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I'm pretty sure Pepperidge Farms could remember a few more, like the 60 minutes interview doing the surreptitious switheroo to cover up Kamala's entire answers, and the 24/7 rolling ticker of Covid cases and deaths.
But here are the ten biggest ones:
"Americans who have lived through Donald Trumpâs political career are no strangers to legacy media disinformation. From the Russia collusion hoax to the âvery fine peopleâ Charlottesville lie, the litany of dishonest info ops from left-wing activists masquerading as journalists is too long to count.
And despite Americansâ waning trust in their ability to report news accurately and fairly, these Democrat Party yes-men show no signs of stopping.
Like years before it, 2024 saw no shortage of media hijinks. Whether it was their coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign or participation in Democratsâ war on the Supreme Court, Americaâs propaganda press maintained its ethically bankrupt reputation.
So, in no particular order, here are the biggest hoaxes and misinformation campaigns run by legacy media hacktivists this year:
Taking Trumpâs remarks out of context is one of legacy mediaâs favorite pastimes â and Marchâs âbloodbathâ nontroversy was no exception.
Speaking to rallygoers in Ohio, the former and soon-to-be president warned that the U.S. automobile industry would face an economic âbloodbathâ if Democrats won the White House in 2024. Media acolytes quickly jumped on the former presidentâs comments, which they distorted to make it appear as if Trump was threatening a literal bloodbath if he lost his reelection bid.
Left-wing outlets such as NBC News, CBS News, The New York Times, and others ran headlines using this dishonest framing.
âTrump says country faces âbloodbathâ if Biden wins in November,â a March 16 Politico headline reads.
While Democrat mouthpiece ProPublica kickstarted a media war on the Supreme Court last year with smear attacks on Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, The New York Times took its hysteria to a whole new level.
In May, the outlet fabricated a controversy about an upside-down American flag flown at the Virginia residence of Alito and his wife, which the outlet claimed was a symbol adopted by âsomeâ âStop the Stealâ protestors on Jan. 6, 2021. Justice Alito told the paper that he âhad no involvement whatsoeverâ in flying the flag, but that it was placed there by his wife to protest a neighborâs profane yard signs.
Despite claims of ethics violations from so-called âexperts,â The Federalistâs Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland â who researched judicial ethics rules as a law clerk for years â noted that the Gray Ladyâs âeffort to smear Justice Alito as unethical based on the flag incident cannot withstand scrutinyâ and â[t]he calls for Alito to recuse from [Jan. 6-related] cases have no basis in sanity.â
Americaâs ânewspaper of recordâ wasnât done attempting to tarnish Alito, however. A few days later, the Times ran another hit piece against the justice over an âAppeal to Heavenâ flag flown at one of his homes. While well-known and originating from the Revolutionary War, the Times attempted to gin up controversy over the flag by claiming it represents âa push to remake American government in Christian terms.â
If youâre looking for an example of how the media interfere in our elections, look no further than their concentrated effort to hide Joe Bidenâs cognitive decline.
When videos showcasing Bidenâs senility went viral on social media over the summer, media hacktivists adopted the White Houseâs baseless claim the clips were âcheap fakes.â Only after the presidentâs disastrous, lie-filled debate performance against Trump did the media realize they could no longer hide this massive scandal from the public.
Of course, their subsequent acknowledgment of Bidenâs faltering health clearly had nothing to do with the republicâs well-being and everything to do with their concerns it could harm Democratsâ prospects of holding the White House in November.
It didnât take long for the media to make The Heritage Foundationâs âProject 2025â their go-to bogeyman during the 2024 campaign.
Developed to provide a conservative roadmap for the incoming Trump administration, the plan became the subject of hyperbolic articles and Democrat speeches designed to brainwash voters into believing it would destroy the country as we know it if Trump were to get elected. In actuality, Trump has repeatedly said he was not affiliated with Project 2025, and the proposal recommends policies conservatives have supported for decades.
After Democrat oligarchs orchestrated a silent coup to replace Biden with Kamala Harris on the 2024 ticket, the media jumped into action to cover up the vice presidentâs myriad failures â including her role as âborder czar.â
To hide Harrisâ incompetence from voters, left-wing journos pretended Biden never tapped her to oversee the invasion at the U.S.-Mexico border. Left-wing rags like Axios went as far as to claim Harris ânever actually hadâ the âborder czarâ moniker â despite the outlet repeatedly referring to her as such in previous articles.
Obviously seeking to tarnish Trump ahead of the November election, anti-truth NPR ran an anonymously sourced hit piece attacking the former president for â wait for it â visiting Arlington National Cemetery at the request of Gold Star families.
The smear campaign was aimed at fomenting a controversy about Trumpâs team taking photos and videos of the former presidentâs visit alongside the loved ones of those killed during Bidenâs disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. The media hoax didnât sit well with the Gold Star families, who blasted Kamala Harris, Democrats, and, by extension, their corporate press allies for attempting to politicize the event.
Legacy media propagandists had their hands full in the closing days of the 2024 election after Biden referred to the tens of millions of Americans who support Trump as âgarbage.â
Amid fears that the presidentâs remarks could hurt Harrisâ electoral prospects, the âdemocracy dies in darknessâ crowd rushed to cover up the scandal. While Politicoâs Johnathan Lemire employed the mediaâs classic âRepublicans pounce!â framing, NPRâs David Folkenflik decided to play doctor and mind reader for a day, telling his X followers he âlistened to [Bidenâs comments] several timesâ and came away with the conclusion that the presidentâs supposed âstutterâ problem is to blame.
One of the biggest media-driven hoaxes concocted this year was the manipulation of Trumpâs remarks about Liz Cheney.
While speaking at an event days before the Nov. 5 election, Trump critiqued Cheneyâs obsession with overseas military adventurism. The former president referred to Cheney as a âradical war hawkâ and defended the troops forced to fight in the never-ending conflicts neocons like Cheney would never personally partake in.
âLetâs put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Letâs see how she feels about it ⌠when the guns are trained on her face. You know, theyâre all war hawks when theyâre sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, âGee, letâs send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,ââ Trump said.
In the wake of Bidenâs âgarbageâ smear, the media rushed to distort Trumpâs comments to make it appear as if he was calling for Cheney to be executed via firing squad. The disinformation operation represented a clear attempt to smear Trump ahead of the election and boost Harrisâ prospects.
If you watched and read nothing but legacy media, thereâs a good chance youâd know little to nothing about the two assassination attempts against Trump this year.
After a longtime Democrat donor allegedly tried to kill the incoming president on his Palm Beach golf course in September, left-wing propagandists at NBC News and The Washington Post downplayed the attempted murder as nothing more than an âincident.â Outlets like Time magazine whitewashed the suspectâs history of donating to Democrats, characterizing him in a tweet as a â58-year-old with unclear political ideology.â
Such dishonest propaganda isnât surprising, however. Itâs the same playbook these media hacks â who spent years leading an âassassination prepâ campaign with horrific smears and lies directed at Trump â deployed when initially âcoveringâ the first assassination attempt against Trump in July.
In a last-ditch attempt to salvage Kamala Harrisâ flailing presidential bid, The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â who ran the debunked 2020 âsuckersâ and losersâ smear â published an anonymously sourced October hit piece with claims that Trump said he wanted âthe kind of generals that Hitler had.â It also contained accusations that Trump expressed anger about paying for the funeral services of a murdered Army soldier.
To the media, it didnât matter that the soldierâs sister blasted Goldberg for his anti-Trump fabrications, or that numerous former Trump administration officials debunked the bogus claims. What mattered was regurgitating The Atlanticâs slanderous hatchet job, which they did with no questions asked."
The Top 10 Hoaxes The Propaganda Press Peddled In 2024
But here are the ten biggest ones:
The Top 10 Hoaxes The Propaganda Press Peddled In 2024
"Americans who have lived through Donald Trumpâs political career are no strangers to legacy media disinformation. From the Russia collusion hoax to the âvery fine peopleâ Charlottesville lie, the litany of dishonest info ops from left-wing activists masquerading as journalists is too long to count.
And despite Americansâ waning trust in their ability to report news accurately and fairly, these Democrat Party yes-men show no signs of stopping.
Like years before it, 2024 saw no shortage of media hijinks. Whether it was their coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign or participation in Democratsâ war on the Supreme Court, Americaâs propaganda press maintained its ethically bankrupt reputation.
So, in no particular order, here are the biggest hoaxes and misinformation campaigns run by legacy media hacktivists this year:
1. Bloodbath
Taking Trumpâs remarks out of context is one of legacy mediaâs favorite pastimes â and Marchâs âbloodbathâ nontroversy was no exception.
Speaking to rallygoers in Ohio, the former and soon-to-be president warned that the U.S. automobile industry would face an economic âbloodbathâ if Democrats won the White House in 2024. Media acolytes quickly jumped on the former presidentâs comments, which they distorted to make it appear as if Trump was threatening a literal bloodbath if he lost his reelection bid.
Left-wing outlets such as NBC News, CBS News, The New York Times, and others ran headlines using this dishonest framing.
âTrump says country faces âbloodbathâ if Biden wins in November,â a March 16 Politico headline reads.
2. War on SCOTUS
While Democrat mouthpiece ProPublica kickstarted a media war on the Supreme Court last year with smear attacks on Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, The New York Times took its hysteria to a whole new level.
In May, the outlet fabricated a controversy about an upside-down American flag flown at the Virginia residence of Alito and his wife, which the outlet claimed was a symbol adopted by âsomeâ âStop the Stealâ protestors on Jan. 6, 2021. Justice Alito told the paper that he âhad no involvement whatsoeverâ in flying the flag, but that it was placed there by his wife to protest a neighborâs profane yard signs.
Despite claims of ethics violations from so-called âexperts,â The Federalistâs Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland â who researched judicial ethics rules as a law clerk for years â noted that the Gray Ladyâs âeffort to smear Justice Alito as unethical based on the flag incident cannot withstand scrutinyâ and â[t]he calls for Alito to recuse from [Jan. 6-related] cases have no basis in sanity.â
Americaâs ânewspaper of recordâ wasnât done attempting to tarnish Alito, however. A few days later, the Times ran another hit piece against the justice over an âAppeal to Heavenâ flag flown at one of his homes. While well-known and originating from the Revolutionary War, the Times attempted to gin up controversy over the flag by claiming it represents âa push to remake American government in Christian terms.â
3. Hiding Bidenâs Cognitive Decline
If youâre looking for an example of how the media interfere in our elections, look no further than their concentrated effort to hide Joe Bidenâs cognitive decline.
When videos showcasing Bidenâs senility went viral on social media over the summer, media hacktivists adopted the White Houseâs baseless claim the clips were âcheap fakes.â Only after the presidentâs disastrous, lie-filled debate performance against Trump did the media realize they could no longer hide this massive scandal from the public.
Of course, their subsequent acknowledgment of Bidenâs faltering health clearly had nothing to do with the republicâs well-being and everything to do with their concerns it could harm Democratsâ prospects of holding the White House in November.
4. Project 2025
It didnât take long for the media to make The Heritage Foundationâs âProject 2025â their go-to bogeyman during the 2024 campaign.
Developed to provide a conservative roadmap for the incoming Trump administration, the plan became the subject of hyperbolic articles and Democrat speeches designed to brainwash voters into believing it would destroy the country as we know it if Trump were to get elected. In actuality, Trump has repeatedly said he was not affiliated with Project 2025, and the proposal recommends policies conservatives have supported for decades.
5. Whatâs a Border Czar?
After Democrat oligarchs orchestrated a silent coup to replace Biden with Kamala Harris on the 2024 ticket, the media jumped into action to cover up the vice presidentâs myriad failures â including her role as âborder czar.â
To hide Harrisâ incompetence from voters, left-wing journos pretended Biden never tapped her to oversee the invasion at the U.S.-Mexico border. Left-wing rags like Axios went as far as to claim Harris ânever actually hadâ the âborder czarâ moniker â despite the outlet repeatedly referring to her as such in previous articles.
6. Trumpâs Arlington Cemetery Visit
Obviously seeking to tarnish Trump ahead of the November election, anti-truth NPR ran an anonymously sourced hit piece attacking the former president for â wait for it â visiting Arlington National Cemetery at the request of Gold Star families.
The smear campaign was aimed at fomenting a controversy about Trumpâs team taking photos and videos of the former presidentâs visit alongside the loved ones of those killed during Bidenâs disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. The media hoax didnât sit well with the Gold Star families, who blasted Kamala Harris, Democrats, and, by extension, their corporate press allies for attempting to politicize the event.
7. Show Me the Garbage!
Legacy media propagandists had their hands full in the closing days of the 2024 election after Biden referred to the tens of millions of Americans who support Trump as âgarbage.â
Amid fears that the presidentâs remarks could hurt Harrisâ electoral prospects, the âdemocracy dies in darknessâ crowd rushed to cover up the scandal. While Politicoâs Johnathan Lemire employed the mediaâs classic âRepublicans pounce!â framing, NPRâs David Folkenflik decided to play doctor and mind reader for a day, telling his X followers he âlistened to [Bidenâs comments] several timesâ and came away with the conclusion that the presidentâs supposed âstutterâ problem is to blame.
8. Trumpâs Liz Cheney Comments
One of the biggest media-driven hoaxes concocted this year was the manipulation of Trumpâs remarks about Liz Cheney.
While speaking at an event days before the Nov. 5 election, Trump critiqued Cheneyâs obsession with overseas military adventurism. The former president referred to Cheney as a âradical war hawkâ and defended the troops forced to fight in the never-ending conflicts neocons like Cheney would never personally partake in.
âLetâs put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Letâs see how she feels about it ⌠when the guns are trained on her face. You know, theyâre all war hawks when theyâre sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, âGee, letâs send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,ââ Trump said.
In the wake of Bidenâs âgarbageâ smear, the media rushed to distort Trumpâs comments to make it appear as if he was calling for Cheney to be executed via firing squad. The disinformation operation represented a clear attempt to smear Trump ahead of the election and boost Harrisâ prospects.
9. What Assassination Attempts?
If you watched and read nothing but legacy media, thereâs a good chance youâd know little to nothing about the two assassination attempts against Trump this year.
After a longtime Democrat donor allegedly tried to kill the incoming president on his Palm Beach golf course in September, left-wing propagandists at NBC News and The Washington Post downplayed the attempted murder as nothing more than an âincident.â Outlets like Time magazine whitewashed the suspectâs history of donating to Democrats, characterizing him in a tweet as a â58-year-old with unclear political ideology.â
Such dishonest propaganda isnât surprising, however. Itâs the same playbook these media hacks â who spent years leading an âassassination prepâ campaign with horrific smears and lies directed at Trump â deployed when initially âcoveringâ the first assassination attempt against Trump in July.
10. The Atlanticâs Hitler Hysteria
In a last-ditch attempt to salvage Kamala Harrisâ flailing presidential bid, The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â who ran the debunked 2020 âsuckersâ and losersâ smear â published an anonymously sourced October hit piece with claims that Trump said he wanted âthe kind of generals that Hitler had.â It also contained accusations that Trump expressed anger about paying for the funeral services of a murdered Army soldier.
To the media, it didnât matter that the soldierâs sister blasted Goldberg for his anti-Trump fabrications, or that numerous former Trump administration officials debunked the bogus claims. What mattered was regurgitating The Atlanticâs slanderous hatchet job, which they did with no questions asked."
The Top 10 Hoaxes The Propaganda Press Peddled In 2024