EDITORIAL
Five Propaganda Hoaxes That Blew Up In The Media’s Face In 2024
John Loftus
Editor at Large
December 31, 2024 8:30 AM ET
The media had a rough year, a dishonest one, worsened only by a high-stakes election — that’s something to both celebrate and lament.
Month after month, corporate media opened up a firehose of propaganda, the worst of which was that President Joe Biden was as energetic as a spring chicken and brighter than an MIT math whiz. It was such a naked lie that it’s hard to believe it was spread so far and wide. But it was.
Corporate media’s failure to seek truth should be celebrated, yet it should also serve as a warning. They still have power, if a little, to protect the corrupt and powerful, and push narratives that harm the country. On that note, it’s worth revisiting their worst hoaxes, starting with one of the earliest of the year.
American Bloodbath
At a rally in March, then-candidate Donald Trump discussed China’s plan to manufacture cars in Mexico and then sell them across the southern border, which would have decimated U.S. auto workers. He issued a drastic warning using the rather apt word “bloodbath” that liberal corporate media took way out of context.
“We’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys — if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” he said.
In the next 24 hours, Politico, Mediaite, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, and others all ran disingenuous headlines, while liberal pundits pretended that Trump was calling for a wave of political violence if he lost.
The Gold Stars Grimace
Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery in August to honor the 13 soldiers killed during the Biden administration’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan three years prior. Kamala Harris, her campaign and liberal media attempted to make Trump’s appearance a massive political scandal, with the vice president leading the charge.
“As Vice President, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times. It is a solemn place; a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation. It is not a place for politics,” Harris said. She also went on to spread more hoaxes that Trump disparaged fallen vets and called them “suckers” and “losers.”
“This is nothing new from Donald Trump. This is a man who has called our fallen service members ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients. A man who, during a previous visit to the cemetery, reportedly said of fallen service members, ‘I don’t get it. What was in it for them?'”
However, eight Gold Star families spoke out against Harris, and said that they invited Trump to the ceremony. They also noted that Harris had never reached out to them since they lost their children in Kabul in 2021.
A Taste Of Her Own Medicine
Trump set the media into a fit of rage-filled dishonesty after he said on Halloween that war hawk Liz Cheney should get a taste of her own medicine.
“I think it hurts Kamala a lot actually, [Cheney’s] a deranged person, but the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war,” Trump said of Kamala Harris’s choice to campaign with Cheney. “She wanted to go — she wanted to stay in Syria. I took them out. She wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean, if it were up to her, we’d be in 50 different countries. She’s a radical war hawk.”
“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,” Trump said. “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.'”
Countless pundits and outlets portrayed Trump’s common-sense remark as a call for Cheney to face a firing squad.
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READ MORE: https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/31/media-hoaxes-biased-journalism-kamala-harris-donald-trump-election-year/
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