I think you are totally over-analyzing things.
Here’s my theory: Leftists, including the leftist media, are irrational and dishonest and evil. They tell crazy lies because they hate the truth, they hate God, they hate Western Civilization, and they hate white people.
I really don’t think it is any more complicated than that. Genesis Chapter 2. There is good and evil in this world. Leftism is evil.
LOL - the truth might be somewhere between our two positions - thanks for the comment...