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The New York Times (NYT) has been a leader in the Fake News industry for many years
In 1998, Hillary Clinton told Matt Lauer on NBC’s The Today Show that accusations of her husband’s infidelity (affair with WH intern Monica Lewinsky) were concocted by a vast right wing conspiracy in order to end the political lives of both she and hubby Bill

“Fake News” is just what the words imply: that some stories or accounts of happenings given to us by the print or electronic media are not true. Rather, they are lies or purposeful misrepresentations of the facts in order to deceive the reader, viewer or listener. You could imagine “Fake News” as a football carried protectively under the arms of a running back in order to achieve points on the scoreboard. We’ll now name some of these news sources who are enshrined in the Fake News Hall of Fame: CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, PBS, The New York Times (NYT), The Washington Post (WAPO), The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times and on and on. The list appears to be endless but extremely dangerous as they impact and sway the beliefs of many of their patrons.

Let’s go back to a January 1998 Hillary Clinton interview with NBC’s The Today Show when the Clinton team was under great media pressure caused by a swarm of scandals such as Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, Bill’s lies about Monica Lewinsky, charges of rape, perjury and the impending impeachment of him by congress. With all those scandals piling up Hillary felt the need to utilize the friendly media with the big lie claim that all of above were concocted by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. The media frenziedly ran with the story in a vain attempt to muddy the waters and blame the Republicans for the family’s self inflicted dilemmas. The claim of a “Right Wing Conspiracy” is still alive and well and is applied as a last resort whenever the Left is up against the wall.

Just think about the media’s obsession with The Two State Solution and how it’s Israel that is the obstacle to peace between itself and the so called Palestinians. The liberal media, led by the NYT never reports on the adulation the Palestinians have for terrorists and suicide bombers by naming squares, streets and buildings for their killers of Israelis. In fact, their blue ribboned columnist, Tom Friedman, in an April 3, 2012 piece gave support to suicide bombings as a means to force Israel to the table of peace.

His claim, back in 2011 that Netanyahu’s great reception at that time by Congress was due to the payoffs our Congress receives from Jewish sources was read and promulgated by others in order to demean Israel’s leader and his American supporters. And try in vain to find an editorial of the NYT or WAPO that has ever indicated that the real Two State Solution came into effect back in 1922 when the League of Nations lopped off 80% of the promised Jewish State and created the Muslim nation of Trans-Jordan. The current Leftist cry in support of another Muslim nation should be labeled, “The Three State Solution.” But the media is willingly silent on this fact.

Do you recall the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” theme that initiated and brought into existence the Black Lives Matter movement? The media ballyhooed the fake news that Michael Brown had his hands up in surrender but was shot down and killed by a white police officer merely because of the race of Brown. CNN’s initial one sided, lopsided coverage of this tragedy was an interview with one Dorian Johnson who claimed to have accompanied Brown the night of the shooting and swore that Brown was killed in cold blood by the police officer although he had his hands up in surrender. The Department of Justice eventually decided that the shooting was justified but the theme of “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” still reverberates whenever there is a police shooting of a black.

Prior to this past presidential election, the news media was smirking about and pushing for the sure-bet win for Hillary over Trump. Again, the culprit, the NYT on July 19, 2016, ran the story that led off with the prediction, “For now, at least, Hillary Clinton has a 76 percent chance of defeating Donald Trump to become president of the United States.” The WAPO, just before the election stated that Hillary had a 98.1% chance of winning the presidency. Their pie in the sky claim was that she had 323 solid Electoral College votes as opposed to Trump’s 180. Again, False News to sway the voters to elect their candidate of the media’s choice.

We could go on and on as well to indicate the media driven campaign to whitewash the true threat of Islamic terrorism being imported into this country under the guise of humanitarian efforts to save refugees from the Middle East. Throw in the false claims from editorial verbiage camouflaged as news stories about the stupidity of President Trump, including his anti-Semitism, hatred of women and his Islamophobia. They are all vain attempts by the media to manipulate the thinking and behavior of this nation’s citizens. But just take a look at the election results and the latest popularity polls in favor of President Trump that indicate we all happen to be a bit smarter than we apparently look……to the media. We are not the fools they make us out to be. Let’s keep it that way.

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