Bits and Pieces

Censored

Although the unemployment rate remained very low, 4.1%, in March, and the economy added 103,000 jobs, the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news shows didn’t report that positive news, not one mention. They had more important things to cover, apparently. NBC’s Nightly News, for instance, reported on the “very first space hotel,” which charges $10 million for a 12-night stay and is taking reservations for 2022.

Although the unemployment rate is still very low, 4.1%, the liberal media do all they can to keep this positive news hidden.

NBC also let Americans know about the “rare birth” of a reindeer in Maine and the popularity of axe-throwing facilities. ABC’s World News Tonight ran a story on the tearful prison reunion between the Menendez brothers, who murdered their parents 20 years ago in their Beverly Hills home. The CBS Evening News chose to report on GPS programs, such as Waze, which sends drivers on a “dangerous detour” through one of the steepest roads in Los Angeles.”

Yes, It’s Fake 

A recent poll from Monmouth University showed that Americans are very skeptical of “fake news” in the Old Media. When asked if traditional news sources such as TV and newspapers ever report fake news, 77% of Americans said “yes.” That number is up from 63% last year. Only 21% said the traditional media don’t run fake news.

Also, when asked if the Old Media were pushing fake news by accident/mistakes or for political reasons, 42% said it was for a political agenda while only 26% said it was because of “poor fact checking.” The poll further found that 65% of Americans believe that the traditional media deliberately push fake news through their story selection and the facts that they choose to emphasize.

It seems that when President Trump mentions fake news, a lot of Americans know exactly what he’s talking about.

Sheriffs Censored

A letter sent to Congress demanding that it pass legislation to tighten “border security” and upgrade existing border barriers was signed by 380 members of the National Sheriffs Association and the liberal media completely censored it.

The signers represent about 12% of the counties in 41 states, including all of Pennsylvania and the border counties of Cochise, Pima, and Yuma in Arizona. 

In the letter, the sheriffs state: “We have been warning the Federal government about detrimental increases in transnational drug trafficking, gang violence, sex trafficking, murder, and other escalating incidents of crime by illegal aliens entering our country…. Further delay and inaction on immigration reform will cost more innocent lives, more financial hardships, and an even greater decline in the public trust that is essential to the preservation of our Republic.”

ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, AP, the New York Times, and Google News, among countless other liberal outlets didn’t report the story. The only exceptions were Newsweek and Fox News.

David Gergen

Trump = Death

Longtime Washington insider and CNN contributor David Gergen pulled no punches when he declared President Trump was killing democracy and compared him to Turkey’s totalitarian leader Recep Erdogan. On Anderson Cooper 360, April 5, Gergen railed that Trump is “as dismissive of truth as he is of ethics. We go on and on and on with this.”

As for Erdogan, Gergen continued, he gives speeches “like this every day. Two or three on national television, he pays no attention to facts, he tells a total number of lies, he’s charismatic, and he maintains about a 40% steady approval rating. Guess who else has about 40% these days? Donald Trump. So, it [lying] is a device that works up to a point. David Gergen And I’m sad to say it also can lead to the diminishment of democracy, if not its death.”

What MS-13 Story? 

Here’s another story completely ignored by the TV networks: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported in early April that 99 members of the sadistic MS-13 gang had entered the U.S. as “unaccompanied minors.” In addition, as the MRC’s CNSNews.com reported, 64 of those 99 were granted “Special Immigrant Juvenile Status” (SIJ) by the government after they illegally entered America. SIJ means the “juvenile” gang-bangers can seek permanent U.S. residence because of previous abuse, neglect, or abandonment.

In addition to the “unaccompanied minor” gangsters, ICE and other law agencies arrested 475 individuals since last May in a national anti-MS-13 operation. At least 80 of those caught had

prior criminal histories, including assault and weapons charges. Two gang-bangers admitted to killing people in their home countries, one of whom murdered a rival at age 12; another admitted to killing three rivals when he was 13.

ICE is doing heroic work, but the liberal media don’t want you to know about it.

Although the top two people at the FBI – the director and deputy director --were fired, and one was found to have lied under oath three times, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin claims “accusations against the FBI are lunatic conspiracy theories.”

‘Lunatic Conspiracy’

Although there is a mountain of evidence documenting political corruption at the FBI and potential crimes, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin dismisses it all as lunacy. There’s no need for a second special prosecutor, Toobin declared on The Situation Room, because “most of the accusations against the FBI are lunatic conspiracy theories, just not grounded in anything.” Well, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired because he lied 4 times to federal investigators. When McCabe was “investigating” Hillary Clinton’s email case, his wife received nearly $700,000 from Democratic PACs.

FBI Director James Comey leaked memos to the media, a potential crime, which triggered the special counsel investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion. Comey was fired by Trump based on a memo written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who, in turn, then appointed Special Counsel Mueller to investigate Trump. The FBI got FISA warrants to spy on Trump’s team based on a fake dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign. But, yes, let’s move along, nothing to see here.

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