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.
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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 ...
If the worst they can say about President Trump is that he followed the lead of his host when feeding fish in a pond, you know we made the right choice in this election. You also know the media are completely dishonest and not to be believed no matter what they report.
So is this an apple?
The Media is committing suicide.
They are all cum laude graduates of the Josef Goebbels Institute of Journalism.
Please have a Koi Fish pond installed within the White House grounds (and consider requesting fish from our great friends in Japan.)
This would serve as a reminder to American news consumers that "fake" news is a contender for their TV time.
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