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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Fantasy Mainland

I just read a column on the CNN website by Frida Ghittis which begins with these words:

President Donald Trump's combative defense of far-right protesters packs a nausea-inducing punch when you listen to it in Europe

CNN wouldn't take a Trump political ad today because it said that the opinions in the ad were inaccurate.  Nevertheless, it publishes an article on the same day in which the facts are outright false.  There was no defense by Trump of far-right protesters.  I know; I listened to each of Trump's statements/news conferences.  Then I read the transcripts to make sure I did not miss any of what he said.  Trump condemned the far-right protesters as vile and unacceptable.  He denounced them.  That's not an inaccurate opinion; it's just the facts.  So when Frida Ghittis talks about a "combative defense" of these far-right protesters by Trump, she is not telling the truth.  To be less judgmental, Ghittis is completely wrong factually in what she says.

So why is it that CNN is living in a land of pure fantasy.  It's not that Trump failed to condemn the far-right protesters that's the problem; rather, it's that Trump also denounced the far left counter-protesters who used Charlottesville as a place to commit physical violence against the "far-right protesters."  That is an intolerable sin in the fantasy land inhabited by the mainstream media.  In the real world, however, we have to deal with actual facts, not facts the way we want them to be.

For eight years under Obama, actual facts were not much in vogue.  ISIS was the jayvee team until their strength could no longer be denied.  Syrian use of chemical weapons was a red-line, so the first 16 documented uses of those weapons by Assad were just denied by the White House until video of the victims writhing in agony as they died leaked out after the 17th attack.  Benghazi was the result of a youtube video seen by fewer than 100 people even when Obama and Clinton knew in real time that it was actually a preplanned terrorist attack.  Obamacare would lower premiums by $2500 per family and would let people keep their plans and doctors if they wanted.  Democrats made no attempt to change the immigration laws when they had overwhelming and unstoppable control of Congress in 2009-2010, but it was due to Republican obstruction.  Obama wanted to lower federal spending and fought to do so repeatedly (except that never happened.)  These were all fantasies.  Okay, let's be more honest:  These were all lies told by the Democrats/media and Obama because the lies fit the narrative that helped the Democrats politically.  The actual facts were just too harsh for the Democrats to deal with and the mainstream media fully complied in the effort.

Our country was harmed in many ways by the refusal to deal with the real world.  Right now, the media is still carrying out the propaganda effort rather than reporting the true facts.  Just think of the non-stop criticism that President Trump got when he warned North Korea in no uncertain terms of terrible retaliation if the NK's were to attack Guam as threatened.  Kim Jung Un has now walked back that threat; he wilted in the face of American resolve and possible counter-attack.  The mainstream media won't even report on that. 

No one knows the future.  It is filled with problems that will need to be solved.  One thing is certain, however, we will never solve our problems if we follow the lead of the media and the Democrats and just lie about what they truly are.  There's too much at stake; the lying has to stop.

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