Biggest Liar of 2015: The Washington Post and Its Pinocchios

American Thinker ^ | 12/15/2015 | Colin Flaherty

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In its annual roundup of this year’s biggest lies and liars, the Washington Post forgot the largest liar of all: The writers and editors of the Washington Post.

We are of course talking about the Post’s recent decision to name the “hands up, don’t shoot’ campaign as one of its “Biggest Pinocchios of 2015.” But the collection of prevarications was curiously incomplete.

The Post reporter had no trouble identifying the biggest liars behind the other lies: Trump, Hillary, Kerry, Warren, whatever: The liars and lies were locked together.

Except for the biggest lie of all; the lie the Post left for last. The lie that took more ink, and went unchallenged by more professional skeptics than all the other lies put together. A lie that, apparently, told itself, because this was the only Pinocchio unmatched with a specific liar.

The Post, of course, was an early and gleeful adopter of the narrative of the unarmed black person shot for no reason whatsoever by racist police in Ferguson who apparently did that kind of thing all the time.

This Lie infected more than just miles and miles of newsprint in the hard news sections. It was also reported and spread in the sports, lifestyle, opinion, entertainment, and virtually every other nook and cranny of the Post -- even after the attorney general grudgingly admitted the entire thing was a hoax in March of this year.

The lies are legion. A few of the more deceitful:

The Post led the way in glorifying the hundreds of black Capitol Hill staffers who gathered for a photo op in their $1000 coats, soft leather gloves stretched into the air, proclaiming ‘hands up, don’t shoot.’

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No sense singling out the WaPo for its lies. All lib media is complicit in the Big Lie. The Big Lie is that the police, specifically white police, unfairly single out black males for punishment or death for no reason whatsover. Well, because they're evil racists is the implicit assumption.

The facts are blacks kill other blacks at catastrophic rates, while the deaths of blacks by unfair means by the police totals a handful annually.

Nothing appears to knock the lib media off stride in their campaign to demonize the police. No amount of facts proving that by far the biggest danger to blacks is other blacks will make them change the narrative.