I remember a quote from Goebbels the Nazi propaganda minister "Put 1 part truth and 2 part lie in a statement, it makes the total lie easy to swallow. And in my mind, that is what the left does, they put a kernel of truth in their statement and build a whole narrative around it making it easy to push it through friendly news outlets and influencers and other gatekeepers of the media industrial complex.
There is an old rule of politics that deserves to be carved in granite above every newsroom, faculty lounge, and activist headquarters in the Western world: never let facts get in the way of a perfectly good narrative. If recent years have taught us anything, it is that many of our institutions have become less interested in discovering the truth than in selecting it. Increasingly, events are not examined to determine what happened. They are examined to determine how they can be made to fit an existing ideological framework. Once the framework is established, facts become optional accessories, useful if they support the narrative and disposable if they do not.
If you are paying attention, you are watching some of the global left’s favorite narrative streams fall apart in real time. The problem is not that they occasionally get things wrong, it is that the mistakes seem remarkably consistent. The errors almost always lean in the same direction, reinforce the same assumptions, flatter the same worldview, and advance the same political objectives. After a while, coincidence begins to look suspiciously like a business model.
Consider Canada’s residential-school “mass graves” scandal. For a brief period, the story became an international sensation. Headlines and politicians alike spoke as though thousands of murdered Indigenous children had been discovered in hidden burial grounds, evidence of a national crime so monstrous that it demanded a collective reckoning. Churches were vandalized and burned. Public officials issued apologies. Entire institutions were condemned. Yet beneath the tidal wave of certainty was a rather inconvenient detail: no mass graves had actually been found. Ground-penetrating radar had identified anomalies beneath the soil. Such anomalies may indicate graves, but they may also indicate rocks, roots, or other disturbances. Excavation and forensic verification were required before conclusions could be drawn. The narrative, however, could not wait for something as mundane as evidence.
The accusation had already served its purpose.
I think Nancy Pelosi called it a “wrap-up smear.”
A similar pattern emerged recently in Britain with the death of Henry Nowak. Initial reporting focused heavily on allegations that Nowak had uttered a racial slur. The implication was unmistakable. The public was invited to view the story through the familiar lens of hate speech and prejudice. The fact that Nowak had been stabbed and was bleeding to death while police restrained him seemed almost secondary. Subsequent reporting cast doubt on whether the alleged slur had occurred at all, but by then the narrative machinery had already done its work. The public had been instructed on what lesson to take away from the event long before all the facts were known.
This pattern is hardly confined to those two examples. Americans will remember Jussie Smollett, whose alleged hate-crime victimhood became a national symbol of racial and political tensions before investigators concluded that the attack itself had apparently been fabricated. They may remember Covington Catholic, where a few carefully selected seconds of video transformed a group of Kentucky teenagers into national villains before fuller footage revealed a far more complicated reality. They may recall how questioning whether COVID originated in a laboratory was once treated as evidence of dangerous conspiracy thinking, only to watch that same possibility later become a legitimate subject of scientific and governmental investigation. In each case, certainty arrived first and evidence wandered in much later looking confused and underdressed.
What makes these episodes remarkable is not merely that the narratives collapsed. Narratives have always collapsed. The remarkable thing is that virtually nobody responsible ever seems to suffer any consequences. The journalists who promoted the story remain journalists. The experts remain experts. The politicians remain politicians. The activists remain activists. The correction receives a fraction of the attention devoted to the original claim, and then everyone proceeds to the next moral emergency as though nothing happened. There is never a serious accounting of how the mistake occurred, why basic skepticism was abandoned, or what safeguards might prevent a recurrence. The institutional memory appears to last approximately as long as a mayfly.
The late H. L. Mencken famously observed that the aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. One suspects he would find modern politics both familiar and deeply amusing. Our hobgoblins are now distributed globally, amplified electronically, and repeated continuously by institutions that increasingly resemble advocacy organizations wearing the borrowed clothing of objective inquiry. Every week presents a new crisis, a new villain, a new demand that the public suspend judgment and place its trust in authorities who seem to have misplaced theirs.
Yet reality remains stubborn. It is the great enemy of ideological storytelling because it possesses no loyalty to political tribes. Facts have an irritating tendency to survive contact with narratives. They refuse to stay buried, no matter how much effort is devoted to shoveling dirt on top of them. They resurface months or years later, often after reputations have been destroyed, institutions have been damaged, and public trust has been squandered.
Perhaps that is why confidence in so many of our major institutions continues to decline. People are not losing trust because institutions occasionally make mistakes. They are losing trust because the mistakes increasingly appear to be motivated, predictable, and protected. Citizens can forgive honest error. What they find much harder to forgive is the growing suspicion that many of the people charged with informing the public have decided that persuasion is more important than truth.
The truth, unfortunately for them, is a difficult thing to suppress permanently. It may take its time, but time is a narrative’s worse enemy. While it may arrive late and not generate headlines as dramatic as the original accusation, eventually it does show up.
When it does, it usually finds the architects of the narrative already searching for the next one.
Happy New Year to my friends out there in the Blogosphere, Yes I'm working...Yes Its New Years Day, and Yes I work in the Aviation field, there are no such thing as a Holiday. Anybody that works in what is classified as "essential, back in the Covid days or served in the Military or classified as a "First Responder"knows what I am talking about. I am squeezing in this post in real quick, I hope heads roll over the Somali daycare scams and some of the others but I do fear that after all the fuss dies down, it will be *Bidness as usual* and nothing is done, the apparatus that is known as the *deep state* will run interference so nobody gets punished....again unless they are from the "right side of the aisle" and they wonder why people's faith in our institutions are at an all time low.
Because it is "New Years Day," I decided to throw out a bonus Music video.
I decided to go with U2 and the song "New Years day" because the video uses a lot of combat camera footage from the Soviets and I though that was pretty neat. This album got a heavy playlist on MTV, that is where I heard of it and subsequently bought the CD a few years later when I was stationed in Germany from the PX at Robinson Barracks.
The boy on the cover is Peter Rowen (brother of Bono's friend, Guggi). He also appears on the covers of Boy, Three, The Best of 1980–1990, Early Demos and many singles. Bono described the reasoning behind the cover: "Instead of putting tanks and guns on the cover, we've put a child's face. War can also be a mental thing, an emotional thing between loves. It doesn't have to be a physical thing."
"New Year's Day" is a song by rock band U2. It is on their 1983 album War and it was released as the album's lead single in January 1983. Written about the Polish Solidarity movement, "New Year's Day" is driven by Adam Clayton's distinctive bassline and The Edge's piano and guitar playing. It was the band's first UK hit single, peaking at no. 10, also becoming the band's first international hit, reaching for example no. 9 in Norway, no. 11 on the Dutch Top 40, no. 17 in Sweden and charting on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States (just missing the Top 50) for the first time in their career. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine placed the single at #435 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". This song was also included in the Pitchfork 500.
The lyric had its origins in a love song from Bono to his wife, but was subsequently reshaped and inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement. The bass part stemmed from bassist Adam Clayton trying to figure out what the chords to the Visage song "Fade to Grey" were. In 1983, Bono said of the song, "It would be stupid to start drawing up battle lines, but I think the fact that 'New Year's Day' made the Top Ten indicated a disillusionment among record buyers. I don't think 'New Year's Day' was a pop single, certainly not in the way that Mickie Most might define a pop single as something that lasts three minutes and three weeks in the chart. I don't think we could have written that kind of song."
"New Year's Day" is U2's fifth most frequently performed live song, with The Edge switching back and forth between piano and guitar during the song. It has been a standard on every U2 tour since its debut on 1 December 1982 at the first show of the War Tour's Pre-Tour. During the 1980s, The Edge used a Fender Stratocaster to perform this song, along with a keyboard. During the 1990s and 2000s (decade), he has alternated between a Gibson Les Paul Custom and Les Paul Standard. The Les Paul the Edge used to write this song was sold for charity. Up until the Elevation Tour, Clayton normally used a chorus effect on his bass guitar for this song live. In the Top of the Pops performance, Bono is seen playing guitar. "New Year's Day" has appeared on many of U2's concert video releases including 1983's U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky, Zoo TV: Live from Sydney, PopMart: Live from Mexico City, U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago, Live from Paris, and U2 3D. The B-side of "New Year's Day", "Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop?)", was never performed live. However, an early version known simply as "Pete the Chop" was played at some concerts in 1980. During the Vertigo Tour at Silesian Stadium in Poland a quite remarkable example of fan action occurred. During New Year's Day, the lower sections of the crowd waved red coloured items while other sections waved white, creating the Polish flag and stunning the band. This was repeated during the U2 360° Tour at the same venue.
The video was one of their first to see heavy rotation on MTV. It was filmed in Sälen, Sweden in December 1982 and directed by Meiert Avis. The band only appeared in the performance scenes of the video as it was filmed in the dead of the Swedish winter. U2 guitarist Edge revealed in the official U2 biography that the four people riding on horseback in the video that appeared to be the four U2 members were in fact four Swedish teenage girls disguised as the members of U2 riding on horseback with masks over their faces. This was done as the band were frozen from shooting the video in sub-freezing temperatures the day before. Their biography states that Bono refused to wear any headgear despite the cold weather and had a lot of trouble mouthing the lyrics. The video also features footage of Soviet troops advancing in winter during World War II. The video made its debut UK television broadcast on Friday 31 December 1982, on the Channel 4 music programme, 'The Tube'. U2 allowed free-of-charge use of this song in a spot prepared by the European Commission. This clip published on YouTube shows a transformation of Poland in last 20 years mixed with short scenes from today’s Warsaw seen from a perspective of a 20-year-old woman.
I shamelessly clipped this from the "Federalist."
It turns out that when you spend every day parroting the most asinine conspiracies and narratives imaginable, people lose faith in your ability to play it straight pretty quickly. That’s the situation that America’s propaganda media found themselves in this year, as their credibility amongst the public hit the lowest level in recorded history.
For anyone who’s paid attention to their coverage of the 2025 “news” cycle, it’s not hard to see why. From running cover for leftist violence to gaslighting Americans about their role in the cover-up over Joe Biden’s ailing health, the corporate media’s bid to hide the truth was nothing short of remarkable.
So, as a public service, The Federalist has compiled a list of the top 10 biggest hoaxes run by our reality-deprived media throughout the past year. In no particular order, here they are.
Elon the ‘Fascist’
It didn’t take long after President Trump was sworn back into office for the media to pick up right where they left off after his first term.
While celebrating alongside Trump supporters at a post-inauguration event, X owner Elon Musk delivered remarks to attendees, in which he thanked them for making Trump’s victory possible. With his hand over his heart, the tech mogul then pointed to the crowd and said, “My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured.”
Media hacktivists quickly leapt into action to falsely characterize the hand gesture as a “fascist” or “Nazi” salute. This included outlets like PBS News, which wrote on X, “Billionaire Elon Musk gave what appeared to be a fascist salute Monday while making a speech at the post-inauguration celebration for President Donald Trump at the Capital One Arena.”
Anti-Hegseth Campaign
From the day President Trump tapped him to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth has been under a barrage of media smear campaigns and hoaxes. Throughout his Senate confirmation battle to become America’s next war secretary, the media ran endless stories featuring anonymous sources alleging wrongdoing at his prior places of employment and dishonesthit pieces about his personal life — all to keep him from being confirmed.
Even after failing to prevent Hegseth’s confirmation, the media have shifted their focus to ousting him from the position. Throughout the past year, these efforts have included pushing the Signalgate dud, manufacturing a “constitutional crisis” about a Pentagon-led prayer service, elevating the voices of unnamed disgruntled officers to trash Hegseth, and — most recently — fomenting a hoax surrounding the military’s strikes on drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean.
Wait … Joe Biden Wasn’t OK After All?
Despite outlets like The Federalist reporting on it for years, America’s propaganda press didn’t just ignore Joe Biden’s clear cognitive decline — they actively participated in the cover-up. At every turn of his presidency, the media did everything possible to run interference for the doddering Delaware Democrat and preserve their party’s political power.
It was only after Biden disgracefully exited stage right that media hacks like Jake Tapper felt it was OK to acknowledge what those who aren’t regime simps have long known to be true about the now-former president. Earlier this year, the CNN talking head and Axios’ Alex Thompson embarked on a media tour to hawk their new book, which promises readers an inside look at the Democrat-led effort they participated in to hide Biden’s decline from the American public.
If that’s not gaslighting at its absolute worst, then I don’t what is.
A ‘Maryland Man’
Given their willingness to turn a blind eye to the border crisis under the Biden administration, it came as no surprise when the media ran to sow falsehoods about President Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts.
One of the most prominent examples of this came to a head with the deportation of Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a credibly accused MS-13 gang member and wife-beater. Rather than inform their readers that Garcia is an illegal alien and detail his reported criminal record, the media orchestrated a full-blown disinformation campaign to deceive Americans into believing the Trump administration abducted an unsuspecting “Maryland man” off the streets.
One Associated Press headline read, “El Salvador President Bukele says he won’t be releasing a Maryland man back to the US.,” while an NBC News piece partially read, “El Salvador won’t return Maryland man to the U.S. …”
The disinformation op was but one of many that media hacks ran throughout the year to smear and vilify immigration enforcement operations throughout the country.
Whitewashing the Russiagate Scandal
The damaging, years-long Russia collusion hoax would not have been possible without the active participation of America’s corrupt media. So, when explosive records on the subject were released earlier this year, it wasn’t exactly shocking that these so-called “defenders of democracy” immediately moved to sweep it all under the rug.
Declassified by the Trump administration, thesedamningdocumentsshowedhow Obama-era intel leaders included uncorroborated intel in a 2017 intelligence report ordered by President Obama that parroted the false claim that Russia “aspired” for Trump to win the 2016 election. Not only was this and other unsubstantiated intel included at the behest of officials like then-CIA Director John Brennan, but intel contradicting that central claim was left out of the report altogether.
(Meanwhile, The Federalist — which conducts actual journalism — was awarded the 2025 Dao Grand Prize for Investigative Journalism for its work exposing the Russia collusion hoax.)
Sydney Sweeney’s Good Jeans
It’s hard to imagine how even the most deranged members of the corporate press could turn an ad for denim jeans into a controversy about “racism.” And yet, they somehow found a way to do it.
When actress Sydney Sweeney modeled for American Eagle’s summer jeans line, shrieking leftist harpies and other media numskulls immediately rushedto characterize the ad campaign as one that promotes “racism,” “white supremacy,” “eugenics,” and pretty much every other left-wing outrage word you can think of. And then, after being inevitably mocked for their stupid responses, masculinity-challenged media flakes like David French were there to tell us that it was actually those darn right-wingers who made up the entire controversy.
Smearing Charlie Kirk
If you thought the barbaric assassination of a young husband and father of two small children would be enough for the media to change their grotesque ways, then you are gravely mistaken. Almost immediately after the murder of Christian and conservative speaker Charlie Kirk, the despicable ghouls allowed to permeate cable news wasted no time in smearing him.
Less than an hour after news broke that Kirk had been shot, MSNBC (now MS NOW) correspondent Katy Turcharacterized the TPUSA founder as a “divisive” and “polarizing” figure and attempted to frame the shooting around gun access and Utah’s “permissive” firearm laws. She furthermore appeared to express more concern about the political fallout for her Democrat allies than for Kirk, saying, “You can imagine the [Trump] administration using this as a justification for something.”
Meanwhile Tur’s then-colleague Matthew Dowd initially suggested that Kirk could’ve been shot as the result of a “supporter shooting their gun off in celebration,” and then pivoted to smearing Kirk as “one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures … who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech … aimed at certain groups.” (Dowd was later fired for his repulsive conduct.)
The smears were two of the numerousmedia-led character assassination campaigns against Kirk that occurred in the wake of his assassination.
Excusing Leftist Violence
The assassination of Charlie Kirk. The attempted assassinations of Donald Trump. Attacks on ICE agents. The destruction of Tesla cars and dealerships. The firebombing of pro-life centers. The 2020 Black Lives Matter “summer of love” riots. The mafia-like murder of a health care CEO. The 2017 congressional baseball shooting. The attempted killing of Brett Kavanaugh. Transgender-led terror attacks on Christians.
These are but a few of the many acts of leftist violence to plague America in recent years — a problem that keeps getting worse by the minute. But according to our propaganda media, this is all just a figment of conservatives’ imagination.
When they’re not tryingtodownplayor “both sides” the issue, these so-called “journalists” are busyvictim-blaming Republicans for getting attacked by Democrats’ wacko footsoldiers. And in the case of outlets like The Economist, they’ll even report out garbage studiesconducted by literal Antifa to push the bogus narrative that political violence is really a right-wing problem.
Democrat Lawfare? Never Heard of It
If you pay close enough attention, you may notice a slight difference in the way the media covered the Biden administration and other Democrat prosecutors’ lawfare against Donald Trump and how they responded to the Trump administration moving to hold Dems’ corrupt allies accountable for their allegedly unlawful actions.
When Biden and Co. attempted to imprison Republicans’ 2024 presidential candidate on the eve of a major election, the “democracy dies in darkness” crowd could not have been more ecstatic. This unprecedented lawfare, media entities like The New York Times editorial board reasoned, was necessary to preserve what they professed to be the rule of law.
Yet when the Trump administration moved to hold figures like James Comey and John Bolton accountable for their allegedly unlawful actions, many of these same hacks have (unsurprisingly) been singing a different tune. Throughout the past year, they have twisted themselves into pretzels to deceive the American public into believing that this has nothing to do with the corrupt activities of such individuals and everything to do with Trump exacting “political retribution” against his enemies — all while ignoring their allies’ past lawfare against the president.
War on SCOTUS
The media’s bid to discredit the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices is not a new phenomenon. But this year, it took on a new phase.
With left-wing activists and groups filing lawsuits against the Trump administration at every turn, predominantly Democrat-appointed judges have been quick to grant these actors’ requests to issue overreaching injunctions designed to grind the president’s agenda to a halt. Several of these cases have since made their way up to the Supreme Court, which has stopped many of the legally dubious orders from going into effect while litigation continues in the lower judiciary.
Seizing the opportunity, the media have used the conservative justices’ willingness to stifle this judicial coup as part of their campaign to destroy the court. These regime mouthpieces have since adopted the bogus narrative that, by following the law, SCOTUS is doing the bidding of Trump, whom they gleefully paint as a lawless authoritarian.
“The Supreme Court Is Trump’s Partner in Crimes Against America,” a September Rolling Stone headline read.
“The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team,” blared a September Vox article.
I shamelessly clipped this off "Bongino Reports". I have repeatedly been told and honestly believe that the legacy media signed their death warrant this past election cycle, when they were soo in the tank for the present administration and the shamelessly mouthpieces reading scripts straight from the DNC printing presses, it kinda burned a lot of people.
In no particular order, here are the biggest hoaxes and misinformation campaigns run by corporate media hacktivists this year.
Americans who have lived through Donald Trump’s political career are no strangers to legacy media disinformation. From the Russia collusion hoax to the “very fine people” Charlottesville lie, the litany of dishonest info ops from left-wing activists masquerading as journalists is too long to count.
And despite Americans’ waning trust in their ability to report news accurately and fairly, these Democrat Party yes-men show no signs of stopping.
Like years before it, 2024 saw no shortage of media hijinks. Whether it was their coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign or participation in Democrats’ war on the Supreme Court, America’s propaganda press maintained its ethically bankrupt reputation.
So, in no particular order, here are the biggest hoaxes and misinformation campaigns run by legacy media hacktivists this year.
1. Bloodbath
Taking Trump’s remarks out of context is one of legacy media’s favorite pastimes — and March’s “bloodbath” nontroversy was no exception.
Speaking to rallygoers in Ohio, the former and soon-to-be president warned that the U.S. automobile industry would face an economic “bloodbath” if Democrats won the White House in 2024. Media acolytes quickly jumped on the former president’s comments, which they distorted to make it appear as if Trump was threatening a literal bloodbath if he lost his reelection bid.
Left-wing outlets such as NBC News, CBS News, The New York Times, and others ran headlines using this dishonest framing.
“Trump says country faces ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November,” a March 16 Politico headline reads.
2. War on SCOTUS
While Democrat mouthpiece ProPublicakickstarted a media war on the Supreme Court last year with smear attacks on Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, The New York Times took its hysteria to a whole new level.
In May, the outlet fabricated a controversy about an upside-down American flag flown at the Virginia residence of Alito and his wife, which the outlet claimed was a symbol adopted by “some” “Stop the Steal” protestors on Jan. 6, 2021. Justice Alito told the paper that he “had no involvement whatsoever” in flying the flag, but that it was placed there by his wife to protest a neighbor’s profane yard signs.
Despite claims of ethics violations from so-called “experts,” The Federalist’s Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland — who researched judicial ethics rules as a law clerk for years — noted that the Gray Lady’s “effort to smear Justice Alito as unethical based on the flag incident cannot withstand scrutiny” and “[t]he calls for Alito to recuse from [Jan. 6-related] cases have no basis in sanity.”
America’s “newspaper of record” wasn’t done attempting to tarnish Alito, however. A few days later, the Times ran anotherhit piece against the justice over an “Appeal to Heaven” flag flown at one of his homes. While well-known and originating from the Revolutionary War, the Times attempted to gin up controversy over the flag by claiming it represents “a push to remake American government in Christian terms.”
3. Hiding Biden’s Cognitive Decline
If you’re looking for an example of how the media interfere in our elections, look no further than their concentrated effort to hide Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
When videos showcasing Biden’s senility went viral on social media over the summer, media hacktivists adopted the White House’s baseless claim the clips were “cheap fakes.” Only after the president’s disastrous, lie-filled debate performance against Trump did the media realize they could no longer hide this massive scandal from the public.
Of course, their subsequent acknowledgment of Biden’s faltering health clearly had nothing to do with the republic’s well-being and everything to do with their concerns it could harm Democrats’ prospects of holding the White House in November.
4. Project 2025
It didn’t take long for the media to make The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” their go-to bogeyman during the 2024 campaign.
Developed to provide a conservative roadmap for the incoming Trump administration, the plan became the subject of hyperbolic articles and Democrat speeches designed to brainwash voters into believing it would destroy the country as we know it if Trump were to get elected. In actuality, Trump has repeatedly said he was not affiliated with Project 2025, and the proposal recommends policies conservatives have supported for decades.
5. What’s a Border Czar?
After Democrat oligarchs orchestrated a silent coup to replace Biden with Kamala Harris on the 2024 ticket, the media jumped into action to cover up the vice president’s myriad failures — including her role as “border czar.”
To hide Harris’ incompetence from voters, left-wing journos pretended Biden never tapped her to oversee the invasion at the U.S.-Mexico border. Left-wing rags like Axios went as far as to claim Harris “never actually had” the “border czar” moniker — despite the outlet repeatedly referring to her as such in previous articles.
6. Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Visit
Obviously seeking to tarnish Trump ahead of the November election, anti-truth NPR ran an anonymously sourced hit piece attacking the former president for — wait for it — visiting Arlington National Cemetery at the request of Gold Star families.
The smear campaign was aimed at fomenting a controversy about Trump’s team taking photos and videos of the former president’s visit alongside the loved ones of those killed during Biden’s disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. The media hoax didn’t sit well with the Gold Star families, who blasted Kamala Harris, Democrats, and, by extension, their corporate press allies for attempting to politicize the event.
7. Show Me the Garbage!
Legacy media propagandists had their hands full in the closing days of the 2024 election after Biden referred to the tens of millions of Americans who support Trump as “garbage.”
Amid fears that the president’s remarks could hurt Harris’ electoral prospects, the “democracy dies in darkness” crowd rushed to cover up the scandal. While Politico’s Johnathan Lemire employed the media’s classic “Republicans pounce!” framing, NPR’s David Folkenflik decided to play doctor and mind reader for a day, telling his X followers he “listened to [Biden’s comments] several times” and came away with the conclusion that the president’s supposed “stutter” problem is to blame.
8. Trump’s Liz Cheney Comments
One of the biggest media-driven hoaxes concocted this year was the manipulation of Trump’s remarks about Liz Cheney.
While speaking at an event days before the Nov. 5 election, Trump critiqued Cheney’s obsession with overseas military adventurism. The former president referred to Cheney as a “radical war hawk” and defended the troops forced to fight in the never-ending conflicts neocons like Cheney would never personally partake in.
“Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it … when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,’” Trump said.
In the wake of Biden’s “garbage” smear, the media rushed to distort Trump’s comments to make it appear as if he was calling for Cheney to be executed via firing squad. The disinformation operation represented a clear attempt to smear Trump ahead of the election and boost Harris’ prospects.
9. What Assassination Attempts?
If you watched and read nothing but legacy media, there’s a good chance you’d know little to nothing about the two assassination attempts against Trump this year.
After a longtime Democrat donor allegedly tried to kill the incoming president on his Palm Beach golf course in September, left-wing propagandists at NBC News and The Washington Post downplayed the attempted murder as nothing more than an “incident.” Outlets like Time magazine whitewashed the suspect’s history of donating to Democrats, characterizing him in a tweet as a “58-year-old with unclear political ideology.”
Such dishonest propaganda isn’t surprising, however. It’s the same playbook these media hacks — who spent years leading an “assassination prep” campaign with horrific smears and lies directed at Trump — deployed when initially “covering” the first assassination attempt against Trump in July.
10. The Atlantic’s Hitler Hysteria
In a last-ditch attempt to salvage Kamala Harris’ flailing presidential bid, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg — who ran the debunked 2020 “suckers” and losers” smear — published an anonymously sourced October hit piece with claims that Trump said he wanted “the kind of generals that Hitler had.” It also contained accusations that Trump expressed anger about paying for the funeral services of a murdered Army soldier.
To the media, it didn’t matter that the soldier’s sister blasted Goldberg for his anti-Trump fabrications, or that numerous former Trump administration officials debunked the bogus claims. What mattered was regurgitating The Atlantic’s slanderous hatchet job, whichtheydid with no questions asked.
