The Media Are Lying To You About Everything, Including The Riots
The media lied about the Russia collusion hoax, about the Mueller probe, about impeachment, about the coronavirus—and now they’re lying about the riots.
It seems no great event or upheaval in our national life can pass now without the media lying to our faces about it.
They lied about the Trump campaign colluding with Russia in 2016. They lied about the Mueller probe and Brett Kavanaugh and former national security adviser Mike Flynn. They lied about Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president and the impeachment farce that ensued. They lied about the coronavirus and the lockdowns and the White House response. And now they’re lying about the riots.
In recent days we’ve heard a steady drumbeat of lies, distortions, and disingenuousness from the mainstream media about almost every aspect of the unrest now gripping American cities. The deceit is almost too pervasive and amorphous to describe, but I’m going to try anyway....
All that 'Trump-inspired' violence is now looking very different amid riots
...[W]here’s all the Trump-inspired violence we were told to anticipate? What happened to that inevitable rise of white nationalism that’s supposedly been looming since Election Day 2016?
For days, weeks, and months on end, we had it drilled into our collective consciousness that a faint breeze was about to send us all plummeting into nationwide violence sparked by President Trump’s rhetoric and racism.
And yet, here we are today. If anything, it’s the opposite. At the very least, it’s safe to say that the people sending police stations up in flames, looting Macy's for new shoes, and in the words of Democratic Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, “running out with brown liquor in your hands, breaking windows,” are not Trump supporters....
...So, in what way, again, is he responsible for riotous acts committed by people who hate him? It’s the media's perpetual blame of Trump and his supporters for riots that has more to do with the unrest than anything he has ever said.
To date, the one case of mass violence that you could arguably attribute to white supremacy in the last three years was the Walmart shooting in El Paso, which left two dozen people dead. The shooter had published a manifesto confessing his fears over immigrants replacing whites, though he explicitly said his views predate Trump’s political career.
But in the past three days, government buildings have been set on fire, police have been attacked, at least nine people (according to the Associated Press) have been killed, countless more have been injured, and untold damage has been done to private and commercial property, all amid the nationwide protests.
The hotly anticipated “Trump-inspired violence” never came to be. Instead, we got this. And when the media aren’t agitating, they’re coming up with excuses for the mayhem — like, for example, blaming the president.
So much for all the media’s warnings about obscure “white nationalist” elements such as 4chan and the Proud Boys. How long will it take them to identify where the real violence is coming from? That never seems to get a name.