The Washington Post's owner Jeff Bezos was absolutely right when he said that Americans don’t trust the news media. One of many reasons why the public no longer trust the Regime Media is because of their insistence in repeating Democrat-friendly narratives that spring forth from online video clips that are stripped of context.
Case in point, what is now known as The Cheney Hoax. During a recent town hall with Tucker Carlson, former President Donald Trump mused about how a “war hawk” such as Liz Cheney might feel were the guns pointed toward her, and were she to deal with the consequences of having to go wars she (and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney) are all too willing to start.
This is the standard “chickenhawk” argument we’ve heard since Vietnam and, most recently, during the runup to Operation Iraqi Freedom. “Fortunate Son” in plain Trumpspeak, which becomes obvious to reasonable individuals, regardless of their position on American foreign policy, once the statement is played in its full context.
However, that is not what happened. Democrat operatives and their allies in the media seized (or pounced, if you will) on the partial clip and howled that Trump threatened political violence against Liz Cheney. What’s worse, they continued doing so even after the full video emerged online.
The Regime Media lied, and continue to lie with the presidential election less than two days away. Watch as the Regime Media’s Sunday political affairs shows all continued to showcase the partial clip as proof evident of violent rhetoric, compared to the remarks in their full context (click “expand” to view transcript):
ABC THIS WEEK
11/3/24
11:04 AM
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Even appearing to suggest that fellow Republican Liz Cheney, now a Harris supporter, should face gunfire.
DONALD TRUMP: She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained at her face.
NBC MEET THE PRESS
11/3/24
10:01 AM
KRISTEN WELKER: Plus, violent threats. Donald Trump suggests sending Liz Cheney to war and says she should have guns trained on her face.
DONALD TRUMP: Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it…
KAMALA HARRIS: Anyone who wants to be President of the United States, who uses that kind of violent rhetoric, is clearly disqualified and unqualified to be President.
CBS FACE THE NATION
11/3/24
10:32 AM
MARGARET BRENNAN: Will the gender gap widen with Trump's sexist comments and his violent rhetoric like this mention of Liz Cheney?
DONALD TRUMP: She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained at her face.
FOX NEWS THE FAULKNER FOCUS
11/3/24
11:34 AM
HARRIS FAULKNER: Well, here is exactly what the former president said, complete with full context.
DONALD TRUMP: She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained at her face. You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, “oh, gee, we’ll- let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.” But she's a stupid person. And I used to have- I'd have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people. So whether it's her, whether it's -- I was surprised a little bit with Dick Cheney. I didn't know him at all. I only had, essentially, the one or two phone calls, and it was only a call saying “thank you very much for doing that for Scooter Libby, that was nice.” And Scooter Libby, by the way, was beyond -- he couldn't believe that it happened. Nobody would do it. They should have done that for him years before. But I was a little surprised because I actually thought that Dick Cheney would go with me over his daughter, and he didn't. And you know what? I understand it, it's your daughter and you go. But she’s a- she’s a bad person.
Despite clear contextual video evidence, the Regime Media insist on telling viewers that Trump is threatening violence against a political opponent. “Without evidence”, as the Regime Media like to say.
This hoax, like all the others, is disseminated in clear service of a political agenda, and can be added to the ever-growing pile of hoaxes and outright lies that the Regime Media have foisted upon the public over the past nine years.
Jeff Bezos is right. Americans don’t trust the news media, and blatant falsehoods like the Cheney Hoax are a big reason why.
