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COVID-19, Floyd Riots Send Anti-Trump Fake News into Hyperdrive
American Thinker.com ^ | June 5, 2020 | Civus Americanus

Posted on 06/05/2020 6:23:02 AM PDT by Kaslin

The mainstream media are often far from a trustworthy guardian of the public's well-being. The Yellow Press published in 1898 the largely discredited proposition that Spain sabotaged and sank the USS Maine, an accusation that incited the Spanish-American War. Recent events show that fake news, not from "Russian troll farms," but rather from domestic media sources and also the Democratic Party's nominee for president, is being used to influence the 2020 presidential election. Here is a list of the misrepresentations, if not flat-out lies, that the media and the Democratic Party's nominee have told about Donald Trump during the past two months.

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From everything we have seen in the video of George Floyd's death, what happened to him was flat-out wrong. A police officer who (allegedly until proven guilty) abuses his authority in this manner could do the same thing to any one of us while putting other police at professional risk (the ones with Derek Chauvin were fired and now face criminal charges) or even physical risk and cannot be tolerated by any civilized society. Nor can any civilized society tolerate the equally monstrous evils that are now being perpetrated in George Floyd's name.


Civis Americanus is the pen name of an American Thinker contributor who remembers the lessons of history and wants to ensure that our country never needs to learn those lessons again the hard way.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; covid19; fakenews; floydriots; mediabias

1 posted on 06/05/2020 6:23:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The media is in hyperdrive alright, 100% going to 110% Leftist propaganda.


2 posted on 06/05/2020 6:23:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Kaslin

The two crises were engineered so as to take down Trump.


3 posted on 06/05/2020 6:28:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Never forget Justine Damond, murdered by a NON-WHITE, NON-CHRISTIAN cop. (Oh, and no riots))
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To: Kaslin

The United States and the people were prospering under President Trump...The leftists can’t have that...

This was all engineered to try and wreck the country...


4 posted on 06/05/2020 6:33:14 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Kaslin

I know I’m looking at this through my conservative eyes, but even with their different opinion on politics (putting it mildly), I don’t know how Dem politicians and media sleep at night. I guess so many of them have absolutely no conscience. They have to know what they are doing is very wrong.


5 posted on 06/05/2020 6:33:26 AM PDT by beaversmom (Trump for Cali gov 2026. Make CA great again.)
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To: Kaslin

Agonal spasms of a falling empire.


6 posted on 06/05/2020 6:39:56 AM PDT by gasport (Coetus Democratorum delendus est)
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To: 1Old Pro
he media is in hyperdrive alright, 100% going to 110% Leftist propaganda.

The Establishment Media really has become the enemy of the people. 😠👎

7 posted on 06/05/2020 6:40:14 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: beaversmom
I don’t know how Dem politicians and media sleep at night. I guess so many of them have absolutely no conscience. They have to know what they are doing is very wrong.

They exhibit the behaviors of sociopaths. People who are manipulators for their own benefit and power. People who can pretend to have feelings, but don't; again when it benefits them.

8 posted on 06/05/2020 6:47:00 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Kaslin

I really didn’t think that the media could keep the anti-Trump crap going full steam ahead for 4 years, but they have. Now, I’m surprised that some of them just haven’t stroked out yet over it. Maybe when Trump wins in a landslide we can see some of them clutch their chests and collapse live on TV.


9 posted on 06/05/2020 6:49:08 AM PDT by euram
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The Russia hoax didn’t work. The Ukraine subterfuge didn’t work. The Impeachment farce didn’t work. The CCP Virus panic didn’t work. The Murder hornets attempt fizzled.

The Commie organized Riots are their next attempt to oust our President.

10 posted on 06/05/2020 6:49:12 AM PDT by ASA Vet (BLM = Babies Lives Matter)
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The Commie organized Riots are their next attempt to oust our President.

All that did was anger middle class and upper middle class voters.

11 posted on 06/05/2020 6:51:50 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: ASA Vet

The media lied about the Russia collusion hoax, about the Mueller probe, about impeachment, about the coronavirus—and Brett Kavanaugh and former national security adviser Mike Flynn. They lied about Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president and the impeachment farce that ensued...and now they’re lying about the riots.

The most important part of the story is always that Trump is behaving badly—that he’s lying, misleading, undermining democratic norms, tweeting mean things, whatever....... Nothing, not even nationwide riots, are more important than pushing that narrative.

(John Daniel Davidson, Political Editor-The Federalist)


12 posted on 06/05/2020 6:53:58 AM PDT by caww
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Bravo on this writer for mentioning Joe Biden’s blood libel of Curtis Dunn. If anything undermines the Working Class Joe myth, it’s Biden’s monstrous lie that Dunn, the truck driver involved in the crash that killed Biden’s first wife and daughter, drank his lunch instead of eating it. In keeping with the tone of the article, the same fake news media have been complicit in Biden’s lie.


13 posted on 06/05/2020 6:56:14 AM PDT by Dahoser (Not separation of church and state, but of media and state.)
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To: Kaslin

Democrat Party + Media = Antifa
(American Isis)


14 posted on 06/05/2020 6:57:13 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Kaslin

The democrat controlled media dilberately miss portrayed Floyd as an innocent black who was being forceably restrained because he was black. He was arrested for passing a counterfeit $20 dollar bill .When actually he was resisting arrest and was a threat if not secured by not mentioning his size or reporting that Floyd was removed from a squad car because he was acting up under the influence of drugs and also later was discovered to have COVID 19. Which suggests his physical condition may have led to his death which the media turned into a murder change and a charge of serious abuse by police because of police efforts that were tried to get him who under control Check out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3850368/posts
Further confirmation here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3850910/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3851693/posts
This posting has comments that reveals that both the arresting officer and Floyd knew each other and had worked together in bar security
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3851100/posts
The results of politically induced miss reporting used earlier during and after the post Zimmmerman trial. Led to black gangs attacking non blacks found innocently traversing black neighborhoods and to a score of murders or life changing injuries and later attacks of theft and vandalism on local businesses as well as attacks and murders of police officers during that period


15 posted on 06/05/2020 9:12:33 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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