Yesterday, on Meet the Press, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy noted, “[Trump] always walks up to the edge on that rhetoric, but sometimes the mainstream media, whether they want to or not, can’t resist and they go just a little bit too far.” This comes after Donald Trump declared a Republican loss in November would mean a “bloodbath” for the auto industry, and much of the media sensationally declared Trump meant a bloodbath for the country.
They cannot help themselves, and it is going to lead to a bloodbath for the Democrats in November at the polls — particularly for Biden, who, it seems, is realizing he is going to lose.
The media and left have been doing this for so long that they help Donald Trump. It is hard to imagine Trump praised Adolph Hitler when the left/media has bought so many sensational stories only to have to walk them back. The “bloodbath” twist is just the latest story the left/media hyped only to get it wrong. All of this just gives Trump an advantage.
Remember the Gorilla TV Channel? Multiple prominent progressive activists and even a few reporters fell for a fake excerpt from a book claiming Trump was obsessed with a specially created TV channel featuring gorillas.
Then there were the CNN mistakes early on.
There was the story about Donald Trump, Jr. being given early access to Wikileaks materials about Hillary Clinton. CNN also ran a story that forced 3 of its own to resign after it blew up in their faces. The network reported Anthony Scaramucci was being investigated for ties to Russians.
The Washington Post has a habit of making big mistakes in the age of Trump. For example, it reported that the Russians had hacked a Vermont power station, which turned out not to be true.
The Washington Post also published a 2016 story claiming more than 200 websites were pushing Russian disinformation. The paper had to walk back the article but did not do so for two weeks.
The Guardian, echoed by USA Today, published a story about secret Paul Manafot meetings that never occurred.
Buzzfeed published a salacious story that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. That forced Bob Mueller to come out and forcefully deny the story.
Brian Ross of ABC News lost his job for running with a story that Donald Trump had pushed Michael Flynn to reach out to the Russians before the 2016 election. Actually, Trump did so after the election.
In 2020, the New York Times and other news organizations rushed out a story that Donald Trump had ordered the Secret Service to clear protestors from Lafayette Park. “Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church,” blared the headline.
The story was not true. The Department of Interior’s Inspector General found that orders had come earlier in the day for protestors to be cleared because new White House fencing needed to be installed.
The New York Times also famously ran the story about the Russians paying the Taliban bounties to kill Americans, and the Trump Administration was not responding. The Biden campaign condemned the story and the Trump Administration for dithering, implying that Trump was in Russia’s pocket.
Once in office, the Biden Administration debunked the story.
Let’s not even get into the COVID origins stories, for which much of the media still hides behind a few weak government assessments to avoid acknowleding both the Department of Energy and FBI now believe COVID came from the Wuhan lab.
Then there’s the “Russian disinformation” campaign and Hunter Biden’s laptop.
