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There is no such thing today as news that's not fake or spun to a narrative and 95% of the Fake news and spun narrative is slanted hard to the Left....they promote lies and hide the truth, that essentially is the news business today.
Avoiding blatant propaganda these days requires work and doing your own research. Everyone wants something that doesn't exist: A media that just tells them the truth. Besides, people are total suckers for hearing their own world-view parrotted back at them. That's exactly how news media gets away with so much bias.
It kind of reminds me of a false rape claim. That is, making a claim up makes it harder to believe when we have a legit case of a violent crime.
^^^^Exactly!
It reminds me of "the boy who cried wolf". After awhile, with all these fake stories coming out, when the real thing happens, people won't take it seriously.
Lemon is a racist, bigoted moron-even by CNN standards. I would hope they would salvage some credibility by firing his useless azz.
Don Lemon is quite blatantly racist, but being racists against white people isn't just acceptable on the Left, it's the current official party line. If it weren't, the Don Lemon wouldn't even have a job as a night janitor at any news media company.
If Jussie Smollett does actually go to prison (which never seems to happen to celebrities), then at least he can count on Don Lemon coming to visit him in prison. Dealers choice where Jussie wants them to be conjugal or not.
I don't think, though, that the media coverage of these two things were "fake news". There was an incident involving a Covington student. And Smollett did report an assault. The news covered the stories, as the stories evolved. What is "fake" about that?
In both cases...journalistic integrity. Something the main stream media does not have.
How many Democrat politicians are defending Smollett after the facts came out? None.
They were all, "This is a modern day lynching!!! We are outraged by this!!! This is Donald Trump's fault!!!" before. Now they've retreated to a more neutral, "This is a developing situation." line of BS. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker owe Chicago an apology for these two idiots taking a flying leap to conclusions. They owe every Trump supporter an apology for the bigotry of believing that they would actually do something like that. They owe Donald Trump an apology for blaming him for a hate crime that was completely fake. They owe Chicago PD an apology as well for making their jobs that much more difficult. Well, nobody is getting an apology ever because Booker and Harris will never be convinced that they did anything wrong.
Thing is, even a rudimentary understanding of the situation would have cast tremendous doubt on Jussie's story. It was insanely cold. No sane person would have been wandering the streets of Chicago looking for anything. It's Chicago. Wearing a MAGA hat while walking around or saying "This is MAGA country" is a fine way to get your ass beaten in Chicago. If you happen to be a Trump supporter in this town, you're going to keep your mouth shut about it. Remember, this is the one town that protested against Trump rallies so angrily that Trump had no choice but to cancel. That's how Chicago is. Jussie was wearing the lynching noose like some kind of medal when the police arrived. The way these imaginary attackers from Jussie's imagination used "MAGA" doesn't fit with an actual Trump supporter. An actual Trump supporter sees "Make America Great Again" as an inspiring and uplifting statement. Jussie's imagination had it being used as a pejorative.
Booker, Harris and the chuckleheads in the MSM all had plenty of reason to doubt the whole story just on the basis of the story itself. Everyone should have taken the "This is a developing story, let's wait for the facts to come out." approach. That's what pisses people off. The Democrats don't realize they did anything wrong here.
The media provides stories the public wants. That is more concerning. Nobody stood down in the Covington video but it was an alternative choice both sides had the opportunity to do. To stand down would mean that there was no life threatening situation in a smirk. But be honest, if there was a life threatening situation, people would be ducking or running for cover. To stand down would mean that rudeness doesn't need to be dealt with in public and a MAGA wearing teenage boy, needs to learn a lesson.
On the other hand, to stand down would mean no "MAGA Stand Your Ground" opportunity. People have a right to smirk, wear hats that speak their political position in public AND stand their ground when confronted. To back down is not MAGA.
Escalating conflict, rather than de-escalating conflict is an American value on both sides and that is why the media pushes these stories.
Now as far as the Parkland shooting, you are focusing on the groups on the left. Parkland is not just any group of people. It is a community of educated professionals who know the value of advertising, getting your message out there. That is why the schools in Parkland are sought after even after the shooting. Both left and right have looked past the individual shooter and instead are focusing on policies that contributed to the shooting, especially the leniency policies that allowed the shooter to attend school.
The Sutherland Shooting sounds more like a case closed situation. 26 people got shot until the murderer was finally put down by another armed civilian. Success story. The church has forgiven the shooter. The end.
How many Democrat politicians are defending Smollett after the facts came out? None.
The difference being that Conservatives are much more likely to wait for the facts to come out before demanding someone's head on a platter.
When the Smollett story first broke, there were Liberal commentators who were condemning others for saying Smollett was "allegedly" attacked.
There is a certain culture on the Left that demands that any and all stories of oppression must be believed by default, no matter how far fetched they may seem.
The Liberal press is all about conviction in the court of public opinion......guilty until proven innocent.
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