Always frustrating and frequently hackish PolitiFact has dubbed something Mitt Romney said on the campaign trail as its “Lie of the Year.” The LOTY is, supposedly, Romney’s line that Jeep is moving some US jobs to China.
Not for the first time, PolitiFact is just wrong.
Surely Obama’s various lies after the attack in Benghazi, such as blaming it on a movie, are larger lies than a Romney line about Jeep? No?
No one died in the Jeep story. The United States did not excuse terrorism and assault our free speech rights in the Jeep story. No scapegoat sits in jail due to the Jeep story.
Obama lied about how four Americans lost their lives, repeatedly and with enthusiasm. He sent his ambassador and Secretary of State out to lie. His spokesman lied. They all lied. It was one, huge, and obvious lie that has not been fully exposed to this day.
Not bigger, PolitiFact, than one Romney line? Really?
But there may be a bigger lie out there, bigger in the sense that it has been going on longer and includes even more liars. If there is to be a “Lie of the Year,” it has to begin with NBC’s edit of the George Zimmerman 911 call.
I know, PolitiFact will respond that it only rates things politicians say. But NBC’s edit was blatantly political and it created a very political story. It also fell in line with other political coverage offered by that network.
NBC took the 911 call made by George Zimmerman regarding a suspicious but unidentified figure walking in the rain and appearing to be casing the area, and and intentionally deceptively edited it. All it took was editing this:
Zimmerman: We’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there’s a real suspicious guy. It’s Retreat View Circle. The best address I can give you is 111 Retreat View Circle.
This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about. [00:25]
911 dispatcher: OK, is he White, Black, or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
911 dispatcher: Did you see what he was wearing?
Zimmerman: Yeah, a dark hoodie like a gray hoodie. He wore jeans or sweat pants and white tennis shoes. He’s here now … he’s just staring. [00:42]
911 dispatcher: He’s just walking around the area, the houses? OK.
Zimmerman: Now he’s staring at me. [00:48]
So that, on its national broadcasts, Zimmerman said this:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good … he looks black.
Where there was no racial angle, NBC created one. The tragic death of a black teenager became a national racial controversy. The New York Times tried an assist by dubbing Zimmerman “white Hispanic” when, despite the sound of his name, he turned out to be Hispanic. NBC aired that truncated version of the call multiple times and posted that same version on its websites.
Once caught in its compound lie, NBC called it an “error” and then claimed that it had fired one producer, then a second, who had been involved. But it never named those producers or explained how their “error” had happened. NBC never explained how that “error” got by so many other editors and producers at the local and national TV level, and on its website.
Just a few weeks later, MSNBC would pull a similar stunt when Andrea Mitchell aired a deceptively edited clip of Mitt Romney that made him appear to be out-of-touch. No producers were fired in the wake of that lie’s exposure. Mitchell would eventually add to the first lie and blame the original lie on the “constraints” of 24-hour cable news. Think about that. The constraints. Of a news network that airs a product it calls “news” 24 hours a day.
As if that wasn’t enough, NBC’s Bob Costas was involved in another editing “error,” in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case.
In order for PolitiFact to call out NBC’s lies as the Lie of the Year, though, PolitiFact would have to had to rate them as lies before. It hasn’t done that.
So we have a trio of lies that expose a larger lie; namely, that NBC News actually reports news. It doesn’t. Across its broadcast network, cable network and websites, NBC manufactures lies and reports them as news.
That’s kind of a big lie, no?
The good news is NBC News most likely won’t exist in ten years, and absolutely won’t exist in 20. None of the networks will, the broadcast/affiliate model is just as outdated as print media and is headed for the same graveyard. Everything will be on the net.
The bad news is the damage done by our liberal media crowning Obamee’s second term assures a devastating economic collapse, hyperinflation, and civil war within a decade at most.
I wonder if anyone will be around to cover it.
Chinese state media, perhaps?
“Surely Obama’s various lies after the attack in Benghazi, such as blaming it on a movie, are larger lies than a Romney line about Jeep? No?”
So you didn’t learn anything from the jeep story, huh?
Here’s the lesson you should have learned- you cannot trust anything you ha=ear in the right wing bubble. Period. There are a large number of bad actors willing to brazenly lie to you, and a larger number of gullible fools who will repeat and reinforce those lies over and over.
So now that you understand that you should start to suspect that EVERYTHING you “know” about Benghazi is 100% bull^%$#. It’s fantasy conspiracy BS that you’ve been sold and which you swallowed because you’ve spent so long in the fevered insanity of the right you have no idea what reality even looks like.
This is always the problem with retreating from reality to guarded enclaves where you only hear what you want to hear. Don’t like what wikipedia says? Create conservapedia. Don’t like the nightly news? Run away to Fox. Don’t like “liberal” comedy? Here’s a conservative comedy show (how many episodes did “the 1/2 hour news hour” actually have anyway?). Don’t like what the polls say? Here’s some “unskewed” polls to make you feel better.
The right has gotten a sick reflex of avoiding cognitive dissonance by simply avoiding all uncomfortable information, which is any information that doesn’t fit their world view. It is quite simply why you find yourself on the cusp of being irrelevant.
Do better. A two party system means we can’t afford you guys being so damn incompetent. Yes, thinking is hard work, man up and do it anyway.
So four Americans aren’t really dead and al Qaeda really is “on the run?” Awesome!
Okay try this- anything you heard only in the fever swamp you live in is 99.99%likely to be BS. Things you also heard elsewhere have a better chance of being true.
Here’s a starter- no, Obama (or Rice) has not been caught lying to the people about benghazi.
No, we did not have a bomber on site which was ordered to stand down.
No, Obama did not personally decree that the site was not to have adequate security.
Yes, intelligence did say, and still says, that the film was a motivating factor, in that it riled up a mob which the militant forces used as cover for their attack.
No, the maker of the film has not be scapegoated but was in violation of his parole (remember when you guys were the party of “law and order”? Good times).