The media in the United States never met a racism that they didn't love. Well, this is true for 80% of the news media and has been the case for the past 10 years or so anyway. They love racism stories so much that they will latch onto anything that can be considered racist in any way without even bothering to figure out if it really was racism, or if it is just a photo taken from a crazy angle, or a quote that is intentionally taken out of context in order to create a racist situation.
The media has zero concern over whether or not their stories are based in reality or not, and the politicians use it as an opportunity to latch onto the idea in order to benefit themselves in the process. This happened not that long ago when a bunch of politicians started talking about how border patrol agents were caught red-handed whipping Haitian illegal immigrants at the Mexico border.
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The media immediately went wild with these images despite the fact that they didn't have a reporter there nor do they understand or have any idea about what was going on but since they love to push a good ol' white guy being a menace towards black people narrative these are some of the headlines that came out of major news outlets.
- Border Patrol clash with Haitians recalls slavery era (USA Today)
- Border Patrol is using reigns like whips to round up Haitian migrants (AZ Central)
- 'Horrific': US Border Patrol agents whipped, rounded up migrants on horseback (Firstpost)
- Border agent seen holding whip with encounter with Haitian migrants (MSNBC)
It should come as no surprise that these are all left-leaning publications and it is evident simply by the use of the word "migrants" because they love to paint a picture as though these were just people wandering the countryside in search of berries and an honest day's work. They're not illegally entering a country or anything... they're just migrating like birds in the winter... duh!
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Of course several lawmakers jumped at the opportunity to call out this overt racism, truth be damned, to bring the spotlight on themselves with idiot Maxine Waters claiming "this is worse than slavery." I'm not supposed to choose sides but honestly, how is that woman still in office? Who is voting for her?
The White House responded by taking the horses away before even bothering to address whether the media-fueled allegations were even true or not - which is just amusing how childish our government has become.
However, you can get ready for this story to completely come away because the truth of the matter actually came out when the person who actually took the photos and actually was there came forward to say this
"I didn't ever see them whip anyone with the thing, he was swinging it, but I didn't see him actually whip someone with it.
Also, it was confirmed by the border patrol that not only were the agents not using their whips, but they don't even HAVE WHIPS.
I can't even blame this on a particular publication like I normally would because every organization under the sun that is leftist immediately jumped on this story. I would be willing to bet that none of them will issue a retraction or admit that they were wrong about this. The President and the other lawmakers that decided to turn this non-event into a photo-op for themselves will definitely not do so.
We truly live in clown world now folks, and it is the media that keeps it this way.
At least we haven't seen this guy in a while