Posted on 08/31/2023 3:12:42 PM PDT by CFW
In August of 2016, The New York Times did something rather unprecedented — the paper ran a front-page editorial by columnist Jim Rutenberg that stopped just short of openly saying the media should openly oppose Donald Trump, regardless of journalistic ethics.
According to Rutenberg, journalists who believed Trump was “racist and nationalist” would have to “throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century. … You would move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional.”
Now, Rutenberg was greatly flattering himself and his journalistic peers by pretending that any vestigial attempts at objectivity in the American media were anything more than farce, and all but the most blinkered Americans knew it. Still, the shift in tone during the Trump years was palpable. Perhaps the most visible sign was the media’s eagerness to call Trump a liar and to specifically call out his supposed “lies,” even to his face in real-time if necessary. The resulting coverage was something to behold. A Washington Post media column from 2019 took a rhetorical victory lap and rounded up just a few of the then-recent headlines about Trump’s presidency:
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Over the past few years, we have read of great investigative reporters leaving such media corporations because they were prevented from reporting on corruption by Democrats. I suspect corporate board members or news-site owners are being paid for such silence.
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EDITED .....Nick Shapiro, a former top aide under CIA director John Brennan, provided POLITICO with the now notorious signed letter, insistently noting, “the 51 intel leaders who signed this worked for the past four presidents, including Trump.......and indicates the number of former, working-level intel officers who want the American people to know that once again the Russians are interfering.”
<><>The sub rosa purpose of the signed letter was to boost candidate Biden.....several of the 51 signers had publicly endorsed Biden......all blithely reported by the deceitful media
<><> Aiding and abetting the scheme, The New York Times actually raised questions about the rigor of the Post’s reporting, casting doubt on the Post’s reporting of Hunter’s salacious laptop.
<><>However, the NYP stood by its astute, detailed, groundbreaking reporting.
<><>The media kept sucking-up as the wily Hunter cravenly denied that the abandoned laptop was actually his, despite incontrovertible truth to the contrary.
The widely reported bogus collusion story, financed by Hillary, was shrewdly designed to mimic 2016, when Russian hackers dumped troves of emails from Democrats onto the internet — producing few damaging revelations - but calculatedly fueling accusations of so-called “corruption” by Trump.
While back in 2020 there had been no immediate indications of Russian involvement, the general thrust advanced by the media was intended to aid and abet a “Get Trump” narrative.
The media kiss-up included reports about US intel agencies obsessively insisting there was “an active Russian disinformation effort aimed at denigrating Biden’s candidacy.”
What's that old saying ..
show me the man .. I'll show you the crime.
We are really getting squeezed into a corner.
How much longer will we be able to access the net?
And what will we find ...
Dark days coming....
Gird your loins...put on the whole armor.. it's about to get real
Just any FYI: Mark Hemingway is the husband of Mollie.
I do not remember Trump ever Lied!
He talked without notes and sometimes messed up or painted something with rose paint.
Lying is an intentional act of telling untruths to deceive.
Misspoke and not getting all the facts exactly right is NOT lying!
“I do not remember Trump ever Lied!”
I agree. He used hyperbole and exaggerations to make his point, but did not lie. The WaPo would use statements such as his insistence that his inauguration had a a record attendance as a “lie”. And, each time he made that statement they added it to his list of “lies” -— 40,102, 40,103, 40,104, etc. WaPo’s list of Presidential lies multiplied opinions they disagree with as “lies”. It’s amazing that the “President’s Lies” tracking disappeared the day Biden was installed.
My son and d-i-l went to the inauguration. They said the protesters kept them, and thousands of others, from actually getting to the site. And, if you look at zoomed-out video from the event you could tell there were numerous people unable to get to an area where they could even see the ceremony.
The media deliberately refused to show that video. They wanted their narrative and they got it. Then they insisted Trump was lying, repeatedly.
Let’s get over any idea that the mainstream media has to apply the same standards to both sides. As long as they know they can count on us to keep pouring money into their coffers with our TV subscriptions, they’ll do whatever they want.
If you can get a list of lies the left claims are Trump’s you will find all of them proved true and not lies.
Yes, and sometimes he got his facts mixed up (that happen to everybody, especially if you do not have paper with you).
Finally there were the ridiculous “lies” like
Trump - “there were 800,000 people”
Media - Lie! “there were only 799,456 people”
I do not recall exactly when and where, but i heard similar “inaccuracies” counted as lies quite often!
Thoughtfully said.
Example of presidential Lies
“I did not have sex with that woman!” (Clinton for those from Rio Linda)
He knew he was wrong, but hoped to get away with it, like he almost always did.
Or even more consequential was his denial of having sex with Gennifer Flowers. He called media, got Hillary on his side and denied everything, despite knowing it was a lie! He would not make it to president if he did not lie that time!
Biden denying ever talking business with Hunter falls in the same category!
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