The Doctrine of Media Untruth

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As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.

Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a good guide to what is abjectly false. Perhaps we can call the lesson of this valuable service, the media’s inadvertent ability to convey truth by disguising it with transparent bias and falsehood, the “Doctrine of Media Untruth.”



Take the strange case of the respective records of liberal New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Florida counterpart Ron DeSantis. Both states have roughly equal populations, with Florida slightly larger by about 2 million. Both have populations that travel daily back and forth between their respective major cities. Both are major international tourist and travel hubs. Both have widely diverse populations.

Both have large numbers of retirees and long-term-care homes. Yet, New York has suffered 14 times the number of coronavirus deaths as has Florida. Florida is now increasingly open, and on May 19 saw 54 deaths attributed to the virus. That same day, New York was completely locked down and yet saw nearly twice that number at 105 deaths.

One would never know from the media of the contrasting fates of the two states during the epidemic.DeSantis is often rendered little more than a reckless leader who exposed Floridians to needless danger. Cuomo, in contrast, increasingly is deified by the media as likely presidential timber who finesses press conferences in the lively fashion of his legendary beloved father, and iconic liberal, Mario Cuomo.

Yet on the principle of media’s commitment to untruth, the public legitimately could deduce from the hagiographic news coverage that the frenetic Cuomo has proven the most incompetent governor in the nation in dealing with the virus. He sent the infected into vulnerable long-term care homes. He neither applied social distancing to, nor cleaned, mass transit. And Cuomo exaggerated his need for some medical supplies, while neglecting shortages in others.

In contrast, the media furor at DeSantis is a good guide to his successes in both mitigating viral fatalities while charting Florida’s path back to economic normality.

Hagiography of the Unfit and Unprofessional

The media assures us that failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is a statuesque heroic figure who is an experienced state politician, a successful polymath, and would be a valuable asset as Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick, but even better—wink-and-nod—a likely next president.

That new media consensus narrative is best typified by a recent and obsequious promo piece in the Washington Post. So given the media deification and the Doctrine of Media Untruth, we might assume that Abrams never has held statewide office, in incoherent fashion could not concede her legitimate defeat in the last Georgia gubernatorial race, and until recently still had not paid off an enormous credit card, student, and tax debt well over $200,000.

In other words, read the media narrative on Abrams and without knowing much else, one could conclude that she is not a photogenic candidate; she is not gracious in defeat; and she is without much experience of victory. Her baggage and lack of even a statewide constituency would mostly hurt a Biden ticket, which explains why his opponents hope that she is the vice-presidential nominee.

The Doctrine of Media Untruth was a valuable guide during the serial psychodramas to abort Donald Trump’s presidency. When Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee was canonized for tele-diagnosing Donald Trump as unhinged and in need of forced removal under the 25th Amendment, we knew the media glorification signaled she was unprofessional in making such a diagnosis of a patient she never met, and would never dare offer such a long-distance mental assessment of presidential candidate Joe Biden, based on his obvious cognitive impairment, memory lapses, and frequent cul-de-sac patterns of thought.

The more that CNN and MSNBC put ambulance-chasing lawyer Michael Avenatti on the air, and gushed about his tailored suits, his possible presidential gambit, his cocky take-downs of Trump, and his advocacy of supposed female victims of the predatory Brett Kavanaugh, the more we knew he was a fraud, a criminal, and likely a legal predator of his own clients. That he was sent to prison was predictable the more one heard the media gush.

Do we remember that for a while “Bob” Mueller was Washington’s hallowed prosecutor, investigator, or inquisitor par excellence? No wonder he had assembled a “dream team” of “all stars” who, as “hunter-killer” squads of legal eagles, would tear apart Trump’s supposedly doddering third-stringers and send Trump either to jail or into ignominious exile. So, the more that legal eagle narrative saturated the liberal media landscape, the more we knew the opposite was true.

Mueller himself had a spotty history. He was both physically and cognitively unable to run an effective two-year high-intensity investigation. He was the un-Durham—as leaky and hodge-podge as the latter’s probe is quiet and professional. Mueller likely outsourced his tasks to an incestuous group of partisan and progressive lawyers, many of them incompetent, with conflicts of interest and blinded by partisanship.

In the end, Team Mueller’s chief legacy was burning through more than $32 million in federal funds, hiding evidence, rigging a now-withdrawn indictment of Michael Flynn, initially hiding the amorous unprofessionalism of Lisa Page and Peter Strzok—and Mueller himself testifying before Congress that he knew little of anything about the Steele dossier and Fusion GPS, the fonts of his own investigation.

Mythology of the Weak and Pathetic 

The country once knew little of Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). But once the media sanctified his role after the 2018 election as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, we knew what lay ahead. No sooner had the Renaissance Schiff assumed the chairmanship of the committee than we were lectured ad nauseam how he was a Harvard Law graduate, with a sly sense of humor, who had he not blessed the country with his stellar political career otherwise might well have been a successful Hollywood screenwriter. He ran his committee with flair and competence lacking under the former chairman, the supposedly plodding dairy farmer Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). In other words, we quickly discovered the truth through the Doctrine of Media Untruth.

Within about a year, the public knew that Schiff was a fraud. He had suppressed key testimonies that long ago revealed that the functionaries in the collusion hoax had admitted under oath they had no evidence for the accusations they made daily in the media, and that CrowdStrike, in fact, could not prove a Russian genesis for the hacking of DNC emails.

Schiff himself tapped into the communications records of his own colleague and the former chairman of his committee, Nunes. He lied habitually, most egregiously in denying that he or his staff had anything to do with the Ukrainian “whistleblower” when in fact his team had been in close communications with him.

Each time Schiff assured the media of “bombshells,” that the “walls were closing in,” or that there were all sorts of new top-secret, classified, rarified information known only to him, which would shortly “prove” Trump “collusion,” we understood that he was a con man and prevaricator who had no proof at all or any such evidence. Whatever report he issued (cf. the “Schiff memo”), would certainly be dishonest and not factual. And, of course, it was.

Empowering of the Deceptive Expertocracy

Nowhere has the Doctrine of Media Untruth been more helpful than in following Trump during the coronavirus epidemic. The media fixated on hydroxychloroquine because Trump said it might be a game-changer and he took it himself as a prophylactic. That ensured that the ubiquitous, long-tested, mostly safe, and cheap anti-malarial, anti-lupus household drug would suddenly be declared useless and deadly.

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Coumo is an idiot that wont take responsibility, Stacy ok why didnt princess Leia want to remain Jabbas plaything Ms Abrams looks to be his species, Mueller that dog is well beyond his hunting yeas, maybe a shot of Grannys jug would do him some good, Schiff we already determined is a bastard, Faux xi will be Faux xi, the media quickly we need to dust off and nuke from orbit…its the only way to be sure.

Noting the fact that most all Journalists are Liberals and Democrats as well trying to convince us we must always vote for Democrats and all Liberal Ideas and we end up witha locked down state like Michigan

Trump lies, and the media either reports it or covers it up. It’s up to the public to figure out which. If you’re not attentive to sources reporting from both sides, you have no means of doing that. You have then been successfully corralled, and have lost your freedom of independent thought.

@Greg:

Trump lies, and the media either reports it or covers it up.

It makes me chuckle when you make comments like the above. Not once, the whole time Obama was President, did you ever complain about Obama’s lies. Ah, how things have changed.

But what about the lies that were told to the press? You know, like the lies told by Adam Schiff, Brennan and Comey. Where is the outrage of the hate-Trump press for being lied to so that their reporting was also a lie?

You see, Comrade Greggie, a free press has the responsibility to seek the truth and report the truth. Not act as campaign workers for the Democrats.

That’s because Obama wasn’t a compulsive, inveterate liar, where telling lies was a daily, totally routine part of conducting presidential business. It’s the difference between a lie as an exception, and lies as the rule. It’s difference between having occasionally lied, and being someone for whom lying is a defining characteristic.

You can pretend that the two things are equal, but they’re not.

@Greg: The subject is the media lies, try to read the article that determines a thread.
The media you choose has been lying to you about Russia and Trump for the entire time of this administration.
Yes Obama lied and way bigger lies than Trump you can do a quick search on the internet and find all the evidence.

@Greg:

That’s because Obama wasn’t a compulsive, inveterate liar, where telling lies was a daily, totally routine part of conducting presidential business.

Oh, I see; you didn’t object to the lies told by Obama (and there were many) because in your opinion, he didn’t lie on a daily basis. Got it.

Of course, you ignored this:

But what about the lies that were told to the press? You know, like the lies told by Adam Schiff, Brennan and Comey. Where is the outrage of the hate-Trump press for being lied to so that their reporting was also a lie?

So you didn’t answer because you don’t mind being lied to by the likes of Rachael Maddow, as long as her lies benefit your side aisle. Hell, tell me something I didn’t know, Comrade Greggie.

@kitt:

The media you choose has been lying to you about Russia and Trump for the entire time of this administration.

No it hasn’t. There was interaction between agents of the Putin government and central figures in the Trump campaign organization. There was a covert Russian effort to damage Hillary Clinton and put Donald Trump in the White House. That much has been established. There was obstruction of the Mueller investigation, and there was obstruction of the House investigation. There was also a rigged Senate impeachment trial. That has also been established, or openly acknowledged by McConnell and Lindsay Graham.

@retire05, #7:

Oh, I see; you didn’t object to the lies told by Obama (and there were many) because in your opinion, he didn’t lie on a daily basis. Got it.

You got as much of it as you wanted to.

Every human being on the planet with a functioning brain and the power of speech as lied on occasion. It’s a common human failing.

Lying whenever one thinks it to be to his or her advantage with no regard whatsoever for the distinction between truth and lies, and making one’s destructive lies a matter of bearing false witness, is a character flaw of another order entirely. Just as your false equivalency is a lie, intended to cover the butt of an inveterate liar.

Obama’s fundamental nature is that of a moral man and a moral leader; Trump’s fundamental nature is not.

“Judge not lest ye be judged” is fine advice, but only an idiot doesn’t leave it at home when he goes to the polls on election day.

@Greg:

There was interaction between agents of the Putin government and central figures in the Trump campaign organization.

Elaborate.
The dossier was used in the IC determination on Russian meddling, we know the dossier was debunked before the fisa applications.

@Greg:

Obama’s fundamental nature is that of a moral man and a moral leader;

OMG, Comrade Greggie; that has to be the funniest thing you have ever said. I’m sure Obama was being a really, REALLY “moral man” when he was accepting sweetheart deals via Tony Rezko.

@Greg: I see this article triggered you…because it’s true.

There was a covert Russian effort to damage Hillary Clinton and put Donald Trump in the White House.

Unfortunately for you, the facts and evidence now paint a much different story.

Even Joe Rogan, a Liberal who supported Bernie and has millions of followers to influence, now sees the truth. The exchange with this woman in the video is priceless “Everything is a conspiracy theory..until they prove it right and then I just say I don’t know anything.”

Typical Leftist drone, like you.

Obama’s fundamental nature is that of a moral man and a moral leader; Trump’s fundamental nature is not.

Given you’ve never met either of them, much less spent time with them, to say such is just ignorant partisan rhetoric.

We KNOW Obama was sold to you in a certain package…gulped up by the naive and desperate. That’s why Trump happened.

Trump is the Godzilla answer to the Ghidorah problem.

@Greg: The MEDIA lies, on an industrial scale. Their lies do damage to the nation, both at home and internationally. However, in their quest for the power to turn this country into a Soviet-style police state, the Democrats (utilizing their media lapdogs), Democrats don’t care what damage they do; they’ll blame it on Republicans and Trump anyway… and the media will “verify” it.

That’s because Obama wasn’t a compulsive, inveterate liar, where telling lies was a daily, totally routine part of conducting presidential business.

Obama was a compulsive and well-practiced liar. He STILL lies.

No it hasn’t. There was interaction between agents of the Putin government and central figures in the Trump campaign organization.

No there wasn’t. There was legal and necessary contact between the incoming Trump administration and their correlated members of foreign governments. No one in Trump’s administration even sold uranium to Russia, like Obama’s did.

There was a covert Russian effort to damage Hillary Clinton and put Donald Trump in the White House.

Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha! Nice one! Even information that Putin preferred Hillary was withheld by Schiff!! Brennan had information that Putin preferred Hillary to Trump because she was a known (corrupt, pliable, bribable, blackmailable) to Trump, the unknown entity. Oh, you walked right into that one.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/05/12/fox-news-john-brennan-russia-hillary-clinton/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29

That much has been established. There was obstruction of the Mueller investigation, and there was obstruction of the House investigation.

More lies… no collusion was found after three years and NO obstruction. Mueller explicitly said there wasn’t. NONE.

There was also a rigged Senate impeachment trial.

No, there was a kangaroo-court travesty in the House, where due process and any reference to justice was totally trampled. The only way Schiff could get his impeachment through was to (again) suppress any evidence that damaged his lie-centric “case”.

Obama’s fundamental nature is that of a moral man and a moral leader; Trump’s fundamental nature is not.

I guess it’s a “moral” person that runs guns to vicious Mexican drug lords, enables ISIS or funds international terrorism. REAL moral.

@retire05:

But what about the lies that were told to the press? You know, like the lies told by Adam Schiff, Brennan and Comey.

The Democrats have no aversion to lying; it is their prime tactic. Can we EVER get Democrats to admit to their lies? Like, where did all of Schiff’s “evidence” go? What happened to collusion? Democrats lie, get caught and proceed to the next lie… with the lying, corrupt, liberal media running interference.