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Media Meltdown of the Week
It’s no secret to many (all?) of us here that the mainstream media has an inherent left-wing bias. Instead of reporting objectively as they claim to do, reporters from ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and countless newspapers consistently inject liberal bias.
Never before has this been more clear than during the Kavanaugh saga when reporters repeatedly threw journalistic standards into the trash just for the opportunity to peddle unsubstantiated rumors about the judge’s childhood and college years. Who needs standards when there’s a larger mission at stake to destroy a good man’s reputation? With this sign that media bias is worsening rather than improving, it is useful to document the media’s most egregious moments.
Let’s begin this week with NBC’s shameless misrepresentation of a point President Trump made at a rally in Lebanon, OH.
As he often does, the president went off on a tangent during his speech. But unlike most of his tangents, the president constructively engaged with some United States history — and factually, too!
He recounted the lengthy list of generals President Lincoln went through in the Civil War before he came to the effective Ulysses S. Grant. Of course, the reason Lincoln went through so many leaders of the Army of the Potomac was because Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was so skilled. One might even say he was “great,” as President Trump did at the rally.
Cue the bias. NBC News was quick to tweet the following: “WATCH: President Trump says ‘Robert E. Lee was a great general’ during Ohio rally, calling the Confederate leader ‘incredible.'”
As one can see, the tweet deliberately misleads the millions of Americans who rely on NBC as a news source. On top of that, the tweet states that Trump called Lee “incredible” when in fact he used that word to describe Grant.
We should be thankful that after a prolonged backlash — and input from President Trump himself — NBC News finally issued a correction. It only took them two days to get around to doing it.
By that time, Politico had already published an article entitled “Trump praises Robert E. Lee during Ohio rally,” while The Washington Post went with the headline “Trump calls on blacks to ‘honor’ Republicans with votes, then praises Confederate general Robert E. Lee.”
If you relied on the mainstream media — as millions of Americans do — you would have come away believing the president had just uttered racist blather while idolizing Robert E. Lee. Who knows how many national reporters retweeted the nonsense without bothering to offer the correction or even just honest context.
Of course, there were plenty of other embarrassing moments for the media this week. How about Washington Post reporter Paul Kane tweeting, “2010 right-wing anger/mobs played a role in dehumanizing Congress, helping lead to Giffords shooting in 2011?” Or how about CNN hosts’ strange dedication to not allowing their token conservative guests to label left-wing mobs as “mobs?”
Rest assured, there will be plenty of media bias to cover moving forward!
Published in General
Though Rommel was most famous as a tank commander, his book was Infantry Attacks, based on his experiences in WWI.
Fake News that is only news at all because of anti-Southern bigotry on both the Left and the Right. Nice.
My examples are PBS Week in Review tonight where the host(ess) noted the kerfuffle about Elizabeth Warren’s test proof of her Indian ancestry claims without explaining the astronimically low percent of heredity actually proven…and making more of Trump’s reversal of his offer to pay off a bet. As if that was the news, not the minuscule percent of ancestry that Warren actually had, or including any information on what levels tribes usuall accept (that would have been educational).
Second would be many “news” sources covering the Kavanaugh hearings without mentioning the lack of recall of details by the accuser about her harrassment incident….leaving the impression that she testified, and the mean old Senate just plowed right over her, seating a bad judge (whose positive record with a couple of hundred other women also wasn’t mentioned).
Indeed, and as I’ve posted here before, Lee fought as a a Virginian, for Virginia. He didn’t own slaves, and he believed that the war was actually about States’ rights. Damn shame to vilify a good man for that.
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Robert E. Lee was a great general, and a great human being as well. Real Southerners idolize him, and get disgusted when he’s treated with disrespect.