The Bible tells us that in the last days that many will turn away from the truth and accept myths. It also says that the truth will make us free. Today we are awash in so many media lies that I thought it might be useful to list a few for easy reference, in no particular order.
#1. The Capitol Hill riot on January 6 was an “armed insurrection” in which five people were killed, including a Capitol Hill officer hit by a fire extinguisher in the head.
Reality: The rioters had no firearms or even knives. Two of the five died from a stroke and heart attack. The officer, Brian Sicknick, was not hit by a fire extinguisher, did not die from “blunt trauma,” and his death the next day was from “unknown causes,” as the New York Times eventually admitted. Of the two young women Trump supporters who died in the riot, one was shot by an unnamed police officer (the media are, to say the least, incurious) and the other may have had a medical emergency and was trampled. The deaths, plus injuries to many officers, are tragic. But the media narrative is false: “Five killed in armed insurrection.”
#2. Joe Biden and the Democrats are “moderates” who would return us to “normal.”
Reality: Nancy Pelosi began the new session by issuing House rules wiping out any gender-specific terms, including those defined by familial relationships, such as mother, father, son, daughter, aunt or uncle. Recently, the House passed The Equality Act, the most dangerous threat to religious liberty and conscience ever conceived in America. President Biden has issued dozens of executive orders so radical that many people even now refuse to believe it could be this bad: Opening up our southern border, already in crisis. Killing the Keystone pipeline. Resuming travel from terror-prone nations. Re-joining the Paris climate treaty without Senate approval. Ordering the military to include men who think they’re women, and vice versa. Ordering schools to allow biological males into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms and sports. Winking at Iran’s violation of nuclear limits.
#3. “Racist police” are out to get blacks, a mantra of Black Lives Matter.
Reality: In a typical year, police have 375 million annual contacts with civilians, as noted by author Heather MacDonald. In 2019, police fatally shot 1,004 suspects. Despite proportionally far higher crime incidence, blacks accounted for only 235 of the total, or less than a quarter. Of those, nine were unarmed (police also fatally shot 19 unarmed whites). Any of these deaths is tragic, but the media narrative is dangerously false: Police are Nazis, enforcing a “systemically white supremacist America.”
#4. BLM/Antifa protests were “mostly peaceful.”
Reality: In 2020, 48 of the 50 most populous cities in the nation had protest-related riots, with dozens murdered, hundreds of police injured and billions in damages to businesses. Democrats demand an inquiry only into the Capitol Hill riot, which threatened them, not the hundreds of other riots that they openly encouraged.
#5. Silicon Valley Liberals believe in freedom of speech.
Reality: No, they don’t. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and Instagram routinely censor or disparage conservative content. They de-platformed the fast-growing Parler (which has since re-emerged). Two Democrat Congress members from California are demanding that cable providers Comcast, Verizon and Cox, and digital companies Roku, Apple and Hulu actually remove Fox News, One America News and Newsmax. This is Soviet-style thuggery, fit for a communist or Nazi regime, not America.
These are just five of many samples of the daily gusher from Big Media, Big Tech and Liberals. What will happen when no one listens to them anymore? One word: Freedom.