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And then there’s Reid himself who penned27 a New York Times piece insisting “the responsibility for separating what is real and what is fake will fall on Democrats.” One is left to wonder if such Democrats include Reid himself, who not only used the floor of the Senate to make an unsubstantiated claim28 about Mitt Romney’s failure to pay taxes for 10 years, but subsequently bragged that his lying helped to defeat Romney.
As for Democrats tasked with separating “what is real and what is fake,” what could be phonier than celebrating the career of perhaps the most ethically challenged person to ever sit in the Senate?
Former NBC anchor Brian Williams gets in on the action as well, declaring that “fake news played a role in the election and continues to find a wide audience.” That’s the same Brian Williams given a six month suspension by NBC for perpetrating fake news stories, especially the whopper29 about being nearly shot down during a helicopter flight over Iraq. Ironically, Williams won the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism and was praised30 by Cronkite, who called Williams a “fastidious newsman.” That’s the same “Uncle Walter” Cronkite never held sufficiently accountable for his lie31 about America losing the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. A lie that prolonged a conflict ultimately costing 54,000 Americans their lives.
“Fake news is hardly a new phenomenon,” Greta Von Susteren aptly asserts32. “For decades, Americans have had an appetite for fringe stories, from grassy knoll conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination to the alien secrets of Area 51 and the baseless notion that 9/11 was an inside job.”
Von Susteren lays the blame for fake news squarely where it belongs. “Part of the reason fake news is so easy to believe is that fringe stories no longer read or sound all that different from too many of the real stories. Too often, both have little or no sourcing; they lack context and they get disseminated with almost no fact-checking.”
Maybe that’s because the Left’s determination to embrace the moral and cultural relativism that appeals to emotion in lieu of objectivity — makes fact-checking subservient.
Subservient to what? The Narrative, in all its “hands up don’t shoot” reality-twisting, divisiveness-inducing and ratings-generating glory.
Add calculated errors of omission to the mix, along with the fact these major media players have a reach that dwarfs that of the fake news purveyors they rail about, and it becomes clear who the most egregious disseminators of fake news are — and whose agenda they are determined to serve, at the price of journalistic integrity.
“Recall that the Times and its co-conspirators created a fictional Trump held aloft by goose-stepping brownshirts and toothless bigots rising from the swamps,” columnist Michael Goodwin explains33. “They aimed to scare the country into supporting Clinton by turning their front pages into editorial pages, where ‘straight news’ became an oxymoron.”
Turning straight news into an oxymoron is an integral part of a progressive ideology and their “never let a crisis go to waste,” “win by any means necessary” worldview. The worldview animated by the disciples of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” who include our current president and Hillary Clinton. Fortunately, their Alinsky-advocated34 vision to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” just got steamrolled by a trash-talking, Twitter-posting political neophyte whose own bona fides — or lack thereof — have yet to be established.
Regardless, Donald Trump has already done the nation an enormous favor: In the course of winning the election, he exposed millions of self-professed “tolerant” leftists as the hateful hysterics they truly are. Better still, it is an “emperor has no clothes” revelation that cannot be walked back in the foreseeable future — all the fake news in the world notwithstanding.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Compromise on ObamaCare Isn’t Really Possible35 — The philosophical divide on health care is likely unbridgeable.
The Rainbow Mafia Claims Another Victim36 — Bed and breakfast owner fined for refusing to host same-sex wedding.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
John Goodman: When Pro-Business Is Pro-Labor37
Peggy Noonan: What Trump Got That Romney Didn’t38
Hans von Spakovsky: Taming the Bureaucratic Beast39
For more, visit Right Opinion40.
OPINION IN BRIEF
John Goodman: “The idea that management and labor are invariably at odds is a Marxist idea. … Labor market regulations that help some workers often do so at the expense of other workers. More often than not, intervention makes all workers worse off. This issue takes on new relevance with Donald Trump’s choice of Andrew Puzder to be the new Secretary of Labor. … Puzder has the unconventional idea that government intervention in the labor market usually prevents labor and management from doing things that would be good for both. Most economists would agree. The gig economy, of which Uber is the epitome, is a perfect example of an unregulated labor market. … I travel a lot and I use Uber a lot and I am in the habit of asking Uber drivers what they think. The results of my informal survey: out of every 15 or so drivers questioned, roughly 14 tell me that they prefer to be independent contractors rather than employees. Those answers are remarkable when you stop to think about all the ways in which the tax law favors employment. … In an ideal world, buyers and sellers of labor services would be able to engage in mutually beneficial exchange without asking permission from government. Let’s hope President Trump and Secretary Puzder can help us move in that direction.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
For the record: “If … progressives want to know what actual treason looks like, they should consult liberal lion Ted Kennedy, who not only allegedly sent secret messages to the Soviets in the midst of the cold war, he also begged them to intervene in a U.S. presidential election in order to unseat President Ronald Reagan. That’s no exaggeration. According to Soviet documents unearthed in the early 1990’s, Kennedy literally asked the Soviets, avowed enemies of the U.S., to intervene on behalf of the Democratic party in the 1984 elections.” —Sean Davis, March 2015
Upright: “When President Obama accuses President-elect Trump of not taking the Russian threat or our democratic allies seriously, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Russian President Vladimir Putin is a very clever man, but he wasn’t internationally powerful until the United States gave him what he wanted during the Obama administration.” —Anne Pierce in the Washington Examiner
Alpha Jackass: “I think [FBI Director James Comey] should be investigated by the Senate. I think he should be investigated by other agencies of the government, including the security agencies. … You look at the accounts [regarding Russia] we have just in the press the last few days, its stunning — stunning — the conclusions reached by the press. Thank goodness we’ve got them still around… This is not fake news, okay?” —Harry Reid
Non Compos Mentis: “Chicago has a great deal of Dreamers — DACA students. … These are kids who are literally, in my view, honoring their parents' sacrifice and struggle to come and embrace the American dream.” —Mayor Rahm Emanuel
And last… “The Russians didn’t tell Hillary Clinton to ignore Wisconsin and Michigan. … She ignored states that she shouldn’t have, and Donald Trump was the change agent.” —Reince Priebus
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
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