ABC admits it peddled fake news

Justifying, gate-keeping, beating and raising the most childish, controlled, murderous and wage-ish fakeries in the week's fake news.

ABC admits it peddled fake news 



It was just about a month ago that the hubbub erupted over a policy of the Donald Trump regime that led to the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border, resulting in some 1,500 children being allegedly "lost."

The mainstream media made a lot of hay over this "controversy." They went wall-to-wall in search of "lost" children and managed to turn up a host of photos of kids in dog kennels and kid-friendly prison buses. But they didn't find any "lost" children, and the photos they managed to find all came from the Barack Obama-era, which left the media with egg on their collective faces… not that they care as long as they skewered Trump in the process. 

As we told you in this space at the time:

The children weren't "separated" from their parents, as the media claimed – though what is supposed to happen to children whose parents are imprisoned for breaking the law the media didn't say. The children in question were more unaccompanied minors. And they had been placed with relatives and "sponsors" rather being locked in kennels. They're only "missing" insofar as Health and Human Services has called the number they have for the sponsor or relative and the phone was not answered. It could mean anything… or nothing at all.

Well wonder of wonders, this past Saturday ABC News came clean. In an article posted to the site titled, "A fake news story helps expose a real crisis," the lefty anti-Trump propaganda outlet admitted the story was fake but then proceeded to justify publishing fake news.

From the article:

The Trump administration last year "lost" nearly 1,500 migrant children whom a government agency placed with U.S. sponsors. Shocking news, but it wasn't true. But it was enough to outrage politicians, stir up journalists and make the public ask questions. Chasing this misleading story, however, helped uncover a story that many found even more troubling. And this one was real.

The fact that it reported something that admittedly "wasn't true" didn't bother ABC in the least because, as the writer claims, it "uncovered a separate issue that had also been reported": that being the fact that Trump was following the law in holding illegals and separating the children from their parents until detention hearing could be held as opposed to just releasing them willy-nilly as Obama had done.

But deliberately publishing fake news cannot be justified.

And ABC wonders why Trump calls them fake news.

Facebook and Apple choose different ways to control information

It's no secret that Facebook – which is likely just a CIA front operation -- is acting as a gatekeeper for the corporate propaganda media. We've described several times how Facebook's "fact-checkers" are leftwing legacy media-biased – see here, here, here, and here -- if not downright fake news themselves.

Facebook largely relies on algorithms that flag not-so-fake-news like theDeclaration of Independence, while using human "fact-checkers" as a sort of backup.

Now Apple has launched a political news section designed to ensure users of its products get only government-approved propaganda steer clear of falsehoods surrounding the midterms.

Bloomberg describes it this way:

[Apple's] announcement reignited a fiery debate with Facebook about whether tech giants should hire people to curate news or rely on algorithms instead. Apple has used human editors to curate news content in "Top News" and other specialized sections since the application first launched in 2015, and said it will continue to do so for the midterm elections news section. The company uses a combination of human editors and machine learning to manage more tailored content in personalized feeds for users. "News was kind of going a little crazy," said Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook at the recent Fortune CEO Initiative, subtly referring to Facebook's struggle with the foreign actors such as Russia, profiteers and bots that took advantage of its News Feed algorithms for financial and political gain during the presidential election. "We felt the top stories should be selected by humans," Cook said. Apple's midterm election section will feature material from the Washington Post, Politico, and Axios, in addition to coverage from other sources the company describes as "trustworthy." But critics contend this coverage is limited, given that Apple's curators will only promote articles from a few legacy outlets. The inclusion of the Trump administration-friendly Fox News also struck a chord.

And there you have it. "Trustworthy" is code word for MSM, which means fake news.

It's not really complicated. It's murder or it's not

A baby at 30 weeks gestation (full term is 37-41) was born May 24 to a Bakersfield, California woman who arrived at the hospital with severe bruising on her stomach. The woman attributed the bruising to a fall that occurred while she was mopping.

The infant – who died at or just after birth – entered the world with a fractured skull and other "traumatic injuries." The woman later admitted to police that she and her boyfriend agreed to let him hit her in the stomach area in an effort to kill the baby. Police say she told them he struck her stomach with his fists "at least 10 times," after which she "stopped feeling the baby move."

In a moral and civilized society, that would be considered murder. Even in crazy California the law "defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being or a fetus with malice aforethought."

But Deputy District Attorney Gina Pearl said the case is complicated. AsBakersfieldnow.com reports:

California law allows abortion until viability, which is generally believed to be between 24 and 26 weeks… Killing a fetus is also allowed in cases where continuing the pregnancy threatens the life and health of the mother. Critics of abortion say the health of the mother is a broad concept that allows an exception in too many circumstances. Murder charges will also not be pursued if "the act was solicited, aided, abetted, or consented to by the mother of the fetus."

Marylee Shrider, executive director of Right to Life Kern County, said she "was shocked, and I wanted to burst into tears" when she read the story. "It's pretty sickening to read."

A founder of Pro Choice Kern County, Jennifer Bloomquist, didn't like it either. "Of course, we don't want anyone to suffer violence," she said.

And then Bloomquist delivered this gem:

"We can prevent future cases by offering greater access and even funding for abortions," Bloomquist said. "Safe and legal abortions, not induced miscarriages."

So Bloomquist is fine with baby murder as long as it's carried about a doctor who slices and dices and vacuums the baby out, but not when the baby is beaten to death in-utero.

It's really not complicated at all. A baby in the womb is either a person or it's not. Killing it in the womb is either murder or it's not. The woman's consent to such a thing is irrelevant.

That this concept is "complicated" is a testament to just how immoral our culture has become.

Another Chick-Fil-A goes rogue

Last week we told you about the rogue Chick-Fil-A employee who stepped off the reservation and saved a choking man without first ascertaining whether he was tranny or a homo. We've got another rogue Chick-Fil-A to tell you about this week.

This one's in Sacramento, California. The store's owner, Eric Mason, is now paying his workers what he calls a "living wage" of $17-$18 per hour, an increase from $12-$13 an hour and more than twice the $8.26 median hourly pay of fast-food employees across the country.

"As the owner, I'm looking at it big-picture and long-term," Mason told a local news station. "What that does for the business is provide consistency, someone that has relationships with our guests, and it's going to be building a long-term culture."

And surprisingly, he's not just limiting that to straight, white male employees.

That's smart business. It's also called capitalism and the free market. If this keeps up, lefty social justice warriors will have to find a new "evil corporation" to verbally abuse employees of, ban, boycott and slander.

— Jay Baker