Busted: Deceitful Media Lied About Trump’s Speech in 3 Racially Charged Headlines
With all the recent consternation from the mainstream media over the prevalence of “fake news,” and the constant grumblings about the dangers that low-information voters present, you’d think the media would take care extra care in their reporting these days.
Wrong.
The Chicago Tribune published a piece covering President-elect Donald Trump’s Thursday rally in Hershey, Pa. And, as it turns out, the story’s headline is a complete lie. The Tribune’s headline:
“Trump calls on Pennsylvania crowd to cheer African-Americans who ‘didn’t come out to vote.’”
Again — a complete falsehood. It says to the reader that Trump encouraged the crowd to cheer for black people who stayed home on Election Day — an overtly racially-charged act. But Trump did not say what the Tribune claims.
Watch for yourself (The comment in question is at the 6:48 mark. Trump begins his discussion of the black vote at the 6:20 mark):
“They didn’t come out to vote for Hillary,” Trump said.
Trump was not asking people to applaud the non-participation of black citizens; he was commending those who did not vote for his opponent — a corrupt, lying, nasty woman.
But the media has a narrative to sell to the people who don’t read past headlines. And so the New York Daily News writes:
“SEE IT: Donald Trump on ‘Thank You’ tour thanks ‘smart’ African-Americans for not voting in 2016 election.”
And Raw Story says:
“Trump tells Pennsylvania fans they can thank African-Americans for not voting in November election.”
And “journalists” push that narrative.
How did we elect this racist POS? https://t.co/lfTGaO6t9u pic.twitter.com/P8lTEYqNfJ
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) December 16, 2016
#Trump to white crowd: Cheer for the African Americans who helped me win by not bothering to go to the polls https://t.co/1qN2fBOkFO
— David Beard (@dabeard) December 16, 2016
In their hatred of Donald Trump, the mainstream media are perfectly willing to fabricate news (or blatantly mislead, at the very least) if it makes the president-elect look like the evil, racist, monster that they insist he is. And the media does this despite the ease with which relevant facts disprove their narratives.
What is most confounding of all, though, is that the gaffe-prone Donald Trump says enough stupid things that they shouldn’t have to make up “news.” For instance, Trump recently said that African-American voters not showing up to the polls was “almost as good” as those who showed up to vote for him.
“The African American community was great to us,” Trump told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Mich., last week. “They came through, big league. Big league. And frankly if they had any doubt, they didn’t vote. And that was almost as good because a lot of people didn’t show up. Because they felt good about me.”
See, there in Grand Rapids was when Trump said something similar to what the media are implying Trump said this week. They didn’t have to lie about Trump’s comments in Pennsylvania to make their point. But they did lie in their headlines. In their efforts to spread misinformation, The Chicago Tribune and company have embarrassed themselves at the height of this fake-news hysteria.
I don’t consider myself a journalist; I’m a commentator. And so I’ll offer this comment: The point of journalism, it seems to me, is to simply report the facts and truth. It is to inform people of “the real story” when others attempt to spread lies or hide the truth.
The reason people are falling for “fake news” is because the self-proclaimed truth-tellers in MSM are willfully spreading lies. If you are a member of the mainstream media and you want people to believe in you again, stop twisting the facts. Stop pushing narratives.
Start telling the truth. (For more from the author of “Busted: Deceitful Media Lied About Trump’s Speech in 3 Racially Charged Headlines” please click HERE)
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