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Why the Press Gets It Wrong So Often

An interesting article at Liberty Unyielding [1] this evening, by Benny Huang. I will quote it extensively here because I want to drag with it the links involved.

When a Hillary-supporting Muslim Democrat of dubious sexuality attacked a “gay” disco in Orlando, the ACLU [2] and the media blamed Christians. [3] When a bisexual, Bernie Sanders-supporting, alleged child molester was arrested that same day, just hours before he planned to shoot up a West Hollywood “pride” parade, ThinkProgress blamed Christians and conservatives. [4] In 2017, the New York Times apologized for claiming as fact that Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner had been inspired by Sarah Palin [5] and her notorious crosshairs map. When Robert Bowers killed eleven worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the media pinned the blame on — who else? — President Trump. [6] Considering the fact that Bowers is a registered independent, [7] that he specifically stated that he hadn’t voted for Trump, [8]and that he thought Trump was controlled by Jews, this was an absurd claim.

I sometimes ask myself how any one group of people could be so utterly incompetent when it comes to assigning blame. How is it that liberals’ accusations of incitement to violence seem to contaminate the wrong people with such disturbing regularity? And then it occurs to me. They always blame the people they really want to be shamed and silenced, whether or not they are guilty of anything.

Liberals don’t care how broadly blame is spread. They don’t even mind when blame is apportioned to the complete opposite target — blaming Christians for a Muslim terrorist attack, for example, or blaming John Birchers for a communist’s assassination plot.

(The emphasis is mine.)

Of course Benny’s spot on here, (and I would urge you to go read the entire article, I think you’ll find it worthwhile…) but while he states flatly that he’s not out to point out the bias in the supposed mainstream press, saying in part that such bias is…

so glaring at this point that no one who wasn’t trying could possibly miss it

… that will be my point here.

Because look, does anybody really suppose that the amount of hate we see coming out of the Democrats these days, would be whipped up to this frenzied pitch absent the advertising campaign that the supposed mainstream news media is engaged in?

Those that are pushing the leftist agenda these days have learned their lessons very well from Joe Goebbels.

They know that what they’re printing and what they’re coming up with on air is not truthful. They know they’re lying. But to tell the truth would be counterproductive to their goal.