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July 31, 2018August 17, 2018

THE WASHING POST CREATES A TESTAMENT TO THE MEDIA’S ANTI-TRUMP BIAS

The US media outlets continuously attempt to outdo each other in their quest to publicly skewer the President. They persist in re-imagining actual events to fit their four or five persistent narratives meant to belittle Trump. One narrative they have fallen in love with is that Trump is an unprecedented-liar. And one herculean effort to hoodwink the American people into believing this false narrative was concocted by the Washington Post (WAPO.) They created an abortion of truth in the form of an interactive, graphical, updating, accumulation of 4,229 (and counting) falsehoods or misleading claims made by the President. The crown jewel of modern day fact-checking.

In the Washington Post’s attempt to create a history of Trump lies, they have inadvertently created a historical testament to the bias of their own paper. I believe that in the near future, this WAPO creation will be studied in schools as young students marvel with open mouths at the audacity of the journalistic bias prevalent during the Trump era. In fact, the piece is so light on actual lies, you will note that they add the term “or misleading claims” into the title so they can lump opposing opinions in with the alleged lies. How do they get away with it? Ask CNN’s Brian Stelter, Brooke Baldwin or Jake Tapper, or the swarms of journalists who only read this project’s headline (above) and then irresponsibly proclaim that Trump spewed four thousand lies on their cable news shows or in their tabloids, solely based on the headline.

Let’s examine the first batch of the Washington Post’s findings to see how the Post bastardized the fact-check:

Trump said “collusion is not a crime” which is true. WAPO claims Trump is playing word games because something else, that is not “collusion,” is a crime. Huh? Who is playing word games, Trump? This is insanity and WAPO should be thankful no one actually reads past the headline of this mockery of journalism. PS, paying Christopher Steele to buy Russian intelligence from Russian agents is kind of, sort of, possibly, likely collusion, sorry Hillary.

Trump stated he didn’t need the Koch brothers support, which he did not get. WAPO is claiming… the Koch’s support for Republican senators “likely” had an overall positive effect on Trump. This assertion is the Post’s opinion, not a fact. In reality, the Koch’s did many things to impede Trump’s success as well. Additionally, WAPO relies on the fact the no one will read the Politico article they linked because in no way did the article affirm that Trump sought the Koch’s support, it claimed someone from Trump’s campaign filled out a questionnaire, lol.

This particular fact check by WAPO defies human logic. They wrote a sentence that has nothing to do with what Trump said. Where did Trump say anything about the ratio of people crossing the border into/out of America? They should fire the intern who wrote that one.

The three lies I linked were not anomalies. I chose the first three lies written on the first topic. Journalism is dead.

July 3, 2018

Journalists Forgo Independence As SCOTUS Seat Opens

All the ramifications of the Trump presidency will not be fully understood until his presidency is in the past. One effect, the alarming rate at which journalists have ceased to feign independence, is a tragedy, or a blessing, depending on your point of view. Those who have noticed the hidden agenda of the left-wing press for the past few decades are happy to see them exposed.

Still, every so often it amazes me how the press no longer even tries. Dan Rather is no longer an active member of the press but he stands as a respected journalist emeritus in high esteem. Here is what he said about the Supreme Court tilting to the right:

Keep in mind that is a SCOTUS pick that Mitt Romney would have made. This is not a Trump faux pas or a crazy earth shattering new Trump policy. However the press voicing their bias is so humdrum that a beacon of independence openly states that the court tilting right is the end of democracy. Let that sink in. The man feeding us news for decades feels that conservative ideas are the end of democracy. Unbelievable, and he has no shame in doing this publicly.

He may as well be as unhinged as CNN Legal expert Jeffrey Toobin who sees the apocalypse in our future.

June 21, 2018July 5, 2018

CNN Anchor’s Tears – Good For Discourse?

One of the startling new methods CNN has employed to fight for the Democrat’s positions is their use of anchor-tears. By this I mean, changing issues from Right Vs Left into Right Vs Wrong and then crying , gasping and wailing on air over the perceived injustices perpetrated by conservative policy. With this tactic they believe anchors can take a position on issues and still be accepted as credible journalists.

Here is how it works… Do Republicans believe that it is not the government’s place to provide health insurance or are Republicans evil people in support of babies dying? Do Republicans believe in lowering taxes or do they believe in stealing money from the poor and giving it to the rich? Do Republicans believe that we need to enforce border security or are they racists?

When the problem arose regarding how children brought over the border illegally were being treated, tears emerged in horror of Trump’s position. The audience will not hear the other side of the story, because this is a “moral issue” to CNN. There is only one side to this story.

But what if we did what CNN anchors refuse to do and used our brains to think about the issue facing the children?

The media got their way. Due to an onslaught of bad press an executive order signed by Trump apparently made it illegal to separate children from their parents . However this is not good policy. It is already illegal to hold a child with the parents for 20 days. Therefore the government can’t hold the child separately, nor can they keep the child with the parents. This leaves one option, the government must release the entire family into the US. The executive order, unless it had qualified language in it, essentially gave a free-entry ticket to anyone caught crossing the border illegally – if they bring children.

What will happen to children on the other side of the border as a result of this policy will be many times worse than what the US Dept of HHS did to children. The media will not write articles or do human interest stories on the death, rape and heartless behavior that human smuggling spawns. They will certainly not discuss how this new policy will effect the savagery. It doesn’t fit the agenda.

August 6, 2017August 8, 2017

Which POTUS actually infringed upon Freedom of the Press?

The fist amendment is oft misunderstood and misquoted. It even befuddled all-star reporter Jim Acosta. The amendment protects various rights from being infringed upon by the government, that’s the gist of it. One such right is the freedom of the press. But Jim Acosta interprets it to mean that he is entitled to have his every question answered and he gets his answers on video, else he feels the constitution is under attack. Per Jim, the government declining to do an on-camera presser is a “ban.”

However, breaking news, new emails released today, by the ACLJ, show how a government can trample on the founders. Apparently, the FBI prevented a reporter from taking pictures of Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch who were caught meeting in a public airport. The difference between the Obama and Trump administration’s actions are distinct. Sarah Sanders did not take anyone’s “rights” away, she didn’t agree to answer questions on camera. The Obama AG had the FBI prohibit taking pictures in public and literally infringed on a basic right of the press.

According to the ACLU, snapping pics in public is a right, and in my opinion, actively taking this right away from the press is quite the transgression. Gee whiz, what was she hiding that she allegedly ordered armed agents to stifle a photojournalist?

The true tragedy of not having an impartial press is not the opinionated biased manufactured coverage of Trump. The danger is how they are apathetic to democrats and how they treated Obama like a star quarterback wearing a red shirt at practice.

July 25, 2017July 25, 2017

CNN’s Weak Sourcing Is Destroying Their Credibility

CNN has been overrun by people who align against the president. Even so, they could still maintain journalistic integrity. But in their vigor to humiliate and denigrate the President they have surrendered all standards of journalism. So we end up with full-day coverage of Rex Tillerson contemplating leaving office without any verification. This story was refuted by Tillerson himself in under 24 hours. But was the story really based solely on:

“two sources who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity over the weekend said they would not be surprised if there was a “Rexit” from Foggy Bottom sooner than [a year] that.”

Relax CNN, no one cares what two people wouldn’t be surprised about. This type of reporting is one step below making news up.

Other: CNN Sources article