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The Andrew Klavan Show

Ep. 266 - Are Democrats Living in An Alternative Universe?

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

Society & Culture

4.822.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Trump spokeswoman Kelly Ann Conway has been hit hard for speaking of 'alternative facts,' but has the Democrat control of the news media left the left living in an illusion? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Many in the media feel that Donald Trump is being unfair to them when he says they are dishonest and biased against him.

0:07.0

They insist that they are just telling the objective truth when they say he's a stinky poo-poo face

0:12.0

who is making the statue of Liberty Cry by beating Mexicans to death with the bodies of innocent Muslims.

0:18.0

The question is, are American journalists a collection of small-minded and corrupt elites?

0:23.0

So mesmerized by Democrat talking points they couldn't find their way to objectivity with a map and a flashlight

0:29.0

because they're so busy raking in millions of dollars from their corporate overlords

0:33.0

that they can't examine the belief systems that have turned them into low, narrow-minded dishonest and blithering buffoons?

0:39.0

Or does it just sort of seem like that to everyone?

0:44.0

The fact is recent studies of American journalism since the election of Donald Trump have found that reporting has become so inaccurate

0:51.0

that the phenomenon can only be accounted for by either dishonesty, hysteria, hysterical dishonesty, or dishonest hysteria, or hysterical dishonesty.

1:03.0

For instance, the New York Times, a former newspaper, recently ran a story headlined how Trump's rush to enact an immigration ban unleashed global chaos.

1:14.0

It later turned out there was no global chaos, although one New York Times editor was found running around in circles in the Times' men's room until he ricocheted off the stalls.

1:23.0

The editor later confessed he was upset because he had discovered he was a heterosexual male instead of a New York Times editor.

1:30.0

In another instance, NBC reported that the Trump administration had eased sanctions on a Russian intelligence agency.

1:37.0

It turned out that the sanctioned change was a small technical adjustment to free up trade. NBC corrected the story, saying they had made an honest mistake by lying because they were corrupt Democrats trying to give the impression the Trump was soft on Russia.

1:52.0

The Washington Post, Josh Rogan, published a bombshell report claiming that the State Department's entire senior management team had resigned.

2:00.0

Part of what Rogan called an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don't want to stick around for the Trump era.

2:08.0

The story turned out to be completely false and Rogan apologized, saying he had only meant to spread panic and discord and make the administration look bad because he hated them so much.

2:18.0

It made his stomach hurt and he couldn't sleep at night and sometimes when he was in the shower, he would just cry and cry and cry.

2:25.0

Other false stories from the media include Trump's threat to invade Mexico, which never happened. A Muslim woman who died without medical care because of Trump's travel pause, though she died before they ordered went out.

2:36.0

And of course the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. that was never removed from the Oval Office. Some journalists have defended their error-filled reporting.

2:45.0

CNN's Wolf Blitzer even went on the air to announce his support for his network, though he was jiggling his beard to spell out help me in Morse code.

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