". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson
Posted on 11/06/2017 8:49:16 AM PST by RightGeek
One of the contributing factors to Donald Trump's election last year was the widespread perception that the media elites were completely detached from the rest of the country. Many see the media, with its credibility shredded, alternate between reckless mishandling of the truth and pathological lying.
Take, for instance, an entirely manufactured controversy taken from President Trump's current visit to Japan.
An otherwise uneventful photo op with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been falsely spun by the White House press corps as a massive diplomatic blunder.
During the photo op, Trump and Abe were feeding koi in a pond below the balcony with spoons.
After several spoonfuls, PM Abe dumps his box of fish food into the pond. Trump follows in kind.
...
But the pool reporter traveling with the president, Justin Sink of Bloomberg, tweeted out that Trump had just decided to dump the whole box into the pond -- never mentioning that he was following PM Abe's lead...
CNN even edited out of its video PM Abe dumping his box of fish food first, zooming in on Trump to make it appear he did it on his own...
New York Magazine/Huffington Post correspondent Yashar Ali:
Trump was supposed to feed the koi by the spoonful with PM Abe but quickly got impatient and dumped the whole box of food into the pond.
And now the fake news Koigate scandal is a full-blown international media narrative:
SNIP: Many tweets from the usual leftist "reporters".
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
KKK head cheese DJT also hates, not just asians, but their fish too! /s
More proof that the media lies to us constantly.
When they lie even about small things, about things that they don’t have to lie about, just to make Trump look bad, it shows you how small and utterly bankrupt they are.
FR readers know that the media invents things to promote their agenda.
Kiss my grits. I saw all of that, thought it was funny, and realized that the media was probably spinning it bad for Trump.
I had no idea how deceptive they would be to try and hurt Trump.
This will be a great conversation around the dinner table tonight.
DJT is a cheese head? One more reason to like him. Go Pack Go!
Lol - the msm is SOOOOO STUPID. Do they really think that there isn’t footage of what actually happened?
As usual, the president gives the rest of the fish food to the fish in a quicker and more efficient manner. On time and below budget.
so stupid of them to think we wouldn’t check them...
but the sheeple will believe them.. and no one ever sees a ‘retraction’ days later...
"Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - See "Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785," in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815.". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson
Carping, that’s what they do!
GMA this AM showed President Trump dumping first, THEN the Japanese PM...................
I Think it will happen maybe soon.
This is Pulitzer materials ... the koi vote is YUGE!
The Press Corpse needs to buy or rent a brain.
“Rogers” that. Mrs rktman bleeds cheese.
Too bad the fish food isn’t made of ground reporter, but I suppose that might poison the koi.
Dang, I was hoping this story was true.
rigged elections..Rigged News....
DRAIN THE SWAMP!
They are so desperate.
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