by | November 6, 2015 · 9:55 pm

Targeting GOP Candidates: Media Bias in a Nutshell

First, this appears.

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Note who is deemed most honest and trustworthy and who is deemed least.

One guess what happens next?

Yep. Politico fabricates a story about how Ben Carson is a Big Fat Liar! The gist is that Carson wrote in his autobiography that, when he was in high school JROTC, he got to meet General Westmoreland, who offered him “a full scholarship” to West Point. Carson told him thanks, but no thanks. He wanted to go into medicine, so never even applied to West Point.

The sticking point? West Point is free. Ergo, no “scholarship” could have been offered.

The stupidity of the story? Carson may have never been aware of this fact. Westmoreland tried to recruit him for the academy, no doubt mentioned it would cost him nothing, and Carson (who never pursued it) interpreted that to mean “full scholarship.”

Well, gosh. Until I read this story, I didn’t know West Point was free either.

So Politico gets called out on THEIR Big Fat Lie and alters the headline and key paragraph. When a story is altered, it’s protocol to put a timed and dated line somewhere explaining what was changed. Politico … that stickler for all things “proper” (like not saying “scholarship”) … didn’t bother with protocol. Oh my goodness.  That’s almost like fabricating, isn’t it?

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Remember that poll I posted above? Politico put out a second story as a kind of companion to the Carson lie. And wouldn’t you know … it was about the Democrat candidate who was deemed least honest and trustworthy.  What a coinkidink!

Politico’s headline started out as “SCOOP: Intelligence chief’s office concludes key Hillary Clinton emails claimed to be ‘TOP SECRET’ were not.”

Since that was a Big Fat Lie, Politico later changed it to “Source: Key Clinton emails did not contain highly classified secrets.”

Reading the story reveals the whole thing is even more flimsy and “shore up that Lying Liar Hillary” biased.

A. An anonymous source allegedly told Politico that the intelligence community has decided the State Dept was right about the classification level of two of Hillary’s emails.

B. When asked about it, State Department spokesman John Kirby said, “As far as I know we’ve received no final decision by the intelligence community with respect to these two emails. As far as we know, that process is ongoing.”

But wait! Stop the presses! Carson’s campaign has admitted that Carson met with Westmoreland in February 1969, not May 1969, as Carson stated in his 1990 autobiography!

Oh noes! How can we ever TRUST a man who misremembers exactly when he had dinner with a guy after more than twenty years?

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