Oftentimes there’s one big lie that the national media are pushing for a news cycle or more, but other times there are a bunch of somewhat smaller lies and deceptions that are no less insidious. Let’s look at a few currently in the works now that we’re less than a month away from Election Day.
Trump Skips a Single Interview, and They Say It Means He’s Scared
CNN’s newly rehired, bigger and bitter Brian Stelter suggested in his daily newsletter this week that there’s a double standard in how the larger media ecosystem reacted to former president Donald Trump declining an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” He wrote Monday, “Imagine if Kamala Harris had committed to a ‘60 Minutes’ interview and then backed out, leaving CBS in the lurch. Because that’s what Trump did — with few followup stories or think pieces claiming he’s afraid of tough questions.”
Predictably, Stelter went on to cite a Democrat as the basis for his implication. And not just any Democrat, but the husband of Kamala Harris’ campaign chairwoman, who wrote on social media that there should have been “columns and Sunday show roundtables and miscellaneous other chatter for weeks” about Trump declining the interview.
Trump has done approximately 5 billion national media interviews in the past two years, from CNN to Fox News and major podcasts in between. Kamala meanwhile has done three national interviews since she was hoisted up as the Democrat nominee, all of which have been a riot: She
