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:
The Top 10 Hoaxes The Propaganda Press Peddled In 2024
"Americans who have lived through Donald Trumpās political career are no strangers to legacy media disinformation. From the
Russia collusion hoax to the
āvery fine peopleā Charlottesville lie, the litany of dishonest info ops from left-wing activists masquerading as journalists is too long to count.
And despite Americansā
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 Democratsā war on the Supreme Court, Americaās 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 Trumpās remarks out of context is one of legacy mediaās favorite pastimes ā and Marchās ābloodbathā 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 ābloodbathā if Democrats won the White House in 2024. Media acolytes quickly jumped on the former presidentās 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.
āTrump says country faces ābloodbathā if Biden wins in November,ā 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 āsomeā āStop the Stealā protestors on Jan. 6, 2021. Justice Alito told the paper that he āhad no involvement whatsoeverā in flying the flag, but that it was placed there by his wife to protest a neighborās profane yard signs.
Despite claims of ethics violations from so-called āexperts,ā The Federalistās Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland ā who researched judicial ethics rules as a law clerk for years ā
noted that the Gray Ladyās āeffort to smear Justice Alito as unethical based on the flag incident cannot withstand scrutinyā and ā[t]he calls for Alito to recuse from [Jan. 6-related] cases have no basis in sanity.ā
Americaās ānewspaper of recordā wasnāt done attempting to tarnish Alito, however. A few days later, the Times ran
another hit piece against the justice over an āAppeal to Heavenā 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 āa push to remake American government in Christian terms.ā
3. Hiding Bidenās Cognitive Decline
If youāre looking for an example of how the media
interfere in our elections, look no further than their concentrated effort to hide Joe Bidenās cognitive decline.
When videos showcasing Bidenās senility went viral on social media over the summer, media hacktivists
adopted the White Houseās baseless claim the clips were ācheap fakes.ā Only after the presidentās 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 Bidenās faltering health clearly had nothing to do with the republicās well-being and everything to do with their concerns it could harm Democratsā prospects of holding the White House in November.
4. Project 2025
It didnāt take long for the media to make The Heritage Foundationās āProject 2025ā 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. Whatās 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 presidentās myriad failures ā including her role as āborder czar.ā
To hide Harrisā 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 ānever actually hadā the āborder czarā moniker ā despite the outlet repeatedly referring to her as such in previous articles.
6. Trumpās 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 ā wait for it ā visiting Arlington National Cemetery at the
request of
Gold Star families.
The smear campaign was aimed at fomenting a controversy about Trumpās team taking photos and videos of the former presidentās visit alongside the loved ones of those killed during Bidenās disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. The media hoax didnāt 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 āgarbage.ā
Amid fears that the presidentās remarks could hurt Harrisā electoral prospects, the ādemocracy dies in darknessā crowd
rushed to cover up the scandal. While Politicoās Johnathan Lemire employed the mediaās classic āRepublicans pounce!ā framing, NPRās David Folkenflik decided to play doctor and mind reader for a day, telling his X followers he ālistened to [Bidenās comments] several timesā and came away with the conclusion that the presidentās
supposed āstutterā problem is to blame.
8. Trumpās Liz Cheney Comments
One of the biggest media-driven hoaxes concocted this year was the manipulation of Trumpās remarks about Liz Cheney.
While speaking at an event days before the Nov. 5 election, Trump
critiqued Cheneyās obsession with overseas military adventurism. The former president referred to Cheney as a āradical war hawkā and defended the troops forced to fight in the never-ending conflicts neocons like Cheney would never personally partake in.
āLetās put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Letās see how she feels about it ⦠when the guns are trained on her face. You know, theyāre all war hawks when theyāre sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, āGee, letās send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,āā Trump
said.
In the wake of Bidenās āgarbageā smear, the media rushed to
distort Trumpās 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 Harrisā prospects.
9. What Assassination Attempts?
If you watched and read nothing but legacy media, thereās a good chance youād 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 āincident.ā Outlets like Time magazine whitewashed the suspectās history of donating to Democrats, characterizing him in a tweet as a ā58-year-old with unclear political ideology.ā
Such dishonest propaganda isnāt surprising, however. Itās the
same playbook these media hacks ā who spent years leading an
āassassination prepā campaign with horrific smears and lies directed at Trump ā deployed when initially ācoveringā the first assassination attempt against Trump in July.
10. The Atlanticās Hitler Hysteria
In a last-ditch attempt to salvage Kamala Harrisā flailing presidential bid, The Atlanticās
Jeffrey Goldberg ā who
ran the
debunked 2020 āsuckersā and losersā smear ā published an anonymously sourced October hit piece with
claims that Trump said he wanted āthe kind of generals that Hitler had.ā It also contained accusations that Trump expressed anger about paying for the funeral services of a murdered Army soldier.
To the media, it didnāt matter that the soldierās sister
blasted Goldberg for his anti-Trump fabrications, or that
numerous former Trump administration officials debunked the bogus claims. What mattered was
regurgitating The Atlanticās slanderous hatchet job,
which they did with no questions asked."
The Top 10 Hoaxes The Propaganda Press Peddled In 2024