Letter: The Left perfected ‘fake news’

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To the editor,

“If CNN can’t be trusted as reliable news, then who and what is fake news then?” wrote Sebastian Puczynski in a recent letter, “Media Literacy needs to be taught in school.”

How fitting that recently “CNN corrected a Tuesday report after the release of former FBI Director James Comey’s opening statement for his Thursday testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee contradicted the report’s sources.”

Another liberal “skews” outlet leaning on later-debunked “unnamed sources” has to walk back their “reporting” that took four reporters, including rabid anti-Trumper Jake Tapper, to concoct the ripe they’re now eating. Comey refuted even the New York Times story, “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence,” answering “Yes” to the question, was it “almost entirely wrong?”

All those daily Presidential Favorability Polls in the toilet? Brought to you by the very same media who fed you polls that Hillary was a 90 percent to 99 percent lock.

President Trump happened because the left/left-controlled media ignored, deplored or laughed at all who disagreed with them. They hate Trump now because he made them look like fools. They’re like temper-tantrum-throwing children who lost their place at the head of the table. All that the left’s/media’s anti-Trump histrionics will do now is keep driving more people away from the Democrat party and its most-left-leaning anarchist constituents. Even Gov. Malloy finally realized his error — too late — that he can’t tax and spend us to death anymore. Too bad he’ll retire and we’ll be stuck paying for it.

Google “Rathergate.” Read Powerlineblog.com, by the attorneys who outed “Rathergate.” There’s your first class in media literacy. For those who watch CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read the New York Times, the Washington Post, you won’t know a thing about “Rathergate.” You won’t know the whole truth about lots of issues.

“Rathergate” was when CBS News reported “using fabricated documents, that George W. Bush shirked his duty to his country during the Vietnam war by maneuvering his way into the Texas National Guard, so as to avoid going to Vietnam.” Powerlineblog blew the lid off the faked documents that Dan Rather fell for.

Go there, search for Associated Press or Washington Post. If you really want to be literate about media, you’ve got some catching up to do. Go to The Weekly Standard, The Federalist, American Thinker, RealClearPolitics.com. Read what liberal professor Alan M. Dershowitz wrote, “[As] Comey confirmed … our history shows that many presidents — from Adams to Jefferson, to Lincoln, to Roosevelt, to Kennedy, to Bush 1, and to Obama — have directed the Justice Department with regard to ongoing investigations. The history is clear, the precedents are clear, the constitutional structure is clear, and common sense is clear.”

Yes, rightwing nuts have created some fake news. It’s appalling and true conservatives denounce it. But the left started and perfected it because some 65 million Americans have bought their fake news, hook line and sinker. They even believed Hillary Clinton, who herself was punked by the fake news of two Twitter pranksters with a campaign webpage (that remains online even now) about Trump being a white supremacist because someone on Trump’s campaign inserted a green frog cartoon named Pepe into some tweets. Why didn’t every liberal get their outrage on when Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj tweeted that same image?

Sadly, most Connecticut school personnel, from grade one through college, and most on both coasts, already teach kids their liberal-biased, fake-news-based media literacy. Check if your kid’s school is strangling free speech at www.thefire.org (hint: it’s only allowed for the liberals in higher education). As the kids say, “Get Woke.”

Ann Banno

Naugatuck

1 COMMENT

  1. Your letter reeks of Mein Kampf and the big lie “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”
    It is your contention that the vast majority of the press are fake news except for the sources you choose to believe. You bring up “Rathergate” yet you fail to include the fact that there were repercussions. Journalists lose their jobs if they don’t publish factually correct articles.
    The website you promote and the rest of the conservative propaganda outlets do not have the same standards. If you think Hillary was guilty for Benghazi, which a majority of conservatives do, it is because Powerlineblog, Breitbart, Fox news and the rest of the state media published 1000s of articles promoting her guilt. The problem is there were Eight investigations by House Select Committeees and every one of them found no wrong doing on her part. This is just one the big lies that has been repeated often enough by the Republicans. Did anyone from Powerlineblog, Breitbart or Fox lose their jobs for promoting these false stories? Of course not.
    Another big lie is the ACA is a disaster. They point out the few states with the worst record and hold them up as the majority, yet the fact is, the overall rates have risen slower during the ACA than before. There is also the fact that ~14 million gained coverage which led to thousands of lives being saved. Does that sound like a disater. NO, but they keep repeating the lie. This is true for Hillary’s emails and Obama not being a US citizen, just to name a few.
    If you look back to the Nazis, they ran on nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiments and against the Luggenpresse (lying press). Does this sound familiar? Putin knows that to destroy a democracy, you have to undermine the free press, which is a big reason why his efforts supported Trump.
    So remember, Putin smiles everytime someone spreads the fake news lie.