Fake News - Fact vs Fiction

Liberals and other Democrats are all harping on the proliferation of "fake news" that affect peoples actions and decisions. And while I agree there is a proliferation of phony news, perhaps we should take a closer look at where it is actually coming from.

All the mainstream media, excluding Fox News, reported the phony "hands up, don't shoot" narrative that came out of the Ferguson shooting. The New York Times, CNN, NBC, MSNBC - even the "ladies" on "The View" pushed that phony narrative as if it were Gospel. And race baiting liberals like Sharpton are STILL pushing it.

And with the help of Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration, they pushed the bogus narrative that a video no one had ever seen was responsible for Benghazi.

And speaking of Mrs. Clinton, there is her phony report that she was under sniper fire on the tarmac (never happened); that she tried to get into the military in the '70's (false); that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary (who did not gain fame until she was 6); and so many other falsehoods I haven't the time to type them all.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid started the fake story about Romney never having paid taxes, and pulled a similar stunt on Trump, with Hillary, Obama and the mainstream media following suit.

Liberal newscaster Brian Williams was canned for falsely reporting his own chopper was under fire - a narrative he had pushed for 10 years. And NBCs Dan Rather was caught lying about President Bush's military record - and even now, years later, many on the left are still pushing those falsehoods.

And as I read through liberal media this very day there are countless false stories, rumors and innuendo concerning President-Elect Trump. And even though he fought racism in Florida for years, they still call him "racist", not because of anything he actually did, but only because some racists support him (which does not equate to him supporting them), and because he wants to build a wall to keep us safe, which is a national security issue, not an issue of race.

Yes, there is a lot of fake news out there, anbd granted, some comes from the far right. But the vast majority has come from the liberals, Democrats and mainstream media, and they have been the purveyors of fake news for decades.

After all, it was Hillary Clinton who touted Senator Byrd, a former kingpin in the Klan, as a steadfast protector of people's rights. And even though the Civil Rights Act was passed by a much greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats, it is the Democrats who wrote the false narrative that they had pushed it through - even though the same Senator Byrd (D) tried to stop it with his filibuster against it.

Fake news is a problem, to be sure. But the only way to rid ourselves of most of it is to DEMAND that the media fact-check their stories before publishing them, and to DEMAND that all news media be OBJECTIVE and UNBIASED in their reporting, or to face huge fines for abusing their freedom of the press by using their outlets for propaganda.

And we can demand colleges and universities REQUIRE their professors to be objective, unbiased and to encourage diversity of thought, as least as much as they encourage diversity of color, or face the unemployment line, regardless of tenure.

And we should make our politicians subject to the same libel and slander laws as the rest  of us - no one should be above ANY law.

Then, maybe we can begin to get things right again, and not just "great again".