Media Corruption
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The New York Times Tried to Fact-Check Donald Trump’s Press Conference – Facts Were Optional
In practiced fashion, the New York Times decided it would provide a team of fact-checkers to tear into Trump’s many claims. What is notable about this exercise is how we have never seen such an application of diligent journalism with the other party. Take, for instance, the public coming out party for Tim Walz this week and his spewing of numerous inaccuracies; we did not see a gathering of analysts dispatched for that event.
But as expected as these admonishments have become, there is one other aspect we can count on – the fact-checkers contorting and corrupting the facts. As the Times displayed, the “facts” are malleable when it comes to Donald Trump. Accuracy becomes secondary to slandering the man as a liar. Here are the shameful results.
NPR Shocked That GOP Mocked Walz Putting Tampons in Boys' Bathrooms
NPR's home page lit up with an article by digital news desk editor and writer Rachel Treisman, “Why Republicans are calling Walz 'Tampon Tim.'” She summarized the Republican mockery of Minnesota governor and Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz for signing into law a requirement that public schools provide menstrual products to students in grades 4-12.
In the girls’ and boys’ bathrooms. This "free period products" movement is supposed to help keep female students in school at their difficult times. NPR was pushing this in 2021. [Image via L.A. Johnson for NPR]
Treisman evaded the reason for the Republican mockery, swerving past the ridiculous image of tampon machines in elementary school boys’ bathrooms, to instead insist how proudly Democrats were embracing Gov. Walz’s “Tampon Tim” epithet.
She did a bait and switch, painting Republicans as virulently opposed to a liberal policy of machines dispending free tampons in girls' bathrooms, when they are actually opposed to a radical policy of machines dispending tampons in elementary school boy’s bathrooms.
I wonder how long before the Aussies go after Rita.
Hijinx
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I was wondering about that too.
You can't argue with a Democrat over her being there for 3,5 yrs and done nothing. All you get back is, Trump this and Trump that.
CBS News Attacked Donald Trump’s ‘No Tax on Tips’ Proposal — Until Kamala Harris Copied Him
Notably, Harris is facing heavy backlash for copying the campaign promise, which Trump first announced, during her campaign rally on Saturday.
Social media users reacted to the vice president’s remark with the hashtag #CopyCatKamala, pointing out that Trump had been campaigning on eliminating taxes on tips for months.
To make matters worse, Harris voted in 2022 to pass legislation to allow the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to track down workers’ tips so that they could be taxed.
On August 7, 2022, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which provided $80 billion in additional funding to the IRS, which then got to work cracking down on the service industry’s reporting of tips for taxation purposes.
On Monday, this revelation became a top trend on X, as social media users flocked to the platform to share that not only is Harris “plagiarizing” Trump’s campaign but her newfound stance is also a flagrant contradiction of her work as vice president.
X’s artificial intelligence, Grok, summarized the top trend with the following explanation:
Trump on X Taps Into a Voting Bloc That Legacy Media Doesn't Even Know Exists
As my colleague Bonchie reported, Axios reporter Sara Fischer appeared on CNN to complain about former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump having an unfettered microphone with Elon Musk on X.
The Monday night conversation hails Trump's return to the X (formerly Twitter) platform where he was unceremoniously booted almost four years before, and it has the entire legacy media complex shook.
As my colleague streiff also reported, a Washington Post reporter asked the Biden Press Secretary whether this interview could be stopped, because "misinformation," or something...
It's amazing and laughable to watch. This media meltdown is more delicious than liberal tears.
In the CNN segment, not only did Fischer complain that Trump might "say whatever he wants," but she insulted an entire bloc of voters that will never read her online scribbles or watch CNN.
CNN Gets Supremely Triggered Over Donald Trump's Interview With Elon Musk
They've taken a decidedly different tack with Trump, though. On CNN, Axios reporter Sara Fischer complained that the former president might (gasp!) "say whatever he wants."
Whoa, Whoa, hold up. Donald Trump may "say whatever he wants?" What does he think this is? The United States of America?
That entire exchange is just mind-numbing. Here we have supposed journalists fretting that someone might dare to exercise their right to free speech without the press overlords being consulted. I mean, Musk might not live "fact-check" Trump with incredibly obtuse and unfair characterizations. Oh, my heavens!