Unspoken alliances often develop when two entities share a common goal and can support each other’s effort to achieve said goal. The entertainment industry is not shy about their allegiance to the Democratic party, and although CNN anchors can’t admit their selfsame devotion, it is pretty obvious to everyone watching.
You love us? We love you too!
Athletes and actors have mutual admiration and envious relationship with each other. Actors want to play football and football players want to walk the red carpet at movie premieres. Likewise, CNN anchors dream of being mobbed by fans while comedians dream of being CNN anchors who get to tell the American people what to think.
It is no surprise that CNN anchors believe part of their job as journalists is to replay every SNL skit that lampoons the Republicans. The entertainers reciprocate by having the CNN folk appear on their shows as “celebrity guests.” The subconscious positive reinforcement is strong and is reminiscent of Pavlovian dog training. Anchors who attack Trump are rewarded with appearances on late night TV, and if late night TV attacks Trump they are rewarded by having their jokes treated as news stories by CNN. Since both sides already prostitute their profession, there is no reason not to do some favors for fellow #resistance fighters.
If CNN can’t convince you, we will.
This phenomenon has never been more evident than on modern-day Saturday Night Live. The show is not content with slap stick mockery of Republicans anymore, they are now in lock step with the Democrat’s actual message. A great example is the current midterm elections.
The Democrats and CNN want to get the message across that the migrant-caravan-story is only fear mongering by Republicans. So SNL does their duty and mocks the manner Republicans discuss the caravan as fear mongering. Then, CNN replays the SNL mockery as news to reinforce the Democratic message.
Ironically, as CNN demeans the Republican story about illegal immigration as fear mongering, they partake in the fear mongering that Democrats practice over healthcare. Message controlled.
The US media outlets continuously attempt to outdo each other in their quest to publicly skewer the President. They persist in re-imagining actual events to fit their four or five persistent narratives meant to belittle Trump. One narrative they have fallen in love with is that Trump is an unprecedented-liar. And one herculean effort to hoodwink the American people into believing this false narrative was concocted by the Washington Post (WAPO.) They created an abortion of truth in the form of an interactive, graphical, updating, accumulation of 4,229 (and counting) falsehoods or misleading claims made by the President. The crown jewel of modern day fact-checking.
Liars lie about lies
In the Washington Post’s attempt to create a history of Trump lies, they have inadvertently created a historical testament to the bias of their own paper. I believe that in the near future, this WAPO creation will be studied in schools as young students marvel with open mouths at the audacity of the journalistic bias prevalent during the Trump era. In fact, the piece is so light on actual lies, you will note that they add the term “or misleading claims” into the title so they can lump opposing opinions in with the alleged lies. How do they get away with it? Ask CNN’s Brian Stelter, Brooke Baldwin or Jake Tapper, or the swarms of journalists who only read this project’s headline (above) and then irresponsibly proclaim that Trump spewed four thousand lies on their cable news shows or in their tabloids, solely based on the headline.
Let’s examine the first batch of the Washington Post’s findings to see how the Post bastardized the fact-check:
WAPO lie #1
Trump said “collusion is not a crime” which is true. WAPO claims Trump is playing word games because something else, that is not “collusion,” is a crime. Huh? Who is playing word games, Trump? This is insanity and WAPO should be thankful no one actually reads past the headline of this mockery of journalism. PS, paying Christopher Steele to buy Russian intelligence from Russian agents is kind of, sort of, possibly, likely collusion, sorry Hillary.
WAPO lie #2
Trump stated he didn’t need the Koch brothers support, which he did not get. WAPO is claiming… the Koch’s support for Republican senators “likely” had an overall positive effect on Trump. This assertion is the Post’s opinion, not a fact. In reality, the Koch’s did many things to impede Trump’s success as well. Additionally, WAPO relies on the fact the no one will read the Politico article they linked because in no way did the article affirm that Trump sought the Koch’s support, it claimed someone from Trump’s campaign filled out a questionnaire, lol.
WAPO lie #3
This particular fact check by WAPO defies human logic. They wrote a sentence that has nothing to do with what Trump said. Where did Trump say anything about the ratio of people crossing the border into/out of America? They should fire the intern who wrote that one.
The three lies I linked were not anomalies. I chose the first three lies written on the first topic. Journalism is dead.
All the ramifications of the Trump presidency will not be fully understood until his presidency is in the past. One effect, the alarming rate at which journalists have ceased to feign independence, is a tragedy, or a blessing, depending on your point of view. Those who have noticed the hidden agenda of the left-wing press for the past few decades are happy to see them exposed.
Still, every so often it amazes me how the press no longer even tries. Dan Rather is no longer an active member of the press but he stands as a respected journalist emeritus in high esteem. Here is what he said about the Supreme Court tilting to the right:
Rather than Tweet, stay quiet
Keep in mind that is a SCOTUS pick that Mitt Romney would have made. This is not a Trump faux pas or a crazy earth shattering new Trump policy. However the press voicing their bias is so humdrum that a beacon of independence openly states that the court tilting right is the end of democracy. Let that sink in. The man feeding us news for decades feels that conservative ideas are the end of democracy. Unbelievable, and he has no shame in doing this publicly.
He may as well be as unhinged as CNN Legal expert Jeffrey Toobin who sees the apocalypse in our future.
One of the startling new methods CNN has employed to fight for the Democrat’s positions is their use of anchor-tears. By this I mean, changing issues from Right Vs Left into Right Vs Wrong and then crying , gasping and wailing on air over the perceived injustices perpetrated by conservative policy. With this tactic they believe anchors can take a position on issues and still be accepted as credible journalists.
Here is how it works… Do Republicans believe that it is not the government’s place to provide health insurance or are Republicans evil people in support of babies dying? Do Republicans believe in lowering taxes or do they believe in stealing money from the poor and giving it to the rich? Do Republicans believe that we need to enforce border security or are they racists?
For every season cry cry cry!
When the problem arose regarding how children brought over the border illegally were being treated, tears emerged in horror of Trump’s position. The audience will not hear the other side of the story, because this is a “moral issue” to CNN. There is only one side to this story.
But what if we did what CNN anchors refuse to do and used our brains to think about the issue facing the children?
The media got their way. Due to an onslaught of bad press an executive order signed by Trump apparently made it illegal to separate children from their parents . However this is not good policy. It is already illegal to hold a child with the parents for 20 days. Therefore the government can’t hold the child separately, nor can they keep the child with the parents. This leaves one option, the government must release the entire family into the US. The executive order, unless it had qualified language in it, essentially gave a free-entry ticket to anyone caught crossing the border illegally – if they bring children.
What will happen to children on the other side of the border as a result of this policy will be many times worse than what the US Dept of HHS did to children. The media will not write articles or do human interest stories on the death, rape and heartless behavior that human smuggling spawns. They will certainly not discuss how this new policy will effect the savagery. It doesn’t fit the agenda.
Spygate will never be proven, never ever, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. The perpetrators of the greatest American abuse of power since J. Edgar Hoover were not aware of how far off the rails they went and many are honestly still unaware today. How is this possible? Although Spygate is real we must understand that there was no secret meeting in a hidden cave where Comey and Clapper and Brennan concocted a plan to take down Trump. Instead we had people with critically impaired judgement believing they were running a legitimate operation.
There are no specific laws governing when the FBI can send informants into a campaign, or when they can initiate sting operations, or when they can levy surveillance on Americans. A law can’t cover every possible situation. Instead we have various criteria and checks that are always a version of determining what is “probable cause.” In other words, it is always a judgement call.
Clapper
Professionals in the department of Justice surely have unparalleled judgement. Surely.
Maybe you believe that what has become known as ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ (TDS) is a silly thing that Trump loyalists ascribe to people they disagree with. It isn’t, and it clouds the judgment to the tenth degree. Let’s talk about the syndrome.
A Nobel winning economist, named Paul Krugamn, said the economy would collapse and never recover once Trump was elected. A ridiculous statement for even a first year undergrad. Thousands of psychiatrists have publicly pronounced Trump mentally incapacitated without examining their virtual patient, which violates a major tenant of their profession. They literally diagnosed a paitent based on MSNBC coverage. Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates felt that General Flynn was a blackmail risk to the White House because he lied, as if he was the first person to lie in Washington D.C.
Economist and Nobel Prize Recipient
It is clear to many that TDS can affect anyone, educated or not. But why would anyone assume that the heralded heads of our intelligence community suffer from this malady? Glad you asked, before ever meeting the POTUS, the FBI director, James Comey, expressed his concern about Trump, “I feel great pressure to stay to try and protect the institution I lead.” And James Clapper, former DNI, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he thought Trump was a threat to democracy, this was affirmed by General Hayden the very next day. Below is a newly released excerpt of a high level FBI agent’s opinion of Trump supporters.
Deplorable, that’s what you are!
It is clear the people running our country’s intelligence agencies were either extremely biased or clinically deranged against Trump. Sadly, this bias was solely based on what they saw on television. This is our elite intelligence community.
Next we must accept the fact that the FBI was investigating Trump and his campaign. This is not contested. Anytime a presidential candidate is under investigation by an FBI subordinate to the opposition party, there is reason for skepticism in even the most pristine circumstance. This is true from 1789 until the republic ends.
So we have clear evidence that the leaders of our intelligence community, who have un-tethered power, didn’t like candidate Trump. (Read all their newly released books for corroboration) We also know that many educated people carrying extreme bias towards Trump have deluded judgement. And we also know that some of these people have initiated or ok’d investigations into Trump. The next step is to examine the investigation while giving the professional law enforcement people the benefit of the doubt.
Hayden
The intelligence community’s judgement was that Carter Page was suspicious enough to have his fourth amendment rights surrendered and a Fisa Warrant issued yet he was not charged.
The same is true of George Papadopolous, the subject of a FISA warrant because he was approached by a Russian. No charge relating to the reason for the Warant.
What did three star General Michael Flynn do to permit surveillance? No one really knows. No charges of working with Russians here either.
Why were informants placed in or around the campaign? Um
Why did the FBI allegedly send an informant to entice Roger Stone and Michael Caputo to pay for dirt on Hillary?
What was the impetus to investigate the president?
Why were Manafort and Michael Cohen investigated and (will be) indicted on unrelated crimes for the sole purpose of trying to coerce them to flip on the POTUS. Was there any reason to treat Trump like Pablo Escobar?
Each one of these steps should have required a preponderance of evidence before getting the go-ahead. How could all of them been granted and all of them turn up empty? Bad judgement. In all of these instances the intelligence community felt there was enough there to violate the fourth amendment of US citizens and in every case there was no crime. This behavior is common in Uganda not America.
