They've stooped to literal fake news outlets to promote themselves, which some might consider election interference, all while they lecture the public about the threat of Republicans and continue with the January 6 theatrical performance.  WaPo — which seeks to elect Democrats and push the leftist agenda everyday — complains about newspapers who push a partisan agenda.  They hilariously act like they are unbiased.  Yet, the WaPo and the NYT both won Pulitzers for peddling lies about Russia collusion for years.  How many times does the media have to see the absolute corruption and partisanship of the FBI as they target Trump and other Republicans with fictional crimes, while protecting criminals like Hillary and Biden, before they tell the public the truth instead of pretending that they are apolitical and that no one is above the law?

Huge percentage of Americans have 'no trust' in newspapers, TV, radio.  According to Gallup, nearly 4 in 10 Americans (38%) have "no trust" in America's media, including newspapers, TV and radio.  The political divide is stark.  Only 14% of Republicans and 27% of independents trust the media, but 70% of Democrats, whose agenda largely has been adopted by reporters and publishers, trust the media.  Overall, 34% of respondents trust the mass media to report the news "fully, accurately and fairly."  But "Just 7% of Americans have 'a great deal' of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have 'a fair amount,'" the poll said.  At the other end of the scale, 28% say they do not have very much confidence and 38% say they have "none at all."

Reuters "fact check:"  We never said the vaccines would prevent anything.  There has been a considerable amount of understandable buzz and unrest making the rounds since a Pfizer executive was forced to admit to a European Union conference that they never tested their COVID vaccine to see if it would actually prevent infections or halt the transmission of the virus prior to it being rushed onto the market and mandated almost universally.  This has left many health officials and elected officials with pie on their faces and vocal sectors of the public demanding answers.  Stepping into the breach to quell the uproar this weekend is Reuters, publishing yet another one of their infamous "fact checks" to clear the matter up.

Hours Before Decrying 'Horrifying Images,' Mayorkas Was Told CBP Agents Did Not Whip Haitian Migrants.  You may recall an incident last year in which Leftists from Biden, all the way down to your neighbor with the "In This House We Believe" sign became absolutely apoplectic over the cruel and sadistic border agents riding down Haitian immigrants and whipping them.  Whipping them, I say!  Comparisons were even made to antebellum slavery as the Left worked itself into a full-on foaming-at-the-mouth rage.  Except, of course, that wasn't the case.  The agents were using the reins to control the horses and no immigrants were harmed.  There even were pictures of immigrant children petting the horses.  The truth eventually came out and of course was largely ignored by the media, Democrat politicians, and your neighbor.  But as it turned out, the government knew that the allegations were false, but decided to let the narrative take its course.

Ukraine and the Malevolent Legacy of the Obama-Biden Administration.  During the current Ukrainian war, the media has created a mythology that the Left was tough on Vladimir Putin's Russia.  And thus, now it simply continues its hard-nosed efforts in Ukraine.  But nothing could be further from the truth. [...] Indeed, many of America's current difficulties in Ukraine originate from the Obama-Biden Administration's former disastrous policies toward Russia birthed between 2009 [and] 2016.

Democrats Run 50+ 'Local' News Sites in Swing States to Spread 'Fact-Based' Propaganda.  Democrats are reportedly running dozens of "quasi-local" news sites across multiple swing states, producing pro-Democrat and anti-Republican content under a veneer of non-partisanship.  At least 51 of these "local" news sites across 10 swing states are being run by Local Report Inc., founded last year in Florida, Axios reported.  Six writers from "progressive" Washington-based The American Independent have also contributed to most or even all of the websites, according to Axios.  Many of their articles appear exclusively on the news sites, although the sites aggregate content from other sources as well.

Dem Operatives Behind Network Of Fake News Pop-Up Sites In Battleground States: Report.  Democratic operatives are flooding battleground states with more than 50 supposedly local media outlets that are really designed to promote liberal candidates, according to a bombshell investigation by Axios.  One man linked to the scheme is David Brock, the one-time conservative journalist who did a 180-degree turn and founded Media Matters For America, the controversial nonprofit that attacks conservative news sites.  Axios' investigative reporters Lachlan Markay and Thomas Wheatley say the operation uses a "patina of independent local news content designed to put a sheen of original reporting on partisan messaging."  The 51 pop-up sites have names such as the Milwaukee Metro Times, Macomb Digest, Mecklenburg Herald, and the Tri-City Record, and are aimed at key swing states Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin, according to the report.

Democrats are operating a series of 51 'fake news' websites pushing left-wing stories in toss-up states.  A liberal political media operation being run out of Washington, D.C., and Florida is pushing left-wing stories in 51 different fake news outlets in order to influence the outcome of the November midterm elections, it is claimed.  The allegations came in a shocking new investigation from Axios that was published on Thursday.  The report alleges that in the past 12 months, multiple new 'news' website have appeared across the country, all run by a company named Local Report Inc.  They do report a wide variety of stories — but sprinkled throughout are news items pushing Democrat lawmakers and policies.

Media Falsely Links Hurricanes to Climate Change.  Here Are the Facts.  As Florida deals with the cleanup from Hurricane Ian — which ravaged the state, killed hundreds, and displaced thousands more — media outlets have peddled the idea that this tragedy is the result of climate change.  Some even suggested that Florida shouldn't get aid because some of its elected officials oppose federal legislation that would pump billions of dollars into various green initiatives.  The New York Times ran a piece headlined "Florida Leaders Rejected Major Climate Laws.  Now They're Seeking Storm Aid."  The subheadline read, "Senior Republican politicians in the state have opposed federal action against global warming, which is making storms like Hurricane Ian more destructive."  The Times report said that while Republicans in the state are requesting aid, they "don't want to discuss the underlying problem that is making hurricanes more powerful and destructive."  What was the cause, according to the Times?  "The burning of fossil fuels."  Of course.

Do Republicans Cause Hurricanes?  With the grim inevitability of Greek tragedy, three things always happen when a hurricane makes landfall in the United States.  First, the storm will be touted by the corporate media as evidence that anthropogenic climate change presents an existential threat to humanity and the planet.  Second, anyone who dares question the accuracy of this claim will be either ignored or denounced as a dangerous anti-science "denier."  Third, if the hurricane happens to hit a state with a GOP governor, he will be blamed for causing any resultant death and destruction.  In the case of Hurricane Ian, all three commenced more than 24 hours before the storm actually arrived in Florida.

The Media's Coverage of Hurricane Ian Proves They Think You're Stupid.  Democrats want to convince you that they can somehow control the weather and that all we need to do to prevent natural disasters is give them power.  That's either unmitigated hubris coming from Democrats or malicious lies.  Maybe both?  [Video clip]

'Absolutely Fake News': Even Liberal Former PM Dismisses 'Fascism' Brewing in Italy Claims.  Former liberal Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi has dismissed alarmist claims in the global media that incoming Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is a "danger to democracy", telling CNN "the idea that now there is a risk of fascism in Italy is absolutely fake news."  "Personally, I was against Giorgia Meloni.  I'm not her best friend.  We grew up together in politics, but we are, and will be, rivals, always," said Renzi, who served as Prime Minister of Italy for nearly three years until December 2016, and is the leader of the liberal "Italia Viva" party.  "At the same time, I think [Meloni] is not a danger [to] Italian democracy," Renzi continued.  "She is my rival, and we will continue to fight each other, but the idea that now there is a risk of fascism in Italy is absolutely fake news."

Gavin Newsom's laughable gripe about conservative media bias.  You have to admire the chutzpah of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who ludicrously claimed last weekend that Democrats were at a disadvantage because conservative media controls the story.  Really!  "These guys are ruthless on the other side.  Ruthless on the other side," Newsom said. "That prime-time lineup by Fox, they are ruthless.  They dominate the most important thing in American politics today, and that's the narrative.  Facts become secondary to narrative.  They dominate with illusion.  We are getting crushed."  It's the ultimate in projection.  On story after story, the media follow Democratic talking points to the letter.  Asking for young children not to be taught about sex becomes "Don't say gay."  Crime-ridden Democratic cities?  They're not that bad, the press says.  As Post columnist Michael Goodwin pointed out on Sunday, nowhere is this more true than with immigration.  The media have ignored or minimized the flood of illegal migrants, and ask no hard questions on President Biden's open-border policies.

Media midterm games at border.  If you're trying to understand why Democrats are making a comeback in polls despite President Biden's many failures, look no further than the political firestorm over the crisis at the southern border.  The battle offers a case study of how the media shapes public opinion by magnifying left-wing talking points, ignoring key facts and distorting conservative criticism.

It's Time to Stop the Left's 'Fact Check' Scheme.  [Scroll down] Both examples above are how the modern "fact-checking" regime works.  They don't like your opinion, so they add "context" that wasn't there in the first place, then disprove the context they added, knowing you will be flagged and possibly suspended from social media.  It seems impossible, but this is how modern-day fascism has crept into our society.  When considering where we have landed as a society, I always think of the book-burning scene in Indiana Jones.  In the scene, Nazi soldiers are throwing every book they disagree with on a massive fire and celebrating the destruction of opposing opinions.  Modern-day book burning doesn't look as dirty.  In my case, two young female "journalists" named Mariah and Kyley attempted to eliminate my opinion from society, most likely while sipping on a $7 latte in a trendy coffee shop in Brooklyn.

Miami Herald Warns That Christian Rhetoric Could 'Mobilize Fringe Mobs'.  The Miami Herald has discovered something about Republican politicians, and boy, is it a problem.  You may want to sit down for this one.  GOP politicians who are Christians use scripture in their speeches. [...] I know.  You're not really shocked or appalled, but this information came as news to the Miami Herald's Ana Ceballos, particularly when it comes to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who Ceballos' article says is "playing with fire."  The reporter goes all the way back to February to cite a speech DeSantis made at Hillsdale College to make her point.

The Political Party That's Built On Lies.  The Democrats' tower of lies has been constructed with the help of the media, which outside of a few exceptions, are no longer objective, or even pretend to be, and are instead propagandists for the party they are loyal to.  In just the last six years the media have perpetuated the stolen-by-Russia 2016 presidential election lie, the Stacey Abrams I'm-the-real-governor-of-Georgia lie, and the lie that the incriminating information on Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.  The press also lies about policies, casting Democrats' ideas in the best light possible, the Republicans' policies in the worst.  A recent and especially egregious example:  Both the Democrats and the media have been calling Florida's Parental Rights in Education law the Don't Say Gay Bill, a gross and intentional mischaracterization intended to vilify and poison.  Rather than promote freedom and prosperity, Democrats' policies enslave and impoverish middle and lower America while at the same time prop up the leftist ruling class and its cronies.  But no one would know this by listening to the media and their handlers in the party.

Zuckerberg's Admission Of FBI Meddling In 2020 Election Is Even Bigger Than It Seems.  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's admission last week that the FBI pushed the social media giant to censor Russian misinformation — and thus the Hunter Biden laptop story, as that's how the agency and Democrats characterized it — shortly before the November 2020 election is but a breadcrumb of a bigger scandal: the widespread interference by the FBI in the 2020 presidential election with the potential that the bureau coordinated its efforts with the Biden campaign.  When asked during a Thursday podcast with Joe Rogan how Facebook handles controversial news, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story, Zuckerberg stopped his host to provide a backdrop to Facebook's decision to decrease distribution of the scandal.

FBI Reportedly Said to 'Routinely' Work with Social Media Companies to Censor 'Threat Info'.  Collusion between government and Big Tech goes deeper than Joe Biden's incompetence.  The FBI reportedly responded to the revelation it pressured Facebook to censor during the 2020 election by saying that the agency "routinely" works with social media companies to target "potential threat information."  The FBI "cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received," but does coordinate with "social media providers" to moderate content, according to an Aug. 26 FBI statement reported by Reclaim The Net.  This revelation comes after multiple efforts by various arms of the Biden administration to increase censorship leading up to the 2022 midterms.  The FBI claimed, according to Reclaim The Net, it "routinely notifies U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers, of potential threat information, so that they can decide how to better defend against threats."  How many companies is the federal government working with to censor free speech?

The Economic News Is All Bad, And The American Public Knows It.  Reporters and analysts are getting used to describing news about the U.S. economy as "mixed."  The public, however, knows it's all bad, because the results of President Joe Biden's economic and energy policies are hitting Americans right in their pocketbooks.  The latest ostensibly good news was Thursday's Bureau of Economic Analysis report that the second quarter decline in U.S. gross domestic product was a little less than previously stated: -0.6% instead of -0.9%.  That's good only if your definition of success is slightly slower failure.  The reality is that the U.S. economy is in serious decline and getting worse.

LA Times columnist blames Trump for crime in California.  It's hardly a secret that the crime rates in California are out of control.  We've been talking about this tragic fact here until we're blue in the face.  The critical question that everyone needs to be asking is "why." How did things get so far out of control?  Los Angeles Times columnist Anita Chabria gamely took a stab at the question on Friday.  She first listed the correct collection of suspects sharing the blame, including permissive, soft-on-crime laws and the permissive, soft-on-crime officials who enact and enforce those laws.  But she then sweeps those answers away and reveals the real culprit.  Clearly, the wave of killings and other crimes in the state of California is the fault of the Bad Orange Man.  Yes, folks, the person who has not been in office for more than nineteen months and has never lived in the Golden State must be at fault.

Mark Zuckerberg Admits On Joe Rogan That Facebook Censored The Hunter Laptop Story At The Request Of The FBI.  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that before the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, the social media giant received a warning from the FBI which prompted Facebook to limit the story's reach on the platform ahead of the 2020 presidential election.  The billionaire tech mogul said the FBI approached Facebook and warned it "be vigilant" before the New York Post story on the contents in Joe Biden's son's laptop.  [Video clip]

Zuckerberg's Meta going all in in censorship as the midterm election nears.  Meta, the corporate parent of Facebook, has announced its plans to control the flow of information on the site where most voters get their news.  You see, the public has to be protected from "misinformation" and the omniscient sages of Meta are just the folks to decude what is and isn't worthy of being shared with the public. [...] I am so old that I remember when the free flow of information was regarded as key to the democratic process.  But the ruling interests in the United States have decided otherwise, and as long as people default to using Facebook and Twitter for their communications, they will be sheep, herded by the oligarchs.

Trump-deranged media races again to tarnish ex-prez via unnamed sources.  In the wake of the FBI raid on ex-President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, The Washington Post and New York Times are running breathless, anonymously sourced stories suggesting "grave" Trump misdeeds.  Have they learned nothing about crying wolf?  "Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought" in the raid, the WaPo reported, revealing nothing about the biases of its unnamed sources who have full license to distort or even lie — as similar anonymous sources did for years during the "Russiagate" fiasco.

Media is back to anonymous, one-source stories on Trump that we can't trust anymore.  It feels like old times.  In the wake of the FBI raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, the mainstream media are in a feeding frenzy the likes of which we haven't seen since he exited the White House.  The usual suspects, like The New York Times and Washington Post, which spent the four years of Trump's presidency consistently and spectacularly beclowning themselves, are at it again.  Dare we say that it has "all the hallmarks" of media incompetence?  Take The Washington Post:  Using its signature anonymous single-source style, it broke the alleged news that Trump was in possession of documents "related to nuclear weapons."  What exactly does that mean?  Honestly, based on Post's coverage of Russiagate, when so many "bombshells" fizzled when the details emerged, you have to wonder if it's the White House pastry chef's recipe for nuclear chocolate cake.

Stop calling them 'Asian' grooming gangs.  Last week's landmark report into grooming gangs in Telford made for truly horrifying reading.  It revealed that 1,000 mainly white girls had been subjected to horrific sexual abuse by groups of men of mainly Pakistani heritage since at least the 1980s.  Tom Crowther QC, who chaired the Telford inquiry, said that 'the overwhelming theme of the evidence has been the appalling suffering of generations of children caused by the utter cruelty of those who committed child sexual exploitation'. He then went on to say that the failure of the authorities to intervene was in part driven by 'a nervousness that investigating concerns against Asian men, in particular, would inflame racial tensions'.  'Asian' men?  This is an odd description of the perpetrators.  Crowther pulled almost no punches in his summing up.  But this was definitely one he did pull.  The members of the grooming gangs were not simply 'Asian' — by and large, they were Muslim men of Pakistani heritage.

Pulitzer Prize Board Stands by Awards Given to NYT, WaPo for Russia Hoax Reports.  The Pulitzer Prize Board on Monday [7/18/2022] announced it is standing by awards given to the New York Times and Washington Post for their reports on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.  "In the last three years, the Pulitzer Board has received inquiries, including from former President Donald Trump, about submissions from The New York Times and The Washington Post on Russian interference in the U.S. election and its connections to the Trump campaign — submissions that jointly won the 2018 National Reporting prize," the organization's statement reads.

That 10-Year-Old Abortion Story the President Ranted About Gets a Major Update.  In the wake of Roe v Wade being overturned, a viral story about a 10-year-old girl in Ohio being raped, impregnated, and unable to obtain an abortion spread like wildfire across the political sphere.  Major news networks covered it as truth despite the fact that it was a single-sourced account from an abortion doctor who provided zero corroborating details.  The story was then used as proof of how harmful Republican abortion bans are to the point that even Joe Biden got in on the act.  The president used the report to rail against pro-life laws, proclaiming "imagine being that little girl" while asserting that Ohio forces raped children to give birth.  Of course, not everyone was so gullible.

Gallup Poll:  Trust In News Outlets Hits a Historic Low.  The American people's trust in news outlets has hit a historic low, according to Gallup's annual survey on confidence in major U.S. institutions.  It's like they've discovered that "straight news" isn't their primary goal.  Both newspapers and television news have seen another drop in confidence over the past year, with each losing an average five percent of people who said they had a "great deal" of trust in such institutions.  Gallup has been measuring "confidence in institutions" since 1973, and annually since 1993.  Television news is now considered the second least-trusted institution in America, after Congress, with just 11 percent of respondents telling Gallup they have "quite a lot" of trust in television news.  Newspapers aren't much better at 16 percent.

This Is What Real Revolution Looks Like.  If you listen to the mainstream media you will know that from time to time spontaneous peaceful protests break out in the nation focused on various social issues.  You will also know that Antifa is largely a fiction of the 'delusional right' and that the real threat to the nation comes from a vast right-wing conspiracy driven by white supremacists.  In short, you will know nothing.

Media Melt Down over Roe v Wade being overturned.  Democrats and the Garbage Media are melting down and doing everything they can to spew lies and misinformation in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade.  We'll start with Chuck Todd, who claims for the first time in his lifetime the Supreme Court has just taken away a 'right':  [Tweet]  Abortion was never a 'right' to begin with!  Our true rights come from God and that is what our Constitution seeks to protect.  It was 49 years ago that the Supreme Court wrongly concluded that abortion was a 'right' guaranteed by the Constitution.  The Supreme Court today didn't take away any 'right' to abortion, they pointed out that the 'right' never existed in the first place.  In fact, as Jan Crawford pointed out on CBS, another way of looking at it is that the right to life was given back to the unborn today, which was taken away 49 years ago:  [Tweet]

USA Today Reporter Resigns After Getting Caught Fabricating 23 Stories.  USA Today removed 23 of its articles from its site after an internal investigation revealed one of its reporters Gabriela Miranda had fabricated sources.  "After receiving an external correction request, USA TODAY audited the reporting work of Gabriela Miranda.  The audit revealed that some individuals quoted were not affiliated with the organizations claimed and appeared to be fabricated.  The existence of other individuals quoted could not be independently verified.  In addition, some stories included quotes that should have been credited to others" USA Today wrote in an editor's note published on its site on Thursday afternoon [6/16/2022].

USA Today removed 23 stories from website, other platforms following audit of reporter's work.  After receiving an external correction request, USA TODAY audited the reporting work of Gabriela Miranda.  The audit revealed that some individuals quoted were not affiliated with the organizations claimed and appeared to be fabricated.  The existence of other individuals quoted could not be independently verified.  In addition, some stories included quotes that should have been credited to others.  As a result, USA TODAY removed 23 articles from its website and other platforms for not meeting our editorial standards.  The headlines of the articles are listed below.  Miranda has resigned as a reporter for USA TODAY and the USA TODAY Network.

Truth is now in plain sight.  Post-injection death tolls have reached levels that are making it very difficult for the powers-that-be to keep the lambs sleeping and the vaxx zealots enthused.  Thus they are resorting to the oldest, tried-and-true tricks in the book, particularly the "if you tell a lie enough, it becomes the truth" method.  Politifact wrote the same, regurgitated article on April 6, 2022, declaring that mRNA and viral vector DNA injections are not the cause of countless sudden deaths in adults and kids.  The Poynter Institute, Politifact's parent organization, wrote nearly the exact same "fact check" article on September 24, 2021.  The effort has been persistent, consistent and coordinated among the monolithic mainstream media since the spring of 2021.  Pfizer-owned Reuters wrote a "fact-check" on April 29, 2021 entitled, "No evidence COVID-19 vaccines will cause an 'exponential rise' in deaths."  The next day, on April 30, 2021, USA Today wrote a "fact-check" entitled, "COVID-19 vaccines don't cause death, won't decimate world's population." FactCheck.org got into the mix on March 2, 2022, with an article entitled, "COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Deaths, Contrary to Misleading Graphic on Social Media."

NYC man nabbed in subway slashings had just been freed after knife dispute with cops.  A Queens man was arrested over the weekend for two random subway slashings in as many days — crimes he allegedly committed after being picked up, then let go, for brandishing a knife at cops.  Donny Ubiera, 32, stabbed two straphangers — one in the face and the other in the neck — without provocation in separate incidents Friday and Saturday morning along the Flushing-to-Midtown No. 7 subway line, the NYPD said in a statement.  The accused serial slasher had just gotten out of jail Thursday — with a single night of "time served" — for allegedly refusing to put down a large knife when confronted by Queens officers on the street and then trying to flee with it the day before.

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The news media consistently uses the term "random" to conceal black-on-white hate crimes.

The dystopian state of our nation.  What to do?  Wake up!  Vote!  Get involved with an election integrity project or a precinct project.  Fight back.  Say no to medical mandates!  Vote out the RINOs like McConnell, Graham, Romney, Cheney, Kinzinger, etc. — all the fake conservatives who just want to be part of the swamp long enough to get very rich without offending anyone else in that swamp.  We know who they are; Trump exposed them all to the sunlight.  Don't believe a word uttered on CNN or MSNBC.  Like the networks, their talking heads get their talking points from the Democrat party, and they never deviate, which is why they sound like mindless mimics.  There is not a critical thinker among them.  They might as well all be Kardashian cut-outs.  They are all Alinskyites now.

A friendly reminder that many gun control groups routinely inflate school shooting numbers.  [Threat reader]  [Scroll down]  Are these all instances of gun violence?  Yes.  Are they all problematic in their own right?  Yes.  But packaging these as part of some "school shooting" epidemic is dishonest nonsense.  [Indeed], they literally count a cop who shot himself in his own vehicle vaguely near an elementary school.  Presumably overnight.  In mid-JULY. We've got a 25-year-old fatally shot [and I quote here] "near a school playground."  On a Sunday evening.  A 17-year-old fatally shot outside of an elementary school... on Veteran's Day, when school wasn't in session.  It doesn't get less absurd.  They include an instance where, after a night game for an adult league flag football league, a man fatally shot a member of the opposing team because of an on-field dispute... solely because it happened behind an elementary school. [...] We've got an instance where a stray bullet struck a window of an elementary school while no one was inside the building.  We've got "a couple shots fired near a middle school baseball field on a Friday evening while a 20 year old and friends were taking batting practice," apparently not directed at anyone associated with the school, and as far as anyone can tell there were no injuries.  There are bullets hitting the outside wall of a middle school gym in the early morning before anyone was on the campus, likely during an unrelated drive-by shooting.

BBC accused of altering alleged rape victim's quote to avoid 'misgendering' transgender male attacker.  The woke BBC is being accused of outrageously altering an alleged rape victim's quotes by replacing pronouns to be more inclusive in an effort to protect her transgender attacker from "misgendering."  The Times of London broke the story that the British media outlet previously quoted a woman who claimed she was raped by a transgender male and then altered her words to be politically correct.  Her quotes were part of a report from 2021 on lesbians who have been "coerced into sex with transgender women."  The story was published on Oct. 26, 2021.  It covered a lesbian campaign called "Get the L Out."  Gay women were candidly asked about their sexual relationships with transgender women.

There were WMDs in Iraq.  Despite evidence to the contrary, there is the continued belief that there were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.  Between the Democrats, the media who serve as their propagandist, and those who have an irrational hatred of George W. Bush, there has been a refusal to give up the lie that nothing was found in Iraq.  One of the reasons given by former President Bush for going into Iraq — beyond Hussein's government funding international terrorist activities that did target Americans — was weapons of mass destruction were in fact found.  In other words, the weapons were not the only reason, but also the financing of international terrorism.  A 'weapon of mass destruction' is not just nuclear, but other weaponry meant to harm a large number of people through unconventional means.

Daily Beast releases apology to Hunter Biden's laptop repairman.  The Daily Beast has issued an apology to the Delaware computer repairman who acquired Hunter Biden's laptop for wrongly claiming in a past story that the computer was "stolen."  The apology to John Paul Mac Isaac appeared in a Wednesday [5/25/2022] editor's note attached to a story the Daily Beast published in Dec. 2020 alleging the laptop was pilfered, Fox News reported.  "An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Hunter Biden's laptop as 'stolen.'  We have removed that word, and we apologize to Mr. Mac Isaac for the error," the editor's note reads.  Isaac, 45, was left with the infamous laptop after Hunter Biden abandoned it at his shop in 2019.  The repairman came to legally own the laptop after the president's son neglected to ever pick it up.

Seven Ways The Texas Tribune Is All-In On Climate Fearmongering.  A recent piece in The Texas Tribune lists seven alleged ways climate change is already impacting the state of Texas and its residents.  When not outright false, the listed claims are extremely misleading.  Real-world data indicates the state of Texas faces no severe imminent threat from climate change.  Two writers, María Méndez and Erin Douglas contributed to the article, "Seven ways climate change is already hitting Texans," which runs the gamut of common alarmist lines.  This isn't the first time Erin Douglas and The Texas Tribune have published false information about the impacts of climate change on Texas.

Man shot and killed on NYC subway in broad daylight, cops say.  A deranged gunman shot and killed a 48-year-old straphanger aboard a Manhattan subway train Sunday morning in what cops are calling an unprovoked attack.  The shooter, who was still on the loose Sunday afternoon, paced back and forth in the last car of the northbound Q train around 11:42 a.m. before he opened fire on the random victim seated inside, police and sources said.  "Completely random," one police source said.  The victim, whose name wasn't immediately released, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he was later pronounced dead, police said.

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The news media in New York is always very quick to excuse cold-blooded killers as "deranged" and the killings as "totally random" — especially when the shooter is black and the victim is not, which is almost always the case, and apparently was the case this time.  The newspapers' writers dare not suggest that blacks are racist or that they target white people just because they're white; but if the colors were reversed, hate crime accusations would fly.

Signs of a False Flag: 
 1.  Asks you to respond emotionally rather than intellectually.
 2.  Strips the event of context, such as the contemporary factual setting, geopolitical reality, or historical awareness.
 3.  Demands a rush to judgment before a diligent, independent inquiry occurs.
 4.  Collectivizes judgment, by taking an individual event, and demands you blame an entire culture, religion, race, ancestry, community or country for it.
 5.  The only explicable motive offered for the offending action is irrational evil or utterly stupid immorality, as it is against the rational interest of the offender to commit the act for the reasons alleged.

Congrats To The Media For Finally Finding A White Supremacist.  Assuming the gunman who shot up the Buffalo, New York, grocery store really was motivated by anti-black racism, let's do what the media do when faced with an Islamic terrorist who goes on a killing spree in America and just refer to him as a "lone wolf," a mentally unstable individual who in no way reflects any broader phenomenon or trend.  Except, unlike with violent Muslim extremism, that characterization in this case would be true.  Despite what the media, Democrats, leftists, and, of course, the permanent Washington bureaucracy say (over, and over, and over again), there is no imminent, large-scale threat from white nationalists.  It doesn't exist outside of Joe Biden's TelePrompter.

There was Another Mass Shooting in America.  You Didn't Hear About It Because the Suspect is a Chinese Communist.  [Scroll down]  The Orange County Sheriff's Department tweeted the known facts about the mass shooting on Monday.  "The Laguna Woods church shooting investigation has continued through the night.  Teams continue to process the scene," the sheriff's department said.  "The suspect in the Laguna Woods church shooting has been identified as David Chou, 68 years old, of Las Vegas, NV," the sheriff's department added. [...] Except there is a problem with the narrative:  The suspect isn't a 'white supremacist.'  Nor is he one of the many African-American assailants who have been charged and convicted for attacking Asian-Americans.  The suspect is a Chinese-born man named David Wenwei Chou, a 68-year-old resident of Las Vegas.  His motivation for the mass shooting was described in a hand-written note in Chinese left on a car dashboard, as was reported by the L.A. Times.  "David Wenwei Chou, 68, of Las Vegas, left notes in Chinese in his car stating he did not believe Taiwan should be independent from China, said Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes," the Times reported.

A Tale Of Two Mass Shootings.  In the span of one month, there were two mass shootings.  Both took place in New York.  Both were racially motivated.  Both shooters were violent extremists.  But the media tied only one of them to a mainstream political party.  Can you guess why?  Immediately after the identity of the alleged Buffalo shooter — initially charged with one murder and suspected of killing 10 — became known, the chattering class was insisting that he was not a "lone wolf" and pinned the blame for the massacre on "right-wing extremists" who "control the Republican party."  The Rolling Stone called the 18-year-old Payton Gendron "a mainstream Republican." [...] A Los Angeles Times op-ed declared that "The Buffalo gunman emerged from a far-right ecosystem that's gone mainstream."  New York Times weighed in with an article headlined:  "Replacement Theory, a Fringe Belief Fueled Online, Is Refashioned by G.O.P."

Guess how the Buffalo shooter identified himself politically.  The alleged supermarket killer is self-described as authoritarian left — so why isn't this being reported?  If the alleged Buffalo killer's "manifesto" is authentic, he was deep into communist ideology and now is an authoritarian leftist.  Why is this being kept under wraps?  The teenager accused of murdering ten people last Saturday in Buffalo, N.Y. also allegedly posted a 180-page "manifesto" online that the national media are selectively exploiting, leaving out key facts.

Press pumps up Joe Biden.  "History will be kind to me," Winston Churchill said, "because I intend to write it."  Britain's great statesman did as he promised, but Joe Biden has an even sweeter deal.  He doesn't need to put pen to paper because a cottage industry of so-called journalists is already twisting truth to make the failing president a victim, if not a hero.  It's as if somebody in an old newsroom called out, "Sweetheart, get me rewrite," and a thousand scribes raised their hands to volunteer to make Biden look like something other than the second coming of Jimmy Carter.  History, schmistory.  No need to wait — this is fiction on the fly!  "What Choice Does Biden Have?" The New Yorker magazine asked, before answering:  "With the impending evisceration of Roe v. Wade, partisanship is the only course for a President in our broken system."  See, the "system" is always "broken" when Democrats don't get their way.  Only when they win is America a real democracy.

The last people anyone should trust to tell or determine the truth are journalists and government officials.  There are many examples of where the media colluded with the Democrats to intentionally spread misinformation to the public.  Here is a small sample:  Democrats in Congress have repeatedly challenged elections where they lost yet they weren't called treasonous, weren't said to be against democracy, where we didn't have endless hearings, and they weren't silenced.  Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and others repeatedly lied to the public about Obamacare, but the media not only didn't silence them, but they also supported them.  Obama and Hillary concocted a lie about Benghazi, as Americans were killed, and the media never silenced them.  The Obama administration used the media to spread lies to get support for the Iran deal, yet the media never silenced them.  Most of the media still supports the deal that enriched Iran, which continues to spread terrorism and pledge death to America.  The media and others intentionally spread the lie of "Hands up Don't Shoot" that ginned up racial hate against cops.  How many cops have been killed and injured because of that intentional lie?  Yet, no one who spread the lie has been silenced.  The media, DNC, the Hillary campaign and government employees colluded to spread the lie about Russian collusion to destroy Trump and they have not been silenced.

Media Hoax:  No, Kevin McCarthy Did Not Say Trump Should Resign Over J6.  There they go again.  The left and NeverTrump infotainment propagandists are busily twisting and spinning their claims that then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wanted President Trump to resign after J6.  The implication being that he was so personally mortified by the "insurrection" (that wasn't) that he personally wanted the president to resign as a traitor.  Or something.  However, and completely unsurprisingly, if you listen to the audio they are touting as "evidence," you can clearly tell that he is discussing a particular circumstance:  Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans pursuing removal of Trump from office via the 25th Amendment.

Carter 2.0 — Media Runs Interference for Joe Just Like They Did for Jimmy.  Now that Joe Biden's approval rating has fallen — it's hovering in the low 40s, and it can't get up — the Main Stream Media have come up with a new line of defense for their man.  Okay, goes this new line, Biden isn't doing so well, but that's to be expected — because no president can do well.  That is, the problems are just too tough, the job is just too hard, the country is just too polarized, yada yada yada.  As we shall see, history suggests that the American people won't buy an argument based on hopelessness, which we can call the desperation defense.  After all, Americans tend to be optimistic and solution-oriented.  And so if an elected official can't solve the problem, throw him out and give someone else a chance.  That's the American Way.

Superhero Obama Fights 'Online Lies'?  The New York Times sounded a little giddy on the front page of its "Business" section April 21 with the headline "Obama Joins Fight to Curb Online Lies."  This spin strongly suggests former President Barack Obama never lies.  He's a valiant warrior against lies.  That came after a badly disguised press release at CNN.com on Obama "urgently throwing himself into the fight against disinformation."  As usual, they make it sound like a superhero has landed whenever Obama arrives on the scene.  Never mind PolitiFact giving Obama the "Lie of the Year" in 2013 for when he said, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it."  Never mind Obama's baldfaced lies in 2012 that the Benghazi consulate attack wasn't a terrorist thing; it was a protest of an Islamophobic YouTube video that got out of hand.  As if the Islamic radicals brought grenade launchers to a "protest."  This underlines why the liberal media should not be trusted in a "disinformation" fight.  They have a frustrating tendency to put themselves on the side of "information" and conservatives on the side of "disinformation."

No, Trump Did Not 'Storm Off the Set' of Piers Morgan's Interview Show.  On one level, the claim by media personality Piers Morgan that Donald Trump "stormed off" the set when he brought up the 2020 presidential election is just plain creepy.  But if the only side of the story you get is from Morgan trying to goose ratings for his new show — the side the mainstream media wants you to see — Trump comes off as an unhinged maniac.

Deceptive Edits:  Audio Contradicts Piers Morgan, Shows He Warped Trump Interview Ending in Promo.  Audio provided by former President Donald Trump's team to Breitbart News of the end of Trump's interview with Piers Morgan proves that Morgan and his team deceptively edited the interview to make it appear as though it was a contentious ending when it was not.  A 30-second promotional clip that Morgan released on Wednesday afternoon seemed to show Trump flying off the handle and walking out mid-interview as a righteous Morgan asked him tough questions about his views on the 2020 election.  But the full story seems to indicate that Morgan's team deceptively edited the clips together to make it as nasty as possible for Trump — and to drive up the ratings for Morgan's new show.  Morgan's new show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, launches next week on Talk TV, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers — If They're Not White.  Frank James, the man arrested for Tuesday's New York City subway shooting, is a black nationalist and outspoken racist who railed against whites, Jews, and Hispanics.  A careful reader of the New York Times could be forgiven for overlooking that.  In a nearly 2,000-word article on the attack, James's race is not mentioned.  The same is true for the coverage offered up by Reuters; the Washington Post only mentioned James's race in relation to his condemnation of training programs for "low-income Black youths."  Media critics on the right say that the conspicuous omission of James's race from these news reports illustrates a trend among prestige papers, which deemphasize or omit the race of non-white criminals while playing up the race of white offenders.  But is it a real pattern?  Yes.  A Washington Free Beacon review of hundreds of articles published by major papers over a span of two years finds that papers downplay the race of non-white offenders, mentioning their race much later in articles than they do for white offenders.  These papers are also three to four times more likely to mention an offender's race at all if he is white, a disparity that grew in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020 and the protests that followed.

Ten Steps to Totalitarianism.  Does anybody still think totalitarianism can't happen here?  Ask yourself how many of these steps we've already galloped past. [... #4] Control over Communication:  There is a reason Western governments have begun aggressively attacking free speech as "misinformation" or "disinformation": the power to communicate ideas to the broader public threatens governments' monopoly over "official" truths.  Traditional forms of mass communication — newspapers, radio broadcasts, and television shows — are operated by so few corporations that the State has no problem influencing, if not outright controlling, the information disseminated to the public.  In contrast, social media platforms and independent publishing sites permit citizens (in theory) to bypass State censors, regulators, and other information gatekeepers to communicate directly with large numbers of other citizens.  See why governments spend so much time targeting free speech as "hate speech" or "harmful information" that must be banned?

The Chicago Thinker Staged a Media Regime Takedown This Week.  This week, the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics (IOP) and The Atlantic magazine hosted a "Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy" conference, and we have to hand it to IOP Director David Axlerod for bringing in true experts on the subject.  The conference featured some of America's greatest purveyors of disinformation, such as Barack Obama, Brian Stelter, Anne Applebaum, and a few token conservatives, including Jonah Goldberg and Adam Kinzinger.  The media, government, and academia elites speaking at the conference weren't expecting to be challenged as they self-righteously spewed more lies — but our team at the Chicago Thinker was prepared to hold them accountable.  Student journalists from the Chicago Thinker respectfully listened, asked honest questions, and reported.  Our efforts soon went viral, garnering millions of views on social media.  We successfully turned the IOP's "Disinformation Conference" on its head and sparked a national conversation about the corporate media's disinformation.

Has Biden become expendable?  [Scroll down]  Before the 2020 election, a story broke regarding Hunter Biden's laptop, which was abandoned at John Paul Mac Isaac's Delaware repair shop.  Along with reports that Biden's laptop contained disturbing images of a sexual nature, there were allegations that presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son had compromising financial dealings with Ukraine worth millions of dollars.  Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter, confirmed on Fox's The Tucker Carlson Show that Hunter's troubling emails were legitimate.  The New York Post confirmed the authenticity of the laptop and published articles regarding some of its shady contents.  That's when the formidable socialist propaganda apparatus went into full cover-up mode.  The New York Times and Washington Post dismissed the laptop story.  Democrats attacked anyone discussing the laptop and labeled the entire subject a Russian disinformation scheme.  Social media banned The New York Post from sharing the story, and countless bloggers sharing the story saw their social media accounts suspended.  Now, 18 months after Biden became president, the corrupt media have come out to say Hunter's laptop is genuine.

The Legacy Media Have Not Conceded the Laptop Reporting — And They Don't Deserve Credit.  In the last two weeks, the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post all came forward to admit that the Hunter Biden hard drive — which I originally reported a year and a half ago in the lead-up to the 2020 election and saw those outlets dismiss and smear the stories as "baroque mythology," "made up," "Soviet tradecraft," and "disparaging Biden" — was authentic.  However, despite initial admissions, the media are now stopping short of acknowledging the reporting on the information the hard drive contained — namely, that Joe Biden was a direct beneficiary of Hunter's deals.  Instead, they are inviting the people who come from the very institutions that outright lied and purposely misrepresented the laptop and its contents in the first place to continue lying and misrepresenting the laptop and its contents.

The media lies about Obamacare ... and everything else.  Now that Joe Biden's touting Obamacare and bringing President Obama along for the ride at the White House, the media still acts like Obamacare is great even though Obama and others continuously lied to get it passed and then lied about the results.  It's par for the course because they are such a dishonest crew.  The media also is a great supporter of Obama and Biden as they lied to get the deals done with Iran which continues to support terrorists and continues to pledge death to America[.]  The media acts like it is treasonous to oppose election results and that no one did it before Trump.  Yet they always support Democrats who challenged results in 2000, 2004, and 2016 in Congress.  The media and other Democrats called Trump an illegitimate president for four years.  They impeached him twice for pure garbage.  The media and others spread the lie that a white cop shot Michael Brown when his hands were up, and he was backing away.  How many cops have been injured and killed because of this intentional lie?

A World Gone Mad.  Governments everywhere, including here in the USA, have abandoned God, good government, law and order, common sense, and traditional Judeo-Christian values.  They have jumped in with both feet into the dark and shadow without bothering to look back at seeing what they have already wrought. [...] The political absurdity and hypocrisy has reached the highest level I have ever seen.  The 3.8% unemployment announced in February is an historic achievement, but the 3.6% unemployment rate during the Trump years is a crisis.

The Unanimously Liberal Tilt of the 'Fact Checkers'.  Now that the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings are complete, we have collected another fascinating exhibit of the leftist tilt of "independent fact checkers."  Just try and find a single fact check on anything Judge Jackson said.  Try and find a single evaluation of any statement by a Democratic politician touting Jackson — from Biden and Dick Durbin on down.  Checking liberals and Democrats is apparently not listed among their job duties.  On March 28, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates addressed Judge Jackson's qualifications.  Bates claimed what speaks to the strength of her public record "is the multitude of fact-checks from the press, from retired judges, and from former prosecutors who have dismantled attacks brought by a small group of GOP senators."  "Dismantling" Republican critiques is the job of the Fact Check community?  That's what it looks like.

The Stealing of the Presidency, 2020.  The left-wing news media didn't just poison the information environment with their incessantly negative coverage of President Trump going into the 2020 election.  They also refused to give airtime to important arguments of the Republican campaign — both pro-Trump and anti-Biden — which meant millions of voters cast their ballots knowing only what the media permitted them to know about the candidates.  To measure the true effect of the media's censorship on the election, the Media Research Center asked The Polling Company to survey 1,750 Biden voters in seven swing states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), six of which (all but North Carolina) were called for Biden.  We tested these voters' knowledge of eight news stories — all important topics that our ongoing analysis had shown the liberal news media had failed to cover properly.  We found that a huge majority (82%) of Biden voters were unaware of at least one of these key items, with five percent saying they were unaware of all eight of the issues we tested.  This lack of information proved crucial:  One of every six Biden voters we surveyed (17%) said they would have abandoned the Democratic candidate had they known the facts about one or more of these news stories.  A shift of this magnitude would have changed the outcome in all six of the swing states won by Joe Biden, and Donald Trump would have comfortably won a second term as president.

Flashback: MSNBC, CNN, CBS told viewers Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.  The New York Times last week confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden's missing laptop, a story which was originally dismissed as Russian disinformation by many liberal media outlets leading up to the 2020 presidential election.  Television hosts, guests and journalists quickly took to the airwaves in October 2020, reassuring viewers that the laptop was "unverifiable," likely tied to the Kremlin, and the product of a smear campaign orchestrated by former President Trump and his allies.  "We start this hour with the tale of international espionage connected to a close confidante of the President of the United States," MSNBC's Ali Velshi said on Oct. 17, 2020.  "The president was reportedly warned that his personal attorney, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was the target of a Russian intelligence operation, a story that is unraveling to reveal allegations of disinformation, dirty tricks and a federal probe over Russian efforts to disparage Joe Biden."

15 Media Personalities Who Have Permanently Damaged Their Reputation by Peddling the Lie That the Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was the Work of Russian Propagandists:.  MSNBC's executive producer Kyle Griffin; Publisher of the Ink Anand Giridharadas; Daily Beast reporter Wajahat Ali; Managing editor of Truthorfiction.com Brooke Binkowski; NBC News correspondent Heidi Przybyla; Writer Chip Franklin; MSNBC contributor Ben Rhodes; Washington Post opinion columnist Max Boot; MSNBC's Naveed Jamali; Mother Jones Publication; CNN anchor and Humpty Dumpty cosplayer Brian Stelter; CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer; NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian; MSNBC Morning Joe's regular contributor Dave Aronberg; and CNN anchor Jim Sciutto.  Congratulations to you — dark marks all around!  For a little fun, we'll have to run this list against the list of folks who insisted Trump colluded with Russia (that's for another time).

The Press Has Lied To Drag The United States Into War Before.  Don't Think They Won't Again.  When you see talking heads uncritically parroting propagandist stories about Ukraine that turn out to be false, from the "Ghost of Kyiv" to that Snake Island story to old photos taken years ago, you should be asking why the corporate media is so willing to spread such fake news (while it censors conservatives for factual critiques of disproven Covid narratives, no less).  It wouldn't be the first time the press lied to pull Americans into war. [...] George Orwell, who fought alongside Republican forces, wrote in his memoir "Homage to Catalonia" that "for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie."  "I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed.  I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened," he recalled.  "I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines.'"

Liberals, Conservatives, and Russia:  The Drama Triangle.  With friends like liberal media, who needs enemies?  Their virtue signaling and political spin over Ukraine is so revolting that if I didn't know better, I'd turn against Ukraine like so many conservative commentators already have.  But having lived in both Russia and Ukraine, I know better.  Just as revolting is seeing previously trusted conservative sites and TV hosts defending Russia and tarring Ukraine.  Children act like that when adults apply reverse psychology.  What's their excuse?  I'm not naming names because I'd like to believe they are acting in good faith and are simply misguided by crafty spinners.  Reading Russian and Ukrainian sources in the original, I know exactly who in this war is spinning lies and who is fighting for truth and freedom.  Believe me, not every enemy of the liberal media is our ally or deserves sympathy.  Sometimes the enemy of our enemy is an even bigger enemy.

Tucker Carlson Revisits the Media People Who Manipulated the Hunter Biden Laptop Story.  On his evening broadcast [3/17/2022] Fox news host Tucker Carlson took a historic look at how the media manipulated the Hunter Biden laptop story in order to protect Joe Biden as a candidate.  These same media personalities claim they are credible, and viciously attack anyone who points out their lies.  The example of the Biden laptop should forever dispatch any credibility they claim to hold.  [Video clip]  Not included in the Carlson review, but one of the most transparently biased segments on the Biden laptop issue, was the interview between CNN disinformation specialist Christiane Amanpour and Liz Harrington.  Given the recent revelations about the authenticity of the Biden laptop, watch this video of Amanpour trying to protect the regime.  [Video clip]

Why was the Hunter Biden laptop story covered up?  It's now a familiar pattern — a sensational news story is dismissed by serious journalists as bogus fake right-wing agitprop.  You'd have to be a swivel-eyed conspiracy theorist to believe that.  You don't want to be one of those.  Then, a year or so later, the same important media organs, the same authorities who made you feel crazy for thinking that the story might be credible, turn around and tell you that, yep, it was true all along.  It was just politically awkward to say so at the time. [...] When the New York Post reported in October 2020 on Hunter's marvellous laptop — and the potentially incriminating documents on its hard drive — the New York Times, CNN and others went to great lengths to attack the Post's reporting:  it was, liberals insisted, a Trump-led hit job so therefore not credible.  Twitter and Facebook actually censored the story.  There was an election on and almost nobody wanted to be accused of doing anything that might stop Joe Biden kicking Trump out of the White House.  But the Hunter laptop story raises serious concerns about the Biden family and the role Joe Biden played as Vice President, especially in 2014 when he took the lead on the Ukraine crisis.  It's well-known that Hunter had a ludicrously well paid job at the Ukrainian mining company Burisma, despite having little qualifications for the role beyond his surname.

Another Round of Ukraine Hoaxes Discovered?  The propaganda out of the Ukraine/Hollywood association is continuing unabated.  In a Twitter video today, pushed by Buzzfeed Journalist Christopher Miller, the claim is, "President Zelensky walked to a hospital today to visit wounded Ukrainian soldiers and award them with state honors for their sacrifices."  [Tweet]  However, alert researchers noted the woman to Zelenskyy's left, in the video, is a physician named Inna Derusova.  She was reported to have died on February 26th.  [Tweet]  As we said from the outset, do not take anything at face value.  Question everything that is being presented.  The level of western propaganda to support the intents of the U.S./NATO and multinational community are extreme.

Media Outlets Continue To Portray Pro-Biden Lincoln Project as 'Republican' Organization.  The Lincoln Project is a scandal-plagued super PAC dedicated to supporting President Joe Biden and helping Democrats win elections.  In October 2021, for example, Lincoln Project operatives dressed as neo-Nazis crashed a Glenn Youngkin campaign event in a misguided effort to besmirch the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia.  (It didn't work.)  Nevertheless, mainstream media outlets continue to portray the Lincoln Project and its senior members as "Republicans" or "right-of-center" pundits whose opinions actually matter, or are substantively different from those of a generic liberal pundit.  (They aren't; they don't; they aren't.)  Last month, the Hill published an article about how "Republicans are reveling in their hatred of Joe Biden."  It includes several quotes from Lincoln Project adviser Stuart Stevens, who is described as a "prominent GOP consultant."  Stevens, who wrote a book renouncing his former party, does not even consider himself a Republican.  He has compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Republican politicians to the genocidal maniac's Nazi enablers.

The Six Biggest "Fake News" Stories About The Russia-Ukraine Conflict.  [Scroll down]  Before I start making points about the fake news being shoved down our throats with Ukraine, I first must make my high-level opinion clear:  Russia's behavior has been horrific, they are the cause of the war, and I strongly support Ukraine with the conflict, particularly the Ukrainian people.  Meanwhile it is also obvious that there is a concerted effort being conducted by the left and their media to mischaracterize the realities on the ground.  The photographs I reference — which include the picture that is featured in this article — have been plastered everywhere, particularly on social media platforms and have been misrepresented by scores of blue check mark buffoons on Twitter.  The truth is, these images show President Volodymyr Zelensky during military exercises last October in the disputed Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine, months before Russia's invasion.

Be skeptical about media coverage of Ukraine.  If you have been monitoring the coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, it is amply clear that a narrative is being pushed.  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being compared to Winston Churchill during World War II; he is leading his people during perilous times to become an inspiring figure.  He refused a safe passage offer from the U.S. with the quip:  "I need ammunition, not a ride".  He streams videos from the deserted streets of Ukraine and posts photos with his cabinet.  Photos of Zelenskyy surface in military gear on the battlefront.  To sum it up, Zelensky is being portrayed as Churchill, Rambo and social media influencers all rolled into one. [...] It is all so poignant and inspiring until you fact-check the images.  The photos of Zelensky in military gear were from February 11, 2021, and April 9, 2021.  The photo of the Russian soldier holding Ukrainian girls at gunpoint was a 2005 photo from the West Bank.  Neither the first lady of Ukraine nor the former Miss Ukraine is joining the armed forces.  The teary farewell of Ukrainian soldiers amidst the invasion was actually a photo of the happy homecoming moment of U.S. Marines.

'Fact Checkers' Silent as Lyin' Joe Biden Perpetuates Disgusting Capitol Riot Whopper.  In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot, it became very clear that the mainstream media and Democrats were going to milk the incident for all it was worth.  Initial reports talked of Capitol police officers being "murdered" by Trump-supporting rioters as they broke through glass doorways and breached the Capitol building.  It was those early false stories that were in part used by Democrats to make their impeachment "case" against then-President Donald Trump.  Within a few days, that narrative along with others began to implode.  But it took a few weeks before we saw the first major signs that the media was trying to correct itself.

The Right 'Loves Putin' And Other Lies The Media Tell About Trump And Russia.  What is it about Russia and Vladimir Putin that forces the American national media to lie, make things up, and blurt out statements that have no basis in reality?  The latest fiction is that Republicans and conservatives have a newfound affinity for Putin.  If you only watched MSNBC or read The New York Times, you'd be forgiven for holding the impression that all of Fox News and the Republican party have draped themselves in Russian flags and set up GoFundMes for the invasion of Ukraine.  The Times on Sunday [2/27/2022] ran the headline, "How the American Right Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Russia," by Emily Tamkin. [...] Her argument might have been a little stronger if she included more searing examples of praise for Putin, like the time Trump called him a "master tactician."  Wait, sorry.  That was actually how The New York Times itself described the Russian president in mid-February.  And also in October 2020.

Facebook's Election Fact-Checker Spreads Fake Footage Of Artillery Impacts In A Populated Area In Ukraine.  When Russia launched an attack on Ukraine earlier this week, people around the world watched in shock and horror as airstrikes hit the country and tanks began rolling in.  "The prayers of the world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces," wrote President Joe Biden in a tweet Wednesday night.  But in the last few days, it's become clear that while some of the footage and images being disseminated across social media are depicting the tragic beginnings of a new war, some are not actually what they appear.  Some of the photos and footage being shared on Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok appear to be fake, some are from previous conflicts years ago, explosions in other countries, or even from video games.

A New Age of Barbarism.  Political leaders in the US, Canada, Germany, and France — all NATO countries — got back on script yesterday. [...] The part we do not see is that many of these people — together with media organs and administrators of many deep-state bureaucracies — are absolutely thrilled to start a new season.  Away with the appalling mismanagement of the pathogen.  Away with public anger toward the lockdowns and mandates.  Forget the collapse in children's literacy, the rise in cancer, the waves of depression, the trucker protests, the collapsing polls of many elected leaders, and forget too the inflation, the federal debt, supply-chain snarls and goods shortages.  Forget all the astonishing botches of everything.  Life was never as good in living memory as when we had a solid foreign enemy named Russia with a leader with a name and a face.  Everything wrong with the world could be personalized, and with storybook thematics:  good vs evil, freedom vs despotism, democracy vs dictatorship.  This great struggle was so good for both sides that they made it last 40 years.

Cops, convoys, conservatives, and tyranny.  The Mainstream Media inform us that Canadian authorities have "cleared out" the truckers who had the temerity to think they could peacefully protest their government's COVID vaccination-and-quarantine mandates.  Note the choice of terminology:  "Cleared out," as one would clear out an infestation of vermin.  In the propaganda game, words must be chosen carefully and deliberately, and the propaganda-meisters of today (who not only "manage" the news, but frequently just invent it) make the infamous Dr. Goebbels look like a mere tyro. [...] Anyone who's spent time on America's highways and observed big trucks knows that the Confederate battle flag (the "Stars'n'Bars") is an emblem frequently displayed on such trucks, and not just in the South, in numbers far in excess of those few that were seen on Canadian trucks.  But the handful of such flags seen on the Canadian trucks were enough for "journalists" to declare that such flags were proof that the Freedom Convoy was in reality a rally of "white supremacists."

Why They're So Afraid of the Truckers.  [Scroll down]  Claims linking the Canadian truckers' convoy to Nazis appeared in the Guardian, Vox, NPR, the Atlantic, BBC, the (ironically-named) Independent, NBC, Reuters, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and many more.  Each of those 10 sources contains a line similar to this, "The truckers have been joined by various groups, including some displaying Nazi symbols and damaging public monuments."  None contained one picture or video to support the smear.  The smears remind us of the recent effort to associate the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia with fascists.  In that incident, anti-Republican activists, including the Lincoln Project, donned costumes to pose as racist supporters of the candidate.  We're also reminded of the recent criminal conviction of Jussie Smollett for staging a fake hate crime to smear Trump supporters.  We're also reminded of the many successful lawsuits by Nick Sandmann who the media falsely accused of hate crimes.  A more responsible media would have provided proof before coordinating yet another smear against a political movement.

The absurd 'Russiagate' Pulitzer of the NY Times and Washington Post.  "For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest," the citation from the Pulitzer Prize board begins, "that dramatically furthered the nation's understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-elect's transition team and his eventual administration."  Except the journalism that the Pulitzers honored — a 2018 National Reporting prize shared by the Washington Post and the New York Times for reporting on Russiagate — did no such thing.  It led to a dramatic misunderstanding, suggesting that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to help sway the 2016 election — a grand conspiracy that we now know never existed.  Oh, it was "deeply sourced," in that deep-state Democratic bureaucrats, furious that Trump had won the White House, were falling over themselves to talk anonymously to reporters.

Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake Destroys Fake News Media.  Trump-endorsed Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake's first television campaign advertisement will air.  Her ad will only run during news shows on news stations across Arizona.  Lake has a history of exposing fake news [...] and she is doing it now with a commercial that they must play.  The video, titled "Rigged Elections Have Consequences" calls out the fake news media for their silence on the 2020 election and lists the terrible consequences we face, including our weak southern border.

5 Media Lies About The Latest Special Counsel Revelations.  One week ago today, Special Counsel John Durham filed a motion in the government's criminal case against former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann.  That motion, in requesting the court obtain Sussmann's waiver of any conflicts of interest held by his lawyers on the record, provided in excruciating detail the factual basis for the purported conflicts.  In doing so, it revealed that "enemies of Donald Trump surveilled the internet traffic at Trump Tower, at his New York City apartment building, and later at the executive office of the president of the United States, then fed disinformation about that traffic to intelligence agencies hoping to frame Trump as a Russia-connected stooge."

Axios Tries, and Fails, to Spin the Bad Economy.  At Axios, Dan Primack tries to wave away the terrible polling on the state of the economy by pretending that it is the inevitable "byproduct of a politics in which the economy is reflexively disparaged by those out of power."  It's not.  It's the "byproduct" of an economy that isn't good.

All the Lies That Are Fit to Print.  Ashley Rindberg's [new book] exposes the New York Times and its longstanding ideological roots.  Rindberg offers an illuminating historical study of how the Times repeatedly has engaged in spreading lies about National Socialism, Communism, and other authoritarian regimes and various political situations around the world.  This has been a clear pattern for decades, claims Rindsberg, and it's not difficult to see what he means.  During World War II, for example, the Times refused to acknowledge the gravity of Hitler's regime, and the correspondents would often, quite literally and openly, use Nazi propaganda points in their articles.  Was it denial of the reality that Hitler's regime brought about or actual antisemitic support for the regime?  In 1935, Frederick Birchall, one of the Times' journalists, wrote an article about the Olympics that were then taking place in Berlin.  The anti-Jewish riots were happening during the athletic event yet Birchall decided to minimize them and focus on the glory of the Olympics.

Why Newspapers Refuse to Correct Errors.  Many iconic U.S. newspapers sport slogans that seek to explain their mission — and self-image.  "All the News That's Fit to Print" has been called "the seven most famous words in American journalism."  "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was an overtly partisan call to arms.  But the most telling section of a newspaper's true values is its "Corrections" page.  That's where journalism distinguishes itself from just about every other profession, routinely and straightforwardly admitting its mistakes.  Who else does that?  It is a soul-crushing enterprise.  A single misspelled name is all it takes to ruin an otherwise stellar article.  We reporters may forget the topic of the piece we wrote last week, while the error five years ago is seared into our memories.  But it is also crucial:  Reader trust is the lifeblood of journalism.  If you can't believe what you read, why bother?

Avenatti and the Media Swindlers.  If you want to feed on fake news, be bombarded by endless praise-filled coverage of scoundrels whose fame is undeserved, and listen to just plain idiocy, keep watching television news.  With the latest conviction of former media star Michael Avenatti, I've made my case.  Not only does the story of his rise and fall illustrate my point, but the failure of the media that gave him so much praise and coverage is not the end of it.  Their lack of curiosity about his funding, even to this day, further condemns them as mere propagandists for the Left.

American Truckers Organizing Freedom Convoy to DC but Here Come the Censors.  The Freedom Convoy that made it across Canada from Vancouver to Ottawa is now occupying the streets in front of Parliament and is being supported by people in their efforts against vaccine mandates. [...] American truckers are now trying to follow in the footsteps of their Northern brethren — organizing a similar convoy from California to Washington, D.C., to stand against government overreach.  But Facebook is trying to stop them, removing the page from which they were organizing the effort.  Facebook claimed that the page was violating policies around QAnon.  Just as there was an effort to smear the Canadian effort by Justin Trudeau and some in liberal media, even claiming it was somehow associated with Russia, it looks like they're going after the U.S. effort.

Canadian Media Claims Russia is Behind the Truckers Freedom Protest.  As if the media can't get anymore desperate to brush aside the fact their own citizens are adamantly opposed to the vax mandates, this fake news host just claimed the entire thing is due to Russia.  Once again proving the leftist media will do anything to make up a news story in order to fit their current agenda, which currently appears to be start a war with Russia to deflect everyones attention away from the fact people are openly rebelling against them.  If a war does start, make no mistake, the government will try to round up people who have zero to do with Russia and everything to do with not complying with the leftist globalist agenda.  [Video clip]

When Will People Finally See the Obvious?  Consider the number of things the Left has been willing to lie to the American people about in recent years.  The short list includes:  COVID, suppressing its origins and effective means of treatment; January 6, 2021, touted as worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined and jailing Capitol trespassers for over a year without trial dates; Hunter Biden's laptop, immediately and roundly dismissed as "Russian disinformation"; destructive and deadly riots blithely labeled "mostly peaceful protests"; and parents at school board meetings protesting critical race theory viciously defamed and treated as would-be "domestic terrorists."  But between all of these (and so many more) major news stories, Americans en masse have begun to wake up and search for the truth outside what's being spoon-fed (and in some cases shovel-fed) to them by the corporate left-wing media. [...] So why has this leap of faithlessness not jumped over to the obvious facts of the 2020 election?  Those currently in power have a clear track record of covering up the truth on major news stories, but we're somehow supposed to believe what they say about the 2020 election?

Is This 'Leaked' Video Real Or Staged?  The Khaki-clad Patriot Front group was out protesting again today — This time at the March for Life in Washington DC.  Two weeks ago this mysterious khaki-clad group showed up at the Chicago March for Life for some reason. [...] In spite of all that there seems to be little media interest in digging deep to find out what's really going on with this group and who its members are.  There is, however, plenty of interest in videos that purport to show Patriot Front members using Nazi language and gestures.  One that is said to have been leaked is making the rounds.  Does this seem staged, or authentic?  [Video clip]

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Ask yourself:  Who would benefit if it's genuine?  Nobody.  Who would benefit if it's fake but believable?  The Democrats.

Gorsuch, Sotomayor Push Back On NPR Story Claiming He Refused To Wear A Mask Despite Request.  Associate Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor put out a joint statement on Wednesday denying a recent report that Gorsuch refused to wear a mask during oral arguments, forcing Sotomayor to participate in proceedings remotely.  National Public Radio legal correspondent Nina Totenberg claimed in a Tuesday column that Gorsuch refused a request from Chief Justice John Roberts that all justices wear masks during oral arguments as a result of Sotomayor's fears about the Omicron variant.  Sotomayor, who has diabetes, "has not attended the justices' weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone" as a result of Gorsuch's refusal, Totenberg wrote.  "Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us.  It is false.  While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends," the two justices said.

NPR's Story About a SCOTUS Spat over Justices Wearing Masks Looks Like a Massive Pile of Fake News.  It seems even the most prestigious legal institution in the land is not immune to COVID, that is the politics of it all.  The Court did strike down the employer-based COVID vaccine mandate the Biden administration was pushing that was going to be enforced by OSHA. Yet, it didn't come before we all saw how wrong the liberal wing of the Court was on the issue.  I'm not talking about legal differences.  I'm talking about facts.  Justice Sonia Sotomayor claimed that 100,000 kids were hospitalized with COVID and on ventilators.  She also said Omicron was just as deadly as Delta.  Not true.  This is what happens when you only watch CNN or MSNBC all day.  These people are deciding the fate of millions in the workforce and four of them consumed, digested, and believed in pure science fiction.  Luckily, that OSHA mandate was struck down 6-3.  Yet, the COVID antics have not stopped.  There are reports that Chief Justice John Roberts ordered all members to wear a mask at oral arguments.  Justice Gorsuch refused which forced Justice Sotomayor to work remotely.  Now, here's where the red flag comes in — it's an NPR story.

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Conspiracies as Realities, Realities as Conspiracies.  Consider that the Trump election of 2016, the transition, and the first two years of the Trump presidency were undermined by a media-progressive generated hoax of "Russian collusion."  The "bombshell" and "walls are closing in" mythologies dominated the network news and cable outlets.  It took five years to expose them as rank agit-prop.  Robert Mueller and his "dream team" consumed $40 million of Americans' money and 22 months of our time — to find the nothingburger that most of the country already knew was nothing.  Yet the subtext of the 2018 Democratic takeover of the House was the media narrative that Trump, as Hillary Clinton put it, was an "illegitimate" president, due to Russian collusion.  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claimed on national television that Trump was a "Russian asset."  Former CIA head John Brennan assured the nation that the president was "treasonous," due to his supposed "lies to the American people."  All sorts of politicians, retired military, and news anchors echoed the charges.  The lies and myths of has-been British spy Christopher Steele made him a leftist hero.  They were repeated ad nauseam as truth.

Is the tide finally turning?  On the COVID front, suddenly we see a rash of what we used to call in the news business "skin-backs."  In plain English, that would be corrections.  In journalism and politics, that's particularly painful, so skin-back captures it pretty well.  I think the Covidians have already begun The Big Skin-Back.  So many lies for so long are becoming so obviously lies that they need to get ahead of the story.  Otherwise, their only option is to continue to defend the lies in the face of overwhelming mounting evidence of their duplicity and, after losing battle after battle, completely destroy their credibility, even with mainstream media.

Fact Check:  Fact-Checkers Falsely Claim They Are Fact-Checkers.  Defending the ruling regime in Washington is a tough job with a lot of moving parts.  To keep everyone on message and to make sure that only the regime's message is the controlling one in the public square, you need committed politicians, woke multinational corporations, corporate media, and devoutly loyal followers who will echo that message far and wide.  Not all of these echo chambers are created equal.  For example, in the corporate media, some get to host to the fancy nighttime cable shows and make massive salaries while others have to handle the less glamorous and talent-demanding work, like pumping out endless "fact checks."  These lower-level operatives serve their purpose in service of the regime, however.  They supply the committed masses with clickbait that can be amplified by those eager to believe that the regime's message is not only preferable but is the absolute and only truth.  They exist to make us believe that to be on the side of the regime's message is to be on the side of the facts.

January 6 and the real 'Big Lie'.  [Scroll down]  The real Big Lie has been — and is still being — aided, abetted, and promoted by the Big Liars in the mainstream media.  No longer lie-detectors, they are lie-projectors, smear merchants, enemies of the people so full of it that industrial-sized enemas couldn't clean them out.  Bizarrely binary, they are nothing more than Deep State-approved mouth organs of the Democrat party, essentially state-run organizations when Democrats are in power and sworn enemies of the state when Republicans hold office.  They are Merchants of Menace.  The clowns at MSNBC, the Lolita-lovers at CNN, the "ladies" on The View, and the partisan pseudo-journalist hacks at fish-wrap factories like The New York Times and The Washington Post all routinely say the same things... in the same way.  They consistently beclown themselves but are not open-minded enough to realize it.

Top five media lies of 2021.  [#2] Ma'Khia Bryant was murdered by a racist police officer:  In April, a police officer shot Ma'Khia Bryant, a black teenager in Columbus, Ohio, as she was trying to stab another girl.  The footage from the officer's body camera made it very clear that the shooting was justified and the officer acted to save the woman's life.  The corporate media ran with the story that Ma'Khia Bryant had been murdered by a police officer because of her race.  Many outlets, such as the New York Times and The Daily Beast, even claimed she was unarmed at the moment of the shooting.

Pandemic Response Will Be Used As Model for "Climate Crisis" Response.  Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, experts have assured worried populations that their policies would contain the virus, prevent infections, and save lives.  After two weeks of shutting down the country and sealing ourselves off, we would "flatten the curve" and then proceed with our lives as normal.  As we round out the second year of the "two weeks," I also recall that Biden's COVID advisor Dr. Anthony Facui assured us that once we hit 70% vaccination rates, we would no longer see surges in coronavirus cases. [...] One of the advantages about living through this pandemic is that we have the ability to see scientific "experts" fail in their projections in real time.  We have also observed politically connected bureaucrats stifle robust and essential scientific debate, as they colluded with the media to silence well qualified opposition to the latest pet theories and policies.  For example, Dr. Francis Collins, then director of the National Institutes of Health, sent an email to Facui concerned about the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement developed by Harvard's Martin Kulldorff, Oxford's Sunetra Gupta and Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya against blanket pandemic lockdowns.  The two organized a media smear campaign to paint these scientists as "fringe".

A Myth is Born:  How CDC, FDA, and Media Wove a Web of Ivermectin Lies That Outlives The Truth.  When a Texas cattleman, seventy-nine, died last September in New Mexico after contracting covid, his family never anticipated the worldwide headlines that would ensue.  In a ballyhooed press conference, New Mexico Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase, the state's top health chief, announced New Mexico's first ivermectin "overdose," soon adding a second fatality allegedly from "ivermectin toxicity."  Now, Scrase has acknowledged that his repeated, what he called "offhand," assertions were groundless.  Two deaths were not caused by ivermectin, a long-used generic drug that was emerging as a covid treatment.  Instead, he said that the pair died because they "actually just delayed their care with covid."  That is a big difference.  Scrase backpedaled on December 1 in a little-noticed online press briefing and only after we pressed his agency to provide evidence for its claims of so-called "ivermectin deaths."  Officials had repeatedly said they were awaiting a toxicology report on the cattleman's death.  Yet we learned that the report was never even ordered or done, and, moreover, the man's death was ruled by the state's coroner as being from "natural" causes.

In 2021, Media Did More to Erode Trust Than to Repair It.  The case of actor Jussie Smollett's fake hate crime came to a conclusion this month, revealing that media outlets still are eager to pounce on a racially divisive story and cast blame, but reluctant to examine themselves when the story falls apart. [...] Earlier this month, Smollett was convicted of five of six counts of disorderly conduct, all stemming from his lies to Chicago police about the "hate crime" he staged with the help of others.  And how did the media react to this outcome?  Not well, and in some cases, not at all.  ABC News, which had featured Smollett and allowed the actor to elaborate on the hoax in 2019, failed to tell viewers that his trial was underway.  When Smollett's guilty verdicts were announced, the entire prime-time lineup on MSNBC completely ignored the news, despite the fact that the network was one of the principal promoters of Smollett's original claims.  An incredible headline on CNN muttered:  "Jussie Smollett guilty on some charges," blatantly downplaying the multiple verdicts.  It would have been more accurate to say "most charges," or even better, the precisely accurate "five of six."  And finally, some wondered why we were talking about the Smollett verdicts at all.

Glenn Greenwald Points To The One Moment That Changed The Pandemic And Destroyed Trust In Media.  Journalist Glenn Greenwald said in a Tuesday [12/28/2021] Twitter thread that there was one single moment that changed media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic — and that when it "flipped overnight," it destroyed trust in media.  The death of George Floyd — at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin — and the massive protests it inspired prompted a near-180 turn from multiple media outlets that had just spent the previous weeks telling Americans that the only patriotic thing to do was stay home to stop the spread of the virus.  "This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic's history," Greenwald began.  "For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting:  everyone must stay home.  Those who leave — even to go to a deserted beach — are reckless sociopaths.  It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked." [...] "That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they'd politicize their expertise when convenient," Greenwald continued, referencing experts who had joined media broadcasts to argue that systemic racism and police brutality posed greater health risks than the rapidly-spreading virus.  "Corporate media celebrated a [...] lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then — overnight! — cheered densely packed street protests."

Biden's Approval Ratings Are Inflated.  There has been a lot of publicity around Joe Biden's poor approval ratings, but I think his actual standing with the electorate is worse than they indicate.  Take, for example, the Rasmussen survey, which I think is valuable because 1) unlike other polls, it samples likely voters, and 2) it polls constantly, publishing a three-day rolling average.  Thus, whether the numbers are "right" or not, they are a good indicator of trends.  In Joe Biden's case, the trend has been obvious:  his approval rating quickly dropped to around 42%, and there it sits.  But I don't believe that 40+% of voters, surveying the wreckage of the last year, actually think that Biden is doing a good job.  Some of them are lying to the pollster, out of party loyalty.  We saw the same thing during the Obama administration.  It is more revealing to see how voters assess a president's performance on specific issues.

People Demand Rachel Maddow, MSNBC Apologize for False COVID Comments.  [Scroll down]  But Fauci wasn't the only one facing criticism today.  The other person was Rachel Maddow.  However, it wasn't for anything that she said recently; it was for comments that she made back in March that people were now calling into question.  Viewers were demanding an apology from Maddow and MSNBC for this video from March 29, in which she claimed that if you were vaccinated, it would stop the virus in its tracks and prevent transmission. [Tweet with video clip]  Maddow said, "Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person."  "A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else," she continued.  "It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people."  Maddow stated that vaccines "would get us to the end of this," meaning the end of the pandemic.  This is just untrue.  While the transmission is allegedly less likely, vaccinated people can still get the virus and spread it.

The Covid fear factory is trembling.  [Scroll down]  At this point the question naturally arises:  Why is it that the public health establishment and the media are working hard to generate a tide of public hysteria around Omicron? [...] It's not by chance that the media is obsessing about case count.  Case counts are one of the most deceptive measures of pandemic severity when symptoms are mild to non-existent in the majority of the infected.

What do the UK Vaccine Surveillance Reports tell us?  [Scroll down]  Each time when we've heard "The pandemic of the unvaccinated" from the media and politicians, we can be reasonably sure that they are not talking about the actual health of those people, for whatever reason, do not take the vaccine.  Instead, they have actually been concerned about "Overwhelming the healthcare system" with unvaccinated people.  However, the raw data from the UK health systems shows that more vaccinated people than unvaccinated ones were using the healthcare system.  There is no such "raw data" available in the U.S. All we can find is some kind of rate.  CDC once had a CDC MMWR report that was based on the data from 13 U.S. jurisdictions.  That report stated that, once Delta appeared, vaccinated people reduced their risk of infection by five times, and both their risk of hospitalization and risk of death by more than ten times.  The report acknowledges that the data from 13 jurisdictions "might not be generalizable," and that's true.  It's nonsense.  Nevertheless, the Mainstream Media and politicians immediately started to propagandize based on that report.

Here There Be Monsters.  Tech company oligarchs, media conglomerates, and pharmaceutical companies have collaborated with the federal government to encapsulate Americans in a fantasy of incomplete, misleading, false, and contrived information.  Unlike the federal government, the predominant social media are not constrained in disregarding the First Amendment, and routinely engage in outright censorship and speech suppression.  As long as it serves the government's purposes, curtailing its opponents' free speech is fine.  All U.S. "mainstream" media are owned and controlled by six corporations.  Those corporations call the shots on what does and does not get news coverage, how that coverage is fashioned, and its content.  To believe the U.S. "mainstream" media represent a free press is more an act of faith than believing in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.  Acts of outrageous media hypocrisy occur on a daily basis, always favoring the Left/government's preferences.  News censorship and content control are hallmarks of totalitarian government, and the U.S. checks both boxes today.

Here is the Mainstream Media in Israel Fabricating a Story.  If you wanted to see how corrupt the mainsteam media outlets are across the planet, here is several Israeli news organizations working together to fabricate the entire pandemic fraud that has swept the world.  They even recorded themselves setting the entire thing up, luckily, it allows us to see just how far they're going to setup these stories about hospitals being overwhelmed, mass deaths, etc.  [Video clip]

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Pravda.  Interesting short segment from Sky News interviewing the smiling U.K. Health Minister Gillian Keegan about the intense U.K. response to the Omicron variant and the new restrictions announced by government officials.  Great Britain is preparing for hundreds-of-thousands of Omicron cases.  [Video clip]

The High Price of Bidenomics.  American humorist Edgar Wilson Nye famously observed, "Wagner's music is better than it sounds."  Recently, the White House and its numerous allies in the "news" media have been telling an increasingly skeptical electorate a similarly self-refuting tale about the Biden economy.  Typical of the stories that have appeared in major news outlets is this howler from CNN's Julian Zelizer, who insists that there is "a huge disconnect between the economic data and the way voters are feeling."  Anyone naïve enough to believe such balderdash will be disabused of their illusions by reading Friday's Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing that the consumer price index (CPI) has risen by 6.8 percent during the 12-month period ending in November.

Liberal Media Pushes Bonkers Conspiracy Theory About Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is moving to create a civilian corps in his state to help when natural disasters like hurricanes hit.  Twenty-two other states already have the exact same thing, but the media is portraying it as a private militia to do DeSantis' personal bidding.  This is the same media that is constantly accusing others of spreading conspiracy theories.

Willie Horton and the Democratic Party's Greatest Fear.  [Scroll down]  Fast-forward to November 21, 2021. In the tranquil suburban community of Waukesha, Wisconsin, a vicious bigot named Darrell Brooks — free on bail with multiple pending felonies, one being his recent attempt to run over his onetime girlfriend with his SUV — allegedly drove through a Christmas parade, running down as many innocent people as he could, killing at least five, injuring some sixty more.  Media-watchers have already begun to comment on how relatively little detailed coverage there has been.  We have noticed blatant photo-editing techniques used to lighten the perpetrator's skin in media photos.  We have seen a surprising lack of MSM interest in both the man's history and his apparent motive.  We have seen, if anything, a textbook case in how to all but bury a story too big to dismiss.

Why Jussie Smollett deserves to be punished for his shameful hoax.  On January 29, 2019, African American actor Jussie Smollett who is gay claimed that two masked men wearing MAGA hats hurled racist and homophobic abuses at him.  He claims that they proceeded to punch him, pour a chemical substance over him, put a rope around his neck and berate him with "this is MAGA country."  He also claimed that he had received a hate mail consisting of a barrage of racist invectives.  The US mainstream media gleefully carried and amplified the story because it fits their narrative of far-right Trump supporters persecuting a gay man of color.  Instances such as these explain why very few in the US trust their news media.

The Cynical and Dangerous Weaponization of the "White Supremacist" Label.  Within hours of the August 25, 2020, shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin — not days, but hours — it was decreed as unquestioned fact in mainstream political and media circles that the shooter, Kyle Rittenhouse, was a "white supremacist."  Over the next fifteen months, up to and including his acquittal by a jury of his peers on all charges, this label was applied to him more times than one can count by corporate media outlets as though it were proven fact.  Indeed, that Rittenhouse was a "white supremacist" was deemed so unquestionably true that questioning it was cast as evidence of one's own racist inclinations (defending a white supremacist).  Yet all along, there was never any substantial evidence, let alone convincing proof, that it was true.  This fact is, or at least should be, an extraordinary, even scandalous, event:  a 17-year-old was widely vilified as being a white supremacist by a union of national media and major politicians despite there being no evidence to support the accusation.  Yet it took his acquittal by a jury who heard all the evidence and testimony for parts of the corporate press to finally summon the courage to point out that what had been Gospel about Rittenhouse for the last fifteen months was, in fact, utterly baseless.

It was an act of intentional, race-based, black-on-white, vehicular homicide.  It was not accidental.
Waukesha Parade Attack:  Debra Messing Blasts Media For Downplaying Massacre As An 'Accident'.  Actress Debra Messing took aim at the media for "minimizing" the attack that occurred at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.  Darrell Brooks has been charged with intentional homicide after driving his SUV through a crowded street commemorating the holiday season, resulting in the deaths of six people ages 8 to 81 and injuring dozens more.  However, many media outlets had been referring to the attack as a "parade crash," downplaying the intent prosecutors have leveled against the career criminal.

Everything the Media Told You About Kyle Rittenhouse Was Wrong.  Last week's acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with the murder of two men in Kenosha, Wis., likely came as a shock to millions of Americans who had relied on the media to inform their understanding of the case.  From the time Rittenhouse killed two men on the streets of Kenosha last August, media characterizations of the event suggested his conviction was a foregone conclusion.  He was a troubled kid, "a high school dropout who viewed law enforcement as his personal heroes" and had "an affinity for guns."  Many took pains to point out that he had attended a rally for then-president Donald Trump.  A New York Times report found that he "showed strong support for officers."  The Daily Beast referred to him as a "fanatic."  The men Rittenhouse shot in self-defense quickly became sympathetic figures.  Anthony Huber, who attacked Rittenhouse with a skateboard, died doing something "heroic," according to CNN — which was quoting Huber's girlfriend.  In a piece that has since been edited, the network described Joseph Rosenbaum, a convicted child rapist, as somebody who would "make you laugh out of nowhere."

It's time to revisit the coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse.  [Thread reader]  With the news that he has been acquitted on all counts, don't forget the ways that Dems and the corporate press came together to craft a false narrative in his case. [...] We need to start with the media coverage that framed this case in the public mind.  To the press, Rittenhouse was as good as guilty when the news broke.  So naturally, to @CNN, the people he shot in self defense were heroes & those defending him had "justified murder."  [Tweets]  This wasn't just limited to CNN.  [The New York Times] put out what amounts to a hit piece on Rittenhouse because his "social media accounts showed strong support for officers."  They even put out a piece about how right-wingers attacking protestors was some sort of phenomenon.  [Tweets]  Never to be outdone, @MSNBC said the shooting was white supremacy and then went on to blame — who else — President Trump for "fueling violence," sowing "chaos and disorder" and "encouraging vigilante justice"[.]

How Unethical Were the Prosecutors Trying to Put Kyle Rittenhouse in Prison?  Let Us Count the Ways.  Americans, already disgusted by the FBI, manufactured Trump Russia scandals, and counterintelligence investigations into concerned parents like they're members of Al Qaeda, closely watched this case and were repulsed by the chicanery used to prosecute Rittenhouse.  They're supposed to be the justice guys, right?  It's a wonder that Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all counts.  You can blame Leftist propagandists or your laziness if you believed that Rittenhouse's assailants were black, or that his gun was illegal, or that he brought it "across state lines," or that he was a "chaos tourist" and a "vigilante."  But there's a special Mike Nifong-sized ring of hell for prosecutors who introduce these slanders into a courtroom, knowing that their subterfuge might put a kid away for the rest of his life.  Thomas Binger and Jim Kraus did this in many ways, by invoking lies — that they knew were lies — into pre-trial bail hearings, motions, and then ultimately into the courtroom itself in the trial.  All of these lies were dutifully transcribed by friendly journalists.

The Rittenhouse trial:  Our corporate media and big tech are truly sinister.  Nothing more conclusively proves the depraved nature of the American media than the Rittenhouse trial.  The then-seventeen-year-old, as numerous videos of the event proved, was clearly under attack by the three men who chased him and he subsequently shot in self-defense.  There is simply no doubt about that.  There was no racial aspect to what happened.  The two men who died were criminals.  Jacob Rosenbaum had just served fifteen years in prison for anally raping five boys, ages 9 [to] 11.  That night he set a dumpster on fire, was swinging a heavy chain around and screaming the n-word.  Huber, the man who had hit Rittenhouse with a skateboard, also had a criminal record for domestic abuse.  So did Grosskreutz who admitted under oath to pointing a gun at Rittenhouse's head before Rittenhouse pulled the trigger injuring his arm.  Jacob Blake, the thug whose shooting by police got the riot going thanks to the media, was a rapist as well.  He was in the act of kidnapping a child and threatening the police with a knife when he was shot. [...] There are people today, even after the verdict, who think Rittenhouse shot Black men, that Rittenhouse was there, in the city his father lives in, to purposefully engage with BLM rioters, that his gun was illegal.  None of that is true.

Goal Of Rittenhouse Prosecution and Media Manipulation Is To Render "Citizens Not Being Able To Defend Themselves".  [Scroll down]  So the narrative is Kyle Rittenhouse is a militia member who crossed state lines with a weapon to shoot peaceful protest is protestors.  None of those things are true, other than he did cross the state line.  Like that's some big deal nowadays, but he wasn't carrying a weapon.  The weapon was already in Wisconsin.  He was lawfully able to possess it in Wisconsin.  That's why the judge threw out the charge of being a minor in possession.  He wasn't in an militia.  Remember there's certainly no evidence introduced to that.  And he didn't shoot peaceful protestors.  He shoot shot three extremely violent people who tried to kill him.  So that media narrative is out there.  It will never go away.  And that has framed the case for political purposes, that this is white supremacy on trial here.  So you have Black Lives Matter protesters out there claiming racism for a white kid who shot three white people.  This has nothing to do with race yet.  That's what it's turned into.

Once more with feeling!  Media coverage of the Rittenhouse case was hot garbage.  We covered this territory during the trial but now that it's over it's worth remembering that the media's coverage of this case was terrible from the moment it happened.  Today, Drew Holden put together a thread hitting some of the lowlights: [...]

10 Media Myths Exploded During the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial.  [#1] "White supremacist":  There was never any evidence that Rittenhouse was a "white supremacist," even by the time Biden made that false claim last September.  The prosecution confirmed that fact during the trial when it failed to produce evidence of any kind that Rittenhouse was a "white supremacist" or had racial motivations.  The owners of the car dealership who asked Rittenhouse and others for help were Indian-American. [...] [#7] Rittenhouse "crossed state lines":  It is true that Rittenhouse is from Antioch, Illinois.  But he was working last summer as a lifeguard in Wisconsin, and his father lives in Kenosha — a fact that tripped the prosecution when they tried to portray Rittenhouse as a kind of outsider, a "chaos tourist" who neither cared about nor was familiar with the local community.

Kyle Rittenhouse and the False Narrative.  The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is an important moment in American culture, because this isn't just about Kyle Rittenhouse. [...] For me, the unacknowledged heroes of the Rittenhouse case are the intrepid videographers who were on the scene recording what was taking place on the street.  Without them, Rittenhouse would probably be facing a real risk of being convicted for double murder.  Why?  Because he's dealing with a dishonest prosecutor, who doesn't hesitate to say things he knows are misleading; dishonest detectives, who don't hesitate to twist the truth; and a dishonest media, which has been brazenly lying about what happened between Rittenhouse and his combatants for a whole year. [...] If you read media accounts of the confrontation, you would get the clear impression that it was Rittenhouse who was chasing Rosenbaum, not the other way around.  For anyone reading these accounts, it would seem that the men were minding their own business when Rittenhouse decided on his own to hunt and gun them down.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

It's all about the narrative — facts [notwithstanding].  Jussie Smollett was not attacked by MAGA-hatted white thugs; the media treated his initial story with complete credulity.  Christine Blasey Ford provided no supporting evidence for her allegations against Brett Kavanaugh; the media treated her as a groundbreaking heroine.  The high schoolers of Covington Catholic did not mock a Native American man; the media treated them as evil white supremacists.  Jacob Blake was not wrongfully shot by police; the media treated his shooting as a case of systemic police racism.  No evidence was ever presented that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd based on race; his case nonetheless became the point of the spear in our "national conversation" about racism.  How many facts will die at the hands of media-crafted narratives?  As many as need to die in order to achieve political utopia for the left.

Retract Every Russian Collusion Story and Fire Everyone Who Wrote Them.  [Scroll down]  But the [Washington] Post should not just unapologetically correct the phony stories on Millian; every single article, column, and video that supports the now-debunked Russian collusion hoax should be retracted with a lengthy explanation.  Tom Hamburger, who was in cahoots with Simpson from the start and met with Simpson and Christopher Steele in September 2016 to accelerate the narrative weeks before the presidential election, should be fired.  Immediately.  So, too, should Helderman.  And Post editors should force the pair to return the Pulitzer Prize they won, along with several New York Times reporters, in 2018 for "deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation's understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect's transition team and his eventual administration."  This unfolding scandal is not only about how inaccurately the media covered Sergei Millian or the bogus Steele dossier.  There was no collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russians.  Period.  And everyone knew it at the time.  Tom Hamburger knew it, Rosalind Helderman, everyone at MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and more knew it was fabricated garbage peddled by a well-known paid smear merchant who was disguising another paid political operative as a "western intelligence officer."

Trump Dossier Coverage 'One of the Most Egregious Journalistic Errors' in History, Admits Corporate Media.  Axios, one of the leading D.C.-based corporate media outlets, has admitted that reporting surrounding the now infamous Trump-Steele dossier was "one of the most egregious journalistic errors in modern history," in an article slamming news-media colleagues for the years of fake news reporting.  "...[T]he media's response to its own mistakes has so far been tepid," wrote Sara Fischer on Sunday morning, as it becomes increasingly clear to the nation's journalistic class that not only were they willingly duped for years, but that they have made almost no efforts to correct their outright falsehoods.

The Russia hoax was the journalism version of check kiting.  The Russia hoax, as President Trump correctly called it, is turning out to be a legal problem for some and a credibility collapse for journalism. [...] In the real world, the victims of check kiting end up in the courts, trying to get their money.  In the media world, they click the channel off or cancel their subscriptions.  Can anyone read a story based on sources close to the information and take it seriously anymore?  I don't.  I take those stories as seriously as I do those polls based on "adults."  Let's hope Mr. Durham understands how important his task is.  He owes the country an explanation for how something like this could happen.

When Liberal Media Narratives Blow Up.  Today it's Kyle Rittenhouse.  Not long ago it was young Nicholas Sandmann.  And, of course, for four years or so it was the Trump-Russia collusion business.  What do these three episodes have in common?  That would be the fact of a wildly untrue liberal media narrative. [...] So what do we have here?  What we have is a crystal clear pattern of the media substituting liberal bias for the facts of a given story.  The center of the story of the moment could be Kyle Rittenhouse or Nicholas Sandmann or Trump-Russia collusion.  It could be, heaven knows, all manner of other news stories.  But the one constant in each is that the liberals at these liberal media outlets deliberately — say again deliberately — report the facts of a case with a far left bias.  Now the liberal narrative of Kyle Rittenhouse seems to be falling apart in a court of law.  The question is, will the liberal media learn from this?  Will it finally learn that in reporting the news it's the facts, not the political bias of a liberal narrative, that should rule?  Don't bet the ranch.

Joe Biden Calls Satchel Paige "The Great Negro" — Media Immediately Says Biden Did Not Say What You Saw Him Say.  Comrades, the ministry of truth does not want you to misunderstand what Joe Biden is saying in these prepared remarks.  Do not believe your eyes and ears, Joe Biden is not saying:  ..."You know, I've adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher in the negro leagues went on to become a great pitcher in the pros, into the, major league baseball after Jackie Robinson, his name was Satchel Paige".  Joe Biden is NOT saying this, according to U.S. media immediately afterward.  [Video clip]

A Deeper Divide.  After the George Floyd death the mainstream media covered BLM in expected flattering terms.  So much so that Main Street believes that in a typical year police kill anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 unarmed black men.  The real figure last year was eighteen.  The U.S. Crime Victimization Study also reveals a different story:  In a normal year like 2019, among violent crimes involving a white perp and a black victim or a black perp and a white victim, 70 to 90 percent of such incidents are black-on-white crimes.  True statistics aside, American society's generators like universities, media, entertainment, and Big Tech continue to spread the view that oppressors rule the nation and that slavery defines American history.

Turley: The media oddly missed the "crash and burn" of Rittenhouse prosecutors this week.  They didn't miss it at all — national media outlets just tried their best to report around it.  We have covered the errors and outright violations committed by Kenosha prosecutors in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, and so our readers are aware of what Jonathan Turley describes as the "crash and burn" of the murder case over the past week.  Most media consumers have instead been fed a narrative of judicial bias and bizarre attempts to inject race into a case where the accused, the alleged victims, and most of the witnesses are all white.

The Leftist Media Lied Through Their Teeth about Kyle Rittenhouse.  One clip after another shows just how many lies the liberal media was willing to concoct in order to pain Kyle Rittenhouse as the bad guy.  Now, that the case has been seen and viewed publicly, most intelligent people are realizing all of the lies the liberal media told, i.e.  "A white supremacist," who was "looking to murder protesters."  Is just that, more lies from a media who makes the story up as they go.

How did we get here?  Can this mess be fixed?  [Scroll down]  Long ago, there was a day, we are told (because none of us was around to witness it), when most people believed what they read in a newspaper.  Gradually, that myth faded.  We learned that journalists weren't always truthful.  Today, a scant 14% trust what the media, press, or journalists have to say.  That's part of the price we pay for undermining truth.  Lying, conniving, and propagandizing journalists get a fair share of the blame.  But few people understood journalism's function even in the good old days.  Journalists do not tell the truth.  They tell what people tell them.  If a reporter or commentator limited his published words to "the truth," he would publish little with certainty apart from the date.  I've yet to meet a journalist, and I've met thousands, capable of ferreting out "the truth" in complex issues.  Some do better than others by compiling an array of evidence and testimony.  But in the end, it's the same story: "so-and-so says so."  It's unavoidable, a hazard of the genre.

Media Reveals Just How Misleading They Can Be When It Comes to Rittenhouse Coverage.  We've written before about how the prosecution seems to have been imploding its own case in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.  There was the opening statement where the prosecutor, Thomas Binger, claimed that Rittenhouse was chasing Joseph Rosenbaum rather than the truth that it was the other way around. [...] Today was perhaps the capper of them all that completely blew up the case.  The defense was questioning Gaige Grosskreutz — the third man Rittenhouse shot.  Grosskreutz admitted that he advanced on Rittenhouse and pointed the gun at him and it was only after that, that Rittenhouse shot him. [...] We see how media is portraying the trial today so we can see just how misleading it is because we know what happened at the trial.  We can't always see all the facts in a story that the media reports on in the way we did here.  Yet, this is how they are casting the trial?  Are they kidding?  And they wonder why Americans no longer trust them?  This is a perfect example of why.

3 points about the news media.  [Thread reader]  The vast majority of disinformation, propaganda and lies that flooded the country over the last 5 years did not come from MAGA boomers on Facebook or 4Chan teenagers but the largest and most influential liberal corporate media outlets.  These are not cases where media outlets erred.  They deliberately lied.  The way to know that is they refuse to acknowledge evidence proving they lied.

Never Trumpers and Black Lives Matter Have the Same Backer.  The press releases went out on schedule and the media rewrote them into news stories.  A group of "principled" Republicans was going to fundraise to support Democrat congressmen.  The stories rolled out on schedule from different media outlets while appearing nearly identical.  And the real story, as usual, was not what was on the page, but what had been deliberately left out.  Reuters described the Renew America Movement as a group of Never Trump Republicans "whose leadership includes former Republican Governors Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey and Bill Weld of Massachusetts."  Hardly a single story mentioned the actual leaders.  The Renew America Movement was co-founded by Evan McMullin and his running mate Mindy Finn.  Its national political director, Joel Searby, who is quoted in the media's writeups, was the chief strategist for the McMullin campaign.  Donations to RAM go through Stand Up Republic, which is the anti-Trump group that McMullin and Finn originally set up.  The press release for the new pro-Democrat campaign even came from Stand Up Republic.  The media actually had to work not to mention McMullin or Stand Up Republic in its stories about the RAM campaign.  And the media did a fine job of lying by omission to the public in order to elect Democrats.

Our mostly complicit, compliant, sycophant press has no concern about facts, only Democrat power.  What happened to Donald Trump in 2016 and beyond dwarfed Watergate.  Most of the media not only didn't care about the corruption of the Democrats, but were also major participants in seeking to destroy a candidate, and later president, they didn't like.  Special counsel John Durham has started to hit paydirt with three arrests so far, the tip of the iceberg, and the story is essentially buried because the media don't care, and they don't want the public to know the truth.  If the public learns the truth, they will see how dishonest, corrupt, and dangerous the media are.  They will set out to destroy anyone they don't want in elective office.  The truth and evidence are never necessary when they are campaigning for Democrats.

Democrats Traipsing Through Strawberry Fields.  Start with critical race theory, one of the major issues in school board elections nationwide and in the Virginia gubernatorial race.  Former Bush Republican, now a Trump-hating liberal Democrat, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace declared that critical race theory "isn't real."  Her strawberry fields analysis of a Republican sweep in Virginia, the GOP winning the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general positions was, "So, I think that the real ominous thing, is that critical race theory, which isn't real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump-insurrection-endorsed Republican."  Maybe in the cocooned studios of MSNBC, critical race theory is some QAnon or white supremacist conspiracy theory, but to voters it was quite real, and concerning.  If critical race theory is not real, someone should tell Amazon as they offer numerous books on the subject, in education and mathematics, how to teach it in school and how to respond to "microaggressions," meaning any viewpoint that challenges the CRT agenda.  Defeated gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe told fellow Democrat Chuck Todd shortly before the election that critical race theory has "never been taught" in the state's public schools and that the fight to ban the theory from school curricula is a "racist dog whistle."  McAuliffe also claimed that eventual gubernatorial victor Glenn Youngkin "wants to ban critical race theory."  Chuck Todd missed the obvious follow up question of why something that doesn't exist or isn't taught would need to be banned?

7 Insane Things I Just Learned About How U.S. Elections Are 'Rigged'.  [#6] It's No Longer Media Bias, It's Media Lies:  As my opening to this essay explains, I'm aware media bias has been transcended by outright propaganda.  In her book, however, Mollie [Hemingway] makes an excellent point about this after detailing other cases proving this shift.  She makes it in relation to what I'd call a relatively minor offense — The New York Times publishing a Trump-smearing piece from an anonymous author it described as a "senior administration official," meaning "someone in the upper echelon of an administration."  Of course, it turned out this person wasn't any such thing.  He was just a mid-level bureaucrat.

McAuliffe buys 'fake news' ads in effort to sway voters, Fox News investigation finds.  Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe has spent nearly $100,000 advertising "fake news" websites on Facebook during the Virginia gubernatorial campaign, Fox News can reveal.  The Democrat's advertisements, which have been viewed up to 3.5 million times so far, are hidden on a Facebook page with a similar name to a local news website.  The ads link to third-party websites that ostensibly publish local news, but exist to promote Democratic candidates.  The websites have been widely described as disinformation and "partisan propaganda."

Axios Blames American Consumers, Not Bad Policy for Labor Shortages.  Blame the American consumer!  That's the approach liberal outlet Axios used to explain away the atrocious labor shortages affecting the U.S. economy, and not President Joe Biden's economic policies.  Axios published a snobbish piece headlined, "Unruly customers threaten economic recovery."  The outlet's asinine argument was that "increasingly violent and combative customers," angry about "long wait times and mask mandates," were causing workers to quit, hamstringing a recovery that hinges in part on employees "returning to work."  But unlike Axios, The Wall Street Journal editorial board didn't hesitate to pin the labor shortage blame on the proper culprit:  "Bidenomics."  The Journal suggested two specific sources for what has been causing the worker shortage.  The sources it mentioned were: "government and employer vaccine mandates that set ultimatums for workers" and Democrats making "quitting an easier economic option" through a litany of federal unemployment benefits.

Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels.  Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu..  Last week, the media again tried to ratchet up the public's fear over covid-19 by labeling it more deadly than the 1918 flu epidemic.  "COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Disease in U.S. History," reads one headline from an NBC TV affiliate.  Considering the realities of cancer and heart disease, that headline is absurdly false.  Perhaps the author meant "communicable disease."  A TIME headline was at least arguably factual, declaring, "COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Pandemic in American History."  But even the TIME headline is only arguably true if stripped of all context.  If we actually look at disease mortality proportionally to the population, the 1918 epidemic was far worse than covid.  Considering that the US population in 1918 was one-third its current size, we find that deaths per million from the flu epidemic totaled about sixty-five hundred per million.  Covid, by comparison currently comes in — in the official numbers — around twenty-two hundred per million.  But this is all part of a larger pattern — one well embraced by the media — of presenting information with as little context as possible.

Gallup: Trust In The Media Sinks to 36 Percent, Second Lowest Ever.  Can the mistrust of the media get much greater?  Gallup pollsters reported on Thursday [10/7/2021] that American trust in the media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four percentage points since last year to 36 percent, making this year's reading the second lowest in Gallup's trend."  Overall, just seven percent of U.S. adults say they have "a great deal" and 29 percent "a fair amount" of trust and confidence in newspapers, television and radio news reporting — which, combined, is four points above the 32 percent record low in 2016, during the Donald Trump vs.  Hillary Clinton battle.  More than half of respondents sound fed up:  29 percent of the public currently registers "not very much" trust and 34 percent say they have "none at all."

What the press is leaving out about the Arizona election audit.  The ethical corruption of our national new media has extended to a degree that once would have seemed unimaginable.  We were exposed to yet another remarkable example with the reporting on the long-awaited audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona. [...] While the audit did find that a hand-recount of all of the original ballots did widen Joe Biden's margin by several hundred votes, the press deliberately and steadfastly ignored and left unreported the most critical results of the draft audit.  Included among those original ballots, the most comprehensive election audit ever conducted established the following:
  •   More than 23,000 mail-in votes were cast under voter IDs from people who should not have received their ballots by mail because they had moved.
  •   More than 10,000 voters cast ballots in more than one county.
  •   More than 9,000 mail-in ballots were returned and counted than had been mailed out of registered voters.
  •   Thousands of official results did not match those who voted, and thousands more were cast in-person in the name of those who had moved out of state.
  •   Logs and data files related to the election had been deliberately erased from the Election Management System (EMS) server, in violation of the law.
  •   Thousands of original ballots were duplicated more than once.
  •   Auditors were never provided with the required chain-of-custody documentation for the ballots, causing increased ambiguity regarding the accuracy of the election results.
  •   None of the various systems related to the election had numbers that would balance and agree with one another.
  •   Maricopa County officials actively interfered with the audit, withheld subpoena items, and refused to answer questions that are normally standard in such audits.

Outlets That Poured Gas on Phony Border Patrol Story Forced to Correct Their Fake News.  Mainstream media outlets are, with egg on their face, issuing clarifications and corrections to their stories that falsely smeared Border Patrol agents who were defending America's southern border for actions they didn't take using equipment they don't have.  The timing makes sense as attention strays again from the U.S.-Mexico border following an influx of some 15,000 illegal immigrants — many of them Haitians who'd previously fled to South America — who set up a makeshift "Bidenville" under the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas.  Despite the half-hearted mea culpas, their mission to distract from the border crisis by creating a new boogeyman has already done its damage.  The El Paso Times, one of the original propagators of the phony story, issued a meek "clarification," rather than a correction or retraction which would have been more suited to the literal fake news that launched a national firestorm and triggered condemnation from the White House that caused an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.

The Activist Media Has Done an Exemplary Job of Deceiving the American People on COVID-19.  When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, the activist media has performed masterfully. [...] Ever since it became apparent that the COVID-19 outbreak would be a serious issue, the Democrats and their close friends and allies in the activist media have been trying to convince us that we're all gonna die slow, painful deaths after being infected.  The press has been on a full-on crusade to terrify the American people into abiding by lockdown orders and mask mandates.  They used fear to make us more amenable to government encroaching on our lives. [...] Since the government wants to push mandatory vaccines and use the pandemic as an excuse to impose intrusive measures to control the populace, the activist media seeks to persuade the public that this is all for their own good.  It launched a whole persuasion campaign specifically designed to confuse and terrify people into complying with the government.

Look past the hand-waving, and you'll see a wide open Mexican border.  Soon after Bill Melugin of Fox News began beaming drone footage of the many thousands of Haitians gathered under the bridge in Del Rio, Texas, Biden's open borders zealot in charge of DHS, Alejandro Mayorkas, ordered two nearby border checkpoints abandoned.  The reason given was to redirect those personnel to help process the Haitians.  The media reported that those checkpoints had been "closed," leading the viewer to believe that traffic had been rerouted.  But that was not the case.  The fifty thousand vehicles those checkpoints inspect during an average week continued to move through, only now no one was checking them for drugs or trafficked humans.  This happened while Mayorkas was giving a news conference under the Del Rio bridge, insisting that the U.S. border was definitely "not open."  In fact, the border in the Del Rio sector was wide open.

Russiagate, More Like Watergate.  CNN Chief Media Reporter Brian Stelter hopped on the set of Reliable Sources last weekend, and offered his take on Special Counsel John Durham's recent indictment of former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann, calling Durham's probe a "total bust."  This was in the context of accusing other networks like Fox and OAN of a pattern of "lie, rinse, repeat." [...] A long list of press figures — from Stelter's own CNN colleague and shameless intelligence community spokesclown Natasha Bertrand, to reporters from The New Yorker, Time, MSNBC, Fortune, the Financial Times, and especially Slate and The Atlantic — were witting or unwitting pawns in a scheme to sell the public on a transparently moronic hoax, i.e. that Donald Trump's campaign was communicating mysterious digital treason to Russia's Alfa Bank via a secret computer server.  The story sounded absurd from the start, and was instantly challenged by experts.

What the New CDC Report on Unvaccinated Left Out.  A newly published CDC study prompted the MSM to run headlines like "New study finds unvaccinated are 11 times more likely to die from Covid, CDC says," "Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die of covid-19, CDC report finds," and "Unvaccinated People Are 11 Times More Likely To Die Of COVID-19, New Research Finds."  It surely looks scary if you read only those headlines.  I was curious about what the report actually says, and doesn't say.  Below is what I found.  [#1] The purpose of the report is for propaganda:  The report admits in its Discussion section that "the data assessed from 13 jurisdictions accounted for 25% of the U.S. population, and therefore might not be generalizable."  But it still suggests that "[t]he data might be helpful in communicating the real-time impact of vaccines (e.g., persons not fully vaccinated having >10 times higher COVID-19 mortality risk) and guiding prevention strategies, such as vaccination and nonpharmacologic interventions."  No wonder the MSM outlets quickly spread this message around.

Sensational headline alert:  There has been ONE CASE of measles reported.  This is hardly worth reporting.
Army base hit with highly contagious disease as thousands of Afghan refugees flood into America.  A case of measles has been identified at Fort McCoy Army Base in Wisconsin as thousands of Afghan refugees are housed there temporarily while they await resettlement in the United States.  Fox News was able to view an internal government email on Sunday [9/5/2021] that confirms a case of measles at Fort McCoy.  "All those who had been in contact with the infected person at base have been isolated, and post-exposure prophylaxis and inoculations are in process," the email stated.

The Masked Ball of Cowardice.  What's transpired since has been a predictable spiral into the abyss, aided and abetted at virtually every stage by a media apparatus that has perpetuated the fraudulent lockdown narrative.  The Chinese government has financial stakes in almost every top media outlet and friends in corporations, universities, and governments.  Preexisting financial relationships with China led institutions to trust information from China, endorse the CCP's narrative, and ultimately advocate for the global adoption of the CCP's policies.  Owing to this combination of naivete, groupthink, and outright corruption, scientists and journalists have been incorporating information from China into their work as true, when in fact nearly every bit of information that has come from China with regard to the virus has been a lie.

Shooter opened fire on Miami Beach tourist, danced over body: witness.  A Georgia man "randomly" shot and killed a tourist in a Miami Beach restaurant and danced over his body as the man tried to protect his 1-year-old baby from the gunman, reports said.  Tamarius Blair Davis, 22, of Norcross, Georgia, was allegedly high on psychedelic mushrooms when he opened fire on 21-year-old Dustin Wakefield at close range before he danced over his body in view of horrified onlookers dining outdoors at La Cerveceria de Barrio on Miami Beach's famous Ocean Drive on Tuesday night [8/24/2021], witnesses and police said.  "After the shooting, he was dancing on top of the guy," a witness, who didn't want to be identified, told CBS Miami.

The Editor says...
Why do reporters think blacks always shoot "randomly" selected white people?  The selections are not random.

How Data Manipulation Is Used to Support the Desired Narratives.  Who uses data manipulation?  Governments, businesses (individual or entire industries as we constantly see in martial arts/self-defense), the media, and social organizations with an agenda.  These groups or organizations utilize information to create a narrative on a topic for a specific reason, most often for their own benefit.  The data itself could be entirely legitimate and authentic (though it may not be).  It's how it's spun that's important, and most people rarely dig deeper [...] Remember, data manipulation has multiple benefits, and it's usually very subtle yet sudden.  If it fits a person's narrative, they will often support it.  Even if it's different from the original source manipulating the data in the first place.

Covid Disinformation:  Post Reporter Tries to Make Mask Fanatics Seem Heroic.  Sydney Page, in an "objective" news piece, amplifies the opinion of a mother, Wendy, whose extreme opinions lack scientific evidence and logic.  Page does her best to make Wendy's opinion seem common when in reality it is an extreme position in response to a mask policy with which many agree.  The author's implicit assumptions and tacit agreement with the view she reports destroys her credibility. [...] First, Page does not mention that Tennessee Holler is a far-left website that promotes its own agenda by amplifying voices in favor of universal mask mandates and COVID vaccinations.  This is missing context that would allow the reader to understand that this is another issue campaign for a left-wing pressure group.  Second, to say that the mother's take has gone "viral" is Page's opinion stated as fact, though unsupported by evidence.  To go "viral" takes a bit more than 30,000 likes on a social media site.  You can buy 30,000 likes on Twitter right now for about $360 for context.

Memphis Media Reports 16 Year Old Dies Of COVID, Waits Until End Of Report To Inform He Was Fully Vaccinated.  This is FAKE news at its most dangerous.  Memphis media has reported this week that a 16-year-old football player at Westwood High School died from COVID-19 and pneumonia over the weekend.  Sunday, the principal at Westwood High sent out an automated message to students and parents about the death of Azorean Tatum but did not say how he died.  SCS has not released any details.  Quintina Bucker said her son Azorean Tatum, who went by the name Zo, collapsed at school on Aug. 13 and was taken to Baptist Children's Hospital, where he was diagnosed with COVID.  Buckner admitted her son, who had asthma, [and] was vaccinated.  [Video clip]

Untruths and consequences.  To any sane person, it appears our elites and their media sycophants are engaging in an unprecedented preposterous statement tournament.  They must get up every day, snicker once or twice, and try to think of the most ridiculous, least verifiable piece of ludicrous prevarication they can attempt to pass off as truth.  And why shouldn't they?  A significant percentage of Americans seem willing to believe anything at all.  So, President Biden says there are no Americans trapped in Kabul.  Alright, now tell us the one about the three bears.  His Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, says we need to get the military out of Afghanistan first, so we don't risk anyone getting hurt.  Yes, forget about the thousands of American civilians trapped in Kabul.  Ignore the pictures of mothers throwing their babies over fences.  Um, Jen, we send our troops to places specifically to confront danger and instability... and often to fight the bad guys.  That's why, unlike civilians, they are armed to the teeth and wear body armor.  That's why they have attack helicopters, A-10 Warthogs, missiles, rocket launchers, grenades, and submachine guns.  Or used to, before the Biden administration decided to donate them to the Taliban.

'Case': Another semantic Trojan Horse.  In our new world of pandemic panic porn, it is important to remember that the word "case" is not a term of art.  It is not a medical term or a legal term.  It is just another word with a broad meaning that has been commandeered by people who want to control you.  This seemingly innocuous word is being used as a blunt instrument to stampede you into doing what the globalist elites want you to do.  It is widely used when the media, Big Tech, and government experts (the "infomob") lie by omission.  When you hear that there are x "new cases" in any context, this should immediately prompt you to ask questions about the number:
  •   Are these just positive COVID tests?
  •   Are these hospitalized people?
  •   Are these people who are not sick at all?
  •   Are these re-testings of the same people who have to be tested daily to keep their jobs?
  •   Are these people with other medical conditions?
The infomob wants you to envision these "cases" as hospitalized people on respirators, gasping for breath.  What if most of these are just positive tests?  If so, were these done with the PCR test?  The fact is, the PCR test is so highly parameterizable that you can set it to find whatever you want.  This is one of the reasons the CDC has quit using it.

Phony Doctor Starts To Laugh While Pretending To Cry About COVID Live During Newscast.  A good crisis actor is hard to find these days.  That is what CBS found out during the evening news with Norah O'Donnell.  This supposed doctor who goes by the name of Mia Meyers starts out talking about how people need to take the Delta variant seriously because of its transmissibility.  She then starts into something about 'our children before launching into her crocodile tear routine, which morphs into full-blown laughter.  Fake news strikes out again!  [Video clip]

Why Don't They Believe Us?  Imagine your confusion as the same people who spent three months telling you not only that masks don't work, but that there are several reasons you shouldn't wear or purchase them, suddenly introduce mask mandates.  We're "following the science," they tell you.  This seems to make little sense, but a pandemic is no time for questions. [...] The same people who told you Brexit would never happen, that Trump would never win, that when he did win it was because of Russian collusion but also because of racism, that you must follow lockdowns while they don't, that masks don't work, that masks do work, that social justice protests during pandemic lockdowns are a form of "health intervention," that ransacking African American communities in the name of fighting racism is a "mostly peaceful" form of protest, that poor and underserved children locked out of shuttered schools are "still learning," that Jussie Smollett was a victim of a hate crime, that men are toxic, that there is an infinite number of genders, that COVID couldn't have come from a lab until maybe it did, that closing borders is racist until maybe it isn't, that you shouldn't take Trump's vaccine, that you must take the vaccine developed during the Trump administration, that Andrew Cuomo is a great leader, that Andrew Cuomo is a granny killer, that the number of COVID deaths is one thing and then another ... are the same people telling you now that the vaccine is safe, that you must take it, and that if you don't, you will be a second-class citizen.  Understand vaccine hesitancy now?

Conservatives are Obsessed With My Pillow Vote Fraud Conference, According to Obsessed News Networks.  Funny how we only hear about dangerous threats from those networks who declare them dangerous.  Let's take a look over a list of items we are told are absolutes in our political landscape these days:
  •   Conservatives the country over are committed to The Big Lie.
  •   Donald Trump is blindly followed by every Republican.
  •   Qanon feeds the mindset of anybody who is right-of-center.
These truths are well known and perpetually broadcast, but there is a core foundational reality behind these maxims.  The subjects in each of these entries is followed more intently and the information is disseminated to the populace with far more energy by the mainstream press industry.  It is interesting that while I am supposedly obsessed with President Trump I learn about his opinions and activities mostly through journalists.  While I get accused of fostering the push of denying the 2020 election results I only hear instructions on the matter via CNN and MSNBC, and as someone allegedly transfixed by Qanon's dictates I only ever hear about the directives from this nebulous source from clips of Brian Stelter and Chris Hayes.

Are These Stories Real?  Or Are the Media Trying to Overcome 'Vaccine Hesitancy' by Using Fear Porn?  [Scroll down beyond the highly dubious anecdote.]  On the whole, I'd take my chances on my own rather than to submit to the tender mercies of someone who obviously holds me in contempt.  I have some questions about the entire story.  For instance, according to the CDC, there has not been a single COVID-related death in Alabama under 40 in over a month.  There have only been 110 such deaths in Alabama since the pandemic started.  There is no public data, so far as I can find, that gives the number of intubated patients, the number of patients in the ICU by age, etc., since the vaccine became available.  The absence of empirical data to back up undocumented anecdotes doesn't give me great confidence in the story.  And the source is a Facebook post.

Mollie Hemingway:  Partisan Hearings Taking Jan. 6 Riot Out Of Context Are A "Joke".  Mollie Hemingway made the case Sunday [8/1/2021] on FNC's "MediaBuzz" that the January 6 Capitol riot committee hearings are being held by partisan Democrats who are taking events out of the wider context of escalating political violence in 2020.  ["]If you want to talk about consistency, you have to deal with the fact that we have a political party that embraced a movement to defund the police for an entire year and now we're pretending that they care so much about the police. [...] The defund the police movement, which the media and other Democratic partisans strongly celebrated, which was supported across the country by Democratic politicians, was something we saw in the past year.["]

Here is an example of tabloid sensationalism.
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds.  The lifestyles of around three average Americans will create enough planet-heating emissions to kill one person, and the emissions from a single coal-fired power plant are likely to result in more than 900 deaths, according to the first analysis to calculate the mortal cost of carbon emissions.  The new research builds upon what is known as the "social cost of carbon", a monetary figure placed upon the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide emissions, by assigning an expected death toll from the emissions that cause the climate crisis.  The analysis draws upon several public health studies to conclude that for every 4,434 metric tons of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere beyond the 2020 rate of emissions, one person globally will die prematurely from the increased temperature.  This additional CO2 is equivalent to the current lifetime emissions of 3.5 Americans.

The Editor says...
Carbon dioxide is not carbon, nor is it a lethal pollutant, in the quantities seen in ordinary air.  With the exception of coal mine accidents, volcanic eruptions, or extremely rare events like this one, nobody dies from inhaling carbon dioxide.  You will likely never see a death certificate that lists inhalation of second-hand CO2 as the cause of death.  Carbon monoxide is poisonous, but carbon monoxide is not carbon dioxide.  Follow the science!

Unrestricted Mass Border Invasion Continues.  The head for the Rio Grand Valley (RGV) sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, Brian Hastings, sent an alarming tweet message earlier today [7/25/2021].  According to Hastings:  "It's the hottest part of the summer and apprehensions are skyrocketing!  USBP Apprehensions surpassed the 1-million milestone in June.  NOW, this week alone, #RGV has apprehended more than 20K illegally present migrants."  One million illegal aliens walk into the country while Joe Biden claims to be concerned about the spread of COVID-19?

The Editor says...
Another million illegal aliens walked into the country, yet the total number of illegal aliens (reported by the news media) remains a constant 11 million.  It never increases.

The Antifa/FBI Coalition.  Over two dozen people were killed during the Antifa and BLM protests in 2020.  It is routinely reported that "five people died as a result" of the Jan. 6 disturbance.  This is a totally accurate statement, however, it is still misleading.  Only one of the deceased died as a result of violence.  She was actually murdered by a government official.  Relating these deaths allows the media to routinely describe Jan. 6 as a "deadly insurrection" as opposed to the "mostly peaceful" protests by Antifa and BLM.

A reporter lies about Trump's statement regarding vaccines.  My mantra for some time now has been that there was nothing "abnormal" about Trump's presidency.  Since Trump has left the White House, it's become patently clear that the abnormality during the Trump years came entirely from the Democrats and their media operatives, with support from the Vichy Republicans. [...] But the Trump haters were relentless and, as if to prove that the sickness was all theirs, on Sunday [7/18/2021] one of them instantly and proudly perverted Trump's words to claim that he was anti-vaccine.  Remember, please, that Trump was the one who pushed aside regulations and freed up money so that there was a vaccine within less than a year of COVID's appearance in America.  It was also Trump who began the vaccine program with assistance from the military, which is very good at processing vast numbers of people.  Since he left the White House, Trump has watched the Biden administration make a complete hash of the program.

The contempt and loss of trust people harbor for the corporate media is completely justified and well-earned.  [Thread reader]  The part of the media that feigns anger at misinformation is uncritically promoting a story today by Luke Harding that Russia was blackmailing Trump — the same Harding who has published many false stories, championed the Steele Dossier and claimed Trump was long a Russian agent.  It was Harding who published was one of the most sensationalized stories of the Trump era: that Manafort repeatedly met Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy.  It was utterly fabricated.  Everyone knows it's [false], never happened.  Yet the Guardian has never corrected or retracted it[.]  Now suddenly, Harding claims he obtained leaked, highly sensitive Kremlin documents that just so happen to prove all the lies he's been peddling for years, that not even Mueller's huge team found.  Because it advances liberals' interests, journalists are uncritically spreading it.

The Democrats' Topsy-Turvy Spin Machine.  Everything appears to be topsy-turvy: the chairman of the joint chiefs and the chairman of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, made almost identical statements about critical race theory.  The Democrats now claim the Republicans are the ones who wished to defund the police, and now they suddenly have discovered the virtue of voter identification, which, up until yesterday, they had been shrieking from the roof-tops was tantamount to the restoration of slavery.  Apparently, it's not Jim Crow after all.  The media are so absurdly partisan they will try to allow the Democrats a free pass across the barricades on those issues.  But the accumulating disasters for the Biden Administration will not be entirely absorbed by the (agonizingly slow) return to work of Americans after COVID and the miracle of the Warp Speed vaccine development, (for which Trump must receive no credit). The media can't cover for this "Gong Show" administration indefinitely, but I must admit they have lasted longer than I expected, given their invertebrate response to almost everything else.

MSNBC Agrees With Radical Race-Baiter:  GOP Wants 'American Apartheid'.  In [the] wake of President Biden huddling, on Thursday [7/8/2021], with radical left-wing activists who pretend to be "civil rights leaders," MSNBC on Friday [7/9/2021] touted National Urban League President Marc Morial coming out after that meeting and hurling the vile accusation that Republican-sponsored voting reforms and the U.S. Supreme Court were conspiring to create "American apartheid."  Rather than fact-check such a horrendous lie, the partisan cable channel endorsed the disgusting rhetoric instead.  "Civil rights leaders gathering with President Biden....We know they want more action on federal voting rights," anchor Chris Jansing announced while filling in for Stephanie Ruhle in the 9:00 a.m. ET hour.  She eagerly pointed out that "all of this is happening after the Supreme Court upheld Arizona voting restrictions and the president of the Urban League, Marc Morial, talked about that after the meeting at the White House."

Democrats Can't Stem the Flow of Revelations No Matter How Hard They Try.  Virtually every legacy media story about the 2020 election includes the phrase "baseless claims of voter fraud" in disparaging President Trump and anyone else who dares to point out the need for full forensic audits to sort out the mountain of election irregularities that continue to be uncovered.  It reminds me of the endless repetition of the word "gravitas" during the 2000 presidential campaign, as the Democrat-media agitprop worked overtime to disparage George W. Bush.  Check out the DuckDuckGo search results for "baseless claims of voter fraud" below.  The leftwing and legacy media are good at repeating Democrat narratives; after all, most of them are Democrats (or at least vote Democrat).

Biden Does Not Need A Domestic "Terrorism" Agenda Unless He Is About To Violate American Rights.  One of Joe Biden's first actions upon entering the White House was to initiate a 100 day review of the government's domestic terrorism policies, and I think this says a lot about what path his presidency is bound to follow.  Yes, the media continually argues that the Capitol protest on Jan 6th was a vast conspiracy on the part of conservatives to "overthrow" the democratic process and commit insurrection.  In fact, all it really amounted to was a large protest which was less violent than the majority of Black Lives Matter protests across the nation over the past year.  The media also incessantly mentions the five deaths that occurred on the day of the protest while continuing to ignore the fact that NOT ONE of those deaths has been attributed to the direct actions of protesters, and at least three of the deaths were due to natural causes.  Why does the mainstream media keep lying by omission?  Because they have to keep the narrative alive that the capitol protest is a sign of some underlying conservative "evil" that must be contained or destroyed.  We don't really give them much to work with, so they have to create reasons out of thin air to convince people to hate us.

"Trigger" is being canceled because it triggers.  [Scroll down]  The media often refer to groups they like as "communities."  As in the "gay community" and the "black community" and alphabet groups such as "LGBTQ community."  They could instead simply refer to "gays" and "blacks" and "LGBTQs" but they gratuitously add the word "community" because they like the nice connotation.  As an aside, the media's lumping of the members of this or that group together as a "community" suggests that the members all think the same.  But to the media, that's OK, so long as the sameness in their thinking is media-approved.  Meaning they are all thinking like the media thinks — like leftists.  As you learned a few paragraphs ago, diversity in viewpoints is bad.  And so the media will tell you that the "gay community" hates Republicans (hate is now OK, so long as it's directed at Republicans, because Republicans are hateful) as if gay Republicans don't exist.  Here's my bigger, trigger point.  Notice that they never use "community" in connection with groups they dislike, some of which are truly and consciously communal.  They never mention the "Christian community" or even the "church-going community."  And you'll never hear them mention the "gun-owner community" or the "hunter community" or the "gay Republican community."  Nope, the word "community" carries good connotations which the media reserves for groups it deems good.

You've got to be kidding:  WaPo lavishes credit on Biden for recovering economy.  This post would be more appropriate in the Babylon Bee as satire, as journalists and the Biden administration collude to rewrite history to give Biden the credit for the economic recovery that was well underway because of Trump and red states before Biden took office.  Even though the vaccines were developed so fast because of Trump and one million shots were being given each day prior to Biden taking office, the Democrat talking points regurgitated by most of the media say there was not a distribution plan prior to Biden taking office.  It is pretty [...] amazing that one million doses were already being given and tens of millions more were in the pipeline when supposedly the Trump administration had no plan.

Subterranean Homesick Blues 2021.  Some guy using the handle Cultural Husbandry had a string of tweets about the media's string of lies.  [For example,]
    Epstein committed suicide
    McAfee committed suicide
    Biden won the election
    COVID came from a wet market
    Conservatives are all terrorists
    Ivermectin doesn't work
    HCQ doesn't work
    Biden doesn't have dementia
    The jab isn't making anyone ill
    Fauci was consistent
    Masks work
    Cuomo didn't kill old people
    Dominion systems were secure
    Hunter Biden is an artist
    Trump colluded with Russia
    Jan 06 was an insurrection
    Transwomen are real women
    BLM is mostly peaceful   [...]
We have got to win the White House back.  And this time, fire every political appointee on Inauguration Day, and ditch everybody above a one-star general or admiral.  And then shrink the central government — including the Milley-ized Military — to the point where a presidential election is less important than a soccer game.  And readers know how little I care about soccer.  If covid 19 taught us anything, it is that the government is too big, too powerful, and too stupid to protect America.

Controlling the World Is Easy.  [Scroll down]  Whenever you heard raw numbers of cases, hospitalizations, or deaths it was because those numbers were bad.  When they weren't so bad, you started hearing percentages.  Why?  Because certain ways of presenting information can make it seem better or worse than it really is. [...] Going from 10,000 deaths per day to 20,000 deaths per day is a 100 percent increase in the number of deaths.  So is going from 1 death per day to 2 deaths per day.  If you want to scare [...] people in the hope that they continue watching your news program, you headline the story with, "There has been a stunning, 100 percent increase in the number of COVID deaths in just 24 hours."  You're not lying, it's an accurate statement.  It's just presented in an absolutely fraudulent way to manipulate the audience.  That's what so much of what the left does has become.

Disclosure: The Four "Swedes" in Custody For Gang Rape Are Somali Citizens.  Ostentatious headlines in Aftonbladet, Expressen and other media declared that "six Swedes", later "eight Swedes" had been arrested for a rough gang rape on a Finland ferry.  Nya Tider is now the first newspaper to reveal that not even the white lie that the arrested Somalis are "Swedish citizens" is right — all the detainees are Somali citizens, and of all the suspects only one has a Swedish citizenship.

Fox News's Chris Wallace accuses Republicans of being the party that is defunding the police.  "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace pushed Republican Study Committee Chair Rep. Jim Banks on the Democratic issue of defunding police departments, suggesting that the Indiana lawmaker's party was actually responsible for cutting funds to law enforcement.  During a segment on rising crime in U.S. cities, Banks appeared after former Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), now a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, who blamed Republicans for "defunding" police by failing to support what amounted to a $350 billion bailout for poorly-run blue cities that suffered additional economic distress during the COVID-19 pandemic due to extensive, prolonged shutdowns.

The Not-So-Great American Pastime.  [Scroll down]  Perhaps the easiest example of pretending is CNN.  It pretends to be a news organization, a reliable source, journalistic in its approach.  Its sillier sister, MSNBC, at least affords viewers some respect by delivering its preposterous daily scripts via personalities so cartoonish in visage, voice and delivery that one cottons on rather quickly to the schtick — propagandizing, after all, differs from pretending.  Both networks amount to 24/7 televangelism for leftist doctrine, but CNN folk are obvious hypocrites, while MSNBC's on-air personalities seem to be actually insane.  The executives at each of these cultural ministries are culpable of Felony Pretending, while their audiences are essentially accomplices after the fact.

Rep. Nunes:  Republicans Shouldn't Talk to Mainstream Media.  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) claimed that 95 percent of media are the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and urged Republicans to stop talking to them or going on TV with them.  "I still — for the life of me — can't understand why Republicans talk to 95 percent of the media, which is fake news," Nunes told Alex Marlow [...] on Wednesday [6/16/2021].  "But look, fake news isn't the proper term.  It's the propaganda arm of the Democrat Socialist Party.  That's what it is," Nunes said.  Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly called mainstream media "fake news."  "So it's no different than the Chinese Communist Party — it's the propaganda they put out.  [It's] no different than what the Soviet Union did with the old Pravda media.  And it's, quite frankly, no different than how Putin controls the media today, where 95 percent of his media in Russia is propaganda for the Putin regime," Nunes continued.

Former Trump Official Slices Fauci Apart Over Hydroxychloroquine Fiasco.  Donald Trump scored a major win over the liberal media. [...] Hydroxychloroquine has finally been proven as an effective treatment for COVID.  Russian collusion was a hoax.  The Russian bounty story in Afghanistan was another whopper.  Lafayette Square was not cleared for a photo op.  And Hunter Biden's laptop is real.  The hydroxychloroquine one is significant since it was weaponized heavily against the Trump administration.  The president was trying to save lives and all the media did was attack him.  It's why they're the opposition press.  And Dr. Anthony Fauci's refusal to endorse the treatment caused thousands of unnecessary deaths.  That's the allegation that Peter Navarro, Trump's director for now-defunct Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, said he had around 60 million tablets of this stuff that could have been used to treat some 5-6 million patients.  Fauci refused to budge.

My Top 10 media lies.  No. 1 is the oldest and biggest:  Trump colluded with Russia to win in 2016 and might be a Russian agent.  That scam involved crooked FBI agents and led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who took two years to conclude there was no evidence to back the charge. [...] Remember Lie No. 2, the "Muslim ban" that wasn't?  Or No. 3, the mantra that the 2017 tax cuts were only for the "rich" despite studies showing 80 percent of the population benefitted?  How about the "kids in cages" firestorm, complete with gripping photographs of migrant children in metal containers?  That was Lie No. 4 and the hottest story going, with Democrats such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rushing to the border with photogenic outrage.  They vanished when it was revealed the Obama-Biden administration built the cages and the heart-wrenching photos were from 2014.  Apologies, corrections and retractions came in bunches, right?  You must be kidding.  Big media and big tech are too big to admit error.

The State of Black America.  Listening to all the rhetoric in the popular media, you would think America is the most unfair, racist nation in the world.  You would think that black Americans are uniformly living in oppression and poverty, with no hope for the future, save the federal government arriving on the scene to their rescue.  Sorry, liberals, to trouble you with facts.  But indeed there are facts.  And the facts tell a far different story than what we are hearing.  Let's start with the most recent annual report of the Census Bureau:  Income and Poverty in the United States:  2019.  According to this report, annual real median household income in the U.S. increased 6.8% in 2019, the largest annual increase recorded by the Census Bureau going back to 1967.  Black median household income in 2019 increased 7.9%, the largest on record and, per American Enterprise Institute economist Mark Perry, "almost nine times the average annual increase of 0.90% over the last half-century."

The Editor says...
Hmmm... Who was the President in 2019, when blacks were doing so well?

Media Caught In Yet Another Massive Anti-Trump Lie; Will Election Fraud Be Next?  More than a year after the events at Lafayette Square happened, and after endless media claims that President Donald Trump had peaceful protesters forcibly cleared for a photo op, we finally know the truth.  Trump was right.  The media were lying.  And anyone who trusted the news accounts was a fool.  It's enough to make us start to wonder why anyone should trust the media's insistence that there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.  Yesterday, the Interior Department's inspector general released a report about what actually happened in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020.

When "Fake News" Is Actually Fake.  In the last 24 hours, we've seen what a complete shambles the mainstream media have become.  First up, someone at the New York Times was formatting a fake story about watermelons on Mars — perhaps this was a training exercise for a new employee? — but somehow managed to press the "publish" button, and this appeared on the Times website: [...] But wait — there's more!  At yesterday's presser for Vice President Harris in Mexico, a Univision reporter got up and slobbered all over the VP.  The Media Research Center has the story, and here's the relevant part of the transcript: [...] There's only one problem:  Univision says Maria Fernanda doesn't work for Univision.  Univision issued multiple statements distancing themselves from Fernanda.

Father Biden Celebrates Mass(Acre).  The press did its part to help usher in Tulsa Massacre Day, running breathless stories with inflated casualty figures ("300 black dead!  No, 3,000!  Wait, make that 30,000!"), always being careful to avoid mentioning the white dead or the fact that the authorities pretty much had the situation under control until the armed black mob showed up (most historians agree that it was a black who fired the first shot).  And although airplanes were indeed used in the course of the riot for observation of crowds and fires, the press added — unchallenged — lurid and questionable accounts of planes dropping bombs on blacks, blitzkrieg-style (in fact, the only offensive use of a plane during the riots was when a white pilot flew over the black part of town dragging a banner depicting a massively overweight white woman, hoping it would make the blacks look up and stare long enough to be disarmed).  Of course, the good news — trumpeted by Biden during his speech — is that black Tulsa was rebuilt, and today the community is stronger than ever at almost 16% of the city.  Not mentioned by the president was that the city also has one of the worst crime rates in the U.S., hitting a three-decade high in 2020, a year in which far more Tulsa blacks died due to homicide than in 1921 due to the riot.  But don't worry; no one will call that a "massacre."

The Media's Wuhan Lab Scandal Looks Worse and Worse.  You'd think that after the Covington kids disaster and the Steele dossier calamity the American news media would get the message.  Which is to say, report facts, not liberal narratives.  But of course, ain't happening. [...] Trump Derangement Syndrome is a disease that continues to amaze.  Otherwise rational people — journalists in this case — are so consumed with TDS that they quite voluntarily throw any semblance of standards over the side to guarantee their anti-Trump bona fides with their also-TDS infected liberal media colleagues.  The Covington kids were racist!  Liberal media heads nod in unison, eventually brought to the realization — not coincidentally helped by lawsuits — that there was zero truth to their carefully structured narrative of arrogant white kids tormenting an aging Native American.

Facebook's Speech Suppression Argues for Repeal of Section 230 and a Facebook Stock Price of Zero.  A lot of people have egg on their face for dismissing the COVID-19 lab-leak theory.  As ABC News's Jonathan Karl said this week.  "Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them."  Or if Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said them.  "We still don't know where coronavirus originated," Cotton said in January 2020.  "Could have been a market, a farm, a food processing company.  I would note that Wuhan has China's only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world's most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus."  Cotton never said he was certain the virus came from a lab leak and never suggested a leak would have been deliberate.  But as a Trump supporter, he was quickly smeared, as liberal writer Matthew Yglesias shows in a painstaking analysis, for pushing "conspiracy theories" (CBS News), "spreading rumors that were easily debunked" (Politico), "repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked" (Washington Post), and "repeat[ing] fringe theory of coronavirus origins" (New York Times).  In each case, Yglesias points out, writers mischaracterized what Cotton actually said.

Another Deranged Trump Vengeance Fantasy from Vanity Fair.  It takes no great imagination to determine what is probably the focus of the mind of Vanity Fair's Bess Levin.  Even a quick perusal of her articles over the past year reveals her disturbing obsession with Donald Trump 24/7.  So obsessed is Levin with Trump that she will even lie in her articles to make up fake quotes about him such as her March 8 screed in which she put a false quote in Lindsay Graham's mouth where he supposedly said, "I'm willing to overlook the fact that Trump has probably beaten a few homeless people to death."  Most responsible periodicals would have said "no" and maybe had her checked by a therapist.  The fact that she remains employed at Vanity Fair says something about the ethics that magazine.

Transgender Censorship:  USA Today Erases 'Hurtful' Words From Female Athlete's Op-Ed.  On Saturday [5/22/2021], USA Today published an op-ed written by Chelsea Mitchell, one of three female athletes at the center of a legal challenge to Connecticut's unfair transgender rules that allow biological males to compete against females in women's sports.  Apparently facing some backlash a few days after publication, USA Today altered Mitchell's words and claimed that she had used "hurtful language."  On Tuesday, USA Today slapped an "Editor's Note" at the top of the article.  The note reads, "This column has been updated to reflect USA TODAY's standards and style guidelines.  We regret that hurtful language was used."  What language was so "hurtful" that USA Today altered it three days after publication?  The publication removed every mention of the biological term "male" and replaced it with the indeterminate word "transgender."

Fact-checking the fact-checkers.  It is time for the news business to admit that "fact-checking" is a tiresome, misleading, and dishonest blight on actual reporting.  It hardly existed in Fleet Street when I left Britain in 1997.  Checking facts was understood to be the core of a reporter's job, not something sloughed off to someone else.  Perhaps this was because British education was mostly essay writing, not checking multiple-choice boxes.  Students quickly learn to write fluently when faced with blank sheets of foolscap and limited time to fill them.  Quality obviously varied, but educated people were assumed to be capable of coherent composition.  The residual challenge was knowing the facts or, in the case of reporters, finding them out.  So, it was startling at first to encounter America's bifurcated system, in which "fact-checkers" monitor reporters like gamekeepers trying to catch poachers.  And it's far worse now than it was back then.  Fact-checking has grown beyond recognition in the past 25 years and chokes the news business like a parasitic vine.

The Covid Lab Leak went from terrible, racist conspiracy theory to plausible overnight for the mainstream media.  [Thread reader]  If you don't believe me, look at these stories side-by-side, then vs. now.  You may remember that much of the really bad coverage was focused on @SenTomCotton's suggestion that we better understand the potential for a lab leak from Wuhan.  The difference in framing here from @nytimes between May 2020 and May 2021 is... stark.  [Illustrations]  But it wasn't just NYT.  There's a lot of ammo from @CNN, too.  Not even two months ago, they ran a piece writing off the lab leak theory as "like something out of a comic book."  Yesterday, the tone had changed, without any reference to their own role in the previous debate.  [Illustrations]  But if you go back further, @CNN's coverage gets even worse.  Early in 2020, they ran CCP talking points suggesting it was all a political tactic based on "disinformation."

Don't let the media get away with U-turning on the lab leak theory.  The theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory has completed its year-long trudge — from fringe nutjob idea to mainstream and expert-approved opinion.  Leading scientists and epidemiologists such as none other than Dr Anthony Fauci were so quick to dismiss the 'lab talk'.  It was first portrayed as a hare-brained wild and tacitly racist conspiracy theory driven by paranoid Republican senators and fever-dream right-wing media.  Now it is seen as not only an acceptable theory worth more study, but one that has broken through into the mainstream.  This has happened in a matter of days.  Where does Sen. Tom Cotton go for his apology?  Interestingly enough, the lab leak theory started gaining more traction — not only in the international community, but in the scientific community in the United States — right around the same time that questions of United States government funding of EcoHealth Alliance, a research and collection group of bat coronaviruses in China, may have lead to gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Will the 2020 Madness Last?  Before 2020, the American people tired of the media farces surrounding such events as the Duke lacrosse team, the lies about the Covington kids, and Jussie Smollett's hoax about being attacked by white racists.  Will they return to their earlier skepticism about media hype when it increasingly seems like the media and the government mostly lied when denying the possibility that the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab engaged in "gain-of-function" engineering of dangerous viruses?

Exactly How Corporate Media Launders Opinion To Attack Inconvenient People And Facts.  A New York Times business correspondent in Hong Kong, a weekend editor at The Guardian who lives in New York, a British Business Insider reporter with a focus on the Saudis, and the executive editor of The Daily Beast.  A 48-year-old blogger who works for Rachel Maddow, a union activist who covers "extremism, far-right politics and media disinformation" for The Huffington Post, and the 29-year editor of the Arkansas Times.  A breaking news reporter at The Washington Post who wrapped up her most recent internship in May 2016, a 2016 University of Pennsylvania graduate who covers "young people doing big things" for Forbes, a 45-year-old former George Will intern who writes for CNN, and David Frum.  What do these people have in common, aside from their political ideology?  Every one of them is a part of a machine that launders smears and opinions through newspapers, magazines, and television channels, presents the cleaned-up product as unimpeachable truth to the public, and then uses the fresh-minted facts to protect friends and hurt enemies.  It's called "the news," and here's how it worked for Arkansas' Sen. Tom Cotton's completely plausible theory that COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab.

Cruz Decimates Brian Williams After He Goes Full Dem Operative on Him.  Folks on the left have been freaking out at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for criticizing the "woke ad" put out by the military. [...] CNN's Jake Tapper even pushed the garbage that Cruz was spreading "Russian propaganda," as we reported earlier.  CNN once again showing their "objective reporting."  But even Tapper wasn't as bad as MSNBC's Brian Williams.  Again, remember, Brian Williams is promoted as an objective journalist.  But he's hardly that.  Here was his response to Cruz's remarks, giving him the nickname "Kremlin Cruz."  [Tweet]  How is that journalism?  Or even close to being an accurate description of what Cruz was saying?  They know his point; they simply choose to twist it to attack him.  It's not news, but flat-out bias, acting like a Democratic operative.  Now, let's remember these are the folks who spread Russian disinformation for the past four years to try to delegitimize the duly elected American president.

LA Times slammed for article praising lockdowns and downplaying effect on economy.  The Los Angeles Times was slammed Wednesday [5/19/2021] over a business column claiming coronavirus lockdowns saved lives without harming the economy.  The column, titled "The evidence is clear — COVID lockdowns saved lives without harming economies," cited published data and concluded "lockdowns played a significant role in reducing infection rates" and "had a very modest role in producing economic damage."  In the article, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Hiltzik criticized red-state governors like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for opposing lockdowns.  He also suggested that California's stringent lockdowns are the reason why the state now "boasts among the lowest case, hospitalization and death rates in the nation, as well as a recovering economy."

LA Times Op-Ed:  The Evidence Is Clear... The Lockdowns Didn't Trash the Economy.  Whoever wrote this is on bath salts.  Is this for real?  I mean I know media bubbles are dense, but this is something else.  This is not even grounded in reality, folks Apparently, the COVID lockdowns didn't trash the economy and it saved lives.  Both are demonstrably false.  That's the hottest of hot takes regarding the virus.  Dare I say, it may be worse than what Anthony Fauci has said about the vaccine and mask-wearing.  It could rival that, maybe.  The fact is that millions of jobs were lost, mental health issues spiked, our children weren't learning, people did die, and the lockdowns didn't do anything to stem that.  It's an airborne virus.  It was going to spread no matter what and what we've learned is that staying locked up inside was probably the worst thing for people to do.

Let's Talk About Reporting in War Zones.  The AP reporters certainly knew they had Hamas neighbors. [...] Terror groups use human shields, and the press apparently volunteers to shield them.  Here's the thing:  There's nothing surprising about Western press organizations making arrangements with terror regimes.  It happens all the time in the Middle East.  CNN refrained from reporting on Saddam Hussein's atrocities in Iraq in order to keep its office in Baghdad open.  The New York Times famously led a tour group to the Islamic Republic of Iran.  This situation is even more overt and obvious in Gaza.  The only reason a press outfit like the AP has to open a bureau there is to cover Hamas, but it's never been interested in reporting on how the group stores missiles in homes, schools, and hospitals, or on how little of the money it receives from Tehran goes to building civilian infrastructure or responsible governance.  That's because the only story Hamas wants coming out of Gaza is about the fundamental evil of the Zionist entity.

Propaganda War, Maricopa Board of Supervisors Leaks Senate Letter to Media Before Sending [it] to [the] Arizona Senate.  Earlier today [5/17/2021] Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward noted the Maricopa Board of Supervisors (BoS) was engaging in a propaganda war against the people of Arizona and the State Senate.  It didn't take long for evidence to surface.  The Board of Supervisors [sent] the media a copy of the 13-page letter they claim to have sent to the Arizona Senate.  However, AZ Senate President Karen Fann has never even see the letter.  The BoS sent the letter to the media before they sent it to the AZ Senate.  Yeah, propaganda.

USA Today Editorial Says Republicans Are Bigger Threat Than 9/11 Hijackers After Cheney Ouster.  Rep. Liz Cheney's ouster proved Republicans are a bigger threat than the 9/11 hijackers who killed thousands of Americans, according to a USA Today editorial.  The removal of Cheney from her leadership position suggests that the GOP has endorsed election fraud conspiracy theories, USA Today editor David Mastio wrote in a Thursday editorial.  Endorsing such conspiracy theories, which allege that President Joe Biden didn't actually win the election, poses a bigger threat to the U.S. than 9/11 hijackers ever did, he said.  "The fact that the majority of Republicans believe our election was stolen is a sure sign that more violence is to come," Mastio wrote, according to USA Today.

How the New York Times has published lies to serve a biased narrative.  On April 15, the Biden administration acknowledged there was no evidence that Russia ever offered bounties on American troops in Afghanistan, walking back a report that wounded former President Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2020 election.  Four days later, the Washington, DC, medical examiner revealed that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick had not been murdered by rampaging Trump supporters during the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, as reports had claimed, but had died of natural causes.  Both stories were based on anonymous, unidentifiable sources, but had become deeply enmeshed in the public consciousness.  Both confirmed the assumptions of the nation's left-leaning media and academic elite, while damaging their political enemies.  And both were driven by The New York Times, where malicious misreporting has been the practice for a century, argues journalist and media commentator Ashley Rindsberg.

The Incredible Vanishing Flu.  Seasonal influenza, also known as "the flu," visits America every year, similar to tornados, thunderstorms, heat waves, and snowstorms.  As tracked by the CDC, over the past decade symptomatic flu cases ranged from 9 to 45 million cases per year in the US.  Hospitalizations varied from 140 to 810 thousand, and deaths from 12 to 61 thousand, depending on the particular year, strain of influenza, and effectiveness of the vaccine.  This year, "flu activity is unusually low at this time" according to CDC surveillance.  Since late September 2020, they recorded only about 2000 cases, a minute fraction of the tens of millions of cases in past years.  Hospitalizations this flu season are minimal with only 224 confirmed influenza hospitalizations from September 2020 to mid-April 202, nowhere near the hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations in past seasons.

Hey, LA Times — Don't Tread on Hillsdale College.  On April 23, Julie Appleby, a senior correspondent with the Kaiser Health News network, published a piece in the Los Angeles Times headlined, "Michigan's Outbreak Worries Scientists.  Will Conservative Outposts Keep Pandemic Rolling?" implying that both the sleepy Michigan town where I live, and the college I attend, are biohazards: [...] Appleby needs to choose.  Is Hillsdale bad because it "jumped the line" to distribute unused vaccines or is it evil because it isn't properly concerned about the illness?  She won't, of course.  Her obsession with a college in a region of the country where she has no obvious connection belabors a more deep-rooted hatred.  Appleby's "reporting" isn't a good-faith criticism but an attempt to call down the Eye of Soros on her political enemies.  She wants to destroy the way of life my neighbors and I enjoy.

Corporate News Outlets Again "Confirm" the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it.  One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news.  When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have "independently confirmed" the false story, in order to bolster its credibility (oh, it must be true since other outlets have also confirmed it). This is an obvious scam — they have not "independently confirmed" anything but rather merely acted as servants to the same lying security state agents who planted the original false story — but they do it over and over, creating the deceitful perception that a fake story has been "confirmed" by multiple outlets, thus bolstering its credibility in the public mind.  It was the favored tactic for spreading debunked Russiagate frauds and is still used.  One of the most vivid examples occurred in December, 2017, when CNN falsely reported what it hyped as "a major bombshell":  that Donald Trump, Jr. had advance access to the WikiLeaks archive.  Within an hour, NBC News' Ken Dilanian and CBS News both claimed they had "independently confirmed" this fairy tale.  When it turned out that it was a complete lie, all based on a false date on an email to Trump Jr., these outlets embarrassingly corrected it hours later and then simply moved on as if it never happened, never explaining how multiple outlets could possibly have all "independently confirmed" the same blatant falsehood.

The Giuliani Walk Back Gets Worse and Exposes Collusion in Mainstream Press.  The fact that the news organizations are working in tandem on narratives blows up in their hands.  It was another example of an important news outlet having to retract a major news story, as Bonchie reported yesterday, when The Washington Post had to retract its prior claim that both Rudy Giuliani and the news network One America News had been informed by the FBI that they had part of a Russian disinformation campaign.  "This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings," the outlet says in part of its retraction.

Fake News Still Gaslighting America with Phony Polls.  Opinion polls, particularly in the buildup to a presidential election, are not designed to reflect public opinion, but instead to shape it.  For the media, objectivity is only of historic interest, a journalistic tenet from a bygone era.  Now most of the media is embedded within the Democrat party, serving as an advocacy arm or political action committee to influence elections and agendas.  A CNN staffer, who bragged that he was "one step down" from a director, admitted to an undercover Tinder date, actually a real journalist working for James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, that CNN was "creating a story" that "we didn't know anything about," calling it "propaganda" to help remove President Trump from office.  The epitome of fake news.  Fake news media have many gaslighting tools at their disposal.  Some outlets doctor audio or video tapes to make their "bad guy" appear racist or doing something illegal.  Or, they make their "good guy" look like Mother Teresa.

Media Promotes Fake Narrative That Biden a Moderate.  Stephen Collinson is well-known among conservatives as the most hackneyed of the hacks at CNN.  The Twitter account called CNN Politics promoted Collinson's latest online essay with the words "President [Joe] Biden to showcase his moderate radicalism in his big congressional address."  "Moderate radicalism"?  Doesn't that make about as much sense as "quiet loudness"?  Collinson argued:  "Biden's quiet radicalism is expressed through a huge pandemic rescue bill, a larger proposal that redefines the concept of infrastructure, and a massive health and child care blueprint."  In other words, a socialist blueprint. [...] But Biden's "superpower" here is the media elite.  They are the ones who have sold Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden as moderates.  This has grown increasingly ridiculous, but they keep shifting the "center" to the extreme left. [...] This isn't "news."  It's just sales.

Meghan McCain calls out 'rigged' media, throws 'The View' under the bus for burying Hunter Biden scandal.  Reacting to a discussion about Fox News supposedly pushing false narratives, self-described "token conservative" and vocal Never Trumper Meghan McCain dropped a truth bomb about how corporate media liberals, even on her TV program, seemingly pick and choose what stories to cover, with advancing a left-wing agenda foremost in mind.  Ignoring Hunter Biden's various alleged scandals was a fundamental error of omission by the mainstream media, she asserted.  "Let's go down the list of things every day that are inaccurate on CNN and NBC, and then we'll talk about fairness in the media," McCain also declared on The View.

The Fourteen Most Troubling Obama And Kerry Lies About The JCPOA Iran Nuke Deal.  Joe Biden and his foreign policy team are negotiating with Iran, trying to get the U.S. back into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ("JCPOA") Iran nuclear deal.  Many support this objective, not realizing that the JCPOA allows Iran to build nuclear weapons in the near future, and place the United States, the Sunni Gulf States, and Israel in grave danger.  The support for returning to the JCPOA stems from naïvité.  Much of Obama and Kerry told America about the JCPOA was not true.  Most of the MSM covered up the lies back then and are still not reporting the truth about the deal.

The far-left Los Angeles Times says...
There is no absolute right to refuse vaccination.  We're getting closer to the point where every American who wants to be vaccinated will have gotten their needle stick.  A quarter of Americans say they don't plan to be vaccinated; in vaccine-friendlier California, that's 1 in 5.  Of those who don't plan to be immunized, some worry about the newness of the vaccines, while others just don't like vaccines in general, despite the mountains of proof about how many lives they save, and some stubbornly refuse to believe that COVID-19 is all that dangerous.

The Editor says...
Tyranny is far more dangerous than any disease — especially a disease which isn't "all that dangerous," as many sensible people believe.  Mandatory vaccination is especially dangerous when the vaccine — or whatever it really is — is experimental, and it is impossible to know its long-term side effects.  Mandatory vaccination(s) will inevitably put everyone in a position of having to prove they've had their shots, which would require a so-called vaccination passport to enter public buildings, fly on an airplane, or vote, to name a few examples.  This is a quick and easy recipe for abject tyranny.

Master Class In Speaking Truth To Power As Ben Domenech Exposes Chris Wallace's Journalism Grift.  Ben Domenech visited Fox News tonight and gave a master class in speaking truth to power when he humiliated Fox News' most insufferable, nepotism-enriched grifter and BlueAnon conspiracy theorist, Chris Wallace.  Wallace had just finished his regular routine of pretending to be totally oblivious to the lavish praise he heaps on America Lasters and the seething hatred he harbors for America Firsters.  This time around, specifically, he was pretending to be really surprised at just how well he thinks Biden's speech went (shocker!), and how well he truly believes in his heart of hearts it will be received by the American people (shocker!).  Wallace, of course, is doing what he and his propagandist pals always do:  they tell whatever story they want to be true for as long as they want and then when it's revealed to be a steaming pile of idiocy and lies, they simply turn the page and pretend it never happened.

USA Today's publisher Gannett apologizes after being caught helping Stacey Abrams hide encouragement for Georgia losing the All-Star Game.  The largest publisher of newspapers in the United States by total circulation has been caught red-handed engaging in Orwellian rewriting of history to help Stacey Abrams hide her promotion of the boycott of her home state of Georgia by the MLB all-Star Game.  Ms. Abrams is regarded as a savior by many on the left, even future presidential material, and is even excused for delusionally claiming to be the actual elected governor of Georgia after losing that race by tens of thousands of votes, despite the left's new dogma pronouncing it a crime against democracy to question the legitimacy of Joe Biden's election.  Her promotion of the doctrine of Black "voter suppression" when IDs are required for voting, and her energetic promotion of registration and vote gathering efforts by Democrats have given her a status as an untouchable goddess, apparently.  Even as Black registration and turnout in Georgia put the lie to the suppression narrative.

A Great New Idea for Reducing Police Shootings.  [Scroll down]  The "news" that is plated for us mostly is fake.  It is not the Torah.  It is an enterprise that seeks to generate profit among us by baiting us into clicking and into becoming "followers" and ginning up their ratings, all while the media also seek to sway public opinion.  Hitler proved with Der Stürmer that an entire country could be brainwashed and turned politically by newspapers.  Stalin proved the same with Izvestia and Pravda.  Americans have proven no different, no less gullible and malleable.  A concerted full-court press by CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Twitter, and Facebook is enough to sway elections.  Lies may abound before the voting, with other uncomfortable news stories suppressed like the one about Hunter Biden's laptop.  Then, after the final election tallies are announced, a day or two of apologies for lying can be offered to Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley at Senate hearings, and that refreshes the ground until next time.  We live amid lies.

Fake Chicago Police tweet about Derek Chauvin not being removed by Twitter, CPD says.  Twitter is refusing to remove or attach a warning to a doctored image that purports to show a Chicago Police Department tweet that states, "We are all Derek Chauvin" — despite that the post is not real and the agency has made several attempts to have it taken down, CPD officials tell Fox News.  The altered image began circulating on Twitter at the beginning of the weekend and features a picture of Chauvin, the recently convicted Minneapolis Police officer, underneath the five-word sentence, which appears in bigger font than is customarily used on the social media platform.  By Saturday, the post had garnered approximately 38,600 retweets and 175,000 likes, according to local news site CWBChicago.

Abortion Pills Are Not 'Medication'.  Many in the media are increasingly referring to abortion pills as "medication" — but their terminology couldn't be further from the truth.  That's because the purpose of medicine is to save lives.  The purpose of abortion is to end them.  The most recent example came when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that women may temporarily receive the drug mifepristone — the first of two pills in a chemical abortion — by mail.  The news comes months after the Supreme Court granted the FDA's previous request to reinstate a federal requirement that says women must obtain it from a health care provider in person.  Now, the FDA will halt enforcing this requirement during the pandemic.  In their reports, outlets from the New York Times to Teen Vogue referred to mifepristone as "medication."  In order to distinguish from surgical abortion, many in the media already use "medication abortion," "medical abortion," or "chemical abortion" to describe an abortion administered by pill.  But only recently have major outlets begun switching the words around to use phrases such as "abortion medication" to call abortion itself a type of medicine.

WaPo Writer Doesn't Get Concerns About Driving Near Protesters, Here's an Explainer.  Washington Post opinion writer Radley Balko tweeted that he didn't quite get why some people were so worried about "inadvertently driving near a protest, getting stuck in front of a wall of protesters, then getting pulled out of their car and beaten."  [Tweet]  In his tweet, he referenced a ridiculous article from "The New Republic" which claimed Republicans wanted the "right to crash cars into people" and that Republicans were endorsing a "terroristic tactic" against "protesters."  [More tweets]  As I've covered the protests/riots over the past year, I've seen many encounters that have ranged from minor harassment to someone ending up dead.  I'm not sure what Balko has been watching over the past year, but BLM/Antifa people are constantly blocking cars in the street and getting into encounters with drivers.

Corporate Media And Other Race-Baiters Have Incited More Violence Than Trump Ever Did.  Adam Toledo is a name that has likely saturated your newsfeed over the past month.  He was a 13-year-old Mexican-American boy who was fatally shot by a police officer on Chicago's West Side not one month ago.  This week, that name was overshadowed by Ma'Khia Bryant, a black teenager who died at the hands of law enforcement in Ohio.  In both cases, leftist politicians and Twitter-verified "journalists" couldn't get the story out fast enough, absent facts, video, or nuance — but the headlines wrote themselves:  "Racist Cop Shoots Unarmed Minority."  Also in both cases, the stories turned out to be completely wrong.  On Wednesday we learned that Bryant wasn't just standing in her driveway unarmed, or just casually holding a knife, or even dueling with another armed kid in a "knife fight" when the officer discharged his weapon.  After the officer arrived, she lunged with a knife at another black girl she had pinned against a car, after having already charged a different girl nearby.  She was armed and dangerous.  And the officer, although accused of being a racist pig by even the White House, instead saved at least one black girl's life.

Cuomo, Lemon:  NBC Committed 'Malpractice' By Not Showing Knife.  While doubling down during Thursday's [4/22/2021] CNN Tonight handoff on their support for Officer Nicholas Reardon's decision to shoot knife-wielding Ma'Khia Bryant, CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon blasted outlets like NBC who didn't show the knife in Bryant's hand while reporting on the shooting.  The pair accused such outlets of "journalistic malpractice" because they weren't being honest (an ironic notion given who was flinging it).  Their knock came as NewsBusters drove part of the Thursday news cycle with a report exposing NBC's deception against their audience; editing out a key part of the 911 call and not showing the knife, before silently adding them in an update.  "And, we've got to be honest about these things.  And if we're not honest about these things, as journalists, then it is a dereliction of our duty as journalists.  It's journalistic malpractice not to do it," Lemon opined to his friend.

Will the Times apologize for lying about Officer Sicknick's death?  An unruly crowd entered the US Capitol on Jan. 6, while then-President Donald Trump addressed a rally several blocks away.  One member of that crowd, Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed woman and a veteran, was shot by the Capitol Police.  The next day, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died in the hospital.  On Jan. 8, The New York Times reported that Officer Sicknick had died after being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher by violent Trump supporters.  This story was quickly repeated by numerous other media outlets.  Millions believed it.  The story was false.  Sicknick died of two strokes, which occurred many hours after the invasion of the Capitol.  The blue-check-media fallback was that bear spray used by the Capitol invaders had caused the officer's strokes.  That also turned out to be false.  After a curiously long delay, the DC medical examiner's office released its report this week, and it concludes that Sicknick suffered no injuries, internal or external.  He didn't have a reaction to bear spray, the chief medical examiner reported.

Media Pants on Fire.  Media trust is at an all-time low, a majority of Americans believing that, "Most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public."  An Axios commissioned survey found that only 46 percent of Americans trusted traditional media, the lowest number ever recorded in the 20 years of this survey.  Gallup found similar distrust of the media, with only 40 percent of Americans having "a great deal" or even "a fair amount" of confidence that the media reports the news "fully accurately, and fairly".  The low point was a 32 percent level of trust in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected president and he correctly labeled the media as "fake news".  20 years ago, media trust was much higher, in the mid 50 percent range, despite Dan Rather at that time, a major network news anchor, lying about George W Bush's National Guard service.  In other words, the media is lying to us and we are catching on to the lies.

Officer Sicknick Died of Natural Causes, Not Riot Injuries.  This was just another massive lie used to gaslight the American people and justify an ongoing manhunt for Trump supporters who had the audacity to protest an illegitimate election.

Glenn Greenwald on what the truth about Officer Sicknick's death says about the media.  We learned yesterday that Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes.  The significance of that admission was not just for Sicknick's immediate family, some of whom already seem to have known he didn't die from an attack with a fire extinguisher.  The real significance was the way in which this undercut the media's confident framing of his death as a victim of the Jan. 6 riot.  Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald took this occasion to point out how this lie got going and why the media desperately wanted it to be true. [...] The partisan motivation for this to be true was so overwhelming that doubt about it was treated as a kind of heresy.  The media's progressive voices worked as the equivalent of Hockey goons to punish anyone who dared to say different.

The New York Times Has Just Been Caught In Two Monstrous Lies.  On Tuesday, the public learned that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes.  Just a few days before that, the public learned that the "Russian Bounty" story was fake.  In other words, in the span of a week, the "newspaper of record" has been exposed for grossly misleading the public about two major stories — both designed to discredit President Donald Trump. [...] Start with Sicknick.  The New York Times was the paper that reported he'd been killed by a pro-Trump protester who threw a fire extinguisher at Sicknick during the Jan. 6 incursion into the Capitol Building.  The Times claimed that, after being struck and suffering a "bloody gash on his head," Sicknick "was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support" where he later died. [...] What did the Times base its story on?  Unnamed sources, of course.  There were no pictures.  No videos.  No on-the-record accounts.  No medical examiner's report.  The story fell apart, as news emerged — no thanks to the mainstream press — that Sicknick had texted his family about being in good spirits that night.  Then we learned that he'd returned to his office after the events at the Capitol, and only later went to the hospital.

A New Poll Shows the Pollsters Aren't Even Trying Anymore.  You've probably noticed a barrage of approval rating polls being released in the past month or so, and nearly all of them show Joe Biden as a president for the ages.  We've seen such high numbers as 60% approval in some surveys.  Perhaps Biden is just that much of a unifier, despite pushing the most radical, divisive agenda in modern history?  Or perhaps there's something else going on with these polls.  Yeah, it's the latter.  Random thought, but if your sample is coming out to a raw D+31 sample, perhaps there's something wrong with your pool that you are originally drawing from?  Are they just calling people in blue states?  Further, if you look at the internals, they only weight the poll to D+9, while the 2020 election was Biden +4.  The margin was even smaller in the vote totals for the House, for example.  In other words, the country much more evenly divided than shown here, but according to these pollsters, we are in a new era of peace and unity.  The purpose of this is clear: to push a narrative of inevitability going into 2022 for Democrats.

Democrat-run institutions are cheating to prop up the Biden administration.  In three months, Joe Biden has exffectively erased all American norms.  Worse, he's done so by executive fiat rather than the legislative process.  It's likely that only Democrats (and not even all Democrats) support him.  Nevertheless, a Pew poll, which the media is shilling, assures us that he's got a 59% approval rating.  Dig into the poll, though, and it's a lie [...].  In other words, we are being sold a narrative that has nothing to do with the truth.  First, about that poll. [...] It turns out that, as to some of those things, we know that most Americans oppose Biden's policies.  On Court-packing, an October poll that the New York Times conducted showed that 58% of likely voters oppose it.  Americans feel even more strongly about voter ID:  75% of them support it.  Americans also disapprove of Biden's border policy, with 55% of them saying he's doing a bad job and only 29% saying he's doing a good job.

MSM Edits Police Bodycam Footage And Removes The Part Where 13-yr-old Adam Toledo Is Seen Holding Firearm.  Dan Herbert, a Chicago attorney who has represented a number of police officers involved in deadly use of force incidents, says the officer who shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo "absolutely had a reason to fire" if he believed the teen possessed a gun while turning toward him.  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability — the city's police oversight agency — on Thursday released body camera videos and other related materials two days after Adam's family was shown footage of the March 29 shooting in Little Village.  The footage shows an officer chasing Adam in an alley while shouting at him to stop.  Adam appears to pause near a fence bordering a parking lot at the end of the alley and turn toward the officer with his hands up but just moments before he threw away his gun.

CBS News Edited Police Body Cam Video To Mask Teen Holding A Gun Before He Was Fatally Shot.  CBS News deceptively cropped body camera footage that showed a 13-year-old boy holding a gun before he was fatally shot by Chicago police in March.  A law enforcement officer fatally shot Adam Toledo during an encounter in response to gunshots heard on a police scanner.  Police said Toledo ignored "verbal directions, fled, used significant force, and was armed with a semiautomatic pistol," which is why the officer fired.  Body cam footage released this week appears to show Toledo holding a weapon moments before he was shot, but CBS News posted a clip to its website and Twitter page that cropped out the footage showing the teen's alleged firearm.

Media pushes false narrative of racism.  The riots that have erupted after the killing of Daunte Wright reinforce a familiar pattern.  This response is rooted not only in tragedy, but in a distorted perception of reality.  Chelsea Handler, for example, suggested that people of color have a "50-50" chance of being shot by police.  This is a complete distortion, but fits a broader pattern.  My latest report for the Manhattan Institute, based on multiple surveys, shows that being exposed to news and social media, having left-wing views on race, and being anxious or depressed explains a great deal of how much racism a person perceives.  And when someone says racism in America has risen, this perception is almost entirely a figment of their imagination.  In fact, racist attitudes and behaviors have been declining for decades.

Liz Cheney Plays the Fool After Anti-Trump 'Bombshell' Collapses.  Yesterday, Joe Biden's own intelligence community dropped the news that the "Russian bounties" story used to target President Trump was absolute garbage.  Of course, some of us knew it before the 2020 election and reported that (see That 'Bombshell' Russian Bounty Story Was Just Officially Shown to Be Garbage).  Once again, "right-wing" news outlets were proven right while CNN and other "unbiased" outlets were made to look like the unreliable, partisan sources they are.  But on the political side, there was one figure who went all-in on the nonsense in order to try to keep the perpetual war in Afghanistan going.  That person was Rep. Liz Cheney.

Fake news on Afghanistan and Russia:  The media's bounty of lies.  Remember when the press and leftist politicians badgered President Trump?  A story came out from the New York Times in 2020 claiming that Russia was paying bounties to Talibanites to kill U.S. troops stationed there.  (As if these Islamofacist maniacs might not be motivated otherwise to do it themselves.)  Oh, the brouhaha it drew!  President Trump was constantly blamed for not taking the problem 'seriously' and America-hating Democrats had a field day of playing patriot.  It came out during election season, and Joe Biden played it to the hilt, being Mr. Patriot and all, despite never serving.  The aim of all this tiresome crap, played over and over and over on the nighttime news, was to Get Trump, by bringing back that old dead cat about Trump being Putin's puppet.  Turns out that this bounty claim was, like a lot of these stories, a naked, total lie.

U.S. Intelligence Now Says Story of Russian Bounties on American Troops Likely False.  After the media blew up a story about Russian military putting bounties on American troops in an effort to shape a Russian collusion narrative against the administration of President Trump, the U.S. intelligence community now says that story was likely false.

Conrad Black's Tour de Force.  Today [4/13/2021] Conrad Black has an outstanding take-down of the WSJ's foolish anti-Trump editorial (on Friday).  The WSJ editorial is titled "The GOP's Trump Problem" — see, Trump is the problem. [...] Black covers a lot of ground.  I'll try to summarize the main points, while urging readers to follow the link — you won't regret it.  Black talks turkey, explains the facts of political life in lucid terms.  Black's basic thesis is that the WSJ has things exactly backwards.  Trump is not the problem for the GOP. Rather, the Never Trumps are the problem.  Trump had a remarkably successful term, especially in light of the constant betrayals and the concerted Dem and Deep State assault on our constitutional order.  The reality, contrary to the WSJ's view, is that Republicans want more of the Trump agenda — whether led by Trump himself or by a Trump approved proxy.  In fact, the disastrous start and likely deepening national crisis we are experiencing under the Zhou Baiden regime (whoever or what cabal actually is pulling the strings) favor this solution for the GOP, in Black's view.

The GOP's Trump Solution.  The Wall Street Journal on Friday [4/9/2021] published an editorial headlined "The GOP's Trump Problem."  It gets things terribly wrong.  The GOP is Trump's party and it is the Wall Street Journal that has the Trump problem.  Having been commendably supportive of the former president through most of his term, the Journal joined in the general embarkation of NeverTrumpers over the ostensible election results.  The theory that inspired this headline is Trump had his chance but lost the election in a manner practically indistinguishable from defeated incumbents Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H. W. Bush in 1992 (when there were no suggestions of questionable results).  The editors suggest further that Trump had exhausted any grounds he had for contesting the fairness of the counting of ballots, and that it was his duty to go quietly into that good night and do everything that he could to elect Republican senators in Georgia to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and to enhance the likelihood of the reelection next year of Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia and his secretary of state Brad Raffensperger.

Dangerous Word Games:  Nets Drop 'Mostly Peaceful,' Riots Are Now 'Protests'.  The left's Orwellian redefining of words took a dangerous step Monday as all three of the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) started to refer to the riots of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota as "protests," effectively dropping the "mostly peaceful" label they were mocked for using in the summer of 2020.  All of this followed an apparently accidental shooting where a police officer seemingly went to use her Taser but discharged her duty pistol instead.  The first showing of the media's dangerous rebranding of riots came earlier in the day when an activist journalist screamed at Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon, saying "there was no riot" as he described how his officers were attacked with projectiles.  "The officers that were putting themselves in harm's way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks," he told the press.  The truth didn't matter to the broadcast networks as they gaslit their audiences.  "A curfew now in place following protests and clashes with police," announced ABC's World News Tonight anchor, David Muir during the opening tease.  And as CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell teased the "violent protests," NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt noted that "protesters clashing with police."

Our Honesty Crisis:  How We Talk about Race.  Less than two weeks later, Noah Green rammed his car into Capitol Police officer William Evans and killed him near the fencing that surrounds the Capitol.  When Green emerged from his car with a knife, he was shot and killed.  Afterward it was revealed that Green was a follower of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.  It does not bother me that Green was black or followed Farrakhan.  It bothers me that he killed a Capitol Hill police officer a week ago, and we won't talk about that story for very long.  On the other hand, three months after Officer Brian Sicknick died, many people still believe he was beaten to death by white supremacists with a fire extinguishers at the "insurrection" because the media lied so loudly about it.  All of it goes to show that if the lie is big enough, a lot of people do not even notice the correction — even if the victim's own mother tries to correct the narrative.

Another, Clearer Take on the Chauvin Trial.  I leave it to you to decide why, from the Trayvon Martin case to the George Floyd case, the media has so consistently misrepresented the facts.  Whether it is that unskilled reporters are covering these matters, or that the press is simply looking to attract consumers with florid tales, or that the media looks forward to destroying urban areas with false tales of murderous white racists (amid a shortage of real ones), I cannot say. [...] (I'd also note that it is my experience that reporters' deadlines often conflict with the way trials proceed, so that too often the prosecution (or in civil matters, the plaintiff) case is presented just before deadline and the cross examination occurs too late to be covered in that day's edition, leaving only a false, one-sided version of the day's action.)

The Hunter and Jim Biden story: 
  •   Wasn't hacked material
  •   Wasn't Russian misinformation
  •   Is something people deserved to know before voting
  •   Big tech + corporate media tried to make sure that didn't happen
  •   And now they're going to gaslight you about all of it.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Offers Correction After Printing Biden's Lies About GA Election Law Bill.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) issued a correction on a story that made some false claims about Georgia's election law reform legislation.  The newspaper made the mistake of printing Democrat talking points, specifically remarks made by President Biden, instead of the truth.  AJC originally falsely reported that voting hours had been cut in the bill and failed to note that early voting days had been added for general elections while shortening the time for early voting in primary run-offs.  The newspaper printed the correction at the end of a story on liberal filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry.  Perry owns a large production company in the Atlanta area.  Perry was quick to come out against the Georgia legislation signed into law by Governor Kemp.  He voiced hope that the Department of Justice will look into "the unconstitutional law".

Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves.  The daily newspaper USA Today is the second-most circulated print newspaper in the United States — more than The New York Times and more than double The Washington Post.  Only The Wall Street Journal has higher circulation numbers.  On Sunday [3/28/2021], the paper published and heavily promoted a repellent article complaining that "defendants accused in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 crowdfund their legal fees online, using popular payment processors and an expanding network of fundraising platforms, despite a crackdown by tech companies."  It provided a road map for snitching on how these private citizens — who are charged with serious felonies by the U.S. Justice Department but as of yet convicted of nothing — are engaged in "a game of cat-and-mouse as they spring from one fundraising tool to another" in order to avoid bans on their ability to raise desperately needed funds to pay their criminal lawyers to mount a vigorous defense.

These 6 Stupendous Hoaxes Are Reasons to Give Media Narrative About 'Asian Hate' the Hairy Eyeball.  But not every political battle is 1963 Birmingham and not every political foe is the KKK.  Reported violence against Asians is not necessarily Birmingham all over again.  The narrative that it's President Trump's fault because he used the phrase "China virus" last year strains credulity.  The all-too-eager anti-Trump media, however, amplifies this message.  Indeed, this story and others, including the COVID lockdown/mask information, and the attack on the Capitol Building on January 6th, all have taken on the tell tale signs of hit-and-run narrative-run journalism.  Caveat emptor.  We've seen the media fail to let facts get in the way of a too-good-to-check-story with disastrous results.  Here are just a few. [...]

Chris Wallace Falsely Claims New Georgia Law Bans Drinking Water While In Line For Voting.  Fox News' Chris Wallace claimed Sunday Georgia voters are prohibited from being given food or drink in line at the ballot box under a law the state's governor signed last week.  "Let's take a look at some of the provisions in Georgia," Wallace said during an interview with South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.  "The one that I think is creating the biggest fuss, it prohibits, it makes it a crime to give food or drink to voters waiting in line.  Senator, why on Earth if Americans are willing to wait hours to vote, would you make it a crime for people to come and give them a bottle of water?"  [Video clip]

The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored.  [Scroll down]  Third, the Nazis perfected the art of indoctrinating the citizenry through propaganda and "fake news." Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, is credited with saying:  "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." and "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which government can play."  This strategy has been and continues to be used to great success by the American left and their fellow travelers in the mainstream (Democrat) media.  Whether it is the Russian collusion hoax, the so-called armed insurrection on January 6, 2021, climate change as an existential threat to mankind, suppression of voting rights, white supremacy running rampant, the necessity of lockdowns for the Covid pandemic or a myriad of other fabrications, they left lies with impunity as a means to their ends... as did the Nazis.

Grassley To DoJ: Why Has No One Been Charged With Crimes Over False Kavanaugh Allegations?  Good question, especially since this happened two and a half years ago.  Will the Department of Justice enforce false-statements laws consistently, or only when special counsels are involved?  Thanks to Senate Democrats' sandbagging in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process, a number of people came out of the woodwork to make clearly false allegations to the Senate as a way to derail his appointment to the Supreme Court.  Grassley wants to know when they will face charges — and it's not the first time the ranking Senate Judiciary member has asked.

Truth And Lies In A Digital Media Era.  Those in the media who speak to us and desire to control us, but still want to avoid outright lies, do so by shading the truth, offering spin, or using phrases such as, "it's my opinion", "as I remember it" and, the chart-topper, "at this point why does it matter?".  They know they operate in an environment where falsehoods and misrepresentations can take root before there is an opportunity to measure the validity of allegations or assertions.  Such liars know the truth but deform and simulate it. [...] We live in a time when the bulk of our fellow citizens have been indoctrinated rather than educated.  Rather than learning facts — including relatively objective history — they are encouraged to think of themselves in terms of relationships to one another.  What is important to them is what is trending in digital social media and who the influencers of the moment are.  Status comes from horizontal acclaim.  Digital social networks have replaced real social networks.  This leads to a society adrift, with people desperate to have someone to guide them.  Mainstream news organizations and digital social media platform providers seek to fill this need.

US Media's Misleading Framing Of Atlanta Police Officer's Comments About Shooter Used In Chinese Propaganda.  American media's misleading framing of a police officer's description about why a man shot up multiple massage parlors in Atlanta was used by China's state-run media outlet Sunday [3/21/2021].  The Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China, repeated a misleading claim suggesting Cherokee County Sheriff Capt. Jay Baker made excuses for Robert Aaron Long, who stands accused of killing eight people in Atlanta.  The misleading claim suggested Baker told reporters — in his view — that it "was a really bad day for" Long.  "8 lives taken, 6 of them Asian.  And the killer was just 'having a bad day'!" Xinhua News Agency tweeted Sunday.

The mainstream media's anti-White racism is escalating.  [Scroll down]  The media's racial obsession is a way to maintain the Democrats' political power, by silencing the opposition, and to drive ratings.  Eventually, though, the real-world consequences are going to be disastrous.  If our children are consistently told that Whites are not just racist, but akin to the KKK or even Nazis, the means that waging war against them is within the pale of moral behavior.  I am deeply concerned that the media will incite someone — or a group of someones — to take up arms in the imaginary war against "White supremacists" and start targeting people based upon their skin color.

The Real Reasons Why Millions Of Americans Will Defy Covid Mandates And Vaccines.  I suspect a large portion of the public is at least partially aware when they are being pushed or lured into a specific way of thinking. [...] The media does not objectively report facts and evidence, it spins information to plant an engineered narrative in the minds of its viewers.  But the public is not as stupid as they seem to think.  This is probably why trust in the media has plunged by 46% in the past ten years, hitting an all time low this year of 27%.  Except for pre-election season spikes, mainstream outlets from CNN to Fox to CBS to MSNBC are facing dismal audience numbers, with only around 2 million to 3 million prime time viewers.  There are numerous YouTube commentators with bigger audiences than this.  And, if you sift through the debris of MSM videos on YouTube, you'll find low hits and a majority of people that are visiting their channels just to make fun of them.

Numerous Liberal Outlets Claimed to Independently Verify Debunked WaPo Story.  Shocker: the media lied to the American public once again.  We learned recently that the Washington Post, after claiming to have verified a story from anonymous sources, did no such thing for one particular "bombshell" story.  The Post initially reported in January that Trump told an official working in Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office to "find the fraud" in the state, telling them that they would be a national hero if she did.  The call took place on December 23rd, and was just released, proving that Trump never said that.  In reality, Trump said that this unnamed official would be praised when the "right answer comes out" and encouraged them to examine mail-in ballots in Fulton county.  The recording was discovered in this unnamed official's computer trash bin after they said they didn't think a recording existed.  Without their gross incompetence in what appears to be them trying to cover her tracks, this bogus reporting would've never been exposed.

5 Other Totally Bogus Stories Designed To Hurt Trump The Media Got Away With.  The correction by The Washington Post concerning false information about a phone call between former President Donald Trump and the Georgia secretary of state's chief investigator is no anomaly.  The neglect of truth and preference for anonymous sources is deeply ingrained in the corrupt left-wing media's strategy.  "You will notice that establishment media errors, omissions, mistakes, and outright lies always slant one way — against me and against Republicans.  Meanwhile, stories that hurt Democrats or undermine their narratives are buried, ignored, or delayed until they can do the least harm," Trump said in a statement Monday in response to widespread corrections from The New York Times, CNN, ABC, and so on.  The Washington Post correction struck right to the core of why journalism is dying and has been for years, and it served as a reminder of the media's lack of ethics and standards throughout the Russian collusion scramble.  Here are five major Trump-Russia stories the media botched. [...]

The Media Lied about Brian Sicknick's Death.  Remember how we were told, shortly after the mass trespass at the Capitol, that 5 people had died because of the "act of sedition" or "coup" and that all Trump supporters were responsible for their deaths?  I do.  In any case, it turned out that that information was, at best, partially true.  In regard to Brian Sicknick, the police officer who sadly died that day, it was absolutely untrue.  For one, the only person actually killed on Jan. 6 was Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran who was shot in the neck by an LEO for crawling though a window.  She was unarmed and not doing anything violent.  The other three people who died died of "medical emergencies," whatever that means, not injuries sustained during the day's events.  And that leaves Brian Sicknick, the police officer who sadly died on Jan. 6.  The problem is that, while Democrats blamed Trump supporters for his death and even let his body lie in state, there's no evidence that he died because of anything protesters did.  In fact, despite the media preaching for months that he died after being bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher, that appears to be entirely untrue.

Audio That Debunked Fraudulent Trump Quotes [was] Found On GA State Government Device:  Report.  An audio recording that forced multiple major news outlets to issue corrections to stories that attributed fraudulent quotes to former President Donald Trump was reportedly found on the device of the chief investigator of the Georgia secretary of state's office.  Trump made a call to the chief investigator, Frances Watson, on Dec. 23 to discuss alleged fraud in the 2020 election, asking her to look into votes cast in Fulton County, Georgia, especially.  Reports of the call published the next month by The Washington Post, CNN, and others quoted Trump as telling Watson to "find the fraud" and claiming she would be a "national hero" if she did.  An audio recording of the call published last week showed that Trump made neither statement, debunking news outlets' claims that were sourced back to a single anonymous source.  The recording of the call was obtained through an open records request to the Georgia secretary of state's office.  Officials reportedly located the file in a trash folder on Watson's device, according to CNN.

Audio shows the media got the Trump-Georgia story all wrong.  It's one thing if a single news outlet publishes a fraudulent anonymously sourced "scoop."  It's another thing entirely if multiple newsrooms claim they independently "confirmed" the fraudulent "scoop" with anonymous sources of their own.  The former can reasonably be explained away as a simple error; the latter is not so simple.  It's unrealistic so many sources would be wrong about the same thing.  It's more likely competing news outlets spoke with the same anonymous individual or individuals, which leads to uncomfortable questions about whether the media were merely fed bad information or were intentionally manipulated. [...] If you can believe it, the Washington Post bungling its "bombshell" report isn't the most scandalous thing about this episode in media malfeasance.  No, the most scandalous thing is:  Several newsrooms claimed they independently "confirmed" the most [condemnatory] details of the Washington Post's since-corrected "scoop."

If This Week You Learned Biden is 'Hopeful' And Tucker Carlson Is Evil, Congratulations, You've Been Lied To.  If you hadn't watched the president's prime-time address, you might think it was something — anything — other than the most depressing, defeated, and resigned speech since President Jimmy Carter held the office.  You might think he hadn't devoted his third sentence to a baseless attack on his predecessor, and the entire rest of his address to death, sadness, loneliness, and despair.  You might think he hadn't literally threatened the American people, warning, "We may have to reinstate restrictions to get back on track, please, we don't want to do that again."  Rather, to read The Washington Post homepage's featured commentary on the address, you'd think "Much of that speech was about hope."  "It was about seeing a shaft of light at the end of a dark horror," Robin Givhan, a 56-year-old woman who once won a Pulitzer for "witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism," wrote.  "His white French cuffs and his crisp pocket square," she went to tell us, "evoked all of the institutional power and authority at his disposal to make things better."  "[H]is mere presence on television," she insisted, was a declaration of "his pride in the country's progress."  If you're wondering why you didn't see any of this, don't worry:  It didn't happen.

Another Opinion Columnist Pushing War With Iran Who Doesn't Actually Exist.  There is at least one more foreign policy opinion writer from the Mujahideen-eKhalq (MEK) whose existence is dubious, based on a study by a social media analyst and statements from a defector from the group.  Amir Basiri, who contributed to Forbes 9 times, the Washington Examiner 52 times, OpenDemocracy, Algemeiner, and The Hill once also appears to be a fabrication.  The MEK is an Iranian exile group for which John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, and other foreign policy luminaries have given paid speeches.  Dems like Joe Lieberman and Howard Dean have also spoken on their behalf.  But the group has American blood on its hands, has been accused of practicing forced sterilization, and their belief system has been described as a mixture of Marxism and Islamism.  Its supporters claim they, and their front group the National Council of Resistance of Iran, are a sort of government-in-exile, despite nearly nonexistent support for the group within Iran.  They also have waged a substantial disinformation campaign in the Western press, in particular targeting conservative media.

When Minorities Vote GOP, the Media Smears Republicans as Racists.  In just one week, the Washington Post churned out two op-eds on the same theme, "The GOP is Now Just the Party of White Grievance" and "The Republican Party is Making Jim Crow Segregationists Proud".  The D.C. Democrat paper doesn't bother clarifying why Democrats from two generations ago would be thrilled that 1 in 5 black men voted for President Trump.  Ever since the election, the media has been beating its narrative drum with one message.  CNN howls that Republicans are the worst racists.  The New York Times insists they're even more racist than that.  And MSNBC will counter that only white racists would vote Republican.

So where are the nightly network news pictures of all the 'kids in cages'?  The media posted fake news stories with "kids in cages" pictures dating the Obama/Biden years in their four-year collusion with Democrats to destroy President Trump.  So where are the nightly televised pictures today of kids sleeping on cement floors in crowded facilities?  Somehow, we do not see them. [...] Where's Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who went down for a photo-op wearing white, in order to weep in front of an empty parking lot, and compare illegal immigrant detentions during the Trump administration to Nazi concentration camps?  Where is the Hollywood crowd who have always protested Trump's actions?  I must assume none of them really cared and it was always a political attack or else they would be actively protesting.  The Biden administration also clearly doesn't care about how contagious the coronavirus, which migrants are bringing in with them, is.  They are not quarantining the migrant kids who are sick or the kids who have had contact with other sick people.  Nope, they are crowding them into jail-like facilities and then sending them around the U.S. to expose others.

The Roots of Insurrection:  Antifa Exposed.  The mainstream media — silent on the Marxist ideology, violence, and militancy of groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) — deceptively reported that the protests they inflicted on over 200 U.S. cities in 2020 were "mostly peaceful."  It deceitfully transformed the mayhem into a "summer of love."  Widespread rioting, looting, arson, murder, assaults, and destruction of property and businesses went unreported.  Such abject failure explains why polls consistently rank the media among America's least trusted institutions.  Given media complicity with radical groups, it's not surprising that the Los Angeles Times dismissed Andy Ngo's Unmasked:  Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy as unserious, "supremely dishonest," and "self-serving." [...] It says he's fixated on the "imaginary threat of Antifa" and ignores the "real danger" from far-right extremists.

How the Media Distorts Debate and Details of HR 1.  A piece of legislation working its way through Congress would upend further the way Americans conduct elections.  But the way many media outlets are covering it, one would think the bill — which Democrats designated as HR 1 or the so-called For the People Act — is just a simple, uncontroversial "reform" that most Americans agree with.  It's far from that. [...] For instance, media outlets frequently portray HR 1 as a "voter rights" bill.  Outlet after outlet describes the legislation this way, despite vagueness about exactly what voting rights are being threatened. [...] Are Americans really uniformly in favor of effectively nullifying state voter ID laws, or handing over all power for overseeing elections to an increasingly partisan federal agency?  As studies have shown, voter ID laws don't appear to affect minority voter turnout at all.  So why is that election integrity measure considered voter suppression?  It looks like HR 1 has nothing to do with protecting voter rights and everything to do with manipulating and nationalizing how we conduct elections.

Things that don't make sense, except to Democrats.  [Scroll down]  Now that cases, deaths, and hospitalizations are declining rapidly we see fewer stories.  They have to get the $1.9 Trillion leftist slush fund passed before the public is allowed to learn the truth.  I also am seeing frequent reporting complaining that not as many people are getting tested.  The media, bureaucrats and other Democrats should be cheering that fewer people are scared and fewer people feel the need to get tested but they are complaining.  The cheers should be very loud because even with fewer people testing, the positivity rate has dropped rapidly.  It's as if the media and other Democrats would rather keep destroying the economy and children instead of getting schools and businesses open.  The cheerleading and campaigning for Democrats is what reporters do.  How is that valuable to the American people?

Correcting the Biden Administration's Lies About the Border Crisis.  What is happening right now on the border and within the United States regarding illegal immigration is being misrepresented by the Biden administration and much of the media.  Most nightly television broadcasts do not even mention the chaos on the border, what is causing it and what the government is doing in response.  When they do, they merely copy the administration's talking points that are inaccurate and misleading.

Developing some perspective on the Capitol riot.  In the last few days we've seen a series of hearings in the House and Senate on the January 6 riot at the Capitol.  After all the talk, we still don't know some of the basic facts of the riot, especially the circumstances surrounding the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, the only law enforcement officer and only non-rioter to die in the violence.  But in spite of the gaps in our knowledge, a sense of perspective on the riot — Who was involved?  What did they think they were doing? — has begun to emerge.  First, the riot is often referred to as an "armed insurrection." A search of the Nexis database of newspapers, websites, and cable news transcripts finds 2,339 times since January 6 in which the riot was described as an "armed insurrection."  On many other occasions, the rioters were described simply as "armed."  But the description requires an asterisk that is rarely, if ever, applied.  A small number of the rioters did indeed have baseball bats or bear spray, and a few used flagsticks or even, in one case, a crutch as weapons to assault Capitol police.  But the armed insurrectionists did not use any firearms.

Ron Johnson Gets FBI to Admit That No Firearms Were Seized During the Capitol Riot.  Ever since the riot in the US Capitol on January 6, we have struggled to find out exactly what happened there.  As time goes on, we are finding that just about everything we were told about that event is false.  We know, for instance, that one of the rioters, the one who took the video of the execution of Ashli Babbitt, was on the payroll of CNN and NBC, see ["]Leftist Videographer John Sullivan Was Paid by Major Media Organizations for Footage of the Capitol Unrest["].  We know that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was not beaten to death, and we also know that nearly two months after his death, the FBI still refuses to give a cause of death or charge anyone with a crime, see ["]FBI Director Wray Is Asked About Brian Sicknick's Cause of Death, His Response Is Just Not Acceptable["].  We know there were no "kill teams" looking for Mike Pence or anyone else.  We know the guys with zip ties picked them up from where Capitol Police dropped them.  We have yet to see any evidence that any member of Congress or senator aided the rioters.

Attack of the Woke Teen Career Killers.  [Scroll down]  This is why newspapers can't be trusted anymore.  Reporters need to have a normal person's understanding of what words mean, so they can get on with the story.  If a field is described as "barren," we don't need to know the precise size, type and amount of vegetation per square foot.  But if we find out that by "barren," reporters mean "lush," then every word becomes suspect, and we're going to need six paragraphs detailing the precise amount of greenery in the field.  Not one word they use can be believed.  More to the point, if reporters call someone a "white supremacist," we need to know if the Times' definition of "white supremacist" includes a person who:
  ·   questions race preferences in hiring and college admissions;
  ·   believes most people are in prison because they committed crimes; or
  ·   admires Western culture.
[...] These sourpuss zealots are in such a mad race to show their wokeness, they are useless as conduits for the news.  What they do isn't "reporting."  It's terrorism.

The Great Hacking of Vermont's Electrical Grid That Never Happened.  Prominent media critics keep insisting that inaccurate reports from prominent institutions are completely different from the made-up "fake news" found on Facebook and other social media networks.  But do news consumers see them as completely different?  The net effect is the same: something that is not true gets communicated far and wide, and the correct information is spread on a much smaller scale.  A new poll found 52 percent of Democrats believe Russia "tampered with the vote tallies" to make Trump the winner in the presidential race.  There is no evidence of this.  When the big-name media institutions and elected Democratic officials twist the news to the point of falsehood, it's not surprising that so many of the rank-and-file would believe something that isn't true.

Lying About Obama.  Jack Cashill has written over a dozen books, including two about the mysterious 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800, one about the Trayvon Martin case, and two — now three — about Barack Obama.  His new book, Unmasking Obama:  The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency, is a definitive account not only of Obama's eight years in office but also of the transformation of most mainstream American political journalists, largely during the Obama era, from relatively objective reporters of the facts — emphasis on "relatively" — to dedicated partisans of the left, ready and eager at every turn to cover up unpleasant truths (however important) about Democrats and to promote outrageous lies (however destructive) about Republicans.  Fortunately, in the age of the Internet, the mainstream media have competition.

A culture of lies.  Almost everything you are being told to believe by the mainstream media is a lie.  The legacy media has long since chosen sides and will brazenly cover up anything that could reflect poorly on Democrats, yet will assiduously traffic in any and all innuendo, hearsay, and slander that they feel will harm Republicans/conservatives/Trump supporters.  They gleefully promulgate prevarication in their unending quest to damage Democrats' political opponents.

How many people would still be alive today without media COVID malpractice?  If there's one thing we've learned from the COVID-19 lockdowns, it's that the mainstream media duped us time and again.  Not surprisingly, trust in the Fourth Estate is at an all-time low.  According to Axios, nearly 60 percent of Americans agree with the statement that "journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations."

What a Reporter's Arrest at a BLM Riot Tells Us About the Media.  [Scroll down]  While working for the Des Moines Register, [Andrea] Sahouri had repeatedly covered publicity stunts by Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad.  Even after her arrest, the paper continued to use Sahouri to cover the protests and Samad, including glamorizing the arrest of a BLM organizer busted over the vandalism of a cop car.  There's a basic conflict in having an activist, especially one that has a history with a hate group, covering a cause she's passionate about, especially after she's been arrested.  The Des Moines Register has gone on insisting that Sahouri is a journalist who was wrongly arrested.  But Robnett, her fellow activist and boyfriend, isn't a journalist.  He appears to work in marketing.  Journalists don't bring their boyfriends along to a rally unless they're there to take part in the event.  During the BLM riots, leftist members of the media frequently blurred the line between activism and journalism.  But Sahouri may be one of the more egregious examples.  The Register, Amnesty International, and other left-wing organizations continue to attack the police, but have refused to ask basic questions about Sahouri's extremist background.  Or why she was arrested, along with her boyfriend, while another Register reporter wasn't.

Brainwashing Achieved!  Democrat Voters Overwhelmingly Believe "Trump Supporters" Are The #1 Problem In The Country.  The #1 goal of the liberal media ever since Trump came down the escalator in June of 2015 was to smear his supporters as "racists, bigots, sexist, deplorable scum of the earth".  In early 2021, they added "domestic terrorist" to the list.  Sadly, according to a brand new poll, the media smear campaign has proved to be effective.  A new poll from Echelon Insights shows that the #1 "concern" for Democrat voters is "Trump supporters".  Yes, really.  Not police brutality, gun violence, healthcare, student debt, or 7 of the other items they were asked about.  Trump supporters. [...] The media makes the money machine churn when they can divide the people, and the results of this poll show they are doing an exceptional job.

Why The Texas Blackout Has The Greens So Scared:  Deflecting blame to a more exciting apocalypse.  Within days, most of the country was seeing "with our own eyes" and feeling "in our bones" a cold wave so severe that five million people lost electricity and, in a special irony, nearly half of the ballyhooed wind turbines in Texas, which had risen to supply 23% of her energy, were left frozen (and inoperable).  This constituted a double whammy to the huge global warming establishment.  First was the cold, when the "science" had confidently predicted a steadily warming Texas.  Second was the failure of renewables, vastly exacerbating the problems for the energy grid.  Within hours the mainstream media had risen to the challenge.  Journalists employed their familiar word games, quickly substituting "climate change" for global warming.  Readers might be a tad confused if they read "The brutal cold striking Texas is emblematic of a world facing more unpredictable weather due to the rising impact of global warming" but substitute "climate change" for the last two words and presto, the sentence works.  To be sure, that's only because "climate change" is a meaningless term.

Exposing Fact-Checker "Mistruths" on 2020 Election Lawsuits.  Virtually all "fact-checkers" are members of the Democrat-media complex.  They are an important component of the Left's political tactics seeking to discredit contrarian voices they deem not to be "politically correct" and undermining dissent on Democrat agendas.  Not surprisingly, "fact-checking" has nothing to do with checking the facts, but rather is a tactic to discredit material that effectively undermines the Democrat-media narrative.  A good example is Snopes: [...] Snopes is not alone in their leftwing bias.  The same bias applies to the "fact-checkers" at Politifact, Facebook, Twitter, Washington Post, and other media-connected checkers and supposed ombudsmen.  All are supposedly affiliated with the Poynter Institute for Media Studies' International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), but they routinely and blatantly violate the number 1 principle of ICFN:  a commitment to nonpartisanship and fairness.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

The mainstream media's quandary ... and panic.  [Scroll down]  When mainstream press isn't covering up information that is damaging to the progressives cause, it fabricates stories against conservatives like the Russian collusion hoax or reporting that the riot in the Capital on Jan. 6 was an insurrection led by Donald Trump.  Both of these stories were lies from start to finish.  But both lead to poisoning the minds of countless Americans against the president and two impeachments against him.  Yet during the summer of 2020, the press presented the Antifa and BLM riots as mostly peaceful demonstrations.

Everything is Fake in Utopia.  When Democrats gain power through fraud, everything that follows becomes fake as well. [...] When deception is normalized, tech giants can routinely conceal Biden's unpopularity.  On Biden's campaign trail, mass manipulators scripted questions for audience members to ask him.  Not even a month into office, the phony administration requested its media allies brief them on questions they intend to ask.  White House press conferences will still be theatre, but Jim Acosta will no longer have a part.  Our fraud-in-chief was filmed repeating "salute the marines" after someone likely relayed the command to him through an earpiece.  If you ask the fraudsters, Biden actually said "good-looking marines," and we all misheard him.  We're supposed to believe that Biden complimenting the looks of male marines is more sensical than a party of manipulators secretly telling a senile puppet what to do.  I'll take door number two.  When everything is fake, Joe Biden is a "devout Christian" who supports abortion, Black Lives Matter, and the most radical factions of the LGBTQ lobby.  It doesn't matter that these movements are antithetical to Christianity because fake is the new normal.

Boycott the Gaslight Media and Save America.  There is one major lesson that conservatives and frankly all Americans must learn:  never accept at face value the reporting of any news event.  By foolishly acquiescing to the version of a story put out by the denizens of the mainstream media, the citizenry allows the ruling oligarchy to set the narrative and exploit the inevitably fabricated incidents that further their cause.  In place of "mainstream media," they ought to be called Gaslight Media, for their role is not to report the truth, but rather to manipulate the public into a mental state conducive to obedience. [...] These statists are aware that once their version of a story has been repeated ad nauseum for days or weeks the bulk of the populace will accept it as the truth, thus, achieving near-permanent status in the national discourse.

The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot.  What took place at the Capitol on January 6 was undoubtedly a politically motivated riot.  As such, it should not be controversial to regard it as a dangerous episode.  Any time force or violence is introduced into what ought to be the peaceful resolution of political conflicts, it should be lamented and condemned.  But none of that justifies lying about what happened that day, especially by the news media.  Condemning that riot does not allow, let alone require, echoing false claims in order to render the event more menacing and serious than it actually was.  There is no circumstance or motive that justifies the dissemination of false claims by journalists.  The more consequential the event, the less justified, and more harmful, serial journalistic falsehoods are.  Yet this is exactly what has happened, and continues to happen, since that riot almost seven weeks ago.

The Media Has Been Lying About The Capitol Protests.  Look up any story about the storming of the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, and you will find it described as a "deadly riot" that killed five people.  Worse still, one of the deaths was that a police officer who — the story goes — was killed by rioters after getting hit in the head by a fire extinguisher.  Then there is the story of the protestor who "carried Zip Ties into the Capitol," which led to accusations that the protestors intended to take hostages.  There have also been endless media descriptions of the event as an "armed insurrection."  And there were stories claiming that, as Reuters put it, "Capitol rioters meant to 'capture and assassinate' officials."  What is common about all of these media-fed narratives?  Not one of them is true.

The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot.  What took place at the Capitol on January 6 was undoubtedly a politically motivated riot.  As such, it should not be controversial to regard it as a dangerous episode.  Any time force or violence is introduced into what ought to be the peaceful resolution of political conflicts, it should be lamented and condemned.  But none of that justifies lying about what happened that day, especially by the news media.  Condemning that riot does not allow, let alone require, echoing false claims in order to render the event more menacing and serious than it actually was.  There is no circumstance or motive that justifies the dissemination of false claims by journalists.  The more consequential the event, the less justified, and more harmful, serial journalistic falsehoods are.  Yet this is exactly what has happened, and continues to happen, since that riot almost seven weeks ago.  And anyone who tries to correct these falsehoods is instantly attacked with the cynical accusation that if you want only truthful reporting about what happened, then you're trying to "minimize" what happened and are likely an apologist for if not a full-fledged supporter of the protesters themselves.

The Impeachment Show.  Lost in the tedium and general lack of interest in the impeachment show put on by the Democrats last week is the general weirdness of our ruling class.  What we see in politics and in the media is presented as if it is completely normal.  No one ever points out the facts or the contradictions with reality.  The presenters and their subjects are all super-serious, as if everything they are saying and doing is completely normal.  The reaction to the very peaceful demonstrations by Trump fans last month is a great example of this weird disconnect.  We live in an age where everything is monitored by millions of mobile-phone cameras.  As a result, everyone got to see hours of amateur video shot during the subdued protests in Washington back in January.  Yet the carrying-on by the politicians and media is disconnected from what we saw online.  If you are a left-wing partisan, all of it confirms your belief that Trump is a magical orange Hitler commanding an invisible army of Hitlers.  Of course, for these people, everything confirms this belief.  They are insane.

NYT Retracts Story First Published on Jan. 8 That Capitol Hill Police Officer Was Killed by a Fire Extinguisher Thrown by Protesters.  Wow, what coincidental timing.  The story claiming that a police officer was murdered by Trump supporters during the Capitol Hill protest on January 6 is, for all practical purposes, retracted by the NYT the day after Pres.  Trump is acquitted on the impeachment charge of having instigated those protests — which were declared by Democrats and the media an "insurrection" against the government. [...] Julie Strong at American Greatness has been aggressively pursuing this story for weeks, and two days ago she published a column that noted efforts by media outlets — including the NYT — to slowly back away from narrative created by the early reporting done by the NYT and acknowledging that the cause of Sicknick's death was still undetermined.  The narrative built around that early reporting was that he was struck by a demonstrator wielding a fire extinguisher — a narrative advanced by both liberal and conservative media outlets in their effort to railroad Donald Trump over the past 5 weeks.  That narrative has now unraveled because there simply is no evidence to support the claim that the fire extinguisher episode actually happened.

The 'Insurrection Hallucination' and How We Got There.  It's no secret the media has lots of ways to gaslight you.  One of those is failing to report significant happenings.  Another is booking and quoting people whose views they want to advance because they target those they dislike.  Yet another is spreading outright lies, like the contrafactual assertions that Antifa-BLM riots around the country for the past four years were "mostly peaceful" or that President Trump wanted people to inject bleach to kill the spreading virus.  This week, despite their best efforts, a lot of those lies and liars have been unmasked.

The Times' Superspreader Lie About Officer Sicknick.  Like so many fabricated storylines intended to damage Donald Trump and his supporters, the New York Times cited anonymous sources to support a shocking claim in an article alleging Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by a Trump "insurrectionist" on January 6.  "[P]ro-Trump rioters attacked that citadel of democracy, overpowered Mr. Sicknick, 42, and struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials," Times reporters claimed January 8, the day after Sicknick died.  "With a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.  He died on Thursday evening."  That horrifying account quickly made its way into the vernacular of journalists, lawmakers, political pundits, and regular Americans without dispute.  CNN, as Raheem Kassam detailed here, for weeks repeated the line as fact.  Ditto for MSNBC.  In a tirade earlier this week, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough called Donald Trump a "cop killer" and raged that GOP Senators wouldn't vote to convict. [...] But the narrative about what happened to Sicknick is quickly unraveling, as I wrote earlier this week.  Not only is CNN, the network that helped perpetuate the initial storyline for more than a month, questioning the circumstances about Sicknick's death, so too is the New York Times.

Our Tarnished Institutions and the Boy Who Cried Wolf.  The only bright side to this situation is that the people now cannot ignore the lies being pumped out by what we thought were our institutions.  We can thank Trump for that.  He said what he would do, and then did it.  The contrast to business-as-usual was stunning and refreshing.  We liked it and wanted more of it.  Which the swamp could not allow.  Russia!  Russia!  Russia!  Ukraine!  Impeachment!  Systemic racism!  BLM!  Pandemic!  Insurrection!  Is there a previously-trusted institution which hasn't cried wolf about the bad orange man in the last four years?

Tucker Carlson Lays out Some Uncomfortable Questions About the Capitol Riot.  Recently, RedState reported on a CNN article that included a very interesting passage regarding the death of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who passed sometime after the Capitol riot on January 6th.  Though a story that he had been beaten to death by a fire extinguisher had spread far and wide in the media, it turns out that an investigation found no signs of trauma on his body, nor have investigators been able to find any video of him sustaining wounds that could have taken his life.  The latest theory by investigators is that he may have had a reaction to pepper spray being used that day, though that's purely speculation at this point. [...] One of the things Tucker talks about is the idea that five people died as a direct result of the riots, a statement that has been made more times than one can count by the news media.  In regards to what we actually know right now, he notes that one person died of what appears to have been a heart attack while on the phone with his wife.  Another man had a stroke, and there's no evidence he was even part of the riot that day.  Another woman died after passing out, possibly being trampled by the crowd as a result.  In other words, of the five people listed as dying that day due to the riots, three of them were unquestionably accidental.

Jake Tapper and Chris Hayes Lose Their Minds 'Inciting' Against GOP And Reveal Next Step to Control the Narrative.  [Scroll down]  The GOP got "hundred of thousands of Americans" killed?  When did that happen?  "Then helped a deadly attack on the Capitol."  No, as far as I know, the GOP denounced any violence and were themselves threatened with a bomb at the RNC.  No, actually there wasn't "unprecedented death" for a pandemic.  Unfortunately, there are deaths in a pandemic as there have been all over the world.  Had Trump not been in power, if Biden had been there, it would have been far worse.  Biden wouldn't have cut off travel with China and it would have been exponentially worse.  "Destruction and misery and mourning."  Yes, there was a lot of that from mostly Democratic lockdowns, where Democrats denied aid, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proved, until after the election, exacting the most harm to the economy believing it could adversely affect President Donald Trump.  There was also a lot of that during the BLM/Antifa riots that the Democrats not only failed to condemn, but actually embraced by donating to a rioter bail fund, supporting violent rioters over the people and the police being harmed, and attacking efforts to curtail the riots by law enforcement and the federal government.

Accurate List of 2020 Election Fraud Cases Shows 81 Cases Total, 30 Still Active.  We've heard over and over from Big Media that President Trump and his team lost numerous court cases linked to the 2020 election.  But this is not accurate.  Here's what we identified from our research of an accurate and updated list of court cases:
  •   There are 81 court cases to date based on the 2020 election
  •   In 45 cases President Trump was the plaintiff
  •   In 34 cases President Trump is not the plaintiff
  •   In 2 cases President Trump is the defendant
  •   In 72 cases illegal voting is alleged
  •   In ZERO of the 72 cases where illegal voting is alleged has evidence been allowed to be presented
  •   30 cases remain active

CNN Finally Acknowledges the Story Media Spread About Officer Sicknick's Cause of Death Isn't True.  Earlier this week, the body of Officer Brian Sicknick lay in state in the U.S. Capitol.  Everyone honored his life and service.  But the government is having trouble building a murder case there has still not been an official determination as to his cause of death.  After being part of the force during the actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6, he went back to his office.  Some hours later, he collapsed and then later died.  But what has been determined is that the story largely spread about his death, that he was hit by a fire extinguisher by protesters has been discounted, according to a CNN report, because they found no blunt force trauma to his body and there has been no evidence otherwise found, such as video or witnesses, that the incident even occurred.

Hit-job journalism misses the target again.  The hit-job interview is a staple of British journalism.  There is, I suppose, an obvious attraction to it: while it can destroy its subject, it can also make the career of a journalist.  And yet for the reader, listener or viewer, it can also be deeply boring — for the simple reason that if the journalist makes clear their conclusion from the outset, there's no chance of having a reasonable discussion.  People who agree with it rejoice, those who don't switch off.  Nothing gets learned; no ideas are properly discussed.  Such was the case with an interview published in last week's Sunday Times by the journalist Decca Aitkenhead.  Her subject was Professor Jordan Peterson, and, like everything to do with Peterson, the interview has kicked up a fair amount of fuss — principally because it was so mean and hostile.

Crucifying Jordan Peterson.  [Scroll down]  Emerging from this nightmare and prepared to step back onto the public stage, Peterson agreed to a major interview with Decca Aitkenhead for the Sunday Times of London.  The story appeared on January 31; on the same day, Peterson posted on YouTube a recording of the nearly three-hour Zoom conversations that he and his daughter, Mikhaila, had with Aitkenhead.  In the recording (which as of Wednesday had accumulated half a million hits), Peterson is friendly and forthcoming, but emotionally fragile as a consequence of his long torment; at one point he breaks into tears and has to step away from the microphone.  Mikhaila, for her part, spends an hour and a half telling Aitkenhead the full story of Peterson's illness, complete with vivid particulars.  And Aitkenhead poses throughout as entirely sympathetic, sounding more like a compassionate social worker than a journalist.  But — and this is why Peterson felt compelled to post the audio of the interview — Aitkenhead's piece for the Times proved to be a masterpiece of pure snideness and dishonesty.  She reduced Peterson's deep learning and richly nuanced wisdom about life to "bracing advice about how to be a real man."  She caricatured the multitudes of people whose lives he's helped to turn around as "young men who idolise him" as a "fantasy father figure."

The war on Jordan Peterson.  Leftist hatred for the Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson is really something to behold.  He stands as an example of what happens to someone who strays from the crazy line of thinking by modern campus bigots.  Mr. Peterson is the canary in the toxic coal mine of political correctness and petty thought police.  Let's start with the professor's crime.  Simply put, Mr. Peterson does not share the monolithic, prevailing liberal orthodoxy on university campuses dictating that Western White males are the world's evil oppressors and anyone who does not belong to that evil race is a victim trapped in circumstances beyond his or her control.

The 'Big Lie' And Big Liars.  There's a media-perpetrated myth that Joe Biden is a moderate; that he's an honest man.  He is not, and never has been.  He's a politician, a Democrat, who now has the authority of the United States government behind him.  The Big Lies are spread daily from the podium of the White House press briefing room.  Jen Psaki and her red hair have returned from a CNN contributor gig, and after disseminating lies for the Obama State Department, this "Ginger Goebbels" freely spouts whatever words fit their needs at the moment.  Unbound by reality or any challenge of the one they paint daily, even when it contradicts the one they painted the day before, the lies just keep getting bigger.  They inherited "no plan" for vaccine distribution?  Schools can't reopen unless billions are spent hiring more teachers when all data shows schools are safe?  But they're the "party of science"?  No lie is too small to tell, none too big to swallow, and none are or will be challenged.

Op-ed calls very real conservative censorship, purge a 'vapid new conspiracy theory' by Rupert Murdoch.  From the left's standpoint, claims that the 2020 presidential election — which was marred by millions of unsolicited mail-in ballots sent out because of the pandemic — was stolen is a "big lie," insisting there is "no evidence" to support the assertion.  Never mind that three out of four Republicans with eyes that can see believe it to be true — an anomaly dismissed as just a bunch of rubes being manipulated by former President Donald Trump.  This being the same cabal that insists conservatives are not being censored by Big Tech.  No, it's just more conspiracy-mongering on the right.  Just ask Mediaite founding editor Colby Hall, who said in op-ed that "there is a new dangerous conspiracy afoot, and it's being amplified by arguably the most important person in all of political media:  Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch."

Stop credulously calling China a 'people's republic'.  The effect of re-labeling is well known, and it is widely used by the politicians. [...] Oppressive regimes, aware of the power of labels, use them to their full advantage, and include positive labels right into the official names of their states.  Names like "United States" or the "Russian Federation" tell you little about those countries' political organization, but how about words like "democracy" or "republic"?  I started wondering, why do we in the West parrot those words even when they are manifestly misleading?  Is there really a "Peoples' Republic of China"?  In the huge geographic area so designated, people have zero input into how they are governed.  This is decided for them by the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-wise chairman of the Communist Party.  So why not call it — in the Western press at least — the "Communist Dictatorship of China"?

The Media Told Us a Violent Revolt Was Coming.  What Happened?  It is worth noting today that media outlets are reporting Joe Biden will serve his first full day as President of the United States, and no American cities are burning.  No one is calling for the end of the Republic.  America still stands. [...] We have been told conservatives were going to revolt, trying to overthrow a fairly elected incoming President.  Instead, what we saw yesterday was a peaceful transfer of power.  Alleged flyers calling for an armed protest never happened.  The protests at 50 state capitals never materialized.  It's like all these hyped-up mini-revolutions were never going to happen, but some people who are not conservatives needed for these events to happen to further their own agenda.  Let's get something straight:  The armed mob that attacked the Capitol building was not representative of the 75 million people who voted for Donald Trump in November.

Media trust hits new low.  For the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media, according to data from Edelman's annual trust barometer shared exclusively with Axios.  Trust in social media has hit an all-time low of 27%.  56% of Americans agree with the statement that "Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations."  58% think that "most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public."  When Edelman re-polled Americans after the election, the figures had deteriorated even further, with 57% of Democrats trusting the media and only 18% of Republicans.

Trust In Media At All Time Low:  Majority Believe Reporters Purposefully Trying To Mislead People.  Each year, the American people seem to trust the media less and less.  This year's annual survey from Edelman shows trust in traditional media and social media are at all-time lows.  The annual trust barometer, shared exclusively with Axios, found fewer than half of Americans trust traditional media for the first time since the survey began.

GOP Leaders in D.C. Don't Represent 74 Million Trump Voters.  The media lie.  All the time.  They lied about former President Barack Obama's economy; they tried to make us believe the worst economy since the Great Depression was a great economy.  Then they lied about President Donald Trump's soaring economy.  They tried to make us believe the best economy in 50 years, maybe the best economy ever for middle-class Americans, was a bad economy.  They lied about the Black Lives Matter riots.  For months, we saw radical communists, Marxists and violent thugs riot, loot, burn, mug and murder while attacking police officers with bricks, pipes and Molotov cocktails.  They burned entire downtown business districts to the ground, such as those in Minneapolis and Kenosha, Wisconsin. [...] They killed over 30 people.  They caused over $2 billion in damage.  Yet liberal politicians and the liberal media ignored it all, or made believe it never happened, or made believe it was "peaceful," or encouraged it, or supported it.  In many cases, they did all of the above.

Media Lie About Supposed Capitol Hill Attacker, Here's the Real Story.  It's almost like the mainstream media want to raise the temperature and stoke unsubstantiated fear.  Actually, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they want to do.  That was made apparent again today after a lie was trumpeted by several major media outlets before being shown to be mostly false.  I'm talking about the story that a man provided "fake" inauguration credentials while carrying 500 rounds of handgun ammunition on his person in an attempt to enter the Capitol area.  This was supposed to be proof of an elevated threat, with the assumption being that this guy was there to shoot the place up as a probable QAnon disciple.  The real story is way, way less exciting.

In today's America, the wise person willfully suspends belief.  Twenty years ago, I believed most of what came over the nation's airwaves.  Ten years ago, I was becoming quite the skeptic.  Today, after years of unrelenting attacks on the President, I don't believe any of it.  It's all lies, half-truths, and misinformation, designed to influence elections and steer the collective mentality toward accepting the loss of freedom, the loss of constitutional rights and, eventually, to embrace communist ideas and authoritarian policies.  I'm not sure when it all went south, but I think it was probably long before I first became aware that there was a problem.

Trump, supporters likened to Nazis, Saddam's Ba'ath Party in cable-news demonization duel.  President Trump and his supporters were likened to dictators, despots, terrorists, and genocidal maniacs this week by dueling cable news competitors and elected officials.  MSNBC viewers watched programming on Wednesday with analogies to the Ba'ath Party under Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, while CNN's were warned about large amounts of "Nazis" and "Klan" members permeating the Republican Party.  The cable news punditry was punctuated by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California likening Mr. Trump to the terrorist who orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks — Osama bin Laden — during an interview with "PBS NewsHour."

Three crucial questions remain unanswered about Capitol siege.  One thing recent history has taught America is the first storyline of major tragedies or controversies is never the most accurate.  Americans were told by the Bush administration that they were sucker-punched by a surprise attack on 9/11 by terrorists, only to learn the CIA and FBI had significant advance evidence of the plot and its players and failed to connect the dots.  Susan Rice originally told the nation that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was carried out spontaneously by a mob angered by an anti-Muslim video.  The attack, it turned out, was pre-planned and carried out by an al-Qaeda-aligned terror group in Libya.  The country was assured Christopher Steele's dossier provided credible evidence of Donald Trump colluding with Russia, when in fact the CIA and FBI knew almost immediately it was uncorroborated and based in part on Russian disinformation.  And now just a week after the heinous and deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol, the final narrative of what actually happened is still being written, revised and unmasked.

We Need a New Media System.  Media firms work backward.  They first ask, "How does our target demographic want to understand what's just unfolded?" Then they pick both the words and the facts they want to emphasize.  It's why Fox News uses the term, "Pro-Trump protesters," while New York and The Atlantic use "Insurrectionists." [...] What happened last Wednesday was the apotheosis of the Hate Inc. era, when this audience-first model became the primary means of communicating facts to the population.  For a hundred reasons dating back to the mid-eighties, from the advent of the Internet to the development of the 24-hour news cycle to the end of the Fairness Doctrine and the Fox-led discovery that news can be sold as character-driven, episodic TV in the manner of soap operas, the concept of a "Just the facts" newscast designed to be consumed by everyone died out.

Is Truth Irrelevant?  It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong — when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year.  For too many people, especially in the media, what is right and wrong, true or false, depends on who it helps or hurts politically.  Too many media people who are supposed to be reporters act as if they are combatants in political wars.  Someone once said that, in a war, truth is the first casualty.  That has certainly been so in the media — and in much of academia as well.

Media Have Hypocritical Double Standard on Trump vs BLM Protests.  Wednesday was proof that how corporate media and Democrat politicians report and comment on acts of civil unrest depends upon who is engaged in the rioting.  Six months ago The New York Times, which has been described as the national "newspaper of record," made excuses for rioters who attempted to take over the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon.  It reported that "the nightly assault on the federal courthouse has been part of a much wider peaceful resistance ... that began assembling nearly two months ago in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of the Minneapolis police."  The Times continued, "the aim, as it has been in other cities, was to assemble for sweeping police reform and racial justice."  Reporting on Wednesday's protest in Washington, D.C., The Times' "peaceful resistance" suddenly became a "mob."  Instead of "assembling," the protesters engaged in "rampage" and "chaos," incited by President Trump, which became a "part of his legacy."

Enough! There Was No Riot, Insurrection or "Storming!"  Enough!  Enough of the gaslighting by the press.  Enough of the gaslighting by the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, want, deprivation, envy and murder of the unborn in the womb.  Most especially, enough of their "Republican," enablers, who believe they can gain political favor or DC cocktail circuit invites, by promoting these blatant lies.  What is even more egregious, these lies have already become, "common knowledge." [...] Aside from a couple of bozos who broke a window to get in, I clearly saw Capitol Police opening doors for protestors to enter, while appearing to cordially chat with them as they strolled through the building.

Only In Your Imagination Was That An Attempted "Coup".  At no point yesterday was the American government at risk of being "overthrown," as members of Congress have laughably suggested.  Per usual, our guardians of consensus can't bring themselves to describe what unfolded with any degree of dispassion or calm.  Instead we're told by the incoming Senate Majority Leader, for example, that January 6, 2021 will now "live in infamy" right alongside December 7, 1941.  Elected officials issued emotional notices that they were "okay," like they had just narrowly avoided being crushed in an earthquake, or escaped the World Trade Center on 9/11.  This is made all the more odd because the only person upon whom lethal force was committed appears to have been a Trump-supporting woman who was shot point-blank in the throat by a Capitol Hill police officer.  She's now dead.  Congress was temporarily inconvenienced.  Journalists and pundits, glorying in their natural state — which is to peddle as much free-flowing hysteria as possible — eagerly invoke all the same rhetoric that they'd abhor in other circumstances on civil libertarian grounds.  "Domestic terrorism," "insurrection," and other such terms now being promoted by the corporate media will nicely advance the upcoming project of "making sure something like this never happens again."  Use your imagination as to what kind of remedial measures that will entail.

Things That Need to Be Said About Today's Chaos in D.C..  [Scroll down]  Secondly, it's fascinating that the media and Democrats have all of a sudden figured out that violence and rioting are wrong and should be condemned.  We all remember how for months last year they painted violent Antifa/BLM rioters and agitators as "peaceful protesters" even as businesses were looted and burned to the ground, entire city blocks were turned to ashes, federal courthouses and officers were attacked with incendiary devices, and neighborhoods were invaded.

Just What Were You Expecting?  [Scroll down]  Whether walking on the street or gathered on the Capitol steps, people were waving flags and as far as I could see, nobody was throwing punches.  Nobody was throwing bricks or Molotov cocktails.  In fact, one video clip I found very interesting, was one group of protestors who managed to gain entry to the Capitol Building, was walking/strolling through Statuary Hall, and they were all staying inside the velvet guide ropes running down the center!!  Nobody toppled any statues over or anything like that.  Surely not some "maddened mob" as the media kept hyping all afternoon long.  Here are some things that bother me.  First of all, the media.  The way they were hyping this, you would think there was an all out assault by heavily armed rioters, hell bent on killing everyone inside the building.  The media kept using the words, "shots fired," implying that the "mob" had shot somebody, maybe even a policeman.  Turns out, it was a Capitol policeman who shot an unarmed female protestor.

C-SPAN Brings Steve Scully Back After He Admitted To Lying About Debate-Related Incident.  C-SPAN announced on Tuesday that it is bringing back disgraced host Steve Scully effective immediately despite Scully's admission, last year, that he lied about a debate-related incident that unfolded on social media.  Last October, before the second presidential debate, Scully falsely claimed that he had been hacked after a tweet appeared on his Twitter account that solicited advice from Trump opponent Anthony Scaramucci about how to deal with President Donald Trump at the debate, which he was set to host.

Cosmopolitan now promotes obesity as 'healthy'.  After decades of promoting stick-thin, big-cleavage women as sexy, Cosmopolitan women's magazine has a new schtick:  Promoting obese women as healthy. [...] They use young women of course, whose bodies can probably resist many of the problems of obesity at first.  That's a deception, because obesity eventually accumulates in problems if it's not eventually gotten rid of.  But this isn't stopping Cosmo.  Its obesity-is-healthy claim is about as accurate as the other falsehoods going around — that men can become women, or that racism causes COVID.  It's fantasyland stuff, and coming more and more from the left.  So much for "following the science."

The media are lying about Trump's phone call with Raffensperger.  The mainstream media and Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, are utterly disgraceful, dishonest, and manipulative people.  Raffensperger released a private phone call that the media immediately claimed — falsely — showed Trump begging Raffensperger to fraudulently find enough votes for Trump to win.  In fact, Trump called Raffensperger to get him to stop obstructing the fraud investigation. [...] Here's what really happened on the phone call.  First, Trump wasn't the only person on the phone.  Also present were Mark Meadows, Mike Pompeo, and multiple attorneys.  There isn't the slightest chance that they would have allowed Trump to beg Raffensperger for illegal votes or to threaten him.  Second, contrary to what the media implied, Trump was not operating off the premise that he lost Georgia.  If that had been the case, it would indeed have been wrong for Trump to beg for Raffensperger to "find" votes for him.  Instead, Trump was operating from the assertion that he won Georgia.

Gallup Poll Shows Most Americans Share Trump's Lack of Trust in Honesty of Media.  One important public service President Donald Trump has performed for the American people has been to pull the veneer back and fully expose the incredible bias of the establishment media.  Only 28 percent of Americans surveyed by Gallup last month rated the honesty and ethical standards of journalists as either "very high" or "high."  Contrast that with police officers, who earned a combined 52 percent rating in those categories, down just 2 percentage points from 2019, despite the massive "defund the police" protests nationwide.

Biden is Not 'President-Elect' Until Congress Counts Electoral Votes on January 6, 2021.  Let us say it all together, "Joe Biden is not the president-elect."  Americans have been bombarded with fake news about Biden's status in the 2020 presidential election.  Facebook, Twitter, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, PBS have all declared Biden the winner.  But this is far from over.  We have reported on massive election fraud from multiple sources.  The media refuses to do so, therefore we must tell the truth.  [Video clip]

How to Steal an Election in Four Steps.  [Scroll down]  In truth, President Trump likely received between 74.5 million and 76.5 million votes, winning both the popular vote and the electoral vote handily.  The media reported none of this, except anecdotally as Republican griping.  They reported that Biden had won, and that he was the president-elect, though he was not because the count was still in progress.  Major broadcast media refused to carry important updates by the President of the United States and ridiculed anyone who questioned the integrity of the election:  Trump was a cry baby:  Giuliani was unbalanced; Sidney Powell was a conspiracy theorist.  When Fox News chose to ignore stark reality in favor of the lie (Tucker Carlson accused Powell — perhaps the most respected attorney in Washington — of making claims she could not substantiate) it lost a huge chunk of its viewership to Newsmax and OANN, networks on which the news is not scripted in advance.  The Left went into, "Why can we all just get along" mode.  "A time for healing," said the newspapers.  They defended mail-in voting, the count stoppages, Dominion software, etc.  Evidence did not matter to them, only selling the narrative that Biden was the victor.  They enlisted the help of Trump-hating Republicans like Mitt Romney, Chris Christi, and Paul Ryan to implore Trump, the overwhelming winner, to concede.

5 Reasons Why You're Not Crazy to Question the Election Results.  You've gotten the memo from the leftist chin-strokers on social media.  It's simple.  You're insane for questioning the 2020 presidential election result.  Joe Biden is the president-elect, so you just run along and ignore the copious news stories about election fraud and get over it.  Man up!  Political titans on Capitol Hill look visibly concerned when asked by MSM reporters about the president and his millions of voters who aren't convinced that this election wasn't filled with fraud.  The party of Governor Stacey Abrams, President Hillary Clinton, and "Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances" dares to point the magenta cat-toy-feather-wand of shame at Republicans who can't believe that the candidate with the most momentum and the power of the incumbency didn't win.  You're not wrong.  And you're not crazy.

The Trump-Hating Media Prepare For A Long Nap Under Biden.  [Scroll down]  The national media are, by virtually any recognized metric, now collectively far to the left on the political spectrum.  They hate Trump, capitalism, America's history and culture, and all the blue-collar, hard-working, tax-paying schlubs out there who make it all possible.  The media began the year in COVID-19 denial, pretending, along with leading Democrats, that the fast-spreading virus was nothing to worry about.  They quickly did an about-face after realizing that virus could be weaponized politically against Trump.  Since then, Americans have been subjected to non-stop propaganda on everything from vaccines and hydroxychloroquine to lockdowns and mandatory masks.  The goal:  weaken Trump, and turn Americans into terrified "yes" people, subservient to bureaucrat-scientists such as Anthony Fauci.  That's what's also behind the media campaign to blame Trump, not the communist Chinese, for the novel coronavirus.  No sooner had the virus emerged than the media were reporting that Trump had "slashed" Centers for Disease Control spending, implying he had left us vulnerable.  Wrong.  His budgets increased CDC spending every year.

This Tennessee Data for Masked vs. Unmasked Counties Would Be on Every Front Page, if the Results Were Different.  As you may have heard, we've sort of got a "casedemic" problem here in Tennessee.  That means lots and lots (and lots) of people are testing positive for COVID-19.  That's about all we know for sure, of course.  Nevertheless, hand-wringing from media, politicians, and local 'health authorities' is seemingly neverending, as are local reporters in my neck of the woods being filmed standing in front of that FEMA body truck they don't bother to tell us has been sitting in front of the regional hospital, unused, SINCE MARCH.  Hospitals aren't overwhelmed by any measure, and even the death toll isn't really all that impressive either considering that Tennessee is actually below the national average in deaths per million and most people who are dying are either already super old or super sick.  Indeed, while COVID does tragically hit some people hard, most 'cases' are quite mild and often non-symptomatic, driven by panic at every sniffle or people being forced to test for work and other reasons.  And there is increasingly solid evidence that not everyone counted as a 'COVID death' is really a death caused by COVID, but rather someone who had a positive PCR test at some point in 2020 before dying.  When you have a highly contagious respiratory virus going around, particularly one that is seasonal and seems to be boxing out the flu, an increasing percentage of those who die will likely have it.  These 'scary' numbers lie at the root of the ongoing panic and give continued justification for our overlords to continue to exercise control over society.

Soviet-Style Media Propaganda in America.  Pick a theme from the last four years:  Trump-Russia collusion, Trump has told a bazillion lies, Trump is an authoritarian, Trump will get us into a war with North Korea, it's impossible for Trump to get a vaccine by the end of the year.  Yada yada yada.  All of these things and more — including themes that have nothing whatsoever to do with Trump — were flatly untrue.  Which, in a society where the media is honest, would have been reported by that media.  A real media this minute would be investigating the results of the 2020 election and whether or not the President and his supporters are correct that there was indeed at least some election fraud.  But, of course, that's not what the media is doing.  They simply ignore the evidence, repeatedly label the very idea of voter fraud "baseless" — and move on.

Mike Pompeo slams reporter over coverage of wife's alleged COVID diagnosis.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is slamming a reporter over the handling of coverage of his wife's alleged COVID-19 diagnosis.  In a series of tweets Thursday, the nation's top diplomat refuted a now-deleted post which claimed that he and wife Susan Pompeo had attended a State Department holiday party one day before testing positive.  "My wife and I did not attend any State Department nor White House holiday parties — your statement is patently FALSE," Pompeo wrote.  "This isn't journalism and it's worse than gossip — it's unethical and potentially unlawful.  Stay tuned."  After Bloomberg reporter Nicholas Wadhams took down the tweet, Pompeo posted a screenshot along with a message reading, "Good to see this tweet — with patently false information — was deleted.  I won't hold my breath for an apology."

Are Democrats In Trouble In 2022?  [Scroll down]  [W]hat Democrats like Adam Nagourney determinedly call "protests against police abuses" consist largely of arson, assault and looting.  Nothing says "I'm against police abuses" like looting a pharmacy, liquor store or jewelry store.  There is a reason why countless stores in urban areas were boarded up, and in many cases remain boarded up, and the reason isn't that someone is "protesting against police abuses."  Further, Democrats in a number of cities, like Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Minneapolis, proved to be so sympathetic to rioters that they were unwilling to take effective measures to stop them.  Voters noticed.  One more thing:  Nagourney's statement that riots, looting and arson were "heavily covered on local television" is revealing.  The [New York] Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, the broadcast networks and other reliable Democratic outlets tried to suppress information about the riots that took place across the country, precisely so that such information would not damage the Democratic Party.  But they failed, mostly on account of local news coverage, which was less dedicated to the Democratic cause and more interested in letting viewers know what was going on.

Tainted Tallies Tell Tall Tales.  [Scroll down]  Speaking on an episode of War Room:  Pandemic, [Rudy] Giuliani asserted that the American people have not yet had the opportunity to examine evidence that appears to have corrupted some vote counts in key battleground states.  "Facts have been kept from them," Giuliani declared.  "Not a single court decision has had a hearing yet.  They haven't heard from a single witness.  They haven't looked at a single tape.  They haven't listened to a single recording.  There are thousands of them."  Amber Athey voiced the sentiments of many when she wrote, "The media has been claiming since the election ended that President Trump's claims of voter fraud are 'baseless' and 'without evidence'.  That just is not true.  The President's lawyer gave examples of [voter fraud.] ... But everyone is too busy mocking him to pay attention." [...] A December 2020 Fox News national survey of registered voters found that 68% of Republicans, 26% of independents, and 10% of Democrats believe that the election was stolen from Trump.

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Yes, It Was a Stolen Election.  As Americans continue to watch the 2020 election controversy unfold, the very same publications that spent years lying about President Trump's "Russia collusion" are once again telling us what we are dutifully supposed to believe.  The Los Angeles Times, for instance, assures us that Trump's "baseless" and "dangerous" claim "that the election was rigged to benefit Joe Biden" has been thoroughly "debunked."  The New York Times proclaims that "Trump's false election fraud claims" are founded upon nothing more than a "torrent of falsehoods."  Sneering at "how Trump drove the lie that the election was stolen," The Washington Post mocks Republicans who "are still pretending that there was election fraud."  And CNN.com warns that "Trump's obsession with overturning the election" has now begun to spiral "out of control."  But so much for what the comic books have to say.  What follows is a compilation of vital facts that will demonstrate, to anyone interested in following the truth wherever it may lead, that the 2020 presidential election was indeed rife with fraud, and that Joe Biden, if he should in fact be sworn into office next month, will be an illegitimate president from the very start.

A thread on this viral map, which attempts to paint a very scary picture.  [D]epending on where you live, it is almost certain someone at your Thanksgiving gathering will have COVID.  Look at all that red!  But, the map has massive problems.  The map comes from the Washington Post, but it is based on the COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning tool from GA Tech.  The goal of which is to show what the chances are of having a COVID positive person attend a gathering.  A worthwhile project. [...] This is the Washington Post map, side by side with the map from the actual data source.  Same map, but Wapo makes the "artistic" choice of making the reds much darker and scarier. [...] The larger problem lies at the bottom of the Wapo map.  It says the map "assumes actual case prevalence is 10 times as high as laboratory-confirmed case count."  This, for lack of a better word, is bonkers.

The Vaccine Naysayers Got It Wrong.  Today I'm reminded of the host of media experts who flogged the seriousness and reliability of the Steele dossier for months and years only to evaporate when we later learned that document wasn't reliable.  To his great credit, the Washington Post's Erik Wemple devoted 10 articles to tracking down some of the dossier's promoters and asking them how they felt about it in retrospect.  As I pointed out at the time, a lot of the journalists he spoke with had no comment.  People like MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who made the dossier a key part of her program for years simply moved on to greener pastures.  There was zero price to pay for being so wrong for so long about something so important.  I'm reminded of that today because of this Twitter thread by Glenn Greenwald highlighted by Twitchy.  Greenwald points out that some of the same outlets flogging the the dossier were also confident that a vaccine by the end of the year was a pipe dream.  Stop and enjoy the smug condescension in this first clip from MSNBC:  [Video clip]

When Journalism started to die.  Some conservatives may believe that the Fourth Estate lost its luster in the '90s and signed its integrity over to the Democrat Party, but the death throes came much earlier during the Vietnam War.  We lost over 58k casualties in that war and it is the only military conflict that we walked away from.  Yet the truth is that we never lost a major battle in Vietnam, even Barack Obama admitted that fact.  We lost the war over here, thanks to the fake news spread here by the most trusted man in America, Walter Cronkite. [...] Don't know much about his personal beliefs but he blatantly lied about the war and the Tet offensive.  Until Cronkite's public verdict that the 1968 Tet offensive was a "defeat" for the U.S. the majority of Americans supported our nation's involvement.  Cronkite falsely claimed that the Vietcong had held the American embassy for six hours and that the offensive "went on for two months."  The facts show that Tet was actually a major defeat for the communist enemy[.]

Frauds: The Election, Media, Congressional Dems, and the FBI.  The first of this week's two biggest stories was Friday evening's action by the Supreme Court refusing to hear the lawsuit brought by Texas and other states respecting the evident fraud in the balloting in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan. [...] The second most significant matter, in my view, was the clear gaslighting the media and former intelligence officials carried out on the Hunter Biden story, hiding the fact that he's been under criminal investigation since 2018 for bribery, tax evasion, and money laundering from, among other sources, China.  Drew Holden and Arthur Schwartz rounded up the evidence of this gaslighting.  That it was effective in its bad faith effort at keeping relevant information about Chinese bribery of the Biden family and their consummate corruption in time to affect the election is clear.  One survey reports that nearly 10% of those who voted for Biden in key states would not have had they known about this scandal which the major media deeply hid from them.

Video: TV Journalists Flat-Out Lying About Hunter Biden's Laptop.  For almost a week, liberal cable and broadcast networks have ignored the FBI saying it has "nothing to add" to DNI Ratcliffe's assessment that the alleged Hunter Biden laptop is not part of a Russian disinformation campaign.  Despite these statements from both Ratcliffe and the FBI, TV journalists continued to warn viewers that the entire story looks like a Russian intelligence op.  The media have been defending Biden and his son from the President's attacks for as long as Trump has been making them.  Just over a year ago, when allegations surfaced that Biden had interfered in Ukrainian politics for personal gain, journalists and reporters insisted tirelessly that there was "no evidence" that the former Vice President "had done anything wrong."  [Video clip]

Will Anyone Face Any Consequences For Gaslighting Americans On The Hunter Biden Story?  So now that it is overwhelmingly evident the New York Post's initial Hunter and Jim Biden story wasn't based on hacked material, wasn't Russian misinformation, is clearly something people deserved to know before voting, and that big tech and America's corporate media tried to make sure that didn't happen — and that once again rather than alter their behavior or ask for forgiveness, they're going to instead attempt to gaslight you about all of it — I have a number of questions.  First, when did Joe Biden first learn that his repeated claims the stories about his son and his brother were Fake News — or in his phrasing, debunked, smears, and the like — were in fact false?  When was he briefed on this exactly, and by whom?  And why, given that every effort was made to distance Hunter from the campaign, did the defensive announcement come from the Transition instead of just from Hunter himself if Joe, as he has always claimed, has nothing to do with this?

Here Are All The Times Joe Biden Falsely Claimed Stories About Hunter Were Debunked.  For months, former Vice President Joe Biden has vehemently denied that any evidence exists that his son, Hunter, was involved in criminal activity or wrongdoing.  These denials now look like dishonesty after the Biden-Harris transition team released a statement Wednesday [12/9/2020] acknowledging that Hunter is indeed under investigation by the Department of Justice for potential tax crimes.  "I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs," Hunter wrote in the statement.  This news, as Federalist Editor Mollie Hemingway pointed out, is not actually new and was reported before the election, but was purposefully suppressed by gatekeepers like Facebook, Twitter, and corporate media outlets who ignored the reporting on Hunter Biden's affairs.

How to Steal an Entire Country.  Investigations and impeachments have been blasted forcefully into our faces for years, thanks to the author of the MSM's Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Joseph Goebbels, of Third Reich fame, who said, "The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly — it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. ... A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth." It appears he also wrote the SOPs for Facebook, one of which is clearly "propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will."  Now, all across the MSM, Biden's "victory" consequences are given the fait accompli treatment.  We should all just behave and accept reality.  It sounds and reads like this:  "Trump is baselessly contesting the results."  "Trump campaign court cases have been thrown out due to baseless claims."  All the "doing" is from the Trump side, and it's wasting everyone's time.  The Democrats haven't done a thing, obviously.  They are the innocent victims, once again, of Trump's craziness.  "Meanwhile, President-Elect Biden saw his shadow again today."  There is nothing baseless about what happened.

Setting the Stage for Revolution.  The 2020 election had a series of unprecedented results, any one of which would be a miracle.  For example, Trump increased his vote by 17% and lost, which has never happened in American history.  There was a 20% increase in the vote, something else that has never happened in electoral history.  Compounding all of this is the stunning dishonesty we are seeing.  The media lies so much that they have become worthless at news reporting.  Outside of sports scores, nothing they "report" can be accepted at face value.  In fact, the prudent way to consume American media now is to just assume what they are saying is false.  At least one possible option is eliminated as you guess at the truth.

Australian pundits not buying American media's mantra, call claims of no evidence or fraud 'a lie'.  President Donald Trump is getting some support for his claims of voter fraud from as far away as Australia.  Some members of the media in the land down under are openly challenging the premature crowning of Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election, accusing the press in the U.S. of "willfully" misleading the public with the "lie" that Trump has lost his reelection bid.

Did President Trump Spring a Trap on Treasonous Democrats on Election Night?  So certain were the complicit media of a win for Clinton that they predicted a 95% probability of her winning.  But the same blunder — born of Democrat arrogance and overconfidence from years of triumphant cheating — would not occur a second time in 2020.  The media would, during Trump's first term as president, embark on creating the illusion that the most popular president since Ronald Reagan was actually reviled.  This Big Lie would be endlessly repeated, in hopes of making enough people believe a loss to Biden was in the cards for Trump.

Media Childishly Dismissive of Gettysburg Vote Fraud Hearing.  The mainstream media, rather than cover in any real detail the serious allegations of voting fraud that were presented at a Gettysburg hearing of the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee on Wednesday, instead mocked and dismissed the event.  CNN made no effort to hide its extreme bias over the hearing in its headline which described it as a "baseless voter fraud event," "Trump invites Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers to White House after calling in to baseless voter fraud event."  In addition, the story put "hearing" in quotes so as to present it as somehow not a real hearing.

Don't Give an Inch.  For five years, the Democratic party and their allies in the corporate media, the coddled government bureaucracies, and the Big Tech platforms have fought Trump with every weapon at their disposal.  They uncritically and feverishly repeated every deranged theory that Trump was really a Russian asset operating as Putin's Manchurian candidate, and then cheered on his impeachment for it. [...] Media outlets that breathlessly ran with a fake story about Trump killing an entire pond of koi fish refused to cover the violent riots that broke out across the country this summer.  They stood in front of buildings that were literally on fire, claiming the protests were "fiery, but mostly peaceful."  They told us that border walls don't stop illegal immigration, riots don't spread COVID-19 (but schools and church services do), and Joe Biden would win in a landslide.

'Antifa:  Rise of the Black Flags' Shows the Chaos, Anarchy Hatched by an 'Idea'.  Director David Lugo has a warning for the mainstream media.  Citizen journalists are coming, ready to counter the false narratives peddled by the press.  In a way, Lugo is part of that movement.  His new film, "Antifa:  Rise of the Black Flags," captures the threats posed by what one presidential candidate flippantly called an "idea."  That "idea" has trashed cities across the country, and there's little indication Antifa will stand down in 2021.  [Video clip]

Why is challenging suspicious election results 'a threat to our democracy'?  On Thursday, President Trump's legal team presented many pieces of information about the election that deserve to be investigated.  But the media have no interest in that.  Instead, they essentially black out the news and ask Trump to concede so they can crown their chosen king.  Worst of all, they continue to falsely claim there is no evidence of fraud.  The New York Times and others have written about the potential fraud on universal mail-in ballots in the past, as have other outlets, but now they call Trump a liar.  The media outlets know that rules were changed to make verification of mail-in ballots less verifiable, but they don't care.

Flat Out TDS: Media Is Already Trying to Erase Trump Being President.  News broke yesterday [11/20/2020] that President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump, Jr. had tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.  Now most normal people on both sides of the aisle would wish him well, perhaps even telling the president they wished his son well.  Not so much Yahoo.  Here's the headline from the Yahoo article about the news:  Former reality TV show host's son tests positive for COVID-19.  Yes, that's how they're now trying to describe President Donald Trump.  They're so incapable of accepting the reality they can't even put it in a headline and they're hoping to obliterate his presidency simply by obstinacy.

Democrats And Media Are Reaping Fruit Of 4 Years Of Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theories.  A prominent liberal legal academic who spent the last four years pushing outrageous, discredited, and debunked conspiracy theories about Donald Trump stealing the 2016 election said on Fox News Sunday that refusal to accept the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election threatens the country.  "He is undermining democracy because there are millions of people who will believe him even though there is nothing to his arguments and no evidence to back them," Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe said of President Trump's litigation regarding the November election. [...] Tribe began pushing the Russia collusion theory on July 25, 2016, well after the Hillary Clinton campaign had secretly developed and begun running its "Russia collusion" campaign operation, but before the FBI had started its Crossfire Hurricane investigation.  "I'm not into conspiracy," he wrote, before suggesting Russian oligarchs had compromised Trump with business deals and made him develop a foreign policy that U.S. allies should be responsible for more of their own anti-Russian defense budgets.  A follow-up tweet said Trump was hiding his tax returns in order to hide his business relationship with Vladimir Putin.  By July 28, 2016, Tribe was wondering if Trump had committed the capital crime of "treason."  By July 29, 2016, he was proposing wringing Trump on charges of violating the Logan Act.  On October 17, 2016, he began suggesting Trump had rigged the election against Clinton.

A Vegas oddsmaker's take on Fox News and the election grift.  [Scroll down]  At that point, something very weird occurred.  It didn't happen at CNN or MSNBC, it happened at Fox News.  You all remember that Fox refused to call Florida, Ohio, or Texas for Trump, even though Trump was miles ahead in those three states.  Additionally, even though Trump was also significantly ahead in Virginia, Fox nevertheless called the state for Biden.  But that wasn't the worst: ["]And then it happened.  It was the most bizarre call in Election Night history.  Fox News called Arizona for Biden.  Why?  It wasn't even close to over.  There was no reason on earth to make that call.  Arizona is STILL not over 8 days later.  CNN still hasn't awarded Arizona.  ABC pulled it back from Biden only 24 hours ago.["]

There is evidence, actually.  The media has been claiming since the election ended that President Trump's claims of voter fraud are 'baseless' and 'without evidence'.  That just is not true.  The President's lawyer gave examples of it during today's press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington DC.  But everyone is too busy mocking him to pay attention.  I tried to listen to what Giuliani actually said and not what he looked like or the characterization of him by the rest of the media.  The cameras started feverishly clicking the first time he wiped the sweat from his face, all but guaranteeing that would be the focus of the presser.  Giuliani did in fact present evidence of voter fraud today but many people simply didn't want to hear it.  He cited multiple Americans, one by name, who have signed sworn affidavits stating that they witness some type of fraud, whether it was pro-Trump ballots being thrown out without cause, ballots being backdated to before the election, poll workers being told not to ask voters for identification, and more.

Vainglory of the Press.  Of all the claims that have been made in this election, the most astounding is the idea that the proper authority to certify the winner — and dispose of all objections — is the press.  That would be the same press that proved to be so inaccurate in respect of what would happen in the past two elections.  It is now in high dudgeon over the fact that millions of Americans lack for confidence in its decision to call the race for Mr. Biden.  What vainglory.  "Day by day," the Washington Post editorializes this morning, "President Trump's efforts to overturn the results of a free and fair election grow more brazen." Notice the en passant nature of its reference to the election being free and fair.  It dasn't acknowledge even a possibility that determining the freeness and fairness of the blasted election is the point of all the challenges and litigation.

Chaos and Anarchy in DC.  In case you missed it, over the weekend tens of thousands of protesters marched in the District of Columbia to voice their support of the president and opposition to voter fraud.  The "Million MAGA March," held Saturday afternoon, was a peaceful event.  But as the sun went down and the pro-Trump demonstrators left the protest, violent agitators and counterprotesters emerged and descended upon them to harass and, in many cases, to commit violence.  [Seven video clips]  Police arrested 21 people in connection to the violence, according to NBC Washington.  NBC Washington described some of the various charges of the suspects in this maelstrom, which included disorderly conduct and assault.  Though many local outlets covered these incidents extensively, the story gathered little attention from national media.  One would think that widespread violent attacks on peaceful protesters expressing their First Amendment rights would elicit a strong response from journalists.  But coverage was both lukewarm and deceptive, portraying the incident as if it was Trump supporters who were the originators of the violent behavior.

The press conference the media mocked, derided, and refused to cover.  I watched the news conference Thursday conducted by President Trump's campaign attorneys, and later visited the websites of the major networks to see what their interpretation of the bombshell would be.  CNN said they wouldn't even air the news conference because it was 'so bananas' and 'full of BS.'  Yes, really.  MSNBC linked to a Chuck Todd commentary saying:  "This has been a bonkers press conference."  ABC linked to this headline:  "Promising more lawsuits, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani recycles debunked claims."  CBS News, at 9:32 p.m., had no mention of the news conference at all.  NBC News put out:  "Rudy Giuliani baselessly alleges 'centralized' voter fraud at free-wheeling news conference."  Fox News's Kristin Fisher blatantly called Giuliani a liar.

'We no longer have' an 'honest press'.  Imagine if Joe Biden had enjoyed a healthy lead on election night only to see it evaporate as the numbers dripped in from Republican strongholds.  Does anyone believe the mainstream media would have rushed to anoint Donald Trump the winner?  Would the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR and other outlets have cast the inevitable Democrat demands for ballot reviews and recounts as a constitutional crisis or would they have run wall-to-wall coverage about the inherent problems associated with mail-in ballots?

Red Flags in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  The mainstream media continues to pitch the idea that the November 3 presidential election was free and fair.  Yet the numbers just don't add up.  Looking closely at outcomes in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin, certain "red flag" patterns emerge.  First, both states experienced an anomalous 89% voter turnout, a number between 14 and 22 points higher than the turnout in the 2016 General Election.  Secondly, both states had a surprisingly high number of ballots that were not completely filled out with a large portion of incomplete ballots either cast for Biden but not for a U.S. House Democrat (95% in Minnesota; 57% in Wisconsin) or a disproportionately high number of incomplete ballots cast for a US House Republican but not for Trump (43% in Wisconsin).

Contesting Election Results in Court Isn't the End of Democracy.  Quite the Opposite.  Is a disputed presidential election the end of democracy as we know it?  That's what many pundits and members of the legacy media are claiming as President Donald Trump has challenged election results in a number of states — both legally and rhetorically.  It seems that much of the media hivemind now insists that voter fraud never happens, that it's equally impossible for an election to be stolen or tainted in any way, and that going a few weeks with two rival candidates both declaring victory (including one they really don't like) means we are witnessing the end of America as a free country.  It's amazing that this is the case after countless Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, insisted that Trump colluded with Russians to steal the 2016 election, a story that most major media outlets ran with for years without providing any hard evidence.

Mainstream Media United in Forcing 'President-Elect' Biden Down Your Throat.  Some skepticism is called for when the mainstream media are so uniformly in agreement about anything, let alone about a hotly disputed presidential election.  "President-elect" is the legal term for the person with 270 or more votes cast in the Electoral College, which doesn't even meet this year to cast those votes until Dec. 14, a month in the future.  Then, and only then, will we have a "president-elect."  And maybe not even then if the investigations of corruption in several states haven't concluded and hold up certifying state election results.  So, at least until then, the correct term for Joe Biden is not "president-elect," despite the mainstream media gratuitously hanging that title on him.

Disgraced Fox News Retracts False House Race Projection — 8 Days Later!  Obviously, the biggest Election Day loser will either be President Trump or Joe Biden, depending on who ultimately wins the presidential election, and the second biggest loser will be congressional Democrats, who lost seats in the House and failed to retake the Senate majority, but another major loser — without any question — is disgraced Fox News.  The bottom is falling out of Fox's reputation, and there are reports that the once-respected outlet is suffering in the ratings.  None of this should surprise anyone, especially with the countless botched calls and outright lies still being uncovered during the dumpster fire that was Fox's Election Night coverage.

Time to cut the cord on media's Trump bashing.  [Scroll down]  Here's a few other things that are bugging me:  A pablum-puking MSNBC "historian" who swoons over how great Joe Biden's speeches are, and then it turns out he's been writing them. [...] Any Democrat who doesn't put air quotes around "glitches" anytime he or she mentions one fraud or another.  Any alleged pundit who says President-Select (as opposed to Elect) Joe Biden faces the greatest challenges of any president since the Civil War.  (Too many to list.)  Anyone who compares Dementia Joe to FDR. [...] Anyone on TV who spent the last four years screaming "Russia!  Russia!  Russia!" who is now saying that anyone who has doubts about the election is not "patriotic."  Anyone who says that all reports of ballot fraud have been "debunked."  Anyone who says that the "adults" are now going to be in charge.  Anyone who mentions the potential of a "coup," without acknowledging what the four-year-long Russia-Russia-Russia hoax was.

Every MSM Outlet:  Postal Voting Fraud Whistleblower Recants!  Whistleblower:  No I Didn't!  We've reached the point in the post-election cycle where the mainstream media is so desperate to make Democrats' election fraud for Joe Biden stick that they're not just ignore election fraud stories, they're outright lying about them.  Take for example the recent news story of a U.S. postal worker whistleblower Richard Hopkins recanting his accusations of being instructed to backdate ballots.  Just one tiny little flaw in the story:  he did no such thing.

Extortion Day.  In the days preceding last week's election, the downtown corridors of many American cities resembled coastal hurricane zones.  Business owners boarded up their stores, fearing that the election might unleash another wave of destructive rioting.  In Washington, D.C., luxury shops and office complexes constructed fortifications with boards, chains, fences, and barriers.  In the neighborhood surrounding the White House, the Secret Service, laborers, and left-wing protesters all prepared for Election Night.  Then something miraculous happened.  The following morning, as the election returns began to favor former vice president Joe Biden, the fences, boards, and chains came down.  Small business owners reopened their shops, and the anticipation of violence evaporated.  The national media, which had been stoking fears about Proud Boys and white supremacists flooding the cities with political violence, simply dropped the story — as if it had never been a story.

Don't Give an Inch.  For five years, the Democratic party and their allies in the corporate media, the coddled government bureaucracies, and the Big Tech platforms have fought Trump with every weapon at their disposal.  They uncritically and feverishly repeated every deranged theory that Trump was really a Russian asset operating as Putin's Manchurian candidate, and then cheered on his impeachment for it.  An FBI lawyer altered evidence to spy on a U.S. citizen while texting "viva la resistance" to his colleagues.  When, less than a month before the election, Facebook and Twitter outright banned the circulation of a New York Post story involving corruption in the Biden family, media outlets happily did the same.  The New York Times accused Trump of faking his post-COVID White House appearance with a green screen and using secret Twitter code to activate right-wing extremists.  CNN is now settling libel suits for its role in instigating a vicious social media campaign and physical threats against a Catholic high school kid — all for the crime of wearing a MAGA hat.  Media outlets that breathlessly ran with a fake story about Trump killing an entire pond of koi fish refused to cover the violent riots that broke out across the country this summer.  They stood in front of buildings that were literally on fire, claiming the protests were "fiery, but mostly peaceful."  They told us that border walls don't stop illegal immigration, riots don't spread COVID-19 (but schools and church services do), and Joe Biden would win in a landslide.

New York Times' Kevin Roose Calls Accurate Stories About Election Integrity Fight 'Misinformation'.  In a sign of things to come from the blacklisters in the corporate media, New York Times' tech writer Kevin Roose attacked Facebook for allowing stories that are 100 percent accurate to rise to "the 10 most-engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours."  "Facebook is absolutely teeming with right-wing misinformation right now.  These are all among the 10 most-engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours," the far-left propagandist tweeted from his verified account on Monday [11/9/2020]. [...] All four of those stories are news stories.  All four of those stores are reporting on events that actually happened.  All four of those stories are informing readers of what is going on.  A Republican in Michigan did win an election after a glitch was found.  That's a fact.  That happened.  Attorney General Barr did authorize his staff to look at voting irregularities.  That's a fact.  That happened.  The Michigan legislature did hold an emergency session about election irregularities.  That's a fact.  That happened.  Both of Georgia's Republican U.S. Senate candidates — Loeffler and Perdue — did call on Georgia's secretary of state to resign.  That's a fact.  That happened.

Voter Fraud Plus Bait-and-Switch Equals Tyranny.  [Scroll down]  Biden was simply the front man, and he knew pollsters would rig the numbers to show him with a massive lead.  The establishment media confirmed they had learned nothing.  Fox News polls were among the worst and on election night, as Kimball noted, Fox refused to call Florida for Trump even after he had won the state.  They called Arizona for Biden when it still in play, with lines at the polls.  Two days after the election, Fox refused to call Alaska and other states for Trump, even though the president's win was clear.

The Darkness Where Democracy Dies.  [Scroll down]  President Trump brokered real peace between Israel and an ever-expanding list of long-hostile Arab nations that so far includes UAE, Sudan, and Bahrain.  The press ignored it or disparaged it, so the people are in the dark about it.  American cities have been devastated by riots that the media called "mostly peaceful protests."  Millions of Americans don't know the extent of what happened or were poisoned with regard to interpretation of those tragic events.  For three years, the Deep State and the media propagated a complete fabrication known as Trump/Russia Collusion.  No evidence was found for it.  It never happened.  Yet they still report that it did.  Today, nearly half the country believes it happened.  That is known as propaganda, which is very dark.  Tony Bobulinski came forward with hard, credible evidence of Joe Biden's egregious corruption of American foreign policy for the purposes of enriching his family with laundered millions from China, Ukraine, and others.  Social media censored the story.  Incredibly, the entire MSM dismissed it as Russian disinformation.  The result is this:  a compromised man with regard to national security has been crowned president by the same media that kept the people in the dark.

Corrupt Media Desperate to Close the Books on Contested Election.  Joe Biden is not "president-elect."  Joe Biden has not won the 2020 presidential election.  Donald Trump's re-election has not been defeated.  Right now, Joe Biden is merely "ahead in the count" of enough states to win the presidency.  But this is a contested election and we have a long way to go, probably more than a month and a plethora of legal filings, before a winner is declared.  Per our own Constitution, there is only one institution legally entitled to declare a winner in a presidential election, and that's the Electoral College, which does not meet until the middle of December.  Only the Electoral College can dub someone "president-elect."  The fake news media, of course — the corporate media, the same corrupt media that told us to be patient if Election Day lasted weeks, now want us to forget all that, want to close the book on the election before it has been audited, want us to believe unelected liars who sit in anchor chairs have the legal authority to declare Joe Biden "president elect."

'Since when did the Lamestream Media decide who the President is?' Trump doubles down on refusing to concede.  President Donald Trump pushed out more unsubstantiated claims that the election was stolen by firing off a series of angry tweets Sunday, even as the vote count continued to move against him and Joe Biden shifted into transition mode.  The tweet from Trump came more than an hour after George W. Bush issued a message telling him the election's outcome was 'clear' and that it was held with 'fairness and integrity' and Chris Christie, one of the president's most prominent allies, said it was time for him to show evidence or 'move on.'  With his political options narrowing and his hold on power becoming more tenuous by the hour, Trump also blasted the media for getting to 'call' who will be the next president.

Why Hasn't Fox News Retracted Its Wrong Call on the House?  Despite what Fox News might think, this election — as it drags ever closer to unreality — is not decided by Fox News.  On Election Night, Fox News Channel's decision desk "called the House," saying Democrats would gain five seats.  This happened while Californians were still voting.  Why does that matter?  Because there are four districts in California that Democrats won from Republicans in 2018 and which Republicans were trying to retake.  They are likely to win at least three of them.  In all, a source close to House Republican leadership says the GOP is likely to go into the next Congress with between 210 and 214 seats.  That means they gained 11-14 seats and substantially trimmed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's majority.  Fox News could not have been more wrong, but they still have not retracted their very wrong, very badly timed call.

Saturday's Media Declaration Is A Naked Attempt To Silence Republicans, And Nothing Has Changed.  Nothing has changed since Friday night.  You might find that strange, given the media stampede to certify the election results for their man, but it's crucial.  The calls made Saturday morning are as arbitrary as they were last Tuesday, could just as easily have waited for Monday, and fly in the face of massive evidence of voter irregularities that, at minimum, should be heard in court before anyone considers calling the election.  Add pending lawsuits and official recounts in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin, and the conclusion is an attempt by the American media to pick our president and decide our election.  The danger comes now, when in concert with Silicon Valley censors they use their own decree to dismiss and silence anyone who says otherwise.

Media Declares Joe Biden Winner of 2020 Election.  The strategy of using of mail-in ballots to structurally steal the 2020 election predictably contained an inevitable series of events to support it.  The media's preemptive declaration of a Biden victory is one cascading domino in that very predictable sequence.  The media effort is to build a wave narrative strong and heavy enough to block any sunlight upon the fraud perpetrated by regional election officials.  The statistical improbability of the U.S. election outcome are glaring; there are hundreds of examples that just don't make sense.  Thus the need for the media narrative becomes more important.  Perhaps the most unnerving aspect to this election fraud is knowing that Joe Biden is merely a puppet for a group of political and deep state interests; the Milli Vanilli candidate with a giggling high-school-minded VP.

Newsmax rises, Fox falls.  Fox won Election Night bigly.  Their 14 million viewer [ratings] were yuge.  Then the network began showing its RINO side, and then its liberal side.  WTMA reported, "Conservatives ditched Fox News for Newsmax TV's election coverage in droves.  On Election Night, celebrities, political pundits in the White House, and staunch Fox fans tuned into Newsmax TV to get their election news, more proof of the meteoric rise in popularity of Newsmax TV.  "Many began flipping the channel after Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden.  According to Newsweek, Fox was the only network at the time to show the state going to Biden.  Newsmax was the first major news network to project Florida for Trump."  Fox went downhill when the Family Murdoch kicked Roger Ailes to the curb.

Time for Fox News to climb out of the hole it's dug.  Fox News was early in predicting that Arizona would go for Biden, even though the people at the network knew that the most Republican county in the state was not yet counted.  When they saw Trump's lead in Georgia dwindle to nothing, they reported it as though it were the weather.  When they heard Trump's claims of voter fraud, they found "experts" to proclaim that Trump had no evidence.  I credit Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham for daring to bring up the subject.  Is there evidence of voter fraud?  A postal worker reports that his boss wanted him to backdate postmarks in Michigan.  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court legislated election procedure changes in the last few months.  Some ballots were found literally hiding under a rock in Arizona.  In all, thousands of votes were illegally cast.  This means that there are thousands of criminals on the loose.  This apparently does not count as evidence.

Cutting the Cable News Cord.  Having worked a significant portion of my life as a news reporter and editor, journalism will always be in my blood.  I crave news and information like some crave chocolate.  That will likely never change.  What will change is where I get that news and information.  While there are many reasons which factored into my decision, the final proverbial straw came when Fox News continued to deny any "credible evidence" of election/voter fraud.  Such declarations were often delivered by anchors with a sneer and a smirk.  With social media and big tech-monopolies banning and censoring evidence of verifiable election fraud, even Fox News likely feels safe in perpetuating the "nothing to see here" lie.  The problem for these censoring overlords and truth-deniers is that election fraud is, in fact, taking place.  When dead people somehow rise from the grave to vote, that is election fraud.  When people who are not legally permitted by law to vote somehow manage to do so, there is election fraud.  When states defy court orders and violate the law by refusing to allow one party access to vote counting, that is election fraud.  When statistically impossible ballot percentages magically appear in the dead of night, election fraud is likely the cause.  When thumb-drives miraculously appear from thin air, election fraud possibilities should, at the very least, be investigated.  One need not be a legal scholar to comprehend what election/voter fraud is.

Media Calls the Race For Joe Biden But Is it Really Over?  The television networks have called the 2020 presidential election, announcing Joe Biden as the winner in Pennsylvania — giving him, in theory, enough electoral college votes to become the next president.  But is it over?  Election officials have yet to call the win, and the Trump campaign has several legal challenges in play.  Networks rushed to the airwaves to announce that Biden had taken the 20 electoral votes in PA less than 15 minutes before Trump's legal team was to hold a press conference in Philadelphia, PA.  Trump campaign attorneys represented by Rudy Giuliani spoke about irregularities in the voting and ballot-counting process.  Leftist media outlets immediately launched sensationalized headlines such as "You're Fired" but the president vowed in a statement that the fight is not yet over.

The Democrats' Chickens Come Home to Roost.  The majority of Americans do not trust the mainstream left-wing media.  Four years of hatchet jobs, defamation, character assassinations, and such leave Independents, no less than conservatives, unable to believe ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.  For those few who still cling to their doubts but hopes about media credibility, the nonsensical polls sealed the deal.  Only die-hards on the left now believe Jake Tapper or Rachel Maddow or their ilk.

Media gaslights GOP voters with false attributions to Republicans supposedly 'rebuking' Trump.  Major media outlets have begun to gaslight GOP voters in the wake of a contentious and still unsettled election using false or misleading claims attributed to Republicans who are supposedly rebuking President Donald Trump.  The UK's Daily Mail, for instance, published a story under a lengthy headline that is blatantly false:  "Mitch McConnell says EVERY vote must be counted in a veiled rebuke to Trump — as GOP's Pennsylvania senator calls president's conspiracy-theory rant 'hard to watch' and says there is NO large scale fraud."  "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ignored President Donald Trump's wild claims of widespread election fraud, sending out a sober tweet Friday morning," the lead paragraph claimed.  But the very next paragraph — which is a quote from McConnell himself — directly refutes what was just claimed.

Vote Against the DC and Manhattan Media Elite.  [Scroll down]  From Election Day 2016, the mainstream media originating from Manhattan and Washington, DC, have thrown off the shackles of objectivity and re-envisioned their role in the American political conversation.  From The New York Times to the Washington Post to all the network newsrooms to MSNBC and the once-respected CNN, the fourth estate has revealed itself as a fifth column.  They've stopped pretending to report the facts.  They've become the voice of the resistance, and they've aligned their resources, talents and waning influence for one objective:  To end the Trump presidency.  First, they tried to undermine his inauguration by publishing the phony "Steele dossier" days before his swearing-in.  The narrative to the American people was to plant the seed that our new president was a traitor and puppet of the Russian government.  It was a complete lie.  But the damage was done.  It led to the anonymous leaks that suggested Trump was trying to stop an investigation into his campaign.

The Mainstream Media's COVID Cover-up Continues.  The mainstream media's double standard when it comes to accuracy is undeniable to anyone with a shred of integrity.  For stories that favor the Left or damage the Right, the bar couldn't be lower.  For stories that are vice-versa, however, the media's scrutiny has no end.  We've seen the phenomenon ad nauseam for years now, but its frequency and impact has reached a critical level.  We saw it with Christine Blasey Ford and her uncorroborated accusations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh that were willingly regurgitated by Democrats and their media.  We see it currently with the unfolding scandal involving Hunter Biden, as the media scoffs at its legitimacy in spite of the validated authenticity of the emails that kick-started the whole hubbub.  There is arguably no story, however, where the media's duplicity is more evident and more detrimental than what we've seen regarding their reporting on COVID-19.

Will the Mainstream Media Disappear a Trump Election Victory?  Entrepreneur and Dilbert-creator Scott Adams has put forth an intriguing possibility about the election outcome.  Even if President Donald Trump wins re-election, the mainstream media may attempt to undo the election by reporting that he lost.  The half of the country that lives inside the media misinformation bubble may believe this, and it may instigate a period of instability and uncertainty.  Before Trump, anyone who said anything like what Adams has proposed as a possibility would be deemed a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist, and with good reason.  But during Trump's presidency, the mainstream media have disregarded the truth, to the point where they openly tell lies that half the country immediately recognizes as disinformation.

The real story behind the New York Times's big 'anonymous' op-ed is exceptionally sleazy.  Indeed, based on what we know now, everyone involved in this sad episode comes across as remarkably unethical, most especially the op-ed's author, former Department of Homeland Security employee Miles Taylor.  For starters, Taylor and the New York Times grossly exaggerated his credentials as a "senior" member of the Trump administration.  Taylor served as a "Deputy Chief of Staff" at the time he submitted his op-ed to the paper.  He did not hold the position of chief of staff until later.  Yet, the New York Times billed him anyway as a "senior official in the Trump administration," an overblown descriptor that Taylor himself made no effort to correct.

Yes, [the] Media Are Rigging [the] Election Against Half The Country.  Here's How.  This week saw the news that the supposedly high-ranking "Anonymous" government official that published a 2018 New York Times op-ed about secretly undermining a president he personally disagreed with was in fact a 30-year-old mid-level bureaucrat nobody had ever heard of.  The fake narrative that the New York Times knowingly promulgated roiled the administration for months, if not years, as high-level cabinet officials took turns denying that they were secretly and unconstitutionally undermining the elected president of the United States.  Miles Taylor was the Homeland Security Department policy analyst who turned out to have written the op-ed and a best-selling book about how he and other Resistance members put their personal political preferences over the ones chosen by the voting populace when they elected Trump president.  That little op-ed was nothing compared to the preposterously false Russia collusion hoax that the media promulgated for years thanks to dubious and selective leaks from politically motivated sources.

Facts Matter:  Trump's Real Record on Race.  Whether it's Chris Wallace, or Savannah Guthrie, or Jim Acosta, some other loudmouth reporter screaming the "denounce" demand as the President walks by, this demand, premised upon a lie, gets repeated ad nauseam by dishonest journalists.  Their purpose is to create a false impression that Trump has done something, or said something in the past, that makes him a "racist."  But nothing could be further from the truth.  The president's record shows something quite the opposite of the insinuations shouted by the Trump-hating members of the liberal media.  In fact, the president's record, over time, pictures a man with a huge heart and great compassion and love for the African-American community in the United States.

Leslie Stahl's Behavior in that Trump 60 Minutes Interview Got Even Dumber.  60 Minutes is really, really mad.  As Kira Davis and Nick Arama both covered yesterday, Trump preemptively released the interview to counter the selective editing and narrative pushing Leslie Stahl, the interviewer, and company were looking do.  Initially, anonymous claims were made to major networks that Trump had "stormed out."  The President's video shows that was false.  Then you got idiocy like this, where Stahl insists that the Hunter Biden emails shouldn't be reported on because they "can't be verified." Ignoring the fact that the media report on all manner of unverified gossip when it's anti-Trump, Stahl's excuse is also nonsensical, as the emails have been verified in multiple ways.

Media's Uphill Battle to Create a Self-Fulfilling Election Prophecy.  The media effort in 2020 is indeed very similar to 2016 in that current narratives are a psychological effort to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Baseline 101: Everyone naturally wants to be on the winning team.  The media effort, and that means all media including social media and big tech, is to push down Trump support and elevate the appearance of Biden support.  I really wish people would deeply consider this. [...] Everything you are witnessing right now is about psychological control to create the false illusion of reality within your own mind.  Essentially, professional media gaslighting with an agenda and purpose.  This is not a conspiracy theory, those who are coordinating the effort have admitted exactly what they are doing.

'Struggling' bar owner in Biden ad is wealthy investor who supported lockdowns.  A Michigan music venue owner featured in a Joe Biden ad campaign lamenting his struggles to survive during coronavirus restrictions is actually a wealthy tech investor — who supported local lockdowns, according to reports.  Joe Malcoun was featured in the heart-tugging Biden ad that aired during NFL games Sunday complaining about the chances of his Ann Arbor bar and music venue, the Blind Pig, surviving the pandemic. [...] The ad suggested Malcoun's future and his family were at risk, but made no mention of the bar owner's numerous other businesses as a wealthy "angel investor" in tech companies.  Malcoun admitted in a 2018 interview with Click On Detroit that he made his start thanks to a huge inheritance from his wife's grandfather, a real estate investor, that he admitted was "almost like winning the lottery."  It soon made him "the go-to guy when it came to seeking investments," the local news outlet said, helping companies raise millions.

Biden's Big Media Malarkey Machine.  If you believe the media, Joe Biden is heading toward a landslide of such historic proportions that even Texas may tip into the Democrat's column.  Of course, no intelligent person actually believes this, but the propaganda organs of our national media are so devoted to Team Joe that the possibility of turning Texas "blue" continues to be the subject of allegedly serious reporting.  A well-informed source in Texas tells me GOP internal polls show a tighter-than-usual contest there, and Democrats are bombarding young Texans with get-out-the-vote text messages, but this is a state Trump won with a comfortable margin of more than 800,000 votes in 2016.  Nevertheless, the media are dreaming the impossible dream.

5 Other Things We'll Learn About Biden After The Election.  [#3] The economy has been doing much better than the public had been led to believe.  Back in 1996, when George H.W. Bush was running for reelection, the press treated the economy as though it were in another depression, which just so happened to coincide with Bill Clinton's campaign messaging.  As soon as the election was over, coverage of the economy suddenly became more upbeat, and the public learned that the very mild recession had ended way back in March 1991.

What the MSM TV coverage doesn't show you at a Biden Potemkin rally.  Mainstream media coverage of Joe Biden's campaign rallies depicts a false façade, giving an impression of a normal political event.  But the reality is as phony as the façades of prosperous villages that Catherine The Great's political advisor (and lover) Grigori Potemkin erected for her to view from her imperial barge, masking the misery of her subjects.  Potemkin today is remembered chiefly for the expression "Potemkin village," defined as "an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition."  (Check the link quickly before Merriam-Webster changes the definition to conform with the political interests of the Democrats.)  A hilarious Twitter video has survived the "fact checkers" at the social media giant (for now), panning from away the podium to show the handful of people — apparenlty, mostly media — standing around and sorta watching Biden's bizarrely impassioned speech to a parking lot in Novi, Michigan (a Detroit suburb) last Friday, [...]

Steve Scully suspended indefinitely by C-SPAN for lying about his Twitter account being hacked.  The man who was to have moderated a town hall-style debate tonight between President Trump and ex-VP Biden has been suspended from his job as C-SPAN's political editor after admitting to lying about his Twitter account being hacked. [...] Scully had asked Trump-hater Scaramucci for advice on dealing with Trump's criticism of him as a NeverTrumper.  By lying and claiming that his account was hacked (the third time he made such a claim) Scully opened Pandora's Box, with his employer, the Commission of Presidential Debates, and the FBI announcing investigations.  He likely concluded that his lie was going to be exposed and may have feared legal consequences if an FBI investigation came to that conclusion.

C-SPAN's Steve Scully suspended after admitting to lying about Twitter hack.  C-SPAN suspended political editor Steve Scully indefinitely on Thursday [10/15/2020] after he confessed to lying about his Twitter account being hacked following an exchange with former White House aide-turned President Trump critic Anthony Scaramucci.  Scully was slated to moderate the second presidential debate between Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden scheduled for Thursday night.  The Commission on Presidential Debates canceled the event Friday after the president declined to do the debate virtually after testing positive for COVID-19.  C-SPAN announced last week it was conducting an investigation into the alleged hack.

AP Forced to Issue Correction For Using Democrat Language on Court-Packing.  Last week, the AP Stylebook was amended to discourage the use of the word "riot" to describe violent protests.  Because, you know, they were "mostly peaceful protests."  Or something.  And now, this:  Although at least this time, they were forced to retract their biased shenanigans.

Associated Press goes full Orwell, calling 'packing' of SCOTUS 'court reform'.  It is obvious from Joe Biden telling voters that they don't deserve to know if he plans to pack the Supreme Court that he and his handlers are terrified of a negative voter reaction to the plan.  Biden's remarkably stupid comment came in response to a reporter's question at an interview where no teleprompter guidance was feasible. [...]

Not Making Headlines:  Alleged "Right-wing" Militia Member Arrested for Plot Against Gov. Whitmer Was Black Lives Matter Protester and Sympathizer.  On Thursday [10/8/2020] the FBI announced during a press conference that it thwarted a plot by a so-called "right-wing militia" to kidnap and kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and overthrow the state government.  Early Thursday morning, federal agencies raided a house in Hartland, Michigan and arrested six men:  Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta.  Whitmer immediately blamed the plot on President Trump telling the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by."  "Hate groups heard the president's words as a rallying cry, as a call to action," Whitmer said blaming white supremacists.  It turns out Brandon Caserta, one of anarchists who was arrested for plotting to kidnap Whitmer, actually hates President Trump and is on video calling Trump a "tyrant."

Turns Out the Folks Behind the Whitmer Plot Aren't Who Dems and Media Are Painting Them As.  The FBI did a good job taking down the group and it sounded like a serious danger to Whitmer if they did what they are alleged to have done, so it's good they got them.  But when Whitmer sounded off about the plot, she immediately tried to falsely link the president and the Proud Boys to the event, neither of which had anything to do with it.  According to Whitmer, Trump had sent a "rallying cry" to "action."  Of course there were several problems with her assertions.  The Proud Boys are a different group, Trump has nothing to do with them and they aren't "white supremacists."  Further, turns out in checking out the folks behind the alleged plot, one of the alleged members, Brandon Caserta, would appear to be an anarchist.  Not only that, he's anti-Trump.

Gregg Jarrett lambastes the media as 'willing accessories to the Russia hoax'.  Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett believes that there will be troves of proof demonstrating government officials' egregious misconduct during the Russia collusion probe once all of the materials get declassified.  Jarrett told the "John Solomon Reports" podcast [...] that he thinks "when all of it is declassified there will be a mountain of damning, incriminating evidence about just how devious and corrupt these government officials were in the Russia hoax."

NBC Caught Again Manipulating Joe Biden Town Hall With Planted Audience and Advance Script.  The Washington Free Beacon has done a great job exposing the intentional and manipulative intents of NBC and Lester Holt during a recent town-hall event with presidential candidate Joe Biden.  At this point American media have become Pravda in their efforts to manipulate the outcome of the 2020 election.

Defending Trump from a Tornado of Liberal Lies.  The media's whitewashing of the riots is mind-boggling.  The words we use are important in accurately conveying a message; using words to sugarcoat reality is wrong.  The left is using the phrase "peaceful protests" to describe burning down cities and bludgeoning business-owners who guard their stores from the looters.  Commentators are earnestly lamenting the deprivations of poverty that supposedly are driving the poor to steal in order to be able to eat; actually, the visuals show footage of those stealing luxury items — everything from elite athletes' signature sneakers to big screen TVs — and partiers who are just grabbing whatever — frequently alcohol — for the bragging rights.  Then there are the serious analysts who are using the riots as a pretext to attack Trump.  And for what?  Blaming him for the failures of Democrat mayors and governors to maintain order because... Trump's hate-filled racist rhetoric caused the riots.  The rioters are obviously left-wingers, out-of-work students intoxicated by Marxist rhetoric and bored inner-city kids being manipulated in anarchy by Antifa.  All the talk about "white supremacy" groups is a smokescreen and an insult to the viewers who can see what is actually happening despite all of the gaslighting about "mostly peaceful protests."

Don't Believe Anything 'Sources' Say.  As every sentient person knows by now, our mainstream media and Big Tech platforms are limitlessly corrupt.  Almost nothing they say, report or interpret can be trusted.  They have become mouthpieces for the political Left, resonating bullhorns for the Democratic Party, the "social justice" insurgency, the feminist movement, domestic terrorists like Antifa and BLM, and the concerted effort to vilify and destroy the sitting American president.  A dead giveaway of their malignant agenda is the customary reliance on the "expert," the "insider," a someone-in-the-know code-named as "a source" or, more explicitly, "an unnamed source." The phenomenon is so ubiquitous that it scarcely needs even a jot of documentation.  Just pick up The New York Times or The Washington Post et al., scan any number of Internet sites, or watch CNN, MSNBC and the rest of that morbid crew, and you will meet the unnamed source at every turn.

America's Chris Wallace Problem.  [Chris] Wallace's dismal performance as moderator in Tuesday's [9/29/2020] presidential debate reminded many viewers of such previous instances in which the Fox News Sunday host has shown his prejudice against Trump.  And this matters, not only because of how that ugly televised carnival might affect the election, but because of what it tells us about the sad state of journalism in America. [...] Consider this question he aimed at President Trump:  "You have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out Antifa and other left-wing extremist groups, but are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities, as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland?"  Where is the evidence that "white supremacists and militia groups" were to blame for violence in Kenosha or Portland, Oregon?  Wallace's question was not only tendentious, but counterfactual.

Dear Chris Wallace:  We Were In Kenosha, And No, White Supremacists And Militias Didn't Cause Violence.  Ignoring for a moment that Trump's criticism of Joe Biden was absolutely warranted and that Wallace asked Trump to condemn white supremacists but did not ask Biden to condemn Black Lives Matter arsonists and looters, the question itself was specious.  The violence in Kenosha was spurred by left-wing extremist groups, not white supremacists.  We know — because we were there.  Kenosha was up in flames, reduced to the same lawlessness that swept Minneapolis, Portland, Atlanta, and now this small Midwest town.  Monday night in Kenosha, a day after law enforcement shot Jacob Blake, men and women stood with baseball bats and guns in front of their businesses and homes, trying to defend themselves against the extremist violence of the Black Lives Matter left.  Since there weren't enough police to control the situation, officers focused on defending public buildings, such as the courthouse, while leaving citizens to fend for themselves.

Chris Wallace Falsely Implies Trump Never Condemned White Supremacists.  CLAIM:  Debate moderator Chris Wallace implied that President Donald Trump never condemned white supremacists.  VERDICT:  FALSE.  President Trump has done so repeatedly, despite what Wallace — and Joe Biden — have suggested.  During the first presidential debate, Wallace challenged President Trump to condemn white supremacists.  It was an astonishingly ill-informed — and inflammatory — challenge, and repeated a lie that Biden has told frequently in the campaign.  Trump has condemned white supremacists repeatedly.

NYT Admits Trump Actually Paid Nearly $6 Million in Taxes in 2016 and 2017.  Trump PAID, as in transferred to the US Treasury, $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017.  Note also that most of the overpayment was rolled forward, not refunded.  The $750 figure is an ADDITIONAL $750.  Thus every single story saying he paid $750 is a lie.

NBC Warns 'Committed Conservative' Barrett 'Instantly Controversial'.  On Saturday evening [9/26/2020], shortly after President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, NBC Nightly News let the ideological labels fly as the nominee was repeatedly identified as a "conservative" who was popular with the "religious right" and "instantly controversial."  By contrast, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was never given any left-wing political label in the report. [...] In the report that followed, correspondent Hallie Jackson emphasized:  "From President Trump, a move to cement a more conservative Supreme Court for a generation."

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Where is the verb in that last sentence?  That's not English, it's Headline-ese.

Jill campaigns for husband Joe before an itty bitty crowd.  Sleepy Joe has taken a lot of days off this month.  The AP disingenuously calls it a "low-key campaign style" but admits it concerns some Democrats.  Biden made 12 visits outside of Delaware since August 12 and President Trump made 24 visits to 17 states.  The NY Times dishonestly claims that Slow Joe's inability to put sentences together is a "stutter."  Neither Joe nor Kamala Harris are answering many reporters' questions and when they do, the questions are softball.

Trump haters [are] gaslighting Trump supporters.  Everywhere you turn, Trump haters are venting their wrath against Trump supporters, as if supporting President Trump is an unforgivable sin.  They're projecting and gaslighting — blaming Trump and his supporters for everything they're doing.  It's madness, but at long last, they might have awakened the sleeping giant they're trying to hunt down and destroy.  MSNBC's Joy Reid tweeted, "Genuine question:  what will be the relationship between the majority of Americans, and Trumpists after this long, national nightmare ends — and it will eventually end — do people anticipate simply letting bygones (be) bygones with people who joined the Trump personality cult?"  What bygones?  Who's doing what to whom?  What are we Trump supporters doing to you Trump haters, Joy?  We are trying to mind our own business and stay safe.

Revolution 2020.  [Scroll down]  Suffice it to note that not a day in four years has gone by without the news media hyperventilating or ruminating on some allegation of Trump's wrongdoing or wrongbeing.  For what?  Again, the list of subjects is so exhaustive that it is easier to note that there is hardly any mortal transgression of which he has not been accused. [...] Nor has the media forgone any occasion to protect, foster, and embellish narratives in support of each and every member of the "intersectional" coalition and to shut out or denigrate alternatives thereto.  It labels as false and/or as "hate speech" facts and arguments that counteract its narratives.  Since the ruling class can be certain of the media's unquestioning support, it need not worry about truth.  For example, do physicians in America and around the world use hydroxychloroquine successfully against the COVID-19 virus?  Yes, correct — but banished as if it were false because it is politically incorrect.  Riots, arson, and looting are leading so many to relocate from America's major cities as to cause urban vacancies and a house-building boom in the country?  Fact.  But politically incorrect fact, indeed, racist.  Repeat: "mostly peaceful protests, mostly peaceful protests."

Harris — not Biden — is the real candidate.  It has been obvious for some time that Biden's cognitive state is on a level with the spider monkey.  He can't remember where he is or what he is running for.  He can't put together a coherent sentence.  His condition has become a running joke.  At his age, he would at best be a one-term president.  So why would a major party pin its hopes on such a man? [...] Enter Kamala Harris.  The media are pushing the argument that Harris is on the ticket because of pressure to choose a woman of color as Biden's running mate.  Note this report from NBC News:  "Add in Biden's age (77), and Harris could find herself in a unique position as vice president.  Instead of having to wait eight years for her shot, she could get it in the next election in 2024."  This is what the Democrats want us to believe.  As usual, it is a lie.  If they win, she won't have to wait at all.

To Rescue Biden, Media Conflate All Teleprompter Use.  At his Wisconsin rally last night, President Donald Trump continued to tease former Vice President Joe Biden for relying on a teleprompter when he answers queries from the media.  While teleprompter use is very common for politicians and others giving formal speeches, Biden is the first candidate to regularly use one outside of formal speeches, such as during press conferences.  During Biden's nearly 50 years in politics, his off-the-cuff remarks have gotten him in more than a bit of trouble, but the obvious teleprompter use is posing problems of its own.

Mostly Peaceful:  The Birth of an Excuse.  In late August, when riots erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin, CNN featured a reporter standing in front of a burning car lot above a chyron that read:  "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting."  The use of the chyron was striking in its peculiar earnestness, considering that the words "mostly peaceful protest" had long since become a bitter in-joke for right-leaning social media.  Indeed, from the moment the first protests began in late May, mainstream media outlets have downplayed or ignored instances of violence or destructive looting.  On May 29, MSNBC's Ali Velshi was reporting from Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd when he insisted he was seeing "mostly a protest" that "is not, generally speaking, unruly" despite the fact that he was literally standing in front of a burning building at the time.  Yet Velshi was hesitant to ascribe blame to the arsonists and looters.

Antifa and BLM, the Democrat party's stormtroopers.  Not surprisingly, taxpayer-funded NPR has supported the not "peaceful protests" for months.  They have been touting that ludicrous book that defends looting and the destruction of private property.  They regularly use Trump's words out of context.  NPR lost its way long before Trump was elected, but it has been enthusiastically dragged into the anti-Trump fray.  Why taxpayers are forced to subsidize this particular branch of the Democrat party is not a mystery; taxpayers are stooges.  Throughout these past months of violent looting, arson, death, and destruction, NPR, like the rest of the leftist media, has misled their viewers and insisted these riots were "mostly peaceful." They absolutely were not.  They have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, mostly to small businesses, many of them minority-owned.

The Trump Scandal Absorption Level Has Been Reached.  [Scroll down]  We're being lied to on a daily basis.  We're being manipulated by a minority that, without the media, would be invisible.  This minority is literally so small that if the media were not sponsoring them, we wouldn't see them.  Now, as you know, psychologically, this sufficient works.  A lot of people on our side think that we are outnumbered — and the truth is, not only are we not outnumbered, they're not even close to outnumbering us.  Despite how you feel, despite how it might look.  And I'm talking specifically about the Marxist radical leftist.  Not the usual liberal Democrats that we know are out there.  I'm talking about the Antifas and the Black Lives Matters.  They are nowhere near a majority of in this country.  They are a tiny minority, and we're being told by CNN and the New York Times every day that the country has now made the move to Marxism.

AG Barr Rips National Media as a 'Collection of Liars' Over Riot Coverage.  Wrapping up a three-day tour in Chicago, Phoenix and Cleveland Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr took on the media during an exclusive interview with Townhall.  "They're basically a collection of liars.  Most of the mainstream media.  They're a collection of liars and they know exactly what they're doing.  A perfect example of that were the riots.  Right on the street it was clear as day what was going on, anyone observing it, reporters observing it, it could not have escaped their attention that this was orchestrated violence by a hardened group of street fighting radicals and they kept on excluding from their coverage all the video of this and reporting otherwise and they were doing that for partisan reasons, and they were lying to the American people.  It wasn't until they were caught red-handed after essentially weeks of this lie that they even started feeling less timid," Barr said on the flight back to Washington Friday afternoon.

Riots?  What Riots?  In my three decades as a media critic, this summer's huge effort by the press to cover up the endless rioting by George Floyd's mourners has been its most shameless and shameful episode yet.  Until very recently, a remarkable number of naive Americans had fallen for the mainstream media's repetitions that the Peaceful Protesters were not — repeat, not — looting and burning.  The MSM has been in such flat-out denial mode that it hasn't even bothered to concoct exculpatory euphemisms for the riots, such as Retail Mourning, Do-It-Yourself Reparations, or Arson for Equity.  Even last week a new report from a leftist think tank, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, admitting to the immense number of violent demonstrations during this Summer of George was spun by the media as proving that all those boarded-up shops near you don't exist.

WHEC Reporter Chased By Knife-Wielding BLM Mob — Station Ignores Attack And Describes 'Protests' As 'Peaceful'.  WHEC reporter Charles Molineaux was attacked and chased by a knife-wielding Black Lives Matter mob during "protests" on Sunday night in Rochester and yet his own news station ignored the incident and described the night's "protests" as "peaceful" on their front page.  Video shows Molineaux and his security guard getting attacked and called "Nazis" after apparently getting accused of being undercover cops.  An African-American man with a knife is seen running at them and threatening to stab them repeatedly, only backing down when Molineaux's security guard turns around to defend him with an expandable baton.  UPDATE:  The video was just deleted!

The Media Are Lying About The Election Again.  Election 2020 is shaping up to be déjà vu all over again for the news media.  In an effort to help push Joe Biden over the finish line, the Washington establishment is going all-in on the easily refuted idea that there has been no change in the presidential race over the last three weeks. [...] After having botched the entire news coverage of the 2016 election, where all the "experts" repeatedly told the American public that Donald Trump had little to no chance of being the Republican nominee and even less a chance of being elected president, corporate media are back at it again, insisting all is well with the Biden campaign and the Democrats are safely on cruise control to take the White House and the Senate.  Here's the truth they are not telling you.  Biden has little enthusiasm for his candidacy.  He is taking on an incumbent president with significant first-term accomplishments who has extremely energized supporters, to put it mildly.

Desperately Derailing Donald.  One always expects the media surprise leak of a purported hidden scandal as a presidential campaign winds down.  Remember the last-minute "discovery" of George W. Bush's undisclosed 24-year-old DUI arrest in 2000?  Or the October 7, 2016 effort of the Washington Post to publish the hoarded 11-year-old "Access Hollywood" tape, just two days before Donald Trump's second debate with Hillary Clinton?  We should expect lots of these "bombshells" and "walls are closing in" pseudo derailments.  Except Trump has been the most widely investigated, probed, attacked, and smeared president in history.  And so the scandal-field has pretty well been picked over, as those fired like Omarosa Manigault Newman, Anthony Scaramucci, John Bolton, and others have long ago more or less lectured us that Trump is nuts, crazy, dangerous, stupid, ignorant, and so forth.

New York Times' sleazy narrative on Trump is nothing but a joke:  Goodwin.  A former colleague at The New York Times once explained why he kept reading the paper even though he no longer trusted it:  "I want to see what they're up to."  What they're up to now is staggering.  Not content with four years of biased coverage of President Trump, the Times is plunging head first into new depths of partisanship and deceit. [...] We are long removed from any possible claim that Baquet's Times is fair and impartial.  He has single-handedly abolished more than a century of standards in pursuit of his white whale: defeating Donald Trump.  Baquet launched his quest in 2016 but his slant then seems almost restrained compared to his scheming now.  This time, the top editor has institutionalized a ruthless commitment to partisanship that I believe will someday be seen as rivaling the Times' historic scandals.  In the 1930s, the paper cozied up to Josef Stalin and ignored the famine in Ukraine, then downplayed the Holocaust and later supported the rise of Fidel Castro while hiding his commitment to communism.  Using distortions and duplicity to influence a presidential election deserves to be included in that roster of infamy.

Fox News Decides to Go Full CNN.  Over the last several days, a report from The Atlantic has been making the rounds.  In it are accusations that the President doesn't like John McCain (shocker), but more importantly, that he didn't want to visit a cemetery in France because he thinks dead soldiers are "losers."  As I laid out in my original debunking of this story, we already have documentary evidence from multiple sources, including some who hate Trump, that the reason for not going to the cemetery was purely about the weather.  No one has gone on record saying Trump said any of the things alleged, though some have gone on record to say it didn't happen.  Gen. Kelly, who is named as having heard the comments, has remained quiet despite having no reason to do so.  All of this points to the story being nonsense, or at the very least, extremely misleading (i.e. perhaps some ancillary part is true, like bagging on McCain).  Unfortunately, Fox News has decided to lower its journalistic standards to those of CNN and help push this garbage.

Here Are 31 Times The Media Pushed Narratives Downplaying Riots And Looting After George Floyd's Death.  Dozens of news outlets published content that either justified or explained away rioting and looting in the initial weeks of unrest following the police custody death of George Floyd in late May, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.  While President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden have both condemned rioting and looting, major news outlets such as CNN and MSNBC have appeared to downplay the unrest that has gripped American cities in the months following Floyd's death, in one instance describing a scene as "mostly peaceful" as fires raged in the background.  But as the violence broke out in American cities in late May and June, dozens of news outlets provided a platform for commentators, professors and activists who not only acknowledged that rioting and looting were taking place, but sought to either justify the violence as a valid protesting technique or as a form of righteous rebellion against an unjust system.

Participant at Biden Event in Kenosha Admits She Was Given a "Paper" Telling Her What to Say.  We know that the Biden events are all staged and we now have more evidence.  Today in Kenosha, Wisconsin at a Biden event a woman admitted on camera that she was given a piece of paper telling her what to say: [...] The Biden team has managed their events by ensuring all comments and questions the former Obama VP is asked are pre-approved, and set up so that Biden can read the respective answers on the teleprompter.  Yesterday we saw this as well and every day for that matter.  The media and the Biden team work together as they manufacture events and try to make them look unscripted.

Gaslighting America:  Democrats And Media Have Turned It Up To 11.  The Democratic Party and its communications office have been telling the country for some time now that night is day and up is down.  But, with the election two months away, the psychological manipulation of the American voter has accelerated.  As we've written the past two days, Joe Biden has condemned the riots that have been wrecking cities and killing people since the May 25 death of George Floyd.  We're glad he finally got around to it.  Yet he and his party are acting as if they've opposed the violence all along and it's President Donald Trump who has failed to come out against it.  But Trump, of course, has been denouncing the riots since they began.  Even when the media were determined to convince us they were "mostly peaceful."

Evidence Shows the Media Doesn't Really Care About Evidence.  Read an article from any mainstream media outlet regarding an even remotely controversial subject broached by President Trump, and it is likely to include the statement, "President Trump claimed, without evidence..."  Use of the phrase is so frequent, it is likely that writers at the New York Times and elsewhere have it pop up in the auto-fill functionality on their laptops.  Type in "President Trump," and the words "claimed without evidence" automatically appear to the side in opaque font, and all they have to do is hit their arrow key to auto-fill the phrase.  The practice has become so prevalent in the media's wonderland that they no longer wait to include the phrase in the body of an article, they now put it right in their headlines.

As Biden falls in the polls, the media's lies get bigger.  The more desperate the media becomes to elect the corrupt, incompetent Joe Biden, the bigger and more numerous the lies.  We have been treated to Democrat campaign workers, posing as journalists, and other Democrats throwing [stuff] against the wall for five years to elect one corrupt Democrat after another.  No matter how obvious the lies become, the more they repeat them.  One of the biggest loads of excrement I have seen came out of the mouths of the Washington Post editorial board on Friday [8/28/2020] when they had the garbage headline "Global Freedom would suffer grievous harm in a second Trump Term."  They claim that this will happen because he embraces dictators and he is rejecting U.S. democracy.  They know they are lying because the facts show that it was Obama/Biden who catered throughout their eight years to dictators, and they know that Trump's policies and actions have been much harsher toward the dictators and tyrants.

The media and those who want to curry favor with the media have a dual agenda.  All of what has made the media even less trusted by the public than Congress and used car salesmen was on display last week with the reporting from Kenosha, Wisconsin.  Over the past few days due to the shooting of Jacob Blake, the media converged on the city using the same playbook that worked for them in Minneapolis earlier this summer.  First, spread misinformation and half-baked reporting, then help light the fuse for violent riots and social chaos, then staggeringly pretend that the protests are "fiery but mostly peaceful."  In the case of Blake, the initial reporting indicated that the man was simply walking away from police for no apparent reason before being shot seven times.  That reporting alone, with no context or additional information touched off a level of violence, looting, property damage, and physical harm more common to the nightly rioting in Chicago than a suburban community in Wisconsin.  A day later, the important facts that a responsible media might have sought out before reporting told a somewhat different story.  Blake's girlfriend had called police fearing for her and her children's safety.  Police attempted to calm the situation, but when Blake continued to be perceived as a threat, police attempted to use a taser.  Blake ran to his car and police believe he was reaching for a knife when he was shot.  No doubt, the police use of force must be part of this investigation.  But none of the above facts that would have added important context were part of any initial reporting on the scene, creating a very different narrative that played into the hands of Black Lives Matter terrorists and Antifa scum headed to Kenosha on Monday.

What does 'without evidence' mean?  President Trump spoke mildly in defense of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday, saying that the 17-year-old seemed to be defending himself when he shot three people, killing two of them.  NPR, fresh off of interviewing In Defense of Looting author Vicky Osterweil, had something stern to say about that, tweeting 'President Trump declined to condemn the actions of the suspected 17-year-old shooter of three protesters against police brutality in Kenosha — claiming, without evidence, that it appeared the gunman was acting in self-defense.'  Without evidence!  Cockburn tries to live an upright life these days, but he had to pause for a moment to be sure he had not mistakenly consumed peyote or some other mind-altering substance.  Without evidence?  The entire Rittenhouse episode was caught on tape.  You can watch both shootings on YouTube, along with lengthy dissections of what they show.  You can watch him get interviewed immediately before the shooting.  Without evidence?  Kyle Rittenhouse's night in Kenosha is one of the single best-documented shootings of all time.

Larry Schweikart:  How the 24-Hour News Cycle is Leading the Loss of the English Language.  Plenty of commentators have dealt with the lunacy that affects the English language today, from banning certain words as "racist," "sexist," or "something-ist."  Certainly that's obvious to all.  But there is another, more subtle change going on, even among the "friendly" or "reliable news pages.  It began when the 24-hour news cycle started to run out of, well, news.  It took more than a decade for this development to settle in.  At first, the networks filled the void with simply more talking heads, guests, and "analysts" telling you what the news was.  More recently however — I started really noticing it during the Mueller investigation — a host of non-news words began to creep into news stories.  We began to see mush phrases such as "Mueller mulling demand that Trump testify," or "Mueller considering charging Don, Jr."  These kinds of hourly non-news stories utterly took over, for reporters weren't supposed to know what was happening in the first place (the investigation after all — wink, wink, nudge, nudge — was to be secret.  Since the Mueller team was leaking like the Titanic however, so-called journalists could not produce actual documents to prove anything.  As it turned out, in fact, they had nothing to prove anything with.  Instead, reporters reverted to the post-1980 favorite journalistic trick, the "unnamed source."  Realize it was not all that long ago that no reputable newspaper would ever run a piece with a single "anonymous source."  Indeed, according to a Chicago Tribune reporter I interviewed during a foreword I wrote for Professor Jim Kuypers' book, Partisan Journalism (2013), every major fact in a story was to be doubly sourced with public sources.  In case you didn't notice, "mulling," "considering," "poised to," "about to," "prepared to," "intends," and other such mush words are utterly unprovable.

Black Assimilation Is The Great Threat To Democrats.  If there was one moment during the Republican convention that caused my official Daily Wire Leftist Tears Tumbler to magically overflow, it was in a speech by former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley.  "In much of the Democratic Party, it's now fashionable to say that America is racist," Haley said.  "That is a lie.  America is not a racist country."  Democrats and the media — but I repeat myself — reacted swiftly.  "I'm just hung up a little bit about Nikki Haley," said hung up ABC Anchor Linsey Davis.  "A comment that she made, 'America is not a racist country.'  I think that that's a statement that a lot of black people, black and brown people, would take umbrage with."  Chicago Tribune columnist Dahleen Glanton was blunter, saying the statement made Haley "appear to be either disgracefully ignorant or a blatant liar."  But, of course, what Haley really was, was completely correct.  There is a history of institutional racism in America, no doubt, but today our country is wholly free of it.  The U.S. is easily the least racist nation on the planet.

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This country is NOT "wholly free" of institutional racism.  What do you call this?  And this?  And this? Is Kwanzaa an American institution?  Is Black History Month an American institution?

If you want to see media malice in a single article....  The second night of the Republican convention has come and gone (and very successfully too) but what should live forever is the article the New York Times wrote about the line-up of speakers for the evening.  It is a triumph of misdirection and fraud by omission.  It may well be the most perfect example ever of how the media functions, not to inform, but to mislead.  The article, entitled "How to Watch the Republican National Convention," gives practical advice about how to find the convention on the internet and television.  Interestingly, it does not mention C-SPAN, which is proving to be a preferred venue for many conservative viewers.  What's really fascinating, though, is what the Times says and does not say about some of the speakers.

The Dangerous Half-Truths Behind 'The Joe Show'.  If you watched last week's Democratic National Convention you couldn't help but notice an overwhelming theme that ran throughout "the Joe Show".  The well-produced and heartwarming images of the former Vice-President were front and center, evoking sympathy and admiration for a man who has endured multiple tragedies throughout his half-century career in politics.  But those images were also on display to underscore the belief amongst the overwhelming number of Democrats, who, united only in their disdain for President Trump, believe him to be, at best, morally inept, and at worst, actively evil.  By shining a light on "Saint Joe," they cast a shadow on the man who currently occupies the Oval Office, a man who is apparently both all-powerful and simultaneously incompetent.  A man who CNN would have you believe single-handedly spread the coronavirus from coast to coast, all but ensuring that countless Americans would find themselves unemployed in the economic downturn that followed.

New York Times Manipulates FBI Lawyer's Guilty Plea To Hide Real Spygate News.  A New York Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for his role perpetrating the Russia collusion hoax was tasked with framing the news that a former top FBI lawyer was to plead guilty to deliberately fabricating evidence against a Donald Trump campaign affiliate targeted in the Russia probe.  The resulting article is a case study in how to write propaganda.  Adam Goldman broke, and cushioned, the news that former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was to plead guilty to fabricating evidence in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application to spy on Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page.  His job was to present the news as something other than an indictment of the FBI's handling of the Russia collusion hoax, to signal to other media that they should move on from the story as quickly as possible, and to hide his own newspaper's multi-year participation in the Russia collusion hoax.  One intelligence source described it as an "insult" to his intelligence and "beyond Pravda," a reference to the official newspaper of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.  Here's how Goldman did it. [...]

ABC/NBC Stoke Conspiracy:  Trump Creating 'Mail-In Voting Scandal,' a 'Crisis'.  Setting the stage for their excuse if President Trump won reelection, ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Sunday Today [8/16/2020] spent the morning accusing the President of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election.  ABC called it the "mail-in voting scandal" while NBC dubbed it the "Postal Service crisis;" accusing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy of allegedly doing Trump's dirty work, even though they admit they don't have any hard evidence of wrongdoing.  Near the top of ABC's coverage of the purported scandal, White House correspondent Rachel Scott leaned on serial liars Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to make the baseless accusations:

Democrats Go Postal with Busted Mailbox Conspiracy Theory.  Democrats have spent several days flogging the false "mailbox conspiracy" theory that President Donald Trump is deliberately crippling the U.S. Postal Service so that it cannot handle votes by mail in November — even forcing it to remove mailboxes.  The truth is that the mailboxes were removed because mailboxes are always being removed.  At least 14,000 were removed during the Obama-Biden administration.  Democrats are creating a new hysteria to cast Trump as a tyrant and motivate their conspiracy-theory-addled voters.

Don't Let the Fake Fact Checkers Fool You — Joe and Kamala Support Gun Confiscation.  Just like Joe Biden, vice presidential hopeful Kamala Harris supports outright, mandatory gun confiscation.  She just disguises it under a couple of flowery words: "mandatory" and "buyback."  This of course is when all of the fake media's fake fact checkers pour out of the woodwork to lie with the false claim Kamala Harris Never Said She Wanted to Confiscate Guns.  We know the fake fact checkers are going to publish their fake fact checks with their fake claims because that's what the fake fact checkers did to protect their precious Barry Obama, who also said he wanted to confiscate your guns.  Further, the fake fact checkers published lies to protect Hillary Clinton, who also said she wanted to confiscate your guns.  Oh, and Joe Biden said he wanted to confiscate your gun, and he also used flowery words about "buybacks," and as you will see below, he has not taken that sentiment back, even after the fake media tried to help him cover up that fact.

Yamiche Alcindor Cements Her Place as Most Dishonest 'Journalist' After Cutting Trump Quote.  There are a lot of dishonest journalists out there, and I mean a lot of them.  To narrow it down is a bit like trying to split an atom.  Sure, it's possible, but man is it difficult.  Yet, PBS' Yamiche Alcindor continues to stand above the rest, both because of her penchant to outright lie, and her tendency to use her race as a shield.  Who can forget this classic on the recent rioting, of which Alcindor assured us there was no evidence they are anarchists.  Hilariously, she was then bombarded with pictures of people present wearing anarchist symbols.  [Tweet]  And here she is trying to cancel the black Surgeon General over an innocuous plea to not do drugs and alcohol.  Her shtick is to provide "context" while never defining who exactly she's talking about.  It's a cheap game some journalists play when they want to editorialize but want to pretend it's not editorializing.  [Another tweet]  Alcindor is attempting to up her game, though.  Yesterday, she purposely cut the context out of a Trump quote so she could proclaim it a "moment to behold."  [Yet another tweet]

Touting Kamala Harris as a moderate is a liberal dose of deception.  The New York Times was quick out of the blocks with the Democratic pitch that Kamala Harris is a "pragmatic moderate."  It's pulling your leg.  Joe Biden's running mate had the most liberal voting record in the Senate last year — surpassing even Bernie Sanders — according to government watchdog GovTrack.  Harris advocates late-term abortion, thinks Catholics are not fit to serve on the Supreme Court, has tried to criminalize climate-change denial and the manufacture of guns, wants to give taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants and, as California's attorney general, wielded power like a callous autocrat.  But, if by pragmatic, the Times means this Barack Obama protegé will be whatever you want her to be, it's correct.  Her record shows her to be a gifted shapeshifter.

AG Barr On Far-Left Extremism:  Media Is Censoring What's Happening, Americans Are Being 'Told A Lie'.  Attorney General William Barr told Fox News host Mark Levin during an interview Sunday that the mainstream media are lying about the far-left violence that has been playing out in the streets across America over recent weeks.  "We have the citizen reporters, who have these videos of these events, which are quite different than what we get a lot of times from the media, which seems to be censoring the violence," Levin said to Barr.  "No?"  "Absolutely.  Their narrative — they are projecting a narrative," Barr said.  "When the word narrative came into currency, I knew we were in trouble, because the word narrative really suggests that there's no objective truth.  There's no real story of what happened, it's just everyone has their own narrative."  "And you get to then — the press can justify presenting a story that doesn't really correspond to objective truth, but it's our narrative.  We have a narrative, you have a narrative," Barr continued.  "I've been appalled at — on this violence, because it's happening right out in the streets, anyone with eyes can see what's happening.  They see the violence."

'Defund the Police' is a media fantasy.  If you've paid any attention to the news, particularly cable news, over the last couple of months since George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis, you might think "defunding" or "abolishing" the police is a widely held and even somewhat mainstream desire.  Gallup suggests this is untrue.  The vast majority of Americans of all races and ethnicities don't want the police to leave their communities.

7-year-old boy in Georgia died 'from COVID-19'? Media leaving out key details.  [Scroll down]  So it seems that the boy died not "from COVID-19," but rather as the result of a seizure and a fall in the shower.  It seems that, prior to his death, the child had zero Wuhan virus symptoms, and that after he was pronounced dead, "a rapid test showed evidence of COVID-19 positivity."  I don't know about you, but I've followed the news and the science on this virus as closely as most anyone, and I have yet to hear any reports of the Wuhan virus causing seizures.  If this were the case — especially where children are concerned — it is a virtual guarantee that the media would have daily told us so.  It would seem that fair and accurate reporting of this incident would include all of the circumstances surrounding this terrible tragedy and that this is almost certainly another example of someone dying with the Wuhan virus and not from it.  All the media have done here is give us another reason not to trust them in this grave matter.

America's Most Gullible Journalist:  "Visit Portland!".  Whom to believe?  Videos of the riots?  Or smug journalists telling us that they saw nothing untoward?  Luckily, there's the Newspaper of Record to give us the truth.  Unluckily, The New York Times sent ... Nicholas Kristof, aka the most easily fooled journalist in America.  Kristof assured Times readers that the Portland crowds are "entirely peaceful," until around 11 p.m., when "some protesters begin to shoot fireworks or set small trash fires."  Small trash fires.  Also: the federal courthouse, the Justice Center offices, statues, the Portland police union hall, and a decapitated pig's head, among other arsons.  But Kristof also dismissively remarked:  "No, they're not trying to burn down the federal courthouse."  Do not trust the dozens of videos showing protesters trying to burn down the federal courthouse.  He further reports that — just as MSNBC has said! — "the most violent behavior overwhelmingly comes from the federal agents."  So there you have it.  You can believe the man who said, "Mao's legacy is not all bad," or you can believe your lying eyes.

Floyd Bodycam Leak Highlights Press Collusion With Government.  The British Daily Mail on Monday scooped American news media with the leaked police body cam footage.  To be clear, the footage does not exonerate the police officers although it provides considerable context not previously available.  Floyd refused several police orders including not making his hands visible during the initial traffic stop to resisting entering a patrol car.  In the video, Floyd complains about difficulty breathing before the infamous knee-on-the-neck pose.  His shortness of breath may have been a symptom of an advancing drug overdose that ultimately may have contributed to his death.  The autopsy indicated a quantity of 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in Floyd's blood.  One study of 143 postmortem analyses of fentanyl overdoses found a median level of 9.8ng/mL in the blood of people believed to have died from overdosing on the drug.  Setting that aside, the way in which the new information came to light is further indication that American news media cannot be trusted to cover and report facts.

The Perils of Pretending a War is Something Else.  [Scroll down]  Here's an equally scary current charade:  the straight-faced claim by Democrat leaders and their media enablers that there are only "peaceful protests" in the streets of our 400 torched cities — no riots, looting and arsons, no rioters, looters and arsonists associated with Black Lives Matter and Antifa communists.  Instead, the denial that the mayhem which has injured thousands and cost more than a dozen lives are only possible because of the support of lawless Democrat mayors and city councils who are preoccupied with disarming the police. [...] The fact that there have been no serious attempts by "peaceful protesters" to denounce the violence and the organizations that perpetrated it — speaks volumes to the effect that they consider themselves allies of the rioters and share their agendas.  Defunding the police, leaving the most vulnerable in society without protection against criminals is the goal of rioters, arsonists, looters, and so-called "peaceful protesters."  The charade protects the criminals and their crimes.

ABC Ignores Leaked Video of George Floyd Arrest; CBS & NBC Caught Editing Out "Stop Resisting".  Body cam footage from the arrest of George Floyd has been leaked.  But instead of leaking through a U.S. media outlet, the footage was given to the U.K.'s Daily Mail, which posted the footage online.  Why would someone give the body cam footage to a foreign media entity?  Well... we can't know for certain, but we have a pretty good guess:  whoever leaked this footage KNEW that the American fake news media would IGNORE this story.  And for the most part, they have.  ABC News spiked the story completely.  And CBS and NBC were both caught editing out parts of the body cam footage that go against the national BLM narrative.

America is engaged in a religious war.  [Scroll down]  Marxism also has its saints and martyrs.  In classic Marxism, they would have been poor people exploited by evil capitalists.  In America, however, with its extraordinary economic and social mobility, that's not going to fly.  Instead, the saints and martyrs are racial figures.  Trayvon Martin is transformed from a violent, drugged-out, small-time thug into a childish, smiling figure who could have been the son of America's black president.  Michael Brown is not a hulking figure who engaged in strong-arm robbery and tried to steal a police officer's weapon.  He's a "gentle giant."  And lastly, George Floyd is not a violent felon and petty criminal who held a gun against a pregnant woman's stomach, and who was so hopped up on fentanyl and a variety of other intoxicants that it's unlikely he would have survived the night (and his inability to breath[e] probably arose from acute fentanyl intoxication).  Instead, he's a beloved family man whose image blooms on urban walls across America.

Sorry, Wearing Masks Is Anything but Harmless.  Here are 5 Reasons Why.  [#3] The establishment media makes it a point to run headlines containing meaningless scary-sounding factoids and manipulative stories about those who've allegedly succumbed to the virus.  When its supposed death tally was climbing, we couldn't escape hearing about it.  As it started to fall, they started ignoring the number of deaths and shifted over to reporting about rising cases, also neglecting to mention that rising cases and falling deaths is a good thing.  The media has done nothing to make the public aware that a local CBS affiliate looked into 589 alleged Palm Beach fatalities and discovered that far less than a third (169) had actually died of the virus.  Nor have they reported that the COVID-19 death tally they terrorized the nation with for months includes motor-cycle fatalities and gunshot victims.  Most people who did hear about these stories were shocked.  But, if the press had been doing its job, they wouldn't have been.  Another crucial fact of which they've failed to inform the public is that counting vast numbers who didn't die from COVID-19 among its fatalities is a feature, not a bug.  Everyone who dies with the virus is being counted as dying from it.

How It's Done:  Colorado Reporter Puts on a Clinic in How to Accurately Report on Violent Rioters.  As we've previously documented, the gaslighting from the MSM on the violent left-wing riots that have taken place in Democrat-run parts of the country over the last two months has been absolutely out of control.  There is literally not a day that goes by where there is not some glaring instance of a media outlet like the New York Times or Reuters painting protests as "mostly peaceful" or otherwise "dying down" until federal law enforcement officers have the nerve to step in to stop the anarchy.  Violent agitators in these reports are almost always referred to as "protesters."  Along with that, excuses are often made for their violent actions, as though just the mere presence of state and/or federal law enforcement officers on the scene to protect innocent citizens and federal property is excuse enough for the agitators to try and blind them with laser beams and hurt them with the nail-studded projectiles they hurl.  One Colorado reporter, however, went against the MSM "peaceful protester" grain in a recent report he filed on the Aurora, CO protests and riots that happened over the weekend.

No, New York did not get coronavirus 'under control'.  Someone is going to have to explain how exactly the media are defining "under control" as it pertains to the coronavirus because it's a phrase that appears to mean nothing.  Reuters over the weekend continued the campaign to rehabilitate Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's image by asserting, as other news outlets have laughably done before, that New York is in tip-top shape, especially compared to that Republican-led state Florida.  (Ew!)  "The surge in Florida has continued as the state's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has repeatedly said he will not make mask-wearing mandatory and that schools must reopen in August," Reuters reported on Sunday [7/26/2020].  "On the contrary, New York state has managed to get the virus under control, with stores and restaurants shuttered and the wearing of masks mandatory."

Trusting the Election to the Mr. and Ms. Potato Heads of the Left-Media.  Florida and Texas combined have more than 55 electoral votes. [...] It seems very likely that in 2020 Florida could go either way — either [D]emocrat or [R]epublican.  Texas seems to present an even greater threat to [D]emocrats. [...] We don't see left-leaning, liberal media outlets publishing articles with headlines reading, "Texas — Lower Concentration of COVID-19 Infections than 19 other States" or "Seven States/Territories with higher COVID-19 Death Rates than Florida."  Headlines like these might indicate that Trump is handling the COVID-19 Crisis adequately.  CNN and their "Mr./Ms. Potato Head" Common-tators (pun intended), reporters, editors, and writers are not working to educate the U.S. population with neutral, unbiased information about Florida and Texas, the two key states in the 2020 presidential election.  However, they are working to campaign for the left, for the Democrats.  They are working to push a non-Trump, non-Republican, pro-panic agenda, and they are doing it to sabotage President Trump and the Republican Party.

Are Fake News Polls Hiding a Potential Trump Landslide?  Listen to network or cable news and you will hear that the November election is over.  Joe Biden has a growing double-digit lead over President Trump, despite the election being over three months away and the issues that may decide the election largely unknown at present.  What do the polls say?  Biden's campaign manager, also known as CNN, has their "poll of polls" described as, "the five most recent national telephone polls measuring the view of registered voters."  Considering that only 58 percent of eligible voters went to the polls in 2016, CNN's "poll of polls" may not be particularly representative of the electorate.  CNN's headline screams déjà vu, "Biden maintains a double-digit lead over Trump nationally."  That's it then, the election is over.  Trump supporters may as well pack it up and stay home.  At least that is what they want you to believe.

Florida Is A Case Study In Media-Induced COVID-19 Panic.  What do all these news accounts have in common?  "Florida Sets Yet Another Coronavirus Record: 173 Deaths In A Day."  "A record 173 Floridians died from the virus Thursday, an average of more than one every eight minutes."  "The 134 new confirmed deaths is the second-largest increase on record, coming five days after the largest one-day jump of 156 last week."  "COVID-19 has ravaged Florida, with more than 237,000 people testing positive and 2,013 dying from the virus in July alone."  So what characteristic do all of the reports share?  They are all false.  It is not true that 173 people died from COVID-19 "in a day" in Florida.  Nor did 134, or 156 on previous days.  It is also untrue than 2,013 had died in July when that story was published.  All of these scary headlines are based on the number of deaths reported by the state on any given day.  This is not the same as the number of deaths that occurred on those days.

Florida: Death Related to a Gun Shot Wound and Deaths from Weeks Ago Are Suddenly Counted as Covid Deaths in Official Mortality Reporting.  The miscounting and fraudulent numbers related to the China coronavirus just keep coming.  Unrelated deaths are being counted as COVID-19 related and deaths from days and weeks ago are suddenly being attributed to today's COVID-19 mortality counts.

A Put-Up Job.  [Scroll down]  The news matters for three reasons.  First, almost all the public investigation and damaging narrative about "Trump-Russia collusion" came after investigators knew how little supporting evidence there was.  Second, the more we learn about the ensuing investigations, the more they look like concerted abuses of government authority.  We give law-enforcement and intelligence agencies tremendous power so they can protect us; when they abuse that power, they need to be held accountable and reined in.  That seldom happens to anyone in Washington's sprawling bureaucracies, which protect their own within the gurgling ecosystem of power, profit, regulation, and rent-seeking.  Just ask Lois Lerner.  Third, when the FBI, Department of Justice, and intelligence agencies act in biased, partisan, and illicit ways, they cut to the very heart of our constitutional democracy, damage our institutions, and undermine trust in them.  That is exactly what happened in 2016 and afterward.  Public trust was undermined by these prolonged investigations and the narrative about them.  It will be undermined further as we learn how the investigators themselves likely pursued partisan goals, ignored crucial evidence, and broke laws to do it.

The Constitution, Donald Trump, and 2020.  [The news media] would have us ignore the multiple scenes of violence and misplaced anger displayed through more objective and independent sources.  The protests were "mostly peaceful" chirped CNN, even as a crowd broke the glass of its Atlanta headquarters and ransacked it.  The real troublemakers were not the legitimate protestors, MSNBC reassured its remaining viewers, but actually white supremacists who had deftly infiltrated Black Lives Matter protests in a dozen plus cities to spread violence and wreak havoc.  Pay no attention to the extensive video footage showing protestors of all stripes and colors performing stupefying acts of vandalism.  Although most of the major media outlets long ago ceased dispensing accurate information to the American citizenry, they nevertheless have retained just enough viewers to help fan the flames of this 21st-century Bonfire of the Vanities.  They also continue to press and fold weak-minded politicians like threadbare laundry.

The Big Surge In Coronavirus Deaths Is A Media-Fed Myth.  Almost daily now we've been reading about how daily deaths from COVID-19 have reached record highs.  It's a scary prospect.  But the truth is the mainstream press is grossly misleading the public by misreporting the death counts. [...] According to PBS in Arizona, the state "on Saturday (July 18) set a record for coronavirus-related deaths reported in one day, with 147, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services."  The last story is particularly illuminating because the website the PBS article links to includes a chart of daily deaths in the state.  It lists only six deaths on July 19.  What's more, the chart shows that there have only been two days where deaths exceeded 65.  So where did that scary 147 number come from?  The same place all the other "surging" numbers come from.  Each day Arizona and other states file reports on how many people died from COVID-19.  It's not a measure of how many died that day.  In most cases, the people died days or even weeks earlier.  In fact, in Arizona's case, 106 of the reported deaths on Saturday resulted from a periodic review of death certificates.  None of those caveats made it into the PBS story.

Trans man sues hospital after hysterectomy is canceled.  A transgender man is suing the University of Maryland Medical System in federal court, claiming his rights were violated when his gender-affirming surgery was canceled by one of the hospital system's subsidiaries.

The Editor says...
A "transgender man" is a woman who pretends to be a man.  The term "gender-affirming surgery" is an inversion of the truth.  Those are two lies in the first sentence alone.

How to Spank the Establishment Media.  If one disapproves of the lying and distortions put out by the mainstream media, there's a way to fight it: don't pay for it.  But how, you might ask, can I do that?  Well, "Meet the Press" is pumped out by NBC News.  So, if you object to the lies on NBC News or to the lies on its vile sister, MSNBC, then you might consider financially spanking the company that ultimately owns them... Comcast.  If Comcast cannot bring itself to do anything about its news operations, then it would be up to viewers to send the corporation a message.  There are several ways to do this.  The most obvious way is to drop Xfinity, Comcast's cable service.  And here's what's nice about that: if one switches to a different cable company, one is likely to get a special price for the first year or more.  There are a few folks who "game the system" by periodically changing their cable provider just to take advantage of introductory deals.  Changing providers might be a hassle, but at least one won't be enriching NBC's parent company.

Lower than dirt?  Jon Turley clears up who is worse, NBC News' Chuck Todd or CNN's Jim Acosta.  Legal scholar Jonathan Turley slammed NBC News' Chuck Todd for airing a "false narrative" in the misleading quote of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.  The George Washington University law professor called out the "Meet the Press" host who "knowingly played a false gotcha clip" in a move that he deemed worse than the one by CNN's Jim Acosta, who came under heavy fire for tweeting an out-of-context quote from McEnany.

Media told America FBI had proof of collusion as bureau was realizing it had nothing.  Despite what The New York Times and Washington Post were loudly reporting in early 2017, the FBI had failed to find any evidence of Trump-Russia "collusion" — and indeed had found that the central source of those claims was a joke.  This is a key takeaway from the Justice Department's latest release of documents from the FBI's investigation.  One shocker is the summary of the long FBI interview that January with the "Primary Subsource" for the infamous Steele dossier — indeed, about the only source.

Fake News Becomes a Way of Life.  In December 2016, Ben Smith, then BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief, wrote a memo to his staff that was meant to be a kind of charter for the dawning of the Trump Era.  In truth it spoke to and aimed to speak for the entire mainstream media.  Smith would eventually move on to the New York Times, which elevated him to a role as the supervisory voice of conscience for the whole media.  But that December, he warned his staff of the danger of fake news, and the need of the media to be accurate and factual.

Chris Wallace Is Wrong, Joe Biden Does Want to Defund the Police.  Social media is abuzz over the release of a clip of President Trump's interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, where the Fox News host "fact-checked" Trump's claim that Joe Biden wants to defund the police.  "It's gotten totally out of control and it's really because they want to defund the police, and Biden wants to defund the police," Trump said in the clip.  "Sir, he does not," Wallace shot back.  You can watch the exchange below. [...]

Kayleigh McEnany is so effective that the MSM now lying by deceptively editing her comments.  Yesterday [7/16/2020] saw a new low in irresponsible media reporting on a briefing by a presidential press secretary.  Many media outlets outright lied about what Kayleigh McEnany said by cutting her off mid-sentence in a comment on schools reopening, thereby creating an impression that was opposite of the truth. [...] Kayleigh McEnany has been devastatingly effective as President Trump's press secretary, holding the media accountable for their lies and letting viewers of her press briefings know what questions the pressies are not asking but should.  This campaign of lies is evidence that the MSM knows she is a threat to their ability to fulfill their political function as propagandists and have decided to unite in lies about her.

The New York Times Has Been Ridiculous for a Long Time.  The much discussed resignation letter from New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss was written in the metaphorical equivalent of Braille.  It allowed even the blind to see what the rest of us have known for years:  the Times is a joke.  Writes Weiss of the Times newsroom, "Truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else."  Indeed, the only difference between the Times and the old Soviet Pravda is that Pravda readers knew they were being lied to.

America's Reporters and Editors Are Liars.  It is impossible to overstate how low "journalism" has fallen in the United States. [...] A sound adage holds that you should never assume malice when stupidity is a sufficient explanation.  Here, the only explanation is malice.  No one is as stupid as America's reporters and editors pretend to be.  The sooner their companies go out of business, the better.

MSNBC Thinks the Russia Hoax Will Still Work on You in 2020.  As the 2020 presidential election fast approaches, so do media attempts to incite voter hysteria about the chances of it being stolen.  On Tuesday's Morning Joe, dutiful MSNBC co-host Willie Geist brought on left-wing author David Shimer and former Obama Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to try to rebuild the Russian election interference narrative.  [Video clip]

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Did the [New York] Times Print an Urban Legend?  This week, the Times brings us a story from Methodist Hospital in San Antonio.  The headline is:  "Texas Hospital Says Man, 30, Died After Attending a 'Covid Party,'" and what we get is a story with one source. [...] It's a morality tale, really.  Don't believe it's a hoax!  Or that you aren't at risk because you are young!  Maybe don't live in a bad red state where they aren't taking COVID seriously, or go to these parties.  The only thing missing was a MAGA hat and a rueful dying admission, "I shouldn't have trusted Trump or my Republican governor!"  But, as I read the story originally earlier this week, I realized the details didn't quite add up.  If you believe COVID is a hoax, why would you attend a "Covid Party?"  And, in a pandemic for an airborne disease, aren't all parties potentially COVID parties?  Chicken pox parties were aimed at spreading a local infection purposely to younger children who have milder cases.  People don't hold them because they are skeptics.  Something doesn't make sense.

It's just nuts to praise New York's 'success' against coronavirus.  If only the rest of the country could handle COVID as well as New York:  That's the lament of progressive commentators as COVID cases spike in the Sun Belt and the South.  Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin hailed New York City the other day after it reported no deaths for the first time during the pandemic.  This is what competent government can accomplish, she gushed.  Former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett tweeted, "Short term sacrifice saves lives!!!" [...] This is all perverse given that New York is only now emerging from one of the worst COVID debacles on the planet.

David French Reveals The Depth Of Intellectual Dishonesty Needed For The NeverTrumpers' Vituperation of Roger Stone.  David French has written a deeply dishonest story today about the prosecution of Roger Stone, and how the commutation of his sentence by Pres.  Trump doesn't change the "facts" of the case.  Well, if you're looking for "facts", David French's "story" isn't the place to start.

Behind the Media's Breathtakingly Dishonest Coverage.  "I don't think I've ever seen such dishonest and biased coverage of any event."  That was Brit Hume, who has been covering events for more than 50 years for Fox News, ABC News and investigative reporter Jack Anderson.  The event, as you may have guessed, was President Donald Trump's Independence (without the scare-quotes) Day speech at Mount Rushmore.  The speech was, according to The New York Times, a "dark and divisive speech" designed to deliver a "divisive culture war message."  The Washington Post called it a "dystopian speech" and a "push to amplify racism."  Absent from their stories were quotations supporting racism.  Nor did Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth supply any quotations to support her claim that Trump "spent all his time talking about dead traitors."  Trump mentioned no Confederates but did quote the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

The most dishonest, biased news coverage of our lifetimes — and it's about to get worse.  What really seems to have raised the press' hackles was Trump's dissent from their reverent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and apparent indifference to those tearing down statues of Lincoln, Douglass, Grant, abolitionists and women's-rights advocates.  "Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities," Trump said, accurately.  That's not the message most in the media want voters receiving in the months running up to November.

The Media and 2020: Deja vu All Over Again.  Over the past few months, the New York Times and the Washington Post scorned those who wanted to reopen their businesses after investing their entire livelihood into them, because they realized that destroying the Trump economy would hurt him at the polls in November. [...] The media that has been so dishonest in covering the health pandemic and the riots is now claiming that Trump's reelection prospects are falling apart due to his slumping poll numbers.  In reality, they are struggling to find positive things to write about Joe Biden, so they need to continue to deflect any coverage of him by attributing failures to Trump. [...] Before the coronavirus came over from China, the Trump economy was booming, so naturally they chose to ignore it.  They never cared to mention the more than 7 million new jobs that were created since his election, or a rising income for median households that grew by $1,834 in the first ten months of 2019, or the 1.4 million Americans who were lifted out of poverty.

This Is How the Media Lies to the American People:  The Carsyn Leigh Davis Coronavirus Story.  We really are at a point in America that you can no longer trust the mainstream media on even the most basic reporting.  They will always put their personal spin on a story to sway your thinking.  Florida teenager Carsyn Leigh Davis died on June 23rd in Fort Myers, Florida from "complications from coronavirus." [...] This is the latest example of the panic porn promoted by the liberal mainstream media.  What the media is hiding from the public in their headline is that Carsyn battled cancer and suffered from an auto-immune disease.  Her parents gave Carsyn hydroxychloroquine but the 17-year-old succumbed to the disease anyway.  It's not until you read into the reporting that you find out about Carsyn's battle with disease.  The headlines were specifically written to make you feel that teens are at great risk.  They're not.

The media says hospitals are out of beds, but here is the real story.  [Scroll down]  In a recent report by Miami-Dade, it shows that they have a capacity of 434 ICU beds typically.  The other interesting number is that they can convert 532 additional beds to ICU beds if needed.  So the media would have you to believe that they are entirely out of ICU beds, but that's simply not the case.  Yes, this is a strain on the healthcare system.  Yes, the virus has spread much more than previous, but we need to be honest, we knew it would.  In every instance of guidance that was given by the CDC, the information was clear.  Extreme measures would only slow the spread of the virus.  Every safety precaution that is taken only attempts to slow the spread; it does not stop the spread.  Many states and the media are pushing the initiative that wearing masks and handwashing will stop the spread of coronavirus.  The truth is, it cannot stop the virus.  There is not a magic fabric or chemical in hand sanitizer that prevents it.  We can only try to contain it.  This is where the mainstream media and many state health leaders have continued to mislead the American people.

COVID Deaths Plummet, But the So-Called News Remains Negative.  Now, let's get into some COVID-19 news and, folks, are you asking yourself what of any of this is true and what isn't?  It's almost like the tale of two viruses.  We have an entire group of stories that are about how much worse the virus is. "[...] It's worse than we thought.  We haven't even gotten to the second wave.  Dr. Fauci says, Dr. Fauci says, Dr. Fauci says."  Whatever Dr. Fauci says, it gets amplified.  We are told how so many more people are getting it.  The number of cases is skyrocketing, but then deaths are down.  We demonstrated this yesterday.  The number of deaths associated with COVID-19 are way down.  It's why they're not being reported.  The game here is to scare you into siding up with a new lockdown.  They want you to hear all these brand-new numbers of cases as deaths.  But deaths are down.  The curve was flattened.

The Media Outright Lied About Hydroxychloroquine Just to Destroy Trump.  The media has spent the last four months outright lying about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine just to destroy President Donald Trump.  Washington D.C. journalist Drew Holden recently took the time to compile a large number of stories built entirely on lies pushed by the left-wing media.  Holden jumped to his Twitter account with an amazing thread that has to be seen to see the lies spread by our sold-out, anti-American media.

America Must Hold the Corrupt News Media Accountable in Order to Survive.  We must find a way to hold the corrupt corporate news media accountable before they destroy our country.  That's been a consistent theme here at Today's Campaign Update for four years now (today is the 4th anniversary of the very first Campaign Update posted on my Facebook page during the heat of the 2016 campaign), and it has become more urgent than ever.  Because, as I noted yesterday, the media literally has the deaths of an untold number of Americans on its hands due to its focused disinformation campaign related to Hydroxychloroquine.

How the Left Creates Fake Studies to Fabricate Right-Wing Terrorism.  After weeks of violence, Democrats have some public relations needs to redirect attention away from the awfulness of leftism.  Insert the latest report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which concludes that the greatest domestic threat comes not from leftists or Muslims, but from right-wing terrorists!  The CSIS study's findings are not new.  The New America Foundation (NAF) and the Center of Investigative Reporting (CIR) have published similar studies with the same conclusions.  Each study is fake, but the most recent CSIS study is the most pathetic of them all — partly because the CSIS doesn't provide a list of incidents to fact-check.  Just trust them.  There's an art to creating this type of propaganda, which provides the Democrat narrative a halo of credibility.  A tremendous volume of subtle manipulation is concocted within studies on right-wing terrorism, and each demonstrates variations of the same basic formula.

Univision Must Retract Story On June 2020 Jobs Report.  If ever there were doubts that Univision is an activist organization passing itself off as a journalistic entity, then look no further than its reporting on the jobs report for June 2020.  Watch below as the network hides one big piece of news with relevance to the Hispanic community, then completely and blatantly misrepresent another:  [Video clip]

CNN's Cuomo Accuses Mark McCloskey of Being the 'Face of White Resistance' to Black Lives Matter.  Tuesday [6/30/2020], on his CNN program, host Chris Cuomo challenged St. Louis homeowner Mark McCloskey on the merits of his use of self-defense of life and property by brandishing a firearm in front of his home as a mob of protesters threatened him and his wife.  According to Cuomo, by doing so, McCloskey and his wife had become the "face of white resistance" to the Black Lives Matter protest movement.

Media Are Playing Games Yet Again With Anonymous Russia Leaks.  Much of the case for the Iraq War was based on the Bush administration's claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.  When the United States declared an end to the war late in 2011, more than 4,400 American military members had been killed and nearly 32,000 wounded.  No weapons of mass destruction had been found.  It's one of the most significant and catastrophic intelligence errors in U.S. history.  A bipartisan commission found that U.S. intelligence "seriously misjudged" Iraq's weapons program because of their "heavy reliance on a human source — codenamed 'Curveball' — whose information later proved to be unreliable."  The commission wrote, "Even more misleading was the river of intelligence that flowed from the CIA to top policymakers over long periods of time — in the President's Daily Brief (PDB)" and other reports that were "more alarmist" and "less nuanced."

The Media Is Lying About The 'Second Wave'.  For months, the Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream media kept a morbid Covid-19 "death count" on their front pages and at the top of their news broadcasts.  The coronavirus outbreak was all about the number of dead.  The narrative was intended to boost governors like Cuomo in New York and Whitmer in Michigan, who turned their states authoritarian under the false notion that destroying people's jobs, freedom, and lives would somehow keep a virus from doing what viruses always do:  spread through a population until eventually losing strength and dying out.  The "death count" was always the headline.  But then all of a sudden early in June the mainstream media did a George Orwell and lectured us that it is all about "cases" and has always been all about "cases."  Death, and especially infection fatality rate, were irrelevant.  Why?  Because from the peak in April, deaths had decreased by 90 percent and were continuing to crash.  That was not terrifying enough so the media pretended this good news did not exist.

Surprise:  Latest Deep State Leak Pushed by Leftwing Media Is Another Huge Lie.  There was never anything about Russians paying the Taliban bounties on American soldiers to report.  This was low-level gossip (at best) that was never corroborated even in a small way.

Self-righteous vandals.  Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for 'anti-fascists', though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so much as the Brownshirt thuggery practiced by fascists themselves.  This did not stop NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson from likening these hooligans to the heroes of World War Two.  On the anniversary of D-Day, June 6, while America's cities still smoldered after days of riots and looting, Liasson took to Twitter to call the Normandy invasion the 'biggest antifa rally in history'. Dumb jokes are nothing new on Twitter.  For many liberals today, however, it's no laughing matter.  They really do think that America is fascist, at least whenever a Republican is in the White House, and so petty vandalism is actually a heroic act of resistance.  Knock the head off a statue of Columbus, smash the glass of every storefront on the street, and you're defeating Adolf Hitler all over again.  Such is the state of historical literacy and what passes for the moral imagination among many with comfortable perches in the national media.  You would think that if they had a problem with the establishment, they should throw the first rock at a mirror.  Spare the innocent shopkeepers who pay the price for antifa antics.  Plenty of them are black or immigrants themselves, if that's what matters to the worthies of NPR.

Massive Trump Crowds Inside and Outside Tulsa BOK Center — 6.7 Million Online Viewers!  The liberal mainstream media can't get their talking points straight.  They want to condemn President Trump for holding such a large rally during the coronavirus pandemic.  They also want to lie to Americans that it was a failure and no one showed up.  It must be very difficult being the fake news media these days.

The Media Are Lying To You About Everything, Including The Riots.  In recent days we've heard a steady drumbeat of lies, distortions, and disingenuousness from the mainstream media about almost every aspect of the unrest now gripping American cities.  The deceit is almost too pervasive and amorphous to describe, but I'm going to try anyway.  Over the weekend we were told, for example, that the looting and violence was being instigated not by left-wing anarchists and antifa groups but by the media's favorite villains:  white supremacists.  CNN, whose Atlanta offices were vandalized Friday, went on and on — without a shred of evidence to back it up — about how white supremacists might be infiltrating the protests and stirring up trouble.  The New York Times, in a report that even quoted a senior police official in New York City saying outside anarchist groups were coordinating mayhem before the protests began, nevertheless veered into a long aside about how far-right "accelerationists" were hoping the unrest would bring about a long-sought second civil war.  By Monday [6/15/2020], no one was talking about the white supremacist agitators anymore.  The media had moved on to better, more plausible lies.

10 Fake News Moments.  It is far worse than most realize.  [Video clip]

BLM protesters violently attack police cruisers in broad daylight in cities around the US.  When it comes to Black Lives Matter protests, the liberal media continues to sell the American people on the lofty ideas of racial equality while vilifying police officers on the front lines of the cultural rot seen in urban America.  Officers put their lives on the line to ensure law and order every time they put on the uniform, but that risk has gone up exponentially after the violent BLM riots over the past two weeks.  Cops have been attacked, shot and stabbed, and the attacks continue to this day — even as the media pushes a "peaceful protesters" narrative.

Frank Luntz tweet.  Tonight [6/11/2020], @ChrisCuomo criticized Trump's economy while using data that stops in 2016.  This is complete incompetence.  Journalistically and editorially.

History Channel Tags Slave-Holding Confederates as Red States.  The History Channel in late May produced a mostly laudable documentary series on Ulysses S. Grant, rightly hailing the legacy of the victorious Union general and the president who fought for civil rights.  However, the series contained what's become a recurring problem in some historical reflections on the Civil War.  Throughout the three part series, the production repeatedly showed the slave-holding Confederates as red states and the Union north as blue states.  In reality, it's the reverse.  As anyone familiar with history knows, the Confederates were Democrats.  It was Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party that fought the war to preserve the union and ultimately to end slavery.  As Marine and retired U.S. Army War College professor Daniel Douds astutely explained Grant's strategy to defeat the Confederates, the on-screen graphic showcased the (incorrect) blue state/red state dynamic.

Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle's protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.  This story has been updated to include an apology Fox News posted on its website on Saturday [6/13/2020].  Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in what photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations.  As part of a package of stories Friday about the zone, where demonstrators have taken over several city blocks on Capitol Hill after Seattle police abandoned the East Precinct, Fox's website for much of the day featured a photo of a man standing with a military-style rifle in front of what appeared to be a smashed retail storefront.  The image was actually a mashup of photos from different days, taken by different photographers — it was done by splicing a Getty Images photo of an armed man, who had been at the protest zone June 10, with other images from May 30 of smashed windows in downtown Seattle.

The Media Urge to Explain away 'Defund the Police'.  The hot protest slogan and hashtag of the moment is "Defund the Police."  At times, it's also framed as a call to abolish or disband the police.  Ordinary speakers of the English language would naturally assume, listening to people chant "defund the police" in the streets, carry "defund the police" signs, and literally paint "defund the police" on the streets of D.C., that such people mean "defund the police."  But not our media!  There's been an immediate rush to write pieces explaining that, of course, "defund the police" does not actually mean "defund the police."

It's Your Fault They Turn to Violence!  According to the media narrative, whatever unpleasant behavior a person or group is engaging in — from criminal and gang activity to sheer terrorism — if you're white and the other party is not, that proves that the behavior is entirely your fault.  Your insufferable racism and xenophobia have pushed these people over the edge; their criminal behavior is a reflection of their many grievances against you.  This would certainly require ameliorating if it were true.  It's not. [...] A black man was tragically killed by a police officer.  Although he has been arrested and charged with murder, that's not enough.  If you're white, the current turmoil — the looting, burning, and killing — is, once again, ultimately your fault:  "grievances" coming to roost.

A.G. Barr:  "They're Not Peaceful Protesters, That's A Big Lie Promoted By The Media".  The attorney general says what we are thinking — when the media insists that the protesters are peaceful, it is a lie.  Many of them have been violent, enough to wreak havoc and destruction on cities across the country.  Tell the small business owners without insurance who had their storefront windows broken and their merchandise looted that it was just peaceful protesters upset about the death of George Floyd.  What about all the injuries and hospitalizations and even some deaths that have been the result of protests?

Michael Baden Did Not Perform Autopsy But You Are Being Told He Did.  If Joe Biden was a forensic pathologist his name would be Dr. Michael Baden.  The 85 year old freelance medical examiner has quite a past and a present.  In recent days, he has fanned the flames of "cover-up" by reporting that Mr. George Floyd was indeed choked to death despite the county medical examiner's finding that Floyd did not die from asphyxiation and he did not die from strangulation.  In fact, the autopsy showed that Floyd had no trauma on his body whatsoever.  His ingestion of fentanyl and methamphetamine combined with a pre-existing heart and hypertension history contributed to his death.  And murder charges were brought against Officer Derek Chauvin because the medical examiner added that the "restraint" also contributed to the death of Floyd.  But Baden made the rounds on national television yesterday [6/2/2020] after he was hired by the family to do a second autopsy.

After Falsely Claiming Tear Gas Use, Media Now Trying To Pretend Tear Gas And Pepper Spray Are Identical.  After the media reported that Park Police deployed tear gas, an aerosolized version of the synthetic compound 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile also referred to as "CS gas," to disperse protesters in front of the White House, Park Police explicitly denied the charge: [...] So it was smoke canisters, not tear gas.  And pepper balls explained the irritating effect that some protesters reported.  This directly contradicted thousands of tweets, print articles, and broadcast stories.  President Donald Trump lambasted the media, highlighting a story this writer published yesterday.  That article has some of the headlines from prominent media that falsely claimed "tear gas" was used against "peaceful" protesters.

Media Falsely Claimed Violent Riots Were Peaceful And That Tear Gas Was Used Against Rioters.  Following days of violent riots and looting in cities across the country, Washington, D.C., announced a 7 p.m. curfew on Monday night.  About the same time, President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Rose Garden.  Afterward, he walked through Lafayette Park to St. John's Episcopal Church, which rioters had set on fire the night before.  Standing before the church sign, which reads "All are welcome," President Trump, who previously said he'd be paying his respects to a very special place, held up a Bible.  The speech announcing the country would return to rule of law and protection of civil liberties, the walk through a park that the night before had been given over to rioters, and the visit to the vandalized historic church where every president has worshiped since James Madison, were reassuring to many in the country.  For the media, however, these actions were further proof that Orange Man Bad is literally the worst, restoring rule of law is criminal, and standing in front of a church holding a Bible is an assault on the American conscience.

The Media Are Lying To You About Everything, Including The Riots.  It seems no great event or upheaval in our national life can pass now without the media lying to our faces about it.  They lied about the Trump campaign colluding with Russia in 2016.  They lied about the Mueller probe and Brett Kavanaugh and former national security adviser Mike Flynn.  They lied about Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president and the impeachment farce that ensued.  They lied about the coronavirus and the lockdowns and the White House response.  And now they're lying about the riots. [...] Over the weekend we were told, for example, that the looting and violence was being instigated not by left-wing anarchists and antifa groups but by the media's favorite villains: white supremacists.  CNN, whose Atlanta offices were vandalized Friday, went on and on — without a shred of evidence to back it up — about how white supremacists might be infiltrating the protests and stirring up trouble.

Teen Vogue:  Antifa 'Aspires Toward Creating a Better World'.  Leftist outlet Teen Vogue told its readers that the terrorist organization Antifa "aspires to create a better world" in the wake of riots that have broken out across the country, which have involved looting, vandalism, businesses being destroyed, beatings, and death.  "'Antifa grows out of a larger revolutionary politics that aspires toward creating a better world, but the primary motivation is to stop racists from organizing,'" tweeted Teen Vogue on Monday [6/1/2020].

Logic, Rhetoric, and Race.  Most of the blame for this situation belongs to the media, especially cable-news networks, which provide the audience for performative protests that are as ritualistic as kabuki theater.  The opening act is an "incident" involving the death of a black man at the hands of the police.  This is followed by demands for justice, with activists denouncing the incident as proof of systemic racial oppression.  A hashtag campaign emerges on social media platforms, and Hollywood celebrities lend their voices to the outcry.  Cable networks convene panel discussions, and the story is updated hourly in the days leading up to the protest rally.  The participants in this demonstration are "mostly peaceful," we are told, while we watch the protest turn into a devastating riot in front of our eyes.  We have seen this drama performed many times over the years, especially during the heyday of the #BlackLivesMatter movement that emerged in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, and continued through the Charlotte, North Carolina, riot of September 2016.

Who Had 'Race Riots' on Their Pandemic Bingo Cards?  [Scroll down]  I've been saying for a while that we were probably going to find out within the next six months that all of the social-distance and lockdown stuff was [nonsense], but that all got taken care of this past weekend.  Of course, the execrable Enemy of the People media types have been lying to our faces again, running with a narrative of "cops bad and mostly peaceful protesters" even with so much evidence to the contrary.  There certainly are a lot burning buildings for "mostly peaceful" protests.  The most priceless moment came Friday night [5/29/2020] when MSNBC's Ali Velshi was reassuring everyone that the protests were mostly peaceful while standing in front of a burning building:

Blaming White Supremacists For The Riots Is Nonsensical Gaslighting.  On Saturday morning [5/30/2020] Minnesota officials came out with an audacious and absurd explanation for the looting and arson that struck Minneapolis this week.  Apparently it was white supremacists from out of state who pretended to be actual protestors in an attempt to discredit the protest.  The evidence?  A vague claim and a lie.  It turns out that most of those arrested were actually Minnesota residents.  The hypocritical mental gymnastics from the liberal media in the past 72 hours were amazing enough to earn a perfect 10 from the stingiest East German judge.  First, we watched tens of thousands of people hold mass gatherings across the country, which just last week we were told would kill everyone, and the media suddenly didn't care.  It's like the Chinese virus just went away by magic.

Media Completely Misrepresents Trump Tweets About Minneapolis Rioting.  In their flailing efforts to blame President Donald Trump for the actions of a lone police officer in Minneapolis, the mainstream media is once again twisting the president's words to make it appear as if he made a racist statement, when in fact, the opposite is true.  Late Thursday night [5/28/2020], the president tweeted a message to those who would burn buildings and loot defenseless stores in the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.  The tweet was obviously meant as a warning to people who would destroy a major American city, but the anti-Trump mainstream media and Twitter itself saw it as another opportunity to portray the president as a racist, despite all evidence to the contrary.

The Media's Top Lies and Spins About COVID-19.  In such uncertain times, Americans can only hope that the media would follow suit and put aside partisan politics in the face of a global pandemic.  Sadly, some journalists and fake news outlets can't help themselves.  The media distorts and misleads, takes statements out of context, treats assumptions as facts, and in general, seems to want to sow as much rancor and fear as possible.  This is irresponsible journalism in a time when the nation needs just the opposite.

Just How Exaggerated Is The COVID-19 Death Count?  As the "official" tally of COVID-19 deaths tops 100,000 in the U.S., we keep hearing how that number is likely a low-ball estimate.  But there's far more evidence that the death count has been knowingly exaggerated — possibly by a very wide margin.  A recent Seattle Times article pretty much lays out the charade going on.  The headline reads:  "Washington state's actual coronavirus death toll may be higher than current tallies, health officials say."  But the story itself leads one to the exact opposite conclusion. [...] The story goes on to say that the state's dashboard "reflects anyone who died, that tested positive for COVID, irrespective of cause of death."  (Emphasis added.)  Basically, the state has been matching up the names of those who died this year with a database containing names of people who tested positive for COVID-19.

CNN, MSNBC are peddling panic, moral judgment, not science and data, in coronavirus coverage.  We hope you had a happy Memorial Day weekend.  It's possible you have spent, along with millions of others, months trapped indoors per government order because of the coronavirus.  So, getting outside makes all the difference — grilling a hamburger in the fresh air, hitting the park, walking on the beach for a couple of hours.  It's essential.  All of us needed it.  Nature is medicine.  Happy, balanced people understand that intuitively.  You can't just sit on a couch all day barking at other people on social media.  Your soul will rot if you do that.  And unfortunately, it's too late for a lot of people at CNN, and they haven't even been trapped inside for months.  For reasons that no one in authority has ever really explained, cable news yappers have been classified as essential workers from the very first day of lockdown.

Of Course COVID-19 Deaths Aren't a 'Trump Death Toll'.  Does anyone seriously think that if Donald Trump were not president, the coronavirus pandemic would have never hit America?  The super PAC Democratic Coalition — which supports presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden — apparently does, because it has launched a series of ads describing deaths from the coronavirus as the "Trump Death Toll."

Trump is right about the huge potential for ballot fraud in Michigan's election.  To hear the mainstream media tell it, President Trump is somehow paranoid at Michigan's latest gambit to mail absentee voting applications to all registered voters in the state.  Here's the selectively distorted reporting from the Detroit News: [...] They ran it with a photograph of Trump with a photoshopped color manipulation that exaggerated the color of his skin as well as his blue tie to colors not consistent with the lighting in the room. [...]

Don't Buy the Misleading Figures.  Here's the Real Story About How the U.S. Matches Up on Coronavirus Deaths.  The sheer ease with which the American left has politicized the deaths of thousands of Americans has shocked even me.  The United States is approaching 100,000 deaths and the left seems determined to make sure the public blames President Donald Trump for those deaths.  As PJM's Tyler O'Neil noted, the Democratic Coalition is trying to make "Trump Death Toll" a thing.  While Tyler effectively demonstrated the absurdity of blaming these deaths on Trump, I'm going to show that despite the headlines that suggest things in the United States are the worst in the world, that is emphatically not the case.

The Doctrine of Media Untruth.  As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.  Put another way, the media's "truth" is a good guide to what is abjectly false.  Perhaps we can call the lesson of this valuable service, the media's inadvertent ability to convey truth by disguising it with transparent bias and falsehood, the "Doctrine of Media Untruth."

Long-lens dishonesty again:
That picture of Ocean City doesn't show what the scolds say it shows.  One particular picture from Ocean City, Maryland, this weekend seems to show a totally packed boardwalk.  This has led to all sorts of scolding.  Here's a Reuters congressional reporter cursing the walkers for lacking the self-control to stay inside and on Twitter, like responsible folks should do. [Tweet ...] See that sign in the distance that says, "PLAYLAND"?  That is south of Worcester Street.  It's 1,100 feet down the boardwalk from the body piercing sign.  Tiger Woods's average drive is 285 yards.  If he teed off from where that photographer is standing, Woods would be 80 yards short of Playland.

GQ Political Reporter Misidentifies George Wallace As Republican To Smear GOP. Wallace Was A Democrat.  Laura Bassett, who also writes as freelance political reporter, wrote a Wednesday op-ed titled "The Anti-Abortion Movement Was Always Built on Lies," attempting to chronicle evangelical efforts in building up the pro-life movement.  The crux of Bassett's piece rests on the foundation that the pro-life movement was "bought and paid for the Christian right," to morph the Republican Party into the pro-life party.  While explaining the party's historical support for legal abortion, Bassett used the example of Wallace as a Republican governor whose promotion of abortion was motivated by Republicans' intent to stop "breeding children as a cash crop," to collect more in government handouts.  Only one problem:  Wallace was one of the biggest 20th century stars of the Democratic Party, and by no means a Republican.

If you want to see a microcosm of our vile American media, this is it.  I was looking for articles showing that those who predicted deadly failure due to Governor Brian Kemp's decision to open Georgia were wrong.  I found such an article at Business Insider, a widely read online news outlet.  Diving into the article, though, revealed that it wasn't reporting the news at all.  Instead, it provided a perfect example of how the media shape and distort the news in service to a Democrat narrative.  When Governor Kemp announced three weeks ago that he would start opening up Georgia, the media had a field day.  After all, this was the governor who "stole" the election from Stacey Abrams, a woman distinguished only by being the worst loser in American gubernatorial history. (Hillary Clinton still holds the record for being the worst loser ever.) [...] If Michelle Mark, the reporter wanted to be factual, her article would have consisted of one sentence:  "Georgia's Department of Public Health has published data showing what appears to be a significant decline in new cases and deaths."  Instead, the entire, very long article is a series of hypotheticals about how maybe, possibly, even probably, people will still get sick in Georgia.

"Mask Police Reporter," Kaitlin Collins Rips Off Mask Immediately After She Thinks Cameras Are Off, Rushes to Speak Maskless to Other Reporters.  Another black eye for the Karenwaffe.  This wouldn't be a story except Karen Collins here is one of the Firefighters bravely mask-shaming her targets.  Governor/Murderer Andrew Cuomo gets no mask-shaming for not wearing a mask at press conferences, but of course Trump does.  Karen Collins wears a mask at press conferences.  Until the moment the camera is off her.  Then it comes off faster than a t-shirt at Mardi Gras.

WaPo's new mantra is Just Don't Report.  As the walls close in on Obama's use of the FBI to spy on political opponents, the Washington Post has a simple solution for a press that aided and abetted him:  If something looks bad "just don't report that it does."  The full quote by columnist Greg Sargent is, "There is a legitimately difficult editorial challenge in figuring out how to scrutinize a mostly conventional politician who is running against a bottomlessly corrupt and dishonest opponent like Trump, as Brian Beutler has noted, without placing a similarly sized question mark over both of them.  "There's just no doubt that this happened in 2016, as has been widely documented.  "This is plainly on its way to happening again.  But it doesn't have to.  One way to avoid this:  If something doesn't actually 'boost' or 'lend fodder' to a big claim that Trump is making, just don't report that it does.  "It's simple, but it's a start."  Just don't report.

When Did the Media Stop Running Corrections?  Last week, Vanity Fair had nice little scoop, or so it thought.  Gabriel Sherman, whose title is special correspondent, authored an article premised on a major bit of news — investors aligned with Donald Trump Jr. had purchased a stake in the pro-Trump, conservative news outlet One America News Network (OANN).  This was news to Charles P. Herring, president of OANN's parent company, who fired off a letter to Vanity Fair owner Conde Nast demanding a retraction and an apology.  "The facts are undisputable and in direct conflict with your false and defamatory statements," he wrote.  "Herring Networks, Inc. has not sold ANY stake in One America News Network or its company to anyone or any entity, period."  Vanity Fair quickly recast Sherman's story without acknowledging its error:  "This post has been updated to include a denial from Blackstone, and to reflect comments received after publication by Charles P. Herring, president of Herring Networks, OANN's parent company."  In sum, Sherman based his piece on a premise that was wrong, and Vanity Fair merely acted as if all the story needed was a minor update.

How the 1619 Project Destroys the True Moral Meaning of America.  Honest patriots of our great republic are upset at the recent bestowal of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on Nikole Hannah-Jones and her 1619 Project.  As most readers might already know, the 1619 project was inaugurated with a special issue in the The New York Times Magazine in August of 2019.  Its goal was and remains one of challenging us all to reframe U.S history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia as our nation's foundational date.  The project promulgates the idea that everything that has made America exceptional literally grew out of slavery.  It, therefore, establishes 1619 and not 1776 as our nation's true founding date.  The egregious historical inaccuracies of the project and Hannah-Jones' claims have been well documented.  The most egregious among them which the Times has had to minimally correct, included claiming that the American Revolution was literally fought to preserve the institution of slavery, and that Abraham Lincoln opposed the equality of blacks.

Where is Christine Blasey Ford and why hasn't she said anything about Tara Reade?  [Scroll down]  Christine Blasey Ford wasn't whisked away from earth in 2018. She's still out there somewhere reading the news.  She knows about Tara Reade and, so far, she hasn't offered a word of public support about her allegation.  That's true even though Tara Reade made a point of saying she believed Christine Blasey Ford in her interview with Megyn Kelly.  Isn't it pretty remarkable that Ford has remained silent?  Has anyone in the media even tried to ask Blasey Ford if she believes Reade?  Did reporters at every news outlet suddenly lose her number after the confirmation?  Given the media comparisons between the two women over the past several weeks, it really does seem like an obvious avenue to pursue.  So why hasn't the media pursued it?

Gowdy ready to expose reporters who 'aided and abetted' Adam Schiff during Russia investigation.  Former federal prosecutor Trey Gowdy says voting out Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff is not enough punishment for the damage he has done to President Trump and the intelligence community.  During a Friday night [5/8/2020] appearance on Hannity, Gowdy told the Fox News host he also wants reporters who advanced the fake Russian collusion story to be named publicly and that he's willing to do it.  "The media, not only did they not provide scrutiny over Adam Schiff, they aided and abetted him," Gowdy said. "Politico, the Hill, Washington Post, New York Times, I'll come on and even give you the reporters' names sometimes.  The reporters who sat there and helped Adam Schiff perpetrate this fraud, next time I'm with you I'll give you the names of the reporters."

Video Allegedly Shows That Once The Cameras Are Off Reporters Remove Their Masks And Don't Follow Social Distancing Rules.  Americans are skeptical of the news media.  A recent Gallup Poll shows that 55% of Americans disapprove of the way the media have handled the coronavirus coverage — that's a higher disapproval rating than Congress, which is saying a lot.  And the public's response to the coronavirus pandemic reveals its distrust.  And we can now tell why Americans don't trust the mainstream media.

The Eight Worst 'Fake News' Stories of the Trump Years.  Journalists bristle when President Trump criticizes them as "fake news," and they complain that such criticism erodes the public's faith in the news media as an independent watchdog on the powerful.  But Trump's critiques wouldn't have nearly as much impact if news organizations actually acted like careful, professional, independent purveyors of fact.  Instead, they too often behave as sloppy partisans, carelessly jumping on one false story after another if they think it will prove their larger narrative that the President is unfit for office.  Sometimes, the "fake news" is about a small detail that suggests a broader pattern: the Time magazine pool reporter who wrongly claimed on Twitter that Trump had removed a bust of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the Oval Office, perhaps hinting at a racial animus.  In fact, the bust was right there, obscured from view by a Secret Service agent and a door.

Controversial Photo of 'Crowds' on CA Beach Was Shot with a Telephoto Lens.  A photo showing crowds packing a beach in California during the state's COVID-19 lockdown sparked controversy this past week and led to the area's beaches getting shut down.  Now that photo itself is at the center of a heated debate:  many are saying that it's misleading because it was shot with a telephoto lens.

C-SPAN posting inaccurate transcripts of Trump briefings.  C-SPAN is publishing inaccurate transcripts of President Donald Trump's remarks during the vitally important national coronavirus task force daily briefings.  Yes, really.  So Trump is being falsely attacked for what Trump never said (again).  The worst of it, lately, is Trump asking questions to scientists.  Those questions have been transformed into statements that Trump never made.  But as I endeavored to clear up the fog, I was shocked to discover that C-SPAN's textual transcript are the source of the confusion.  The quotes that Trump haters are throwing around happen to be accurate reports of the inaccurate C-SPAN transcript.

The Hypocrisy on Tara Reade Is a National Disgrace.  We do not know whether the accusations that Tara Reade has leveled against Joe Biden are true or false.  That is a question of evidence and of inquiry that might be answered as time rolls on.  We do know, by contrast, that the double standard that has been exhibited by Biden's campaign and by the political press in tandem is a national disgrace.  Both culturally and legally, due process must be habitually applied to nobody or to everyone.  If, upon the most frivolous and protean of pretexts, it is routinely accorded to one faction while being denied to another, it is effectively lost.

Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd Deliberately Lie to Viewers While Questioning Dr. Deborah Birx.  David Mamet had a famous saying that is often cited.  Essentially he said:  'in order for left-wing partisans and ideologues to continue advancing their agenda, they must pretend not to know things.'  CTH calls this "The Mamet Principle."  No where is that quote more clearly showcased than with two media interviews of Dr. Deborah Birx today [4/27/2020].  CNN's Jake Tapper and NBC's Chuck Todd both pretend not to know the guidelines and gateways for a phase-one reopening of the U.S. economy.  Both pundits fabricate information purposefully and with specific intent.

Reporter Compared Coronavirus Deaths To Vietnam To Rip Trump.  But During Vietnam, Another Virus Killed More Americans Than The War.  On Monday, a reporter from New York Magazine asked President Trump whether he deserved to be reelected, since more Americans had died from the coronavirus than died in the war in Vietnam.  She may have been unaware that at the height of the Vietnam war, there was something that killed more Americans than the war did, and it was a similar virus — and no one questioned whether a president should be elected or not because of the virus, known as the Hong Kong Flu.  In 1968-69, the Hong Kong flu ravaged the world; it wound up killing more than one million people worldwide, over 100,000 of them in the United States.  No lockdowns were imposed and people still went to work, albeit lessening bus travel and implementing social distancing and more washing of their hands.

Disinfecting the Left-Wing Media.  As well as President Trump has done in those daily press briefings discussing the federal government's fight against the Wuhan ChiCom virus, it might be time to put those to bed.  The reason?  He's beaten the Democrat activists in the White House press corps to a pulp, he's destroyed their credibility, and he's captured as much of the confidence of the American people as he can in those press conferences.  And at this point the Dem activists are simply going to report what they want to report, the facts and reality [notwithstanding].  Trump has noticed that, skipping the briefing on Saturday and expressing frustration with the media's refusal to offer anything like responsible journalism on the virus.

Virus Strikes Media Dumb.  There's a lot of important news this week which is getting insufficient coverage. [...] Instead, we are back to story number one:  How to refashion news on the Wuhan virus to attack the President.  As been the case from the beginning, the press is using every foul means to demean him and make this the Trump Virus, ignoring his measured approach and successes.  This week they glommed onto his remarks in a presser that revealed the contagion curve is flattening and diminishing to suggest that Trump had called for something as possible remediation — bleach injection — that he had not.  In some cases, they flat-out lied about what he said.  In others they edited the presser video to achieve the same distortion.  Regular readers of this site know a great deal about press information manipulation and lies.  I write this in the hope that you will share it with those others who still don't get it.

How the N.Y. Times Swung at Fox News, and Missed.  Not content to accuse Donald Trump of killing Americans with his incompetence during the coronavirus pandemic, Democrats and their allies in the media have turned their fire on the president's supporters as well.  Those with "blood on their hands," to use the smear du jour, range from Republican governors reluctant to issue quarantine orders to Michigan autoworkers protesting being locked out their jobs.

Fake News:  Trump Didn't Tell People to Inject Bleach or Lysol Into Their Veins to Fight Coronavirus.  On Thursday, liberals thought they finally had the smoking gun, the excuse to oust President Donald Trump as mentally unfit for office.  Some called him "President bleach," claiming he had suggested people should inject bleach or Lysol into their veins to fight the coronavirus. [...] Then the commentary.  "Trump unquestionably is unfit to serve as president.  He endangers every American.  Most directly, he endangers his supporters, many of whom either believe the virus is a hoax (prompting them to engage in dangerous behavior) or now that injecting/ingesting disinfectants is in order," tweeted MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner. [...] Trump wasn't telling people to drink or inject bleach — he was asking whether or not it would be possible to clean inside the body with a similar disinfectant.  He also insisted, "you're going to have to use medical doctors with" any such practice.  In other words, "don't try this at home, kids."

Remember the government shutdowns?  Funny how we don't see those same sob stories about lost paychecks now.  Whenever the threat of a government shutdown looms, Democrats and their media allies give us daily doses of how devastating such a thing will be on 'non-essential' government workers.  Then they go into overdrive when a shutdown actually occurs:  Wall-to-wall sob stories giving examples of government workers supposedly harmed even though, everyone knows, those employees will soon be paid.  They essentially have a paid vacation.  Now, after weeks of the intentional destruction of the private sector with tens of millions of jobs lost, with businesses and families being devasted and having no idea how they will feed their families and themselves, there are few of those same sob stories, despite real hardship, and here is what we get instead:  If a Republican governor wants to open a state's businesses, we get attack pieces saying he wants people to die.

Journalists are a gullible bunch on COVID-19.  We are told that a large number of people have the virus of whom we don't know, including people without symptoms, and that a large number of people who never were diagnosed with the disease and never had symptoms now might be immune to the disease.  We are told that in order to reopen the economy safely, we need to test everyone to see if he has it, even people without symptoms, and also to test people to see if they are immune so the government can release those to work.  Then we are told that if we find someone who currently has the disease, we need to find everyone he has been within six feet of for fifteen minutes in the past two weeks and then put all of those people under house arrest for two weeks.  Then we are told that until we get a vaccine, which may be a year or never, we must practice social distancing, wear masks, and never gather in groups of more than ten, or else huge numbers of people will die.  Now, this sounds to me as though they would rather see the economy destroyed and the U.S. collapse than allow people the freedom to work, save their businesses, and feed their families.

The Cult That Rewrites History:  Part 1.  On Monday April 13th, at the daily presidential briefing held by the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, took a most interesting turn.  During the first half hour of that briefing, Trump and his CCP Virus emergency response team took more than a month and a half of carefully constructed lies that Democrats and the DNC Media Complex have been using to relentlessly attack him, turned the tables, and utterly destroyed them.  The President did this by simply playing a video for the reporters present, and the entire country watching on television.  What this brief video clip did, is establish the correct timeline showing who was doing and saying what and when they were doing and saying those things.  Trump's masterful use of that video during the daily national emergency briefing absolutely destroyed the Democrats and Fake News Media's talking point that he ignored/didn't do anything in the early days of the pandemic.

1984 Comes to Life:  The Cult That Rewrites History — Part Two.  It's probable that every single reporter that reacted emotionally to the video President Trump played at the briefing came out of that Cultural Marxist academic system.  They have likely spent decades of their lives training their minds to enthusiastically love whatever Big Brother is giving to them to say today, and memory-holing the past.  That's why you notice them reacting so emotionally to the video presentation.  They can't hide it, and they are certainly not faking it.  It hit them right where they live.  Right in the center of their own self-image.  He took their power away from them.  Let me tell you something:  you wind these people on a very deep and personal level when you will not let them have their precious memory hole.  You injure them when you do not let them rewrite the history they are so desperate to rewrite.  And especially so, when it is imperative for their politics that the public either not know, or quickly forget something.  You are taking away their power and they know this.

Don't Get Fooled by Fake Photos of Coronavirus Lockdown Protests.  As a series of demonstrations against COVID-19 lockdown orders sweep the U.S., protesters have shown wildly varying degrees of responsibility and realism.  Some have been staying 6 feet from others or even protesting from within cars, while simply asking for some shutdown leeway for local businesses and entrepreneurs who are willing to take extra steps to keep pandemic-times customers safe.  Alas, others have been crowding up against each other in large numbers — without masks or any other precautions — while suggesting that the entire coronavirus outbreak might be a hoax.  Some folks online have started spreading rumors that protesters are paid "crisis actors" — alleging their signs too well-made or similar and that their websites have fishy origins. [...] On the flip side, people's revulsion at the more reckless or bratty elements of these protests is setting up social media for a round of fake protest news.

Now It's Obvious:  The Political Class and the Media Are Spinning Tales.  At the outset of the coronavirus lockdowns my colleague Pete Earle penned a prescient article about the propensity of political actors to rewrite the history of the unfolding crisis in real time. [...] Sadly but not unexpectedly, this real-time revisionism has only accelerated in the last month.  We've now reached a point where reporters, public officeholders, and federal bureaucrats are now revising their own words and actions from only a few weeks prior — all while hoping that nobody will notice.  The latest example involves the unfolding controversy over President Donald Trump's assertion of authority to set a national timeline for the repeal of the ongoing economic lockdown, presumably superseding state governors and local officials who refuse. [...] While the press today fumes in outrage at Trump's newly claimed power, only 10 days ago many of these same news outlets were clamoring for the very same national lockdown that Trump demurred.  Just two weeks ago reporters peppered Trump with questions about his failure to impose a national shelter in place order.

Why Has the Voice of America Become a Voice of Confusion?  President Trump startled Washington last week by launching an attack on Voice of America, which for 80 years has been charged with presenting and explaining American values and policy abroad.  Trump called it a "disgrace" that the current VOA leadership was allowing its service to repeat Chinese talking points on the COVID-19 virus.  A White House statement also took issue with the news agency that called Chinese efforts in Wuhan to contain the virus a "model" for other nations.  The statement also noted that VOA relied on unverified (and subsequently proven false) Chinese-government statistics in some reporting.

Our Garbage Media.  The mendacity and mediocrity of our major news media have seldom been on display more clearly than during the COVID-19 crisis.  While the media pretend to be "objective" and are now clearly on the side of the Democrats' narrative that Trump was negligent and slow in responding to the virus, there is plenty of evidence of the media downplaying the threat of the virus and criticizing Trump's early moves, especially his China travel ban, which the media decried as "xenophobic."  And then there is the media's lack of interest in the Tara Reade allegation about Joe Biden, which is so blatant that even Alexandria Ocasio Cortez gets it.

A free nation cannot long survive if its press takes sides.  On March 16, the New York Times' Mara Gay posted a stunningly dishonest tweet about President Trump's conversation with state governors concerning medical equipment needed to treat coronavirus patients:  [Tweet]  Gay lied in saying Trump told governors they are on their own, thus misleading readers to think he refused to provide the governors with federal funds for critical medical equipment.  Below is what Trump actually said — the part in boldface is what Gay selectively quoted, everything else is what she maliciously omitted:  "We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves.  Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself." [...] What Gay did was journalistic malpractice at its most evil, a fake news political hatchet job against a president she hates in hopes of torpedoing his re-election.  Mara Gay is no rookie reporter who made an innocent mistake.  She's a member of the New York Times Editorial Board.  Her dissembling brand of destroy-Trump journalism has been practiced non-stop for nearly four years by virtually the entire mainstream media.

Photo of same boy faked to claim "youngest UK coronavirus death".  His photo has been widely shared on social media claiming he is a 13-year old who died of coronavirus in Great Britain.  A post on Facebook claimed he was a "schoolboy... with no health conditions" who became "UK's youngest coronavirus victim."  The post went on to read:  "Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from Brixton, sadly died without any family members close by due to the highly infectious nature of Covid-19."  But it isn't true.  The same photograph of the same boy has circulated in news stories about deaths as far back as 2017.

Trump Exposes Phony Journalists with Video Montage.  [Scroll down]  But he had to do that yesterday, folks.  And it was great because it was nothing but their words.  It was nothing but video clips of the media themselves lying and getting things wrong and purposely distorting things.  He just zapped 'em.  I mean, just exposed them to the world.  This is the kind of thing that needs to happen constantly.  The American people who aren't aware need to be made aware what the media is. [...] And while their job title category might be journalists, this is not what they are practicing.  What they are practicing is opposition.  Whatever Trump is for, they guaranteed to be against it.  Whatever Trump is against, they are guaranteed to be for it.  Why are they for or against anything?  They are media.  Their pretense is that they are objective and fair and all of that.  It isn't the case.

Brutal Trump-de-Force at the Coronavirus Hearing Leaves Media Screaming 'Pull the Plug!'  Donald Trump absolutely lit up his own Coronavirus Task Force press briefing with a more than six-minute, tour-de-force media takedown that had CNN and MSNBC sputtering and reaching for the plug.  Trump said hello and turned the media briefing over to the NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci to clarify his words uttered on CNN on shutting down the country earlier to prevent more deaths.  Then, Trump took over and it was ON.  He listed the timeline of his response to the coronavirus and presented a video of incorrect statements by the press on COVID-19.

Facebook's Fact-Checkers Have Failed To Fact-Check HuffPo's Anti-Trump Coronavirus Disinformation.  It will come as no surprise to Breitbart News readers that Facebook's vaunted fact-checking system does not stop, or even appropriately label, fake, misleading claims from the left-wing media about President Donald Trump.  A story from Verizon-owned HuffPost claims that the president has a stake in a drug company that produces hydroxycholoroquine, the drug being promoted by himself and many in the administration as a potential treatment for the Chinese virus.  The article is currently on Facebook without any labels alerting users that the information is false or even just misleading.

New York's Mass Graves Are Complete Propaganda: The Video Is From Potter's Field Where 25 People Are Buried In A Week In Normal Times.  New York City officials have hired contract laborers to bury the dead in its potter's field on Hart Island.  Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a "mass grave" in New York City.  This has caused for TrumpBurialPits to be the number one topic that's trending on the internet.  However, Trump Burial Pits is complete propaganda.  These images shown are of Potter's Field where 24 people are buried a day in normal times.  Do you really think we're burying thousands in some ditch on an Island in New York?  People don't want there loved ones to have a proper burial?  The city has also shortened the amount of time it will hold unclaimed remains before they are buried in the city's public cemetery.  Under the new policy, the numbers of daily burials should increase even in normal times, the medical examiner's office will keep bodies in storage for just 14 days before they're buried in the city's potter's field on Hart Island.  Workers in hazmat outfits were seen stacking wooden coffins in deep trenches in Hart Island.

Racial warrior offended when the Surgeon General tells minorities that behavior affects virus risks.  PBS's Yamiche Alcindor has distinguished herself as one of the media figures most engaged in the "gotcha" game at COVID-19 press conferences, especially when she can work race into the issue.  On Friday, after the Surgeon General made a direct plea to minorities about behaviors that can protect them, she went on the attack.  U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams spent five minutes during Friday's press conference talking about the fact that COVID-19 is hitting minority communities especially hard.  His densely packed presentation began with his addressing minorities' predisposition to diseases that increase the risk from COVID-19, such as asthma, heart disease, and diabetes. [...] PBS's Yamiche Alcindor was among the assembled reporters.  Having heard the entire presentation, she didn't ask a question that would help anyone understand substantive issues.  Instead, she went for the "gotcha" questions: [...]

The AP begins revising history to attack Trump.  The media are not only rude and confrontational at press briefings, but they're also re-writing history about how and when information on the virus came to light.  Facts don't matter.  There is only one goal:  Get Trump.  Toward that end, manipulating timelines has become quite popular as evidenced most recently in this AP report: [...] China lied, caused a global pandemic, and created circumstances in country after country that would make it more difficult to control due to lack of medical supplies.  WHO lied.  And our own experts seem to have been blindsided.  Along the way, time was squandered by the CDC, not the president.

American media keep repeating China's coronavirus talking points.  It should not be this easy for Chinese Communist Party propaganda to make its way into major American newsrooms.  Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, which Chinese lies ensured would become a pandemic, American news media have promoted a number of Beijing-approved talking points, including the one that alleges it is racist to refer to the virus by its country and city of origin.  American news media have also accepted at face value a series of dubious claims pushed by Chinese Communist apparatchiks, including the absurd boast that China's new case numbers have remained essentially flat since late February.  "U.S. has more known cases of coronavirus than any other country," CNN reported on March 26, its declaration coming in unison with nearly every major news outlet in the United States. [...] That is, the U.S. is "No. 1" only if you believe the numbers reported by China, which you should not.  Pandemic trackers work with the data provided, and the data provided by Beijing is unbelievable.

The Corporate Media's Coronavirus Propaganda For China Is Finally Catching Up With Them.  Beijing has lied about the coronavirus from the start, while here in the West our corporate media has actively and enthusiastically spread its lies to households across the free world.  But now that news of China's lies is beginning to seep out, will it make a difference?  Will there even be corrections?  Don't count on it.  Even before reports on incinerators "working around the clock," massive orders for urns, government bribes to keep mourners quiet, and total government censorship, China's lies were obvious.  Even before China concealed the outbreak, blamed the U.S. military, and expelled foreign reporters, their lies were obvious.  Their lies were so obvious because China is an authoritarian regime that history plainly documents killing and starving millions while lying about it to this day.  The press should know this, and they do know this, yet still corporate news outlets unquestioningly repeat Beijing's line.

Dr. Birx Finally Goes Right at the U.S. Media and China for Lying.  This has been a long time coming.  I understand the notion that figures like Dr. Deborah Birx should remain apolitical, and they should, but it's not "political" to tell the truth about China lying and the U.S. media choosing to play useful idiots in response.  During yesterday's [3/31/2020] presser, Dr. Birx finally took the gloves off and said what we've all been thinking.  These ridiculous graphs relying on Chinese data that media members are sharing are garbage and dangerous.

Who's Funding the Coronavirus Political Trolls?  [Scroll down]  Pacronym's Facebook digital disinformation campaign targets Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona, the same five states targeted by McGowan's Courier plot to create fake local news sites.  Coronavirus cases have sharply risen in Michigan and Pennsylvania, but McGowan is sticking to her plan to help elect Joe Biden by spreading uncertainty during a time when people need reassurance.  Americans need to know that they can trust the health advisories coming from the White House.  It's not a time to sow doubt and division.  But Democrat political operatives have decided that it's their moment.

Media Peddle Bogus Wuhan Virus Stats To Bash America.  When Donald Trump tweeted this week that the United States had performed more coronavirus tests than any other country, the media were upset.  Trump being Trump, he'd also said the United States had done more tests in eight days than South Korea had done in eight weeks.  PolitiFact calculated the United States had done 17,582 fewer tests than South Korea during that time period.  LiveScience said the United States had done 43,790 fewer tests than South Korea during that time period.  Their own disparity notwithstanding, other media outlets pointed out merely that South Korea is a much smaller country than the United States.  That meant they had done more tests per capita than the United States had.

What the Media Isn't Telling You About the United States' Coronavirus Case Numbers.  On Thursday [3/26/2020], the New York Times made a big fuss over the fact that more than 81,321 Americans have been infected with the coronavirus, which is "more cases than China, Italy or any other country has seen."  According to their report, the United States, following "a series of missteps," is now "the epicenter of the pandemic."  But, is it really?  China's confirmed cases topped out at around 80,000, but, as PJM's Victoria Taft noted, China reportedly stopped conducting tests in order to show the world they've contained the spread of the virus.  So, comparing any country to China at this point is useless.

The New York Times Tries to Spread Panic About Ventilators, Gets Fact-Checked.  The New York Times has been one of the worst news outlets during the Wuhan virus pandemic.  They've consistently taken partisan positions and purposely mislead the public.  For example, after Nancy Pelosi tried to blowup the latest relief package, the Times decided to say it was the fault of Republicans — who had previously negotiated the bill in a bipartisan manner — because of course they did.  Today [3/26/2020], the paper of record went back to the old steadfast during this crisis, which is to try to create panic in order to score political points.

'Economist' Runs Chinese Coronavirus Propaganda Disguised as News.  The Economist is running Chinese propaganda from an outlet that is violating U.S. law to spread the message that Chinese president Xi Jinping has done a masterful job handling the coronavirus pandemic.  The propaganda advertorials, which are ads designed to look like news stories, come from the Beijing Review, an entity backed by the Chinese Communist Party.  The outlet has never registered with the Department of Justice as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and does not include a legally required disclaimer that the ad is being pushed by a foreign nation.

How the Mainstream Media Sweep Their Mistakes Under the Rug.  The online news outlet Axios on Wednesday [3/18/2020] published a bombshell news story:  Bernie Sanders, reporter Alexi McCammond wrote, was suspending his presidential campaign.  "It's an end to the campaign of the leading progressive in the race — and the candidate who seemed to be the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination less than a month ago," the report stated.  The only problem:  It wasn't true.  And this wasn't a run-of-the mill error, but a miscue on arguably the most anticipated (and inevitable) political story in the country.  What followed from Axios was not an explanation to its readers of how it got the story wrong, but an excuse for how it was mistakenly published (Axios editor in chief Nicholas Johnston blamed process breakdown in a "fully remote" newsroom).  Axios's response was an exercise in obfuscation and blame shifting.

The Liberal Media's Credibility Crashes.  Working hand-in-hand with their Democrat allies, the first cry of "Wolf!" was the Trump-Russia collusion fairy tale.  It was a ridiculous story on the face of it.  His media antagonists might hate the guy, but to believe he was stupid enough to try and steal the presidency with help from Vladimir Putin was bizarre beyond belief.  Finally the long-awaited (by the LSM) Mueller report was issued, followed by Mueller's appalling performance at a congressional hearing, in which he appeared to not know what was in his own report.  There was no collusion to be found.  Shocking — not.  The result for the Trump-Russia collusion media?  Here was this report from right here at the Daily Caller, Maddow's ratings were down 17%.

When Wuhan Virus Departs, World Will Be Changed.  [Scroll down]  Hardest hit of all, however, is the media, whose anti-Trump mania, reliance on manipulative if not imaginary "anonymous sources," eagerness to be seduced by former members of the intelligence community, general ignorance of almost every specialized field they encounter, political naiveté, and absolute fidelity to the party line ("Wuhan" is now racist) has rendered a once-proud profession little more than a mouthpiece for the Democratic National Committee and a constant reproach to truth, justice, and the American way.  At a time of dying newspapers and laid-off reporters, the media has chosen to go down with its "principles," rather than adhering to its former standards of objectivity and professionalism.  They wanted "change" and now they've got it[.]

The American press's entire energy is bent towards destroying Trump.  The mainstream American media have abandoned journalism's formerly-prized ethos of "who, what, where, why, when."  There is no pretense anymore that they serve a purpose other than maligning Donald Trump in the hope of destroying his presidency. [...] The media are currently outraged that Republicans are less panicked by the coronavirus than Democrats are.  Part of that may be because Democrats are ruled more by emotion than by reason.  A lot of it, though, is because Republicans have no reason to trust the media.  If members of the media believe that saying something will hurt Trump, they'll say it — and that's true whether what they're saying is honest or not.  If the media hysterically use coronavirus to attack Trump, Republicans instinctively assume (a) that coronavirus isn't that bad and (b) that Trump's doing an excellent job of handling it.

The Media Succumb to Raging Case of Katrina Virus in Hopes of Infecting Trump.  Democrats in the news media say that President George W. Bush botched the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. To the extent that Bush could convince the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana to declare an emergency and order mandatory evacuations, then, sure, it was all his fault.  Sigh.  Bush was mocked for using the FEMA trailers for emergency housing after the storm, even though they're often used for that purpose all over the country.  He was blamed for failing to put all of the first responders in the direct path of the storm, instead of where they were stationed, just outside of the area to keep them safe until the storm passed but close enough to swarm the area.  He was blamed for the levee failures.  He was blamed for people staying in the 9th Ward when the storm surge flooded them out.  Brian Williams pretended to see "bodies floating" in the French Quarter (a lie).  Wolf Blitzer incited a racist narrative, calling the victims "so poor, so black."  Kanye West declared that "George Bush doesn't care about black people."  Babies were being "raped" in the Superdome.  On and on it went.

How a Soros Trojan Horse Took Down Chris Matthews and Is Poised to Bully Others into Submission.  With hundreds of millions of dollars from billionaire financier George Soros and dozens of his comrades-in-arms at the "Democracy Alliance," the progressive network of labor unions, activist investment firms, social justice organizations, and ideological media outlets is the tip of the spear in "cancel" culture. [...] These groups and outlets, working in concert, orchestrated the downfall of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, targeted Breitbart, and attempted to knock Laura Ingraham off the air through advertiser boycotts.  Ultraviolet, in particular, led the anti-Kavanaugh protests — projecting "Kavanaugh is a sexual predator" onto the D.C. Court of Appeals where he sat before joining the highest court, running TV ads, and having their paid staff confront then-Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in a Senate elevator to convince him to oppose Kavanaugh.  Armed with unending funds from the Democracy Alliance donors, Ultraviolet's press releases are often re-packaged and published as "news" by Huffington Post writers, including Bassett.  Bassett also received awards from the neo-Malthusian and Democracy Alliance-funded Population Institute and Planned Parenthood for her pro-abortion reporting.

Stone Sentencing Ends Russia Collusion, Part I.  The Roger Stone sentencing farce is as fitting an end to the Russia Collusion saga as one could conjure up ... though it might be more fitting to call it the end of Russia Collusion, Part I.  No sooner did the first flick conclusively bomb than the media-Democrat complex was issuing the casting call for Russia Collusion, Part II.  In the sequel, you're asked to believe that Putin is manipulating the chesspieces to steal a second term for President Trump — somehow preferring an incumbent who beefs up the U.S. armed forces, pressures NATO allies to beef up theirs, imposes painful sanctions on Moscow, provides lethal aid to Ukraine, ramps up U.S. energy production, and seeks to thwart the Kremlin's coveted natural-gas partnership with Germany, over an unabashed socialist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and whose policies would wreck the American economy, end the resurgence of American energy production, and hollow out the American armed forces.  It's a lunatic plot.

The Washington Post (CIA) is Very Worried About The Big Russia Lie Being Exposed.  The media PR firm for the FBI and DOJ objectives is the New York Times.  The media PR firm for the State Department is CNN.  The media PR firm for the CIA is The Washington Post.  This pattern has existed for several years.  The Washington Post is very concerned about a growing possibility the investigation into the origin of intelligence community work may expose the fraudulent nature of the entire 'Russian Election Interference Collusion-Conspiracy' narrative.  Very concerned.  The WaPo/CIA express concern by stating that President Trump is attempting to "rewrite history"; disingenuously skipping the part where Trump isn't attempting anything.  For more than three years President Trump has simply pointed out the obvious.  It is is the media and the intelligence apparatus that set up a fictitious narrative for political needs.

Trump Slams Media Over 'Fake News' Border Wall Report.  Ahead of making his crowd-thrilling appearance at the Daytona 500 Sunday, President Trump added one more media-slamming post to a series of tweets he'd issued over the weekend hammering one of the central promises of his 2016 election: that he would "build the wall."  "Last week the Fake News said that a section of our powerful, under construction, Southern Border Wall 'fell over', trying to make it sound terrible, except the reason was that the concrete foundation was just poured [and] soaking wet when big winds kicked in.  Quickly fixed 'forever'," the president wrote Sunday [2/16/2020].

It was Obama, not Trump, who weaponized government against political opponents.  The media frequently buries stories that might hurt political candidates or policies they support and will continually run false stories against political candidates and policies they oppose.  How else can it explain the years of fake stories on Russian collusion, seeking to destroy white Christian boys for wearing MAGA hats, trying to destroy Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh with no evidence, the false "Hands up, don't shoot" narrative?  How else do you explain the burying of stories about all the mental and sexual abuse of women by the Clintons and the burying of stories or the lack of investigation into the clear corruption and kickbacks of the Clintons and Bidens if not pure bias?  How many people are the media willing to destroy in order to get power back for the Democrats?

Four major journalistic errors in just 10 hours.  The New York Times's Maggie Haberman, for example, tweeted the following falsehood at around 5:30 p.m. Monday evening:  "Republican voter registration in NH is down roughly 20k voters from 2016 to now.  It's a reminder that Trump's increased GOP popularity is in part because in some places, the GOP registration rolls have shrunk."  This is not only false, but it has been debunked several times.  At some point, repeating the lie becomes a choice.  Earlier than that, MSNBC's Katy Tur, who hosts a politics news show, sought to throw cold water on the strong economic numbers touted by the Trump White House, arguing that the economy is not working for the individual who spends up to 360 months paying off his car loan. [...] Car loans can take anywhere between 12 and 84 months to pay off.  Who are these people agreeing to 30-year car loans?

Fake news:
Pentagon racks up $35 trillion in accounting changes in a year.  The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that's larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Department's continuing difficulty in balancing its books.

Rebuttal / clarification:
What Do You Mean You Need to Move 35 Trillion (with a "T") Dollars at the Pentagon?  In an article from MSM, Tony Capaccio at Bloomberg (note — this is Bloomberg reporting in an election year where Michael Bloomberg is prepared to spend billions to defeat our President), wrote a story about the "stark increase in accounting changes at the Pentagon", changes of 35 Trillion in 2019, 30.7 trillion in 2018, and 29 Trillion in 2017.  Note the phrase "accounting changes".  Tony Capaccio, to make this a bigger story and imply wrongdoing, using all the MSM approved salacious adjectives, interviews the GAO about the "problem" of the increase in accounting changes.  Note, we're supposed to be concerned about an increase in accounting entries but NO ONE said any money is missing.  Plus, remember, GAO is an arm of CONGRESS (read as Pelosi), and the Pentagon in the Executive Branch (read as Trump).

Fact-Checkers Have Become the Janissaries of the Obama Legacy.  For me, at least, the most grating aspect of contemporary "fact-checking" isn't the dubious journalistic nature of the project, or the endlessly nitpicking of every Republican utterance, whether it's particularly misleading or not.  It's the increasingly popular effort to try to credit Barack Obama for everything good that's happened during Donald Trump's presidency.

The Editor says...
I hope you remember that Barack H. Obama, with the eager support of the news media, blamed George W. Bush for every bad thing that happened in Obama's entire eight-year presidency.

Media Continues Dishonesty On Dershowitz's Argument Against Impeachment.  Last week when it was announced that Alan Dershowitz was joining President Trump's legal team, I warned in these pages that his complex argument in the alternative, in which he claims that even if proven what Democrats allege regarding Ukraine does not rise to the level of impeachment, was ripe for mischaracterization.  The news media has not disappointed on that score.  The first misunderstanding came just hours after the announcement of his role.  Many in the news media erroneously claimed that Dershowitz, and by extension Trump's legal team, were conceding wrongdoing, and that Republicans were moving the goalposts away from a "perfect call."  This was never true, but was too attractive a narrative for many to pass up.  Yesterday [1/29/2020] the deceptive coverage of Dershowitz got even worse.

Media ignore Adam Schiff's record of lying, fawn over him as hero of impeachment proceedings.  Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of California showed himself to be a liar during the special counsel's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, repeatedly claiming to have knowledge of "direct" and "ample" evidence proving President Trump's campaign colluded with the Kremlin.  Yet despite outing himself as an untrustworthy partisan operative, many of the same members of the press who uncritically parroted Schiff and members the intelligence community during the collusion and FBI spying episodes are promoting the congressman now as a heroic and awe-inspiring manager of the impeachment proceedings; because we have learned nothing from the last three years.

This is why nobody cares about the impeachment trial.  Does there exist a more unabashed partisan than Adam Schiff? [...] Over and over again Schiff repeats things about the president that are, to the objective observer, not criminal, not impeachable, and driven by contempt.  You don't have to be a die-hard Trump homer to see that Democrats do not have the impeachment goods they said they had, and they knew from the get-go that this was going nowhere in the Senate, so they set out to stage a production, a spectacle to tarnish the president and the GOP while signaling their own virtue.  This is clear, even to ordinary Americans like myself.  Yet the liberal media, with its high level of self-importance and low level of self-awareness, acts like each boring, fanciful, inconsequential monologue is the newest iteration of the "I Have a Dream" speech.

Fake News:  No, a Christian School Didn't Expel a Girl Over a Rainbow Cake.  Last week, liberal media outlets latched onto the latest horrific example of bigoted Christians forcing their morality on everyone else:  a Christian school expelling a girl for posting a picture of herself wearing a rainbow sweatshirt and eating a rainbow cake on Facebook.  According to the girl's mother, the Christian school rushed to judgment and expelled her daughter, who isn't even gay, over a birthday cake!  This narrative, which plays into the biases of many liberal journalists and LGBT activists, is just as wrong as the narrative of Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandmann disrespecting a Native American man.  As it turns out, the school had good reason to expel the girl — and it involved a great deal more than one innocent birthday cake.

On the other hand...
China's coronavirus outbreak looks worse than the Chicoms are admitting.  Communist regimes are famous for concealing inconvenient information and that appears to be the case in China with the spread of the coronavirus, a SARS-linked pneumonia-like flu that reportedly has killed 26, infected nearly a thousand, and spread to to more than a half a dozen countries beyond China, including the U.S. The Chinese have got 20 million people on lockdown in Wuhan and several cities near it, just as the Chinese New Year begins, which is the entire region's biggest holiday.  It's pretty obvious the epidemic is spreading anyway.  Officials, culpably or not, closed the barn door after the horse got out.

GOP senators: don't overthink impeachment scam.  "Journalists" on TV and radio lie routinely, without a conscience.  They vote Democrat.  They love their party.  They have to pay.  The news media have exacerbated the impeachment scam.  And apparent #NeverTrump GOP senators have believed the news media lies.

Media, Using Anonymous Sources, Have Presented 4 Separate Narratives Surrounding Trump And Soleimani.  When and how did President Donald Trump come up with the decision to have Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani killed?  That's the question the media seems to have been asking for the past week — and so far, they've come up with wildly different answers.  Using the oh-so-tired "anonymous sources" trick, media outlets have reported everything from Trump wanted Soleimani dead back in 2017 to suggesting it was actually Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who pushed for the killing.  Here are the four completely contradictory narratives the media have "reported," all based on anonymous officials: [...]

Photographer Mark Peterson Shows Patriots Can't Trust The Lying Press.  I must admit I was surprised that the Main Stream Media responded to the emergent internet's ability to debunk its propaganda (Duke Lacrosse, UVA Rape Hoax, Covington Catholic) by becoming even more flagrantly partisan (besides, of course, calling for internet censorship). Aren't markets supposed to clear?  But the result is that the myth of journalism as an impartial profession, which was receiving pious lip-service as recently as fifteen years ago, is now believed by no-one under 35.  A practical consequence for me:  I've stopped accepting interviews with the MSM except by email — which is why I have on record Andrew Lawler's malice and mendacity in The Secret Token, his book on Virginia Dare.  But Jared Taylor's experience, cross-posted here, suggests you can't even let the swine take photographs.

Media Beclowns Itself Spreading Fake News and Anti-Trump Propaganda During Iranian Missile Attack.  As Iranian missiles rained down on U.S. military targets in Iraq Tuesday night [1/7/2020], two cable news outlets, MSNBC and CNN, spread fake news that suggested that the damage was worse than it was.  The Pentagon confirmed that Tehran fired more than 12 ballistic missiles targeting two military bases used by US and coalition forces in Iraq.  During a broadcast of Hardball on MSNBC, NBC News Tehran bureau chief Ali Arouzi parroted Iranian state media propaganda claiming erroneously that Iranian rockets had killed 30 American soldiers.

Media Falsely Claims Vice President Pence is Wrong About Suleimani and 9/11 Attackers.  On January 3, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence tweeted this about General Suleimani:  [Tweets]  The New York Times responded that the public record does not back him up.  The Los Angeles Times claims Pence falsely links Iranian general to 9/11 attacks.  Both newspapers and the others echoing them are lying or just wrong.  The public record actually does back up the Vice President completely.  All one need do is look at the 9/11 Commission report on page 241.

Deutsche Bank Fake News Story Debunked.  [Scroll down]  In another chapter of the Great Trump Conspiracy, A Deutsch Bank whistle blower had revealed that a State Run Russian Bank had funded all of the institution's loans to Donald Trump for many years.  Thousands of Tweets with that tag.  I counted more than 40 good size pages who picked up the story.  Yet not one major source.  This is what fake news smells like!  And the digging began. [...] So the moral of the story is this, my friends.  Don't be stupid.  90% of what you see on the web is garbage, and fake news is now big business.  Stop clicking links spouting sensationalist garbage that you know full well most likely isn't true just on the off chance that it might be true.  It isn't.

The Media Is Lying About The Attacks On The Embassy In Baghdad.  You can tell that the Obama administration's legacy in the Middle East is in danger because the media, as the self-appointed janitors of that legacy, have gone into overdrive obfuscating the timing, context, and significance of this week's attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad.  Although President Donald Trump has gone a long way to dismantling Obama's legacy in the region, much more remains to be done, including a halt to American taxpayer money that has been flowing into Iranian-controlled governments in Iraq and Lebanon.  Earlier this week Iran-backed militias stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, chanting "Down, down USA!" and hurling water bottles and smashing security cameras.  The attackers breached parts of the embassy and were only disbursed the next day, after Trump deployed Marines to ensure the safety of our embassy personnel and property.

New Year Ahead:  Nothing Will Help Them.  The mainstream media has little to look forward to as their fanciful reportage comes undone.  Newsrooms are shedding staff and the papers facing lawsuits by the Covington kids are getting thinner and thinner.  The movie Richard Jewell exposes the media incompetence and partisanship at the cost of truth.  The Washington Post is now so slim my free neighborhood flyer has more copy than it does.

Making Journalism Great Again.  [Scroll down]  You would think that the reporters writing the stories were, like meteorologists, predicting tomorrow's news, rather than recording for posterity known facts and affairs.  It is said that gross inaccuracy should be tolerated in the news business because reporters, even when very wrong, manage to reveal important unknown events when allowed to "chase a story" like a detective unearthing a clue.  When you flip through a year's worth of pages now bleeding scarlet red dye, though, it is not courage but shame that comes to mind.  How many red-encircled headlines should be endured before reaching the conclusion that this is not "news" but speculative fiction or straight-up propaganda?  Is there a certain percentage of inaccuracy that we could all agree is impermissible?  Would coastal newspapers still feel haughty if they had to print disclaimers below the fold stating that forty percent or more of what you are about to read might later be proven to be false?

A Decade of Fake News.  The idea of a "decade in review" article at the end of 2019 is a bit of "fake news."  Technically, the current decade does not end until December 31, 2020.  In that spirit, it is worth looking back at the past ten years through the "fake news" lens.  These were years in which the mainstream media used false allegations and biased reporting to suppress conservative voices; they were also the first years in which, thanks to Andrew Breitbart, we began to resist them.

Media Standing Up For Antifa.  Antifa, a left-wing movement to counter the fascist "alt-right" by conducting acts of domestic terrorism has been defended by the media as principled individuals united in their common valor to resist the anti-Trump forces threatening to destroy the country.  Exactly how Antifa is pursuing their mission?  By destroying the country.  Throughout the year the left-wing militant group has interrupted events and viciously attacked journalists covering their hate resulting in one reporter suffering a brain injury.  "It says it right in the name.  'Antifa,' which means 'anti-fascism,' which is what they were there fighting.  Listen, no organization is perfect, there is some violence," CNN's Don Lemon said.  "They have taken a principled stand to stand against white supremacists and white nationalists wherever they may show up," said a guest on MSNBC.

The Media's Worst Moments of 2019.  Our friends at Grabien prepared this montage of some of the media's worst moments of 2019.  Given the media malpractice of the last year, the video could be the length of Ben-Hur, but they've whittled it down to a mere eight minutes.  And it is a fun walk down memory lane, as pretty much all of the media's worst moments have, by now, blown up in their faces.  [Video clip]

Unfit To Print Episode 34: IG Report Debunks Media's Biggest Lies.  The IG report on FISA abuse finally dropped this week, and the media is still reeling from all of the lies it uncovered.  [Audio clip]

Schiff and Complicit Media Are Due For a Reckoning After IG Report Exposed Their Lies.  Now that the inspector general report on FISA abuse has vindicated the work of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and thoroughly debunked the fraudulent conspiracy theories and smears of the current chairman Adam Schiff, many conservatives are crying out for retribution.  At the very least, Schiff should face an ethics complaint for lying in his memo, American Commitment President Phil Kerpen says.

Our Outrage Over the Dems' Impeachment Farce.  The most infuriating thing about Democrats and fake news medias' fake outrage over Trump's alleged crimes is everyone knows Trump has done nothing wrong.  He has functioned totally within his presidential authority.  Democrats and media are attempting to criminalize Trump defending himself while exposing their corruption.  The only thing Trump is guilty of is keeping his promise to do everything within his power to make America great again.  Folks, it feels like we are in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" in which Democrats' and medias' reality is the polar opposite of the truth.  With straight faces, they authoritatively lie about every issue.  Our economy is booming.  And yet, Democrats and media say people are suffering horribly in Trump's economy.  Blacks are enjoying a historic low unemployment rate.  Dems and media tell blacks Trump is a white supremacist seeking to harm them.

OAN Investigative Report:  Ukraine, Biden, and Far-Left Media Malpractice.  This is Deep State chicanery exposed for all the world to see — IF they are willing to pay attention.  When the far-left media claims there is "no evidence" of wrongdoing by Joe Biden, Ukraine, Obama administration officials, etc., they are pushing an outright lie.  The evidence is clear, it's available, and it's incredibly damning to the wrongdoers involved as is so clearly outlined in the following OAN news report:  [Video clip]

CrowdStrike: a Conspiracy Wrapped in a Conspiracy Inside a Conspiracy.  Long story short, the Democrat-media complex has successfully convinced one half of the world that Trump is a Russian agent.  Now they're acting as if they'd spent the last three years in a coma, unaware of any bombshell stories about collusion.  And bombshell stories without any continuation are a telltale sign of fake narratives.  The only consequence of these bombshells is mass amnesia among the foot soldiers.  The Trump-Russian outrage is dead, long live the Trump-Ukraine outrage.  And when that outrage is dead, the next outrage that will be just outrageous.  The current impeachment narrative alleges that Trump used military aid as leverage in asking Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden (which implies the Democrats know Biden is dirty, otherwise why bother?). What's not in this picture is CrowdStrike.  Even though Trump mentioned it in the phone call, it has nothing to do with the Bidens nor the Javelin missiles.  CrowdStrike has nothing to do with impeachment.  We're told it's just a silly conspiracy theory in Trump's head, that it's a nonissue.

Media's Latest Anti-Nunes Smear Is Michael-Cohen-In-Prague All Over Again.  Devin Nunes' opponents in the Resistance seem to be spiraling.  Their latest effort against the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is to accuse him, without evidence, of secretly meeting in Vienna with a former Ukrainian official "to get dirt on Biden."  The official is former Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, who former Vice President Joe Biden famously bragged about getting fired in exchange for $1 billion in loan guarantees from American taxpayers.  Incidentally, if there is one thing we have learned from the media in the last couple of months, "get dirt" is their code for Republicans doing investigations.  "Investigate" is their code for Democrats trying to get dirt on political opponents.  It appears the same term could be used regardless of the political views of those doing the investigations.

Media Hypes Fusion GPS Founders as Victims.  It's a little like the proverbial child killing its parents and throwing itself on the mercy of the court because he's now an orphan, but, with the wheels of Barr-Durham-Horowitz justice inexorably turning on them, there are Fusion GPS founders, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, on a media book tour claiming they are the victims of right-wing vengeance for their role in orchestrating a criminal fraud upon the FISA court and a coup against a sitting president of the United States.

60 Minutes gives us a migrant sob story except that all signs suggest the migrant is pretty rich.  The news show began with a sad story of Tania Avalos, who, along with her purported husband and daughter, attempted to cross the rain-swollen Rio Grande river illegally, resulting in two deaths.  60vMinutes matched the event to a widely reported news photo of the two dead bodies in the river.  The man who died was Óscar Alberto Mart'nez Ram'rez, and toddler was named Valeria.  The news show never got around to asking why the last names of the parents did not match, and tellingly, never gave the last name of the father which is kind of an indicator of something they don't want us to know.  After all, 'who, what, where...' — the old news industry standard.  Were they really a family or were they cobbling together a fake family to take advantage of asylum laws as large numbers of migrants do?  They certainly knew enough about it to understand that they were to surrender to the Border Patrol, so they weren't utter naifs as they had been portrayed in terms of their odds.

Reuters Deletes Story Meant to Make Trump Look Bad After Realizing it Made Obama Look Bad.  Reuters completely deleted a wire story concerning the number of children in migrant detention centers after discovering that the author's figures were from 2015 and do not reflect the current number of children in such centers.  Adding an editor's note or something of the like was tossed for a complete revocation, which is always last and worst case scenario in the news world.

Nets Cheer Sondland 'Directly Implicating' Trump, Then Admit He Didn't.  During an 11:00 a.m. ET hour break in Wednesday's [11/20/2019] impeachment hearing, all three broadcast networks eagerly proclaimed the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, was "directly implicating" President Trump in a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine.  However, just minutes later, those same networks admitted that Sondland never heard any such thing directly from the President.  "Well, Gordon Sondland, clearly the man of the hour there, as we are halfway through the questioning," Nightly News anchor Lester Holt declared during NBC's special coverage.  He further claimed that Sondland "dropped a lot of bombshells" and "Is now implicating the President directly."  He emphasized that Sondland "had direct communications with the President." [...] The only problem with those pronouncements?  They weren't true.

Nixon's Lessons for the Would-Be Impeachers.  One of the nauseating permutations of public recollection that has arisen out of the attempts to destroy Trump is that Richard Nixon was treated fairly.This fraud is buttressed by the frequent appearances on our screens of the chief trigger-men in that bloodless assassination: the unspeakable turncoat White House lawyer John Dean and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, still padding around on the imperishable fuel of the Watergate putsch, festooned with the awards the media give themselves.

Impeachment surprise:  How Adam Schiff validated my reporting on Ukraine.  For weeks, media have claimed my Biden column was a debunked "conspiracy theory" and no one saw anything wrong.  Now we know the very people working on Ukraine policy below Joe Biden in the State Department saw the appearance of a conflict, long before I reported it.  And they were so concerned about Burisma's corruption reputation that they took official actions to distance the U.S. from the firm that hired Hunter Biden.

New York Times Admits No One Believes the Liberal News Media Anymore.  Here's an excerpt from the Trump-hating New York Times.  ["]But just when information is needed most, to many Americans it feels most elusive.  The rise of social media; the proliferation of information online, including news designed to deceive; and a flood of partisan news are leading to a general exhaustion with news itself.["]

Here's How Impeachment Helps Democrats Even If They Fail.  Today's Democrat Party is a joke that would cease to exist if not for the unwavering support of the massively powerful corporate media.  Long before this revelation, it always amused me when people like Resistance Jake Tapper or others in the media would claim:  "We don't choose the stories.  The stories choose us.  All we're doing is reporting what's going on in the world.  That's our job."  It amused me because they literally write the headlines.  They choose exactly what stories to cover.  As has become painfully obvious to anyone with a pulse, they also choose the narratives attached to those stories and how every twist and turn is characterized throughout the 24/7 news cycle.  If you couple those realities — that the media are nothing more than Democrats' marketing arm, and that they're responsible for deciding what we talk about and how it's characterized — it becomes really hard to take "the news" seriously.

The View's Joy Behar:  Buttigieg Has a 'Very Traditional Marriage'.  Joy Behar, co-host of "The View," expressed her support of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Monday, saying that the mayor of South Bend, Ind., is "in a very traditional marriage."  Traditional marriage is defined as the union between one man and one woman.

When Did Ukraine Become a 'Critical Ally'?  On hearing the State Department's George Kent and William Taylor describe President Donald Trump's withholding of military aid to Ukraine, The New York Times summarized and solemnly endorsed their testimony:  "What clearly concerned both witnesses wasn't simply the abuse of power by the President, but the harm it inflicted on Ukraine, a critical ally, under constant assault by Russian forces." [...] "One would think, listening to this," writes Barbara Boland, the American Conservative columnist, "that the U.S. had always provided arms to Ukraine, and that Ukraine has relied on this aid for years.  But this is untrue and the Washington blob knows this."  Indeed, Ukraine has never been a NATO ally or a "critical ally."

President Trump. vs. the Media.  Since Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election, leftists in the mainstream media, which is to say virtually all of the mainstream media have abandoned nearly every pretense about who they are, what they represent, and what are their goals.  It is safe to say that many of the problems we face in America today are directly attributable to the fact that, because of their warped worldview, the vast majority of the American media simply won't tell the truth.  This is especially troubling when one considers that the American media has lied and continues to lie on almost every moral issue debated in America.

Trump Derangement Syndrome on Steroids.  The American Prospect's Paul Waldman gives us an earful about President Trump and how Trump is destroying everything that's good and decent in America. [...] What strikes me is Waldman's unchecked assertion that Trump's accountability "has been in short supply."  He wholly ignores that Democrats have been feverishly pursuing Trump since he announced his candidacy.  For two years, they've prosecuted a bogus case on Trump "colluding" with Russia, guaranteeing they had unimpeachable evidence.  They were lying, and their would-be savior, special counsel Robert Mueller, produced no evidence of collusion.  Accountability?  Why haven't the Democrats had to answer for their wasting taxpayers' time and money over this lie?  Neither they nor their legacy media co-conspirators have uttered one syllable of apology to the American people, let alone President Trump, for dragging us through this nightmare.

Killing America in anonymity.  The media tells us there is a "heroic" whistle blower who claims President Donald John Trump broke a law — never specified — in a phone call to the newly elected president of Ukraine.  President Trump released the transcript of the call, which shows nothing of the sort.  Nevertheless, the media is pushing for an impeachment to boost cable news ratings, and to divert attention from the best economy in 50 years, Disney's ABC covering up Clinton's involvement with pedophile Jeff Epstein, and peace breaking out in Syria after 8 years of war.  But the media is deliberately refusing to name Eric Ciaramella as the Obamanaut who spied on the Trump administration from within, just as Obama ordered the FBI to wiretap the Trump campaign.

Where were the whistleblowers on foreign policy during Obama's terms?  [Scroll down]  Instead of the media being unbiased observers and reporters, they have been active participants in the indoctrination of the public that Trump is a lawbreaker, ignores the Constitution and is a racist, homophobe, xenophobe, dictator and fascists among other names as they say Trump is divisive.  The meddling by the media to destroy Trump and elect Democrats is much more dangerous to the integrity of our elections than anything Russia or any other foreign country has or is doing.  When the media is intentionally peddling false stories about Russian collusion, lies about what Trump said about Charlottesville, blocking opposing views on climate change, attacking Kavanaugh with no evidence or burying the Jeffrey Epstein story they are campaigners, not reporters.  They are anything but fact checkers.

Attenborough Tacitly Admits Netflix on 'Walrusgate' Tragedy Porn.  It was one of the most heart-rending animal tragedy episodes ever shown on TV:  hundreds of walruses shown plunging over a cliff to their deaths out of "desperation" caused by climate change.  Or so the story originally went when Sir David Attenborough first told it last year on his Netflix documentary Our Planet, causing much upset to impressionable viewers.

The Washington Post's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.  A top National Security Council official, Tim Morrison, who listened to President Donald Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky, testified in front of Congress on Thursday.  But that morning, ahead of the testimony, senior political reporter Aaron Blake reported that Morrison would confirm acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor's account that Trump appeared to seek a quid pro quo.  In fact, the opposite happened.  Morrison noted the multiple false assertions made by Taylor, and testified that he never thought anything illegal was discussed on the phone call.

Media-Democrat Tantrum [is] a Fear Response.  Media bias comes in many forms, but one of the most effective forms is in their ability to frame stories.  There is an entire cottage industry in "Republicans pounce" stories to frame even terrible Democrat news as somehow harmful to Republicans.  But to frame this story the way the media want to frame it, they needed help.  This is why we now have dueling investigations, one a complete façade and the other deadly serious.  There is no secret in how these will be covered by the media.  The fraud impeachment circus will be treated with full gravity and seriousness, while what might be the most important investigation in U.S. history will be treated as political payback.

Counting the Ways the Washington Post Loves Them Some al-Baghdadi.  I knew the usual suspects at our failing, far-left, fake news outlets such as CNN, NBC News, the New York Times, and Washington Post, would attempt to spin one of America's great days as the exact opposite.  We would be told audacious lies about how taking out al-Baghdadi would only make things worse, only proves Trump's Syria policy is a disaster, how this successful mission happened in spite of Trump, and that Trump's perfectly-calibrated statement and willingness to answer the media's questions at length would be twisted into a crass victory lap.  But even I, your humble writer, was floored when the Washington Post lamented the loss of that dear, sweet man al-Baghdadi — a vile terrorist responsible for thousands of innocent deaths, a monster who engaged in serial rape, and a sub-human, barbaric sociopath whose entire legacy is one of torture, murder, rape, tyranny and terror — including of his own people.

Unfortunately Fox News Continues Deliberate Misinformation.  Moments ago Fox News host Shannon Bream promoted a segment on her news program outlining the pending House 'Impeachment Inquiry' resolution scheduled for tomorrow [10/31/2019].  During the broadcast segment Bream stated, falsely, that President Trump would be granted the following participatory measures as an outcome of the resolution:  [Screen-grab]  This is deliberately false information.  The resolution does not convey any of the outlined measures to the Executive Branch.

White House Knocks Washington Post 'Religious Scholar' Terrorist Obituary.  The White House on Monday [10/28/2019] knocked the Washington Post obituary for founder of the Islamic State terrorist organization Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after he was killed during a United States raid on Saturday.  "Despite what the Washington Post wants you to think, this was not some religious leader, a religious scholar, this was a terrorist, a disgusting man with a record of death and viciousness and destruction," White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said in a Fox News interview on Monday.

Social media parodies the Washington Post's tone-deaf obituary headline that called ISIS leader al-Baghdadi an 'austere religious scholar'.  A Washington Post obituary referring to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an 'austere religious scholar' after the ISIS mastermind was killed in a US military strike has sparked a deluge of death tribute parodies on Twitter.  The newspaper came under fire on Sunday after it changed the headline on al-Baghdadi's obituary two times — first calling him 'terrorist-in-chief', followed by 'austere religious leader at the helm of ISIS' and finally 'extremist leader'.  Twitter users seized on the second iteration, accusing The Post of painting al-Baghdadi in an inappropriately positive light given the brutality he championed while leading the terrorist organization.

Washington Post headline:  "Austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State dies at 48.".  Look at this, on the front-page at The Washington Post:  [Illustration]  It's as though the paper is honoring him.  I wonder how long that will stay on the front page in that form.  It's the teaser for [an] obituary, and there is another article — to the left — about the military raid, "Trump says Islamic State leader Baghdadi blew himself up as U.S. troops closed in."  Note how that forefronts Baghdadi's agency.  He "blew himself up."  If you click through to the obituary, the headline is different — "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State's 'terrorist-in-chief,' dies at 48."  So that makes the form of the headline on the front page even more startling — "Austere religious scholar..."

Washington Post Columnist, CNN Analyst Suggests Al-Baghdadi Did Not Die Like a 'Coward'.  Washington Post columnist Max Boot on Monday [10/28/2019] suggested ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not die like a "coward" as President Trump described on Sunday, arguing that the president's assertion is "contradicted by the fact that rather than be captured, he blew himself up."  Boot, who is both a Post columnist and CNN analyst, wrote in a column on Monday that Trump turned al-Baghdadi's death into another "risible spectacle."

NY Times:  Trump Gets No Credit for Baghdadi Raid.  The Washington Post says al-Baghdadi was just an "austere religious scholar," but if you don't buy that line the New York Times has another hot take: the successful raid on Baghdadi's hideout occurred despite, not because of, President Trump: [...] These are no doubt the same "military, intelligence and counterterrorism officials" who have been behind 5,000 or so previous anti-Trump stories in the Times.  As William Jacobson points out, there is nothing to the Times story.  Intelligence sources located Baghdadi, the military asked for permission to go after him, Trump granted permission, and the raid was carried out successfully.  The Times has nothing.

Washington Post columnist issues correction after claiming Baghdadi [was] not a coward.  The Washington Post was forced to issue a correction after columnist Max Boot said Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was not a coward because he evaded capture by committing suicide.  Boot initially stated in his Monday [10/28/2019] column that, "The assertion that Baghdadi died as a coward was, in any case, contradicted by the fact that rather than be captured, he blew himself up."  After backlash from people accusing Boot of praising Baghdadi in an attempt to make a dig at President Trump, the Washington Post deleted the line and issued a correction.

Washington Post Mourns Passing of "Austere Religious Scholar" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.  Reactions vary to the U.S. killing of ISIS terrorist chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.  However, perhaps the most alarming headline was the sympathetic obituary from The Washington Post: [...] The Washington Post was not alone in their sympathy over the killing of the brutal terrorist.  Bloomberg News also followed quickly with deep sympathies for the death of a leader who "transformed himself" into a "teacher of Koranic recitation": [...] In an era where the ideology of U.S. media has become increasingly disconnected from the majority of Americans, it is becoming less surprising to see radical leftist positions in mainstream organizations.  However, that said, for any U.S. media to position themselves as sympathetic to one of the most brutal terrorists in the last half-century, is a level of disconnect far beyond comprehension.

Trump economy surges and Biden and Obama hog the credit.  This is the continuing history rewrite of the left to explain the booming economy in the third year of Mr. Trump's presidency.  Today we are at or below record levels of unemployment, inflation and interest rates in half-a-century.  Wages and salaries are rising at their fastest clip in at least two decades.  There are an all-time high 7 million unfilled jobs in the United States.  The Washington Post is freaking out about the continued good news on the economy — and especially the latest data — that I reported on these pages two weeks ago that median household income is up by $5,003 since Mr. Trump became president.  This was based on Census data, but The Post ranted last week that Donald Trump continues to "inflate his own numbers."  Nearly every assertion in the article was wrong or twisted — and Mr. Trump was right.

The Russia hoax:  The Left's willful ignorance and denial.  As we see and hear leftists spew their anti-Trump vitriol all day long on CNN and MSNBC and the others, anchors and guests — Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, Chris Wallace, and their favored guests, for example — one has to wonder, has not one of them ventured to read any of the books or the vast number of columns written by real journalists that have laid out in detail how the Russia hoax was orchestrated?  Who instigated it?  Who paid for it?  Even Friday [10/25/2019], after hearing that the Barr and Durham probes into the origins of the hoax are now criminal investigations, they all dismiss this bit of news as, get this, a political witch hunt!  Whereas they were actually conducting a secret search for a crime in deep, dark crevices where none existed, they now have the gall to call Barr's and Durham's investigations "political."

GOP Has A Choice:  Fight Anti-Trump Coup Effort Or Surrender Government To Democrats.  Corporate media is trying to spin the Ukraine story as if it is something other than what it is.  As if it were legitimate and quickly moving.  Mike Allen of Axios opined of impeachment that "It's remarkable how fast it has gotten off the ground.  You can see how quickly the Ukraine phone call came out of nowhere to become the all-consuming impeachment topic — way faster than the impeachment inquiries into Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton."  Yes, this is a really good talking point if you ignore literally everything that has happened since November 8, 2016. [...] Just as in 2000, the media screeching over Rep. Matt Gaetz and his colleagues fighting the secret efforts — which are literally being led by a man who lied to the public for years, falsely claiming he held evidence of Trump's treasonous collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 election — is not an objection to what Gaetz and his colleagues did but anger that some Republicans have the audacity to fight back against what Democrats and the corporate media are doing.

NY Times Wrote an Entire Fake Article About Ukraine 'Scandal'.  The New York Times alleged in a false news article that "Ukraine Knew of Aid Freeze by August, Undermining Trump Defense."  The Trump-Zelensky phone call was made the end of July.  There goes another NYT lie.  The August info didn't undermine anything.  It backed up the President.  The NYT wrote, "In fact, word of the aid freeze had gotten to high-level Ukrainian officials by the first week in August, according to interviews and documents obtained by The New York Times."  That is irrelevant since the call took place on July 29.

Seeing Some Trees in the Forest of Babble.  The hypnotic babble of the media beguiles otherwise intelligent people into believing that Russia colluded with President Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton, that Trump forced Ukraine into investigating Hunter Biden and did something, we can't say what, to be impeached, and that thousands of poor Kurds are being displaced because we pulled some hundreds of our troops from the Syrian-Turkish border.  Rational, fact-based analysis shows all this to be untrue, but breaking through this hazy thinking is not an easy task.  Maybe because that's the true aim: eradicating reason totally.

The Anatomy of a Terrible Liberal Media Lie.  I have to tell you a remarkable personal story, a story that proves the liberal media are, in fact, out to frame and ruin President Donald Trump and his supporters with lies, distortions and misrepresentation; a story that proves the liberal media are vicious, untrustworthy and sometimes just plain evil.  I was in Miami last weekend to speak in front of 1,200 conservatives at a fabulous three-day conference called AmpFest19.  Speakers also included Donald Trump Jr., Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Dinesh D'Souza.  The event was organized professionally.  The speakers were inspiring.  The crowd was enthusiastic.  And the energy was sky high.  But it turned out the liberal media sent spies into the audience to try to ruin, denigrate and demonize the event, and kill all the joy.

Here's why the media is lying to you about Mick Mulvaney's Ukraine comments.  Thursday night [10/17/2019] on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin discussed a press conference held by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney held earlier that day and how the mainstream media covered it.  During the press briefing at the White House, Mulvaney explained that foreign aid to the Ukraine was held up over the summer in order to see if the country would commit to cooperate with an ongoing Department of Justice investigation regarding potential corruption in the 2016 election.  Several in the media said that the acting chief admitted to a "quid pro quo" with Ukrainian officials, which is central to Democrats' and the media's Trump impeachment narrative.  Mulvaney explained that conditioning aid money happens "all the time with foreign policy," adding that funding was being withheld from Central American countries at the same time in order to force their cooperation on immigration policy.

Journalists Have Become Hoaxers.  Big media played its part in the Trayvon hoax as in NBC doctoring George Zimmerman's 911 call to make Zimmerman appear a racist, providing a racial angle for his self-defense shooting of Trayvon Martin.  CNN referred to Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic" to keep the race angle front and center.  Did they ever refer to Barack Obama as "half black" given the white skin color of his mother?  Are these hoaxes accidental or deliberate?  Is this sloppy reporting or an attempt to shape a narrative rather than simply report the news?

Good Riddance to Shepard Smith.  Shepard Smith was the worst thing on Fox News not because he was an anti-Trump leftist, but because he lied and lied and lied, claiming he was not.  There are plenty of anti-Trump leftists on Fox News, and that's a good thing.  It is also to the eternal credit of Fox that, unlike its competition on the far left — CNN and MSNBC — Fox actually airs a legitimate diversity of opinions on the issues of the day, most especially President Trump.  That was not Shepard Smith.  No, rather than come out of the partisan closet, rather than put on the uniform, rather than step into the arena, like way too many in our perversely corrupt news media, he chose to hide like a coward behind a shield of objective truth, a shield of capital "J" journalism, which made him a dishonorable and thoroughly despicable liar — which is why his ratings were so awful.

The Curious Case of the Incurious Press.  Instead of expressing curiosity about why the Bidens had been the subject of a criminal investigation in Ukraine, reporters fell into lockstep with the Democrats' impeachment narrative.  Everywhere you turned for the last two weeks, whenever a reporter was talking about Biden at all, it was to talk about how he was being maligned by Trump, that he had been cleared of any wrongdoing, that the claim that he had gotten a prosecutor fired to protect his son was a "debunked conspiracy theory."  When you asked who cleared Biden, you got no answer except the news media themselves.

Bloomberg Retracts Hit Job Article Falsely Claiming Antisemitism From Trump Labor Aide.  One month after Bloomberg Law published a story with false allegations of antisemitism from a Trump appointee at the Department of Labor, the outlet has officially retracted the article.  "In reporting on a series of social media posts from Department of Labor official Leif Olson, we failed to meet our editorial standards for fairness and accuracy," Bloomberg said in a statement announcing its decision where the article would otherwise be posted.  "We regret that lapse and apologize to our readers and to Mr. Olson."

Media Pretend China Isn't Communist.  China is communist.  They have a Central Committee, Politburo, and a General Secretary.  China is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).  The word "Communist" is right there in the name.  And yet, the mainstream media isn't so sure.  They regularly downplay the ideological nature of the CCP.  They have even taken to advancing the idea that China isn't communist at all, but in fact, capitalist.

News Station Tries To Claim Chick-Fil-A Has The Slowest Drive-Thru Line And Immediately Gets Demolished By The Internet.  Chick-fil-A is so good at serving people quickly and efficiently that it's become a meme in and of itself.  People are willing to get into what could be considered overly long lines for their drive-thru that spill out into intersections — I've seen it with my own eyes — not just because the food is good, but because they know that no matter the length of the line, they'll be in and out fairly quickly.  However, WWBT-TV in Richmond, Virginia, posted the results of a study that measured drive-thru wait times, and their conclusion was that Chick-fil-A was the slowest of them all. [...] The study is pretty misleading with its claim.  While it may take longer to get your food from a Chick-fil-A, the line is moving the absolute fastest.  The only difference is that more people are at Chick-fil-A.

More about Chick-Fil-A.

Our World In Fake Data.  It took me about thirty seconds to research the accuracy of the graph.  The Red Cross described 1927 as the worst year in history, reporting 111 disasters — including 29 tornadoes, 24 floods, 9 hurricanes and 23 fires.  The worst floods in US history occurred that year. [...] Obviously the person who generated the graph didn't do any research, and is simply making numbers up.  Another graph from the same website shows death rates from natural disasters down 95% since the 1920s.

One Climate Chart to Rule Them All.  You would think that 50 years of failed climate predictions might have eroded their haughtiness somewhat.  But you'd be wrong.

Media Corruption On Perfect Display In One Washington Post Paragraph.  Every single assertion of this paragraph isn't just wrong, but the opposite of right.  In each sentence, Trump is being blamed for things his political opponents have done.

Yup, Looks Like That Big Anti-Trump, Whistleblower Story Was All Smoke And Mirrors.  The media has spent the past few days speculating all the ways in which the Trump presidency could end after a whistleblower lodged a complaint regarding President Donald Trump's communications with an unknown foreign leader.  It turns out the complaint is nothing more than a rumor reported by someone in the intelligence community.  Buried in a lengthy CNN article about the complaint is the following paragraph:  ["]The whistleblower didn't have direct knowledge of the communications, an official briefed on the matter told CNN. Instead, the whistleblower's concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration's determination that the complaint didn't fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.["]

Brett Kavanaugh Breaks the Democrats.  Rarely does a story implode as spectacularly as the New York Times' latest effort to resurrect the claim that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a teenage sexual predator.  By now, you know the facts:  The Times published an excerpt from a forthcoming book alleging that another woman suffered the same form of abuse and objectification from Kavanaugh that was alleged by another accuser, Deborah Ramirez.  No sooner had the universe of liberal political observers and politicians worked themselves up into a frenzy than the story fell apart.  The woman whose uncorroborated experience supposedly substantiated Ramirez's uncorroborated assertions wasn't even the one making these accusations.  Rather, they came from a Washington D.C. attorney with conflicts of interest who did not contact the Senate Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh's confirmation proceedings.  What's more, she doesn't even remember the experience that was supposedly so traumatizing — a revelation that was inexplicably omitted from the Times' original draft.

Air Force plan to refuel near Trump's Scottish resort approved under Obama, reports show.  Last week some in the American mainstream media ran reports suggesting that the U.S. Air Force's decision to refuel some of its planes at an airport located near the Trump Turnberry, a Scottish luxury resort that's owned by President Donald Trump, was rooted in corruption.  These same media outlets also took aim at a U.S. Air Force squadron that stayed overnight at the resort itself during a stopover in Scotland last March.  The reports were based on a dubious investigation by House Democrats.

The Trayvon Martin Hoax Comes Crashing Down.  With a mediocre economy, growing questions about the efficacy of Obamacare, and a lethargic base waking up from a hope hangover to find that the president had left them hanging on the change part, the media knew that President Obama couldn't win on his record.  The media would need a controversy to galvanize the base and shame moderates into reelecting President Obama.  And so, when an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a man claiming self-defense, the media pounced.  They routinely used a years-old photo of Martin as a smiling young child.  Zimmerman was depicted with a mugshot.  The message was clear:  Martin was just a young child wearing a hoodie and eating Skittles while Zimmerman was a deranged menace.

The Intelligence Community Works for the President.  It's simply hard to know where to begin to respond to the staggering chutzpah of Jennifer Rubin's recent Washington Post opinion column accusing the president of undermining our intelligence community.  Rubin used the recent leak regarding the exfiltration (a fancy word for "removal") of an undercover "asset" in Russia as a hook to make the case that the president is somehow responsible for outing this source and therefore harming U.S. interests.  Her column is an example of the backward view elite leftists have towards democracy and the Constitution.  These elites, in desperate need of a remedial civics class, have convinced themselves that our elected president must learn to take orders from the intelligence community.

U.S. poverty falls to lowest level since 2007 and media's response is downright comical.  Did you hear that the poverty level fell below where it was prior to the economic collapse twelve years ago?  Probably not, because legacy media doesn't want you to hear about that.  They don't want you to realize the economy is in better shape than it's been in decades. [...] They don't want you to know this because if you realize you're doing better, you're more likely to acknowledge much of this is due to President Trump's first term in the White House.

An even mixture of sensationalism, dishonesty, and incompetence:
CNN's big 'mistakes' all run in one direction: anti-Trump.  CNN blared an "exclusive" headline Monday [9/9/2019] with a story purporting that US intelligence made the decision to "extract" a spy that it had working within the Russian government because officials believed his cover may have been compromised by President Trump having "repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence."  That dispatch from Jim Sciutto, CNN's "chief national security correspondent," would have certainly been a smash if it weren't for vehement denials by the administration and subsequent reporting that contradicted the crux of the story — that it had been Trump who screwed up the intelligence operation.  During a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called CNN's reporting "materially inaccurate."

The Sketchy Russian Spy Exfiltration Story.  First, the tenuous reporting from CNN, where they attempt to paint Donald Trump into the spy narrative, is transparently political opportunism by narrative engineer Jim Sciutto and the anti-Trump brigade.  You know Sciutto's efforts are bad when even the Washington Post and New York Times undercut the CNN script.  The exfiltration had nothing to do with President-elect Trump, or President Trump.  The part where the story becomes interesting is:  (A) the timing; and (B) that DC journalists know who the "spy" is.  Indeed the claimed "spy" and his family have been living under his real name in Washington DC.  This fact doesn't fit the outline of a retracted spy living in an era of imminent danger.

It's Official: The Democrats Just Want You Dead.  Americans are normalizing violence in their politics, but not in the way the media and the "experts" would have you believe.  No, "white supremacists" are not the greatest threat to your safety, despite what Don Lemon and his cohorts in the Fake News Industrial Complex say.  In fact, of 250 shootings in America wherein four or more people were shot (which is the official definition of a "mass" shooting), not one of the perpetrators was a conservative, let alone a "white nationalist."  But that hasn't stopped the Democrats.

Hurricane Dorian Can't Save CNN, MSNBC from Losing over Fifth of [their] Audience.  CNN lost 21 percent of its already minuscule audience last week, MSNBC lost 24 percent, while Fox News grew its already enormous viewership by six percent, as TVNewser highlights.  Yep, even the massively over-hyped news about a mass shooting and a regional weather story — Hurricane Dorian — could not stop the bleeding at both of these far-left, Russia Collusion Hoax channels.

Labor Official Who Resigned Over Bloomberg Reporter's Smear is Reinstated.  A senior policy adviser at the Department of Labor who was forced to resign last week after a Bloomberg Law reporter smeared him, was reinstated Wednesday night, the Daily Caller's Luke Rosiak reported in an exclusive.  According to a senior Labor Department official, Acting Secretary Patrick Pizzella "personally made this decision after carefully reviewing all the facts and circumstances." The official added, "he concluded that a correction is much better than an injustice."

Department Of Labor Reinstates Leif Olson After Bloomberg's Libelous Attack On Him Blows Up In Their Faces.  Yesterday [9/3/2019], a vicious and dishonest reporter working for Bloomberg named Ben Penn ran a vicious and dishonest story smearing labor attorney Leif Olson, a recent hire by the Trump Department of Labor, as an anti-Semite based on some Facebook commentary on Paul Ryan's electoral curb-stomping of what appeared to be an actual anti-Semite (though, in fairness, not sufficiently so as to stand out at a meeting of the House Democrat caucus), Paul Nehlen.  Any sane reading of the commentary would have identified it a facetious and making Nehlen the butt of a joke.  But Penn and his editors pushed out the story branding Olson as an anti-Semite.  Instead of doing the right thing, a gutless Department of Labor asked for Olson's resignation.

Bloomberg News Yet Again Screws Up Major Story and Doubles Down on Stupid.  President Trump often characterizes the media as the enemy of the people.  It is really hard to say he is wrong in the case of Bloomberg.  It has gotten multiple major stories demonstrably, harmed the reputations of American companies, cost a man his job, and stands by its demonstrably wrong reporting.  Bloomberg is harming other news outlets with its behavior.

The myth of ecocide.  It is hard to think of any other global event this year that has been as awash with misinformation as the rainforest fires.  We've been told these fires are a calamity, an act of 'ecocide'; they're proof of humanity's contempt for the environment; they will blacken and possibly even destroy 'the lungs of the world', as the rainforests are referred to, given they produce 20 percent of the world's oxygen.  It's all untrue.

Drudge tries to spook Trump voters again.  Another Friday and another hamfisted attempt by the Drudge Report to undermine support for President Donald John Trump.  A week ago, Matt Drudge was sure that the trade war with Red China was going to do The Donald in because the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down.  A week before that Drudge had us in a recession not caused by Red China.  Drudge has linked and bannered stories about wars with Iran, North Korea and Syria, which never materialized.

It becomes clearer every day that most journalists would rather have Democrats in power than a good economy.  Like everything else, whether it is fictitious Russian collusion, claiming Trump is mentally incompetent, claiming everyone hates us overseas, and playing the race card, the media is essentially campaigning for Democrats instead of doing their job of reporting the truth.  The strategy appears to be working somewhat because, despite record job openings, wages rising faster than any time while Obama was in office, and record low unemployment, especially for minorities and the less-educated, tax cuts that benefitted almost everyone, stock markets near record highs, many people have been indoctrinated to believe the economy is collapsing.

In the last 2 weeks alone.  CNN had one host threaten to throw a guy down the stairs, the other was accused of sexual assault, & a third's bodyguard assaulted a reporter.  Another host had a shrink claim (unchallenged) that Trump murdered millions more than Hitler, Stalin & Mao.  Meanwhile CNN hired one of the key architects of the coup against Trump just as we learned, as if by some weird coincidence, that there is a completely separate IG report into the misdeeds of the CNN new hires ex-boss. [...] MSNBC joined in the collective braying at the blood moon of Trump-Russia collusion by having their designated hammering hallucinator claim he also heard there were Russians in Trump's bank account.

The media refuses to face the fact that Joe Biden isn't close to collapsing.  Dear Fellow Members of the Media:  We need to talk about the way you're covering the Democratic race for president.  Consider this an intervention.  You all went crazy on Monday [8/26/2019] when a single poll showed a national tie between Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.  It was like a ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes; articles suggesting a historic shakeup in the Democratic race rained down upon America like ticker tape.  Huzzah!  We have a whole new race!

Throwing Punches for the Children — If This is Your Mantra, Zip It About Trump.  Trump is just a callous and unfiltered version of the "sophisticated" slander the left has been lobbing against the right for years through a corrupt and complicit mainstream media.  For proof of that, we could start scrolling through the endless accusations of the last few decades:  centrist John McCain was called a racist, the affable George W. Bush was tagged a bigoted war criminal, mild-mannered Mitt Romney was labeled a tax cheat, felon and murderer.  And this wasn't done by fringe activists — these were libelous claims published by mainstream media organizations coordinating with their ideological allies in the Democrat Party.

Recession?  Headlines in Search of a Story.  On August 19, the Washington Post's first sentence summed up their one-dimensional angle on the National Association for Business Economics' August survey:  "Most economists believe the United States will tip into recession by 2021, a new survey shows, despite White House insistence the economy is sound."  So it went, with most establishment news outlets bent on finding the gray cloud around today's current sterling economy.  Negative news sells.  Perhaps it has always been thus, though it certainly seems most prevalent when it is adverse to this administration.

The Democrat Party Is A Joke That Would Cease To Exist Without The Media's Support.  On literally every issue, the Democrats are social psychopaths whose goals are so far out-of-touch with reality that they have to lie in order to pitch them.  There isn't a single thing the Democrats want and/or fight for that they're honest about.  Every single issue gets packaged in a hilarious euphemism that's designed to help make their goals more palatable, because their ultimate objectives are so totally insane that nobody would ever in a million years be okay with them.  And that's where the media comes in.  The media's job is to be a marketing arm for the Democrats.

Stunning Day of Economic Gaslighting — Despite All Positive Data, Corporate Media Cheering For Recession.  The long-term borrowing rate for return on investment dropped momentarily lower than the short-term borrowing rate of return on investment because massive numbers of foreign investors were rushing to buy long-term U.S. bonds.  Wait... what?  Yes, a 'negative yield curve' is what happens when everyone wants to buy bonds in your long-term economy.

Delingpole: Every Story You Read About the Environment Is #FakeNews.  [Scroll down]  In the face of such overwhelming 'evidence', what possible reason could any casual reader have not to believe that world is indeed in the midst of an unprecedented environmental crisis wherein critically endangered species are being wiped out by callous, out-of-control, unregulated hunters, where extreme weather is endangering homes and lives, where not even the formal gardens in Britain's world-renowned stately homes are safe?  This, my friends, is why we are in such trouble.  Every one of those stories is a lie.  Almost every word of every one of those stories is a lie.  But how many of the people who read those stories would be aware of this?

If Deplatforming Hoaxsters Is OK, the News Media Should Be in Big Trouble.  MSNBC's Katy Tur reported on May 2 that, "Facebook has banned a number of conspiracy theorists" then wondered aloud why it had taken the tech company so long to do it. [...] Now, that kind of chutzpah requires a heavy dose of magical thinking laced with a stunning lack of self-awareness and doused with a toxic level of hypocrisy.  And it would be amusing if it wasn't so enraging.  Because these reporters hail from the very same news organizations that have intentionally misled the American public about three destructive hoaxes in the past year alone:  The Trump-Russian election collusion ruse; the Brett Kavanaugh rape allegations; and the Covington Catholic High School "smirking" myth.  CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post and NBC News used every ounce of their considerable influence and reach, including social media, to promote each fraud for one collective purpose:  To destroy the presidency of Donald Trump and defame anyone associated with the president including pro-life teenagers.

White supremacy paranoia is a massive HOAX perpetrated by the toxic media that pushes hatred, bigotry and lawlessness.  Though the Left has been seething with animosity over what it perceives as America's 'white-dominated' society for years, in the lead-up to the 2020 election they have come out and made hating white people an official platform of the Democratic Party.  And shame on the party's officials and leaders for allowing it to happen.  In particular, the hatred is manifested in the establishment media-created and driven lie that a) "white supremacy" and "white nationalism" are one in the same; b) both are a major problem; and c) white supremacists are everywhere (especially at rallies held by POTUS Donald Trump).  It's all a fabrication, mind you.  The fact is we probably couldn't fill a college football stadium with the number of actual, avowed "white supremacists" in America, and in a nation of nearly 330 million people that's saying something.

Blame the media for racist violence, not Trump.  The leftist playbook is simple:  the mainstream media create false Trump narratives, and they repeat them far and wide until the false narrative becomes an accepted "truth."  The current narrative is that Trump is a racist.  The significance of the racism charge is not lost on these connivers, because racism is second in its universal disrepute only to pedophilia.  Now they are capitalizing on it when real racists commit heinous acts of violence as they pin them on Trump as if he is responsible.  Here is the problem, though:  we have yet to see any evidence, even flimsy evidence, that this president really is a racist.

Tucker Carlson: 'Conspiracy Theory' of White Supremacist Threat is the New 'Russia Hoax'.  As conservatives to line up and capitulate by supporting gun control, tech censorship, and other unconstitutional policies in the wake of this past weekend's mass shootings, Fox News host Tucker Carlson is one of the few commentators with the courage to say the truth.  With media-fueled hysteria over white supremacists reaching a fever pitch in recent days, Carlson addressed the growing concern on his show, calling it a "conspiracy theory" on par with the "Russia hoax."

It's not just Trump being blamed, competing networks use shootings to suggest silencing Fox News.  As much as the left ignores that the Dayton, Ohio, shooter was a self-described "leftist" who favored Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for president, they work even harder to call attention to the El Paso, Texas, shooter's anti-immigration manifesto in an effort to pin that shooting on President Donald Trump.  While Warren gets a pass in the media for the Dayton shooting, there are reports the El Paso gunman was also an environmental extremist who embraced Eco-Fascism.  Having commandeered language in America, the liberal media deems words used to describe the flood of humanity overwhelming our border, words like "invasion," to be racist.

FBI Says The Media Wrongly Labeled Gilroy Shooter A "White Supremacist".  As we've learned in the past week, the political ideologies of mass shooters are deeply important unless they are on the far left.  Then it's irrelevant and it's journalistic malpractice to even report on it.  That's the contrast that's been drawn between the shooting in El Paso and the one that took place in Dayton, OH early the next morning.  I've been assured on social media that the difference is that the El Paso shooter left a manifesto (which has still not been technically confirmed) and that the Dayton shooter didn't.  Therefore, I'm told, it's completely out of bounds to draw any speculation from the latter's calls to violence against "fascists," his repeating of Antifa rhetoric, or his support for socialism.

If Anyone Is Spreading White Supremacy, It's The Media, Not Trump.  I knew the moment that I heard about the El Paso shooter's manifesto on Saturday that this shooting would become about President Donald Trump's supposed racism.  In fact, at the time of this writing, #WhiteSupremacistInChief is trending on Twitter.  But despite continuous claims and talking points circling around Trump's hatred of minorities, no one can ever point to something that Trump said that was actually racist.  When they do mention something that he said, they can never quote him verbatim, just one or two words.  "He called immigrants animals," they tell me along with other famous claims like calling immigrants "rapists" and "criminals."  Did Trump say those things?  Yes, but the context is so out of sync with the stories that are pushed about him.

MSNBC and CNN Claim Trump Was Never at Ground Zero after 9/11 Attacks; Videos Prove Otherwise.  On Monday [7/29/2019], when President Trump signed the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund extension, he told a story of being at Ground Zero after the 9/11 terror attacks, that immediately got unhinged liberals coming out of the woodwork to claim he was lying.  Kyle Griffin, a producer at MSNBC, actually claimed there was no evidence Trump was ever at Ground Zero after 9/11: [...] CNN's Chris Cillizza also strongly implied Trump was lying: [...] Others in the media quickly piled on, challenging Trump's claim.

Fact-Check: NYC 9/11 Top Cop Confirms Trump Was 'Constantly' at Ground Zero.  After the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Donald Trump was "constantly" at Ground Zero "motivating" and "inspiring" first responders during their rescue efforts, confirmed Bernie Kerik — who served as New York City's police commissioner at the time — in a Tuesday [7/30/2019] interview [...] News media outlets such as CNN and Vox characterized Trump as mendacious following Trump's recollection of 9/11 and its aftermath during public remarks on Monday [7/29/2019] regarding his signing into law an extension of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.

Donald Trump Didn't Lie About Where He Was after the 9/11 Attacks, But Hillary Clinton Did.  The liberal media has egg on their faces for claiming that Trump lied about being down at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks.  Despite video evidence that has been floating around on the internet for years, they just couldn't help themselves.  It's curious, however, that the candidate that they all wanted to win in 2016, Hillary Clinton, actually did lie about where she was on 9/11 in order to insert herself into it.

FNC's Wallace:  Trump Is Calling People of Color 'Vermin' — 'It Sounds Subhuman'.  On this weekend's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday," anchor Chris Wallace questioned White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on President Donald Trump's attacks on Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and the city of Baltimore.  Wallace said, "This goes back to what happens with the four members of 'The Squad.' Nobody objects to the president defending his border policy, but this seems to be the worst kind of racial stereotyping."

The Degrees of Fake News.  [Scroll down]  What an eye-opener that press conference was!  Sitting among the Washington press corps before the Contras arrived, I felt like I was witnessing a gang of thugs plot an ambush.  There was no pretense of impartiality.  Many of the reporters there were openly enamored of Nicaragua's Marxist ruler Daniel Ortega — he of the cool mustache and designer eyeglasses — whose major "achievement" had been to redistribute wealth from friends of Somoza to friends of Ortega, even as Nicaragua's economy languished.  Ortega's media allies didn't even bother paying attention to what the Contra leaders said during the press conference.  The reporters were too busy chomping at the bit, waiting to trash the Contras and to bash President Ronald Reagan for supporting the Contras' anti-communist insurgency.  The reporters had an agenda.  Objectivity and truth-telling were no part of it.  They were rude and blatantly scornful toward the Contras.  They couldn't wait to file their stories painting Nicaragua's anti-communist resistance in the most unflattering light.  It was sickening.  It wasn't just unprofessional; it was journalistic malpractice.

Democrats woke and broke.  Fox News reported, "The Republican National Committee raised more than twice as much as the Democratic National Committee in June — $20.7 million compared to the DNC's $8.5 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings, Politico reported."  The story also said, "The RNC currently has $43.5 million, more than double the cash on hand as the DNC's $9.3 million."  More than double?  It is nearly five times as much cash on hand.

New York Times Fudged Book Sales Data To Torpedo 'Justice on Trial' Best-Seller Ranking.  The New York Times fudged book sales data in order to deny top-five billing to the best-selling "Justice on Trial," the definitive and deeply reported account of the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which was written by Carrie Severino and Mollie Hemingway, a Senior Editor for The Federalist.  Industry sales figures show that the New York Times ignored actual data on nationwide sales in order to depress the rankings not just for the Hemingway/Severino book, but also Mark Levin's latest book on the corruption of modern journalism.  According to Publisher's Weekly, the only public source of point-of-sale data on book sales, "Justice on Trial," was the top-selling non-fiction book published over the last week.

Immigration:  The Path To Power.  MIT says our illegal immigrant population is about 22 million.  Yale says it is between 16 and 30 million.  The 11 million figure so popular in the media is ridiculous and a total lie.

With The Media's Trickery, You Have To Watch The Other Hand.  An explanation for this week's media furor:  Distraction, diversion, and misdirection.

Lack of Bigotry in America Forces Media to Invent 'The Hoaxtroversy'.  If racism in America was anywhere as serious as the fake news media claims, would they have had to fabricate all these massive lies over the past few years?  The media told us the Hispanic George Zimmerman was white.  They hoaxed us with the KKKids from KKKovington High School, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," and Duke lacrosse.  Each one of those phony hysterias blew up in the media's lying face, so now they have changed tactics.  Rather than invent massive national hoaxes to smear America and Americans as small-minded bigots, they have turned to the "Hoaxtroversy," they have begun to fabricate meme-like controversies, and still they are forced to lie.

GOP Candidate Gets Ridiculed For Deciding His Reputation And Livelihood Are More Important Than Building Some SJW's Self Esteem.  Mike Pence made quite a splash shortly after assuming office when it was revealed, via a Washington Post profile of Karen Pence, that he had a policy of not being alone or socializing outside of work with female staff.  In 2002, Mike Pence told the Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won't attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side, either.  This, as mamy recognized, is simply good common sense that had been called the "Billy Graham Rule," having its genesis in the "Modesto Manifesto" that governed the actions of pastors affiliated with Graham's evangelical movement.

Mississippi politician tells female reporter she can't interview him unless she's with a man.  A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor told a female reporter that he couldn't be interviewed by her unless she was accompanied by a male colleague — later claiming that he was following "the Billy Graham Rule."  "We just wanted to keep things professional," said GOP hopeful Robert Foster in a radio interview on Tuesday [7/8/2019].  The female reporter, Larrison Campbell of Mississippi Today, had been asking to go on a "ride along" with Foster when his campaign director reportedly refused on his behalf.

WATCH CNN Try To Shame Underdog Republican Candidate Who Wouldn't Grant Access To Female Reporter.  CNN's New Day John Berman tried to shame an underdog Republican candidate, Robert Foster because he wouldn't grant a Mississippi reporter access to him for an interview when they were alone.  Foster explained very eloquently why he felt the need to ask Mississippi Today reporter Larrison Campbell to bring someone along with her for the interview if they were going to have one.  Larrison made a massive deal about it, and the story wound up on CNN.  Larrison also embellished the story that she had been barred from Foster's campaign because she is a woman.  It turns out that Foster was smart in decision making if Campbell felt she had to grow this request into a scandal for the Republican candidate.

Media Magic — How a Democrat Pedophile Became a 'Trump Scandal'.  [Scroll down]  As stories go, a child sex case involving a Palm Beach billionaire was pretty big.  It was covered in the British press, in Florida media, at The New York Post, and at Fox News.  Bill O'Reilly led with the story on his Fox News show.  But CNN and MSNBC did not breathe a word about a Democratic prosecutor refusing to hold a Democratic child rapist accountable.

Corporate Media Push Trump-Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy Theories Without Evidence.  The establishment media is attempting to link President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein without any evidence connecting him to the underage sex trafficking case against the billionaire hedge fund manager.  Immediately following a Daily Beast report revealing Epstein's Saturday day arrest, a handful of news figures and outlets posted social media posts and stories painting a picture that the wealthy investor's arrest was bad news for President Trump — with one editor even going as far to suggest he could be directly implicated in the case.

Did someone mention Jeffrey Epstein?

Media Predictions of "Tiny Crowd" For Trump July 4 Speech Proven Spectacularly Wrong.  The media ran headlines right up to the day of President Trump's July 4 speech predicting only a "tiny crowd" would show up.  How spectacularly wrong they were. [...] In reality, photos from the event show crowds stretching the full length of the national mall.

8 Times The Media Said There Was No Crisis At The Southern Border.  Now that media-savvy congressional Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have brought attention to the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border caused by Congress's refusal to fix our exploited immigration laws, political pundits are having to eat their own words from just a few months ago claiming that the border crisis was manufactured by President Trump as a political stunt.  Last week, before President Trump departed for the G20 Summit in Japan, he told reporters on the White House lawn that his critics are now seeing he was right all along.

Tragic Photo Undermines Media Credibility on 'Manufactured Crisis' at Border.  Townhall put together a montage insisting not only that Trump had made up a "manufactured crisis" but outright lied that there was a crisis at the border in the first place.  The clip begins with CNN's Don Lemon asking:"This last ditch effort to persuade Americans that there is a crisis at the border - did it work?["] [...] In April, The Media Research Center's Bill D'Agostino put together a montage of media figures finally admitting that it was a crisis.  Over at Fox, Tucker Carlson put together his own montage of mainstream liberal media acolytes insisting as follows: [...] Doubtless there's more of this kind of utter wrong-headed frothing denial out there in the media.

Biden's Mythical Mass of Support.  Something very strange is going on with our news media, as it covers the state of the 2020 campaign.  Donald Trump, according to the big news outlets (CNN, the New York Times, ABC, the Washington Post, and their brethren), is on the ropes.  The polls from these same news outlets show him losing by catastrophic margins to virtually every Democratic candidate.  Even Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who is polling at 2 percent among Democrats, would defeat Trump in every key state.  Joe Biden — according to the polls and the pundits — would crush Trump even in the reddest of the red states.  Forget the Midwest — Biden is so wildly popular, even Texas is now out of reach for the GOP.  Quinnipiac says Biden will squash Trump like a bug in Florida — 50 percent to 41 percent.  In fact, another Quinnipiac poll reports a tsunami of Bidenophilia is sweeping the nation from coast to coast.  "Joe Biden is ahead by landslide proportions," says Quinnipiac.

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The news media thrive on neck-and-neck horse races, where the lead changes every hour, depending on who's speaking.  An impending landslide doesn't compel you to tune in every day to learn the latest details.  Sensationalism sells advertising.

Trump: Smarter Than The Experts.  Remember the bold predictions made by the New York Times' economist and resident expert, Paul Krugman?  The Nobel Prize winning economist said that the economic fallout of a Donald Trump presidency would be severe and widespread, predicting that it could "plunge the world into recession."  He penned his view in an opinion piece published the day after the election.  Calling Trump both "ignorant and irresponsible," he said that his election would be the "mother of all adverse effects."  He warned that the new administration could quickly undo the progress that markets had made in the eight years since the financial crisis.  He was wrong.  The Trump economy continues setting records.  Employment, real wages, consumer confidence, all moving ever higher.  We wait in vain for a correction or apology from Krugman or the Times.  They rarely find room to share the good economic news with their shrinking readership.  The truth does indeed die in darkness.

New York Times Reporter Falsely Labels Segregationist Senators Republicans.  Appearing Thursday [6/20/2019] on CNN Newsroom, New York Times national political reporter Astead Herndon falsely labeled segregationist Democrat senators whom former Vice President Joe Biden praised for their "civility" Republicans.  The day prior, MSNBC host Kasie Hunt made the same error by misidentifying Sens. James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA). She has since issued a correction, while Herndon has yet to follow suit.

How Dangerous is Fake News?  Did you know that last week two hundred illegal immigrants originating from the Congo, that were picked up by border patrol agents, have tested positive for the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus or that a company whistleblower announced that YouTube has been placing millions of subliminal anti-Trump messages in a variety of videos?  You most certainly did not.  But nearly every American has heard of President Donald Trump colluding with Russia and calling all Mexicans rapists or of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulting women even though these events never took place and were concocted out of thin air.

Turns Out The Reported Racist Delay Of Harriet Tubman's $20 Note Was Fake News.  A few weeks ago, it was announced that a new $20 bill graced by Harriet Tubman wouldn't be shown in 2020.  This set off a wave of condemnation and claims of racism backed by absolutely no evidence.  We are supposed to believe that Trump dislikes non-whites so much that he personally intervened in the situation and delayed the project. [...] Now, more details are coming out and as per usual, there's a lot more to the story and none of it involves Donald Trump at all.

Irish bar debunks fake news that Don Jr. and Eric Trump skipped out on bill.  Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the eldest sons of the president, were targeted by fake news after a recent bar crawl where they picked up the tabs of their fellow patrons.  A Saturday [6/8/2019] story from The Daily Beast was published with the headline "Eric and Donald Trump Jr.  Still Have Not Paid Irish Bar Tab."  While leftists made the story go viral and immediately used the headline to trash the Trump family some more, the whole thing was complete and utter nonsense.  Reporter Arthur Schwartz almost immediately jumped at The Daily Beast and the authenticity of their story.

EPA Admin Rips Journalist For Misleading Tweet: 'Most Reporters Are Lazy'.  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler ripped into a Yahoo News reporter in a Friday interview over a tweet he believed took remarks he made out of context.  Yahoo national correspondent Alexander Nazaryan tweeted Monday [6/3/2019] that Wheeler had said during a National Press Club event that "'The media does a disservice to the American public' by reporting on global warming." [...] But in the full quote in the article, Wheeler didn't actually say the press did a disservice by "reporting on global warming," full stop, but for not also reporting on the strides the country had made.  "The media does a disservice to the American public, and sound policymaking, by not informing the public of the progress this nation has made," he said.

NPR says babies aren't babies until they're born.  [Scroll down]  Doctors and nurses describe "how your baby grows and develops" during the first — and each subsequent — trimester for parents who are expecting.  They do not typically refer to "your fetus."  During ultrasounds nurses don't point to the screen and say, "Look at that thing there, your fetus is a boy!"  (Nor do they say, "I'm arbitrarily assigning the gender 'boy' to your fetus").

Pew: Fake News Tops Terrorism, Violent Crime, Climate Change as 'Very Big Problem in Country Today'.  "Made-up news/info" is considered a major problem by more adults in the U.S. than concerns like terrorism, violent crime, and climate change, results of a nationwide Pew Research Center study released Wednesday [6/5/2019] show.  Half (50%) of U.S. adults polled called fake news and information "a very big problem in the country today," compared to only 34% who cited terrorism:
  •   Made-up News/Info: 50%
  •   Violent Crime: 49%,
  •   Climate Change: 46%
  •   Racism: 40%
  •   Illegal Immigration: 38%
  •   Terrorism: 34%
  •   Sexism: 26%
About two-thirds of adults said that fake news and information has "a big impact" on Americans' confidence in government (68%) and creates "a great deal of confusion" about the basic facts of current events and issues.

Poll: Majority says mainstream media publishes fake news.  Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the mainstream press is full of fake news, a sentiment that is held by a majority of voters across the ideological spectrum.  According to data from the latest Harvard-Harris poll, which was provided exclusively to The Hill, 65 percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media.  That number includes 80 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats.  Eighty-four percent of voters said it is hard to know what news to believe online.

Anti-Trump Traitors Rip Blindfold Off Lady Justice.  [President] Trump brought back jobs that Obama decreed were gone forever.  Black, Hispanic, and female unemployment are at historic lows.  Trump pulled us out of bad deals with foreign governments.  Thanks to Trump eliminating absurd regulations and oppressive taxes, businesses are coming home to America building factories.  The average American wage is $27 per hour.  Americans are enjoying an economic boom.  All this incredible good news is for the most part being hidden from Americans.  Instead, Democrats, fake news media, Hollywood, and social media flood the airwaves with their lie that Trump is horrible for America.

Trump-McCain Tarpgate: Yet Another Outrage That Wasn't.  By the time I learn enough about the latest current-events kerfuffle to realize I don't care, it turns out to be [nonsense] anyway.  And so it is with the outrage du jour:  Tarpgate. [...] Now, it's not exactly a secret that John McCain hated Trump's guts, and the feud has continued even after McCain's death.  Trump still badmouths a corpse, much to the delight of Trump's biggest fans.  So this story sounds plausible.  It sounds like something Trump would do, and something Trumpkins would defend.  But does that mean it actually happened?  Sure, it confirms my prejudices, but does that mean it's true?  It's starting to sound like maybe it isn't.

'Mainstream' media has a new fact-checking standard: 'Kinda plausible'.  [E]ven if you instill in your kids your conservative, pro-America, constitutional values, they are going be inundated with Left-wing pabulum, propaganda, and disinformation virtually every moment of their higher education experience.  Case in point:  One professor, Ian Bremmer, a geopolitical analyst, journalist, and cable news regular, actually attributed a 'quote' about North Korea to POTUS Donald Trump that was 100 percent made up, but posted on Twitter as though it was real — and then he actually defended his actions and his lie.

He Finally Admits He's Not a Reporter:  In New Book, Jim Acosta Insists 'Neutrality' Doesn't Work in the Age of Trump.  Jim Acosta is the worst "reporter" in the history of network news.  I say that not as a conservative, but as someone who believes in "news."  The title of Jim's upcoming book says it all:  Enemy of the People:  A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.  That reveals he has no understanding of what a reporter is.

Impeach or get off the pot, Democrats.  The same people who never met a constitutional amendment they didn't want to weaken or destroy will now act as if a middling procedural showdown is the next Watergate.  Mainstream media stories about Nadler's fishing expeditions have already framed Democrats as stewards of law and order, forced into impeachment by inflexible Republicans.

No Room for Honesty.  Listen to various abortion activists and Hollywood-faded stars and you might be under the impression that Georgia, Alabama and other states have just passed laws that could give women the death penalty for having abortions.  In fact, some news outlets have run stories that these states would arrest women for having abortions.  Sadly, at a time when the news media and progressive activists lament the President's dubious relationship with the truth, these are not just misstatements but outright lies.  Last week, Alabama passed a law that would prohibit abortion except for situations where the mother's own life is at risk.  News outlets faithfully reported that under this law, women could be jailed for having an abortion.

Dear Media:  Women Made the Alabama Abortion Law Happen.  Twenty-five white males are responsible for Alabama's new abortion legislation, according to the news media.  But, if Americans look more closely, they'll find that's a blatant miscalculation.  Women — pro-life women — are the driving force.  The "Alabama Human Life Protection Act," or HB 314, considers abortion and abortion attempts felony offenses, except in cases where it's done "to prevent a serious health risk to the unborn child's mother."  The law acknowledges that women are victims of abortion and "will not be held criminally culpable or civilly liable."  On Wednesday, HB 314, which was sponsored by a woman, was signed into law by another woman.  But rather than dwell on the oddity of pro-life women, the media blamed another group:  white men.

The credentialed media's creeping attempts to normalize 'transgenderism'.  It was not so long ago that the credentialed media referred to the person now going by the name Chelsea Elizabeth Manning as a 'transgender woman,' formerly known as Bradley Manning.  In an act of unbelievable stupidity, the government, under President Barack Obama, did not challenge Mr Manning's filing legally to change his name to Chelsea, though at least the government didn't attempt the idiocy of transferring him to a women's prison.  President Obama commuted the remainder of Mr Manning's prison sentence just before he left office.  Even in those stories of the past, the credentialed media chose to use the feminine pronouns to refer to Mr Manning, something with which I disagreed, and something which this site does not do.  But in the [Washington] Post's current article, Mr Manning's 'transgenderism' is never mentioned, nor that he was known as Bradley Manning when he committed his crimes.

Should Journalists Go to Jail for Spreading Russia Lies?  As a First Amendment maximalist, I am inclined to reply an automatic "no" to my own headline — should journalists go to jail for spreading Russia lies?  But a penalty of some kind, indeed a serious one, should certainly be levied for misinforming the public on the most important subject of our day, which has happened repeatedly over the last few years concerning the Russia probe.  And when these prevarications can be shown to have been deliberate, to have been done knowingly, difficult as that may be to prove, the line to sedition may have been crossed and there is an argument the reporters involved should face legal consequences.  They should also be fired.

Man sentenced in burning of church painted with 'Vote Trump'.  A member of an African American church in Mississippi has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for burning the church, which was also spray painted with "Vote Trump" a week before the 2016 presidential election.

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That headline is misleading, because the AP left out several important details.  The whole thing was a fake hate crime.  He was a black criminal trying to cover his tracks.  It had nothing to do with voting for Trump.

Don't Believe the Headlines:  Mueller Said Barr Memo Was Accurate.  The internet is currently buzzing over allegations that Attorney General William Barr mischaracterized the Mueller report from none other than Robert Mueller himself. [...] These headlines all suggest some sinister attempt by Attorney General Barr to mislead the public about the Mueller report in his four-page memo on the report's findings.  But, when you actually read beyond the headlines you'll discover that the media is doing all the misleading here.

An 8-Year Media Lie About How the Syrian War Started is Finally Exposed.  The media insists on the right to fact check conservatives and erase them from social media, but fails at the most elementary fact checking when it comes to its own stories.

How Pseudo Events Are Used by Media to Manufacture Controversy.  The public was lied to for close to two years by legacy news outlets and public figures with claims there was "evidence" that the Trump administration colluded with Russia.  Contrary to their claims, the Mueller report showed there was no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia.  The report showed that all those rumors of evidence and all those claims of anonymous sources were lies.  What's important to remember is that for these outlets and public figures, facts don't matter.  What matters is how they can twist the facts to keep the public misled and distracted in order to keep their false narratives alive.

Media Caught Selectively Editing AGAIN — Record Your Interviews!  It seems that the media can't be trusted, they need to be watched.  And you can help us watch them.  If you've been witness to interviews with the media, deceptively editing your remarks we want to hear from you.

Thirdhand Hearsay Story Says Mueller Prosecutors Had the Goods on Trump to Charge Obstruction.  [Scroll down]  This violates almost every rule set out by Perry Bacon of FiveThirtyEight in "When To Trust A Story That Uses Unnamed Sources."  It is attributed to only two people, and even then, it is a third-party recollection of a conversation in which the reporter did not participate.  Given the sourcing, the quotes are virtually impossible to verify — another tipoff that a story probably is not true.  The third-hand sources are identified only as "former Mueller prosecutors," which means the story runs up against Bacon's recommendation that "specifics matter" when identifying anonymous sources.  Waas claims the Mueller team prosecutors "would have advocated" that Trump face federal criminal charges for obstruction.

BBC and Attenborough Accused of Fake News Misinformation on 'Climate Change:  The Facts'.  The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has made a formal complaint to the BBC about the series of gross inaccuracies in its recent documentary Climate Change:  The Facts.  As wags have quipped, the programme presented by Sir David Attenborough was so riddled with errors it really should have been called Climate:  Change The Facts.  Now the GWPF has written to the BBC Complaints department listing just a few of them.

American Ignorance.  Because I dig deeper than most people I can usually sort out the facts from the fake.  One thing I've learned over time is that the progressive left does not engage in truth nor does it traffic in honor.  The left wants to totally remake our laws, our society and our Constitution into something our founders never intended them to be. [...] Some citizens get news secondhand from friends, family or work associates.  They see headlines on social media and online service providers like AOL.  If they watch news at all they might tune into the local news or sometimes CNN.  Too many people will take what they hear as true.  They won't doubt it because after all it's being broadcast by national news organizations and those organizations certainly wouldn't report something that wasn't true, would they?

Trump Opponents Never Tire of Losing.  Meanwhile the media, having learned nothing from the ratings hit they absorbed due to their sloppy and often dishonest reports about the Russia hoax, are already parroting Democratic talking points on obstruction of justice.  That they're already carrying water for people like Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff suggests that they may well destroy what little public trust they still enjoy.  Journalist Glenn Greenwald, by no means a conservative, is stunned by the media reaction to Mueller's report:  "Pretending they got it right is just worsening the problem."

Netflix series challenged on claim that climate change causes cliff-diving walruses.  A new Netflix documentary series that features disturbing footage of walruses plunging off a cliff to their deaths — a phenomenon attributed by the filmmakers to climate change — has sparked a fact-check backlash by critics questioning whether the animals were actually fleeing polar bears or drones.  Leading the pushback is Canadian zoologist Susan Crockford, who said Netflix's "Our Planet" is misleading the public about the massive gathering of walruses on the rocky beach, known as a haulout, and the footage showing walruses falling from a steep ledge.  She blasted claims by series narrator David Attenborough during the episode as "contrived nonsense" and "Attenborough's tragedy porn."

Watch Former Fed Prosecutor Smash Anti-Trump Commentator's Biased Version Of "Truth".  What is going on within the far left media is appalling.  They are taking lies and calling them truths and taking truths and calling them lies and then taking honest public servants and calling them dishonest when their positions don't support the anti-Trump agenda.  America needs more people like [Joe] diGenova to stand up to this dangerous and deceptive hypocrisy that infects nearly every facet of the media today.

What's the Next Fake News?  It now transpires that the cheating and collusion was done by the FBI, working in cahoots with Hillary's campaign, and The New York Times and The Washington Post knew it but chose instead to write the very opposite, that it was the Russkies and Trump.  Mueller even told them so during the investigation, but they chose the big lie instead.  This should have been a death blow for the reputation of any newspaper, but if one watches zombie and sci-fi programs on television all day and night, as Americans tend to do, how on earth can they recognize fake news when they see it?  Everything Trump said or did these past two years sparked an avalanche of thunderous denunciations from both reporters and editorial writers.  Reporters wrote editorials and writers simply lied and presented theories as facts, and they continue to do so.

Media pulled off big con with Russia collusion story.  The whole thing was one giant lie.  And everybody peddling it — from House Democrat leaders, to Senate Democrats running for president, to the Senate Republican who reported the whole thing in the first place, to the roaring lions of the Great White Media — knew it was a lie. [...] Now that he is in the White House, President Trump has carried on delivering on issues that regular Americans actually care about.  But the press ignores all of those issues.  All they care about is the Russia collusion hoax.

Russian 'Collusion's' Greatest Hits.  From late 2015 until April 2019, the media, the Left, and the Obama administrative state hierarchy warned us nonstop that candidate, president-elect, and inaugurated President Trump "colluded" with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, to assemble a suspect cabinet, and to rule in treasonous fashion in the interests of Vladimir Putin.  The former head of the CIA and the director of national intelligence were birthed as permanent analysts at MSNBC and CNN to sermonize — with wink-and-nod assurances that their past billets and security clearances substantiated their authority — that the treasonous Trump would likely be impeached, indicted, or quit.  A mostly progressive team of lawyers, with an unlimited budget, no restrictions on time, and with enormous legal powers found all of that to be a lie.

Stolen Archives Show the True History of Russia Collusion.  [Scroll down]  How can anyone take these clowns in the media seriously?  One day, they are literally censoring one of the pre-eminent experts on Russia in the entire world, telling him he's insane to warn about collusion with Russia; the next, they want to put Trump in jail with no evidence.  Was Russiagate some sick Freudian projection?  Or even deflection?

AOC Isn't Even a Good Environmentalist.  Every Dem presidential candidate has endorsed the Green New Deal.  The media has covered what should be laughable notions like no automobiles, regulating diet and eliminating cows, with all the gravitas of innovations in heart surgery.  They cover it like it's a real thing and more, they paint anyone critical of the ideas as bigoted, closed minded, old-fashioned climate deniers and anti-science crazies.  Yes, that's an inversion of the truth, but that's how it's covered.

National Reckoning, My Eye.  The media has managed to impose a kind of groupthink that tells us that America is rife with racism and bigotry, but looking around and watching television, the only racism I seem to notice nowadays is the one against whites who go to church and raise law-abiding families.  Watch any Netflix or Amazon series and you'll see what I mean.  (Better not watch it, actually.)  The priest is always a pervert, the religious families are selling drugs on the sly, and all cops and soldiers are rapists, racists, and bigots.  All criminals are white, blond, and sporting Nazi tattoos.  Well, you know the rest.  Political correctness and diversity training have now become standard, and lockstep conformity is the order of the day.

Photographer of Starving Polar Bear Admits 'Climate Change' Image Was 'Misleading'.  A starving polar bear, rummaging for food in empty cans, in an ice-free landscape, with a caption that reads:  "This is what climate change looks like."  And she blames people for taking the iconic image 'literally'?  How else were people supposed to take this heart-wrenching but deceptive image?

National Geographic photog admits viral 'climate change' image of starving polar bear was misleading.  National Geographic contributing photographer and speaker Cristina Mittermeier acknowledged Thursday that her now-viral photographs of a starving polar bear went "too far" in linking the bear's condition to the effects of climate change.  In an article for National Geographic, Ms. Mittermeier wrote that she and photographer Paul Nicklen, who recorded video of the bear, were "on a mission to capture images that communicate the urgency of climate change"

More about polar bears.

Duplicity:
Mainstream media outlets change their tune on border crisis amid illegal immigration surge.  Months after repeatedly dismissing and mocking President Trump's claim of a national emergency at the Southern U.S. border, the mainstream media are grappling with reality, with no less than The New York Times declaring the border crisis at "breaking point."  Yet as recently as February, a New York Times fact-checker of Trump's State of the Union speech tweeted:  "President Trump described illegal border crossings as a 'urgent national crisis.'  This is false."

Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes.  House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday [4/8/2019], alleging that one of the news agency's reporters conspired with a political operative to derail Nunes' oversight work into the Hillary Clinton campaign and Russian election interference.  The filing, obtained by Fox News, came a day after Nunes, R-Calif., revealed he would send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department this week concerning purported surveillance abuses by federal authorities during the Russia probe, false statements to Congress and other matters.

Devin Nunes Files $150M Defamation Lawsuit Over 'Cocaine, Prostitutes' Story.  On Monday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) filed a defamation lawsuit against The McClatchy Company, Liz Mair, and Mair Strategies, focusing on a May 2018 article that attempted to connect Nunes to allegations of a salacious event involving cocaine and prostitutes.  The article also cast aspersions on Nunes' investigation of alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Russia.  He is demanding $150 million and more.  "McClatchy succeeded in linking the cocaine/sex-fueled 'fundraiser' with 'prostitutes' to Nunes.  The defamatory meaning of the article was clearly understood by all who read and saw McClatchy's publication," the lawsuit reads.

Democrats and toxic media at their worst.  The left and its compliant media are willfully reporting false news to the American people.  Whether it is a symptom of mass hysteria that is the genesis for this confirmation bias-style reporting or an intentional maneuver to spread anti-Trump propaganda, its effect is toxic and pernicious.  The report comes in the form of a tweet making its way through the Twitter-sphere in which a user named Mark Elliott has posted a video of Donald Trump who he contends is referring to migrants at the border as "animals." [...] The president's words were clearly relating to the murderous gang MS-13 and not innocent migrants.  The exchange first became a controversy last year when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi mischaracterized the remarks.

Vox Writer Praises Progressives for Misleading Americans on Tax Cuts.  Vox writer Matthew Yglesias praised progressive groups for misleading Americans about their taxes Monday [4/8/2019].  In a tweet, Yglesias praised the "messaging success" over President Donald Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.  The president signed the bill into law in December 2017.  At the time, then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) said the bill would save families making $73,000 per year more than $2,000.  "[P]rogressive groups did a really good job of convincing people that Trump raised their taxes," Yglesias said.

Are Far-Right Extremist Crimes on the Rise?  No.  Despite the media coverage [...] far-right extremist crimes are not on the rise.  The number of crimes ascribed to the far-right has been holding steady since the 1970s. [...] Maybe the goal is to turn mainstream conservatives into "far-right" extremists?

Democrats and Media Fall For Old, Deceptively Edited Clip of Trump on MS-13.  Democrats and members of the establishment media fell for a viral clip purporting that President Donald Trump called asylum seekers "animals" on Friday at an immigration roundtable.  In reality, the clip in question is from an event in May 2018 when the president was clearly referring to members of the MS-13 gang as "animals."  At the time, CSPAN posted a deceptively edited clip that cut out someone else's remark about MS-13 that the president responded to, making it sound like Trump was talking about immigrants more generally.

Why do the least-bright people rise to the top?  For over two years, we have been tormented or delighted, depending on one's political preference, by the opinions and or declarations avowing President Trump's guilt with regard to collusion with Russia.  It was all a made-up scam from the beginning, but the media and the leftist loons have beaten this dead horse relentlessly in the fervid hope it would see Trump forced from the office he legitimately won.  Our horrific media who has long worked hand in glove with the Democrats, has spent hundreds of hours, over 500,000 columns, articles and op-eds asserting Trump's guilt.  It was all a hoax from the outset, fabricated within a few days of Hillary 's loss to Trump.  Most of those who got on board the Russia collusion hoax knew it was a lie from day one.  But they embraced the lie wholeheartedly.

Science: Teen Vogue Declares There Is No Such Thing As Biological Sex Because Reasons.  Teen Vogue has a long history of promoting transgenderism in harmful and objectively false ways.  That includes celebrating the child abuse of a 9-year-old boy whose parents allow him to believe he's a girl named Lactatia.  Ever the trailblazer, Teen Vogue put out a video proclaiming that there is no such thing as biological sex because nothing matters anymore.

Mueller the Boy Scout.  The media swore up and down that there had been "collusion" between the Trump campaigns and Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton and fail to put a Clinton on the throne of America.  Now, please bear in mind, that there never was any evidence of such collusion.  Plus, no one knew what it would look like if it had existed.  Would it be mountains of newsprint saying how great Trump was, coming from pro-Russian media here?  No such things ever were seen.  Could it have been some major peace move in Ukraine by Russia contingent upon Trump winning?  We never saw any sign of that either.  Could it have been an immense contribution from the Russian gold hoard to the Trump campaign?  No hint of that either.  So, then what was it?  Those of us raised to be skeptical of the media/leftist axis since the successful media coup against Richard Nixon in Watergate saw right through the whole thing.  Watergate was media hysteria over basically nothing.  So was the Trump/Russia collusion, as we saw it and heard it.

Media amplified Schiff's voice, shouted down the truth.  The whole point of the so-called "Fourth Estate" — that unofficial, quasi-fourth branch of government — is to mercilessly hound politicians from their comfortable lairs of mendacity.  Unless, apparently, those politicians are lying about Mr. Trump and spinning fairy tale yarns about prostitutes in Moscow hotel rooms, secret liaisons in Prague that never happened, and chance bar meetings in the Seychelles.  No one has been given more airtime and ink to spread his lies than Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and chief prevaricator.  That anyone this dishonest is allowed to hold a position of such importance and power in Congress tells you all you need to know about Washington these days.

Can the Media Ever Earn Back Our Trust?  After it was revealed on Sunday that the two-year investigation conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the finger pointing began.  This time, the national media was under the microscope.  It's one thing to hear baldly partisan idiocy from the opposing political party and its candidates — we expect that.  It's another thing altogether when crazed accusations are being spewed by the press 24/7/365 as if they're fact.

Naming And Shaming : The Absolutely Worst Reporters on The Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory.  Attorney General Bill Barr revealed this weekend that special counsel Robert Mueller did not find that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government, dealing a hefty blow to a large swath of the media.  Perhaps most damaged were the individual anchors and reporters who bet their careers on proving that President Donald Trump conspired with a foreign power to steal an election.  These journalists authored fake stories, gave breathless coverage to the alleged scandal and ultimately misled the public.

BBC Ordered to Pay Damages for Fake News About Trump and Ukraine President.  The BBC was ordered to pay damages after the far-left outlet published fake news claiming Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko "authorized" an illegal payment of $400,000 to Michael Cohen for additional face time during a June 2017 meeting with President Trump.  "We apologize to Mr. Poroshenko for any distress caused and have agreed to pay him damages, legal costs and have participated in a joint statement in open court," the BBC's said in a written apology published Thursday [3/28/2019].

A Primer in "Ventriloquist Journalism".  Most "mainstream" journalists are not merely biased, but have a narrative story line in mind when they begin "reporting," so that when they call you on the phone, they aren't looking for actual information and perspective — they are looking for a specific quote to drop in their story that fits their narrative.  The point is:  when you deal with the media, it is not just their innate liberalism you need to be on guard for — you need to keep in mind that they already have their story written. [...] Stan Evans had a typically great label for this:  he called it "ventriloquist journalism."  Reporters have in mind a specific quote they'd like to have from you, and have developed great skill in teasing it out of people.  Think of it as just one aspect of fake news.

Rep. Brooks: 'Fake News Media...Perpetrated the Biggest Political Lie' in American History.  In remarks on the House floor about the Mueller report and the "fake news media" that spread unfounded claims for two-plus years about Russia-Trump campaign collusion, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said the accusations against Trump were "nothing but a Big Lie!" He also compared the liberal media to the National Socialist propaganda organs that operated in Nazi Germany, spreading half-truths and lies to demonize their political opponents.  "For more than two years, Socialist Democrats and their fake news media allies — CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, and countless others — have perpetrated the biggest political lie, con, scam and fraud in American history," said Rep. Brooks on March 25.

What Price Maddow?  Right now, left-leaning mainstream media is getting flogged, and they deserve it for their dishonest reporting on the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory.  Mass firings and a month of apologies by Jeff Zucker and Rachel Maddow would not be sufficient to mend the harm these organizations have done to America's trust in news reporting.  But the folks who truly deserve to be put in their place and totally humiliated are the viewers of these pretend news shows.  At what point do the Wellesley and Williams-educated elites look in the mirror and accept the fact that they have been taken for fools?  They have enabled progressive media to manufacture rotten journalism.  They never turned the channel.

From Trayvon to RussiaGate:  No Media Reckoning, Only Denial and Tragedy.  [A] gander at the media's horror show of a rap sheet over the last five or so years helps to explain why denial is their only option at this point:
  •   Trayvon Martin Murdered By Racist White Man
  •   Michael Brown Yelled "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" Before Racist Cop Murdered Him
  •   Brett Kavanaugh:  Serial Rapist
  •   Trump Ordered His Attorney to Lie
  •   The Racist White Boys from Covington High School
  •   Trump Can't Defeat Hillary
  •   Trump Is a Russian Manchurian Candidate

CNN Continues to Lie About Charlottesville in Attempt to Connect Donald Trump to New Zealand Attack.  As Breitbart News has explained repeatedly, and as CNN's own coverage at the time showed, Trump used the phrase "very fine people" to describe non-violent protesters on either side of the debate over a Confederate statue — and specifically excluded the neo-Nazis, whom he "condemned totally."  Yet for the past several weeks, CNN has reported that Trump was referring to neo-Nazis as "very fine people" in Charlottesville.  CNN is now using the Charlottesville lie to implicate Trump in the terror attacks against two mosques in New Zealand on Friday.

14 Media Outlets Spread Hoax About Trump Calling for Violence During Breitbart News Interview.  Outside of the usual-usual fake news to damage Trump and to distract from their failing Russia Collusion Hoax, the media's propaganda effort here is to make Trump pay a political price for daring to sit down with an alternative news outlet like Breitbart News and to warn other politicians not to violate the rules about who is "supposed" to be allowed to hold high-profile interviews.  In this particular case, because the president said nothing wrong in his interview with us, the media have been forced to invent something.

Media Magic:  How a Democrat Pedophile Became a 'Trump Scandal'.  As stories go, a child sex case involving a Palm Beach billionaire was pretty big.  It was covered in the British press, in Florida media, at The New York Post and at Fox News.  Bill O'Reilly led with the story on his Fox News show.  But CNN and MSNBC did not breathe a word about a Democratic prosecutor refusing to hold a Democratic child rapist accountable.  Epstein had given more than $145,000 to Democratic candidates and causes, including Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer.  He was a big Israel backer.  Bill Clinton and Democratic activist Ron Burkle were frequent guests on Epstein's private plane, dubbed the "Lolita Express." [...] But recently, the very news outlets that spiked any news about this case for the past 13 years are suddenly hot on the trail of Jeffrey Epstein.  Why the newfound sense of decency?  The answer is:  Because they found a Trump connection.

NYT Says Border at 'Breaking Point' 1 Month After 'Fact Check' Claimed No Emergency.  One month after claiming there is "no emergency" at the border, the far-left New York Times now concedes the border is at a "breaking point."  In real time, as President Trump gave his State of the Union speech last month, the Times branded the president a liar over his claim that there is an "urgent national crisis" at our border.

Newsrooms that rushed to report tax refunds were smaller this year go silent on IRS data showing refunds have increased.  Tax refunds are up from where they were this time last year by 1.3 percent following the fourth week of the 2019 filing season, according to new Internal Revenue Service data.  To be more specific, the average tax refund has increased to $3,143 from $3,103 last February, according to cumulative statistics comparing the 2018 and 2019 filing seasons.  Oddly enough, certain newsrooms have responded to this development with total silence.  I say "odd," because it was just a few weeks ago that these same newsrooms rushed to report that tax refunds were smaller this year, suggesting either implicitly or explicitly that the decrease was tied to the Republican Party's tax reform bill.

The Climate Scare:  Ever More Shrill, Ever Less Serious.  The Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives!  And, for their first act, how about some scary "climate" hearings?  The New York Times, of course, takes the occasion to run a big front-page story with the headline (in the print edition — online is different) "2018 Continues Warming Trend, As 4th Hottest Year Since 1880."  Let's apply a little critical analysis.  The Times adorns their article with a huge temperature graph, covering the period 1880 to 2018, that goes across two-thirds of the top of the front page.  The overall trend looks up at first glance.  But on not-very-much-closer inspection, it is obvious that 2017 was down from 2016, and 2018 was down from 2017.  How exactly does that constitute 2018 "continu[ing the] warming trend"?  I would have said that the last two years in a row down is the opposite of "continuing the warming trend," but what do I know?

The Resistance is Everything They Accuse Trump of Being.  In classic KGB style, Obama's administration deployed our nation's intelligence agencies to infiltrate and spy on their political opponents. Using paid informants — believed to include, at minimum, Joseph Mifsud, Stefan Halper, Henry Greenberg and Felix Sader — the political appointees heading our FBI and CIA attempted to entrap Trump's campaign with monetary enticements and promises of Russian kompromat on Hillary Clinton. [...] While these outrages have gone on, our very own American Pravda — the Democrat's mouthpieces in the mainstream media — have published a steady stream of disinformation and propaganda designed to turn reality on its head and portray Trump as Vladimir Putin's puppet instead of the target of Soviet-inspired tactics employed by Obama's police state.

What's Worse Than Fake News?  Hypothetical news.  The other day all the major new outlets were covering a story about Elizabeth Warren saying on the campaign trail in Iowa that Donald Trump "might not even be a free person" but rather in jail at the time of the 2020 Presidential election.  Call this phenomenon the "hypothetical news."  Donald Trump might launch a preemptive nuclear attack on North Korea.  Donald Trump might withdraw from NATO.  Donald Trump might fire his Chief of Staff.  Donald Trump might be crazy.  More subtle examples of hypothetical news are:  there is "widespread concern on Wall Street" that Donald Trump might fire Fed Chairman Powell; or "White House sources say" that Donald Trump is considering firing Fed Chairman Powell.

A New Low in Media Lies from the Miami Herald.  It's commonplace and universal: if you're a dissident from the Leftist agenda, you're not going to get fair, accurate, or honest treatment from establishment media reporters.  But in this hit piece on Hallandale Beach Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub, who called Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib a "Hamas-loving anti-Semite" who might "become a martyr and blow up Capitol Hill," Sarah Blaskey of the Miami Herald hits a new low even for Leftist "journalists," whose integrity was already a notch below that of child molesters, and provides a textbook example of how those "journalists" distort the facts, libel people, and lie outright in order to manipulate the public into believing what they want them to believe.

100,000 Supporters Turn Out for Annual March for Life — USA Today Reports 'More Than a Thousand,' CNN and MSNBC Completly Ignore It.  An estimated 100,000 people — including Vice President Mike Pence — gathered in DC on Friday for the annual March for Life.  The media, as always, is either outright ignoring the massive march or severely downplaying the impressive size of the crowd.

The 'Trump Hid His Meetings with Putin' Stories Begin to Unravel.  On Sunday [1/13/2019], the mainstream media launched a new ploy to promote their Trump-Russia collusion narrative with a story that first appeared in the Washington Post titled "Officials in dark on Putin talks."  A similar piece was published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, titled "Trump didn't use notetakers at Putin/ Meeting."  Cable-news networks and Democratic congressmen claim these stories indicate that President Trump held secret discussions with Russian president Putin that were revealed to no one.  For example, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) told CNN on Sunday that the U.S. government "does not know" what Trump and Putin discussed.  It is now clear that these stories were misleading, if not mostly false.

The FBI Counterintelligence Operation into Donald Trump Did Not Start After Comey Firing.  Against the backdrop of a New York Times article attempting to justify the FBI opening a counterintelligence operation against Donald Trump the current narrative du-jour is to claim the investigation was considered as an outcome of the firing of James Comey in 2017.  This is factually false.  FBI Director James Comey outlined the specifics of when the counterintelligence operation began during his March 20, 2017 testimony.

Brandon Darby:  Propaganda About Border Mostly from Mainstream Media.  Many mainstream news outlets appear to be purposely and dishonestly overlooking key facts about the U.S.-Mexico border region in order to push a false narrative about a safe border.  Breitbart Border and Cartel Chronicles Director Brandon Darby took on the recent reporting by CNN's Jim Acosta and some social media postings by Texas Democrat Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, where they try to claim the border is safe.

My Eye on 'Black Eye'.  The new Fox Nation subscription service posted the documentary Black Eye:  Dan Rather and the Birth of Fake News at 6:00 a.m. (Eastern) this morning [1/10/2019].  The documentary revisits the Rathergate scandal from its origin in the 2000 presidential campaign to the 2015 film Truth and slightly beyond.  I have now watched the documentary and want to offer a few notes with my impressions on it for what they may be worth. [...] I hope Power Line readers will view the documentary.  It memorializes an important piece of history that has already receded into the mists of the ancient past.

NYT Uses Tiny New Mexico Town to Claim There's No Border Crisis.  Somewhere along the United States' 2,000-mile border with Mexico is a town unconcerned by what President Donald Trump has called a border "crisis," and the New York Times is on it.  "On the Border, Little Enthusiasm for a Wall: 'We Have Other Problems That Need Fixing,'" the Times reported.  The source for this claim is not polling data, but rather interviews primarily with residents of the tiny town of Columbus, N.M.  Columbus is home to residents who see little issue with their proximity to the border.  The Times identified at least one citizen who seemed to wish there were more illegal immigration, not less.

When media are quiet about financial news, you know the economy's strong.  We were told the market was going down because of Trump's trade policies, because he was chewing out the Fed for raising rates too rapidly, and because of the government shutdown.  I am having trouble finding where the media and other Democrats are giving Trump credit for the market rising around 10% since December 24.  Why has the market reversed itself for now?  Here are a few hints:  sales during the Christmas season were up over 5%, over 300,000 jobs were created in December, and job gains were revised upward in both October and November.  Wages went up 3.2% year over year, the fastest growth in a long time, and gains are especially being helped on the lower end of the scale.  There continue to be more job openings than job-seekers.  It is obvious that a strong economy does not fit the Democrat agenda, so it is downplayed.

Why Fact Checking Is A Joke.  As soon as President Donald Trump's speech ended, the liberal talking points were spewing on the cable news networks disguised as "fact checking."  Armed with press releases from the Democratic National Committee, the talking heads universally focused on the small stuff to avoid admitting the inconvenient truths leftists avoid like the plague — illegal immigration hurts Americans.  Democrats don't care.  To leftists, individuals are disposable.  Why would they be bothered by a Ronil Singh if they don't care about the 100 million dead their totalitarian philosophy is responsible for?  One more body on the pile of bodies isn't going to bother people unbothered by the existence of the pile in the first place.  But political points had to be scored, the liberal narrative had to be advanced.  Enter the official "fact checkers."

Seattle TV Station Fires Staffer Who Doctored Trump Speech Video.  A Seattle television station fired a staffer for allegedly doctoring footage of President Trump's speech Tuesday evening — making it appear that that Trump's tongue was drooping out of his mouth and his skin color to be bright orange.  A side-by-side comparison of the speech that aired live on CNN Tuesday night [1/8/2019] versus what was broadcast later on FOX Q13 shows the video manipulation.  The differences were spotted by political observers, resulting in the station terminating the employee.

Trump tongue trick lands Seattle TV station Q13 FOX in hot water; editor fired.  A staffer at local Fox affiliate Q13 has been fired after the station aired what appears to be a doctored video of President Donald Trump's Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office.  The video was changed to make it look as if Trump was sticking his tongue out languidly between sentences.  In addition, the colors in the video look more saturated, leading the president's skin and hair to appear orange.

Seattle News Room Intentionally Manipulated Video of President Trump for Broadcast.  A statement from Fox affiliate Q13 in Seattle appears to confirm that a news video editor intentionally manipulated video feed from the public address of President Trump.  "In a statement, Q13 noted that the video editor responsible has been placed on leave pending an internal investigation."

The Only Privilege in America is Liberal Privilege.  Item:  Catherine Blasey Ford's cock-and-bull story about being assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh nearly half a century ago when they were both teenagers.  Do not try this tactic if you are a conservative woman attacking a liberal Supreme Court nominee.

Caught On Video:  Fake News Media Fabricating "Trump Border Crisis.".  We all know so much of what passes for "news" these days is little more than manufactured propaganda ejected daily from the bowels of the Establishment Media to splatter across the nation's television, computer, and phone screens, but it's always fun to catch them in the act and that's exactly what the following video does.  Watch as media photographers stage a scene of a little girl and her father attempting to climb over a supposed border fence.  [Video clip]

Media's '19th nervous breakdown,' as Trump fulfills another campaign promise.  How many times can the news media falsely and hysterically sound the apocalypse alarm?  Besides being 100 percent wrong on the election of Donald Trump in 2016, their fear-mongering predictions of doom and condemnation have been wrong on any number of other Trump policies, initiatives and personnel moves.  Those include last year's tax cuts, eliminating the ObamaCare individual mandate, North Korea, moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the falsely named "Muslim travel ban," employment and manufacturing increases, Department of Veterans Affairs reform, NATO's financial accountability, two Supreme Court justices, and repudiation of the Iran nuclear "deal."

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?  Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.  In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered.  Digital advertisers tend to want two things:  people to look at their ads and "premium" websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host them.  The two schemes at issue in the case, dubbed Methbot and 3ve by the security researchers who found them, faked both.

After Fake News Reports, Media Now Claim Trump's Christmas Visit to U.S. Troops Was Obvious.  On Wednesday morning [12/26/2018], media outlets were running the story that President Donald Trump had failed to visit U.S. troops at Christmastime.  By Wednesday afternoon, the media claimed Trump had made his visit to a war zone obvious in advance.  In between, media outlets that had earlier trumpeted Trump's supposed non-visit to the troops were spinning the news that he had, in fact, visited by noting that it was his first visit to a war zone since taking office.  Left-wing Salon.com, for example, reported initially that Trump had failed to visit the troops during Christmastime, then changed its story and headline, but retained the anti-Trump spin.

I thought fraud in reporting was done for.  I was wrong.  The [Jack] Kelley scandal, like the 2003 revelation of Jayson Blair's frauds at the New York Times, disproved my belief that Stephen Glass's fakes at the New Republic (in the 1990s, when I was the magazine's editor) might be the last.  Surely computer-aided fact-checking would deter fraud, I thought.  However, the unmasking of Der Spiegel's erstwhile ace, Claas Relotius, as a phony on Dec. 20, mere days after he collected his fourth German Reporter Prize, shows yet again that my hope was naive.  Reporters keep inventing stories and getting prizes for them.  What's going on?

Der Spiegel star reporter Claas Relotius fabricated stories for years.  The German weekly Der Spiegel, one of the top-selling publications in Europe, is reeling from a scandal that revealed that a star reporter has reportedly faked stories for years.  Many of the faked stories written by Claas Relotius were centered in the United States or in the Middle East.  So far, Der Spiegel editors said Wednesday, they had found that Relotius "made up stories and invented protagonists" in at least 14 of the 60 stories examined so far.  But they said the investigation is only beginning.  The editors said they were "astounded and sad" by the discovery, which they called "a low point in Der Spiegel's 70-year history."

Disgraced German journalist now suspected of charity scam.  An award-winning German magazine writer who resigned in disgrace for making up stories is suspected of embezzling cash he collected on behalf of children orphaned by the war in Syria, according to his former employer.  Der Spiegel said Sunday [12/23/2018] it had uncovered information that Claas Relotius allegedly solicited contributions after writing an article about Syrian urchins living on the streets of Turkey — but directed donations to his own bank account.

Fake News, Fake Rednecks.  Award-winning German alleged reporter Claas Relotius — he was named CNN's Journalist of the Year in 2014 — has just been unmasked as a rank fabulist after it was revealed that he fabricated large sections of at least 14 articles since 2011 — most significantly, a 2017 piece about Trump voters in rural Minnesota that turns out to have been a largely fact-free hit piece designed to appeal to the confirmation bias of media elites who regard rural white Americans as hateful, toothless retardates.  The article appeared in Der Spiegel — one of Europe's highest-circulation and most respected publications.  With a fact-checking staff of 70, this saga is being depicted as Europe's biggest media scandal since 1983's "Hitler Diaries" debacle.

Plausible Lies.  The case of Claas Relotius, Der Spiegel and the town of Fergus Falls, Minnesota has become notorious.  Der Spiegel, Europe's most widely-read news source, fired Relotius, one of Germany's most honored journalists, when it came to light that he had made up facts in a number of articles he wrote for the magazine.

Der Spiegel to run 23-page special on reporter who faked stories.  The German news weekly Der Spiegel is to publish a 23-page special report on how one of its award-winning reporters faked stories for years and dealt a blow to media credibility.  Claas Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting making up stories and inventing protagonists in more than a dozen articles in the magazine's print and online editions.  Since the scandal was revealed by the magazine on Wednesday, other mainstream German outlets including Die Welt and Die Zeit, which once used Relotius as a freelancer, have also begun poring through articles that he wrote for them.

Don't Let the Media Convince You the USA is Dangerous For Journalists.  The narrative began when Time magazine decided to dedicate its person of the year to "The Guardians," a group of reporters best known by member Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident murdered by the Saudi Arabian government.  Other outlets picked up on Times' lead, as nonprofit Reporters Without Borders added the U.S. onto its list of countries most deadliest for journalists for the first time ever — joining Mexico and Syria.  Reuters decided to bury the true reason for why the U.S. had an inordinate amount of journalists die in 2018 in the eight paragraph of its Tuesday report: the tragic slaying of five employees at the Capital Gazette's offices in Annapolis, Maryland, in June.  Two were killed in weather-related incidents.

Time Magazine and the Manipulation and Abuse of Truth.  After taking note of the same thing Scott had observed — Time had literally called Obama Obi-Wan Kenobi, the heroic Jedi knight from Star Wars, while disdaining Trump as a demagogue leading a pack of racists and misogynists — I went on to take note of exactly when this kind of disconnect between Americans and media elites began to seriously surface.  I traced it back to the in-the-day famous speech of President Richard Nixon's number two, Vice President Spiro Agnew.  Agnew had ventured into the American heartland — Des Moines, Iowa — on November 13, 1969.

Electoral Fraud: the Real Record.  When Donald Trump was running for office, he raised the issue of fraudulent votes.  As with everything else Trump has said, it was instantly attacked and ridiculed by the media.  Since then, the idea has been dismissed by MSM journalists who have insisted that there have not been any cases of illegal voting.  Recently, though, the novel possibility of fraudulent votes in favor of a Republican candidate has made the MSM do a 180 while reiterating that such things have never happened favoring Democratic candidates.  As with many other topics, MSM journalists have blatantly lied.

Media Conventional Wisdom On The Russia Investigation Is Uninformed And Idiotic.  Jim VandeHei of Axios claimed to sum up on Sunday "what we already now know" about Robert Mueller's findings in the Russia probe.  His next claim was even more robust.  "What we already now know is highly damning and highly detailed."  If you want to — and I quote — "go deeper," you can click a button that gives you "460 words" of how what we know is highly damning and highly detailed.  It is, of course, not even close to either of those things.  But it's worth looking at to see how some D.C. figures are easily spun into thinking — or claiming to think — that things for which there is no evidence have "highly detailed" evidence.

Bush 41's death reveals the truth: the only kind of Republicans the media likes are dead ones.  Today we will hear most of the media talk about George H.W. Bush in a flattering manner, as they should.  They also acted as if they loved Reagan and McCain when they died — even as they sought to destroy them when they ran for office.  The playbook is always the same.  Democrats, including most of the media, pretend they love Republicans when they die after they trashed them when they ran and lived.

Pittsburgh - we need to talk.  Just because someone from ABC-TV, NBC-TV or CBS-TV sticks a microphone in your face, and asks your opinion about the Tree of Life murder, or how you feel about Trump, or the Pirates, or the Steelers, remember, this is still a free country.  You don't have to answer.  Most of the time, you will look silly.  You will make the news, and if this is what you want, beware, you will go on record as being a loudmouthed idiot.  Even if you speak carefully and intelligently, know that back in the editing room they can, and do, cut you to pieces, so whatever your message was, it is no more.

DHS Secretary Issues Statement, Correcting False Media Accounts at Southern U.S. Border.  [Scroll down]  [Quoting Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen] "Fifth, we cannot confirm the backgrounds and identities of all caravan members which possess a national security and public safety risk to our country.  However, at this point we have confirmed that there are over 600 convicted criminals traveling with the caravan flow.  This includes individuals known to law enforcement for assault, battery, drug crimes, burglary, rape, child abuse and more.  This is serious.  Additionally, Mexico has already arrested 100 caravan members for criminal violations in Mexico.["]

Avis Rental Car Returned With Ballots, Media Narrative Claims 'Suspicious Package'.  In what appears to be a massive cover up, a Democrat, Broward County employee returned a rental car to the Fort Lauderdale Airport with two boxes of provisional ballots in the trunk.  However, the media is not reporting that, but following a "suspicious package" narrative as the airport was shut down last night after the discovery.  Laura Loomer reported images of the boxes and the Avis employee who found them.  The highly leftist Broward County Sheriff's Office shut down a portion of the Fort Lauderdale airport after the boxes of ballots were reported.  They called it a "suspicious package" and brought in the bomb squad to "investigate," shutting down the airport for hours.  Literally every local news media outlet has parroted the line of the "suspicious package."  "Only a few conservative outlets even mentioned that the package was actually two boxes of provisional ballots from Broward County."

Democrats Freak: Obama Can't Fill Arena & Loses Control In Wild-Eyed Shrieking Rant.  Barack Obama was supposed to be the Democratic messiah, bringing on the big blue wave.  But, the Obama of 2008 and 2012 is gone, and the truth is, he can't fill arenas.  The former president was just caught on video with white hair, sunken eyes, and a shrill voice that often cracked and stuttered terribly while speaking.  Well, we just discovered what Barack and the Democrats are trying so hard to hide.  Something stinks when it comes to Democratic rallies.  In fact, there is something they can't deny.  Even their number one guy, Barack Obama, is having a [difficult] time filling up a venue.  Instead, the mainstream media has to take photos at certain vantage points to give the impression there are tens of thousands in attendance.

When Media Foist False Narratives to Sow Social Discord, They Indeed Are the Enemy of the People.  A maniacal dirtbag murdered eleven Jews in Pittsburgh.  In time, perhaps after a decade or two of ACLU appeals, he will be electrocuted, injected, hanged, or hopefully all three.  The dirtbag hated Jews, and he likewise hated President Trump.  President Trump responded to the news immediately with profoundly sensitive and healing words aimed at condemning anti-Semitism and at comforting and consoling the Jewish community. [...] And then came the sowers of social discord to destroy the moment.  The Left Media would not allow the President that moment to heal and unify.  Instantly, they brought in one Left-Democrat anti-Trump "analyst" after another to blame Mr. Trump for the attack.  They never blamed President Jimmy Carter's anti-Jewish rhetoric for the 1977 Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue shooting in St. Louis.  Nor Bill Clinton for the 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shootings of yeshiva students that included the murder of Ari Halberstam.  Nor Clinton's rhetoric for the 1999 Granada Hills Jewish Community Center shooting in Los Angeles.  Nor Obama for the deadly 2009 Holocaust Museum shooting in Washington, D.C.  Nor Obama for the 2014 Overland Park Jewish Community Center shootings in Kansas City that murdered three.  But this time — with the same social dynamics as the others — they tried blaming the President.  By sowing social discord with outright absolute falsehoods at a time that called for healing, the Left Media indeed were acting as enemy of the people.

Caravan migrants different, more violent, than previous migrant groups [according to the] U.S. military.  To hear the press and its narrative allies tell it, the Honduras migrant caravan is little more than thousands of mothers and toddlers spontaneously fleeing violence in their home countries.  The flight is little different from that seen in previous caravans.  Any concern about crime or violence is a "scare tactic," or "lying," or "racism," and there's no evidence any of the migrants are criminals.  President Trump's warnings about the matter are simply "factually wrong."  Actually, a different picture is emerging.  Specifically, signs are mounting that far from the exodus being a Madonna-and-child in flip flops narrative, the military-aged unemployed males dominating this wave of caravans are far more violent than reported.  That's not a scare story from some rightwing militia group, but the actual view of the U.S. military, whose 5,000-plus troops have been dispatched to meet the caravans and keep them from storming the U.S. border and entering the U.S. illegally as they already did in Mexico.  Asked if the dispatch was all a border stunt by a reporter, Secretary of Defense Gen. Jim Mattis icily replied:  "We don't do stunts in this department.  Thank you."

Obama Can't Fill High School Gym in Milwaukee — But Daily Beast Hack Claims Line Was Mile Long!  Former President Obama was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Friday [10/26/2018] and he couldn't fill a high school gymnasium.  But this didn't stop a far left Daily Beast hack from claiming the line was a mile long to get into the event!  Never trust the liberal media.  Never!

Fact-Checkers Without Evidence.  As the media continues its precipitous decline in public approval and credibility, one small bastion still retains a semi-sacred status:  Fact-checkers.  Even more than "journalists" fact-checkers claim to be above the fray, depicting themselves as sticking to the "cold hard facts" while leaving their opinions at the door.  Of course, this is meant to cover up the fact that almost invariably they inject their opinions into various matters while projecting a false narrative that their work emanates from some higher authority that must be believed, much like a college professor who thinks he must not be questioned by mere students.

Christina Blasey Ford's Polygraph Was [Suspicious].  The fact that Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers refused to release the results of her polygraph exam until the day before her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month caused some suspicion.  And when we finally got a look at them, a lot of Judge Kavanaugh's supporters were confirmed in their suspicions. [...] Even if Ford's exam had been entirely on the up and up, despite the credence most people give them, polygraph tests are something of a joke among serious research psychologists.  The American Psychological Association will tell anyone who cares to listen (which unfortunately isn't many) that "most psychologists and other scientists agree that there is little basis for [their] validity."  The APA has such a dim view of the procedure in part because, though research indicates that a polygraph exam can detect deception better than chance, there's still a significant likelihood of error.  And doing better than flipping a coin isn't all that great when someone's reputation is on the line.

Lawsuit may help explain remains of 63 fetuses found in Detroit funeral home.  When their daughter died 27 minutes after her birth in December 2014, a Detroit couple donated the infant's remains for medical research.  Four years later, Rachel Brown and Larry Davis don't know what happened to Alayah's tiny body.  They're plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed earlier this year that may help explain how the remains of 63 fetuses were discovered by police Friday [10/19/2018] in boxes and freezers at Perry Funeral Home at Warren and Trumbull on Detroit's west side.

The Editor says...
Please note that if a baby lived 27 minutes, he or she was no longer a fetus.  Thus the media's description of "63 fetuses" is dishonest.

Nine Lies the Media Are Telling You About Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test.  Spreading lies to benefit the Democrat Party is what the establishment media do.  For example, over the weekend, NBC News fabricated the lie that President Trump gushed over Confederate General Robert E. Lee.  This was a deliberate lie to smear Trump as racist, and it was only corrected by NBC after the lie had run its course.  Over the same weekend, CNN crafted its own lie to make Donald Trump Jr. look racist.  The media lie.  And then the media lie some more.  And now the media are lying about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her debacle of a DNA test.  These are lies of omission and commission, but they are still lies because the media are desperate to mislead and deceive.

Kavanaugh's confirmation smoked out the journo-activists.  "The racist history of Chevy Chase, home to power players like Brett Kavanaugh," read the headline on a story on the Washington Post on Sept. 29.  The hint, of course, is that Kavanaugh helped make it racist, moved there because it was racist, or helped make it more racist once he was there.  "As late as 1976," the Post said, "the New York Times noted that the Chevy Chase Club golf course and country club ... whose members include Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. — allowed 'black skinned members of the diplomatic corps' but not black Americans, inside its doors."  But in 1976, neither Roberts nor Kavanaugh belonged to the club or lived in Washington.  Kavanaugh, then aged 11, lived with his parents in Maryland.  Neither lived in Chevy Chase until it became a heavily liberal enclave.

Weather Channel defends reporter captured swaying in Florence winds as 2 people walk behind him.  As Hurricane Storm Florence lashed through the Carolinas with howling winds and heavy rain, one reporter was captured attempting to keep it together as winds appeared to lash at him, but was mocked when two people were seen walking behind him with little difficulty.  The viral video, which has more than 13.6 million views, showed Weather Channel correspondent Mike Seidel in Wilmington, North Carolina, trying to fight the heavy wind as he reported live from the storm on Friday [9/14/2018].

Media pretend left-wing mobs of protesters aren't really mobs.  Journalists spent last week rewriting history as it happened and denying the thuggery of left-wing protests.  It was like watching a reality TV version of "1984."  President Trump helped get the show rolling when he called left-wing protesters "an angry mob" and Republicans and conservative groups picked up the term.  It was repeated in several videos and in a key GOP commercial that highlighted scenes of violence.  The scenes in the commercial included:  the rioting and arson that took place protesting President Trump's inauguration; attacks on Trump campaign events; harassment of members of Congress; and protesters pounding on the Supreme Court doors to object to the Senate confirmation of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  This was all more than the media could stand and they spent the week trying to disprove reality.

Confirmation bias:  Brett Kavanaugh and the major media's worst moment.  We are now at the unsuccessful conclusion of a four-week-long effort by certain media organizations to prove Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a violent sexual predator and a lying alcoholic.  The reckless and grossly irresponsible scramble by the New Yorker, NBC News, the New York Times, and others to make Kavanaugh into a monster produced some of the worst journalism of the Trump era to date — and that's a pretty high bar.  There were plenty of minor fouls, including when the Times assigned a news story on Kavanaugh to a magazine opinion writer who openly opposed his nomination.  Others were much greater, including when NBC published an anonymously written letter alleging (with zero corroboration) that Kavanaugh was observed by an anonymous woman in 1998 to have pushed another anonymous woman.

Evil, Disgusting USA Today Article Hideously Lies About Judge Kavanaugh.  A USA Today hit piece, dated September 29, insinuated Brett Kavanaugh was a child molester.  The disgusting, outrageous attacks by the leftist media have reached a new low, even for them.  The title of the article is:  USA Today hit piece says Kavanaugh should 'stay off basketball courts when kids are around'.  The evil author is Donovan Slack.  He actually put his name on the piece accusing the judge of being a pedophile.  Outside of murder, that was the only thing left to the hideous leftists in the media.  This is literally a replay of the Salem Witch Trials.  They are destroying him as much as anyone they might like to kill.  They edited out several paragraphs but the entire article should have been trashed with an apology.  The article was presented as news, not opinion, and seemed to destroy his reputation and his ability to coach basketball.

NY Times removes key language helpful to Kavanaugh from article about Yale accuser Ramirez.  On Sunday night, September 23, 2018, The New Yorker published an article about accusations by Deborah Ramirez, a former Yale classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  The authors were Ronan Farrow and Jane Meyer.  The New Yorker article noted, deep into the article, that Ramirez's accusations were not corroborated by any witnesses with first hand knowledge, and that Ramirez herself had gaps in memory that were cleared up only after 6 days of thinking about it and consulting with lawyers.  The NY Times covered the story, and had language in its September 23 about Ford testifying that was extremely helpful to Kavanaugh's defense.  The language was added in an evening edit.

Character Assassins in the Fake News Media.  The Left's lack of respect for democratic principles, for political "others," their readiness to employ gutter tactics and mangle the truth, has spread from the Communist fringe publications of the 1960s — like The Nation, and the Daily Worker — to so-called mainstream publications like the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

New Yorker Publishes Accusation Containing ZERO Evidence to Support, and 100% of Evidence To Refute.  [Scroll down]  Really, no need to go further.  Why?  Because despite their search, and discussions with "dozens" of potential witnesses... "The magazine contacted several dozen classmates of Ramirez and Kavanaugh regarding the incident"[. T]he New Yorker was unable to find a single witness to corroborate the story being made by the accuser.  None.  Not a single confirming witness to back up the claim.

McConnell Blasts Democrats From Senate Floor Over "Orchestrated Hit" — Says Kavanaugh Will Be Voted On.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats and their 11th hour "me too" ambush from the Senate floor Monday afternoon [9/24/2018].  McConnell said the resistance has become a smear campaign aided and abetted by members of the U.S. Senate.

Brett Kavanaugh Defies 'Grotesque Character Assassination' from the Left.  Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh responded to the latest allegations of sexual misconduct on Monday [9/24/2018] by denouncing them as smears.  "These are smears, pure and simple.  And they debase our public discourse," he wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.  "But they are also a threat to any man or woman who wishes to serve our country.  Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service."  Kavanuagh's letter expressed frustration with his delayed confirmation vote despite repeating his willingness to testify about the accusations from Christine Ford and a second "uncorroborated" report in the New Yorker.

This Kavanaugh furor:  How to execute an attempted political homicide.  As soon as Judge Brett Kavanaugh's once-anonymous accuser started stalling for time over testifying, you knew another sexual assault allegation was in the works.  Sure enough, a New Yorker story dropped Sunday night, when news competition would be minimal.  It's possible we'll have yet another tardy "revelation" before Thursday's scheduled appearances before the Senate Judiciary Committee, so desperate are opponents of the judge and President Trump.

Media Continues Its Slow Suicide.  After reviewing last week's news coverage, I would encourage President Trump to come up with a more accurate taunt than "fake news."  Maybe "garbage news." [...] But "fake news" is tame in light of the media's misleading, destructive, and willfully ignorant reporting last week that was intended further to inflame a divided body politic.  Some of the lowlights featured MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough, claiming Trump has done more damage to the country than the 9/11 terrorists; the editorial board of a major newspaper blaming Trump for Hurricane Florence; the wholesale acceptance of a highly flawed paper about hurricane deaths used to bash the president; and a despicable crusade not just to quash Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, but to destroy his reputation and damage his young family.

The New York Times issues major correction to Kavanaugh sexual assault story.  It's one thing to misspell a name or get a specific date wrong.  It's another thing entirely to report that a supposed witness to a sexual assault says he remembers it happening when he has said the exact opposite.  For an example of the latter, we turn to the New York Times, which published a report Tuesday titled, "Christine Blasey Ford Wants F.B.I. to Investigate Kavanaugh Before She Testifies."

Egg on Their Faces:  New York Times Retracts False Nikki Haley Smear.  On Thursday [9/13/2018], the New York Times — America's newspaper of record — published a disgusting false smear against U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.  The original article suggested Haley was responsible for spending $52,701 on curtains for the UN ambassador's house in New York City, when in reality the decision to purchase the curtains was made under former president Barack Obama.  The Times appended a correction at the top of the article, altered the headline, and removed the photo of Nikki Haley.  "Nikki Haley's View of New York Is Priceless.  Her New Curtains? $52,701." the original headline screamed, complete with a featured picture of Haley at the United Nations.  The original version of the article is unavailable, but a screenshot captured by the Washington Post's Aaron Blake revealed that the Times had substantially altered the article after receiving hefty criticism.

Fake News collapses on NYT.  The Obama administration ordered $52,701 worth of curtains for the apartment the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  To put that in perspective, the West Virginia Legislature impeached the entire state Supreme Court for wasting $32,000 to buy a couch.  So how did the New York Times report this Obama scandal?  "Nikki Haley's View of New York Is Priceless.  Her Curtains?  $52,701."  After Fox News pointed out the headline drapes do not match the rug of facts, the Times demoted the headline to "State Department Spent $52,701 on Curtains for Residence of U.N. Envoy."  Nope, nope, nope.  Nikki Haley did not build this.  Obama did.

New York Times Spreads Fake News About Nikki Haley's $52,701 Curtains.  A New York Times headline attacks UN Ambassador Nikki Haley's extravagant curtains, even though the Obama administration ordered them in 2016.  The fake news headline snarks, "Nikki Haley's View of New York Is Priceless.  Her Curtains? $52,701."  [...] The word "spent" is crucial, however, because after five whole paragraphs describing Haley's "spectacular views" in her leased $58,000 a month "full-floor penthouse, with handsome hardwood floors covering large open spaces stretching nearly 6,000 square feet," the Times at long last reveals the truth:  The Obama administration ordered those $52,701 curtains.  What's more the Obama administration chose the $58,000 per month penthouse.

NYT smears Nikki Haley over Obama's $53,000 UN curtains purchase.  Lacking a catch of late, the New York Times decided to pull a Scott Pruitt on United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, accusing her of being Extravagance Woman, a regular Stateside Imelda, based on a $53,000 purchase of customized and mechanized curtains for her United Nations apartment. [...] Turns out the fancy curtain order was the work of Samantha Power, President Obama's former U.N. ambassador, who, when she wasn't busy unmasking Americans to learn all about what was going on in the Trump campaign (or maybe handing her password out, given the quantity of such unmaskings under her name), was also busy getting the decorating in — status stuff, like self-opening curtains, the better to impress the Harvard and NGO crowds who undoubtedly would come by to visit.  And it was President Obama who approved the purchase.

The Truth About TIME's 'Underpaid Teachers' Story.  "I Work 3 Jobs And Donate Blood Plasma to Pay the Bills.  This Is What It's Like to Be a Teacher in America," reads the cover of TIME Magazine this week — and the story is going viral.  I haven't been able to scroll through a social media feed without seeing someone linking to the article — which features the stories of a handful of allegedly struggling teachers. [...] While I'm all for paying certain teachers more, TIME's piece doesn't make a convincing case for that.  In fact, the TIME article doesn't do anything other than prove life is hard, given that all of the teachers profiled in the piece earn incomes above that of the average American.

Media pounce on conservatives and weaponize bias against Trump.  Anti-Trump news organizations continued to attack the president this past week on many fronts, including for what CNN Senior Political Analyst John Avlon called "a real culture of corruption."  In reality, Avlon should have been describing the state of journalism.  CNN, that stalwart of James Earl Jones voiceovers, has no room to point fingers.  It got caught believing another phony story about President Trump and is too stubborn and woke to admit it.  (Sort of like when three CNN investigative journalists had to resign in 2017, except then the network admitted they were wrong.)  Meanwhile, NBC is facing allegations from a former top producer that executives actively interfered in reporting on allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.  And The New York Times has become increasingly obvious about the word play it injects into news stories, so its left-wing agenda remains intact.

Ohr speaks! (Behind closed doors).  You can almost smell the fear in the Get Trump camp that Bruce Ohr might be the thread that could be pulled to unravel the conspiracy of high-ranking officials to spy on the Trump campaign and then, after the election, put into action the "insurance policy" Peter Strzok mentioned to his mistress (and co-worker) Lisa Page in an August 2016 text message, to remove a duly elected president from office.  The New York Times, which serves as a pilot fish for the rest of the media, has been working hard to minimize the damage he might do.  On August 17, as Ohr's name was being introduced to inhabitants of the MSM bubble thanks to a threat by President Trump to remove his security clearance, the Times outright lied about his position in the Department of Justice, calling him a "midlevel" official in the DOJ.  This lie was picked up and repeated in many other articles and was used on cable news reports extensively, thereby falsely branding him as a minor player caught up and persecuted by Trump and anyone else paying attention.

South Africans Push Back Against Lying American Media — White Farmers Getting Killed Daily.  Residents of South Africa are creating videos backing up US President Donald Trump's claims that white farmers in South Africa are being murdered.  In riveting firsthand testimony uploaded to Twitter Monday [8/27/2018], several South Africans pushed back against the mainstream media, testifying violence against whites is on the rise.

Charlottesville and Masked Antifa:  The Fake News Media as Enemy of the People.  By now we all know that the White Racist Nazis who were expected in their thousands by the Seedier Media arrived few in number, but a ton of masked Antifa Nazis showed up.  To the degree (i) that "The People" benefit when White Racist Nazis remain few in number; (ii) that "The People" are hurt when the media go out of their way to inflate the numbers of White Racist Nazis in a self-serving coordinated media frenzy to increase numbers of White Racist Nazi demonstrators for more interesting television that leads to better ratings and increased advertising revenue; and (iii) that such fake news build-ups for days leading up to the Charlottesville anniversary actually threaten to draw more White Racist Nazis and to threaten the civil order... the Fake News Media indeed proved themselves to be the Enemy of the People.

Transgender 'Woman' Kills Her Own Grandmother With A Knife, Media Decides She's A 'Man'.  When is a transgender woman not a woman?  Apparently, when she kills her own grandmother, at which point "she" magically returns to being a "he"!

No sympathy for a lying press.  It's difficult to take the media's claims about attacks on the press seriously when they're constantly gaslighting the country. [...] Over and over again the press asserts that something is true, even though you saw with your own eyes that it's not.

The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity.  We shared a discussion thread several months ago about how the media are enmeshed within the story of the DOJ and FBI corruption.  However, only recently did we discover the media engagements were not just pervasive, they were/are participatory.  As a consequence the same media cannot reasonably report on any aspect of the story without exposing their own duplicity; their only choice is to double down on lies they helped create and promote.

Media Rewrite History To Credit Obama Instead Of Trump.  The stronger the economy gets under President Trump, the more desperate his critics are to hand credit over to Obama.  Even if that entails changing the past.

Journalists used to fight fake news; today they pretend it doesn't exist.  The credibility of newspapers and of journalism in general depend on our ability to get the story right in the first place, and to admit our mistakes promptly in the second place. [...] Unfortunately, it seems that some big-name journalists today consider themselves and their chosen profession above reproach.  When President Trump calls them out for publishing fake news, they merely put their thumbs in their ears and shout back petulantly "NOT FAKE NOT FAKE!" no matter how obvious it is to an objective observer that it was indeed fake.  A prime example of that occurred last Sunday morning when President Trump's tweet about the Trump Tower meeting held by Don Jr. in 2016 was widely trumpeted as some kind of new (and damning) revelation when actually the president had said the exact same thing (in virtually the same words) a year earlier.

Levin: 'The media won't address its own unprofessionalism'.  Thursday [8/2/2018] on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin called out the media for reporting more on themselves than on legitimate news, and claiming that they are "under attack."  "The media keep reporting on the media, have you noticed that? ... The media have abandoned a pretense of seeking objectivity for ideological activism, progressivism ... they're devouring what they self-servingly claim to defend," Levin said.  [Audio clip]

The media whips up hatred among classes, races, religions, and exactly two sexes.
  •   The media constantly publish stories showing that white people are racist.  In the past 48 hours alone, the New York Times has published stories showing that white people are racist in hotels and at public swimming pools. [...] Nearly every day, the media write an article that reads, "White people are racist in [kind of place or circumstance]."  This repeated emphasis whips up racial resentment and encourages violence against white people.
  •   Not a day goes by without some gleeful account of how the non-white population of America is increasing, eagerly looking forward to the day when whites are in the minority.  This "in your face, white people!" mentality stirs up understandable resentment among white Americans.
  •   We are constantly told by the media to hate the rich, that if they have a lot of money, they must not have earned it legitimately, that "their" money should be "our" money.  The resentment built up by this kind of storyline encourages lawmakers to enact theft by higher taxation.
  •   Women are constantly told that most men are rapists or harassers who don't respect them.  Women are encouraged to turn against men and see rape in every dorm room and every janitor closet.
  •   We are repeatedly told that the police are racist.

Freeing People from Left-Wing Lies.  Because real people don't tell big lies, they assume that others won't, either.  Hence, when Hitler, or the WaPo, repeats big lies over and over, people tend to end up believing them so long as they don't hear any contradictory voices.  That's why so many Americans think abortion is legal only in the first trimester or for the hard cases when in fact it's legal for any reason at any time during a pregnancy.  That's why so many Americans think Trump somehow colluded with Russia even though there is not a shred of evidence to indicate that.  That's why so few Americans know that Carter Page, the supposed Russian spy targeted by the FISA warrant, helped the FBI sting to capture Russian spies in 2013.  Clearly, the media have to work hard to hide that from the bubble people they're trying to fool.  That's why few Democratic voters know that the NYT has armed guards to protect its newsroom even as it says making it harder for average citizens to have guns is a good thing.

The truth about 'Fake News'.  Janet Cooke is a prime example of why the Pulitzer Prize has essentially become worthless.  She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for a sob story written for The Washington Post, but the story was later discovered to have been completely fabricated.  While Cooke subsequently returned the Pulitzer, she remains the only one who has.  Flash back to the New York Times Moscow correspondent reporter Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer in 1932 for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, 11 of them were published in June 1931.and completely denied the widespread famine (1932-1933) in the USSR, most particularly the mass starvation in Ukraine.

Deep Fake News.  The Brookings Institution warns that "fact checking" will become a lot harder in the 21st century as artificial intelligence becomes better at producing "deep fake news" creating counterfeits so good they are difficult to distinguish from the Real McCoy.  "Because the algorithms that generate the fakes continuously learn how to more effectively replicate the appearance of reality, deep fakes cannot easily be detected by other algorithms — indeed, in the case of generative adversarial networks, the algorithm works by getting really good at fooling itself."  The technology to fake videos, photographs and sound clips is now so good even Hollywood is increasingly using digital actors.  Moreover artificial intelligence can weave these fakes into a superficially self-consistent universe of lies creating a false narrative whose fraudulence can only be exposed by painstaking comparison to reality.

Mainstream Media On Their Last Legs.  What happens when the entire industry that is devoted to educating the public is doing so with a clear political slant, despite their claims of objectivity?  What ensues is an absolute lack of trust, and the ensuing panic from those that are most responsible for it.  You see more and more hands grasping for fewer straws.  You get the people who are supposed to be informing the republic choosing to denigrate and blatantly insult the American public, because they've lost their ability to do what they should be doing.

The Next American Revolution: #WalkAway.  My first inkling that Donald Trump might actually become President came about mid-evening on election night, 2016, when I switched to MSNBC to look at that infallible barometer of Republican success at the ballot box, the expressions of the "journalists" reporting the returns.  The first face I saw was that of Chuck Todd, who was frowning at a map of Wisconsin and maundering about Milwaukee. [...] His fear was well-founded.  Those Milwaukee precincts were emblematic of a nationwide phenomenon that contributed in no small part to Trump's victory — African-American enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton was tepid at best.  Both the Democrats and the "news" media have ignored this reality.  Their willful ignorance allows them to claim, as the brainiacs at Vox put it, "Trump won because of racial resentment."  Never mind that Hillary Clinton is conspicuously caucasian and that white turnout has remained relatively stable since 2004.

Mainstream Media Blame Donald Trump for Maryland Newspaper Shooter.  Several members of the mainstream media blamed President Donald Trump for a suspect who allegedly killed five journalists on Thursday [6/28/2018] and reportedly had a longstanding dispute with the newspaper dating back to before Trump even declared his candidacy for the Oval Office.  Per several reports, authorities late Thursday identified [...] the shooter who allegedly opened fire on the news staff of Maryland's The Capital-Gazette newspaper.  It came out shortly thereafter that [he] had a longstanding battle with the newspaper dating back nearly a decade [...]

Trump [is] Blamed for Death of Reporters.  Did Media Blame Obama for Cop Killers?  A man with a long-standing beef against the Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper Capital Gazette entered the paper's headquarters with a shotgun and murdered five staffers.  It represents the deadliest attack on U.S. reporters in modern history.  Before learning about the suspect's mental issues and his long-standing feud with the newspaper, some in the media blamed President Donald Trump.  After all, critics said, Trump routinely denounces "fake news" as an existential threat to our republic.  Connect the dots, they said.  Blame Trump!  CNN aired a montage of Trump's attacks on the media.  Rob Cox, a Reuters editor, tweeted:  "This is what happens when @RealDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people.  Blood is on your hands, Mr. President."  Another reporter, who later resigned, even falsely tweeted that the shooter was wearing a MAGA cap.  How do you get that wrong?

Is the First Amendment an Excuse for SLOPPY, AWFUL Journalism?  As most people know, once speech is "constitutionalized" by discussing public figures, public officials or matters of public concern, the aggrieved party must prove that the publication was issued with "actual malice", defined as "knowing falsity or reckless disregard for the truth."  Understanding the "knowing falsity" prong is simple.  If a publication invented a defamatory allegation out of thin air, they're likely to be ruled against.  Most media entities in that situation will argue in court that the statement isn't really defamatory or isn't really about the complainant.  More often than not when the press loses attempts to have a case dismissed on those grounds they write a check to make the problem go away.  The "reckless disregard" prong is much more difficult to navigate.

Journalists 'Fraudulently' Posed as Translators at Migrant Center, Say Feds.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said "several journalists" claimed to be translators in order to gain access to illegal immigrants being processed by Border Patrol agents after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico.  Two were identified as journalists by officials and turned away.  However, a third successfully gained entry on Tuesday [6/26/2018] and made their way "fraudulently" into the processing center during a time scheduled for attorney-client privileged meetings, CBP officials stated.

Reporter resigns after false tweet that Maryland shooting suspect had MAGA hat.  A reporter in Springfield, Mass., resigned from his job Friday [6/29/2018] after posting a Twitter message falsely stating that Maryland shooting suspect Jarrod Ramos had brought a "Make America Great Again" hat to the office of the Capital Gazette.  Conor Berry, who wrote for the Republican, tweeted an image of a MAGA hat Thursday, and suggested that Ramos had left it behind at the Gazette office after allegedly killing five Gazette employees.

The Editor says...
The only thing missing from this story is a follow-up article two days later in which the central figure says, "Can't you take a joke?"  But there's nothing in the initial coverage of this story that would indicate Mr. Ramos was trying to be funny.  Well, good luck in the used car business.  I mean, now that you're washed up in journalism, what else can you do with a journalism degree?

Reuters editor apologizes, could be disciplined after blaming Capital Gazette shooting on Trump.  A top editor at Reuters apologized on Thursday night [6/28/2018] after blaming President Trump for the deadly Capital Gazette shooting in a now-deleted tweet that was sent during a "state of emotional distress," but he might still be disciplined by the international news service.  Reuters Breakingviews Editor Rob Cox admitted that he "responded emotionally and inappropriately" after being called out for jumping to conclusions prior to the facts emerging.  Police said the suspected gunman, eventually identified as Jarrod W. Ramos, targeted the newspaper after a lengthy feud regarding a 2012 defamation lawsuit.  "This is what happens when [President] Trump calls journalists the enemy of the people.  Blood is on your hands, Mr. President.  Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul," Cox wrote in the deleted tweet, according to TheWrap.

Reporter Who Falsely Claimed Annapolis Shooter Wore MAGA Hat Resigns.  A reporter at a Massachusetts-based newspaper resigned Friday [6/29/2018] after falsely claiming in a tweet Thursday that the man who killed five employees at the Capital Gazzete newspaper left a "Make America Great Again" hat at the crime scene.  "Shooter who killed 4 people at Annapolis newspaper dropped his #MAGA hat on newsroom floor before opening fire," Conor Berry, a reporter at The Republican in Springfield, Mass., wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

Massachusetts Reporter Resigns After Suggesting Killer Was Trump Supporter.  A Massachusetts newspaper reporter has resigned after falsely suggesting the perpetrator of the deadly shooting at a Maryland newspaper was wearing a President Donald Trump-inspired "Make America Great Again" hat.  The Republican newspaper in Springfield reports Conor Berry has apologized for tarnishing the "good work of fair-minded journalists everywhere" in his Friday resignation letter.  Berry tweeted an image of the familiar red hat and suggested 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos had dropped a similar one on The Capital Gazette's newsroom floor before opening fire and killing five people Thursday.  The tweet has since been taken down.

Levin: The media 'create their own reality'.  LevinTV host Mark Levin began his radio show Friday evening [6/22/2018] discussing how the media have inserted ideological progressivism into their news reporting.  "They create their own reality.  And in this case, it's a progressive reality," Levin said of the media.  "And they push it out as news."  He recommended the book The Image:  A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, by the late historian Daniel Boorstin, to explain how the news media attempt to indoctrinate the public.

7 Recent Lies From Media On Emotion-Driven Immigration Debate.  Democrats and the mainstream media continued to destroy any remaining credibility they have left with their recent hysteria surrounding the debate on illegal immigration as they pushed lie after lie in their attempts to emotionally manipulate voters.  Before jumping into the lies and false information that the media and Democrats have injected into the American public, it's important to note the timeline of events that led up to the creation of this current news cycle.  The current news cycle on the poor treatment of illegal immigrants began in late May when people like former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau tweeted out an article from 2014 and falsely insinuated that it was the Trump administration that was responsible for it.

Lying Democrat, Lying MSM on the Border Crisis.  The entire crisis is a lie.  The media is lying! [...] NBC News is reporting nothing but fake news, claiming the President has caused a crisis at the border.  There is a crisis but it is because 50,000 illegal aliens are caught coming through each month and that doesn't count all the illegals not caught.  Tens of thousands of children as young as 4 years of age are being sent alone with cartels by their abusive parents.

Fake News and Immigration.  Unfortunately, Fake News is alive and all too well.  This was witnessed in spades this past week as the Fake News media lied through its fangs about the president on immigration.  The Fake Newsies, at least 90% of whom are Democratic Party operatives, waxed hysteria over the separation of Hispanic children from their immigrant parents, i.e. those who entered America illegally through the southern border.  Of course, the blame for all of this was laid at the feet of the president, who was excoriated by his political enemies in Washington D.C. and their apologists and fellow partisans in the Fake News industry for his "zero tolerance" policy.  By now, any remotely honest observer of the political scene should know that the truth is profoundly otherwise than what fake journalists and commentators would have us think.

Thoughts on Crying Babies, Dying Babies, and Media Deception.  The technique is proven and effective.  Put a moving, highly effective, propagandistic photo on the front page (or cover) of your story.  Cause a moral outrage in the public.  Then, several days (or even weeks) later, print a retraction somewhere in the middle of your publication where few will find it:  "We regret publishing a picture with a misleading caption."  It works like a charm!

Here Are The Photos Of Obama's Illegal Immigrant Detention Facilities The Media Won't Show You.  The media and political class become more and more outraged over the Trump administration's decision to detain and prosecute immigrants illegally crossing the border.  Lost in the debate is any acknowledgment that President Obama's administration also used detention facilities.  Current U.S. immigration laws, when enforced, have the consequence of temporarily separating adults who arrive with children into separate detention facilities in order to prosecute the adults.  The policy of prosecuting immigrants for crossing the border illegally has been in place for multiple administrations.  The Obama administration prosecuted half a million illegal immigrants and similarly separated families in the process.  So did the Bush administration.

Trump Speaks, The Media Lies, And The Artist Of The Deal Makes His Move.  The media lies.  That's why there are sites like RedState.  If you could simply turn on the television and trust what you heard, we would be unnecessary.  The same goes for much of the supposed news sources online.  For examples of this, look no further than coverage of the border family separation issue.  Among the mainstream news organizations, there seems to be no adherence to any notion of truth; there is only the media against Trump, which is oftentimes the media against truth.

No child should be used as a protest prop.  Actor Ron Perlman earned nearly 8,000 retweets when he posted a picture of a small crying child in a cage with the words "Trump, Sessions, McConnell, Ryan, this is on YOU!"  When multiple people responded with a link to Snopes informing him that the photo was a fake, and actually of a child at a protest, Perlman tweeted back:  "Maybe it's you!  Maybe you're fake."  The photo told a story he wanted to tell, and the fact that it wasn't real was irrelevant.  As of Thursday, the photo remained up on Perlman's page.  It's what used to be called "fake but accurate" but today goes by President Trump's preferred term, "fake news."  It's just too good to check.

IG Report:  FBI Officials Accepted Bribes From Media.  On Page Xii of the IG report the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) highlights numerous FBI officials who accepted bribes from multiple media outlets including: "tickets to sporting events", "golf outings", "drinks and meals" as well as exclusive invitations and admission to "nonpublic social events".

50 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era:  The Definitive List.  We the media have "fact-checked" President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planet — and he's certainly given us plenty to write about.  That's probably why it's so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and "lies."  Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump's claims are "lies" when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump's statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they're established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories — without labeling them as opinions.

As Snopes 'Debunks' Child Trafficking Camp, 160 Kids as Young as 3 Rescued in Georgia.  A massive sting operation carried out by the FBI in metro Atlanta captured dozens of child traffickers and rescued 160 children who had been forced into sex slavery by their captors.  This news comes as Snopes and the other ostensible arbiters of truth distort information claiming that similar trafficking is taking place in Arizona.  Illustrating the massive scope of the sting, called Operation Safe Summer, it was a collaborative effort between the FBI and 38 other law enforcement agencies from six metro counties.

Bay of Pics:  Media fakery targets Trump with photos of Obama-era child trafficking.  Over the Memorial Day weekend, photos of Central American children at a U.S. holding facility began to appear online.  Democrats and their media allies quickly hailed the pics as the latest exhibit of anti-Trump hysteria.  "Look at these photos," Linda Sarsour tweeted.  "Speechless," tweeted Antonio Villaraigosa, former Los Angeles mayor and candidate for governor of California.  "This is not who we are as a nation." [...] Trouble was, the story was from 2014, long before the Trump administration.  Likewise, As Saagar Enjeti noted in the Daily Caller, the detention center photos "stem from a 2014 Arizona Central story showing migrant children in steel cages.  The cages were implemented at the height of the Central American migrant crisis under the Obama administration."

Left buys into fake news about Martha Stewart refusing Trump pardon.  So did Martha Stewart refuse President Trump's pardon of her, on a maliciously prosecuted insider stock trading case, based on her progressive views?  Nope, not to anyone's knowledge.  But a satirical news site put that out there and sure enough, out on Twitter and elsewhere, much of the left bit into the fake news and passed it around.  Obviously, the satirists knew the left would believe it.

Did the Feds Lose 1,475 Migrant Children?  That's what you would conclude from this USA Today opinion piece headlined, "The feds lost — yes, lost — 1,475 migrant children."  It's a piece that's a pretty good example of how "fake news" works — there's some factual basis for the claim, but it's exaggerated or misunderstood, and then fed into the maw of the perpetual outrage cycle, in this case about the alleged extreme carelessness and heartlessness of the Trump administration toward migrant children.  Some background:  As we all know, in recent years there has been a flood of "unaccompanied children" (UAC) showing up at the border.  The U.S. government attempts to unite UAC with a parent or close relative in the U.S.  The HHS program to do this is longstanding and long pre-dated the Trump administration.  Given the size of the migrant flow, the scale of this task is enormous.

Media Spreads Two New Lies Aimed At Smearing ICE, Trump.  Multiple journalists, activists, and former Obama administration officials spread blatant falsehoods during Memorial Day weekend aimed at smearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration.  The first false claim involved a news report showing photos of children in detention centers lying on floors that CNN's Hadas Gold, former Obama official Jon Favreau, Shaun King, and Linda Sarsour all shared and promoted as being recent when, in fact, the photos were from 2014, during the Obama administration.

The Latest Whopper — The FBI Was Actually Trying to 'Protect Trump'.  The Deep State has been weaving its own tangled web of Russian collusion for the past two years beginning with Russia supposedly hacking the 2016 election, creating the electoral outcome they desired.  It has since morphed into Trump colluding with the Russians, despite zero proof on the one-year anniversary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's free-for-all investigation by his merry band of partisan Democrats.  It's now to the point that Mueller's team is investigating anyone in Trump's circle who ever ate a bowl of borscht or drank a sip of Russian vodka.  At a time when this couldn't get any more ridiculous, look no further than the Washington Post for a version of "can you top this?"

Who's An Animal?  Scarcely a day goes by without the news media lying about the president and his administration.  No wonder trust in the press is at an all-time low.  It should be.

Why the left buys into every anti-Israel smear.  Eight armed Hamas terrorists fought Israeli troops last Monday [5/14/2018].  All were killed — then counted in the day's death toll of "60 protesters."  Hamas itself identified 50 of the 60 "martyrs" as Hamas members and admitted to "terminological deception," because it was deploying "peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force."  The widespread condemnations of Israel caused by characterizing those 50 violent fence-invaders as "peaceful" suggests how Palestinians are playing so many for dupes.  Reporters love playing the "peaceful, oppressed protesters-of-color" against "the armed, white, persecuting soldiers" card (even though there are many dark-skinned Israelis and light-skinned Palestinians; the conflict is national not racial).  Images of flak-jacketed Israeli soldiers and injured Palestinians trigger waves of simplistic stereotypes.  Suddenly, the Palestinians are Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi and Black Lives Matter all in one.

Liberal Lies And Slanders Are A Slippery Slope To Trouble.  [Scroll down]  It's a bad faith strawman strategy, and it often manifests itself in the New Obtuseness, the stubborn insistence that what someone just said is something entirely different than what he actually said.  It's basically fancy lying.  The New Obtuseness was in full effect recently when Trump called MS-13 dirtbags "animals."  Despite the video of him discussing these evil gangbanging scum, the liberals and their media windowlickers insisted that he was calling all illegal aliens "animals."  And they knew it wasn't true — they just lied, knowingly and intentionally.  They do it all the time.  We, presumably, are supposed to disbelieve our own lying eyes and ears.

Anatomy of a Smear:  How the Media Created a Malicious Lie About Trump's 'Animals' Comment.  On Wednesday afternoon [5/16/2018], President Donald Trump hosted a "California sanctuary state roundtable" discussion at the White House.  Infamously, he referred to violent MS-13 gang members as "animals."  Americans wouldn't get that impression from reading Thursday's headlines, however.  "Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants 'Animals' in Rant," screamed The New York Times's Julie Hirschfeld Davis.  Her article referenced MS-13 only once, buried as an aside in the third paragraph:  "He exhorted his administration to 'do much better' in keeping out undesirable people, including members of transnational gangs like MS-13."  USA TODAY ran with the headline "Trump ramps up rhetoric on undocumented immigrants:  'These aren't people.  These are animals.'"  To their credit, Gregory Corte and Alan Gomez included a bit more context than The New York Times did.  Even so, MS-13 did not come up until the fourth paragraph, and the opening sentence suggested that the president was "calling undocumented immigrants 'animals.'"

CNN Says There Have Been 22 School Shootings This Year.  That's A Lie.  CNN used the following parameters for their count:
  •   A shooting that involved at least one person being shot (not including the shooter)
  •   A shooting that occurred on school grounds
  •   We included grades K through college/university level
  •   We included gang violence, fights and domestic violence
  •   We included accidental discharge of a firearm as long as the first two parameters are met
So, in other words, not mass shootings; not even purposeful shootings; not even shootings involving children.  If a gang member shot another gang member on school grounds during the summer, this would count as a school shooting.  If a wife shot a husband at a school, they counted it.

White House Correspondents' Association Exposed Regularly Spends About 85% of WHCD Revenue on Annual Party, Not Scholarships.  The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) has long-cited its scholarships for aspiring journalists to justify the tax-exempt charitable status of its blow-out, televised annual dinner, but only a small fraction of the IRS-designated 501(c)(3) organization's fundraising is awarded to students.  Last year, just 13.4 percent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner's revenue went to scholarships.

Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans.  One Problem:  He's Not Real.  Drew Cloud is everywhere.  The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe,, and CNBC, and is a fixture in the smaller, specialized blogosphere of student debt. [...] After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Cloud's existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake.  "Drew Cloud is a pseudonym that a diverse group of authors at Student Loan Report, LLC use to share experiences and information related to the challenges college students face with funding their education," wrote Nate Matherson, CEO of LendEDU.  Before that admission, however, Cloud had corresponded at length with many journalists, pitching them stories and offering email interviews, many of which were published.

Fake News Takes Down Another Good Man:  Dr. Ronny Jackson Resigns as White House Doctor After Liberal Lies.  Democrat Senator Jon Tester led the charge last week spreading false rumors against Trump VA pick Admiral Ronny Jackson.  Tester played point man to smear and slander Admiral Jackson with false allegations of inappropriate behavior.  Admiral Jackson withdrew his nomination after the false allegations were released and shared widely by the liberal mainstream media.  The Secret Service later came out and said the allegations were completely false.

Who Was Worse — Michelle Wolf or Her Audience?  [Scroll down]  It's the Golden Age of Leaking, not Journalism. [...] The role of the press in the whole Christopher Steele dossier business would simply be nauseating if it weren't sinister.  When the full story of the suborning of the FISA court in an attempt to bring down a sitting president is finally fully revealed, the despicable role of the press, how they allowed themselves to be used, even encouraged it, will be uncomfortably evident.

The New York Times' Hatchet Job On Devin Nunes Is Riddled With Errors.  Jason Zengerle publicly announced his profile of Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., in today's [4/29/2018] New York Times Sunday Magazine with the snarky tweet, "My latest for the @NYTmag on Devin Nunes, who's been propagating, not to mention falling for, conspiracy theories since before the Deep State was even in a gleam in Donald Trump's eye."  It's an accurate summation of the hit he attempted to place on Nunes, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).  The only problem is the case he attempts to make is riddled with errors and full of embarrassing and deliberate material omissions.

Leftist Propaganda Thwarts Unity.  In Nazi Germany, the people believed, right up to the bitter end, that they were going to win the war.  They did so because all the news they got was from state-controlled media.  In North Korea, until very recently, most people thought that, even though they were starving to death, the people in South Korea had it much worse.  Once again, they believed so because the state controlled the media and fed them lies.  Only with the availability of illegal cell phones from China did the people start to learn just how good life was elsewhere.  During the Cold War, citizens of the Soviet Union believed that Americans lived in poverty.  After all, didn't all the papers say so?  Today in America, we have a similar situation.

Don't Be Misled by the Media, Cuba Isn't Changing.  After the nominal change in Cuba's leadership, the New York Times managed to come out with the most New York Times headline ever:  "More Black Officials in Power in Cuba as Leadership Changes."  The Los Angeles Times demanded that as Castro era "ends" in Cuba, so should the U.S. embargo.  NPR followed hopefully, and Buzzfeed provided a romanticized photo spread.  Reading such affectionate and hopeful portrayals might make one want to believe that Cuba really is currently undergoing a transformation that will define its future.  I hate to shatter that optimism, but Cuba isn't changing, and American policymakers and media really shouldn't be so naïve and optimistic about it.

The New York Times Best-Seller List:  Another Reason Americans Don't Trust The Media.  About half the American people do not believe the mainstream media tell the truth.  They believe the media are more interested in promoting their left-wing views than reporting the truth. [...] In order to think it is mere coincidence, you have to believe The New York Times more than reality itself, which about half the country seems to.  While The Times occasionally lists conservative books and, very rarely, religious books, after comparing the list and the BookScan list, the Observer concluded in 2016:  "If you happen to work for The New York Times and have a book out, your book is more likely to stay on the list longer and have a higher ranking than books not written by New York Times employees. ... If you happen to have written a conservative-political-leaning book, you're more likely to be ranked lower and drop off the list faster than those books with a more liberal political slant."  In other words, The New York Times best-seller list is not a best-seller list — which even The New York Times once acknowledged.

Caravan?  What Caravan?  As everyone knows, a "caravan" of more than 1,000 Hondurans is making its way North through Mexico toward the United States.  This caravan had sought, and drawn, a great deal of publicity before President Trump began talking about it. [...] Weirdly, the liberal media pretended to have no idea what the President was talking about.

A Tale of Black Racism.  The Philly media, like the media elsewhere, makes much of gentrification.  Philadelphians are forever hearing about what a social evil it is. [...] Constantly propagating notions such as white supremacy, white privilege, gentrification, and others, the media creates a kind of toxic intellectual air.  Unhappy people breathe it in, and the result is all sorts of mad beliefs.  It is as if being white guaranteed a middle-class existence.  It is as if being black meant that personal failure is not even a possibility; in place of it there is always some white discrimination or other.

77% believe the media lies.  "More than 3-in-4 Americans believe that traditional major TV and newspaper media outlets report Fake News, including 31% who believe this happens regularly and 46% who say it happens occasionally.  The 77% who believe fake news reporting happens at least occasionally has increased significantly from 63% of the public who felt that way last year," Monmouth University reported.  That is a fundamental threat to our republic.  The media keeps telling us we need informed voters — and then it misinforms voters.  Repeatedly.

Poll: 77 Percent Believe Traditional Media Guilty of Fake News.  According to a survey by the Monmouth University Polling Institute, the vast majority of Americans believe that mainstream media outlets report "fake news."  A whopping 77 percent of over 800 respondents relayed their distrust for major news organizations in both television and print — a marked increase from the 63 percent that was already skeptical a year ago.  Of those, 31 percent believe it to be a regular occurrence, while 46 percent see it as a more occasional issue.

You've Been Hoodwinked. (Perhaps.).  My friends on the far left are convinced that Sinclair anchors reading a national promo is Hitler-esque Orwellian brainwashing.  My friends on the far right are happy and hopeful that Sinclair might, indeed, be pushing conservative views.  Those in the middle don't care or seem to think it's much ado about nothing.

The Herd Media Stampedes Sinclair.  In an unguarded moment during the 2016 campaign, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski remarked that it is "our job," not Trump's, to "control exactly what people think."  The Sinclair Broadcast Group referenced that line in its promo.  But the news accounts of the phony controversy over the promo never mention that Brzezinski did in fact make that outrageous comment.  Unless I missed it, Brzezinski herself didn't acknowledge the reference to the comment she made.  Gripping her chair like a Victorian fainting couch, Brzezinski found the promo "frightening."  But beneath the hysterical blather was nothing more than the hurt feelings of an exposed liberal propagandist.  Sinclair had nailed her and she didn't like it.  It is rich farce to see the herd media stampeding Sinclair for refusing to join it.  How dare Sinclair read its own script and not ours!  That's the demand implicit in the media's temper tantrum, all while journalists pontificate about the importance of a "free press."

The Knee-Jerk Liberals Spit At Sinclair.  [Scroll down]  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shamelessly lectured that it is like the days of Pravda in the Soviet Union:  "A national broadcasting system that is shoving propaganda down local anchors' throats straight from the pen of somebody who's a Trump acolyte," he stated hysterically, "is really, really chilling."  Chilling?  This man appears on a national broadcasting system pushing propaganda daily.  A network whose motto in former President Obama's years was "Lean Forward" (which sounded like former Communist Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward) and that passes judgment on propaganda is why networks like Sinclair have emerged.  On HBO, John Oliver denounced Sinclair anchors as sounding like "members of a brainwashed cult."  So, exactly how do anchors of news or entertainment shows across the country deliver their reports?  Oliver doesn't have a script?

The Editor says...
This story is about a corporate-mandated editorial that was supposed to run on every station owned by Sinclair.  It appears that each station put its most trusted news anchors on camera and had them read the prescribed script.  Dave Chiselface and Suzie Plastique make a lot of money, and they'll read whatever they're told to read — with a smile.  Any resemblance to sincerity is the product of Dave and Suzie's acting skills.  It's a story about media dishonesty only because it's an editorial comment disguised as a promo, and because the typical viewer doesn't know that all the other TV stations owned by the same company are airing the same editorial.

News Anchors At Sinclair Owned Stations Caught Reading From Same Corporate Mandated Script.  Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns nearly 200 local television stations across the country as well as a wide variety of other assets in radio and online media, is under scrutiny this morning after video emerged of local anchors at a number of the stations it owns reading what appears to be a corporate-prepared script that touches on the whole so-called "fake news" phenomenon.

Brilliant Agitprop Outlines Modern Media.  [Video clip]

Keywords:  Teleprompter, rip and read, propagandists, phony concerned look, plastic-coated, sock puppets
Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script.  It may not have seemed strange to individual viewers.  But Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin, had read a report last month from CNN, which quoted local station anchors who were uncomfortable with the speech.  Mr. Burke tracked down the Sinclair affiliates and found when they had aired what he called a "forced read."

Sociologist: Less Than 10 Percent Of March For Our Lives Participants Were Children.  A sociologist on MSNBC threw cold water on all the media's claims that the March For Our Lives protests were spontaneous and led by the nation's children during a "Morning Joe" segment on Monday [3/26/2018].  University of Maryland sociologist Dana Fisher conducted a study of the demographics of Saturday's march in Washington, D.C., and discovered that only less than 10 percent of those in the crowd were under the age of 18.  While Fisher tried to make it sound like these individuals were all potential voters, it is likely that many of those who showed up were simply run-of-the-mill liberal activists.

A User's Guide To Media Coverage Of Political Protests.  [L]iberal protests are somehow not political.  When co-host Meghan McCain stated the facts on these marches on "The View" — a show that advocates passing gun control legislation and sticking it to the National Rifle Association — Whoopi Goldberg was outraged.  She said:  "Let's stick to what this particular march is today. ... It's not political."  What will Whoopi claim next?  That "The View" isn't political either?  The Women's March organizers of this walkout wanted to protest not just gun violence but also racism, police brutality and how "the United States has exported gun violence through imperialist foreign policy to destabilize other nations."  That's superpolitical.

The Corporate War on Free Speech.  [T]his same media weren't nearly as shrill about the fact that an alleged Black Lives Matter supporter blew away five cops in Dallas in 2016.  This was after BLM-inspired rioting and beatings across the country that were based on dubious half-truths peddled by the same media about a series of incidents that turned out to be much more complicated once the facts slowly leaked out.  Hands up, don't shoot?  He was just buying Skittles?  He couldn't breathe, even though he was able to say he couldn't breathe eleven times?  Assigning guilt is a slippery and often slimy business, but one might plausibly argue that the way the mainstream media has purposely sculpted sensational racial narratives has in some way led to, or at least enabled, acts of violence and even murder.  Despite — or maybe even because of — all that, corporate media stand firmly and proudly behind groups such as Black Lives Matter.

Sharyl Attkisson Explains the Origins of the 2016 'Fake News' Narrative.  In a Tedx Talk at the University of Nevada a couple of weeks ago (watch the video below) investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson revealed the origins of the "fake news" narrative that was aggressively pushed by the liberal media and Democrat politicians during the 2016 election, and how it was later flipped by President Donald Trump.  Attkisson pointed out that "fake news" in the form of tabloid journalism and false media narratives has always been around under different names.  But she noticed that in 2016, there seemed to be a concerted effort by the MSM to focus America's attention on the idea of "fake news" in conservative media.  That looked like a propaganda effort to Attkisson, so she did a little digging and traced the new spin to a little non-profit called "First Draft," which, she said, "appears to be the about the first to use 'fake news' in its modern context."

The Editor says...
I don't know what Tedx is.  Nor do I care.

Fake News Flashback:  CNN Declared Trump 'Bonkers' for Saying Clinton, Dems Behind Dossier.  Writing for the far-left CNN back in October, Chris Cillizza declared President Donald Trump "bonkers" and "crazy" for suggesting what turned out to be 100 percent true:  that the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, the FBI, and Russia, were all behind what is known as the "Russian dossier."

Confronting Leftist Lies.  Movies and TV shows are no longer mindless entertainment.  Ninety-nine percent of what comes out of Hollywood is lies; designed to seduce Americans into embracing Leftists' ungodly agenda.  Hollywood relentlessly demonizes Christians, America, mainstream Americans, and Trump. [...] The 6 o'clock news was on the TV in the background while I was chatting with a relative at his home Folks, it was a truly painful experience.  Every news story was liberal spin and/or lies.  Programming after the news was seductive liberal propaganda.  I watched my relatives unknowingly soaking in all the Leftist beautifully presented excrement.

The Nunes Memo: Just an Opening Act.  Wonder of wonders, the liberal press, long opposed to prior restraint when it comes to publishing material on American intelligence, is howling about the release of the Intelligence Committee memo.  They're suddenly concerned, we're supposed to believe, about damage to national security and the institutional well-being of the FBI.  Democrats and their media allies, notes Roger Simon, have pushed themselves into a corner.  They can't decide whether the best approach is to insist that the memo is a "nothing-burger" or a mortal danger to the country.

Journalism is Dead.  This week we saw a perfect example of how corrupt journalism has become.  There was an opportunity to report the news and journalists and their fellow travelers in the pundit class balked.  While that wasn't unusual, what was is how they did it in the lead up to the news, not bothering to wait until they'd seen what they were attempting to discredit. [...] The lying by Democrats in the lead up to the memo's release wasn't surprising, nor was the complicity of journalists in spreading that lie.  What was is how there was virtually no curiosity or interest in the memo and its contents in the days leading to its release from the people whose job it is supposed to be to convey information to the public.  All journalists did was attempt to taint it's release so as to foster disinterest in it in their audience when they could finally see it.

Transcript Shows The Daily Beast Peddled Fake News About Devin Nunes.  Once again, reporters got burned by believing anonymous Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  Betsy Woodruff and Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast credulously believed their "sources familiar with the exchange," who said Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, refused to deny he had coordinated with the White House when putting together a memo alleging surveillance and law enforcement abuses at the FBI.  In fact, Nunes explicitly denied the charge before shutting down the line of questioning in order to provide other members who were not trying to hijack the hearing time to get actual committee business done.

The Tet Offensive Revisited:  Media's Big Lie.  Josef Goebbels called it the Big Lie, the deliberate misrepresentation of facts and reality in order to achieve a political objective.  It's been part and parcel of the New World Disorder we've lived under for the past century, ever since Vladimir Lenin first used a Big Lie to disguise his seizure of power from Russia's post-czar provisional government in November 1917, by telling the Russian people he was preventing a coup not perpetrating one.  America's first major encounter with the Big Lie, with all its disastrous consequences, started 50 years ago today, when the American mainstream media — CBS and the other networks, plus the New York Times and the Washington Post — decided to turn the major Communist Tet offensive against U.S. forces and South Vietnam on January 30, 1968, into an American defeat, rather than what it actually was:  a major American victory.

"I love Trump for being frank with Africans".  Conan O'Brien went to a resort in Haiti to prove it is not a [bad] country.  The people who live there know better than the tourists.  Conan's trip was too clever by half.  Inadvertently, he showed himself as a white guy millionaire with a Harvard degree sipping an adult beverage from some sort of coconut shell — while nearby, one million native people are still without sewers eight years after the earthquake.  How is this different from the colonialism Haitians overthrew 227 years ago?

Media lying about McConnell to help save face for Chuck Schumer.  Chuck Schumer has a huge problem, and his friends in the mainstream media are pitching in to help — with lies.  Now that he has caved in on the Schumer Shutdown, the radicals who dominate his party are angry and demanding protection for the DACA illegal aliens, and Schumer has promised to oppose funding the border wall that he had earlier discussed supporting in return for action in DACA.  But instead of reporting on the disarray among the Democrats, the narrative just has to be that the evil Republicans engaged in perfidy.

Poll Shows Public Waking Up to Media Lies About GOP Tax Plan.  Now that a little thing called economic reality has overtaken months of dishonest media reporting about the Republican tax bill signed into law by President Trump last month, a plurality of 47 percent support the bill, while only 34 percent remain opposed.  This is a huge (and predicable) turnaround when compared to those polls released in the heart of the media campaign to kill the tax bill.

Bloomberg wins Fake News of the week.  Bloomberg broke a story just as the New York Stock Exchange began trading on Wednesday [1/10/2018]:  ["]China Weighs Slowing or Halting Purchases of U.S. Treasuries["]  The story turned out to be the latest in a string of Fake News reports by a news organization owned by Mike Bloomberg, whose opposition to President Trump knows no bounds[.]  Bloomberg's anger at Trump has rendered his company unreliable when it comes to financial news.

Poor Hillary Clinton.  Until 2016, none had thought to make it an issue of gender, largely because one gender had been shared by all comers.  But in 2016, that was changed by the serious entry of Hillary Clinton, who managed to lose to Donald Trump against all odds.  Afterward, she blamed her female sex for the loss, after first blaming FBI Director James Comey. [...] Recent history is rife with examples of people whose very rough treatment (by Hillary's allies) make her tribulations seem tame.  In 2012, Mitt Romney, a Dudley Do-Right if ever there was one, was slammed by the press and the Democrats as a sadist (for transporting his dog on the roof of his car); as a bully (for cutting the hair of a classmate in prep school); as a murderer (for causing the wife of a worker to expire from cancer); as dismissive of females (for using the phrase "binders of women" to refer to resumes given to him by people as possible candidates for government jobs).

New York Times Gets the Facts Wrong on Land Mines.  According to the Times, 8,605 people were injured or killed in 2016 by land mines and "other booby-trap explosives."  Well, 8,605 is the ICBL's headline figure, no doubt about that.  But were all those people actually injured or killed by land mines?  Absolutely not.  If you turn to page 57 of the ICBL's report, you'll find that only 732 people were injured or killed by an anti-personnel land mine, another 495 by an anti-vehicle mine, and another 538 by an "unspecified" mine.  That's 1,765 people, not 8,605.  The Times says that casualties to land mines are rising.  But the ICBL's report says that in 2015, 2,002 people were injured or killed by these kinds of mines.  So casualties are actually down by 237, not up.

The History of Fake News in the United States.  Fake news isn't suddenly ruining America, but putting government in charge of deciding what news is fake will.  In the wake of President Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election, numerous media outlets ran stories claiming that many websites had published false stories that helped Trump beat Hillary Clinton.  Since then Left-leaning opinion writers have called for a solution to this alleged epidemic.  The New York Times reported last January that Silicon Valley giants Facebook and Google will team up with legacy media outlets to fact-check stories and curtail the proliferation of "fake news."  However, intentionally misleading news has been around since before the invention of the printing press.

Alarmed by fake news, states push media literacy in schools.  Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction.

Half of all Americans believe the media make up anti-Trump stories.  Nearly half of all Americans believe media outlets fabricate negative stories about President Trump, according to a new survey.  Forty-four percent of respondents in the 2017 Poynter Media Trust Survey say the media invent "fake news" to make the president look bad.  Of that cohort, 24 percent say negative stories about Mr. Trump are made up "about half of the time"; 14 percent "most of the time"; and 6 percent "all of the time."  Seventy-seven percent of that cohort are Trump supporters, and 74 percent are Republicans.

CNN is a race-baiting, anti-Trump network.  Leave it to the mainstream media to concoct some sort of wild-eyed theory that President Trump's promise to say "Merry Christmas" is some sort of coded language for white nationalism and white supremacy.  CNN host Don Lemon was among the most high-profile mainstream media minions to advance the race-baiting narrative.

Dishonest Reporter of the Year Award 2017.  How can a writer sitting at home, whether in Beirut or London, possibly get the full picture using a computer or a telephone for his or her information?  The Independent's Mideast correspondent, Bethan McKernan, is based in Beirut.  The overwhelming majority of her articles about Israel, the Palestinians, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Turkey, Libya, and the Gulf states in 2017 had Beirut datelines.

MSNBC's Katy Tur Wrongly Claims Trump Hasn't Had a Press Conference Lately.  Pam Key at Breitbart reported that Friday on MSNBC, host Katy Tur said it was "laughable" that President Donald Trump had only had one solo press conference in his first year.  "He's been dodging questions from the press for months now, really.  He hasn't had a press conference since what, February?" she asked NBC's Kristen Welker.  "That is laughable.  It's laughable, Kris, that the president can't stand in front of the press and take questions from the press."  This is self-evidently untrue.

The Death Of Science Journalism.  There was a time when Americans trusted the news.  How times have changed.  According to Gallup, Americans' trust in the media has fallen from 72% in 1976 to 32% in 2016.  The partisan divide is striking:  Trust among Democrats (51%) is higher than among Independents (30%) and Republicans (14%).  When asked their opinion of the honesty and ethics of various professions, journalists perform rather poorly, ranking below chiropractors and bankers and just above lawyers.  The partisan divide is easy to explain.  Among journalists, Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 4 to 1.  It's naive to believe that such a partisan imbalance has no effect on the tone or quality of press coverage.  However, it is doubtful that fact alone accounts for the widespread distrust of journalists.  After all, among scientists, Democrats outnumber Republicans by 9 to 1, but the public still respects them.  So, what's going on?  In a word:  Lying.  Many journalists have an ideological axe to grind, and if the truth is on their side, great.  If not, who cares?  Instead of the "L-word," civilized people are supposed to use euphemisms, such as "one-sided" or "not the whole story."  But let's put the faux propriety aside.  Purposefully presenting only half the story is a form of lying.

Five ways the media tries to convince us tax cuts are bad.  To hear the media tell it, tax cuts are Bad For You and you won't like the result.  Pay no attention to the fact that the cost of living is up, the government is bigger, incomes have stagnated, large corporations are no longer creating jobs, and the U.S. hasn't had a major tax cut since 1986.  Somehow, we are all supposed to believe tax cuts which put more of our own money in our pockets, will make us miserable.  It's the most fallacious collection of up-is-down arguments ever assembled.

NY Times Reports Obama Only Told 18 Falsehoods During Entire Presidency.  A recent New York Times analysis claims that over his eight years in office, former President Barack Obama only told 18 distinct lies.  The Times set out to compare the trustworthiness of Obama compared to President Donald Trump.  "In his first 10 months in office, [Trump] has told 103 separate untruths, many of them repeatedly.  Obama told 18 over his entire eight-year tenure," the piece reads.  On the list are some of Obama's most well-known whoppers, including "If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan," and that he "didn't set a red line" on Syria's use of chemical weapons.  By contrast, fact-checker Politifact ruled that over the course of his presidency, Obama made 43 "false" statements and 48 "mostly false" statements.  Politifact also identified 7 "pants on fire" statements, which are falsehoods that are "not accurate and make a ridiculous claim."

Because they won't do it themselves...
Trump is cleaning up journalism.  The first ten days of December have seen:
  [#1] ABC News's Brian Ross lie about General Flynn's plea bargain.
  [#2] Reuters and Bloomberg News report on an imaginary subpoena of Trump's records at a German bank.
  [#3] CNN lie about Donald Trump Junior being tipped off about a WikiLeaks.
  [#4] David Weigel of the Washington Post lie about the size of the crowd at a Trump rally.
Liars all of them.  Byron Tau of the Wall Street Journal tweeted:  "CNN corrects its earlier report, which appears to be an honest error from two excellent reporters."

CNN: False Reporting is the New Normal.  The fact is, the media is not trying to report the news, they are trying to control the narrative.  They know that even false reporting puts a certain line of thinking in the minds of the audience.  Even lies can get people to think what you want them to think, if you apply it properly.

All The Proof You'll Ever Need That America's Media Really Are 'Fake News'.  There need be no doubt anymore:  America's mainstream news media hypes fake news — and that's a fact.  This past week was disastrous for the press.  A slew of fake stories rained down, pushed by anxious anchormen placed in powerful posts.  And we want to note before we go on, that ALL of this happened in a single week. [...] On Saturday [12/9/2017], a Washington Post reporter tweeted out a photo of a rally Trump was holding in Florida, which showed a half-empty Pensacola Bay Center.  But the photo was taken long before the president spoke — when the entire arena was packed to the gills.

Wow!  Trump fights back, forces public apology from Washington Post writer for fake news.  [Dave] Weigel, for those who do not remember, was a central figure in JournOlist, the invitation-only online conspiracy among progressive journalists to manipulate news coverage in their favor.  He was allowed to resign from the Washington Post for that activity, only to be hired back in 2015, once that paper become the political tool of the world's richest (or second or third richest — depending on Amazon's daily stock price) man, Jeff Bezos.  This is the capstone for a catastrophic week for Trump's opponents in the mainstream media, forced to withdraw and apologize for multiple stories attacking the POTUS.

Trump Blasts WaPo's Dave Weigel After Reporter Heckles Him with Fake Photo.  The context here is crucially important:  [#1] The photo Weigel published was taken before the Trump rally began.  And, as you will see below, Weigel knew he was publishing a photo not taken during the actual rally.  [#2] Weigel, who identifies as an objective reporter, is not only publishing a misleading photo, but the link at the top of his now-deleted tweet proves that he is responding directly to one of Trump's tweets — in other words, he is publicly heckling the president personally.  [#3] By responding directly to the president in this way, Weigel is openly taunting Trump, even going so far as to troll the president with his own "packed to the rafters" comment.  Even if the photo had been a legitimate representation of the crowd-size, directly jeering the president in this way is still outrageous behavior from anyone who describes himself as a legitimate journalist.

'They all knew': Media elites roared in laughter at obscene 2008 'roast' sending up Matt Lauer's office sexcapades.  Embattled NBC executives have been falling over themselves, insisting they had no idea about Matt Lauer's pervy past.  But if anyone doubts that New York's media elite was aware of Lauer's reputation, they should look no further than a top-secret "roast" of Lauer that took place in October 2008.  The notorious event — now legendary in New York media circles — pushed the outer limits of sexist, racist, homophobic and obscene jokes — and left little doubt that Lauer's colleagues knew NBC's biggest star had a troubled marriage and a wandering eye.

Media meltdown and the damage it does to democracy.  Relying on the supposedly respectable news media would have left you believing that the FBI found President Trump urging national security adviser Michael Flynn to contact Russia during the campaign (it didn't), that Trump national security aide K.T. McFarland wrote that Russia threw the election to Trump (she didn't), and that Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, blasted sick, poor children as slackers (he didn't).  These false or misleading stories, all of which, not coincidentally, disparaged Republicans, were parroted and retweeted and broadcast by countless reporters before being completely debunked.  Countless readers and viewers still don't realize that the stories produced by this sloppy reporting are false.

Sick and Tired of Schumer and Others Continually Lying about Tax Cuts and Debt.  What makes me sicker is that almost all reporters just repeat Schumer's talking points as if they are factual.  They repeat the outright lies over and over again, and then after indoctrinating the readers with pure garbage, they take a poll of fewer than 1,000 people, skewed with more Democrats than Republicans, to show that the people aren't in favor of reform.  Then they run the poll results as if they are somehow factual news.  Reporters should be truly ashamed of themselves for pushing an agenda instead of ever even considering reporting actual results of previous tax cuts.

The Mainstream Media Doesn't Deserve Our Respect or Our Trust.  You mainstream media hacks want trust and respect?  Maybe you shouldn't Tweet out instructions to contact Senators to defeat the tax bill like the New York Times just did.  Maybe you should stop covering for the off-camera leering and grabbing and pinching of the talking heads who excoriate Trump for misogyny.  Maybe you should stop hiring journalists who are ex-Obama flunkies.  Maybe you shouldn't email offers of assistance to Democrat campaigns.  Maybe you should stop lying to us.

The Democratic Party Is Dead.  For years, we have been hearing that the Republican Party was on the ropes: when Bill Clinton won in 1992 and 1996; when Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012; when the tea party launched in 2009; when Texas Senator Ted Cruz and company shut down the federal government for a few days in 2013.  (Remember when we were told that voters were going to "punish" Republicans in 2014? Yeah, that was right before they handed the GOP control of the House and Senate.)  When Donald Trump roared into the primaries in 2015 and knocked out his more — shall we say — traditional GOP rivals one by one, and even (perhaps especially) since Donald Trump's election, the media's go-to narrative has been how the Republican Party is fragmented and crumbling.  Now we know that it's the Democratic Party that's rotting from within.

Video on the Media Lies and Misinformation on Sutherland Springs Shooting.  Steven Crowder does a good job in dissecting the media's willful ignorance about the Sutherland Springs mass killing and citizen intervention.  [Video clip]

Gunfight, Home Invader Killed, Headline:  Victim Identified.  Many self defense shootings are not reported in the media.  Many are not entered as justified homicides in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR).  A self defense shooting, which included a justified homicide, occurred in the 800 block of Waugoo Avenue, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin,at night, on November 5th, 2017.  The initial reporting did not include any indication this was a justified self defense shooting.

The Actual 2016 FBI Report on "Russian Hacking" Does Not Show What Media Claim It Does.  Last year against the backdrop of President Obama's sanctions announcement against Russia, we closely reviewed the "Russian Malicious Cyber Activity — Joint Analysis Report".  This December 2016 intelligence report is the report where the media talking points "17 intelligence agencies agreed" and the Russian "hacking of the election" began.  The report was released to coincide with President Obama kicking out Russian diplomats as punishment for the content therein.  Everyone talks about this report, yet almost no-one talking about it has actually read it.

MSNBC Panel Falsely Claims Heroic Neighbor Didn't End Texas Shooter's Rampage.  On Tuesday's episode of Meet the Press Daily, panelist Yamiche Alcindor and host Chuck Todd incorrectly said Stephen Willeford did not exchange fire with the Texas church shooter or end his attack.  "When I was watching President Trump today, and he was making his argument that [the shooter] was essentially stopped by someone with a gun, I thought he killed himself," Yamiche Alicindor, a national reporter for the New York Times, said.  "There was not a big gun fight, and he was not stopped.  There needs to be a fact check on how it was stopped."  "Right," Chuck Todd responded.  "The narrative with Mike Huckabee and the president is a little bit off the rails."  The facts show that Stephen Willeford did exchange gunfire with the Texas gunman as his attack was still preceding.  The story of Farida Brown, as told to the Washington Post by her son David Brown, makes it clear that at least some of the survivors of the attack credit Willeford with saving their lives.

How Leftism Makes Us Stupid.  Perhaps the worst thing about having an exclusively leftist media is that it makes all of us, right and left, stupider.  Take for example that media's reaction to the latest Islamist terror attack in Manhattan.  Evil loser Sayfullo Saipov follows the ISIS playbook by driving a rented van over innocent civilians, killing eight.  He jumps out of the van shouting "Allahu Akbar!" (Allah is the greatest) and later tells police he's glad about what he did and requests an ISIS flag in his hospital room.  In reporting the event, CNN Crime and Justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz refused to share the police description of the killer after he was caught.  Because he's a journalist, and the last thing we want is to have journalists going around giving people information!  CNN's Jake Tapper responded to news of the loser's Arabic shout by remarking inanely that Allahu Akbar is "sometimes said under the most beautiful of circumstances, and too often we hear it being said in moments like this."  He later clarified that he was referring to beautiful circumstances like weddings and births.  Yeah, what if the guy had been waving a Confederate flag?  They wear those at some weddings too. [...] None of which is to make fun of a tragedy, of course, but only of the absurd reaction of the leftist press.

Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls.  Jenna Abrams was a popular figure in right-wing social media circles.  Boasting nearly 70,000 followers, Abrams was featured in numerous news articles during the 2016 election, spotlighted by outlets as varied as USA Today, the Washington Post, the BBC, and Yahoo!  Sports. [...] But Abrams never existed.  According to information released by House Democrats earlier this week, Abrams was one of more than 2,750 fake Twitter accounts created by employees at the Internet Research Agency, a "troll farm" funded by the Russian government based in St. Petersburg.

More Fake News From the New York Times.  The New York Times had two veteran reporters working overtime on Friday night after the representative of a respected conservative publication testified before the House Intelligence Committee.  Literally.  The piece by Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman was posted at 7:32 pm on Friday night [10/27/2017].  It's brief and breathless.  And embarrassingly dishonest.  The Times is practiced to deceive.  It contorts language and chronology to present information in a way so as to not inform, to misinform.

Poll: Plurality Of Americans Believes Media Makes Up Stories About Trump.  On the one hand, it's an amazing testament to how far public trust in the media has fallen that more Americans than not believe they're publishing false stories about the president.  On the other hand, how is this number not 100 percent?  It's not a matter of opinion.  The media does, in fact, sometimes publish honest-to-goodness fake news about Trump and his orbit.

Media Dishonesty Gives Trump Legitimate Talking Points.  If you listen to the media today, you'd be hard pressed to know that President Trump both complying with the law and with a court decision.  The media would prefer to make this all about dismantling Obamacare and ignore the fact President Obama had no constitutional authority to do what he did.  When the President blasts fake news, this is what he is talking about and this gives his supporters ample room to ignore the President's more outlandish attacks against the press.

Trump EPA to propose repealing Obama's climate regulation: document.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose repealing the Clean Power Plan — the Obama administration's centerpiece regulation to fight climate change — and plans to solicit input on a rule to replace it, according to an EPA document seen by Reuters.

The Editor says...
This article is accompanied by a photograph (left) which appears to be a photo of an industrial plant of some sort, with the dishonest caption, "Smoke is released into the sky at a refinery in Wilmington, California March 24, 2012."  The "smoke" being released is obviously water vapor, since it appears to be absorbed into the surrounding atmosphere within a few seconds of its release.  The contrast on the photo appears to have been enhanced to make the emission appear to be black as it leaves the vent, but smoke doesn't turn white and then disappear within a few seconds.  This appears to me to be a shamelessly dishonest attempt to make harmless vapor look like smoke.

Trump Fulfills Campaign Pledge on Contraception Mandate.  [Scroll down]  Today [10/6/2017], Trump made good on that pledge when his administration issued a new rule that will exempt organizations whose owners or shareholders harbor religious or moral objections to paying for certain types of birth control via health plans.  It goes without saying, of course, that this new rule is being grotesquely misrepresented by Obamacare apologists in the legacy "news" media.  The Washington Post, for example, reported the regulatory change under the following misleading headline:  "Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate."

Is Any Part Of The Russia Election Hacking Story True?  In June, Samuel Liles, the Department of Homeland Security's acting director of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis Cyber Division, told Congress that "the Russian government tried to hack election-related computer systems in 21 states."  Then, earlier this month, the election hacking story made headlines again when DHS officials notified state officials in 21 states about the attempts to breach their voter registration systems.  This sparked renewed outrage from Democrats about how the election results had been "hacked" by Russia.  But then the story started to fall apart, when Wisconsin and California said DHS was wrong about their systems being targeted.  California found that Russia hadn't scanned its Secretary of State website at all.

Facebook admits it promoted fake Vegas massacre stories.  Facebook admitted Monday [10/2/2017] that its system automatically promoted stories that falsely identified the shooter in the Las Vegas massacre.  The social network said links from websites such as The Gateway Pundit and others were posted and spread across their site Sunday night.  The stories claimed the shooter was an "anti-Trump" Democrat and displayed pictures of a man who is not identified as a suspect.

Don't Fall for Jimmy Kimmel's Cheap Zero-Sum Emotionalism.  In recent months, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has taken to scaremongering his audience with well-worn Democratic Party talking points regarding health care insurance policy.  Between yuks, he occasionally accuses Republicans of being would-be baby killers, which is treated as an important political development because, well, Jimmy Kimmel is famous.  This week, the comedian was back to explain why the new Graham-Cassidy Republican "repeal" bill is bad news.  There were only two things wrong with his monologue:  Almost everything he said was either completely untrue or highly misleading, and his simplistic emotional appeal was completely disconnected from the real world.

Horsepucky News Courtesy of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.  Remember, there are trillions of dollars at stake and all of the vested financial interests, writ large, have positioned themselves to do anything possible to draw down the support for President Trump's 'America-First' agenda.  Don't kid yourselves or sell your intelligence short; it ain't about Donald Trump per se, the opposition is against the policies of President Donald Trump.  Trump's 'America-First' policies are adverse to the interests of multinational corporations and the multinational financial institutions who underwrite those corporations.

European Commissioner the Wall Street Journal Cited Says Story Entirely False.  European Commission's Miguel Arias Canete denies ever telling the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. was changing the Trump administration position on Paris Climate Treaty.

If the Media Doesn't Tell the Truth, What Use Is It?  Yesterday [8/30/2017], Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller posted a story:  "Bill And Hillary Clinton Finally Sell Hamptons Mansion."  Only one problem:  Bill and Hillary didn't actually own the mansion.  Follow the link, and you get to the real story:  the Hamptons mansion that Bill and Hillary have rented in the past has been on the market and under contract for two years, and the sale finally closed.  There are lots of things that you could say about this — like observing that it's cool how people who were flat broke in 2000 can afford $150,000 a month rent for a summer place — but you can't honestly say "the Clintons finally sell their mansion."  This is why God made the passive voice:  you write a headline like the Free Beacon did — "Clinton Hamptons 'Summer Vacation Rental' Sells For $29 Million."

Left-Wing Outlets Spread False Story Claiming GOP Official Turned Down Disaster Aid.  A number of left-wing outlets spread a false story claiming Texas Republican Secretary of State Rolando Pablos turned down aid in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and instead requested prayers.  The story appears to have spread from one sentence in an article from Canada's CBC News.  The story referenced an offer from the Canadian province of Quebec to send Texas "equipment and crews to help restore power and to provide blankets, beds, pillows and hygienic products."

Media & Politicians Admitting They Lied About Russia.  It has been nearly three weeks since The Nation pushed an explosive memo from the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity into mainstream consciousness with an article detailing the evidence that the DNC leaks last year could not have been the result of a Russian hack.  By continuing to ignore it, the US intelligence community and all the pundits and politicians who have advanced the Russian hacking narrative are tacitly admitting that they lied.

CNN's Republican Pundit Gave Thousands of Dollars to Dems, Including the Chairwoman of the DNC.  It turns out CNN's spokeswoman for Republicans is not as Republican as you might think.  Ana Navarro, who has been the perpetual presence as the "Republican" on many panels across the news spectrum, has donated thousands of dollars over the past two decades to some of the most controversial and partisan leaders of the Democratic Party, a new report finds.

It's time to chill the "free press".  Allowing Sarah Palin to continue her libel lawsuit against the New York Times "would chill expression by journalists who want to draw connections and inferences," Noah Feldman wrote in a column for Bloomberg News.  That is an excellent idea, because increasingly people in the press show a constant, malicious, and reckless disregard for the truth.  In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner killed a federal judge and five others, and severely wounded Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.  Democratic Party operatives spread the lie that a map targeting Giffords in the last election inspired the carnage.  However, Loughner did not vote in that election.  He is psychotic.  But the press keeps spreading this lie.

Field Report From The Left-Wing Violence in Arizona.  Today, the following morning, I open the Arizona Republic to see the headline "VIOLENCE ERUPTS!" with a picture of one sad [chump] on his knees in front of lines of police.  This apparently happened after the rally.  Wait, "VIOLENCE ERUPTS?"  No it didn't.  Nothing "erupted."  Protesters became violent.  There was no violence at all on the part of the Trump supporters.  None.  This is another example of fake news at its best, failing to even follow basic journalistic (and writing) rules of active voice in which a subject — the protesters — cause the action-eruption.  And the sad little Fake News media continues to whine about how it is treated.

Reuters deletes FALSE tweet mislabeling Antifa as 'peaceful protesters'.  Reuters had to delete a tweet that whitewashed the violence of the anti-Trump Antifa protesters when people noticed that they called them "peaceful protesters."

The media lies about the Boston rally.  The Boston rally was a watershed event.  But not in the way the mainstream media has been portraying it, as a bold stand against white supremacy in the wake of Charlottesville.  Rather, it demonstrates the power of propaganda to foment mass hysteria and mob rule.  Reality no longer matters.  For the media refuses to report this seminal truth:  There were no white supremacists or neo-Nazis.  None.  Not even one.  Instead, they engaged in a massive disinformation campaign that spurred over 40,000 "antifascists" to descend upon Boston Common.  The alt-left's goal: to counter-demonstrate against an alleged "white nationalist" rally.  Yet, what they were protesting was the very opposite.  The Free Speech rally had nothing to do with white supremacy or the Ku Klux Klan — never mind the violence in Charlottesville.

Colin Kaepernick — History's Hero?  The National Football League's preseason is underway, and national anthem-hating quarterback Colin Kaepernick still doesn't have an NFL job.  One can easily identify the liberal journalists by their anguish over this so-called injustice.  You can also identify them by their dishonest arguments.

The media couldn't be more blatant in distorting Trump's words on Charlottesville.  Has the media ever so deliberately and consistently misinterpreted what a president said?  It certainly seems as if the media finally found its proof that President Trump is a racist. [...] Does the press just think that no one will look at what Trump actually said?  For those who do look at the original interview and Trump's multiple, clear statements on the matter, the media risks losing what little credibility it still has.

'Freedom of the Press' Doesn't Mean What You Think.  Progressive propaganda, relying on misdirection, misinterpretation, and outright falsehoods, permeates American life and touches or taints every topic.  The corporations that produce mass entertainment and news, the government bureaucracies that shape and fund education, the schools from kindergarten to college, and the tech firms that control the flow of information and ideas, are all subject to a groupthink that, for all intents and purposes, brooks absolutely no dissent from Leftist dogma.

The Media Lied About The Leaked Google Memo.  If all you do is get your news from the establishment media, you'd be under the impression that former Google engineer James Damore is a dangerous bigot who hates women and minorities.  As reports of the so-called "anti-diversity" leaked memo from Google surfaced on the Internet, journalists exposed their preconceptions and bias with misleading headlines and equally biased stories.

Leftover Libels of Sebastian Gorka Served Up at Rolling Stone.  As Joel Pollak reports in Breitbart this morning [8/11/2017], Rolling Stone magazine has refried and repackaged the whole range of lies — comprehensively refuted — against White House adviser Sebastian Gorka.  The left-wing media keeps setting a new bar for chutzpah.  Central to the Stone story is an attempt to tar Dr. Gorka with guilt by association with right-wing political parties in Hungary, where he was active between 2000 and 2008.  "Gorka served as adviser to [Hungary's prime minister Viktor] Orbán," the article states, "who's been called a 'neo-fascist dictator' by Sen. John McCain."  As it happens, the left-wing Jewish news site The Forward offered this allegation in the form of a doctored tape of a 2006 Hungarian television interview with Dr. Gorka.  That brought the full interview to light — and the full interview shows Dr. Gorka denouncing Orbán for exploiting popular unrest for nefarious purposes.  Sebastian Gorka was not Orbán's "adviser," but a principled and uncompromising critic.

Rolling Stone Collects Every Lie About Sebastian Gorka in One Place.  Bob Dreyfuss's profile of White House aide Sebastian Gorka in Rolling Stone is an impressive feat of scholarship, compiling every lie about the former Breitbart News editor in one place.  It is a useful service for the ideologically addled and the functionally illiterate, who like their propaganda served straight-up, undiluted by the cold ice water of reality.  Students of cheap partisan smear jobs need look no further, for Rolling Stone has perfected the genre.  Dreyfuss does not seem to have done any original research, but recycles work done by other hacks — without, of course, bothering to provide his readers with any of the defenses that arose in their wake.

Scientists call out New York Times for incorrect claim about climate report.  Scientists appear to have debunked The New York Times' claim it was leaked a secret, gloomy climate change report which it published amid fears President Trump would suppress it.  On Monday [8/7/2017], The New York Times published a story saying there are concerns that the Trump administration could suppress what's known as the National Climate Assessment, a project of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.  The story, titled "Scientists fear Trump will dismiss blunt climate report," said the draft report "has not yet been made public" but "a copy of it was obtained by The New York Times."

Fake News A US Media Speciality.  All of the lies leading to the death of millions told by the criminal Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes were transparent.  The US media could easily have exposed them and saved the lives of millions of peoples [sic] and saved seven countries from destruction in whole or part.  But the presstitutes cheered on the gratuitous and criminal destruction of countries and peoples.

The Left is Already Preparing Tomorrow's Fake News.  The American Left has relied on its mastery of the media — enthusiastically aided and abetted by the 90% of national political journalists today that are progressives of one stripe or another — for its political power for decades.  Ever since the 1950s, the left has been deliberately creating events in order to attract media attention that pushes a narrative confirming the justice of their demands.  It learned that the new medium of television was perfect for creating artificial dramas that would sway support its way. [...] It has worked on issue after issue.  And here we are today with transgender bathrooms and other ornaments of the progressive worldview imposed on the public.

Democrats, ABC, NBC Attack Christian Non-Profit as an 'Anti-LGBT Hate Group'.  Last week, Democrats and two mainstream media outlets branded Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian legal nonprofit which has won seven Supreme Court cases in seven years, an "anti-LGBT hate group."  Worse, this "hate" designation comes from a terror-linked organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  ADF has demanded an apology and attacked this "media malpractice."  "Why is ABC and NBC willing to promote propaganda and cut and paste the Southern Poverty Law Center press release?" Kristen Waggoner, a senior vice president at ADF, asked Tucker Carlson on Fox News Friday night.  "Americans are losing trust in the media for this very reason."

The Southern Poverty Law Center Has Become a Dangerous Joke.  The Southern Poverty Law Center, the "civil rights watchdog group" that ABC and NBC so prominently cite, has become a dangerous joke.  It's a joke because the very idea that Christians are members of a "hate group" merely because they advocate for orthodox Christian principles and the liberty to live those principles is so intellectually and ideologically bankrupt that it's barely worth addressing.

The Left Media's Extraordinary Popular Delusions.  The Clinton campaign came up with their Trump-colluded-with-Russia meme about twenty-four hours after the election results were verified.  It was nonsense then as it is today, but the left's mental distress has become so grievous that they no longer can be called rational or even sane.  After eight months of wild speculation and various investigations, absolutely nothing has been unearthed that indicates in any way that the Trump campaign, least of all Trump himself, colluded with Russia to affect the outcome of the election. [...] The last eight and a half years have proven to the American people that the Democrat left and the media are two parts of the same criminal enterprise that feed each other's addiction to power.

Stupid Hostile Media.  President Donald Trump drives people crazy.  Especially those in the media.  They hate him so much, they leap on every anti-Trump rumor.  The Federalist's Jordyn Pair points out that the press repeatedly told us that a dozen Trump administration members were about to be fired, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Press Secretary Sean Spicer and strategists Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner.  Months later, all still work for or with the administration.

How to manufacture a scandal.  Another piece falls into place, of a mosaic in which Democrats set out in 2016 to create a false appearance of collusion between President Trump and Russia.  It's pretty devious.

The Media Perpetuated A Clinton Lie For 9 Months.  What It Means For The Russia Narrative.  When Hillary Clinton claimed "17 intelligence agencies" agree on Russian meddling in the third presidential debate, a host of media outlets including The New York Times rated the claim as 100 percent true.  Nine months later, those same outlets say the stat is obviously false, and there's been a "simple" explanation as to why all along.  A closer look at how the claim survived and thrived over those nine months reveals a startling lack of skepticism in the press when it comes to the Russia narrative.  The truth is the great majority of the 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community had nothing to do with the investigation and made no judgments about the matter.

The Washington Post Offers Up A Textbook Case Of Garbage, Biased Journalism.  One might be shocked back into a coma to learn James Hodgkinson was not an angry conservative, but instead was an angry Bernie Sanders supporting, Occupy Wall Street guy who favored watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, hated Donald Trump and who shot up a Republican congressional baseball practice, shooting Republicans, including Republican Representative Steve Scalise.  If the story were only about Romanik and didn't mention Hodginkson, it would be a run-of-the-mill profile about some local AM shock-jock and a pretty good one at that.  It is interesting to see the kind of influence local talk shows have just like local newspapers and local television news.  But what editor at the Washington Post allowed Holley to link Hodgkinson to a right-wing radio talk show host without even confirming he ever listened to the show?

Washington Post article linking Scalise shooter to conservative radio host sparks online outrage.  The Washington Post struck out with many on social media over an article that appears to blame a right-wing Illinois shock jock for the Virginia shooting rampage by a Trump-hating, Bernie Sanders volunteer who targeted Republicans during a baseball practice.  The lengthy piece takes aim at the foul-mouthed Bob Romanik, who spews invective on the AM dial from a studio in Belleville, Ill., shooter James Hodgkinson's hometown.  "What's the point of this?" Buzz Feed political reporter Katherine Miller asked on Twitter.  "The shooter hated Trump and there's no indication in the story he listened to this pro-Trump host."

Death spiral TV news lies to fool advertisers.  The Wall Street Journal just accused major television networks of using deception to goose ratings that include deliberately misspelling the names of the news shows.  Sounds like fraud to me.  Unlike their cable brethren, the broadcast newsers seem to be losing customers.  I say seem because we have no way of telling as they have so gamed the ratings system that no honest person can say how many people watch them.

In TV Ratings Game, Networks Try to Dissguys Bad Newz from Nielsen.  Boosting TV ratings is easy for networks that don't mind playing dumb.  In a game largely sanctioned by TV-ratings firm Nielsen, television networks try to hide their shows' poor performances on any given night by forgetting how to spell.  That explains the appearance of "NBC Nitely News," [...]

Polish president knocks 'fake news' over wife's Trump handshake.  Polish President Andrzej Duda ripped "fake news" reports that his wife snubbed President Trump for a handshake during Trump's visit to Poland on Thursday [7/6/2017].  In a tweet, Duda confirmed that both he and his wife shook hands with the president and urged his followers to "fight fake news" together.

Fake Ratings:  Networks Dishonestly Inflate Evening News Numbers...by Misspelling.  Now we know that advertisers and the public are being supplied fake ratings by the same broadcasters who so often deliver fake news.  A Thursday morning [7/6/2017] Wall Street Journal dispatch by Joe Flint reports that the broadcast networks routinely inflate their reported evening news audiences.  They hide low-performing evening audiences by — get this — "forgetting how to spell."  No wonder the networks are so obsessed with "hacking."  In the ratings game, what could be described as a form of it — modifying (the results generated by) "a computer program in a skillful or clever way" — has become a routine industry practice.

Fake News:  Journalists Invent 'Super Awkward' Handshake Snub of Trump.  In the latest example of fake news, journalists on Thursday hyperventilated about a dramatic snub of Donald Trump by Poland's first lady.  Agata Kornhauser-Duda, it seemed, refused to shake the hand of the President.  Except, that's not what happened.  Mere seconds after shaking Melania Trump's hand, Kornhauser-Duda and the President shared a warm embrace.

Mainstream Media Promotes Death & Mayhem While Accusing POTUS Trump Of "Inciting Violence".  President Trump re-tweeted an amusing CNN-WWF parody video that had him pummeling the fake news network and the liberal media is now losing their minds over it claiming the president is "inciting violence."  This is the same media that assisted in the cover-up of Obama-era scandals like Fast and Furious, the secret drone bombing program, the ISIS fiasco, dealings with Iran, the atrocities in Libya, Syria, and on and on and on.  And let us not forget this was the same media that actively encouraged the violence in Ferguson, Baltimore, Dallas etc.

NBC Decries Rise of Conservative Media for Creating Polarized Country, No Mention of MSNBC.  What NBC's Willie Geist spun as a rundown of the political echo chambers in America on Sunday Today [7/2/2017], quickly devolved into a condemnation of the rise of conservative media.  "Fake news is a favorite term, as you know, of President Trump.  What you consider real and fake in many cases has become a question of where you're sitting and who you're listening to," declared Geist at the start of the segment.  He ignored the fact that the term was first used to describe stories about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

If the Media Wants to Win Back Public Trust, It Can Start Reporting Truthfully on Immigration.  [Scroll down]  A large reason there is such a gulf between what happens and what journalists report is that many journalists see themselves as "protectors of the truth," as illustrated by NBC News host Chuck Todd.  The truth is their truth, stemming from an ideology that does not permit any contradictions or contrasting points of view to get a fair hearing.  While some Americans may turn to media figures for affirmation of beliefs already deeply held, I wager most Americans don't turn to Chuck Todd, or any other media figure for "the truth." Instead, they want reporters to accurately report facts, such as what the director of ICE actually said about immigration law enforcement.  Instead, what we see from too many reporters is the insertion of their own deeply held beliefs in place of facts on the ground.  When a reporter refers to an illegal alien as an "undocumented immigrant" this is an attempt to deny the criminal act of illegal immigration.

TwitterAudit Reports CNN Has 17 Million Fake Twitter Followers.  Of CNN's millions of followers on their verified Twitter account, over 17 million or 48 percent are fake, according to TwitterAudit.  According to TwitterAudit, the site determines the quality and score of real and fake followers by taking "a sample of up to 5000 (or more, if you subscribe to Pro) Twitter followers for a user and calculates a score for each follower.  This score is based on number of tweets, date of the last tweet, and ratio of followers to friends."

Levin on CNN: They're Not a News Organization Anymore.  On his nationally syndicated radio show Tuesday [6/27/2017], host Mark Levin criticized CNN, saying the network has "sold out" and is "not a news organization anymore."  "CNN, in my view right now, is in a state of complete disintegration," said Mark Levin.  "It won't show up right away on their ratings, but it will eventually show up.  They truly do run with phony stories.  They have prostituted themselves.  They have sold out.  They are not a news organization anymore."  Levin's comments came after CNN published, then redacted a story linking a Trump surrogate to a Russian investment fund, prompting the resignation of three CNN employees.

A Brief History of 'Fake News'.  Disinformation is false information spread deliberately to deceive and cause chaos.  Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking defector from the Soviet bloc explained in his book Disinformation that the ultimate measure of success for disinformation was when the major organs of the media coud be tricked into unknowingly propagating deliberate falsehoods.  But the Russians are far from the only ones practicing disinformation designed against political systems.  The current investigations of alleged "Russian collusion" on Capitol Hill are the result of a disinformation campaign that was begun by the Democratic Party and continued when the mainstream media were fooled into publicizing the accusations as fact. [...] Disinformation only works if people refuse to think or find it easier not to.  I ask all to please think about what is being laid in front of you and see if it makes sense.

Mediaite Tried So Hard To Make A Black Intern Look Like A White Supremacist.  The congressional intern Mediaite cast as a white supremacist Wednesday [6/21/2017] is actually black, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  Nate Washington is a black conservative attending Western Kentucky University and is a former intern of Republican Sen. Tom Cotton.

The Incomplete Media Narrative about a Murdered Muslim Girl.  "Muslim Teen Kidnapped and Brutally Murdered in Virginia:  This Is Terrorism" read a headline from Affinity magazine.  Actress and producer Mindy Kaling also decried the murder on Facebook as "another innocent Muslim person targeted for their faith."  The Atlantic then ran a profile, "'Muslims Feel Under Siege'" highlighting Islamophobia around Ramadan.  Many stories used Hassanen's murder as a lede to foray into a greater narrative about the collective crisis of violence against Muslims.  But then actual facts and details around the case emerged.  First, the Fairfax County Police Department publicly ruled out a hate crime as a motive, announcing that they were looking more closely into extreme road rage.  Then, the Daily Caller reported that the murderer, Darwin Martinez Torres, was an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, with ICE confirming that it had issued a detainer request against him.  Reports subsequently emerged that Torres, who has a girlfriend and son, barely speaks English and required the use of a translator following his arrest.

Democrats are incapable of learning from Georgia Special Election loss.  As I often do on election nights when Democratic disappointment is likely to be highest, I watched MSNBC.  First I watched Rachel Maddow, then Lawrence O'Donnell.  The MSNBC coverage was nothing short of delusional.  The "a loss is really a win" approach was pervasive.  Hope sprang eternal.  Maddow in particular continued to spin Trump Russia conspiracy theories.  O'Donnell went on and on about how the Republican healthcare bill would be the doom of Republicans.  A phrase used frequently on O'Donnell's show was that this was an "ominous win" for Republicans because the margin was lower than when Tom Price won — ignoring that the Republican outperformed Trump's win.

James T. Hodgkinson:  Just Another Well-Intentioned Progressive.  Have you followed the drift of the Mainstream Media (MSM) as to what provoked James T. Hodgkinson to attempt the massacre of the Republican baseball team as it practiced in Alexandria, Virginia last week?  Not the Democratic team, not the Washington Nationals team, but the Republican team.  Well, it was not necessarily Hodgkinson's politics we are told.  After all, his politics were pretty much mainstream progressive.  According to the MSM, it was "a Volatile Home Life in Illinois."  That is the way the New York Times put it on the newspaper's front page Sunday [6/18/2017].  Strong drink was alluded to.  Anger and violence were also mentioned as features in Hodgkinson's rural Illinois home. [...] Yet as I say the MSM is soft-pedaling this lunatic's politics, and I can see why.  There was nothing particularly unusual about them.

Journalism is dead; whatever these guys are doing isn't journalism.  What do all of these stories have in common?  They're completely unsourced.  No names.  No real people.  Just claims that come from, in order, "two administration officials and three outside advisers familiar with the matter," an anonymous tweeter who set up a dummy Twitter account, and "a Downing Street adviser."  None of the latest stories have anyone on the record making the accusations.  Instead, the "news" sites that posted the stories — Politico, the Daily Mail and the Guardian — simply make the surprising claims and cite anonymous sources.  The subjects of the anonymous slurs have no recourse whatsoever, no right to face their accusers, no way to fight back.  The accusation streams out onto the internet, where it lives forever — whether it's true or not.

Nets Blackout the Radical Leftist History of NSA Leaker Reality Winner.  Not long after top-secret documents from the National Security Agency made their way onto the internet news site The Intercept on Monday, the Justice Department arrested NSA contractor Reality Winners.  The 25-year-old veteran worked on a military base in Georgia, but online she had a long history of being heavily Anti-Trump, an apparent social justice warrior, and a supporter of Iran over the U.S. During their evening broadcasts, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) either played down her political attitudes, or outright ignored them as they reported on what she did.  During his report on NBC Nightly News, Justice Correspondent Pete Williams passed along her family's claim that "she wasn't highly political," and Anchor Lester Holt claimed her "motive is a mystery."  But in reality, Winner was anything but silent about her political views.

From Fake News to Fake Polls.  The media blob is making much of a Washington Post/ABC News poll that finds the public by a 2 to 1 margin opposes President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord: [...] You need to click through to the actual poll questions to see what [an incompetent] poll it is.  The poll only asked five questions. [...] Conspicuously missing are any questions about whether people support appropriations for wealth transfers from the U.S to developing nations that the Paris Accord included (and into which Obama tossed $1 billion)?  No questions, also, about whether people are willing to pay higher energy costs for an agreement that will make no difference to the planet's temperature 80 years from now, according to the EPA's own models.

Examples of fake news?  How much time you got?  White House press secretary Sean Spicer finally lost it this week trying to correct the endless torrent of bogus news stories being churned out daily by the alt-left media. [...] Spicer had been lecturing the press corps about all their "anonymous sources" and the fictionalized stories "that are absolutely false ... narratives that are wrong ... fake news."  He was directing his remarks at a reporter from the Associated Press — you know, the organization that falsely reported in February that Trump was planning to use "100,000 National Guard troops" to round up "millions" of illegal aliens.  "When you see stories get perpetrated that are absolutely false," Spicer told the crack AP scribe, "that is troubling, and he (the president) is rightly concerned."  So a Democrat operative from the Clinton News Network asked Spicer for an example.

Heroin dealers deserve prison, not sympathy.  The deadly poison that is heroin made its way to your small town from Mexico, where it was grown and processed, later to be trafficked to your neighborhood where its target customers were someone's children, parents, brothers and sisters.  But right now, when you open the newspaper or turn on the television, you learn that the person that brought the drugs into your neighborhood, which ultimately made their way to your child, is considered by many in both the media and the public to be a "non-violent, low-level drug offender."

NYT's Jonathan Martin Steals Photo From Another Journalist, Lies About Where He Got It.  The New York Times has been holding up the torch for truth in the age of fake news and alternative facts — but one of its political reporters, Jonathan Martin, has no qualms in weaving a few alternative facts of his own.  After he lifted a photograph from another journalist and presented it without attribution, Martin doubled down on his lie and claimed he had no idea it was the other journalist's photo.

The CIA and the MSM: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know.  Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis.  CIA publicists and journalists alike will assert they have few, if any, relationships, yet the seldom acknowledged history of their intimate collaboration indicates a far different story — indeed, one that media historians are reluctant to examine.

NYT's Comey Memo Story Doesn't Pass Smell Test.  The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.  The source of the allegation is a memorandum, revealed by an anonymous source, allegedly prepared by Comey regarding a meeting in the Oval Office the day after Flynn was forced to resign for misleading the Vice-President.  While the headline is sensational, The New York Times's report is self-contradictory at times, conflicts with statements made on-the-record and under oath, overhypes the substance of the memorandum, and is irreconcilable with other information in the public record.

Eight Lies the MSM Told About Comey Firing.  Over the last week or so the media has breathlessly reported on every little whisper that has escaped from Washington, D.C. and for the most part — much of what they've told us has been wrong.  Sadly, this is a common refrain from today's media who can't seem to get out of their own way and constantly seem to be tripping over their own failures and falsehoods.  It's almost as if the media has an agenda that they are trying to promote and they are willing to sacrifice their reputation if it means pushing that agenda forward.  In their attempts to use the Comey story to undermine the Trump administration they've sacrificed every iota of reputation and been unmasked as the biased hypocrites we've always suspected them to be.

The Media Finally Admit Obamacare Is Collapsing.  [Scroll down]  If Obamacare had actually been "working" for all those years, it would not have suddenly collapsed.  In reality, the implosion of the "Affordable Care Act" began when it was originally implemented.  Moreover, the partisan reporters and editors of the legacy media certainly knew it was a disaster by 2013, when more than five million Americans lost their insurance coverage and Healthcare.gov exploded on the launch pad.  They could not, however, report the truth, because there was no plausible way to blame its failure on the Republicans.

Trump Is Not Shutting Down the EPA's Data Service.  A contractor for the Environmental Protection Agency who was "devastated" by Hillary Clinton's election loss was the source for a false story stating that the agency is shutting down its climate data service.  The EPA's Open Data service, where users can look up EPA facilities in their area and view pollution graphs, will continue to operate, despite several news reports to the contrary.  Bernadette Hyland, a contractor who has access to the Open Data website, was quoted in several publications, including the Independent, which falsely claimed "Donald Trump is to completely shut down one of the government's most important data services."

Media Lies Exposed:  Antifa Thug Girl Was Using Glass Bottles as Weapons Before Punch.  As many of you readers will recall, we've been all over the antifa girl who got rocked at the Berkeley protests this past weekend.  We had her fake name (Louise Rosealma) listed in the big article, but her real name is Emily Rose Marshall.  Every since she got smacked, the media has been working overtime to make this little terrorist into some kind of martyr.  Virtue signallers like Raheem Kassam and Brandon Darby, people who this publication normally respects, have been crying about never hitting a woman, under any circumstances.  The latter camp is [mistaken] on this issue, but the media is outright malicious.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria:  Were Obama Still President, He Would Have Ordered "Similar If Not Identical" Strike In Syria.  CNN's Fareed Zakaria discusses his experience with "Trump derangement syndrome," where people's hatred and anger towards the president is so intense that it impairs their judgment.  He talks about Obama speechwriters attacking Trump for doing exactly what President Obama would have done in Syria.

Republican wins.  NYT declares victory for Democrats.  From the Washington Examiner:  "Republican Kansas State Treasurer Ron Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson and Libertarian Chris Rockhold Tuesday night [4/11/2017] to keep the state's 4th congressional district in GOP hands."  Republican Estes 52.5%, Democrat Thompson 45.7%.  A 6.8-point win.  Ho-hum.  But Nate Cohn of the New York Times — who gave Hillary an 85% chance of winning on Election Day — sees this as a victory for the Democratic Party.

Washington Post Blogger Issues Official Apology for Spreading False Jeff Sessions Story.  A Washington Post blogger responsible for launching a false story about Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday published an official apology Wednesday [4/12/2017].  Tufts professor and Washington Post blogger Daniel Drezner helped kickstart the narrative that Sessions had referred to illegal immigrants as "filth" while delivering a speech before border agents at the U.S.-Mexico border.  Drezner took a quote from Sessions' prepared remarks out of context, and released his frustrations on Twitter.

Fact Check:  Fresno Bee Lies About Professor's Call To Kill Trump.  There's a lot of talk about a post-truth society these days.  A post-truth society kicks in when there is no respect for even the most blatantly obvious facts.  Professor Lars Maischak, who teaches, among other things, Marx and Hegel, at California State University, Fresno, tweeted, calls to kill Trump and Republicans.  [Tweets]  Could the media possibly defend and whitewash this?  Do you even need to ask.  No leftist can do anything too terrible for the media to defend.

The 10 Questions Andrea Mitchell Didn't Ask Susan Rice.  Here are a few thoughts about Andrea Mitchell's interview with Susan Rice — and the key questions that were left unasked.  Rice opened the interview by saying, "The allegation is that somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes.  That's absolutely false."  On the contrary, the allegation is absolutely true — and demonstrating its truth is as easy as unmasking an American citizen in an NSA intercept.

The Fake News Crisis.  Within living memory, in 1968, the Democratic Party had its convention in Chicago, Hubert Humphrey was their nominee, and there were riots in the streets. [...] There is one huge difference between what is happening now, and what happened back then.  In 1968, there was a culmination of real events that actually affected America.  In 2017, there are no real events causing this, just narratives made up from nothing by a leftist media that is more divorced from reality than anyone thought possible.
  •   The Russians colluded with Trump.
  •   Trump is Hitler. Stupid. And evil.
  •   Obama was wonderful, transparent, brilliant, perfect, and fully competent.
  •   Trump's tax returns will show he is unfit.
  •   He is a racist that wants to ban all Muslims.
  •   Kellyanne Conway is a ditzy uninformed waste of a woman.
  •   Hillary Clinton is a pure and honest heroine fighting for good.
Virtually 24/7, these and other very unreal narratives are being played to the American public by our pathetic left wing media.  In 1968, the news had a reality component.  Yes, there was liberal bias in the news, but at least the events happened.

Washington Post Lies About Lawmaker's Biblical Reference, Then Refuses To Quote A Single Word He Said.  After the presidential election last November, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet gave an interview to NPR in which he admitted that his journalists simply don't understand religion.  "We don't get religion," Baquet said.  "We don't get the role of religion in people's lives."  Baquet was correct:  Acela corridor political reporters don't understand religion, especially Christianity.  Though he was specifically speaking about New York Times reporters, Baquet's comments clearly also apply to the Washington Post, which on Friday morning accused a Republican congressman from Texas of claiming that the Bible forbids the unemployed from having food to eat.

WaPo Caught Red Handed In Big Lie, Tries To Quietly Overhaul Entire Piece.  Caitlin Dewey's initial write-up in the paper (which recently adopted the slogan "Democracy Dies In Darkness") did not include a single quote from the Texas representative she basically accused of using the Bible to justify taking food from starving people.  The story also incorrectly referred to "2 Thessalonians 3-10," and wildly mischaracterized Rep. Jody Arrington's statements on the verse.  While Arrington did reference 2 Thessalonians 3:10 (The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat) in a discussion of food stamps, he did not, as The WaPo article suggested, use it to argue unemployed people should not be allowed to eat.

The New York Times' ongoing dishonesty only helps Trump.  Six months ago, I canceled my subscription to the New York Times because I felt the paper had become ethically challenged in its coverage of the presidential election.  And, it turns out, I was right.

Media Tries and Fails to Re-invent Ferguson Thug Michael Brown as Victim with Meaningless 'New' Video.  In yet another attempt to turn Ferguson thug Michael Brown into a victim, a new "documentary" filmmaker released a segment of film showing Brown inside the market he was thought to have robbed just before he was shot and killed by a local policeman back in 2014.  The filmmaker claimed that is "proved" Brown did not rob the store.  But in only a day the whole claim unsurprisingly fell apart.  A segment of film showing 18-year-old Michael Brown in the Ferguson quick-mart was released late last week by documentary film maker Jason Pollock.  The filmmaker insisted that the video "proved" that Brown could not have robbed the market on the day he was killed resisting arrest a few blocks away.  The snippet of footage appears in Pollock's new movie entitled Stranger Fruit.

The Meals On Wheels Lie Keeps Rolling Along.  Let's start with a basic fact.  Contrary to news reports last week, President Trump is not eliminating funding for Meals on Wheels.  He's not even cutting it.  How do we know this?  Meals on Wheels says so.  A statement issued by Meals on Wheels America on Thursday notes that 35% of the revenues at the 5,000 or so local Meals on Wheels programs come via the Older Americans Act Nutrition Program.  Trump's budget outline says nothing about this program whatsoever.

Outrage on Wheels.  It made for great copy — irresistibly clickable and compulsively shareable.  "Trump's Budget Would Kill a Program That Feeds 2.4 Million Senior Citizens," blared Time's headline.  "Trump Proposed Budget Eliminates Funds for Meals on Wheels," claimed The Hill, in a piece that got 26,000 shares.  But it was false.  And it wouldn't have taken long for reporters to find and provide some needed context to the relationship between federal block grant programs, specifically Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), and the popular Meals on Wheels program.

The ancient laws of unintended consequences.  Fake news now serves as a sort of linguistic canary to remind the public that it is customarily saturated with a lethal gas of media disinformation.  Thus "fake news" seemed a proper if belated summation and clarification of years of liberal bias in the media that were supposed to be our custodian of the truth.  Were NBC anchor Brian Williams's fantasies fake news?  Were Dan Rather's "fake but accurate" Rathergate memos?  How about the party line circulated in JournoList or the Washington and New York reporters who colluded to massage the news to favor the Clinton campaign, as revealed in the Podesta WikiLeaks trove?  Was jailing a video maker part of an Obama-administration fake-news attempt to blame Benghazi deaths on a spontaneous riot?  Was the Iran Deal's "echo chamber," about which Ben Rhodes later bragged, the epitome of fake news?

Washington Post employee posed as ICE agent, police say.  A Washington Post employee was arrested last month and charged with impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent following an FBI raid, court documents show.  Itai Ozderman, 35, is accused of impersonating an ICE officer throughout Falls Church, Va., on more than one occasion, according to Montgomery County District Court documents.  Police say that he sported a bulletproof vest bearing the ICE logo and, when the FBI entered his home in Maryland bearing a search warrant, they discovered 10 weapons, including two M4-style assault rifles and a shotgun.  They also found body armor and tactical vests.

Presidential Payback For Media Hubris.  In just his first month in office, reporters have alread peddled dozens of fake news stories designed to discredit the President — to such a degree that little the now write or say can be taken at face value.
  •   No, Trump did not have an plans to invade Mexico, as Buzzfeed and the Associated Press alleged.
  •   No, Trump's father did not run for Mayor of New York by peddling racist television ads, as reported by Sidne Blumenthal.
  •   No, there were not mass resignations at the State Department in protest of its new leaders, as was reported by the Washington Post.
  •   No, Trump's attorney did not cut a deal with the Russians in Prague.  Nor did Trump indulge in sexual escapades in Moscow.  Buzzfeed again peddled those fake news stories.
  •   No, a supposedly racist Trump did not remove the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the White House, as a Time Magazine reporter claimed.
  •   No, election results in three states were not altered by hackers or computer criminals to give Trump the election, as implied by New York Magazine.
  •   No, Michael Flynn did not tweet that he was a scapegoat.  That was a media fantasy endorsed by Nanc Pelosi.
In fact, Daniel Payne of the Federalist has compiled a length list of sensational stories about Trump's supposed buffooneries, mistakes, and crudities that all proved either outright lies or were gross exaggerations and distortions.

How illegal immigrant advocates demonize Trump and terrify people.  The New York Times describes 11 million people — those who are living in the country illegally — as sleepless with anxiety, waiting for the "fists pounding on the door, the agents in black, the van ride, the cell."  Who has thrown such fear into this community?  How about the Left, aided and abetted by the liberal media, which has purposefully distorted President Trump's immigration policies, characterizing them erroneously as a radical departure from past practices?  In a feverish blast to donors sent out yesterday [2/22/2017], the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee claims that "Donald Trump plans to add thousands of immigration agents and begin deporting "almost all" undocumented immigrants."  That is, excuse the expression, fake news.  Trump is doing no such thing.

How to Tell if News Is Really News.  Wake up, America!  You're being had.  Start asking the right questions.  How did the Democrats come up with that 40,000,000 uninsured Americans to pass Obamacare?  When CNN's Don Lemon asks his panel about how much the Trump family's secret service is costing taxpayers, ask him where's his research and why didn't he question that about Michele Obama's huge entourage when she traveled?

Reporting? Liberal Media Have Much More in Mind Than That.  On Nov. 6, Daily Beast feature writer Justin Glawe pounced on news that a historically black church had been burned down with the words, "Vote Trump" spray-painted on the "charred remains."  Glawe acknowledged that he did not know who had committed the arson, writing that it was "now up to authorities to find out."  Nevertheless, he went on to tie the act into what he termed "the string of violence [by Trump supporters] against minorities this election season."  When in December it was revealed that a black church member with a criminal record had burned the church down, the Beast merely tacked on an editor's note to the original article and Glawe penned a follow-up piece in which he noted the arrested man had "liked" Donald Trump on Facebook.

Fake News:  Trump Never Said There Was A 'Terror Attack' Last Night In Sweden.  President Trump never said there was a "terror attack" last night [2/18/2017] in Sweden, but that didn't stop hundreds of fake news outlets from claiming he did.  During his rally Saturday, Trump said:  "Here's the bottom line, we've got to keep our country safe.  You look at what's happening.  We've got to keep our country safe.  You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden.  Sweden, who would believe this.  Sweden.  They took in large numbers.  They're having problems like they never thought possible.  You look at what's happening in Brussels, you look at what's happening all over the world.  Take a look at Nice, take a look at Paris."  Nowhere did he say there was a "terror attack."  He said "look at what's happening."

Rev. Graham:  Trump Says 'What We All Know ... News Media Has Been Lying' — 'Fake News'.  Rev. Franklin Graham said President Donald Trump is correct about the news media today, that they lie and create "fake news," and added that the media should do what the Bible instructs, "You shall not circulate a false report" (Exodus 23:1).  "President Donald J. Trump has been saying what we all know — that the news media has been lying," said Rev. Graham in a Feb. 19 post on Facebook.  "In today's terminology, creating fake news."

No, Trump Never Said There Was A Terrorist Attack In Sweden.  This weekend the media was awash with stories suggesting that President Donald Trump claimed that a terrorist attack had recently occurred in Sweden during his speech at Saturday's [2/18/2017] rally in Melbourne, Florida.  Left-wing outlets ran numerous headlines and reports about Trump's statement, and the story was even a top trending item on Facebook:

Fake News Rap Sheet:  Last Week the MSM Was Caught Telling FORTY Lies.  Welcome to week three of "This Week In Fake News!" [...] You will see one change in this week's list, with respect to the count.  Rather than start the count over every week, this ongoing diary of Fake News will now use a cumulative number, an ongoing count.  Put simply, last week's list contained 24 pieces of Fake News.  The week prior was 12.  That is a total of 36, so this week we will start with number 37.  This is not meant to be a gimmick.  Rather, it is a way to more accurately understand and comprehend the breathtaking scope of the national media's rabid dishonesty.

It's Not Fake News, It's Lying, Leftist, Political Propaganda.  [I]t wasn't until the press began telling bold-faced lies intended to undermine and harm the candidacy of Donald Trump that it occurred to me that the press was telling outright lies, intentionally and with malice, in an attempt to defeat my candidate, Donald Trump, in his run for the presidency.  And after he became President the untrue stories got even more outlandish and more frequent and forceful as the leftist press attempted to destroy President Trump's administration before it could get off the ground.  At this point President Trump began putting a name to it, and it began to resonate with everyone how fabricated liberal news is.

The Crisis in Journalism Is Here.  It's getting harder and harder to kick in the needed amnesia to believe anything that comes from the media.

The Media's Jihad Against the Trump White House Staff.  [Scroll down]  The elephant in the room in these stories about the Trump White House staff is not just that the liberal media can't stand the new president — it can't abide his agenda.  And watching one executive order after another pour out of the Trump White House that is at a 180-degree variance with the Obama-era and all things far Left, the media reflexively zeroes in on the Trump staff.  Thus the stories.  Steve Bannon is really the president.  Or, according to Time magazine, which has put him on the cover, he is "The Great Manipulator" of the President.  And he's a white supremacist.  Not to mention he's anti-Semitic.  Oh, and by the way, he's incompetent too.  Kellyanne Conway ignored Ethics Rules 101.  She has no integrity and she went out of her way to make the rich Ivanka even richer using her public position.  And so it goes through the list.  Does this not mean that at any given moment President Trump may in fact have a genuine problem with one of his staffers?  Of course not.

Jeffrey Toobin Catching On — President Trump's Executive Order Wins by Losing.  There are two ways you can tell when moonbats are losing, one is subtle the other is obvious.  A subtle indicator is how the entire MSM apparatus switched (literally overnight on Thursday [2/10/2017]) from calling President Trump's executive order a "Muslim ban" to calling it a "Travel Ban".

Fact Check: Obama Is Not Good at Kite Surfing, Any Sport.  A glowing report in the Washington Post claiming former President Barack Obama is "pretty much a natural on a kiteboard" is filled with factual errors, according to a Washington Free Beacon fact check.  "Obama makes rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing," the headline for a piece by Kelyn Soong reads.  Soong "works in the sports department" at the Washington Post and writes about tennis and running. [...] "Turns out that was just the beginning of Obama's post-presidency adventures," Soong wrote, explaining that Branson challenged Obama to see who could stay on a kiteboard or foilboard the longest.  "It's well documented that Obama is pretty good at basketball, but the video proved that the 55-year-old former leader of the free world is pretty much a natural on a kiteboard, as well," Soong wrote.  These claims are false.  As the video reveals Obama fell multiple times off the kiteboard despite "perfect conditions" and practicing for "two days solid" before the challenge.

New York Times:  Our Readers Are Too Dumb To Understand Global Warming Numbers.  I recently wrote about the wretched reporting on the claim that 2016 was the "hottest year on record," using as my main example a New York Times article by Justin Gillis that gave his readers none of the relevant numbers they could use to evaluate that claim.  None of them.  If you search for the actual numbers, you will eventually find that the effect they are claiming, the actual amount by which this year was hotter than previous years, is smaller than the margin of error in the data.  Shortly afterward, I got a revealing response from Gillis.  I'll fill in all the details for you, because the whole thing is an important case study in why you can't trust mainstream reporting on global warming.

2 Minutes of Mainstream Media Backtracking Really Put 'Fake News' Into Perspective.  Since Trump's election, numerous mainstream outlets have propagated rumors or falsehoods before being forced to peddle them back.

Here's A List Of Stories The Media Got Wrong This Week.  It was an embarrassing week for the mainstream media.  In case after case, stories pushed by news outlets turned out to be either unsubstantiated or fell apart upon closer scrutiny.

20 'Vetted' Refugees Who Turned to Terrorism After Being Allowed Into America.  While the lying media is perpetuating the lie refugees do not pose a terrorist threat, the facts show otherwise.  Senator and soon-to-be Attorney General Jeff Sessions compiled this list of refugees-turned-jihadists in 2016 while Obama was pushing to dramatically increase the amount of so-called "refugees" allowed into the United States.

Brzezinski: Trump Won EV 'Fair and Square' — But He's Not 'Completely Elected By the People'.  On Friday's [1/28/2017] broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-anchor Mika Brzezinski argued that while President Donald Trump won the Electoral vote fairly, "this is a president who lost to Hillary Clinton... I think there's a lot of support he still needs to gain.  It's not a president completely elected by the people."

President Trump Should Dump The Media.  Trust ratings and approval levels for the media are so far down in the toilet that it would take a plumber to find them.  If the media are the people's representatives, then the people want to elect different ones.  Those are some of the same representatives that the media is trying to ban from social media with a fake "Fake News Crusade" and by resisting any expansion of press briefings with threats and warnings.  "We'll have to consider doing things other than protesting and whining," Fournier threatened.  "We'll have to think about what we can do to bring some pain to make our point."  Do what?  Run items accusing President Trump of being a traitor, a liar, a racist, a rapist and a Batman villain?  The media has already done all of those.  What else is it going to except shout more lies even louder?  Within a brief span of time, the media's fake news operation claimed that Trump had banished the bust of MLK, lifted quotes from a Batman villain and had been cavorting with Russian prostitutes.  And that he was a compulsive liar.  That last accusation is notably hilarious considering the honesty and integrity of the media.

Three Mainstream Media Lies on Trump's First Day.  The mainstream media lost no time in attempting to undermine President Donald Trump, as opposed to actually reporting information.  After eight years of kowtowing to Obama, they have suddenly discovered a civic responsibility to hold the government accountable.  But they are focusing on minutiae, and in some cases actually telling lies, both of omission and commission.  That risks alienating the public even further — making it harder, actually, for the media to act as watchdogs.

MSM reporter falsely claimed that Trump had MLK bust removed from Oval Office.  Sure everybody makes mistakes, but making a sensational false charge against a new president at the very first opportunity he allowed reporters into his Oval Office on Day One of his presidency sure looks like one of those narrative-confirming, "too-good-to-check" stories of journalistic lore that just happens to portray Trump as a racist "white nationalist" in the eyes of progressives.  Zeke Miller of Time was allowed into the Oval Office as a pool reporter and tweeted out reports that the Churchill bust was back (true) and the MLK bust was gone (false).

Why NYT Hid The Numbers For The 'Hottest Year On Record'.  [W]hen you read an article proclaiming that, for the third year in a row, last year was the hottest year on record, you might expect that right up front you will get numbers, measurements, and a statistical margin of error. [...] I just got done combing through a New York Times report titled, "Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year."  The number of relevant numbers in this article is:  zero.  We are not told what the average global temperature was, how much higher this is than last year's record or any previous records, or what the margin of error is supposed to be on those measurements.  Instead, we get stuff like this. [...]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Botches Crime Stats in Defending John Lewis.  On Friday, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, whose 5th District includes the City of Atlanta, said of Donald Trump that "I don't see the president-elect as a legitimate president."  Trump characteristically fired back with a two-part tweet suggesting that Lewis "... spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results."  As would be expected, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution rushed to Lewis's defense.  In its apparent haste to do so, a pair of journalists at the paper committed a colossal math blunder vastly understating the city's crime rate.  With that mistake, the paper made the city look over 13 times safer than it really is.

Fake News About the Office of Congressional Ethics.  The mainstream media are abuzz with claims that House Republicans have voted to "gut" or "eviscerate" the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), or to strip it of its independence.  Perpetual House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed Republicans had "eliminated" the oversight body, and linked the move to President-elect Donald Trump, claiming that the House Republicans' move represents a violation of Trump's campaign promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington.  The story qualifies as "fake news," and the fact that it is being repeated by so many outlets does not make the it any less fake.

BBC Finally Admits Its Famous 'Women Write Better Code' Story Was Fake News.  When the issue of "fake news" came to prominence at the end of this year's election cycle, traditional media outlets were the firsts to engage in relentless finger-pointing.  Journalists everywhere deplored the spread of misleading, lazily reported and, in some cases, totally fabricated stories that had been facilitated by social media.  That'd be ignoring — of course — that in a competitive media climate where virality and accuracy go head-to-head, editors will often go for a catchier headline, at the expense of factual accuracy.  And as one writer at HEqual noted, even the respectable BBC is not immune from this kind of sensationalism.

Top Ten Most Under Reported Stories of 2016.  [#2] The wipe-out of the corporate media apparatus:  It is understandable why the media would choose not to report on their own irrelevance; yet that doesn't mean their irrelevance is any less a story.  Arguably you could make the complete collapse of the U.S. corporate and legacy media the #1 story of this entire election cycle.  Never before has any single political election so thoroughly, completely and visibly destroyed the credibility of print or broadcast journalism.  Collectively and individually they will never recover from the continual abject and transparent falsehoods they promoted in each and every hour of their coverage, and in almost every column inch of their publications.  Put a fork in them, they are all done — and they did it to themselves, repeatedly.

Fake News:  Family Didn't 'Flee Town' over Breitbart Story That Doesn't Mention Them.  If you read through the world of left-wing clickbait Thursday afternoon [12/22/2016], you may have seen a shocking story about a Jewish family chased out of town by anti-Semitic Breitbart readers because our site blamed them for shutting down a school's Christmas play.  Scary stuff — except that version of the story is 100% fake news.

ADL: 'No truth' to story about Jewish family fleeing Pa. over Christmas play.  The Anti-Defamation League said Thursday that a widely circulated story that a Pennsylvania Jewish family fled their home after being blamed for the cancellation of a school Christmas play was false.  After investigating, the ADL said, it found the family had gone on vacation.  "News reports alleging that a Jewish family has 'fled' Lancaster County are untrue and damaging," ADL Regional Director Nancy Baron-Baer said in a statement.  "We spoke with the family, who explained that they went on a previously-planned vacation for the holidays.  Stories like this can sow fear in the Jewish community and beyond, and it is important to stop the spread of misinformation."

Kurt Eichenwald Further Explains His Claim That Trump Was Institutionalized.  [Scroll down]  So:  Eichenwald was making a joke, and "signalling to a source," but he also really believes that Trump was institutionalized in 1990.  The problem is that he can't prove it — it's merely "reporting process" — so he hasn't said so publicly.  Except for when he did say so publicly, but that doesn't count because he really doesn't like Tucker Carlson.  Now we know.  If Eichenwald genuinely believes that Tucker prevented him from explaining all of this on the air, then I'm glad to help make things right.

NBC's Chuck Todd Wonders If GOP Provoked Hacking from Russia by Calling Obama 'Soft'.  On Sunday [12/18/2016], NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd displayed the ability for some on the left to blame Republicans for anything.

Can You Trust the Press?  No.  Judith Miller, formerly of the New York Times, explains why we cannot trust the fake news vomited forth by the leftist "mainstream" information gatekeepers:  [Video clip]

4 Reasons Russia Didn't Swing The Election To Trump.  Democrats are over the moon about the new Washington Post report that quotes CIA sources who say that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government actively attempted to aid Donald Trump in his election race against Hillary Clinton.  Many Democrats have been making the claim that if not for Putin's intervention — if not for Russian hackers accessing emails from Hillary campaign chief John Podesta and then releasing them via WikiLeaks for months — Hillary Clinton would today be the president-elect.  There's no evidence to support that.  There is plenty of evidence to support the contrary notion, actually.

Mainstream Media Claims Russia Hacked U.S. Election, Offers Absolutely No Proof.  The CIA on Friday [12/9/2016] leaked a memo to the Washington Post "concluding" that Russia meddled in the U.S. election to help President-elect Donald Trump win — but any evidence supporting that finding remains secret.

The King of Fake News.  The liberals would love to do away with free speech, as Hillary Clinton would have if she'd been elected and could have packed the Supreme Court with liberals who would have reversed the Citizens United decision and others protecting free speech.  But the best way to do away with about 99 percent of the "fake news" that is broadcast and printed is for the liberals and their media allies to stop creating it.  Fake news — propaganda — is often risible and easily recognized.  When the North Korean government described the first time Kim Jong-Il (father of Kim Jong-Loon, the current dictator) went golfing, they broadcast that he scored a hole-in-one five times in one round of golf.  These days, the liberal media don't wait for enemy governments to make stuff up.  They do it themselves.

How a free press became fake.  If one wonders why American audiences are reposting fake news rather than purchasing subscriptions to the Washington Post, look no further.  When the free press falls into disrepair, readers click elsewhere.  Just as the electorate rejected elites at the ballot box in November, so audiences are ditching the establishment news media.  They're tired of journalists accepting fluff for fact, lecturing instead of reporting, and getting the story plain wrong.

MSNBC Host Apologizes For Falsely Claiming Fox News Held Its Christmas Party at Trump Hotel.  This morning, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle accused Fox News of holding its Christmas party at President-elect Donald Trump's recently opened Washington hotel.  The comment was part of a discussion revolving around potential conflicts of interest the incoming POTUS may have when it comes to his businesses.  The only problem was that Fox News has not even held its annual party yet and the upcoming party they've scheduled will be at a different hotel that isn't affiliated with Trump.

Sheriff Clarke:  Liberal Media Created Fake News With 'Hands Up Don't Shoot' Lie.  Liberal journalists and activists spread far and wide the myth that Michael Brown had his hands up before being gunned down by police officer Darren Wilson.  That claim was the origin of the Black Lives Matter movement and eventually lead to violent rioting in Ferguson.  The facts of the case showed the 'Hands up don't shoot' claim to be false and that Wilson was justified in shooting Brown.

Lies, [...] and LA Times editorials.  The Left, having no value for truth, honesty, integrity, or anything else besides getting their way of course, has no problem with printing absolute falsehoods like the ones in this editorial bemoaning the prospect of national concealed carry reciprocity.  It seems the Times is aggrieved that liberty and greater ability to self-defense might soon be coming[.]

Zakaria: 'Working-Class Whites' Vote On Emotion, Not Policy.  Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign did not fail as a result of its subscription to unpopular left-wing policies, said left-wing CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday's [12/4/2016] GPS.  As is his custom, his introductory monologue was a reading of his weekly column at left-wing news outlet The Washington Post.  Despite declaring Hillary Clinton's victory as inevitable on October 16 ("Let's be clear.  Donald Trump will lose the election."), Zakaria now claims to understand President-elect Donald Trump's appeal.  He also now claims to know what Clinton could have done to win the presidency.  American voters aren't driven by policy, said Zakaria, but by emotion: [...]

Democrats, Not Trump, Racialize Our Politics.  The most absurd Democratic meme to emerge from the party's ballot-box defeat is the claim that it is Donald Trump, rather than Democrats, who engages in "aggressive, racialized discourse," in the words of a Los Angeles Times op-ed.  By contrast, President Barack Obama sought a "post-racial, bridge-building society," according to New York Times reporter Peter Baker.  Obama's post-racial efforts have now "given way to an angry, jeering, us-against-them nation," writes Baker, in a front-page "news" story.  Tell that valedictory for "post-racial bridge-building" to police officers, who have been living through two years of racialized hatred directed at them in the streets, to the applause of many Democratic politicians.

Boycott Frosted Flakes!  Liberal bullies are trying to pressure advertisers into boycotting Breitbart.com, one of the most popular conservative sites on the internet. [...] Most CEOs of large companies are liberals, as are nearly all PR employees of such companies.  So this kind of response comes naturally.  The AP helpfully explains:  ["]Breitbart has been condemned for featuring racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content.["]  Really?  Condemned by whom?  For what?  The AP ritually recites these allegations against the site without citing any evidence whatsoever.  The claims are false, if not ridiculous.  But readers who rely on America's daily newspapers won't know this.

The Fake Arbiters of "Fake News".  As everyone already knows, on Friday the business section of The Washington Post published an article about so-called "fake news" propagated on the Internet.  The Russian propaganda services are said to be behind this disinformation, with many American websites helping to spread it, deliberately or otherwise.  One of the WaPo's principal sources for the story was a website called "PropOrNot".  For some reason the author, Craig Timberg, failed to link the site, although he linked many others.  However, in its post on the piece, Zero Hedge provides a link to the 200 "fake news" websites listed by PropOrNot.  Gates of Vienna was not illustrious enough to make the Post's article, but PropOrNot has honored us by including us in the list of sites that retail "fake news".

'Fake news' isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is.  "Fake news" has been a big news story for the past week.  Hoaxes and fabrications hatched by clickbait-hungry websites — or, some reports say, by the Kremlin propaganda machine — have been blamed for Donald Trump's election victory.  Leading journalists such as CNN's Christiane Amanpour have decried the profession's "existential crisis" caused by the onslaught of fake stories.  Google and Facebook have both moved to curb the problem by denying advertising to "fake news" sites.  Meanwhile, critics on both the left and the right argue that the outcry about "fake news" is a manufactured crisis intended to smear and ostracize dissident, non-mainstream media — especially since some of the critiques lump together publications that contain real if slanted reporting, such as Breitbart News or Antiwar.com, with sites that publish actual hoaxes (such as a story about Pope Francis endorsing Trump) or satire.  Critics also charge that the "fake news" trope obscures the fact that the mainstream media have their own problem with false or misleading stories.

Fake News.  The success of "fake news" is inextricably linked to the state of credibility of the media.  Fake news would get no purchase if the media's credibility were high.  But surveys showed it has been declining for years and the Russians could not have helped but notice.  They very cleverly exploited the fact that news organizations were increasingly used by politicians to spread lies.  Talking Points, which made the coordination of lies easier, also made them easier to detect.

32 Times Establishment Media and Pollsters Assured the People of Donald Trump's Defeat.  From the time Donald Trump announced his White House bid, there has been no shortage of establishment media outlets predicting his defeat.  Indeed, as the weeks and months marked Trump's ever-apparent political preeminence, the pundits, pollsters, and prognosticators doubted and declared his collapse inevitable.  Even as Trump, a real estate mogul-turned-reality TV star, clinched the Republican presidential nomination, the affirmations of his failure kept coming.  The very establishment media and pollsters who benefitted from Trump's celebrity before branding him leader of a deplorable political base will stand against his governance.

Chicago Tribune:  Obama has been Pro Second Amendment!  Steve Chapman is a writer for the Chicago Tribune.  He has often written about gun legislation.  He stands out at the Tribune as a voice that recognizes reality more often then most.  His writing and viewpoints have been a reasonable voice crying in the wilderness of Chicago.  Unfortunately, he lives in the fantasy bubble of current Progressivism.  It is evident in his recent column excoriating the NRA.  He buys into the leftist propaganda without introspection or examination of facts.  It is an opinion column, but opinions should have a basis in reality.

LA Times produces list of "fake new sites" that includes a bunch o' sites more accurate than it is.  Having blamed James Comey, Russia, John Podesta, Julian Assange, warmal colding, and screwed up computer algorithms for the failure of a screeching, unhealthy, and unpopular harridan to achieve the presidency, the latest culprit appears to be "fake news".

Speaking Of Fake News, The 'Muslim Registry'.  Donald Trump has never called for a "Muslim registry," and any story claiming otherwise should be relegated to the pile of "fake news" the media is so concerned about right now.  The hysterical headlines claiming Trump and his surrogates are preparing to force all Muslims in the country to register perhaps reached their climax in this Washington Post headline Friday:  "They interned my family.  Don't let them do it to Muslims."

Crying and lying:  Hysteria and repeated false claims showered upon us by the left.  Greg Gutfeld brutally calls out the left and the fake cable news shows that push out the false narratives and refuse to investigate the veracity of the claims that pass over their airwaves.  Remarkable is the stream of claims that America is now tainted by the Trump supporters and their hateful antics.  Case after case is blurted across the left leaning cable shows.  But it seems there is never a corroboration or proof of the incidents so claimed.

Drown Out the Lying MSM.  Older readers may remember an era when the media generally reported facts and left spin to the mind of the viewer, or at least wasn't so crookedly biased.  In accurately predicting President-Elect Trump's victorious path through Michigan and Pennsylvania, I indicated that the media was distorting polling numbers deliberately to keep Trump supporters from bothering to vote.  While Trump won an electoral landslide, only a relatively small chunk of votes made the difference in those two states and in Florida.  Yes, the lying, propagandizing jackals in media nearly won the election for Clinton.  They decided to hang together up until the bitter end, and are now predictably circling the wagons trying to figure out what went wrong.  Everyone knew there was a secret Trump vote, and they still lied. [...] Do you enjoy being lied to?  Or do you have to watch sports so badly that you're willing to fork over $150 per month for a cable or dish subscription that directly funds people who hate you and everything you believe in and want to mislead you, all while insulting you to your face?

There Is No Violent Hate-Crimewave in 'Trump's America'.  [W]hile all sorts of horrible incidents are being reported on Twitter and Facebook... well, anyone can say anything on Twitter and Facebook.  The bulk of these stories are "friend of a friend" told me types.  But if men were really going around pulling knives on Muslim women on public buses in Trump's name, there would at least be local or campus news reports of it.  Same, too, for the alleged wave of transgender teen suicides which keep getting mentioned in media but for which no one can offer any evidence.

Really?  Do you have 'Hundreds' of pictures?
Brian Stelter: 'Hundreds' Of Swastikas, Racist Attacks After Trump Win.  In little-noticed remarks Saturday [11/12/2016], "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter Saturday [11/12/2016] parroted data from the Southern Poverty Law Center, claiming that there have been "hundreds of cases of swastikas, of racist language, of harassment, of in some cases, assaults and bullying across this country" since Donald Trump was elected.

An Important Post-Election Message About Media Polling.  The media didn't get it wrong.  The pollsters did not work from the wrong data set; the media pollsters, consultants and professional political class did not work from the wrong assumptions, or use the incorrect baselines.  THEY LIED.  The professional media polling agents knew exactly what the truth was.  They lied and manipulated their data in a concerted effort to intentionally falsify reality.  There should be no doubt, EVER, in the mind of any political observer as to what took place within the expressed and broadcasted polling which fueled over two years of broadcast news.  The media intentionally lied.  They knew the truth.  The same tools available to us, and to those who were ridiculed for truth-telling, were available to them and many more.  They did not get it wrong.  They chose to lie to you the American electorate.

The real election surprise?  The uprising of the American people.  [Scroll down]  The political class and the mainstream media have a narrative that Trump's late surge is the result of an intervention by FBI Director James Comey.  That narrative, like every one they've had over this cycle, couldn't be more wrong.  The momentum of the election was already moving toward Trump before Comey's announcement to reopen of the Clinton email investigation.  That event, like the presidential debate in 1980, tended to accelerate what was already in motion.

On The Upside, At Least This Election Will Destroy The Media.  Liberal journalists, by which I mean journalists, do not think you should know things that hurt their favored candidate.  This is an interesting new take on the whole idea of "news reporting," an innovative rethink that refocuses journalists less on ensuring people hear the news and instead focuses on ensuring they only hear certain news that, incidentally, supports the media's progressive political agenda.  So we get fact checking that involves neither facts nor checking.

The Media Must Be Dismantled In Order For Freedom To Survive.  News has always been biased, but the American media exists for one reason and one reason only in 2016 — to further the agenda of the corporate-government complex a.k.a. the globalists. [...] You will never get any truth from the media when it comes to politics and many other issues. [...] I have personally not watched television in over a year since leaving the news industry, and my mind is more focused than it has ever been in my life.  I will likely never own another television in my life.

How 'Convicted Criminal' James O'Keefe Came to Be 'Discredited'.  [Anderson] Cooper introduced the videos by sniffing at O'Keefe's "less than stellar reputation for accuracy."  As inevitably happens, he cited no examples of O'Keefe's inaccuracies.  Cooper then turned the task over to CNN "investigative reporter" Drew Griffin who promptly upped the libel ante by referring to O'Keefe as a "discredited conservative activist."  Again, there was no effort to prove the "discredited" label or the "conservative" one, for that matter.

Debunking the Vicious False Narratives against Donald Trump.  By now, every voter knows that the mainstream media is in the pocket of Hillary Clinton but many do not know the extent of the malpractice in journalism today.  The MSM has successfully embedded in the minds of the voters false narratives that need to be exposed out of just plain common decency.  The three I will address in this piece are the charges that Trump mocked a disabled reporter; that he questioned the Mexican American's legitimacy to handle his court case because of his race, and that he mocked a Gold Star family.  There are many more.

Ex-NY Times Public Editor Aghast That Anyone Thinks Times Reporters Make Stuff Up.  GOP nominee Donald Trump is alleging the game is rigged against him from a disturbing combo of inevitable voting fraud and slanted media coverage of the campaign.  Predictably, media stalwarts blithely dismiss Trump's allegation as paranoid and delusional.  Perhaps they should not be so quick to laugh it off, given the media's track record when it comes to fiction fobbed off as journalism.

Liberty students less divided over Trump than MSM claims.  Mainstream media reports portray Liberty University students as turning against Donald Trump, but a current student says this is just an exaggeration meant to divide the student body.

Alicia Machado Is 2016's Sandra Fluke, A Democratic Public Relations Scam.  Sandra Fluke became the centerpiece of the Democrats' "War on Women" messaging that they pounded throughout the year.  The media completely ate it up, hook, line, and sinker.  Within minutes, she was put on every major network and cable outlet.  The media ran with stories about how women weren't allowed to testify at the hearing, even though two female college administrators — Dr. Allison Dabbs Garrett, the senior vice-president for academic affairs at Oklahoma Christian University, and Dr. Laura Champion, medical director of Calvin College Health Services — testified.  The facts were no barrier to the headlines, which included CBS' "Dems decry all-male House panel on WH contraception rule" and CNN's "Angry lawmakers challenge lineup at hearing:  'Where are the women?'"

Rudy Giuliani defends Trump on 'stop and frisk' and demands apology from 'dead wrong' debate moderator Lester Holt for declaring it 'unconstitutional'.  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is demanding an apology from Lester Holt, the moderator of Monday night's presidential debate, for incorrectly declaring stop-and-frisk policing methods 'unconstitutional.'  'Donald Trump was right,' Giuliani wrote in an op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal.

Hillary's Pneumonia Hokum:  A Timeline.  [Scroll down]  Some of the dinosaur media have reported that Hillary "stumbled at the curb" and "fell into the van."  Others reported that she "fainted."  This shows the extremely low quality of "journalism" today, describing things that just didn't happen, as you can see for yourself in the video.  Hillary didn't "stumble";she buckled at the knees.  She didn't "faint" (lose consciousness and go limp).  Hillary herself says she didn't faint, and for once she might be telling the truth, because the video shows that she was apparently awake but immobile.  She was having a seizure of some kind.

Dear Media:  Please Stop Calling Violent Rioters 'Protesters'.  Watching coverage of the unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina last night, I was struck by a common trend in how the most violent acts were being covered. [...] Looting a Wal-Mart, destruction of property, attempted murder, all carried out by... "protesters." [...] I suppose you could make a convoluted argument about how the protests were against white supremacy, and capitalism and the media are agents of white supremacy, therefore attacking those institutions are acts of "protest" or whatever.  But if even violent attempted murder and destruction of property can be a "protest" so long as the motives are political, I don't see why the same can't be said of, say, a terrorist attack.

Joy Reid:  Not True That Republicans Passed Civil Rights for African-Americans That Democrats Opposed.  Saturday on MSNBC's "AM Joy," host Joy Reid disagreed with chairman of the Black Republican Caucus of Florida Sean P. Jackson when he said that if it was not for Republicans, African-Americans would still be enslaved.

MSNBC: Republicans Purging Minorities to Steal Election, Hack Results.  MSNBC's Joy Reid, who was swift to condemn Republican concerns of voter fraud, was equally as fast at accusing them of plotting to steal the election.  Reid's concern centered on a computer system called CrossCheck which was developed to find duplicate names on the voter rolls so they can be removed.  But Reid and her guest Rolling Stone writer Greg Palast, who brought the issue to her attention, accuse the system of targeting minorities.  "The system disproportionality targets voters of color who are likely to have common surnames, like Washington or Hernandez," Reid stated.

Media Invented Lie About Trump Mocking Disabled Reporter.  Just when you think the media could not possibly become more loathsome, the Fourth Estate bullies prove you wrong again.  The Washington Post's latest ugliness was to exploit the disability of a newspaper reporter in order to smear the Republican nominee for president.  Then — and this is the least surprising part of the story — the Post lied about it.

Desperate Media Declare Trump Mexico Summit a Failure in Advance.  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had not even left yet for his visit to Mexico on Wednesday morning [8/31/2016] when the mainstream media began declaring it a failure.

National NBC Reporter Claims "Trump Rally Crowds Small" — Despite Akron Ohio Max Capacity Crowd 5,000+.  The trust in U.S. journalism is at a historic low.  Most Americans now accept the U.S. media is completely dishonest.  However, the media reporters claim such public opinions are unwarranted. [...] Any objective observer of the news media's treatment of Trump can certainly conclude that reporters are taking a side in this election — and they don't have to be wearing a button that says "I'm with her" for this to be readily apparent.

Almost Everything the Media Tell You About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Is Wrong.  A major new report, published today [8/22/2016] in the journal The New Atlantis, challenges the leading narratives that the media has pushed regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.  Co-authored by two of the nation's leading scholars on mental health and sexuality, the 143-page report discusses over 200 peer-reviewed studies in the biological, psychological, and social sciences, painstakingly documenting what scientific research shows and does not show about sexuality and gender.  The major takeaway, as the editor of the journal explains, is that "some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence."

Media Matters fabricates quote from Robert Spencer, claims he runs "white nationalist think tank".  Did you know I was a "white nationalist think tank leader"?  Neither did I.  I didn't know I was a white nationalist, and didn't know I ran a think tank.  Just think of all the meetings I've missed. [...] Media Matters claims to correct the lies of the Right.  In fact, it is they who are the liars.

Black males murder five year old white girl in Milwaukee.  No national outrage.  Two black males in Milwaukee walked up to the home of a white family, in a majority black neighborhood, and unleashed a hail of gunfire.  A five year old white girl, Laylah Petersen, was murdered while sitting on her grandfather's lap.  Milwaukee police say there is no question the shooters were deliberating trying to kill people inside the house.  At least a dozen bullets were fired directly into the house.  There may have been a third person driving a getaway car.  The house was located in a census tract that is 77% black and 14% white.  The Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee channel 6 have actually been trying to downplay the murder.  They are falsly reporting that it was "a stray bullet."  That directly contradicts all the evidence found by police.

Megan Twohey of the New York Times Caught in a Media Hoax.  Megan Twohey of the New York Times offers you a master class in how to spot a liar.  Megan Twohey along with "journalist" Michael Barbaro recently published a hit on Donald Trump.  In their article, ["]Crossing the Line:  How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Public["], Twohey and Barbaro accused Trump of conduct varying from sexual harassment to "debasing" of women.  The problem?  The story was a hoax!

The Media Are Lying to Hide Clinton's Animosity to the Second Amendment.  This is the state of "journalism" today.  Members of the media who desperately want Hillary Clinton to be elected president are stooping to unprecedented lows, abandoning all pretenses of impartiality, forfeiting whatever remnant of credibility they might otherwise have, trying to prevent voters from realizing that Hillary Clinton fundamentally opposes the individual right to keep and bear arms.  The Washington Post, to single out one of the worst in this regard, is worried that voters agree with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that if Clinton were elected, she would "essentially abolish the Second Amendment."

The Misinformation Age.  The thing is, our mass media culture is mostly fabricated nonsense.  Most of what the news people "report" is made up.  As soon as you see the word "sources" you know what follows is invented.  Even when someone is named as a source, nine times out of ten we learn that the named source did not actually say what he was claimed to have said.  The other day, the news people were claiming Trump got in a fight with a baby at one of his events.  It turns out he made some harmless jokes about a crying baby.

The media's lies and double standards accelerate at blinding speed.  [Scroll down]  As a senator, Mrs. Clinton had voted for the Iraq war and refused to support the military surge that turned the war around, and as secretary of state, she supported President Obama's precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, which created the vacuum into which the Islamic State stepped, and failed to honor repeated requests for greater security in Benghazi, all while Mr. Trump was a private citizen.  But according to Mr. Khan, Mr. Trump is the villain:  "Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims," he said.  "He disrespects other minorities, women, judges, even his own party leadership.  He vows to build walls and ban us from this country."  Another untruth.  Rather than "ban Muslims" from entering the country, Mr. Trump proposes a temporary hold on those coming from nations "compromised" by Islamic terrorism and once the situation is in hand, thorough background checks on all immigrants coming from those areas.  Mr. Khan also wondered if Mr. Trump had "read the Constitution."  Never mind that the Constitution does not offer religious freedom protections to non-citizens and that as a matter of law and policy, we are not obligated to let anyone into the country.  Throughout his time in the spotlight, Mr. Khan parroted the media's distortions, and they ate it up.

Media Photoshops Crowd Image For Hillary Clinton St.  Petersburg, Florida Speech.  Remember the discussions of "optics" and trying to manufacture the perception of support for Hillary Clinton?  It's all a pretense; a fraud; a corporate media ruse.  Well, a great example comes today from "The Hill", an on-line media outlet promoting the speech of candidate Clinton.

The Media vs. America.  The other night I spent some time with Donald Trump.  He had come to Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, a mere five or so miles up the road from my house.  The Trump rally was filled — completely — with thousands inside and outside thousands more waiting (in vain) to get in the door.  Here's what interested.  Never once — not once — did I hear Donald Trump mention the Khans, the now famous parents of a son killed in battle in Iraq.  Even more to the point?  In talking with many people in the audience before and after the rally, no one — say again not a single soul — mentioned the Khans.  What I did hear from Trump was talk about jobs, trade, the economy, ISIS and more.  Which was the talk from members of the audience when I spoke to many of them before and after the rally.  They volunteered directly to me, conversation after another, their thoughts about ObamaCare, a sick child, jobs, trade, pride in America, Hillary and so on.  And yet?  Mysteriously when I returned home and turned on the television or checked on-line it seemed to be all-Khan all-the-time.  As if Trump had spent the evening re-hashing the whole subject yet again.  Which he had not.

Exclusive: NBC Quietly Scrubs 'Discredited' Smear of Bill Clinton Rape Accuser.  Following the receipt of a retraction demand, NBC News has quietly edited the Internet edition of a segment that aired on the highly-rated "Today Show" in which anchor Andrea Mitchell claimed Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation against Bill Clinton had been "discredited."  After receiving the legal letter, penned by Broaddrick's attorney and son, Kevin L. Hickey, NBC removed the word "discredited" from the network's Internet version of Mitchell's video report, Broaddrick and Hickey told this reporter.  However, NBC did not make any indication of the edit in the video or on the webpage that hosts it.

Free Beacon Catches NBC Scrubbing Old Video of Mitchell Saying Juanita Broaddrick Is 'Discredited'.  In a breaking story posted late Tuesday afternoon [8/2/2016] by our friends at the Washington Free Beacon, staff writer and former CNS News staff writer Elizabeth Harrington revealed that NBC News has stealth edited a May 19 video of Clinton campaign correspondent Andrea Mitchell on Today denouncing Juanita Broaddrick's sexual allegations against Bill Clinton as "a discredited and long-denied accusation" to merely being a "long-denied accusation."  Mitchell's original phrasing was flagged the day that it aired live on NBC by the MRC's Kyle Drennen and he chronicled the network's history concerning Broaddrick and Clinton.

Media Hoax!  Dishonest Journalists Claim Alex Jones was Arrested.  The mainstream media was at it again, this time attempting to hoax the world by claiming Alex Jones had been arrested for punching a black cop.  The truth is that SJWs assaulted him.  I know because I was there filming the entire event.  At a small gathering of discontents, Alex Jones appeared with his bull horn explaining how the protesters were globalist tools of George Soros.  As Jones approached the group, they attacked him.  Police intervened, separating the two groups.  Yet the media began spreading a hoax, claiming Jones assaulted a black police officer.

Website Gets Busted Trying to Cover Obama's Lies.  Rumor-disproving website Snopes has proven itself especially unreliable on all matters political, and it did so again this week when it tried to "bust" the myth that President Obama had paid Iran $400 million in exchange for American citizens being held in Iranian jails.  Both Snopes and the Obama administration insist that the payment was part of the Iran nuclear deal and completely unconnected to the release of the men.

Media Outlet Claims Big, Boisterous Crowd At Clinton Rally.  There's just one problem:  The crowd was not really that big.

Misleading Headline of the Month:  AP "Man who shot sleeping intruder".  The above headline must be one of the most misleading that I have seen.  It comes from AP itself.  It is aided and abbetted by the AP leading sentence.  From the washingtontimes.com:  ["]BEND, Ore. (AP) - The man who shot and killed another person asleep inside a Bend home in 2012 is asking a court to throw out a wrongful death lawsuit against him.["]  The intruder was not sleeping.  He was actively fighting the couple that found him asleep in the homeowners house.  There was an extensive investigation, and the shooting was ruled justified.  The story is all over the Internets, with the factually wrong headline and first sentence.

So Much for That 'Unprecedented' Jail Talk.  The Republican convention's rowdy chants about Hillary Clinton — "Lock her up!" — have caused liberal journalists to get extremely distressed.  In their lead editorial on July 21, The Washington Post fulminated that Team Trump's "descent from standard red-meat partisanship to unprecedented accusations of criminality displays contempt for the rule of law and a startling disinterest in fact and reason."  That's strong brew.  It's too bad for them that it's completely false.  Somehow, the Post writers are acting like they were born yesterday, or slept through the last Republican presidency.  They've chosen to overlook that their liberal friends in news and entertainment were active participants in an eight-year anti-GOP hatefest.  Take CNN commentator Jack Cafferty, who on October 17, 2005, gushed to Wolf Blitzer about the idea of Karl Rove in prison: [...]

How The Media Covers Up Muslim And #Blacklivesmatter Terrorism.  The propaganda, the artful selection and deselection of facts, have become as familiar to us as they were to any of the residents of the Soviet Union or North Korea.  Anyone who pays attention knows not only that they are being lied to, but can easily predict the lies that they will be told on the evening news even before they actually hear them being spoken out loud.  We always knew that the Muslim terrorist, even before he was identified, would turn out to be a secular loner who was depressed over his family life.  All the media had to do with Mohammed Bouhlel, the Islamic terrorist who murdered 84 people in Nice, France was to replay the same exact narrative as the one that they had fed us with Omar Mateen, the Islamic terrorist who murdered 49  people in Orlando.  Irreligious, depressed loner with family problems.  Check.  No connection to Islamic terrorism.  Suggestion of mental illness.  Check and check.  Insistence on his lack of interest in religion?  One final check.

MSNBC's 'truck crash' framing of France terror attack ignites Twitter mockery.  An MSNBC tweet on late Thursday [7/14/2016] that framed France's latest terror attack as a "truck crash" elicited a stinging response from readers.  "Follow our live blog for the latest from Nice after a truck crash leaves at least 70 dead," the network tweeted at 8:49 p.m.  EST., well after even President Obama and French President Francois Hollande called the event an act of terrorism.  Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, killed at least 84 people during Bastille Day ceremonies by plowing a giant truck through crowds along the Promenade des Anglais.

Media blames truck, not terrorists or Islam, for Nice attack.  Leftist media outlets reacted to the devastating attack in Nice not by blaming Islam or even terrorists, but by suggesting that an inanimate object — the truck — was responsible for the carnage.  Instead of pointing the finger at Islamists, CNN, CBC and the New York Times all published headlines that served to hide the true nature of the attack.  CBC reported, "Children feared killed in Nice as truck attacks family event".  Presumably, the truck was somehow able to manifest artificial intelligence and plough itself through dozens of victims.

When liberal narratives override the facts.  Here we go again.  Yet another hotly reported media narrative stamps itself on the national dialogue only to find — oops! — maybe there are actually more facts to be discovered before we know, as they say, "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."  This time around the media narrative surrounds the Minnesota shooting by St. Anthony Village Police Department officer Jeronimo Yanez, the shooting victim one Philando Castile.

Shocker! It Looks Like the Media May Have Bought a False Narrative in Philando Castile Shooting.  If there is one thing I've learned about media firestorms in the modern age of one-hour news cycles and 15-second attention spans, it's that whoever tells the first story which the news media likes is the "winner."  Once the narrative is set in stone (when the news media works in unison that takes about two days, tops), the truth will face a battle that is severely uphill, into the wind, on ice, and will almost never prevail.  There was no better example of this sad reality than the "Hands Up!  Don't Shoot!" myth which drove the entire Ferguson fiasco and was the origin of the entire "Black Lives Matter" movement.  Every investigation into the matter (including by the Obama administration) later concluded, against self-interest, that this catchphrase was based on an obvious and despicable lie.  However, even that did almost nothing to alter public perceptions of that event or the media's eagerness to give instant credibility to similar claims from the same groups in the future.

Update:
Woman Who Famously Live-Streamed Her Boyfriend's Police Shooting is Arrested for Hammer Attack.  Diamond Reynolds, the woman who famously live-streamed the controversial fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, has been arrested in connection with a vicious attack that left another woman with serious injuries.  Reynolds, Dyamond Richardson, and Chnika Blair were apprehended Thursday [3/23/2107] in St. Paul, Minnesota, after allegedly attacking a woman with a hammer Tuesday night [2/28/2017], and leaving the scene in a silver truck.

Media Ignore the Tsunami of Black Violence against Cops.  The shootings in Dallas did not make much of a difference.  Not to the reporters explaining the protest and the reason behind the assassination of five police officers.  The reason for the demonstration was simple and beyond pushback:  White cops shoot black people all over the country, all the time, for no reason whatsoever.  Everybody knows that.  So sad.  Some took it to the next level:  The head of a black group called Dallas Action said the killings were a wake up call to let people know how cops are picking on black people.  All the time.  For no reason whatsoever.  The local Fox reporter in Dallas took the comments in stride, quickly changing the topic to all the pretty lights on nearby police cars.  Not one reporter at any point even hinted at how black violence is wildly out of proportion.

Betrayed by an America-hating press.  The press lie constantly, and their lies are exposed every day by conservative radio and opinion sites.  Lying to the public is a basic betrayal of a vital survival function in a democratic republic, a true stab in the back. [...] In J schools in this country, "betrayal" of the basic obligations of journalism has a name.  It's called "advocacy journalism," but it means lying to every single American.

The Democrats' Self-Serving Distractions.  After the massacre at a gay club in Orlando, Fla., by an American Muslim of Afghan origin affiliated with the Islamic State, the editors of the New York Times argued that the fundamental problem was "hate" exemplified by ... opponents of same-sex marriage.  That was an interesting line of argument.  Omar Mateen was not found with a natural-law treatise in his back pocket, and he wasn't fresh from a Princeton seminar with Robert George.  He never suggested that the Supreme Court had taken too broad a view of the 14th Amendment in Obergefell v.  Hodges.  He was a Muslim fanatic whose heroes throw homosexuals off of tall buildings and crucify Christians.  The morning after that massacre, the New York Daily News reported the enormity under the headline:  "Thanks, NRA!"

Here's The Media's Latest Attempt To Downplay Radical Islam After Orlando Attack.  Ever since witnesses started coming out of the woodwork in the wake of the Orlando attack, claiming that shooter Omar Mateen had actually led a secret gay lifestyle, the liberal media has been desperately trying to portray the massacre as more of a homophobic hate crime than a radical Islamic terrorist attack.  It allows the left to view the attack as proof that hatred of the LGBT community is separate from the Muslim faith. [...] It was a coordinated attempt by the media to spin the narrative, to protect Islam at all costs, despite evidence to the contrary.  Unfortunately for them, the FBI has finally come out and said the entire narrative that Mateen was a self-hating gay man has no evidence to back it up.

Everything was accurate.  But none of it was true.  [Scroll down]  The points of this narrative:  One, the national media is not interested in accuracy or truth, but in getting the story out first.  Two, it should fit a template, e.g., the nation is racist, law enforcement is prejudiced, and they will frame their narrative accordingly (black male was shot, it was because the "white" Hispanic is racist, there is racism all over the country).  Three, the people doing the reporting have little knowledge of the facts they are discussing, such as what is the difference between an AR-15 and M-16, or "automatic fire" and "semi-automatic fire", and "define what is an assault weapon" ([indeed], so ignorant they should run for Congress).

6 Things To Know About Tying Gun Sales To A Watch List.  [#2] The Democrats are still falsely conflating the no-fly list with the terrorist watch list.  We've been over this before.  The no-fly list is not the same thing as the terrorist watch list.  The no-fly has roughly 40,000 names on it and many of them are not the names of U.S. citizens.  By contrast, the terrorist watch list has more than a million names on it (we can't know the actual number).  The legislation Democrats are pushing relies on a definition similar, but not identical, to the one used to create the terrorist watch list on a rolling basis.  It has nothing to do with the no-fly list.  That won't stop Democrats from conflating the two intentionally (as an aide to Sen. Diane Feinstein admitted she does), nor will it stop ignorant journalists from confusing them accidentally (as several have conceded to me they have).

Journalism, R. I. P.  For a variety of historical and cultural reasons, most of those who work in the media are progressives.  They believe that government must undertake to fix an array of social maladies, such as income inequality, perceived racial and gender disparities, and the general dangerous superstitions, bad habits, and cultural baggage of those of less education than reporters, investigative journalists, and Internet and television commentators.  Yet sometimes simply reporting on society's perceived ills does not offer quite a rich enough landscape in which to save humanity.  And sometimes reality offers examples that confound the progressive ideology.  Therefore, journalists often fabricate stories and justify their cons as necessary means to achieve their higher aims.

Guardian admits rogue reporter fabricated interviews.  The Guardian has admitted that a rogue reporter fabricated interviews in articles for the newspaper and falsely claimed to have been present at events he wrote about.  Joseph Mayton, a freelance who has been writing for the Guardian since 2009, has been accused of making up quotes in some of his stories, even filing interviews with people who later said they had never spoken to him.

The Continually Dishonest Media.  Apparently the U.S. media has chosen this week to once again reassert itself as the epitome of broadcast propaganda; Pravda must have been giving them a run for the ruses.  One of the examples today comes from the nascent Jake Tapper of CNN who rallied the proverbial troops around a claim that Donald Trump "brought up Vince Foster" while campaigning for President.

Media Lies About Court's Contraception Order.  Anyone still naïve enough to rely on the legacy media for unvarnished news will have gone to bed Monday evening [5/16/2016] believing that the Supreme Court evaded its duty regarding Little Sisters of the Poor v.  Burwell.  Countless headlines had declared that the Court decided to "punt," "skirt," or otherwise dodge any meaningful action concerning the challenge to the HHS contraception mandate.  In reality, SCOTUS handed the Little Sisters and the other petitioners with whom the Court consolidated their case a major victory in their protracted battle to defend religious liberties against the depredations of the Obama administration's bureaucrats and lawyers.  In a unanimous opinion, the justices vacated all lower court rulings against the Little Sisters and the other petitioners.  The term "vacated," in this context, means that the Court has rendered those adverse decisions legally void.  And the justices didn't stop there.

Irony Alert:  New MSNBC Ad Says 'We Seek Different Perspectives'.  With no sense of irony or humor, a new MSNBC ad claims the network "seeks different perspectives."  Yes, the cable channel home to some of most liberal hosts and journalists on the planet, touted, "We seek different perspectives, connect the dots, approach the story from all the angles."  The condescending commercial started airing on Tuesday [5/3/2016].  The unidentified voice lectured, "We break news.  Yeah.  But we do more than that.  If all you want is headlines, check your Twitter feed."  The announcer smugly continued, "We go beyond the sound bites."  What's so bizarre about this latest spot is that it directly contradicts previous MSNBC ads.

Top 10 Misreported or Underreported Stories of 2015.  [#1] The Fake Iran Agreement:  In July the mainstream media celebrated a deal between Iran and the P5+1 that would provide Iran with sanctions relief along with virtually no accountability.  Today, the administration, along with their lapdogs in the press, continues to argue that this somehow adds up to a good deal for the world.  It doesn't.  In fact, there really is no deal at all.  The New York Times and other news organizations still call this a "signed" deal.  It isn't.

How The Mainstream Media Spread Another False 'Islamophobia' Story.  The journalists and publications which implied the hit and run in Molenbeek this weekend was a 'far right' anti Islam attack had no evidence to suggest that it was as they reported, but they knew what story they wanted to write.  That's why most hesitantly wrote "during" a "far right demonstration" instead of bluntly labelling the driver a "far right activist" as did the Daily Mail, the first publication to report on the story.  Instead of acknowledging the categorical error, or clearly reporting the truth as it emerged, however, the Mail quietly edited their original article, burying the factual change three quarters of the way down the page, and failing to issue a correction or clarification.

Dumping Tabloid Trash on Ted Cruz.  The National Enquirer's name in journalism is synonymous with factually unsupported drivel of the lowest kind.  It is a sacred truth that no responsible journalist would reference the kind of garbage found in this tabloid.  But somehow it's perfectly appropriate for the same responsible journalists to report the sleaze over and over, emphasizing, of course, that the source is the awful National Enquirer.

CNN Started The Carson Drop-Out Rumor; Now They're Lying About It To Bash Cruz.  [Scroll down]  Cruz's team explicitly cited CNN's reporting in its emails.  Carson himself has sent emails blaming CNN.  Cruz correctly pointed out what happened on CNN, as you can see from the transcript [in this article].  And while CNN reporters tweeted that Carson wasn't dropping out, as did Carson staffers, CNN did not report on air that Carson was staying in the race until later in the evening.

'One Long Cheap Shot' — WashPost Lines Up Canadians to Bash Ted Cruz as Extreme.  While The Washington Post would only go to Kenya looking for gushing over Barack Obama, they turn to Canada to make fun of Ted Cruz.

The myth of the cop killing 'epidemic'.  To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport.  Except that these homicidal goons are wearing the blues and badges of American police departments.  It's the narrative that's given rise to the protest movement Black Lives Matter and to a growing public mistrust of the police in general.  From Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., to the recent shooting of a middle-aged woman and a teen in Chicago, the body count seemingly keeps rising, exacerbating racial tensions and keeping the nation on edge.  And each incident is breathlessly reported by a media determined to show that America remains deeply, irredeemably racist.  Problem is, it's simply not true.

Did Media Misquote NC Anti-Solar Residents To Make Them Look Stupid?  Numerous left-wing media outlets have repeatedly misquoted citizens of Woodland, N.C., after the city government voted to reject a proposed solar farm.  An article in the Huffington Post claimed local resident Bobby Mann said the proposed solar farm would "stop plants from growing and suck up all the energy from the sun," during his testimony to the Woodland Town Council, citing an article in the Roanoke-Chowan Herald-News.  However, the Herald-News only directly quotes Bobby Mann as saying "You're killing your town, [a]ll the young people are going to move out."  Other media outlets repeated the misquote.

Biggest Liar of 2015: The Washington Post and Its Pinocchios.  [Scroll down]  The [Washington] Post, of course, was an early and gleeful adopter of the narrative of the unarmed black person shot for no reason whatsoever by racist police in Ferguson who apparently did that kind of thing all the time.  This Lie infected more than just miles and miles of newsprint in the hard news sections.  It was also reported and spread in the sports, lifestyle, opinion, entertainment, and virtually every other nook and cranny of the Post — even after the attorney general grudgingly admitted the entire thing was a hoax in March of this year.  The lies are legion.  A few of the more deceitful:  The Post led the way in glorifying the hundreds of black Capitol Hill staffers who gathered for a photo op in their $1000 coats, soft leather gloves stretched into the air, proclaiming 'hands up, don't shoot.'  [...]

Thank You, Joe Scarborough, For Being So Biased And Fact Challenged.  Those tuning into Monday's [11/9/2015] "Morning Joe" on MSNBC might've wondered about the "worst record" poll that host Joe Scarborough said unfairly kicked Chris Christie off the Fox debate stage.  We wondered, too.

Carson Blows Up at Reporters During Presser: Why Don't You Care About Obama's Past?  Ben Carson faced some combative reporters during a press conference in Florida tonight about the various issues in his background that have been raised this week.  He dismissed Politico's report about him not being formally offered a West Point scholarship, simply insisting it was relayed to him that he could get one with the kind of accomplishments in his background.

The Three (Clinton) Stooges and CNBC.  [Scroll down]  Quintanella has a BA in political science.  So does Quick.  John Harwood says evasively that he studied economics and history as an undergraduate.  At least half their colleagues have degrees in journalism.  Almost none have had experience managing anyone else's money.  So it came as no surprise when Becky Quick asked Ted Cruz what he was going to do about the fact that women earn 77% of what men make.  This claim has been made for four decades; it's almost as old as Becky.  It has 999 lives.  No matter how many times it's refuted by economists, the mantra is repeated — like the similarly discredited claim that intelligence tests are culturally biased.

GOP Media Takedown: A Recipe for Victory.  Along with lawyers and politicians, the media is a group for which Americans have a fairly intense dislike.  This is largely because as with the first two groups, a big part of the modern media's business is lying, and no one likes being lied to. [...] Along with entertainment and academia, they constitute a tripartite axis of cultural evil.  They are Americans' conduit of information, and how can citizens choose the right policies and politicians if they're being fed misinformation?

Biased coverage of Israeli-Palestinian 'violence': When terror becomes 'tensions'.  If you are seeking an example of bias in the media's coverage of what journalists are calling the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian "violence," consider the case of Ahmad Manasra.  In an angry speech on Wednesday night [10/14/2015], Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, appealed for calm but accused Israeli security forces of killing Palestinian boys "in cold blood," singling out the 13-year-old Manasra as one of the Palestinian youths Israel had "executed." [...] There are at least two major problems with Abbas' charge:  First, Ahmad Manasra was not "executed" or even shot by Israelis.

The Ahmed Mohamed Fairy Tale.  There can be no doubt that Americans are fortunate enough to be governed by a brilliantly conceived Constitution drafted by remarkable, intelligent men.  Unfortunately, too many Americans are utterly ignorant of what it contains and how it impacts on their lives.  Voter ignorance on this and so much else contributes to the ease with which the media manipulates public opinion into believing things which are not so.

Lessons in disaster for the next Katrina.  [#1] Though the press patted itself on the back afterwards, in fact, as American University Journalism Professor W. Joseph Campbell writes, "it's instructive to recall how extreme and over the top the reporting was from New Orleans in Katrina's aftermath."  Reports of wandering bands of rapists, a 10-year-old girl raped in the New Orleans Convention Center, claims that people were shooting at rescue helicopters, sharks haunting the floodwaters, bodies stacked like cordwood — all were false.  Though the extremism generated ratings, and satisfied the anti-American urges of the foreign press, it did real harm.  New Orleans, a city battered by disaster, was portrayed as, in Maureen Dowd's words, "a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning."  Dowd used this portrayal to take shots at then-President George W. Bush, and I suspect a lot of the media pile-on was similarly motivated, but it had the effect of stigmatizing victims and, by playing up anarchy and danger, may even have delayed the arrival of aid, as rescuers feared to go in without armed escort.  Overall, a horrible media performance.

An activist masquerading as a journalist is an impostor.
Activist anchor Jorge Ramos uses influence to push immigration agenda.  Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who has long been as much an activist as a newsman, managed to find himself at the center of an immigration story yet again this week as he went head-to-head with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, getting tossed from a press conference after repeatedly and insistently trying to ask questions.

Obama, Bush, Clinton: Secret Agents.  [Scroll down]  [Jorge Ramos] asserts proudly that he votes in elections in both countries.  (Translation of Ramos' world view:  He'd like to see the U.S. flooded with the dregs of his native country so he and Democrat elites could rule it without a vibrant middle class as they do Mexico.)  Ramos is employed by Univision, whose owner Haim Saban is a big Clinton contributor, Mrs. Saban is a big Hillary supporter.  Jorge's daughter works for Hillary Clinton.  He is most certainly a Clinton operative in newsman's drag.

Jorge Ramos Is an Immigration Activist Posing as a Reporter.  Jorge Ramos may be the award-winning celebrity anchor of Univision's premier news broadcast, but "the Walter Cronkite of Hispanic News" long ago revealed himself to be less a journalist than another perpetually indignant immigration activist.  His devolution into outright heckler was only a matter of time.  It would be difficult to overstate Ramos's immigration radicalism.  When Central American children were pouring over the border last summer, Ramos announced as a solution, "First, we treat children like children, as if they were our own."  When, in their 2012 interview, Newt Gingrich told Ramos, "I'm not going to let you define what 'immigration reform' is," Ramos replied, "It's very simple:  to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants."  And when, last November, President Obama lawlessly granted amnesty to some 5 million of those immigrants, Ramos touted the measure as "a triumph for the Latino community."

Jorge Ramos Has a Long History of Activist 'Reporting'.  Ramos has been called the "Walter Cronkite of Latino America," but he has a history of behaving more like an activist with a cable-news platform than a reporter.  Ramos constantly identifies with his Latino and immigrant audience, using words like "us" and "our" when reporting on any immigration-related issue.  He seems to see himself as the gatekeeper of Latino American opinion — and to think that qualifies him to be a political kingmaker.

For a 'Silenced' Journalist, Jorge Ramos Sure Is Getting a Lot of Air Time.  A couple of days ago, I had no idea who Jorge Ramos was.  I imagine many others were likewise unfamiliar with the Univision newscaster before Donald Trump made him famous by kicking him out of a press conference.  Among several media appearances since the confrontation with Trump on Tuesday, Ramos was on The Kelly File Wednesday night. [...] First of all, can we bask ever so briefly in the irony of being "silenced" on national television, then getting to rant about it ad nauseam on all the major networks?  This guy has been anything but silenced.  He should send Trump a thank you note for the exposure.

The Media Lies, AGAIN, About Donald Trump's Illegal Alien Enforcement Proposals — Completely Manufactured Claims.  Having watched an entire media cycle of punditry pontificate about Donald Trump proposing to deport "by force" 11 to 42 million illegal aliens we find ourselves shaking our heads at how little the MSM think of the viewing audience.  NOWHERE in Donald Trump's proposal does he say, or advocate for, the mass "rounding up and subsequent deportation" of millions of illegal aliens.  He never said it, he never proposed it, and it doesn't exist in his presented Border Solution and Illegal Alien proposal.  It just doesn't exist, yet the media claim it to be so.

PolitiFact and Planned Parenthood: Erroneous Fact Checks All the Way Down.  Planned Parenthood now finds itself being heavily criticized after being caught on tape brokering fetal body parts.  Fortunately for them, they have no shortage of allies in the media, including PolitiFact.  Fox Business reporter Sandra Smith recently said on air "Almost 95 percent of all (Planned Parenthood) pregnancy services were abortions."  On Tuesday, PunditFact, a division of PolitiFact, rated it false.  PolitiFact concedes the source of this statistic is Planned Parenthood's own annual report.  If you take the number of services listed in the report, exclude the ones that don't apply to women who aren't pregnant, you do indeed get a figure that showing that over 94 percent of pregnant women who go to Planned Parenthood get an abortion.

Cahoots:
Email Reveals Hillary Clinton Was Fed Questions Before Meet the Press Appearance.  One of the private Hillary Clinton emails released Friday [7/31/2015] reveals that an NBC source was leaking possible questions to the then-Secretary of State's staff ahead of an appearance on Meet the Press.  In an July 2009 email with the subject line "heads up," Clinton staffer Lissa Muscatine wrote, "You probably already know this, but I just heard from a friend who is wired at Meet the Press that David Gregory will ask you about David Maziar, the Newsweek journalist arrested in Iran."

Muhammad... Muhammad... Where Have I Heard That Name Before?  In the wake of the latest mass shooting, carried out by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, an engineer like so many Islamic terrorists, we are seeing the usual scramble to avoid stating the obvious.  On CNN, Tom Fuentes ludicrously cautioned that Muhammad is not an Islamic name: [...]

New York Times Debunked: Scott Walker's 'I'm Not Going Nativist' Conversation Never Happened.  A conversation about immigration between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the Heritage Foundation's Stephen Moore, reported on by the New York Times this week, never happened.  "We have spoken with Stephen Moore and the conversation that was reported did not happen and he will tell you that.  I would recommend you reach out to him," Walker spokeswoman AshLee Strong told Breitbart News on Thursday [7/2/2015] in response to an article by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman.

Fanning the Flames of Another Black-Church-Arson Hoax.  On Monday [6/29/2015], a Baltimore Sun lead editorial decried "a series of mysterious fires at African-American churches across the South" in the wake of the Charleston murders.  The newspaper cited a "pattern" of attacks, including what it claimed was an "uptick in attacks on 37 black churches in the South" in the 1990s that "prompted President Bill Clinton to set up a church-arson investigative task force."  The Sun neglected to mention that Clinton had falsely claimed at the time that he had "vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child" — an assertion immediately debunked by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Gallup Poll: Confidence in Police Rates Twice That of Mainstream Media.  "None of this should surprise anyone," [John] Nolte stated, because "certain members of the police force have been caught doing some truly terrible things, no question.  But these are individual incidents in individual precincts.  "On the other hand, time and again and again as an institution," he indicated, "the mainstream media has been caught red-handed lying, fabricating evidence and engaging in the kind of corruption that would put any other institution (the National Football League, police, the Koch brothers) out of business."

An NBC Affiliate Manufactures a Story to Attack Conservatives.  "Months before the conference, my family booked a hotel room at the same resort as ALEC," reported Brendan Keefe of WXIA TV, also known as 11 Alive.  It's the NBC affiliate in Atlanta.  "We found the fabled back room where the laws are made," he told their audience.  It was sweeps week and NBC had a scoop.  What he failed to mention is that the event held by the right-leaning American Legislative Exchange Council was open to the press, he did not register for the event, he registered at the hotel under an assumed name, and the hotel was not a resort, just a hotel in Savannah.  More particularly, it was the Hyatt in Savannah.

Our Biggest Problem Is A Lying, Stinking Media.  [Scroll down]  But the truth is that the lies of the press are nothing new.  It can be traced back to the 1930's with Stalin apologist Walter Durant's lies about the Soviet Union that won him a Pulitzer Prize.  Yes, he was a New York Times correspondent, of course.  It has taken over seventy years for the Pulitzer Prize committee to review Durant's denial about the desperate condition of the Russian people under Stalin and to consider revoking that prize but why bother since that prize has been a joke for many years?  The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to the Times-Picayune newspaper for totally fraudulent reporting of the Katrina disaster.

Researcher Behind Fabricated Gay Marriage Study LIED About Funding.  Michael LaCour, the University of California-Los Angeles graduate student responsible for a now-widely discredited study on attitudes towards gay marriage, apparently lied about the funding grants given for his fraudulent research.  In fact, according to The New Yorker, LaCour received no funding at all for the study — which was published last December in Science magazine and discredited earlier this week — into whether views on same-sex marriage change due to interaction with gay individuals.

What's Behind Big Science Frauds?  In December, Science published a paper claiming that people could change their minds about same-sex marriage after talking for just 20 minutes with a gay person.  It seemed too good to be true — and it was.  On Wednesday [5/20/2015], the journal distanced itself from the study, after its accuracy was disputed, and one of the authors could not back up the findings.  News organizations, which had reported on the study, scrambled to correct the record.

MSNBC: America killing Muslims 'in the streets for decades" explains Garland shootings.  If there's an attack on American's anywhere, I think there's a law that there has to be someone on MSNBC to defend the attackers.  They always seems to get TV time.

Interracial Crime: Media-driven versus Statistical Realities.  The much-hyped "black killed by whites" stories sold to us over the past several years by the media and Race Industry have been either outright lies or grossly misreported.

Never Trust Liberal "Fact Checkers".  The Democratic Party controls almost all of the news media.  Some years ago, the Democrats came up with a great idea:  they established "fact checkers" within Democratic Party newspapers to spin unfortunate facts in the Democrats' favor.  Today, several such "fact checkers" are well known.  Are they reliable?  Of course not.

Math Is Hard For Obamacarians.  If you are masochistic enough to read the "reporting" of the legacy media on Obamacare, you will have noticed a spate of recent stories with titles like the following from CNBC:  "Health spending post-Obamacare seen $2.5 trillion lower."  This headline is not only awkwardly worded.  It is, like the article over which it appears, misleading.  It misrepresents a new study from the left-leaning Urban Institute concerning projected health care spending in a way that suggests the nation has saved enormous amounts of money thanks to the "Affordable Care Act."  This is absurd, of course, but it highlights an underappreciated element of the health care reform debate — the adversarial relationship that exists between Obamacare's partisans in the press and basic statistics.

Another Great Moment in Mainstream Journalism.  This story, like the now-completely discredited Rolling Stone "campus rape" article, shows the dangers of an increasingly biased mainstream news media.  Stories that fits reporters' and editors' ideological predispositions get rushed through into print with little skepticism or careful review, and apparently with no actual fact checking.

Libel Is Obama's Latest Weapon In His War On Israel.  Behold what's buried in Tuesday's [3/24/2015] Wall Street Journal — a claim of Israeli spying, which was obviously planted by one or more nameless administration officials seeking to make the Israelis' newly re-elected leader look like a U.S. enemy:  "While U.S. intelligence officials believe secured U.S. communications are relatively safe from the Israelis, they say European communications are vulnerable."  The Israelis, it turns out, almost certainly got their information from eavesdropping not on U.S., but on European and Iranian diplomatic communications — which virtually every U.S. embassy in the world does.

NYTs Caught Manipulating Story That Didn't Fit Their Narrative.  In a story published Monday [3/16/2015], The New York Times reported online that family members of Jeffrey Williams, the 20 year-old man suspected of shooting and wounding two Ferguson police officers, confirmed that Williams had been one of the Ferguson protesters.  This morning, at the same url, that crucial piece of news disappeared from the story.  No update or editor's note explained the removal (that has now been returned).

The Biggest Lie of Our Generation: Ferguson Was All About Traffic Tickets. 
Hands up, don't shoot?  Lie.
Gentle giant?  Lie.
Minding his own business?  Lie.
Shot in the back?  Lie.
Did not attack the police officer?  Lie.
'Didn't do nothing' to the Asian shopkeeper?  Lie.
Relatives did not try to start a riot?  Lie.
Protests were "largely peaceful?"  Lie.
National Guard would protect the business owners from looting...
This is a very long list of of the bodyguard of lies that reporters and activists (sorry for the redundancy) hoped would protect anyone from challenging the core truth of the racial grievance industry, which is the biggest lie of this generation:  Black people are relentless victims of relentless white racism.  All the time.  Everywhere.  That explains everything.  And it is not just Ferguson.  Lying about race and racial violence is now the default position for American reporters.

DOJ Report States "Hands Up — Don't Shoot" Narrative Was Completely False — We Again Explain Its Origin.  Today [3/4/2015] the DOJ released their comprehensive finding report on the Mike Brown shooting.  The DOJ Report states unequivocally the "Hands Up - Don't Shoot" narrative was a completely false construct, but yet the media ran with it for months.  Why?

Petraeus Set To Plead Guilty — Remove Himself From The Clutches Of Obama/Clinton Blackmail.  CNN is reporting, through Evan Perez again, that General David Petraeus is expected to plead guilty to a federal probe that he gave classified pillow-talk intelligence to Paula Broadwell during their affair in 2011/2012.  It should be noted, however, that Evan Perez was recently the CNN reporter who presented an entirely false story about a DHS report on Soverign Citizens where he portrayed the report as DHS worried about right-wing extremist groups.  Nothing in his interpretation of the report was even remotely accurate [...]

JW Exposes Another NBC Scandal Days Before Brian Williams Debacle.  The mainstream media's credibility continues to deteriorate at a breakneck rate and now a major network television station — with recent transgressions exposed by Judicial Watch and a U.S. military newspaper — is serving as the poster child of this shameful movement.  It involves two popular and "respected" journalists at NBC, disgraced "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams and "Meet the Press" anchor David Gregory, two of the highest paid and most coveted personalities in the network's history.

AP: Islam Fundamentally a Religion of Peace, 'Brazen' Critics Probably Racist.  AP writer Lee Keath published an article on Monday dealing with the "debate among Muslims over interpreting faith" — without mentioning that thousands of deaths are meted out every year in the name of Islam across the globe.  Keath instead describes those who question the link between Islam and jihadist violence as "increasingly brazen."  Rather than focusing on the "brazenness" of the murderers in Islam's name, the author instead points towards those who dare critique the Religion of Peace.

Obama's Endless Lies and His Media Accomplices.  It was appropriate that the Democratic Senate report on "torture" was released on the same day that Jonathan Gruber was testifying about lying to the American people regarding the benefits of Obamacare.  The Senate report was another form of deception, designed to confuse and mislead about what Obama has used in place of interrogation techniques of terrorists.  Obama doesn't interrogate terrorists, he kills them.  Yet, we are led to believe Obama believes in American values and practices them.  The American people would see through the lies if only they could depend on a media that would lead them out of all the deliberate obfuscation.

Why The Media's Fact Problems Are Way Bigger Than Rolling Stone.  It's absolutely true that we don't have a wave of outright fabrication-out-of-whole-cloth.  But what we have is much worse.  We have a tsunami of inaccuracy that is generally tolerated, embraced and even celebrated so long as it serves the right political and cultural goals.

NBC's Snyderman faces credibility issues.  NBC must now decide whether Snyderman's credibility is too damaged for her to continue reporting on Ebola or other medical issues and, if so, for how long.

The Mike Brown PBS "Lie Chart" — The False PBS Claims Deconstructed Visually.  A Treeper has been reviewing every piece of testimony in the case and comparing it with the chart that PBS published.  Turns out they misrepresented almost all of the statements.

Ex-Obama Aide Destroys Media Narrative, Admits Gruber Was an 'Important Figure'.  A former adviser to Barack Obama on Tuesday [11/18/2014] overturned the media narrative, promoted by the President, that Jonathan Gruber was an unimportant, minor figure.  The New York Times on Tuesday insisted in an editorial, "Republicans are crowing over Mr. Gruber's remarks because he has been portrayed as a major architect of the health reform law.  In truth, his role was limited."  The health care operative has repeatedly bragged about fooling "stupid" Americans.  The paper's editors lectured, "His comments should not be taken as evidence that the reform law was hatched in secrecy and foisted on the public by trickery."  Yet, Steven Rattner, a former Obama administration adviser, countered this narrative on Morning Joe.

ABC and NBC Ignore Gruber's Numerous W.H. Visits, CBS Barely Covers.  On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of ObamaCare, made more than a dozen visits to visit the White House since "Democrats began drafting the law in 2009."  Despite the latest developments in the Gruber controversy, which contradicts President Obama's line that Gruber was "some advisor who never worked on our staff," CBS This Morning was the only network morning show to mention the report, giving it a mere 24 seconds during its Tuesday morning [11/18/2014] broadcast.  ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today ignored the Journal's report altogether.

More about the Jonathan Gruber ObamaCare scandal.

Chuck Todd: Eric Holder is a 'Very Non-Political Person'.  [Meet the Press host Chuck] Todd says this of the man who openly talked about serving "my people" as attorney general.  He made that comment in connection with the New Black Panther case — a racially-tinged case that Holder's DOJ dropped even after the government had won it.  Eric Holder desperately wants to treat al Qaeda terrorists as criminals rather than non-state illegal combatants.  That's a political choice, and one for which he has been roundly criticized.  When Holder attempted to move trials of al Qaeda terrorists from military tribunals to civilian court — in New York — he lost.  Big.  Being obtuse to the viewpoints of others, and being unable to comprehend that the things that you say and do offend and anger others, is not the same thing as being "non-political."

Best of facts-free reporting hands-down... I mean up.  I began to lose interest in Ferguson, Mo., when it was first reported that the late Michael Brown was an "aspiring rapper."  Hadn't heard that one yet?  It was in the LA Times, under the headline:  "Michael Brown's raps: Money, sex, drugs — and a vulnerable side."  Of course he had to have a vulnerable side.  That's why he was known as "the Gentle Giant."  He didn't look terribly gentle in that closed-circuit video, shoving the owner of the Ferguson Market when he was stealing the box of Swisher Sweets just before he got shot.  But the demonstrators could see right through that — "the man" had photoshopped the video, or so they said live on national TV.

The Media Are Buying Hillary's Foreign Policy [Prevarication] — And Selling It To You.  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — the most senior foreign policy official in the United States, aside from President Barack Obama himself, for four years — is now attempting to differentiate herself from her old boss, now that his hapless leadership has become a liability to her presidential ambitions.  And the media are buying it, then re-selling it to the public as if it represents an authentic split instead of opportunism and lies.

5 Reasons Not to Trust the 'What Me Worry' Media About Ebola.  [#5] The mainstream media lies.  It lies all the time.  The mainstream media is a degenerate, habitual, serial liar that exists only to serve the government and the noxious little career-climbing bubble it exists in.  I always assume the media is lying — that way I'm right more than I'm wrong.  The mainstream media is a wretched institution populated with wretched people and only a handful of exceptions.  If you're foolish enough to believe the mainstream media will put what's morally good, right, and true above The Club Rules, you obviously haven't watched CNN's coverage of the war in Gaza.

The Self-Inflicted Hamas 'Massacre' Blamed By the Media on Israel.  According to the Hamas version of events — widely promulgated in the media by ITN, the Telegraph and the Belfast Telegraph — an Israeli airstrike on a crowded market place during a partial ceasefire in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood of Gaza City on July 30th, 2014 was responsible for the deaths of 17 people, including blue-helmeted photojournalist Rani Rayan.  However as Thomas Wictor has incontrovertibly demonstrated using close analysis of film footage of the incident, the deaths were not caused by Israeli shrapnel but by secondary explosions from a vast cache of Hamas rockets.  Oh, and the market wasn't 'crowded' either:  it had been closed for the day.  And this particular area wasn't included in the ceasefire zone, either, because Hamas was continuing to fire rockets from it.

Gallup: Public Confidence in TV News at All-Time Low.  Public confidence in television news is at an all-time low, according to a survey released today [6/19/2014] by Gallup. [...] In the latest survey, conducted June 5-8, only 10 percent said they had "a great deal" of confidence in T.V. news, and 8 percent said they had "quite a lot" of confidence.

Gallup: Public Confidence in TV News at All-Time Low.  Public confidence in television news is at an all-time low, according to a survey released today by Gallup.  Only 18 percent of the Americans surveyed expressed either a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in that news medium.

Dana Milbank's Heritage disaster.  Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank set off a flurry of outraged tweets on Monday night [6/16/2014] after posting a highly critical recap of a panel event at The Heritage Foundation that, he says, "deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering."  Video of that panel has since surfaced and — in my view — Milbank grossly misrepresented the nature of that exchange.

Friends Don't Let Friends Read Dana Milbank.  Dana Milbank is a columnist for the Washington Post who serially exaggerates or distorts what he writes about.  It's just what he does.  This has been established so many times by so many people that it's disappointing to see he is still given prominent perch in his paper and that people who made it past their sophomore year in high school take him seriously.

What Dana Milbank Does Not Tell You.  [Scroll down]  But what's more, Milbank relies on the account of "Saba Ahmed, an American University law student," who is the aggrieved victim of his piece.  She's a moderate, caring Muslim girl targeted by the group because she is Muslim.  What Milbank does not tell you is that Saba Ahmed is a family friend of Mohammed Osman Mohamud, the convicted Islamic bomber who tried to blow up Portland, OR in the name of jihad.  Milbank also does not tell you Saba Ahmed has been arrested for stalking and her family claims she was diagnosed with a mental disorder.  She's also been active at Occupy rallies denouncing American war efforts.  She has made opposition to the American war against terrorism a key part of what she does.  And she took to Heritage to hijack a conversation on Benghazi, turning it to her issue, which had not even been a topic of conversation.

Washington Post Lets Columnist Dana Milbank Lie About Heritage Foundation.  Writing for a Washington Post that apparently decided his column was too good to check, columnist Dana Milbank attacked the conservative Heritage Foundation for bullying a female Muslim woman who expressed concern about Muslim stereotyping during a panel Monday night.  The only problem with Milbank's charge is that it's a smear — it never happened.  And of all places, it is video from the left-wing Media Matters that debunks Milbank's entire column.

MSNBC.com Deceptively Edits Dave Brat to Suggest He Was 'Dodging' Questions.  Editors at MSNBC.com trimmed down Republican congressional nominee Dave Brat's June 11 phone interview with MSNBC's Chuck Todd in order to paint him as dodging questions from the Daily Rundown host.  But a review of the full interview shows that Brat had already and seemingly quite gladly answered a few policy questions on such hot issues as the minimum wage, immigration reform, and his stance on Wall Street's influence on the business wing of the GOP.

Six Lies The Leftist Media Tells About The Contraception Mandate Cases.  This week, the Supreme Court will consider whether businesses and their owners must choose between paying millions of dollars in fines and violating their religious beliefs.  [...] The leftist papers do not mention the substantial monetary burden put on religious business owners to violate their consciences.  The papers do not mention that contraception was both inexpensive and widely available before the contraception mandate, and still is.  The papers omit to mention that it isn't the businesses who have radically changed, but the mandates from government.  Quite simply, if you read a newspaper to find out about the contraception mandate cases, you will read lies.

Jacksonville Channel 4 falsely portrays black on white hate crime attacks as having a white perpetrator.  For years we have talked about how the media censors black crime.  Many major media outlets now openly admit to having a policy of censoring black crime perpetrators.  However, an even more sinister form of censorship is rising.  This is what we call Stage 2 censorship of black crime.  Where the media purposely leads you to believe that a black crime perpetrator was actually a white guy.

Appalling: NY Times editorial distorts, misleads, and lies to readers on HHS Mandate.  With many political debates, I try to give opponents the benefit of the doubt on intentions.  Sure, raising taxes is a bad thing, but some politicians and pundits believe higher taxes will benefit society.  Some people think we need to spend more, and others really fear climate change.  When it comes to the HHS abortifacient/contraception/sterilization mandate, however, I've almost stopped being that generous with the left's media and thought leaders.  [A recent] New York Times Magazine editorial is a prime example as to why.  Almost from start to finish, the piece misleads and misdirects readers about the mandate, its opponents, and religious freedom.

Yet Another Journalist Says Lying Is A-OK.  It's a relatively new development for journalists to admit that lying to the public isn't a bad thing, but it's a rapidly growing phenomenon, as sophistry becomes an increasingly accepted practice in the MSM, to the point where it's openly talked about by those who employ it.

Radio DJs spark outrage after admitting they made up story about a homophobic RSVP to a party.  Two radio DJs in Long Island who caused an uproar last week by posting the homophobic RSVP to a birthday party for a 'little girl with two gay dads' admitted on Saturday that the whole thing was a hoax.

Cybersecurity Expert Accuses NBC of '100% Fraudulent' Hacking Story, NBC Fires Back.  Earlier this week, NBC's Richard Engel filed a report warning travelers to Sochi about the danger of getting hacked, but one cybersecurity expert took serious issue with the story, which he described on his blog as "100% fraudulent."  In the report, Engel brought some brand-new laptops and a new phone just to test how secure people's devices would be in Sochi, and he concluded that he was hacked "almost immediately."  But Robert Graham pointed out a few reasons why all is not as it seems.

NBC News Fails to Disclose Soros Connection In Shriver Report on Women.  The Media Research Center reports that a report promoted heavily by NBC News Special Anchor Maria Shriver was funded by a ultra-left political group funded by George Soros.  Earlier this week Shriver was all over NBC News and MSNBC to talk about a study titled "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back From the Brink."  The promotion of the report also allowed Shriver and NBC News to portray President Obama as "sympathetic to working mothers."  This push focusing on women we see throughout the media, not just on NBC, is nothing more than the media prepping the battlefield to elect Hillary Clinton.

Five Years of Falsehoods at NBC News.  Everyone acted surprised when we learned yesterday that after a couple of disastrous months, MSNBC is defiantly refusing to change their editorial process.  But why would they?  For years now, MSNBC and NBC News have both become a culture of left-wing hate and fraudulent editing.  The only thing new, as you will see [in this article], is that the frequency of the fraud and hate is increasing.  What I've assembled here isn't anything close to comprehensive, but it is a revealing top ten: [...]

Ripping Off the "Progressive" Mask.  It is a sad fact that telling a lie these days has become more convenient than telling the truth.  This is a terrible commentary on those with access to our major media.  Consider the coverage of the inauguration of Bill de Blasio as New York City's mayor.  The term "progressive" is used in most accounts to describe him and his backers.  De Blasio accepts that term.  Yet, by any objective measure, he is a dedicated Marxist, and has been for most of his life.  For example, he never disavowed his support for the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua.  He claims to have honeymooned in communist Cuba, when such a trip was illegal.  His wife was a member of a Marxist collective.

NBC News' Happy Obamacare Customer is a Dem Candidate, Operative.  NBC News senior health reporter JoNel Aleccia told the story of a woman described as "Joyce Moore, a Pennsylvania financial planner" who "runs her own retirement and estate planning business."  NBC said Moore was actually happy her existing insurance was canceled due to Obamacare. [...] What NBC News Senior Health Reporter JoNel Aleccia failed to mention is that Joyce Moore is a longstanding Democratic activist who, in November 2013, ran as a Democratic candidate for Upper Milford Township Supervisor in Pennsylvania.

10 Forms of 2013 Media Malpractice.  [#1] Pretend that "no one" is saying something, when they really are.  Carol Costello of CNN claimed in January that "no one is talking about overturning the Second Amendment or confiscating guns in America."  In the three preceding weeks, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had said that "confiscation could be an option"; an Iowa state representative had "said governments should start confiscating semi-automatic rifles and other firearms"; and Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California had suggested a gun-buyback program which "could be compulsory."  In early December, New York City's police department sent out "letters telling gun owners to turn over their rifles and shotguns — or else face the consequences," i.e., confiscation.

Journalistic malpractice over Benghazi.  The Times' report misconstrues known facts and simply sweeps under the table mountains of evidence of al Qaeda's ties to Libyan jihadi groups.  In June 2012, for example, more than a dozen different jihadi groups put the black flag of al Qaeda on parade in Benghazi in what they hoped would be a three-day show of force.  Thousands of jihadi fighters, many of them in Pakistani and Afghan dress, paraded through the streets of Benghazi with hundreds of gun trucks.  For The New York Times, though, the black flags were merely "the black flags of militant Islam" and apparently bore no relation to al Qaeda.  "Benghazi was not infiltrated by al Qaeda," The Times flatly asserted.

House Intel Chairman on NYT's Benghazi Report: 'That Story Is Just Not Accurate'.  The New York Times on Sunday [12/29/2013] published a highly controversial report claiming the September 2012 attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, did not involve al Qaeda, and was as the Administration originally stated a spontaneous demonstration in response to an American-made anti-Islamic video.  Appearing on Fox News Sunday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) completely refuted the article saying, "[T]hat story is just not accurate".

Denver Post Stealth Edits Out 'Socialist' from Profile of Arapahoe School Shooter.  In a profile on the shooter in the Denver Post which focused on his "strong political beliefs," several of Pierson's classmates offered their impressions of the shooter.  One of the shooter's classmates described him as a "very opinionated socialist."  Shortly after that post was published, however, that description was edited out.  The current copy simply describes him as "very opinionated."

Mika Suggests Obama 'Too Smart' For The Job.  Too smart to be President.  Is that really Barack Obama's problem? Mika Brzezinski thinks so.  On today's [11/4/2013] Morning Joe, as Mike Barnicle and John Heilemann kicked around the notion, as others have before, that President Obama doesn't much like politics and the people in it, Brzezinski piped up with a different explanation for his aloofness:  he's "too smart for the job," she suggested.

The Editor says...
I can provide copious evidence that Barack H. Obama is not all that bright.

WashPost's Milbank: 'Couldn't Be the Case' That Some Lost Insurance Because of ObamaCare.  On Monday's PoliticsNation, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank claimed that it "couldn't be the case at this time" that ObamaCare is already causing people to lose their current health insurance plans, in spite of all the documented cases insurance companies canceling plans as they struggle to comply with ObamaCare regulations.

The Shutdown that Ruined Christmas?  [Scroll down]  On the very first night, Oct. 1, NBC already sounded like a DNC campaign commercial.  Reporter John Yang highlighted an EPA worker in Chicago, Elizabeth Lytle, who had already filed for unemployment benefits. [...] Despite her $52,000-a-year salary, Lytle is an experienced "victim."  Back in March, the eco-news site Greenwire also focused on her suffering from sequestration. [...] Here, too, was ethical fraud:  NBC and other outlets didn't say so, but Lytle had been previously featured in the media by her union, the American Federation of Government Employees.

The AP Misreports the Debt Ceiling.  I wrote here that no matter what happens with the debt limit, the federal government will not default on its debt obligations.  I also noted here that Moody's — which certainly ought to know — agrees that there is zero chance of default on Treasury bonds.  In recent days, many more commentators have made the same point.  The government is legally obligated to recognize its debt obligations, and the existing $17 trillion debt can be serviced on less than ten percent of federal revenue.  So there simply can't be a default.

The Planned Destruction of America.  One world is where the television and radio pundits sanctimoniously scold us into believing that all is normal, and everything we see taking place today is merely the result of a growing acrimonious relationship between two political parties.  They sit behind the microphones, in front of the TV cameras, write the newsprint, and dominate the internet with their matrix of mendacity.  They are well-paid for keeping the public in the dark, and by confining public discourse to the limitations of mere political theater.  Regardless of their political bent, they bully and mock those who disagree, and sneer at those who dare threaten the illusion of normalcy.  The other world is what is really taking place behind the scenes.

Limbaugh Bashes 'Journalistic Malpractice' Attacking GOP Over Gov't Shutdown.  Rush Limbaugh took the media to task Monday [9/30/2013] for foisting all the blame of a potential government shutdown on Republicans.  Limbaugh predicted in the next few days the media would write piece after piece about all the programs getting shut down during the shutdown and blaming Republican intransigence on the whole thing.  He referred to the AP article above as "basically a press release from the Democrat party" that accuses Republicans of hating Obama so much they're willing to let millions of people go without health care.

Little Media Lies About ObamaCare.  [Scroll down]  Obama signed House bills to kill a costly ObamaCare reporting rule, terminate its long-term care insurance program and repeal the "free choice voucher" program.  He also signed bills cutting funds for the so-called CO-OP program, a public health slush fund and other ObamaCare programs.  Two other House-passed bills — one to end the Independent Payment Advisory Board and another terminating the medical device tax — have strong bipartisan support.  Another simply codified the employer mandate delay Obama himself had already ordered.  Yet the media pretend these things never happened.

BBC claims Tamerlan Tsarnaev motivated by "right-wing" literature, not radical Islam.  With all the efforts to tie the Tea Party and "right wing" to violence committed by others, it wouldn't be long before the Islamic radical Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was tied to "right-wing" causes.  With the slenderest of proof, The BBC goes there.

How the Media Has Distorted a Tragedy.  [Scroll down]  This narrative has perpetuated the lie that Zimmerman's history of calls to the police indicates obsessive racial paranoia.  Thus, discussing the verdict on the PBS NewsHour, University of Connecticut professor and New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb asserted that "Zimmerman had called the police 46 times in previous six years, only for African-Americans, only for African-American men."  Actually, only six calls — two of them about Trayvon Martin — had to do with African-American men.

Defending American Principles Is Now a Revolutionary Act.  The [George Zimmerman] case was a joke, but you wouldn't know that if you only listened to the mainstream media.  The media's rank speculation, mischaracterization of the evidence and outright lies were designed to replace the strict adherence to law and the rules of evidence that for a thousand years have protected the accused from the mindless fury of the mob.

Key Witness for Zimmerman Grand Jury Changes Story.  We wrote yesterday [10/31/2014] about the "October Surprise/Get Out the Vote" announcement by a flailing Obama administration that the Department of Justice will be holding a Grand Jury hearing next Wednesday regarding possible federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.  The only named witness for Wednesday's hearing is Frank Taaffe, a self-declared "friend" for George Zimmerman.  Earlier this year Taaffe suddenly announced that he believed Zimmerman had a racial, not merely self-defense, motive in killing Trayvon Martin.  This would be more than two years after the shooting occurred.

More lies from the main stream media about the Zimmerman case.  The claim that Zimmerman was at fault because he pursued Martin after being told not to has absolutely no basis in fact.  It is a made up assumption that has been repeated so many times by the media that people actually believe that is what happened.  The 911 call that was placed by Zimmerman is on the web in both audio and written transcript form.  It was played numerous times at the trial.  There is no excuse for continuing to lie about the evidence.  The Chicago Tribune should know better than to continue to perpetuate lies that have fueled so much anger over this case.

Just report the news, don't generate it.
TX Lt. Gov: Reporters Tried To Inflame Pro-Abortion Protesters.  Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst told HotAir's Ed Morrissey that his office received reports that reporters were actively encouraging and rallying pro-abortion protesters during State Sen. Wendy Davis' fillibuster last week.

Media misreporting rampant in Trayvon Martin case.  A combination of pressure through social media and poor journalism led to the trial of George Zimmerman, who is accused of second-degree murder in last year's shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.  Immediately after the shooting in Sanford, Fla., which is 20 miles northeast of Orlando, the media described Mr. Zimmerman as white, setting up the racially divisive meme of a white man killing a black teenager — a characterization that proved to be wrong.

Number Seven: NBC News Again Caught Selectively Editing Video.  Deceptive journalistic practices at NBC News show no sign of slowing down.  This latest attempt to selectively edit audio/video in order to benefit Barack Obama represents the seventh such act of willful, intentional journalistic malpractice.  NBC News is already being sued over one instance involving George Zimmerman.

WaPo Quietly Changes Key Details in NSA Story.  The gist is that the Washington Post has quietly made major edits to its initial story about the NSA's PRISM program, without acknowledging that any changes have been made at all.  Many of the changes are stylistic, but many are factual.

Update:
Busted Again: Washington Post Stealth Edits Obama/Africa Story.  For the second time in a week, The Washington Post has been caught editing a major story without noting publicly that the story has been changed.

CNN Launches Dishonest Attack On Clarence Thomas — To Protect Voter Fraud.  CNN published an article by John Blake entitled "Three questions for Clarence Thomas" that allows them to not only distort the black conservative judge's opinions, but also to tip-toe on the edge of racism, referring to Justice Thomas as a "sellout" and "Uncle Thomas" while hiding behind the cowardly journalistic trick of "Hey, we're just reporting what other people say!"

Propaganda: NPR Incorrectly Claims IRS Has Nothing to do With Obamacare.  During the May 22 broadcast of National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation," host Neil Conan repeatedly contradicted a guest by claiming that the IRS has nothing at all to do with Obamacare.  NPR's Conan is, of course, completely incorrect.  The IRS is up to its Tea Party harassing neck in Obamacare.  The guest Conan contradicted was Kellyanne Conway, a Republican strategist and pollster.  Conway was on to discuss the various scandals in which Obama is mired and close to the end of her segment she questioned how the American people can trust the IRS to implement Obamacare.  Conan initially pressed her on the claim saying that she must have "misspoken."

NBC News Again Caught Selectively Editing Video.  I had hoped this nonsense would end with the reign of Steve Capus, but once again we have NBC News forced to apologize for yet-another dishonest edit meant to push the left's agenda.

News Media Keep Peddling Their Bush Vs. Gore Lie.  When Sandra Day O'Connor said she regretted her decision in Bush v. Gore, the press threw another fit about the "stolen" election.  They seem to forget their own studies proved the court's ruling didn't matter.

Newspaper caught photoshopping injuries out of Boston Marathon photograph.  A US newspaper has admitted that it digitally altered a front-page photograph of a Boston Marathon bombing victim so that the woman's pants covered her horrific leg wounds.  The woman's gory wounds had vanished on the large image that wrapped around the New York Daily News on Tuesday [4/16/2013], despite the photograph appearing unedited online and in other publications in the US.

The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples.  [#12]  Fake Exploding GM Trucks:  In 1993 on its Dateline NBC program, NBC News was determined to smear trucks made by General Motors.  The TV newsers wanted to show America that the gas tanks in GM trucks were prone to exploding.  Dateline aired footage of just that causing a PR nightmare for GM.  Ultimately, NBC had viewers convinced that GM's "sidesaddle" gas tank was a hazard.  But in its zeal to destroy GM, NBC forgot to mention one little thing to the viewing public.  Its video of an exploding gas tank was little else but Hollywood special effects.

False Media Narrative: Hagel Filibuster 'Unprecedented'.  You'll hear it all over cable news and the networks and in every lede paragraph from the Washington Post to the LA Times:  Republicans are conducting an unprecedented filibuster of Chuck Hagel.  Where did the media get this buzz word that's repeated breathlessly by the obedient servants of the White House?  From the White House, of course.

Steve Capus Oversaw 'Erosion of Journalistic Values'.  You would think five documented instances of outright journalistic fraud from a single news division would result in a little more outrage from our journalistic overlords.  You would also think that those who believe in the ethics of their profession would speak out, or that those with competitive instincts would leap at the opportunity to ding a competitor.  But media has its own version of a the Blue Code of Silence.

Cape Cod Times says reporter fabricated sources in dozens of stories.  A Massachusetts daily newspaper apologized to its readers after an internal investigation concluded that a veteran reporter wrote dozens of stories that included people who don't exist.

Cutter: Yeah, we've been lying about the $5 trillion we said Romney's lying about.  As soon as Team Obama realized its excuse-making was getting embarrassing after the president's debate performance, they pivoted to a replay of the response to Rep. Paul Ryan's convention speech in Tampa.  They can't call either of them dumb, so they have to call them liars.  In the service of that narrative, they either present mere philosophical disagreements as "lies" or they dishonestly represent parts of Mitt Romney's plan to make him into a "liar."

Are the Media Telling the Truth About Romney's "Lies"?  [Scroll down]  Many reports have documented examples of stimulus money wasted on dubious projects or that benefited well-connected firms.  And [Paul] Ryan's overall complaint was that the money was "borrowed, spent, and wasted."  That may be hyperbole, but by Obama's own standards, the stimulus was hardly a success.  Just before he signed the stimulus, Obama promised it would "ignite spending by businesses and consumers," unleash "a new wave of innovation, activity and construction," and produce 4% economic growth this year.  None of which happened.

Report: Journalists Using Fake Names to Buy Obama Merchandise.  Several journalists have reportedly used fake names to buy Obama campaign merchandise inside media-only areas of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC.

Were journalists using fake names to make Obama donations at the convention?  [Scroll down]  So the next time you hear a "journalist" pitching in with the sort of in-kind campaign contribution that Democrats love, even though they are very upset by the idea of other types of corporation participating in political speech, remember that he or she might be driving home in a car with a "Democrats Are Hot" bumper sticker, purchased under a fake name at the Democratic National Convention.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews claims to live in 'black majority' DC, but actually lives in Md. suburbs.  MSNBC host Chris Matthews might have exaggerated his abilities to hear dog-whistle racism at this week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Newsbusters' Jack Coleman noted.  During Tuesday night's [8/28/2012] coverage, Matthews made the case that he is well-positioned to judge racial issues because of where he lives, after having repeatedly insinuated that Republican figures are racist.

Isaac Shows Media Bias Of Hurricane Proportions.  As Isaac bore down on New Orleans, the administration's media toadies preferred to talk not about substantive issues, but on how the "shadow of Bush and Katrina" hung over the delayed GOP convention in Tampa.

WaPo's Glenn Kessler Has Fact-Checking Tantrum Over 'You Didn't Build That'.  Glenn Kessler is The Washington Post's laughably biased fact checker, and when you think of Kessler, remember this — remember the "fact" checker who called Romney a liar for saying a president who didn't go to Israel didn't go to Israel.  This guy is utterly shameless, and this morning he's having a full-blown tantrum.

Mark Brown Declares Obama is not a Chicago Politician.  In a curious column the Sun-Time [sic] Mark Brown denies that President Obama has much to do with Chicago Politics.  Curious because the preponderance of evidence that Brown offers is that President Obama is a typical Chicago politician, working in league with donors and other politicians to fleece their consituents and taxpayers. [...] If being Emil Jones point man in Springfield, married to the daughter of a Precinct Committeman/water department employee, and having David Axelrod as a constant flack for many years doesn't qualify you as a Chicago politician, just what does?

Cutter: I'm Just Going to Make [Stuff] Up about Jobs.  Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Obama's reelection effort, seems more a character out of fiction than a real person.  A high-octane spokesman, she is willing to say anything to win the 30-second sound byte cycle.  She will lie, contradict herself and make up stats on the fly to get through any single cable news appearance.  Its something real people, with a credibility gene, wouldn't do.  Fortunately, she's a Democrat, so the media will never really hold her statements to account.

NBC accused of deliberately editing footage of the women's team gymnastics.  Controversy over the coverage of the Olympics on American television deepened today when NBC was accused of deliberately editing footage of the women's team gymnastics in order to create what critics called "fake suspense."  Russian world champion Ksenia Afanasyeva's unexpected fall during the floor exercises, which effectively handed a gold medal to Team USA during an early stage of the contest, was inexplicably removed from the time-delayed version of events that NBC presented to its prime-time television viewers.

Faking and enhancing the sounds of the Olympics.  Ah, there's nothing quite like the serene "swoosh-swooshing" of oars in the water, as Olympic rowers glide along the water.  There really isn't, because those sounds spectators are hearing on their TVs are not live from the event, The Atlantic reported.  In order to keep sight of the boats, broadcasters must follow them with chase boats and a helicopter.  The result is that the sound of the rowing is drowned out by that noise.  So, NBC elected to replace the live audio with a recorded soundtrack of rowing practices to deliver more accurate depiction of what the sport sounds like in its pure form.

Media Invents Story That Chick-fil-A President Condemned Gay Marriage.  Last week, reports emerged that Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy had condemned gay marriage.  It's no secret that the company is run by devout Christians, but this still caused an uproar.  Boston's mayor threatened to deny the company business permits, celebrities condemned the company, and the Muppets announced fast food chain wouldn't be able to license any new toys for their kids meals.  One small problem:  The president of Chick-fil-A never actually said anything condemning gay marriage.

TV Station Fires Anchor After He Fails to Disclose Connection to Atheist Group He Was Covering.  Jason Volentine, a former anchor for WXMI, a television station in Michigan, found himself without employment after failing to tell his employers about a relationship he had with the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).  FFRF, an atheist activist group, is a non-profit that advocates for the separation of church and state, while fighting faith in the public square.  It wasn't Volentine's relationship, in itself, that was problematic — it was the fact that he had covered the non-profit group, but had purportedly failed to tell his employers and viewers about the relationship beforehand.

Nuts to Nutting: Under Obama, Real Spending Has Exploded.  On Tuesday, Rex Nutting of MarketWatch, who per his Linkedin profile is the site's Washington bureau chief, published a column titled "Obama spending binge never happened."  This column will show that it did, but that clever accounting has largely concealed its existence.

The Decline of The Washington Post.  [Scroll down]  The [Washington] Post is running paid ads from the Russian and Chinese governments that are made to look like news sections of the paper.  The ads, some of them six pages long, even carry a facsimile of The Washington Post masthead.  In relatively small print it says they are paid supplements and have nothing to do with the paper's news or editorial departments.  But The Washington Post masthead or logo is more prominently featured. [...] Readers are thus given the impression that the propaganda has the approval of the Post.

Boston Globe Takes Credit for Breitbart Scoop.  Today the Boston Globe has a front-page, below-the-fold story titled "Filings raise more questions on Warren's ethnic claims."  It's a well-written take on documents and information first brought to light here at Breitbart News two weeks ago.  Unfortunately, it's presented as a scoop with no link or reference to the fact that the information has appeared previously in another publication.

Fox News Has a Van Jones Problem.  In the same way that Van Jones was exposed originally by New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon by using Internet search engines to look into his controversial background and writings, over the course of just a few days Accuracy in Media has been able to determine the following about [Marc Lamont] Hill from public sources.

It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp.  Scott Beauchamp was the last straw.  I realized that I need a scorecard to keep track of all the fallen journalists, journalistic mistakes and major and minor screw-ups in the media. … Offenses include lying and fabricating, doctoring photos, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, falling for hoaxes, and overt bias.  Some are hilarious, such as an action figure doll being mistaken for a real soldier.  Some are silly, such as reporting on a baseball game watched on TV.  Some are more serious.

It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp — Part Two.  Without too much extra effort, it was fairly easy to add 21 more names to the "Media Hall of Shame" list, bringing the total to 83.  With more effort, I'm sure the total list could easily double.

In part three, the list grows to 101.
Media Dishonesty Matters.  Did you know that Time magazine and other news organizations had a Vietnamese communist on full-time staff in Vietnam during that war?  Do you remember that ABC, CBS and NBC have all rigged cars or trucks with explosives or other devices to make them look dangerous on TV, or that Consumer Reports lied about the Suzuki Samurai enough to put it out of business?

Is 'Journalistic Ethics' an Oxymoron?  The Founding Fathers thought a free and skeptical press was essential to the preservation of our political and economic liberties.  The First Amendment is first for just that reason.  What would they think of today's generation of reporters who hide from the truth, parrot the slogans of left-wing advocacy groups, fail to do their own research, and routinely give politicians a free ride?  My guess is they would be stunned.

Is news just the facts?  Not anymore.  When I entered the field the ideal was to "... tell it like it is."  Not what I would like it to be, but simply lay out the facts.  If one fact strongly supports a point of view we were obligated to seek other facts that would dispute it.  Unfortunately, many of today's instructors teach what is called, "advocacy journalism."

Playing with the numbers:  A UPI story a few months back reported that nearly 300,000 veterans are homeless on any given night.  If so, as blogger Megan McArdle pointed out a few weeks ago on Asymmetrical Information, that would mean that every single homeless person in America must have served in the armed forces, since 300,000 is about the total number of the homeless.

Opinion masquerading as journalism:
The Liberal media are living in cocoons.  Whenever you read the headline, "some say," you know you are reading the opinions of the reporter.  Some say the moon is made of green cheese, but what's the difference?  The story is only worth telling when "some say" what the reporter wants them to say.

Paper Uses Global Warming Activist's Press Release as News Story.  The Palm Beach Post was caught in a bit of deception by one of its readers over the weekend. ... Unfortunately for the reputation of Dara Kam and that of the paper, this "article" was merely a rewording of the press release of an environmentalist group calling themselves, Environment Florida.  An alert reader who wrote in calling them on it also exposed several other papers across the country that did the very same thing.

A Phony Tale Of Woe.  The story currently making the rounds about the guy who robbed a bank for $1 to get free jailhouse health care is supposed to expose how terrible our medical system is.  It actually exposes something worse.  It's a story tailor made for the news media. ... The fact that not one reporter trafficking this story bothered to point these facts out is an example of gross dereliction of duty or extreme bias — or both.

WaPo Author who Tied Romney to KKK Resigns over Plagiarism Scandal.  When Washington Post journalist Elizabeth Flock wrote a post last year falsely accusing Mitt Romney of using a Ku Klux Klan slogan in his campaign speech, she was not fired or disciplined.  But when Flock stole from the work of another mainstream organization and did not properly attribute, she abruptly "resigned" from the Washington Post conveniently and coincidentally before another editor's note went up on her post that described it as having "serious factual errors" and "a significant ethical lapse."

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif clinches medal at Olympics after outcry fueled by gender misconceptions.  No excerpt or synopsis will be shown here, since the article starts out with an obvious lie in the headline.  If the boxer in question looks and talks and acts and punches like a man, he's probably a man; and if earlier tests revealed XY chromosomes, common sense will tell you he is a man.  There is no "misconception."

We Now Have Answers About Testing Done on Olympic Boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting.  Algerian boxer Imane Khelif gave an interview Sunday night [8/4/2024] urging folks to not bully Olympic athletes online, but her [sic] compassion was completely misplaced — it focused solely on her [sic], not the women she [sic] and fellow alleged XY-chromosome holder Lin Yu-Ting have physically bullied over the past week, women whose lifelong dreams were shattered. [...] Thanks to a Monday press conference held by the IBA we know at least a few tests Khelif has undergone, and that while the organization couldn't come right out and say it due to privacy laws, that those tests show she [sic] has XY chromosomes.  That should clear up some misconceptions.

The Editor says...
A person with XY chromosomes is a man.  A man pretending to be a woman is a transvestite, not a woman.

The AP Doggedly Looks for the Medical Records... of the Guy Not Running the Country.  [Scroll down]  As the media complex in this country continues to unravel before our eyes, the developments of Saturday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump continue to bedevil the press.  Of note has been the rise in the journalism ranks of those voices who — in defiance of years of them bleating about misinformation — are now entertaining the idea the attempt on Trump's life is either conspiratorial or, at the very least, being falsely dramatized by his campaign.  One of the latest theories percolating with some in the press is that Trump was not actually hit directly by a shooter, but he endured the effects of the glass shattering from the teleprompters.  Firstly, how is this in any way diminishing the point that there was an attempt on his life?!  If he was not actually struck by a sniper's bullet, then he was struck by glass from the teleprompter being shattered — by a sniper's bullet!  But the second item is more revealing.  There are those in the journalism environment forwarding this conspiracy without actually — get this — committing journalism.  If you even wanted to entertain this crackpot premise, would you not at least explore it as a possibility before blathering away?! All one needs to do is look at the footage from July 13, and what do you suppose it shows?  The teleprompters were intact after the episode.

Associated Press refuses to correct anti-gun story — another symptom of its decline.  Founded in 1846, the Associated Press describes itself as "the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business." [...] When the Associated Press makes an error, the damage is compounded because its wire stories have such a wide reach.  They're pushed out to AP members on multiple platforms — print, radio, television and digital — so corrections are a big deal, or at least they used to be.  Nowadays, however, whenever one of its correspondents writes about guns or the Second Amendment, the AP is just as inaccurate and just as biased as any other member of the legacy media — another symptom of its overall decline.

Green college degrees and phony climate calamities.  Last week an Associated Press headline declared, "Graduating seniors seek degrees in climate change and more US universities deliver." Keep in mind the AP, which feeds stories to news publications around the world, was given an $8 million grant in 2022 to promote the theory of human-caused climate change in its daily coverage.  The media giant's funding came from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Quadrivium, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation.  In announcing the gift, the AP said it would be hiring twenty environmental reporters to "enhance the global understanding of climate change and its impact across the world."  The AP's climate desk isn't staffed by journalists.  These are activists bent on shaping opinions that are short on science and long on instilling fear.

AP Tries to Explain Why Noncitizen Voting is No Big Deal.  With more than ten million "new arrivals" in the country under Joe Biden's watch, increasing numbers of people have been expressing concerns over how many of them might wind up trying to vote in the upcoming elections.  Even worse, how many of them might get away with it?  This is a threat that has been brought up by Donald Trump recently, to the great alarm of his detractors in the legacy media.  But he was hardly the first to raise this specter.  Rushing to the rescue this weekend is the Associated Press.  They want to assure everyone that Donald Trump is just engaging in conspiracy theories again.  Noncitizen voting simply doesn't happen, or at least not enough that it should bother you.  Our voting system is safe and secure.  You know... just like our border.

AP Style Guide Aims to Silence Dissent From Climate Alarmist Narrative.  Most news outlets rely on The Associated Press style guide — officially known as the AP Stylebook — as the arbiter for grammar, spelling, and terminology in news coverage.  While AP puts forth its style guide as an impartial rubric for fair coverage, its rules often exclude conservative views from the outset.  Take AP's latest round of updates, released Friday.  The updates include guidance on how to avoid "stigmatizing" obese people, admonitions to avoid calling people "homeless" as it might be "dehumanizing," and warnings to avoid the term "female" since "some people object to its use as a descriptor for women because it can be seen as emphasizing biology and reproductive capacity over gender identity."  AP's style guide prefers "anti-abortion" and "abortion-rights" as adjectives, urging journalists to avoid "pro-life," "pro-choice," and "pro-abortion."  Yet one of the largest sections of the updated style guide involves "climate change," a term that AP says "can be used interchangeably" with the term "climate crisis."

Associated Press Admits It Has No 'Geolocation Data' to Back Up Bernie Moreno Smear.  A spokeswoman for the Associated Press (AP) admitted to Breitbart News on Saturday that the organization does not, despite previously reporting in two different pieces that it did, have any "geolocation data" to back up its smear piece about Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.  Lauren Easton, the director of communications for the AP, on Saturday told Breitbart News that while the organization stands by the story and its reporter Brian Slodysko, it does not have "geolocation data" as the two articles it previously published originally claimed.

US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty?  Yet again, it's climate change.  [Scroll down]  Wind chills in parts of North Dakota reached minus 70 degrees (minus 56 degrees Celsius), while the heat index in Miami was more than 160 degrees warmer at 92 (33 degrees Celsius).  The fourth-coldest NFL football game took place in Kansas City, while across the globe the thermometer hit a blistering 92 degrees, 12 degrees (6.8 degrees Celsius) warmer than average on Friday during tennis' Australian Open in Melbourne.

The Editor says...
The article above is replete with half-truths and false comparisons.  The wind chill and the heat index are relatively recent inventions to estimate what the winter wind and the summer humidity make the weather feel like.  Comparing the wind chill at one place to the heat index in another (on the same day) is absurd and immaterial.  It proves nothing.  Also it is nothing but sensationalism to compare the temperature in Kansas City to the temperature in Melbourne, Australia, because in January, one city is in the middle of winter and the other is in the middle of summer.  The Associated Press hopes you won't notice.

Strange Joe Biden Moment in Pennsylvania Coffee Shop Goes Viral.  Democrat President Joe Biden, who is 81 years old, had yet another strange moment on the campaign trail in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, on Friday, one that went viral with multiple different interpretations of what he said taking over the internet.  The Republican National Committee (RNC) originally posted a video of Biden sounding like he said to a coffee shop clerk:  "My name is Joe Biden, and I work for the government in the Senate."  But the Associated Press's report on the moment says that Biden said: "My name is Joe Biden, and I work for the governor and the senator."  Biden was appearing alongside Pennyslvania's Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) at Nowhere Coffee Co.

US moves to protect wolverines as climate change melts their mountain refuges, threatens extinction.  The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists' warnings that climate change will likely melt away the rare species' snowy mountain refuges and push them toward extinction. [...] Wolverines join a growing number of animals, plants and insects — from polar bears in Alaska to crocodiles in southern Florida — that officials say are at growing risk as increasing temperatures bake the planet, altering snowfall patterns and raising sea levels.

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The Associated Press is getting more brazen in its reporting of the dire effects of global warming, even though there has been approximately zero global warming in the last 25 years.  Certainly not enough of a change for a wolverine to sense.  In particular, the Associated Press casually presents idle conjecture as proven fact.  The AP doesn't hesitate to report changes "snowfall patterns and raising sea levels" as if those are well-established facts on which we all agree.

Right turn on red?  With pedestrian deaths rising, US cities are considering bans.  Sophee Langerman was on her way to a bicycle safety rally in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood in June when a car turning right rolled through a red light and slammed into her bike, which she was walking off the curb and into the crosswalk.  The car was moving slowly enough that Langerman escaped serious injury, but the bicycle required extensive repairs.  To Langerman, it's another argument for ending a practice that almost all U.S. cities have embraced for decades: the legal prerogative for a driver to turn right after stopping at a red light.

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[#1] The car that hit Ms. Langerman "rolled through a red light."  The laws in question permit drivers "to turn right after stopping at a red light."  Most people don't actually stop.  That's the problem.  [#2] The right-turn-on-red laws are in place because a majority of the voters wanted them.  The Associated Press is apparently lobbying for the repeal of these laws, based on dishonest reporting of isolated anecdotes.  Why would they do that?  Because socialists want driving an automobile to be as inconvenient as possible, regardless of the voters.

Tens of thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding end to warming-causing fossil fuels.  Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas.  But protesters say it's not going to be enough.  And they aimed their wrath directly at U.S. President Joe Biden, urging him to stop approving new oil and gas projects, phase out current ones and declare a climate emergency with larger executive powers.

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Climate change is not "primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas."  That assertion was thrown in by the Associated Press writer as if it were an undisputed fact.  The climate was constantly changing long before the industrial revolution created a demand for hydrocarbon fuels, among other things.  The output power of the Sun is not constant.  The eruption of one volcano can alter the weather for months.  China and India have no qualms about the emission of carbon dioxide, so any attempt to reduce our own CO2 byproducts will only hurt US.

Media Hoax: No, the Diary of Anne Frank Has Not Been Banned From Florida Schools.  Not a week goes by that the mainstream media and their allies in the Democratic party don't work hand in hand to misinform the public in an effort to push false narratives about their political opposition.  This week has certainly been no exception to that rule, with the Associated Press among the numerous media outlets that have distorted a Florida high school's decision to remove from their library a book that was very loosely based on the Diary of Anne Frank on the grounds that it minimized the Holocaust and depicted Frank as a young lesbian girl who fantasized about seeing women's breasts.  Katie Couric was among the many so-called "journalists" who shared the story:  [Tweet]  Note that the AP made no attempt to provide even the briefest of contexts in the headline, a dereliction of duty in my opinion since headlines (and the tweets that include them) are oftentimes all people will read about a story before forming an opinion.  At first glance, it makes it look like the grades 9-12 Florida school in question didn't want their students learning about the Holocaust and Frank's experiences, so they pulled the book.  Except that's not the situation at all.

The Media Keep Lying To Protect Ilhan Omar.  After the House voted to deny Rep. Ilhan Omar a seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee — using a precedent Democrats recently created but suddenly find deeply offensive — AP tweeted: "BREAKING: House Republicans have voted to oust Democratic Rep Ihan [sic] Omar from the House Foreign Affairs committee.  The vote to remove the Somali-born Muslim lawmaker came after her past comments critical of Israel."  Almost two years ago to the day, the Associated Press reported on the House removing another congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, from her committee assignments like so:  "BREAKING: The U.S. House votes to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees for spreading violent, racist rhetoric."  You'll notice that when Democrats denied Taylor Greene a committee seat it was "the House," but it is "House Republicans" when Omar is booted (and this was the case on NPR, PBS, Yahoo!, etc.).  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has the power to unilaterally eject Reps.  Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the intelligence committee, but the entire House was needed to remove Omar.  Obviously both votes were largely along partisan lines, as almost all votes are these days.  It's a newsworthy fact, no doubt.  Yet AP editors left the partisan aspect of the story out of the headline for only one of the incidents, even though Democrats were the ones creating the precedent.

The Associated Press Says It's 'Dehumanizing' to Use 'the' in Descriptions — Such as 'the French'.  Are you among the group of Americans who use the word "the"?  Are you part of the people who employ it in the act of description?  If so, you've been told to stop — by The AP.  The Associated Press Stylebook has long been considered an authority on ways in which to format the printed word.  Many media outlets conform to its standards, and the latest one is quite a stunner.

Liberal media made slew of dubious claims about climate change, year-end report finds.  The Associated Press took $8 million in donations to fund climate coverage in 2022, with the news cooperative and several other major media publications engaged in dubious claims about climate change, according to a new, exclusive year-end report.  The "Climate Fact Check 2022" report, presented by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), and the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), stated that "climate alarmists" and members of the media engaged in claims about the relationship between manmade emissions and natural disasters, claims that clashed with "reality and science."  In February, the Associated Press admitted that they would assign more than 24 journalists across the globe to cover "climate issues" after receiving more than $8 million over three years from various organizations.

Revisionist Media 'Explainer' Articles Insist Nobody 'Spied' on Trump.  There's a second wave of media reaction to John Durham's latest filing on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.  The first wave was silence, hoping somehow the whole story would vanish.  Now, the second wave is "Explainers," which attempt to hem and haw defensively through the whole business.  The Associated Press "Explainer" was headlined "How the latest Trump-Russia filing generated buzz."  This article was sent to me on Twitter by a fellow who apparently hates Donald Trump with the energy of a thousand suns, so that illustrates the type of people who eagerly share these dismissive articles.  The AP reporter on this was Eric Tucker. [...] This is the threat that Durham represents.  He is exposing that everything the Clinton campaign did here was to politicize national security agencies, sharing its smears with the FBI and the CIA to spur spying on Trump advisers, to inflame media coverage, and then to taint the judicial process through the Mueller team, where 11 of 16 prosecutors were Democrat donors.  Five of them were Clinton donors.

Don't believe what Canadian media tells you about the Freedom Convoy.  Hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered across Canada last week to support the Freedom Convoy that trucked across the country to Ottawa to non-violently protest what have become, for some, the most oppressive and fickle health regulations in the world.  Our Prime Minister denounced them all yesterday as swastika-carrying inciters of violence who promote "hate rhetoric" and are "abusive towards their fellow citizens." [...] The Associated Press in Toronto outright lied, claiming there was "little sympathy in a country where more than 80% are vaccinated."  Most in the crowds were probably vaccinated.  "Three shots & I still can't get a haircut," one man's homemade sign said.  This was about freedom.  And a people sick of moving goalposts.  "Many people were outraged by some of the crude behavior," the AP lied.  But there was no crude behaviour.  It was lying.  Our Prime Minister did this too.

Associated Press = Associated Propaganda.  If nothing else, the past two years have demonstrated with blazing clarity how the ruling elites live by one set of rules and impose an entirely separate set of rules on the unfavored, ostracized, dispossessed and deplatformed.  As a member of the print, broadcast and internet media for the past 30 years, I cannot emphasize enough how complicit so-called mainstream journalists are in perpetuating such double standards and stoking hatred of dissidents.  The Fourth Estate will spare no one — not even the dead — in its ruthless pursuit of absolute power over political narratives.  Let us consider a widely disseminated hit piece by Associated Press investigative reporter Michael Biesecker published on Jan. 3.

[The] Associated Press [is] lying about consensus on COVID vaccines for children.  On 15 December the Associated Press (AP), one of the world's premier wire services, ran a lengthy report titled "How a Kennedy Built an Anti-Vaccine Juggernaut Amidst Covid-19."  The report, written by Michelle Smith, examined the efforts of Robert Kennedy, Jr. to warn against what he perceives are the risks associated with the current Covid vaccines, and particularly how those risks pertain to children. [...] Anybody who takes the trouble to do even a little research will quickly find out that no such consensus exists.  This is very easy to show.  To wit, less than a week before the Associated Press filed its report an international conference was held.  It was co-sponsored by an organization called Global Covid Summit, which is an international alliance of physicians and medical scientists "committed to speaking truth about Covid pandemic research and treatment."  This organization has more than fifteen thousand members from around the globe, many of whom are recognized as top experts in their fields.

Our Media Apparently Decides Who Won the NJ Gubernatorial Election.  Apparently, our corrupt media now calls elections and decides who wins.  The Associated Press called the race for New Jersey Governor.  Unsurprisingly, they called it for totalitarian progressive Phil Murphy.  They called it while an investigation is going on and 40,000 votes, giving Murphy the edge, miraculously appeared in Bergen County.  This was after 100% of the vote was reported in.  There is no way Red districts went for Murphy in this climate.  Yet, that appears to be what we are supposed to believe.  Murphy is 20,000 votes ahead of Republican opponent Jack Ciatarelli.  Why is the media calling races and why are they doing it before the investigation is completed?

'Miss Occupy Cockpit in trouble now': Southwest 'Let's Go Brandon' pilot narrative takes odd twist in audio doubletake.  Southwest Airlines 'Let's go, Brandon!' claim may not be all it's cracked up to be according to social media sleuths[.]  Associated Press reporter Colleen Long claimed over the weekend that a Southwest Airlines pilot on her flight signed off with "Let's go, Brandon!" but the audio being passed around with her story seems to have some major inconsistencies.  First off, according to Twitchy, there is real doubt as to whether the pilot said "Let's go, Brandon!" or "Let's go, Braves!" because the audio is clipped.  But the media ran with the much more controversial "Let's go, Brandon!" pretty much on the word of an AP reporter.

Is the story about the Southwest pilot saying 'Let's Go, Brandon' all wrong?  It was a made-to-go viral story: a Southwest pilot, after making his little announcement about the flight to passengers, closed by saying, "Let's go, Brandon."  The next day, an AP reporter tweeted out that she tried desperately — and unsuccessfully — to get to the cockpit to interview the pilot about what he said for her story about "Let's go, Brandon."  The response was instant, with leftists demanding that he get fired and one likening him to an ISIS-supporter.  But what if the whole narrative is wrong?  It's beginning to look as though that's the case.  If you listen to the pilot, when he mumbles "Let's go..." at the end, it doesn't really sound like "Brandon."  It's more likely that the pilot said, "Let's go, Braves."  [Video clip]

Another DeSantis 'Scandal' Implodes.  Did you year about the latest "evidence" reported by the "news" media that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is both terrible on COVID and corrupt?  The Associated Press published a story yesterday that quickly gained traction among the "Ron Deathsentence" crowd — primarily comprised of bored resistance warriors and nervous leftists seeking to kill his political career (many journalists fall into both categories, of course). [...] Beyond the headline, which seems specifically engineered to generate shares, go viral, and create the appearance of an ethical and COVID-related cloud over DeSantis (we've seen this play before), the "story" falls apart.  There's nothing newsworthy here, aside from the governor of a large state in the midst of a nasty seasonal COVID spike proactively providing life-saving treatments to eligible residents.

Media Reports Florida Hospitals are 'Overrun' — Then One Person Actually Went to Hospital at the 'Center of Storm' to Check.  There is a tremendous amount of effort being expended in the mainstream media to hold up Florida as a complete failure when it comes to the COVID pandemic.  On Friday, the Associated Press reported that Florida broke the 'record' with more than 21,000 new cases in the state.  One of the key contentions was that hospitals were closed to being 'overrun,' a common claim in COVID reports that have nearly all turned up hollow.  "The Florida Hospital Association said Friday that statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations are nearing last year's peak, and one of the state's largest health care systems, AdventHealth's Central Florida Division, this week advised it would no longer be conducting nonemergency surgeries in order to free up resources for COVID-19 patients," the AP reported. [...] One citizen decided not to take the Associated Press or any other mainstream media outlet's word for it and decided to check it out for themself.  Dr. Shay, Phd., who goes by AMA Black Patriot on Twitter (@DrShayPhD) went to a hospital at Cape Canaveral, Florida, which the AP had used as the location for one of its report.  "So the Associated Press wrote an article saying that Cape Canaveral, FL hospital is bursting at the seams with Covid patients," Dr. Shay tweeted.  "I had to go see for myself, so I drove there.  The first set of pictures are of the hospital's parking.  More to follow."

The decline and fall of the Associated Press.  Once, long ago, in a land far away, the best journalists tried to stand aloof from the stories they reported.  The idea was simple and powerful.  If journalists tried to be neutral and kept their reporting separate from their opinions, analysis, and speculation, then the public would believe them.  Those days are long gone — and the media's credibility is gone with them.  Journalists and media organizations are now smack in the middle of many stories they cover, in part because they want to be.  They want to spin them, to set 'the Narrative'.  Imbued with this new mission, many journalists have become partisan protagonists.  They have deliberately blurred the lines between facts, analysis and opinion — and downplayed the traditional role of presenting the facts neutrally and letting readers decide.  That's a dramatic change in journalistic norms and a disturbing one for both the media and the public.

Israel exploded AP's offices; Hamas exploded AP's reputation.  This weekend's literally explosive revelation that the Associated Press served as a human shield for Hamas has repercussions.  In an editorial today [5/18/2021], the New York Post called into question years of AP's coverage of the Hamas terror group's attacks on the sovereign state of Israel.  This comes after Israel told AP to evacuate its offices in a Hamas-owned building because it was going to blow the building up because it housed Hamas's spy operations.  AP howled and cried unfair.  The rest of us said, huh?  Hamas was AP's landlord?  How [...] is that ethical?  Imagine AP renting from Al Qaida or ISIS.  Maybe it did.  The New York Post asked, "If AP really didn't know it shared space with Hamas, why trust its reporting?"  Good question.

How the AP Slanted Border Coverage to Hide the Crisis.  Typically, news organizations rush to cover crises, real or perceived.  The Associated Press has taken a different tack, using its influential style guide to play down the human drama unfolding at the southern border.  While internal Customs and Border Protection documents repeatedly refer to an immigration "surge" at the border, according to records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, the AP recommends journalists no longer use such descriptions to avoid offense and maintain supposed "neutrality." Other documents, circulated internally throughout Customs and Border Protection in May, instruct officials on processing "the surge of undocumented individuals as efficiently as possible."  The move by AP, a response to left-wing activists who demanded gentler language from reporters when covering immigration, fundamentally changed how newsrooms across the country covered the Biden administration's response to a historical influx of migrants in the president's first 100 days in office.

Ri-i-i-ght.
AP Denies Any Knowledge Gaza Office Building Was Shared with Hamas Terrorists.  The Associated Press (AP) denied any knowledge that Jala Tower, the building housing its offices in Gaza, was also shared by Hamas terrorists, as claimed by the Israeli military and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the office block was bombed on Saturday [5/15/2021].  AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt denied that the news organization knew Hamas was in the building.

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To put this as politely as I can, I find it impossible to believe that the people working in a professional news-gathering organization, in a volatile part of the world, would have been oblivious to terrorists in their office building.  That level of cluelessness is almost incomprehensible.  I'm not the only one who's skeptical.

AP Pretends It Didn't Know It Was Sharing a Building With Hamas.  After an airstrike struck a building with terrorist tenants that included Hamas and Al Jazeera, controlled by Qatar, a backer of Hamas, the main story in the media was about... the media.  Specifically the AP's presence in the same building.  "We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP's bureau and other news organizations in Gaza.  They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there.  We received a warning that the building would be hit," the AP's statement says.  And the AP is complaining about what?  Israel warned it that the building was a target.  AP chose to share a building with Hamas and pretend not to know about it.

Confirmed: the AP Is Incredibly Ignorant and Yes, Hamas Was in the Building.  We reported yesterday how the AP was furious that Israel had leveled the building in which they had offices in Gaza because they were sharing it was Hamas.  We asked the basic question: how could they not know they were sharing the building with Hamas?  The AP issued a statement saying they'd been in the building for 15 years — and had no indication that Hamas was in the building.

If AP really didn't know it shared space with Hamas, why trust its reporting?  After an Israeli airstrike Saturday destroyed a high-rise office tower on the Gaza Strip, the Associated Press, which had offices there for 15 years, complained, claiming it had no idea the building was also home to Hamas.  If it's true that AP was so unaware — and the evidence suggests it's unlikely — how can anyone trust its reporting in the region?  The Israeli military ordered the 12-story al-Jalaa Tower, which hosts AP and Al Jazeera offices, evacuated an hour before the strike, saying it was being used by Hamas military intelligence.  For a week, tensions between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist group that controls Gaza, have been at their highest since their 2014 conflict, with Hamas raining thousands of rockets into residential areas of the Jewish state.  Israel later shared some intelligence with the United States.  "We showed them the smoking gun proving Hamas worked out of that building," a source close to Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi told the Jerusalem Post.  "I understand they found the explanation satisfactory."

Associated Press is slammed for saying it was unaware of Hamas intel operation in their building.  The Associated Press has been accused of lying about whether it knew Hamas maintained a military presence in its Gaza headquarters.  Israeli forces destroyed Jala Tower which had been the AP's headquarters in the Palestinian territory for 15 years, and was also where Al Jazeera was based.  Politicians and journalists in the United States rushed to condemn the bombing, claiming the Israelis had endangered the lives of the journalists.

Israel showed US 'smoking gun' on Hamas in AP office tower, officials say.  Israel shared intelligence with the US showing how Hamas operated inside the same building with the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera in Gaza, officials in Jerusalem said on Sunday.  Officials in more than one government office confirmed that US President Joe Biden's phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday was, in part, about the bombing of the building, and that Israel showed Biden and American officials the intelligence behind the action.  "We showed them the smoking gun proving Hamas worked out of that building," a senior diplomatic source said.  "I understand they found the explanation satisfactory."

The AP goes Sgt. Schultz.  After its customary warning to protect civilian life, the IDF took out the 12-story Jala Tower housing Hamas military intelligence offices as well as offices for Al Jazeera and the Associated Press.  As far as I can tell from reports such as this photo-filled story in the Daily Mail, no lives were lost in the bombing.  The Biden administration nevertheless found the occasion fit to lecture Israel yesterday "that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility."  According to the Jerusalem Post, Israeli authorities have showed Biden administration officials the "smoking gun" proving that Hamas worked out of the building.

Neither the Media Nor the Electoral College Calls Races — the GSA Does & They've Been Silent.  In a Nov. 2 piece recounting the longstanding role of The Associated Press in determining winners of presidential elections, New York Times reporter Katie Robertson wrote "In the United States — which, unlike many other countries, does not have a national electoral commission — the news media takes the role of race-caller in presidential elections."  According to who?  Robertson conveniently left out that it's not the self-anointed media experts who call elections, but rather the General Services Administration, which issues a letter of determination in a race.  So far, the GSA hasn't done that, regardless of what the media "race-callers" dictate.  Interestingly, Robertson's article included commentary from Sally Buzbee, executive editor for The Associated Press, who actually explained in clear detail why it's premature and disingenuous for anyone in the media to declare Joe Biden the victor right now.

The TV networks can make all the declarations and pronouncements they like, but they are not official.
Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, AP Call Presidential Election for Joe Biden.  Corporate media outlets called the presidential election for former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).  CNN, MSNBC, and the Associated Press called the election for Biden at 11:28 a.m., just minutes before President Trump's lawyers were expected to speak at a press conference about challenging votes in Pennsylvania.  Fox News ultimately followed suit at 11:40 a.m.