Unmasked_Big Media's War Against Trump by Brent Bozell Iii & Tim Graham

Author:Brent Bozell Iii & Tim Graham [Bozell, Brent Iii & Graham, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Commentary & Opinion, propaganda, Political Process, Media & Internet
ISBN: 9781630061159
Google: _FbIuAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1630061158
Goodreads: 43555861
Publisher: Humanix Books
Published: 2019-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

6

Those So-Called Fact Checkers

SAMANTHA GUERRY WANTED GEORGE Stephanopoulos to know that her friend Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was ready to testify. “When she shows up today, she will be completely cooperative and ready to tell her truth.” After Ford testified, Senator Cory Booker wanted the world to know he believed the sexual assault accusation against Judge Brett Kavanaugh: “She came forward. She sat here. She told her truth.” Republican strategist Suzette Martinez agreed, “I believe that’s her truth. And I believe her story. . . . And I could see it on her face,” she wrote. But then she threw a screwball. “But I could also see it on Judge Kavanaugh’s face that that is his truth.”

There’s only one problem with these statements. None makes sense. Truth is not relative. Truth just is. Anything else is opinion. Ford had hers, Kavanaugh his. Only one was true.

That’s what’s so maddening about the left. Everything is relative depending on the subject’s whim. It’s the calling card of liberalism: tolerant, open-minded, and everything you believe is “your truth.” Unless it messes with their truth. That’s when their truth ceases to be relative and reverts to fact.

In 1988, Michael Dukakis was broadsided in ads for looking like an idiot driving around in a tank and in other ads for releasing murderers on weekend furloughs. Did Dukakis’s actions cost him the election? Not at all. The media elite decided that George H. W. Bush had won because he hornswoggled the electorate with untrue liberal-bashing commercials. In Time, they whined, “Bush won by default, and by fouls.” So in 1992 they all decided they would be better “fact checkers,” especially in rebutting GOP campaign ads.

During the fall campaign, President Bush attacked Bill Clinton as a tax hiker in Arkansas who would do it again if he was elected president. The ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC patrols all went on full “ad watch” alert to proclaim that Bush was dishonestly attacking Clinton’s economic agenda. Cranky CBS reporter Eric Engberg complained, “Feel-bad ads trying to drag down Bill Clinton are regarded as the only hope. In a multi-million-dollar assault, Clinton is being portrayed as a duplicitous blobhead who governs a Hee Haw backwater where only the taxes soar.” For good measure CBS brought on an “expert” to say the Bush campaign ad making assumptions about Clinton tax hikes was “lying.”

Was Team Bush lying? They were making predictions about the future. Candidates can’t predict what will happen if the other candidate wins? If the prediction is based on a desire to smear the opponent—say, President Lyndon Johnson’s infamous “Daisy” commercial predicting a nuclear war should Barry Goldwater win—it deserves media investigation and condemnation. But the Bushies were claiming that Clinton was a Democrat and Democrats raise taxes. This is like predicting a rooster will crow at dawn. The media wanted to throw the penalty flag at anything “trying to drag down” Democrats. One party was playing dirty, and the other was just telling it like it is.

In the end, the fact checkers were wrong.

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