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The Lie of the Year Was Joe Biden’s Decline

About last year: PolitiFact, the independent fact-checking website run by the Poynter Institute, bestowed another odious distinction on President-elect Donald Trump. The organization dubbed a statement uttered by Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance the “Lie of the Year.”

PolitiFact has christened a Lie of the Year every year since 2009, and in only two of those years did statements made by Democrats earn the top prize. In 2011, PolitiFact slammed Democrats for claiming that Republicans would vote to end Medicare, and in 2013, the organization concluded that President Barack Obama’s solemn promise—”If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan”—was plainly untrue. But in every other year, PolitiFact has singled out right-leaning purveyors of mistruths.

This year is no different. In 2024, PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year is the claim by Trump that Haitian migrants in an Ohio town were “eating people’s pets.”

“With a brazen disregard for facts, Donald Trump and his running mate repeatedly peddled a created story that in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian immigrants were eating pet dogs and cats,” observes the organization.

The Republican ticket’s disregard for the facts in this case was indeed brazen. It was completely untrue that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pet dogs and cats. What happened was that various concerns about migrants supposedly hunting birds in public parks in Springfield, Ohio, got lumped together with an unrelated story of someone killing a pet cat in a completely different town. It’s a textbook example of why you shouldn’t automatically believe everything you see on social media. Trump and Vance did real harm here, and it’s absolutely fair to call them out for smearing the immigrant population of Springfield, Ohio.

But was this really the Lie of the Year?

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MSNBC Finally Admits Biden Flooded US With Illegals

No matter how much you hate the leftist media and MSNBC in particular, it’s not enough.

Now the Democrats have lost everything and Biden is leaving office, they are finally admitting that his disastrous administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants and how it “was not Biden’s finest moment.”

The grumpy chart guy said,“The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly. You can see what happened here. And Trump is not wrong when he talks about how border crossings work quite low. They’re running about 74,000 a month when he left office and they, in fact, did shoot up. Some of it was some things Biden said and some ways that they put a moratorium, for example, on deportations. But in fact, we did get up here almost to 300,000 a month.”

Yeah we know.

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Read Between the Lies: A Pattern Recognition Guide

When Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, announced during Event 201’s pandemic drill in 2019 that they would “flood the zone with trusted sources,” few understood this preview of coordinated narrative control. Within months, we watched it unfold in real time—unified messaging across all platforms, suppression of dissent, and coordinated narrative control that fooled much of the world.

But not everyone stayed fooled forever. Some saw through it immediately, questioning every aspect from day one. Others thought it was just incompetent government trying to protect us. Many initially accepted the precautionary principle—better safe than sorry. But as each policy failure pointed in the same direction—toward more control and less human agency—the pattern became impossible to ignore. Anyone not completely subsumed by the system eventually had to confront its true purpose: not protecting health or safety, but expanding control.

Once you recognize this pattern of deception, two questions should immediately arise whenever major stories dominate headlines: “What are they lying about?” and “What are they distracting us from?” The pattern of coordinated deception becomes unmistakable. Consider how media outlets spent three years pushing Russiagate conspiracies, driving unprecedented social division while laying the groundwork for what would become the greatest psychological operation in history. Today, while the media floods us with Ukraine coverage, BlackRock positions itself to profit from both the destruction and reconstruction. The pattern becomes unmistakable once you see it—manufactured crises driving pre-planned “solutions” that always expand institutional control.

Mainstream media operates on twin deceptions: misdirection and manipulation. The same anchors who sold us WMDs in Iraq, promoted “Russia collusion,” and insisted Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” still occupy prime time slots. Just as we see with RFK, Jr.’s HHS nomination, the pattern is consistent: coordinated attacks replace substantive debate, identical talking points appear across networks, and legitimate questions are dismissed through character assassination rather than evidence. Being consistently wrong isn’t a bug—it’s a feature. Their role isn’t to inform but to manufacture consent.

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Comedian Roasts 2024 on CNN Asking Why Trump Shooter Had No Silverware, Why So Many Presidents’ Chefs Dead 

Comedian Whitney Cummings joined CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast Tuesday and marked the end of 2024 by reciting a list of controversial topics the corporate media has suppressed.

At one point during the event, Cummings launched into a rant, declaring, “Since I only have a minute left live on establishment media, why don’t we just say a bunch of things that we know that they’ll never cover?”

She proceeded to highlight several news items the mainstream media has largely ignored – with CNN surprisingly allowing her to stay on air to share them.

“Trump’s shooter didn’t have any silverware in his house, no one thought that was weird?” Cummings asked quickly, referring to reports shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ home was “clean like a medical lab” when searched.

“Are we still rolling?” Cummings asked, going on to note, “The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia put money into Disney — so just know there won’t be any girl characters in the next ‘Cars’ movie.”

“Okay, are we still rolling? This is wild,” Cummings remarked, before asking, “Okay, Why so many presidents’ chef’s died? Weird.”

Over the past decade, two White House chefs – Walter Scheib, who worked under ex-Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, and Tafari Campbell, who served the Obama family – both died by drowning.

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Ad Nauseum: A Look at Who’s Scripting the News

As an author, having blurbs—those little endorsement quotes—on your book cover can really help drive sales. To be effective, blurbs should be truthful, convincing, and compelling, and ideally attributable to a recognizable, noteworthy, and otherwise unbiased name.

For example, this would be an epic book blurb:

“Immediately after reading Jenna’s latest masterpiece, I invented a new color, taught myself to speak dolphin, and reengineered the concept of time so I could go back and not post last week’s crude, embarrassing tweet. I didn’t just buy this book; I memorized it.” — Elon Musk

Now imagine you’re perusing the New Releases at Barnes & Noble (do those even exist anymore?) and you spot this on a cover:

“This is the best book ever written. Everyone should buy it.” — The Author

At the risk of insulting anyone’s intelligence here, the latter would be laughably ineffective because of course the author is going to say that. It would sort of be like Bill Gates, for random example, encouraging you to take a worthless, possibly lethal vaccine that he just so happens to make a boatload of dough off of, or Quentin Tarantino joining the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the sole purpose of nominating himself for Best Director. Just a wee conflict of interest, wouldn’t you say?

If conflicts of interest had a mascot, it would be pharmaceutical advertising. Media outlets, desperate for those massive ad spends, are about as likely to run a negative (albeit 100% accurate) segment about their Pharma paymasters as a feral cat is to give cuddling lessons. Instead, all day long, viewers are bombarded with flashy commercials pimping the “miracle” drug du jour that at best is inferior or ineffective and at worst, could be lethal. And if they turn out to be either of those things, do you think any major network is going to chop off the hand that feeds it?

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Stop the Press(es)!

The Washington Post has “descended into a dark abyss,” the New York Post reports, as if some abysses are, as the real estate ads say, suffused with natural light. The Washington Post plunged into this infernal netherworld because its owner decided a few weeks back not to endorse a presidential candidate. The ownership of The Los Angeles Times also chose not to endorse anybody, and USA Today, among others, followed suit. Seeing this decision by their bosses as an unforgivable dereliction of duty, newsroom staff at these papers are still indignant. Some, in a huff, walked out. Readers, knowing they can get what they need off the website, have, in a bold act of defiance, cancelled their subscriptions. 

This turn of events is newsworthy in at least one sense that none of the people who explain the world to us seem to have noticed. What they haven’t mentioned is that, not so long ago, newspapermen—and women—couldn’t have cared less what the slightly ridiculous “word merchants” who worked on the editorial page did or did not do.

“Real reporters”—that is what journalists used to call themselves—sneered at the effete little nobodies, the ones in another part of the building who earned their keep translating the owners’ prejudices into compelling prose.

The world of Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur’s Front Page, with its hard-drinking newshounds, is long gone, and I’m not so sure that’s a good thing. People who go into “journalism” these days, from all available evidence, consider themselves change agents. Seeing their work as a profession, rather than a mere trade, they are not content to tell us what is going on in the world. They want to reform it, and they take this mission very seriously. The reporters and the editorial writers actually know each other’s names; they no longer exist in separate spaces. And they seem to think these endorsements matter more than the facts might indicate.

To be fair, there is evidence that newspaper editorials—or the absence of them—do influence some voters. Maybe not enough to sway an election, but who knows? We will probably find out in due course. The guy with the rolled-up sleeves—Steve Kornacki, is it?—is probably figuring this out right now, and if he contacts me, I will gladly share with him an important data point I have come across on my own. 

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Three Senior DOJ Officials Caught Leaking Non-Public Investigative Details to Media Days Before Election, Inspector General Report Reveals

In a bombshell revelation, three senior officials at Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) were found to have violated internal policies by leaking sensitive, non-public investigative details to the media just days before an election, according to a report released by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on Monday.

The OIG launched its investigation after receiving complaints alleging politically motivated disclosures.

The leaked information, pertaining to ongoing DOJ matters, was shared with select reporters, resulting in two news articles containing confidential details.

The Inspector General’s investigative summary paints a damning picture of the senior officials’ actions. The report reads:

Findings of Misconduct by Three then Senior DOJ Officials for Violating the Department’s Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy; and by one of these Senior Officials for Violating the Department’s Social Media Policy

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated an investigation after receiving allegations that actions by a litigating division were politically motivated and violated DOJ policies regarding disclosing information about ongoing matters.

The OIG investigation found that three then Senior DOJ Officials violated DOJ’s Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy by leaking to select reporters, days before an election, non-public DOJ investigative information regarding ongoing DOJ investigative matters, resulting in the publication of two news articles that included the non-public DOJ investigative information. The OIG investigation also found that one of these three then Senior DOJ Officials violated the Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy and DOJ’s Social Media Policy by reposting through a DOJ social media account links to the news articles.

The three Senior DOJ Officials were not employed by DOJ when the OIG contacted them for interviews and either declined or did not respond to the OIG’s interview requests. The OIG has the authority to compel testimony from current DOJ employees upon informing them that their statements will not be used to incriminate them in a criminal proceeding. The OIG does not have the authority to compel or subpoena testimony from former DOJ employees.

The OIG has completed its investigation and provided its report to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General and, because the report contained misconduct findings against attorneys, provided its report to the Professional Misconduct Review Unit for appropriate action.

The OIG also provided its report to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate alleged Hatch Act violations, for its consideration of whether the conduct of these officials violated the Hatch Act.

This isn’t the first time the DOJ has been embroiled in allegations of leaks.

According to the New York Post, in September, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) accused the DOJ and FBI of leaking information about a previously closed investigation into then-President-elect Donald Trump.

The investigation, related to alleged Egyptian funding of Trump’s 2016 campaign, was closed in 2020 due to insufficient evidence but resurfaced in an August 2024 Washington Post report, citing leaked court documents and confidential sources.

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No, The Truth Is Not Just Another Story

“The Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency.”

– Tom Luongo

It must be obvious that the incoming government under Mr. Trump has one primary duty overall: sorting out truth from lies so the nation can reestablish a baseline reality to function upon. America is so punch-drunk from official lying that many intelligent people who ought to know better now proclaim that reality is unknowable, which is just a surrender to nihilism — the rejection of moral principle, a belief that the human project is meaningless.

This awful condition has led to the point where you know for sure that “Joe Biden” cannot possibly discharge his duties as chief executive, and yet nobody cares enough to investigate who is running things behind the front he puts up. That would generally be the job of the news media, which is supposed to function as the public’s auditor. Now, of course, you are persuaded that this was never really their job, that it was a sham, but that is just another lie.

The news was not flawless, but neither was it presented as nothing more than opinion. The news existed to register what happened day-to-day. It was not so much concerned with why things happened, which was much more difficult to establish, and usually reserved for the pages labeled “opinion,” so that you knew it was somebody’s conjecture. I know this because I worked as a newspaper reporter in the 1970s. I actually found out what was going on about this-and-that, wrote it up, and saw it in print hours later. The facts.

Journalism had some simple rules for reporting the facts about anything — and it’s hilarious that anyone thought it required a graduate degree from some credentialing mill like the Columbia U. School of Journalism. The news was often meddled-with by interested parties, government and business, but they did not completely overwhelm the ant-like labors of x-thousands of reporters in the field, and the stream of fact they circulated.

Not all of it was subject to dispute, meddling, or opinion because it was self-evident: Joe Blow got shot. . . a helicopter crashed in Ohio. . . a volcano erupted in Peru. . . .

Only over time, the past thirty years especially, our government grew and grew and one of the things that grew out of it was the nefarious “blob” dedicated to protecting the self-enlarging perquisites and interests of that government. Blobs will absorb things they encounter, and in a predatory way, the US government blob absorbed the US news media. The blob transformed the news into an engine for suppressing the facts or spinning them narratively when they could not be suppressed, in order to maximize the advantage of the government and to protect the operations of the blob itself.

It is also a fact that this blob is aligned mostly with Democratic Party, because that party is most avid for the continuing growth of government, and its members overwhelmingly dominate in the officialdom that dwells inside the DC Beltway.

The numbers speak for themselves on the DC voter rolls.

So, a new government under Mr. Trump is feared cringingly by the news media.

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The Top 10 Hoaxes The Propaganda Press Peddled In 2024

Americans who have lived through Donald Trump’s political career are no strangers to legacy media disinformation. From the Russia collusion hoax to the “very fine people” Charlottesville lie, the litany of dishonest info ops from left-wing activists masquerading as journalists is too long to count.

And despite Americans’ waning trust in their ability to report news accurately and fairly, these Democrat Party yes-men show no signs of stopping.

Like years before it, 2024 saw no shortage of media hijinks. Whether it was their coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign or participation in Democrats’ war on the Supreme Court, America’s propaganda press maintained its ethically bankrupt reputation.

So, in no particular order, here are the biggest hoaxes and misinformation campaigns run by legacy media hacktivists this year.

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MSNBC Guest Demonstrates That the Left Does Not Understand the Issue of Illegal Immigration at All 

Illegal immigration was one of the main issues in the 2024 election, rivaling the issue of the economy for most people. Joe Biden allowed millions of people to illegally cross the southern border and voters wanted it to stop.

MSNBC guest Lauren Leader shows that the left still does not grasp the enormity of the issue or what the people voted for.

In the segment below, she makes it clear that she (and many others like her) do not see this as a crime. They do not want America’s immigration laws enforced. She even tries to argue that deportation would be expensive, without ever addressing the massive costs of housing and feeding all of these people.

Partial transcript via the Western Lensman on Twitter/X:

MSNBC lib doesn’t think illegal aliens have committed a crime; worries about chaos and cost of deportations:

“That is what is disturbing…they see anyone who has entered the country as committed a crime…most Americans don’t see it that way.”

“This is going to be a lot of chaos.”

Um. If they entered the country illegally, they did commit a crime. Americans do see it that way and voted accordingly. The mass chaos and untold cost of mass *importation* hasn’t been a concern of theirs.

This kind of upside-down, bizarro-world stuff is what American voters rejected.

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