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A Fair and Balanced Look at the Left
An article at Breitbart by Dr. Susan Berry exposes the shadowy DC-based “opposition research” firm that created both the fake Trump/Russian dossier and the bogus narrative of video editing that was alleged of the undercover videos that exposed Planned Parenthood’s evil profiteering on selling the organs of aborted babies.
This group is called Fusion GPS. “Its co-founder and partner Peter R. Fritsch contributed at least $1,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund and the Hillary For America campaign, Federal Election Commission data show.” His wife also donated money to Hillary’s campaign. From the article:
In the summer of 2015, Center for Medical Progress (CMP) began releasing its undercover videos exposing alleged profiteering on the part of Planned Parenthood and its partners in the biomedical fetal tissue procurement industry. The shocking videos forced America’s largest abortion provider into rapid defense mode, and smearing undercover journalist David Daleiden and his group became a top priority of Planned Parenthood.
The group hired Fusion GPS to perform a forensic evaluation on CMP’s videos, the results of which were reported at Politico in August of 2015 with the headline, “Report for Planned Parenthood Finds Sting Videos Manipulated.”
Democrat operatives, in concert with the national media, have taken what Richard Nixon once called “dirty tricks” into an entirely different stratosphere. What once was mere opposition research has now morphed into fake news with the full cooperation and coordination with the fake journalists at ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/NYT/WaPo/etc. During the 0bama administration, the cohabitation and incestual relations between his administration staff and the media reached epidemic proportions.
Not only did this entire national media repeat the lies formed by Fusion GPS for Planned Parenthood to falsely disparage the courageous video undercovering of criminal activity, it also joined in the attacks on the true whistleblowers at the Center for Medical Progress.
And this fake news and lying lies manufactured by Fusion GPS, and repeated ad nauseum by the national media echo, is reminiscent of another Obama administration official — Ben Rhodes, brother of CBS President David Rhodes. Ben Rhodes was the original manufacturer of the fabricated story regarding the deaths of four Americans (including our ambassador) in Benghazi. He made up the story that it was due to a “spontaneous protest” due to some obscure video on the internet. Rhodes was also the manufacturer of the fake story behind the Iran deal that Obama unconstitutionally forced upon America. In fact, in Jonathan Gruber fashion, he bragged about it … on the pages of the New York Times no less!
Ben Rhodes Openly Brags About Lying To Public, Media Yawns
Rhodes goes on at length about his failed attempt to become a novelist, and how he sees his work at the White House as essentially the same kind of storytelling and narrative-weaving. And when crafting his non-fictional storylines involved selling the American people fiction, well, Rhodes was more than up to the task.
No need for shadowy “plumbers” when you have the press in your very pocket.
Focus GPS and Ben Rhodes are but two examples of how the Left obviously manufactures lies. And worst of all, it is the national media that are the willing purveyors of this lying propaganda. No need for a propaganda division. Leni Riefenstahl would blush.
This incomprehensible corruption makes it easy for this voter to support President Trump. Covfefe.
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I’m not really even sure what this means.
None, but this is a disingenuous question. All mass media favor Democrats.
Because they think alike; they share worldviews. They have no need for conspiracies; they live together in the same bubble. Democrat leadership is so far left that Hillary could not describe any distinction between the Democrat Party and socialism, and nobody minded that.
If conservatives had any friends or relatives in mass media, they probably would try to persuade them for favorable treatment of conservative issues. Since there are twenty or more times as many such connections between the Left and the media, I don’t expect, nor do I see any evidence of, journalists giving a break to conservatives.
Fred, you are being deliberately dense. We have shared dozens and dozens of links to instances of mass media favoritism to the Left and hostility to the Right. Did you ignore all of them?
Looks like a pretty good paraphrase to me. I think you really suck at critiquing paraphrases. Precisely, what did he say that was wrong?
Great post! And Congratulations Columbo!
I wish there was some “news” reporting requirement (industry imposed) that requires all relationships, activities, and interests that could possibly be seen as potentially impacting a news report would be required to be disclosed at the beginning of any “news” report. But I don’t think this likely to ever become a reality.
Regarding counteracting corruption, I may be the only one, but I think encouraging legal action for acts of slander and libel could provide a deterrent, especially if they carried serious financial penalties. There would be even a greater deterrent if, when the financial impact to the target of slander/libel exceeds a specific amount, then the libel/slander becomes a criminal offense.
However, and unfortunately even if the above were implemented, we would still be facing the hurdle of determining — What does “true” mean? <smiling> I make this last comment, because my mind is thinking of a possible headline — ” Trump exerted White Privilege and Kicked a small Black Family out of their Home”. This headline is just one example of what I think provides most of what is seen as falseness/corruption in news reporting today. That is, the “coloring” of information and news with words to support a particular agenda and or point of view coupled with omission of significant, relevant facts. The coloring/omissions result in reports that in fact may contain “somewhat/generally true” statements, but the impressions, interpretations, and conclusions drawn by the reader/audience are not true. The Trayvon Martin story comes to mind here.
To whom do we attribute the false beliefs/narrative derived from this type of reporting? The writer/reporter? The audience/reader? Both? Yes, the corruption stinks; and yes, some folks are more ethically challenged than others; it’s a complicated business all around.
Anyone besides Fred having trouble understanding what this means?
Nope – although, in fairness to Fred, typically SJW’s use the term “Social Construct” and not “cultural construct.” The trick, which apparently Fred has failed to learn, is to stop at the word “meaningless.” Although he might chastise me for the paraphrase – the meaning is pretty much the same.
No, of course not.
Notice that Fred only asks questions and almost never tells us where we might agree. This is what libertarians and commies do all the time — remember: the common disease that they share is pretending that intellectualism is the summum bonum.
I am about 90% Libertarian. The 10% I’m missing is the misanthropy.
I didn’t realize that misanthropy was a required element.
In fact, I think it’s the opposite. It’s because I love and value my fellow man that I want them to be free.
Mainstream media maligned: 10 examples blatant bias (and DNC collusion)
And there are 20,000 DNC emails from WikiLeaks to comb through for more evidence.
Thanks very much, Columbo. Excellent. But, for people who don’t have any curiosity and don’t read conservative media with a true intellectual frame of mind they don’t see and can’t see this as bias. Worse, if these people really despise the conservatives and think of them all as whiners then it’s impossible to get agreement even on what time it is because they can’t start down the slippery slope (as they see it) of seeing things in nuanced terms.
De facto, it is. Libertarians as a class have so little self awareness that they don’t see what is obvious to most of us and causes us to slowly back away from them so that we can get on with normal life in the real world.