Марк Дайс - The True Story of Fake News - How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

After a heroic firefighter saved an infant who had been abandoned in a hot car in a parking lot, he did a live interview with CNN’s sister station HLN while wearing a “Trump” shirt and when the segment was replayed later in the day, which is common for cable news networks, they blurred out his T-shirt! 743

CNN was actually sued for reporting what the plaintiff claims was fake news about a hospital he ran as CEO after they aired a story depicting it as having an infant mortality rate of three times the national average, saying they intentionally manipulated statistics. 744Exposing the fake news from CNN could fill an entire book itself, so in this chapter I’ll just cover a few examples and some of the insane things their contributors regularly say. We’ll also look at the claims that CNN has cozied up to dictatorships in hopes of getting interviews or to further CNN’s business interests in certain countries.

Just a few weeks before the election, when Trump was warning about possible hacking of electronic voting machines, CNN ran a story titled, “No, the presidential election can’t be hacked,” 745and dismissed Trump’s concerns, but right after Hillary’s devastating loss they published a story with the headline, “Where’s the outrage over Russia’s hack of the US election?” 746

During one of their endless discussions on conspiracy theories about the Trump campaign ‘colluding’ with Russians to ‘steal’ the election from Hillary, they even used B-roll from a video game called Fallout 4 in a segment about “Russian Hackers.” 747B-roll, for those who don’t know, is the stock footage that is played during a news story while the reporter or anchor is talking about it. They literally used a clip from a video game during a ‘news’ story about their ‘Russian collusion’ speculation!

CNN contributor Bob Baer actually wanted an election “do over.” When he mentioned this on air a surprised host asked, “Bob, if I’m hearing you correctly, you’re saying we should have another election?”

Baer responds, “When a foreign country interferes in your election and the outcome is in doubt, the legitimacy of the government, I don’t know how it works constitutionally, I’m not a lawyer, constitutional lawyer, but I’m deeply disturbed by the fact that the Russians interfered… I don’t see any other way than to vote again.” 748

After Trump was elected, CNN’s senior media analyst Brian Stelter asked, “Is this something of a national emergency?” and wondered if journalists were just “afraid to say so.” 749He also asked, “Do citizens in dictatorships recognize what’s happening right here right now?” and wondered “Are they looking at the first two days of the Trump administration and saying, ‘Oh, that’s what my leader does?’” 750Yes, he actually equated President Trump’s inauguration with a dictator taking over.

Then later that day when it was learned that President Trump picked Frank Sinatra’s My Way for the first dance at the Presidential Inaugural Ball, CNN reported that Sinatra’s daughter Nancy was upset that Trump was using her father’s song. The original headline to the story was, “Nancy Sinatra Not Happy Trump Using Father’s Song at Inauguration.” 751She then responded on Twitter saying, “That’s not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?” 752

They then changed the headline and made major changes to the article and added an editor’s note claiming they just “updated” it. 753How could they make such a huge mistake, causing Nancy Sinatra to not only say she never said such a thing, but to call CNN liars? Most likely some editor probably voiced their opinion that they thought she would be upset about Trump’s song choice, or said that they had ‘heard’ she was upset (which was just them hearing someone else’s opinion that she might be) which they then decided to actually publish as if it were a real story.

CNN’s fake news problem dates back at least several years, and one of the prime examples is them perpetuating the ‘hands up don’t shoot’ hoax which largely gave rise to Black Lives Matter. The saying was falsely attributed to Michael Brown, the six-foot-four three hundred pound thug who robbed a convenience store before attacking a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 resulting in him being shot and killed. After covering the protests one night, host Sally Kohn concluded her show saying “We want you to know, that our hearts are out there marching with them,” and then she and her three other panelists all held up their hands in solidarity with the protesters who had adopted the gesture as a symbol of their cause. 754

After the investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown was complete, even the most liberal of news outlets admitted the claim that he had his hands up when he was shot was a lie, and that narrative was ranked one of the biggest lies of the year, even by the far left Washington Post . 755The damage had long been done though. ‘Hands up don’t shoot’ had become the rallying cry of Black Lives Matter, and the slogan was printed on signs at protests and on people’s t-shirts; and the lie that Michael Brown was an innocent victim, murdered by a racist police force had taken root. 756Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke would later say that fake news was born in Ferguson when the liberal media propagated the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ lie.” 757

CNN’s descent into the fake news swamp coincided with their alignment with identity politics and social justice warriors who see straight white men as being the source of all of society’s problems. Many of their black contributors seem to harbor a deep resentment for white people and regularly make bizarre statements about race. CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill actually denies that black people can be racist at all.

In one segment talking about Black Lives Matter he said, “To say that the Black Lives Matter movement is racist is bizarre to me,” and continued, “not just because black people don’t have the institutional power to be racist or to deploy racism, but because the movement has called for justice, it’s called for demilitarization, it’s called for nonviolence.” 758Such a claim is laughable considering they’ve chanted that they want more dead cops. Violence, looting, and rioting are often a regular feature at Black Lives Matter gatherings. 759

This same contributor called black community leaders who met with President Trump shortly after the election to discuss how to help their communities, “mediocre negros.” 760This was just one day after Martin Luther King the 3rd met with Trump, 761and shortly after Steve Harvey, Pastor Darrell Scott, and Kanye West met with him too. 762MLK’s niece had publicly revealed that she herself had voted for Trump, 763but the narrative CNN pushes is that only racist white people support President Trump and that black people should despise and fear him.

When one contributor mentioned that neither Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama had denounced the repeated incidents of violence at the hands of the anti-Trump protesters, calling the attacks politically motivated hate crimes, black CNN contributor Symone Sanders responded, “I’m sorry, hate crimes and protesting are not the same things. A hate crime is a crime that is committed against somebody because of their religion, because of what they look like, because of their sexual orientation. That’s not the same thing as protesting.” 764

Panelist Carl Higbie answered, “What do you say to the people who dragged a poor white guy out of a car and beat him?”

She responded, “Oh my goodness, poor white people! Please!” she responded. “Oh my. Stop. Stop, Carl.”