A June podcast by “Mr. Reagan” [Chris Kohls] entitled “Top Ten Examples of Fake News” is clearly a response to the relentless media attacks on Trump’s questionable respect for the truth. Speaking without thinking is no doubt one of his foremost flaws and one can hardly deny that he is prone to exaggerating if not brazenly violating the facts. But the hypocrites of CNN and the mainstream media are hardly in any position to throw stones.
As Kohl’s podcast is readily available, I need not cite every one of its examples of media bias and duplicity. But some of them are truly disgusting.
In late 2017 Brian Ross of ABC announced that he had unequivocal evidence that Trump had ordered Michael Flynn to “collude” with the Russian government well before his election in Nov. of 2016. Kohls includes video evidence of The View’s Joy Behar literally leaping out of her chair in delight as the “news” broke. The mainstream media in general seemed to share her delight though unfortunately, just a few hours later, Ross was forced to admit that he had not checked his facts and his report was utterly incorrect. To its credit, ABC suspended him. But what was truly pathetic was the unmitigated bias displayed by most of the media in its response to his original report.
In the days after the charges of sexual misconduct against Republican Brett Kavanaugh emerged, CNN produced almost 700 articles devoted to that subject. Similar charges have of course been levied against Joe Biden though viewers of CNN might not be aware of it. To his credit Trump has refused to exploit the issue, saying he has himself been the victim of false accusations. The issue for Kohls is not whether Tara Reade’s charges are true, but once again the bias of a media reluctant to even mention an issue detrimental to Biden for fear of benefiting Trump’s chances at re-election.
In June, 2017, Muslim terrorists killed 8 innocent Brits while injuring 48 others on or near the London Bridge. Not long thereafter an event was planned designed to show that the majority of Muslims were appalled by such violence, that Islam was in fact a “religion of peace.” Unfortunately, from among the million or so Muslims in the London area, only 10 women showed up! Determined to defend its bias, CNN’s cameras zoomed in on the 10 women to the exclusion of all else. In viewing its report one might naturally assume there were thousands of others behind them. But there were not, CNN’s manipulative coverage being “Fake News” of the very first order!
In Aug. of 2016, a Black Milwaukee cop shot Sylville Smith, also Black, who had pointed a semi-automatic weapon at him. Upon his exoneration, rioters took to the streets to condemn systemic White racism but Smith’s sister showed up and, according to CNN’s report, invoked them to reject violence, to spare their own neighborhood the results of their wrath. The truth, unfortunately, is that CNN had “edited” her statement, cutting away before she invoked the rioters to go to White neighborhoods and destroy the property of those racist mother-fuckers. “Go to the suburbs,” she can be heard to say, “Burn that shit down!” Bravo CNN, your idiotic narrative validated: White people Bad, Black people Good. How do you sleep at night?
[An article by Ray Sanchez of CNN is still available online in which he praises Smith’s sister for her heartfelt call for peace!]
In 2012, Florida’s Trayvon Martin was killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman who was characterized by NBC as an unmitigated Racist. A 911 call by Zimmerman appeared to substantiate that charge. But what ultimately came to light was that that call had been edited, the actual original communication containing no evidence of racism whatsoever. I don’t pretend to have any definitive answer as to Zimmerman’s guilt, but what is appalling is that a media outlet should tamper with evidence in support of a narrative decidedly inconsistent with the facts. It turns out Zimmerman had mentored Black kids, had taken a Black girl to his prom and was actually of mixed racial origins. In response to the edited phone call presented to the public, riots broke out across the States.
Not that the charge of brazen media bias needs such validation, Mr. Reagan includes a clip of the brilliant Chris Cuomo laughingly admitting on air to a co-host as the 2016 election approached, that CNN had done everything in its power to see that Hillary would carry the day! So much for the objectivity of the press!
I have already mentioned Brandon Straka and his Walk Away Movement. Turns out it was the mainstream media’s demonstrable disregard for the truth that was largely responsible for his abandonment of the Left, indeed for his conclusion that it was less interested in a rational exchange of Ideas than in manipulation, name-calling and, quite frankly, the cultivation of Hatred!