Does President Donald Trump need to be fact-checked? Of course he does; however, who’s keeping an eye on the so-called “fact-checkers?”
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake seems to have discovered President Trump’s greatest trick:
Trump's greatest trick is making a massive cross-section of the country believe fact-checking his transparently wrong claims is inherently a sign of antagonism and opposition.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 6, 2018
Antagonistic tweets like this tend to reinforce that belief. https://t.co/Ur3f0y2RS7
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) July 7, 2018
With all credit to Trump, we don’t think he had anything to do with convincing a lot of people that the media’s “fact-checking” was obviously biased.
But yeah, sure, all of those people attending Trump campaign rallies had nothing but faith in the fairness of the media until Trump started calling them out as fake news. Seems to us Trump just tapped into a lot of frustration that had built up over two presidential terms.
And he gets away with it because you guys refused the same due diligence on the last guy, and will immediately cease doing it for the next guy/woman, and everybody knows it. https://t.co/NyBFvclxXb
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 7, 2018
We told them what trashing their credibility would lead to.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 7, 2018
The absolute refusal of these people to do ANY self reflection about they got to this point really never ceases to amaze.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 7, 2018
They are incapable of admitting that their biasesed led to this.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) July 7, 2018
If they did their jobs how they were supposed to, it would completely neuter Trump of this talking point and they don't get it.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 7, 2018
It's not a high bar either.
Tell the truth. Provide context and nuance. And let the chips fall where they may.
And they can't even do that.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) July 7, 2018
In other words, report the facts and move on.
Be consistently dispassionate in the pursuit of fact-checking, step on fewer rakes, and things might be in a better place for journalism. https://t.co/LU5e7fuEpF
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) July 7, 2018
Maybe don’t do half-assed “fact-checks” defending Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s claim that she’s of Native American ancestry, for one. Just ask her, flat out. And maybe stop using photos from 2014 to accuse Trump of putting illegal immigrant children in cages.
Trump helped push media credibility over the cliff. The media moved it to the edge all by themselves
— Davey Jones (@titusxpullo) July 7, 2018
There’s almost an innocence to their nativity, outside the blatant antagonism of course.
— Michael Irelan (@MichaelHIrelan) July 7, 2018
The greatest failure of media is its condescension to their audience. https://t.co/xLXf18b67r
— Heather Champion (@winningatmylife) July 7, 2018
The MSM's greatest trick is making anyone believe that their hostile, hack, oppo research is actual fact-checking. https://t.co/KZjNa2SXGP
— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) July 7, 2018
When AP runs a headline implying a concerted attempt by the Administration to run foreign-born service members out of the armed forces and no such attempt exists, perhaps this helps explain why Trump's nonsense finds such fertile ground https://t.co/IcpLBfJl3y
— Virginia Yankee (@VirginiaYankee1) July 7, 2018
Yeah, great job, AP. That and your attempt to link Trump’s immigration policies to Anne Frank was another shining example.
The media’s greatest trick is making a massive cross-section of the country believe that their fact-checking is non-partisan and designed to get to the facts as opposed to be antagonistic to conservatives and sycophantic to leftists. https://t.co/KDBGZ34gGD
— Jack in the East (@talkradio200) July 7, 2018
You can’t pick and choose when to be a fact checker and when to be a mindless cheerleader. You were mindless cheerleaders for Obama for 8 years, now you want to be reporters again? Give your creds to some cub reporter who wants to do your job.
— politicslop (@politcsslop) July 7, 2018
And it’s not like they even tried to hide it, as when Christiane Amanpour came out after the 2016 election to remind her fellow journalists that “now more than ever we need to commit to real reporting across a real nation.” Um, what were you doing during the Obama years if you have to recommit to “real reporting”?
https://twitter.com/Itwasnt45326338/status/1015665931220082695
Related:
So very REKT: Brian Stelter sets himself up for some SERIOUS (hilarious) trolling with 'fill in the blank' tweet https://t.co/iqif1hMgIo
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 7, 2018
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