Shutdown & Wall Showdown is a way to easily see Media Bias

Sometimes all you have to do is just sit back and watch. Nothing much else has to be done or said to see clearly how the media distorts fact and purposely misleads the public. This is certainly the situation today with the partial government Shutdown and Wall Showdown stories.

The media reacts the same way a scared animal reacts when cornered by a predator, it goes wild and lashes out. MSU (making stuff up) and exaggerated estimates abound in the news media, portrayed as fact or negatively headlined forcing readers to dig to the end of an article to get the caveat that counters the headline and covers the news organization’s rear end. Individuals interviewed as being in dramatic financial straits are made to appear as the majority. Facts they don’t like are completely ignored. Fact checking is a joke. They often criticize the President and members of his administration for misleading or falsehoods, yet when they explain the falsehood or misleading statement they either confirm the statement true or add their biased opinion as the only evidence something is misleading. The media are so panicked as a result of their ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ that all pretense of balanced reporting is thrown out the window.

Here are some examples:
– reporting of Trump as extreme. And they think Trump is extreme! (page 3)
– Trump interview with media on WH lawn as he heads for helicopter, explains Mexico paying comment, spun totally negatively and inaccurately by almost very media outlet. When this happens in Democrat administrations, the media doesn’t talk about it.
– CNN Newsroom this morning. Poppy Harlow had as her guest Senator John Kennedy. Here we go. HARLOW: You heard the president many times during campaign say that Mexico would pay for the wall, right? They were righteously indignant. KENNEDY: Yes. HARLOW: Okay. So he just said this morning, quote, “I never said this.” That’s not true, he did. Do you think, senator, that the president has misled the American people on who will actually pay for this? THE PRESIDENT: During the campaign I would say Mexico’s going to pay for it. Obviously I never said this, and I never meant, they’re gonna write out a check. I said they’re gonna pay for it. They are. They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made called the United States Mexico and Canada, USMCA deal. It’s a trade deal. They are paying for the wall indirectly many, many times over by the really great trade deal we just made. Congress has to approve the deal.
– reporting Chuck Schumer’s comment vs Trump and Pence separate explanations regarding Trump apparently ‘storming out’ of the border security meeting Thursday like a petulant child. Not just a negative spin by the opposition, but a clear misrepresentation and outright lie by Schumer. No context. No investigation of the assertion by Schumer. Just reported and made to look true with every news organization repeating the claim.
– reporting harm being done by shutdown…none until 1/11, since this is the first day a check was missed. No one missed a check until this day. But, media has been saying they are all missing rent payments. Now they might, but they haven’t been before. Dramatic scare tactics which are so ridiculous that they should be embarrassed to make them.
– reporting Trump lies in his Presidential Address to nation, like when he said other presidents and Democrats have supported a barrier in the past ( video evidence proved him right – any correction or apology or introspection by the media – Nope!)
– The media lets the Democrat Party get away with standing in favor of the import of crime. They are standing in favor of it! They’re standing aside and saying it isn’t any big deal that murderers and rapists and drug dealers are being allowed into the country. They’re saying that’s not a big deal today. They don’t think it’s worth trying to stop. The media ignores this side of the left’s arguments and or then tries to support it with cherry picked data.
– One sided question and reporting example: Trump unloaded on a reporter from ABC News named Jonathan Karl. Trump was discussing the shutdown in the Oval Office after signing an anti-human trafficking bill. Jonathan Karl asked why the President wouldn’t sign other bills that would allow certain workers to get paid while a solution to the shutdown’s negotiated. Trump said to Jonathan Karl (paraphrased exchange), “You think I should do that? You think I should do that, Jon? I mean, I watch your one-sided reporting. You think I should do that?” Karl tried to say, “Hey, Mr. President, it’s not my decision. Not my decision. I’m just asking.” But Trump didn’t back down. “Hey, Jon? No, seriously, Jon. You think I should just sign it? Just tell me, tell me. You think I just sign?” Karl responded that if he signed, certain workers would get paid. Trump said, “So you would do it? If you were in my position, you would do it?” Jonathan Karl started to explain that he’s not in President Trump’s position; Trump cut him off again. “I’m asking you, ‘Would you do that if you were in my position?’ Because if you would do that, you’d never be in this position, ’cause you’d never get anything done. Good-bye, everybody.” These … reporters get in there, and they assume this position of superior judgmentalism, and they go in there with an assumption that anybody would sign this. “Why won’t you sign it?” So Trump calls him out. So it’s purposefully adversarial. It’s not productive. It is designed to portray Trump in one way, and Trump is not gonna let the guy to get away it.
– we move over to CNN … with Don Lemon, who the president’s called maybe the dumbest man on TV. He was on with the USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers about my (Limbaugh’s) impact on President Trump’s decision to stand firm on a border wall, and we have the question actually on the bite. So here we go… LEMON: President Limbaugh said, “Oh, no, no, no, no,” and then he reneged on the deal. So this isn’t a both sides. The president is the one who’s not negotiating here.
– Illegal border crossings have been declining for nearly two decades. These numbers are only reported through 2016 and cherry picked from 57 pages of a report. NYT reports this among others. Then they provide this quote, in the negatively headlined supporting link of the same section in which they deny border crisis by saying border crossings are down – – –
“A crisis of the kind President Trump has long warned of is beginning to take shape along the country’s 1,900-mile border with Mexico”. So, which is it NYT?
– all mainstream media use same words and phrases to describe the situation which match perfectly the Democrat talking points – why? Here is a media montage calling this a ‘manufactured crisis’.
– Maggie Haberman of the New York Times is out reporting that the president had a lunch … with anchors the day of his national address. These are all off the record, but some of these Drive-By anchors decided to tell other reporters what happened. Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported that Trump didn’t even want to do this national address, that he didn’t even think it was gonna matter, but that his communications staff was telling him he had to do it, and so he was gonna do it but that he didn’t think it was gonna matter. Well, CNN is reporting that Trump said not only did he not want to deliver Tuesday night’s televised speech, but he doesn’t want to go to the border today, either! He didn’t want to do either, because he doesn’t think it’s gonna matter. So what we have here is glaring media malpractice. So they accept the invitation, they lie to him and his staff saying they’ll accept off the record, and then after the lunch they go out and they start telling people what happened in there, probably making this up. If Trump doesn’t want to do something, Trump doesn’t do it. The media usually criticizes Trump for not listening to his advisors. So even if this was true, it is completely inconsistent for Trump according to the media.
– At this little gaggle, he dubbed the media the opposition party. He accused them of working with Democrats. He called out NBC News as the most dishonest that he’s ever seen. THE PRESIDENT: We’re negotiating and having tremendous success with China — and I find China, frankly, in many ways to be far more honorable than Cryin’ Chuck and Nancy. I really do. I think that China is actually much easier to deal with than the opposition party. … That went over like a lead balloon. That did not sit well, that the ChiComs are more honorable than Cryin’ Chuck and Nancy, that they’re much easier to deal with because they’re more up front and honest than Chuck and Nancy. It’s much more productive dealing with the ChiComs than it is with the Democrats. The media? Oh!
– This is Dana Bash. Now, Dana Bash, you need to know this if you don’t. Dana Bash and Pelosi, I think, for all intents and purposes, are from the same womb. I mean, not literally. That’s the kind of thing Trump would say to describe how close they are. But she is protective of Pelosi. I’m sure that there is a pipeline. Dana Bash is close to a slew of Democrats on Capitol Hill. And she will defend them like a mother protecting her children. And it’s so patently obvious. And so when Trump said today that he finds the ChiComs more honorable to deal with than crying Nancy and Chuck, that he finds Xi Jinping to be a nicer, more decent, honorable guy than Chuck, she just lost it. She was having a tough time dealing with that insult. So she goes on CNN and she’s talking to the cohost, Jim Sciutto, and here’s what she said. BASH: Just the notion of saying that the elected leaders of Congress are less honorable in terms of negotiating than China, the country that steals our intellectual property, that has people in jail for trying to speak out. I mean, I’m talking to a person who lived there for a long time. You can probably list all of the egregious things that they do more than I. You can make your point and stand on what you think is your political high ground without going there. I mean, that just undermines the arguments that he’s making. The idea that Dana Bash is offended because the Trumpster happened to say he has a better time getting along with a ChiCom leader than Chuck and Nancy. Well, I’ll guaran-damn-tee, the Drive-By Media would much rather go to dinner with Fidel Castro than they would Newt Gingrich. And one of the reasons they admired Obama and all these other totalitarians is that they are envious of the power these people have.

This could go on forever…

Just watch and/or read the headlines of a story, then read the body text of the article or watch to the end of the video. You will find the media loudly attacking Trump and then saying something in a whisper at the end, which counters their headline point.

Happens every day, all day long.