Don't Believe Your Lyin' Ears
The corporate media is lying about what President Biden and Donald Trump are saying in a desperate attempt to help the failing Kamala Harris campaign
We are less than a week away from the 2024 presidential election, and the corporate media is going into overdrive in their support for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. On the last episode of Never Say Nothing I talked about how President Biden called Donald Trump supporters garbage on purpose to sabotage Harris’s campaign as revenge for forcing him out of the Democratic nomination.
The reporting on this immediately shifted to it being a conspiracy theory to suggest that Biden said what he said in plain English, and that he actually said that the kind of rhetoric Trump and his supporters are using about Puerto Rico is garbage. Here, once again, is the video of President Biden explicitly calling Trump supporters garbage.
The White House even—possibly illegally—modified the transcript of his remarks to what he later claimed that he meant and what the corporate media is telling you he meant, rather than what he said. This is for the benefit of the Harris campaign because they know that Joe Biden calling Trump supporters garbage a week before the election is going to give them an even stronger incentive to show up to the polls to vote for Trump.
Now the corporate media is lying about what Donald Trump said to try to fire up Harris supporters to get excited to vote for Harris less than a week before the election. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump made the point that Vice President Harris has been campaigning with Liz Cheney, a person who wants the United States to be involved in every war overseas and to start several new ones, and that if she had to actually serve herself in those wars then she would probably be less likely to want to be involved in them in the first place. Here’s the video for the full context:
They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right in the mouth of the enemy’…
And yes, he talked about Cheney having guns pointed at her face, but he is clearly making the point that she should have “guns pointed at her face” by going to fight in the endless wars that she advocates for instead of all the other Americans that she wants to send to die. As Glenn Greenwald points out on X, this was a common argument of the left during the George W. Bush presidency when Liz Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney, was the vice president and one of the chief proponents of the disastrous War on Terror.
There are liberal bloggers and pundits who built their careers from 2002-2008 by screaming, almost daily, about Bush, Cheney and various neocons exactly what Trump said about Liz Cheney: you love wars because you don't fight in them.
Now, they're acting offended for Liz Cheney.
And of course Liz Cheney, who only opposes Donald Trump because he’s not a reliable enough warmonger for her taste, jumped into the frenzy to lie about what Trump said about her.
The idea that Trump is personally threatening Liz Cheney is an absurd lie, but here’s The Washington Post promoting that lie with their headline and opening paragraph:
Former president Donald Trump appeared to suggest Thursday that former congresswoman and longtime Trump critic Liz Cheney should be subjected to gunfire as he called her a “war hawk,” saying during a live event with Tucker Carlson, “Let’s see how she feels about it,” with guns “trained on her face” as a target.
If that’s all you read, and most people only read headlines, then you would assume that Donald Trump is openly threatening to have Liz Cheney assassinated if he is elected president. Only a sociopath could reasonably spread a lie like that based on what he actually said and with video proof so readily available. One other such sociopath would be Jonah Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic and one of the chief propagandists for the Iraq War, who went on CNN and claimed that Trump said Cheney should be put in front of a firing squad.
One of the most interesting parts of this lie is that it comes merely four days after Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, published an editorial correctly pointing out that organizations like The Washington Post have absolutely no credibility with the American public.
Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility…
The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves.
So less than a week after the owner of the Post points out that his newspaper has no credibility with the American public because of how openly biased they are in favor of a particular political party and ideology, the Post publishes one of the most brazen lies I’ve ever seen about what Donald Trump said about Liz Cheney. The corporate media cannot regain the trust of the public, and is not interested in doing so. Organizations like The Washington Post and CNN must simply be put out of business. The fact that no one reads the Post or watches CNN means we are well on our way to that happening, but in the meantime their insanity needs to be called out and the “journalists” who write this trash pointed out for the propagandists that they are.
This is, unfortunately for The Washington Post, the desperate attempt of a desperate and failing organization to help the failing candidate that they’re so openly backing for the sake of their own relevance. The only people persuaded by this fake story are people who are already voting for Kamala Harris. No one who is already supporting Donald Trump is going to believe the lie that he wants to have Liz Cheney assassinated, and no undecided voter is going to believe yet another lie from the corporate media over what they can hear Trump say for themselves. If I had to guess, this is more likely to convince more undecided voters to support Trump than the other way around. If this does blow up in their faces and help get Trump elected, you can rest assured that Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media will do absolutely no soul-searching and take no responsibility for the complete repudiation of their lies, and that they will only get more extreme moving forward.