If someone accuses members of the media of creating fake news, they get terribly defensive and try to deny it, but what could be more obvious than the fact that most of our news is fake, to at least some degree.
Some of the news is 100% fake. For example, the Russian collusion story was 22 months of relentless, unmitigated, outrageous lies piled one on top of the other. The media would have us believe Trump and his entourage would be walked out of the White House in cuffs and would be imprisoned for the remainder of their lives. The truth is – according to Robert Mueller and his team of anti-Trump lawyers – there was no evidence of collusion, but there was evidence Russian representatives offered to collude but no one in the Trump campaign took them up on the offer.
Shortly before the Mueller report was released, Nicholas Sandmann – a 16-year-old from a Catholic high school in Covington, Ky., who was in the nation’s capital to take part in a national right-to-life demonstration – was given the Donald Trump treatment of having his character falsely assassinated by the Washington Post, CNN, NBC and others. Trump could probably never recover in a defamation suit because he’s a public figure, but Nicholas Sandmann is not a public figure and he has a good case because his story was 100% fake news. Sandmann’s family sued the first three, using L. Lin Wood, the attorney who gained fame for representing Richard Jewell, the man falsely accused in the Atlanta Olympics bombing.
Last week CNN settled, agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum. I hope at least one of the other two cases goes to trial. I’m sick of the bias the media demonstrates for Christians and Jews and also the loathing they have for anti-abortion forces. I want to hear them attempt to say Sandmann’s religion and anti-abortion position had nothing to do with their stories. It would be even more interesting to hear them say his MAGA hat played no role in the way his story was reported.
Look at the news stories reported in the media and compare the stories to what actually happened in the videos of the incident and it’s obvious the stories told about Sandmann were 100% false.
In the case of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, it’s apparent to everyone – including the radicals in both the media and government – that the public is not buying into far-fetched charges leveled at Kavanaugh, both at the time of his confirmation hearing and in a recent book. The book, which made the news last fall, was a one-day wonder. The accusations made in the book were so incredible, the media abandoned the book after one day. Call it fake news or call it the presentation of news that’s not credible, the bottom line is the media and their radical friends in Congress have further tarnished their already-sullied reputations by the manner in which they have handled the Kavanaugh case.
We are seeing more studies that claim secondhand smoke is not as dangerous as originally thought. I don’t find this surprising. I’ve always thought those who supported banning secondhand smoke were frequently overzealous and their science was frequently wrong. It is preposterous to argue that it is more dangerous to breathe secondhand smoke than it is to smoke. The secondhand smoke argument is an example of politics prevailing over science.
Let’s get this straight. I cannot stand secondhand smoke and would not frequent a restaurant that allowed smoking. But if a restaurant owner wanted to allow his customers to smoke and people patronized his establishment, what’s wrong with that? Nothing, as I see it.
The big-government folks picked on restaurant owners, but casino owners had enough money they circumvented the smoking ban. How is that fair?
The media couldn’t say enough bad things about secondhand smoke. Why did they find it so difficult to bring us the downside of secondhand smoke from cigarettes, while overlooking the fact that secondhand smoke from marijuana is more dangerous than secondhand smoke from cigarettes? The answer is quite simple. The media – and I’m talking about professors from Ivy League schools, print publications, electronic media, Hollywood – have glamorized all kinds of drugs for more than half a century. When Trump said the media were the enemies of the people, he was right. The fact that they are so supportive of the drug culture tells me they are our enemies.
