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Dead to rights: Constant Barrage of Fake News

VIDEO: White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders goes off on CNN's fakery during press briefing



The war between the White House and the press corps continues. And it needs to. To watch these people react as deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reads them the riot act is utterly astonishing. They simply have no concept of the harm they've done - not just to the Trump Administration but to the nation - with their constant spewing of unreliably sourced, false garbage. It's not just the Russia nonsense. It's everything. Much of it is trivial, but that doesn't excuse them in the slightest because they play it up like it's important. And the old-line thinking that you don't start a fight with these people is gone, as it needs to be. Sanders absolutely lets them have it here, and they don't take it well:
This war is not going to be won with a single tongue-lashing, but it needs to continue. If the White House again and again takes the media to task for their falsehoods - especially when it arises from the use of anonymous sources as happened with CNN's fake Russia story - it will eventually force the media to face accountability for these irresponsible reporting practices. That needs to happen in the worst way. Day after day the nation is being fed narratives that often have no basis in fact, because the media neither knows nor cares if the information they're offering is really true. They only care that it makes President Trump look bad. That is their sole agenda. They hate the president and anything that reflects negatively on him is worth putting on the air or in print. That's how CNN ended up embarrassing itself with this fake Anthony Scaramucci nonsense. The media play a very important role in the life of this nation, which is why they do so much harm when they do their jobs ineptly or dishonestly. They way they've been doing their job lately is doing enormous harm because it's convincing people things are true that are absolutely not true. That cannot be excused as honest mistakes because there is too much of it, and their hostility toward the president is so obvious that it would take a fool not to recognize they're doing it intentionally. Besides, as Rob showed us yesterday, there's plentiful evidence from inside their own ranks that this is exactly what's happening. Going off on the media as determinedly as Sanders does here is typically not what press secretaries do. But attacking the president on a daily basis over things that are not true is typically not what the news media has done, until now. If the game has changed, they're the reason it's changed. Maybe they should have thought about what would happen to them before they decided to conduct themselves in this way.

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