Media Lies---The Enemy of the People

"Just a note that I created this post entirely to give Marshall a chance to prove his enemy of the people claim about the media and answer relevant questions about the topic. Despite his assurances that he can prove it (he literally can't, as it is a stupidly false claim), it has now been over a month since he's even tried.

The silence says it all. "

So says Dan Trabue in one of his final comments following his post RE: False Claims (This One's For Marshall...) (BTW...I haven't used that spelling for my nom de plume for some time.  I guess if I chose to be referred to by a female pronoun he'd show more respect---but I digress already)  Despite having already proven the point in previous posts with examples in support, Dan pretends clicking on his mouse a couple more times to get the answers at my blog, where I won't be deleted for the least little infraction he invented for the purpose, is just too labor intensive.  And my "silence" is the result of life getting in the way.  He has no problem when it does so for him, but apparently my more important distractions suggests I'm unable to answer his questions.  He's an idiot.

Anyway, I have chosen to prove my point here where he can't delete me when I succeed in that endeavor...which I do now.  I could not get assurances from his cowardly ass that he would NOT delete me if I went through the effort.  Why the hell would I try?  So I've done so here, and I will simply link to it at his blog where he can click on it as he would any other linked info...should he have the honor, integrity and courage...or just delete it like the weaselly fake Christian he is.  His choice. 

So without further ado, I present evidence that the mostly left-wing media is indeed the enemy of the people with the following examples of their malfeasance and laziness. 

1.  "Immigrants are animals"

This lie was perpetrated by Julie Hirshfield Davis of the New York Times, Andrea Mitchell of NBC and Scott Neuman of NPR, to name three "journalists".  The charge is blatantly false and anybody with the resources available to them as they are to each of these liars could easily find out exactly what Trump said and about whom he said it.  The transcript of him describing MS-13 members as animals is clear and unequivocal, regardless of lame excuses that he made the statement in the context of a discussion of immigration, and thus one could be excused for confusing his words for a general statement about all immigrants.  That's what we in the real world call "crap".  What's more, even if such confusion existed in others, a real journalist, for whom truth and objectivity is paramount, would be quick to set the record straight, by reporting on the exact words of Trump spoken in the context at the time he said it. 

2.  "Good people on both sides"

This is another snippet of Trump's words, falsely and purposely used by the leftist press to smear his character.  It is another example of that which a true and complete reading of his words would show that, despite the press' desire to paint Trump as having praised white nationalists, is in fact simply an acknowledgement by him that among those who were protesting against the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue were average citizens of Charlottesville with absolutely no connection to the racists who also sought to protest the statue's removal.  Truthful and objective journalists would not have tried to use this out-of-context snippet to portray Trump in a bad racist light.  Both of these first two examples demonstrate a willful desire to misinform the public who relies upon the press for facts alone, upon which it can form its own opinions.

3. "Where's Martin?"

"Journalist" Zeke Miller published that the Trump people removed the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the White House.  That was a lie.  He later tried to claim it was obscured from his view.  Well...why not say nothing until it's confirmed one way or the other?  Because he wanted to smear Trump.

4.  "Snubbing a special needs child"

It was reported that Trump wouldn't shake the hand of a disabled boy and a clip of the event where this horrid action took place showed Trump ignoring the outstretched hand of the tyke as he shook the hands of others.  But a full version of the very same handshaking showed that the boy was THE VERY FIRST PERSON whose hand Trump shook, and the boy's mother explains that what was shown originally was the boy showing off to Trump the badge he was given.  The piece was purposely cropped to portray Trump as dismissive of the disabled boy.

5.  "Mocking a disabled reporter"

From Investor's Business Daily:

The incident in question is Trump supposedly mocking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, whose hand and arm movement on his right side is impaired due to arthrogryposis. Video from 2015 seems to indicate that Trump was indeed cruelly imitating the man.

But the media are too lazy and those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome are too nasty and small-minded to look deeper. The truth is, Trump has often used those same convulsive gestures to mimic the mannerisms of people, including himself, who are rattled and exasperated.

This was simply another attempt by Trump-haters to portray Trump in as negative a light as possible...in this case that he has no compassion for the disabled.  It is truly reprehensible and another indication that too many in the media are NOT "friends of the people". 

6.  "Lazy and unprofessional reporting"

 Just the previous five points alone should be evidence enough that too many in the media are appropriately labeled "enemies of the people" given their willful disregard for truth.  That disregard extends to how dedicated they aren't in securing the truth before going to press. Sharyl Attkisson compiled a list of 75 media "mistakes" that include every level of media malfeasance with regard to covering Trump.  Gavin McInnes did a smaller one that is just as illustrative of the prevalence of media lying and misinformation.  (Some of his examples have been mentioned already, others haven't)  All of these involved some degree of laziness on the part of the media that shouldn't be tolerated, even by those leftist buffoons who so badly want to believe all of it.

But it isn't just about Trump.  The media has lied about other things as well.  Here are just a few:

7.  "Covington Kids"

So egregious was the lame reporting on the incident involving Nick Sandmann and his classmates from Covington Catholic school, that there are now lawsuits pending against various news outlets, such as NBC, MSNBC and the Washington Post.  This is a situation where just a little effort would have prevented the story being told as it was.  Instead, a 16 yr old boy was defamed, while at the same time, Nathan Williams was falsely portrayed as the victim.  There was little to no effort by these and many others to see if there was more to the story, as a longer, unedited video clearly showed.  This isn't how "friends of the people" do news.

8.  "Zimmerman the Racist"

The George Zimmeran/Travon Martin incident is one that is a two-fer.

First, NBC
went way out of its way to portray Zimmerman as a racist, purposely editing his 911 calls to do so.  They were intent on making the incident a matter of racism on the part of Zimmerman, thereby misinforming their viewers.

Secondly, reports from both television and newsprint purposely chose to print pictures of Trayvon Martin from several years prior to the incident, from when he was around10-12 years old, looking like a fresh faced innocent.  This served to frame him as an innocent victim of the evil George Zimmerman.  But there were plenty of more recent pictures of Martin that were far more accurate indications of who he became by the time he met is untimely end.  They would have shown him as the thuggish, gangsta wanna-be he really was.  There's no way to describe this disparity as other than a purposeful desire to tell consumers what to believe about the incident, as opposed to simply informing with the facts and nothing but the facts.  Kinda something an enemy-like entity would do.

9.  "This is getting tiresome"

There really are so many examples of the media printing false information.  So many, in fact, that to list them all myself would be more time consuming than this post has already been.  So, I'll simply let others do it for me.  Here, here's more Trump stuff, here as well, still more here and here.  While a lot of what these links provide are duplicates, each seems to have that which the others don't.  In other words, there's LOTS of stuff that could be produced, and it all suggests that the mainstream press isn't exactly what the consuming public expects them to be.  Sure, some of it is honest mistakes.  But then there's that issue of how the corrections are presented...that is, with the same degree of attention, or on page 13 in some small box in the corner where it is easily missed?  And of course, most of these "mistakes" are the result of ignoring proper journalistic standards of news gathering, generally the result of the source's extreme bias. 

To pretend the press is our friend, or to feign outrage that President Trump would regard many in the press as "enemies of the people" is to one's self be dishonest and dismissive of the needs and desires of the average citizen to be well informed.  It is an attack on the people to allow them to be otherwise when it is within one's power to inform properly and objectively as is the duty of the press.  The press has rightly been described as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, but as many of these examples show, their shortcomings don't restrict themselves to botching the political.  Whatever their motivations, if it strays at all from providing objective, fair and accurate reporting on the most important issues affecting us all, they are indeed our enemies, and where I initially found the use of the phrase to be questionable, my humble research for this post only proves it accurate.