Anti-Trump media touts fake news to whip up mob against pro-life kids
There’s a reason I wait a day or two when the media decides to bash pro-lifers: They are not good faith actors, and they desperately want to believe the sorts of stories that suit their narrative about the pro-life movement. I’ve seen abortion activists fake hate crimes on themselves to a breathless media frenzy, with the ensuing quiet correction weeks later scarcely making a ripple. I’ve seen stories about peaceful pro-lifers getting physically assaulted by abortion supporters cast by the media as a “scuffle at an anti-abortion protest.” And over and over again, I’ve seen media reports on events that I personally attended bear little resemblance to what actually took place.
And so when CNN, followed by the rest of the media lynch mob, reported that a bunch of MAGA-hat wearing kids from Covington Catholic School had swarmed an elderly Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial following the March...