Is Fake News Earning Their Label?

Is “Fake News” Earning Their Label?
The View from the Middle

It seems that the lame-stream media has shifted into overdrive this last week to prove that they are sloppy, imbalanced and sometimes downright dishonest. It was started by Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen’s lawyer and Clinton sycophant, who made two erroneous statements (the generous interpretation) or lies (my interpretation) to the press. First, Lanny leaked that his client, Michael Cohen, would testify that President Trump not only knew of the famous Trump tower meeting with Russian Lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, but that he approved it and even directed it.

There are two problems with this story. First, it is not true and Lanny retracted it later, but not before virtually all of the lame-stream media had a chance to report it. Second, that meeting was not illegal and there was no action taken as a result of it. Lanny also lied (there is actually no way to be generous here) when he told Anderson Cooper that he was not the anonymous source for the story. He has since admitted that he was. The New York Post, Washington Post and the network news have made retractions (however obscure I’m sure), but CNN seems to know Michael Cohen’s mind even better than Michael Cohen and they are sticking to their story.

In an ironic twist to this whole episode, Lanny Davis has set up a “Go Fund Me” page to support Michael Cohen’s dilemma, basically to pay Lanny Davis, and it is called “The Truth Fund”. As you might expect, refunds have been requested.

Next, in a desperate attempt to tie every comment made by Donald Trump to racism, Jeffrey Toobin of CNN claimed that Trump’s criticism of Anitfa was racist because Antifa was a “black” organization. Maybe Jeffrey was confused by their black masks, hoods and clothing. I’m not sure if this comment was pure stupidity, blind ignorance or a straight out lie to connect two dots that don’t deserve to be connected. There is ZERO evidence to support that claim. In fact, the evidence is quite to the contrary.

Here’s just one of the great comments that I’ve seen in response to Toobin’s claim. “Antifa is whiter than Pat Boone making a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder Bread in a Minnesota snow storm.” Jeffrey Toobin just assumed that any violent, destructive group in America had to be black. Who’s the racist now, Jeffrey?

Finally, the Fake News is even misleading people about “lying”. You have all probably heard the claim that Trump has lied over 3,000 times since becoming President. Let me enlighten my audience as to how these “lie counters” aggregate their totals. Trump has made the statement that his tax cuts are the largest in our country’s history. The lie counters say that is false because “as a percentage of GDP” it is the seventh largest tax cut. But did you notice that they added the qualifier “as a percentage of GDP” to Trump’s statement to make it a lie. If Trump is talking about the biggest tax cut in sheer dollars, he has a strong case that it is the largest ever. I’ve run the numbers.

Here’s the other part of this deception. You, of course think that this is just one of Trump’s 3,000 “lies”, right? Not so! Since they say that Trump has said this over 100 times in different speeches and venues, they count it as 100 lies. So, 3% of his “so called” lies is actually just one statement. Are there 30 more example of this type of misrepresentation in their count? I’ve read them all and I believe there are. That would mean that 90% of what the “lie counters” report is actually false, misleading and Fake!

If you would take the false reports made by the media, like the Lanny Davis lies, times the number of outlets in which it was reported, times the number of times a day it was reported on newscasts and in discussions on TV, times the number of days it was reported (remember CNN first reported the Lanny Davis lies back on July the 26th) the media “lie count” might reach 100,000 just on Lanny’s lies!! Their total lie count on Trump, just since his inauguration would be in the millions!!!

Does it surprise anyone that the public’s confidence in the news is at an ALL TIME LOW of only 22% for newspapers and just 18% for television news? But I have to admit – They’ve Earned it!!