A devastating indictment of the media weaving false narratives.

Wrapping up a three-day tour in Chicago, Phoenix and Cleveland Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr took on the media during an exclusive interview with Townhall."They're basically a collection of liars. //

Wrapping up a three-day tour in Chicago, Phoenix and Cleveland Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr took on the media during an exclusive interview with Townhall.

"They're basically a collection of liars. Most of the mainstream media. They're a collection of liars and they know exactly what they're doing. A perfect example of that were the riots. Right on the street it was clear as day what was going on, anyone observing it, reporters observing it, it could not have escaped their attention that this was orchestrated violence by a hardened group of street fighting radicals and they kept on excluding from their coverage all the video of this and reporting otherwise and they were doing that for partisan reasons, and they were lying to the American people. It wasn't until they were caught red-handed after essentially weeks of this lie that they even started feeling less timid," Barr said on the flight back to Washington Friday afternoon.

"The press has dropped, in my view - and I'm talking about the national mainstream media - has dropped any pretense of professional objectivity and are political actors, highly partisan who try to shape what they're reporting to achieve a political purpose and support a political narrative that has nothing to do with the truth. They're very mendacious about it," he continued. "It's very destructive to our Republic; it's very destructive to the Democratic system to have that, especially being so monolithic. It's contributing to a lot of the intensity and partisanship."

Disney can't stonewall its way out of this one. //

If Disney thought that its recent cooperation with China’s human rights-violating government would blow over while suffering only a boycott of Mulan, then the corporation was very, very wrong.

It turns out that prominent stakeholders are about to make the corporation very uncomfortable.

“What is the issue here is thanking the Turpan Public Security Bureau, which operates in southern Xinjiang, where much of the principal photography took place,” wrote Slager. “This is the region where the controversy over the aggressive policing of the Muslim Uighurs by the Chi-Coms has been centered.”

Dropping these tapes now has one purpose and one purpose alone: to affect the outcome of the elections. //

Trump’s comments on-tape were made, not after 190,000 Americans had died. These comments weren’t made after 6 million positive tests. When these comments were made, how many cases and deaths were there in the United States? The answer is one case and zero deaths. If we fast forward to March 10th, there were less than 300 cases nationally and only a couple dozen deaths. //

ignoring in their comments (or burying them deep in stories) that the tapes were made February 7th and March 10th, not September 7th. Trump didn’t callously state this now. He cautiously commented then, while leftists fought him ideologically on every step he attempted to take in reducing the risk to Americans. //

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Woodward's account of what Trump said about the virus came up in the media a while ago, its just being recycled as a new story.

He actually said nothing to Woodward that he didn't say in public. And something that's not contradictory is being spun as contradictory to make it sound like he lied, when he didn't.

The people pushing this nonsense seem incapable of complex thought. Evidence that was out then showed the virus was deadlier than the flu, but that doesn't necessarily mean there was a reason to panic about it then, nor is there a reason now. The panic at the time encouraged people to crowd into supermarkets to buy TP, which likely accelerated the spread of the virus.

This hackery is getting tired //

The bottom line here is that the President disclosing that the US has a new nuclear weapon at some stage of development is hardly top-secret, or even secret. Nothing in his statement tells anything specific about what the weapon is or does. The entire kerfuffle in utter nonsense

There he goes again. //

“Whether he [Trump] said it or not, it is believable,” Rather said.

Welcome to the new “fake but accurate“, folks. The story doesn’t have to be true in order for liberals to be able to pass it off as “believable” – so as to insinuate it might as well be true.

Another on-the-record source denies the sensational claims.

The Atlantic Story on Trump disparaging the military is worthless trash, except for the value in smoking out Jennifer Griffin as a hidden Anti-Trumper at Fox.

Disney's corruption is more than tragic. //

Georgia was becoming a second Hollywood with many companies filming in the state due to its cost-effectiveness. When the state passed its fetal heartbeat law many companies said they would pull out, Disney being chief among them.

They made good on their threat, but instead of going back to California to film on those lots, they decided to take their business to China. //

My colleague Brad Slager recently reported that Disney’s cooperation with China extends so far into the corrupted state that it teamed up with the organization that helps run its concentration camps in order to film its latest live-action remake of Mulan: //

Disney will not film in the United States if the place where they are filming has pro-life laws on the books that protect children in the womb. Where they will film, however, is in the backyard of a Chinese concentration camp.

Apparently, according to Disney, the latter is more wholesome than the former.

As soon as the Washington Post told me they wanted to do a story on Outkick I knew what was coming. The usual far left wing smear job to try and make me -- and Outkick -- look awful. Been there, done that. In fact, all of you knew what was coming as well. //

Putting how minimal these quotations are in context, the transcript of my conversation with the Washington Post was 28 single-spaced pages.

28 pages!

We talked for over an hour nearly a month ago.

That’s tens of thousands of words. The Washington Post picked less than 100 of them and lifted those quotes out of context and placed them in a negative light in their story. //

Washington Post: So I guess before sort of like as we start, so you, I don’t like it’s totally your prerogative to record it. I’m just like, are you planning to then release it or what?

Clay Travis: I have found that I like to do live media, right. So if I’m going to talk for 20 or 30 minutes, I would rather do it live so that everybody can hear it entirely in context. If I give a long interview answer to a question and one sentence gets pulled out, and everybody’s like, “Oh, my God, Clay, Travis said x,” and I’m like, well, actually, when you look at the context of it, it’s not exactly as it was portrayed. I want the context. //

Washington Post: So it’s like, don’t quote me out of context. And I have the receipts to prove it. And then also potentially, I want to share it with my audience.

Clay Travis: 100% percent.

The receipts were kept.

This entire thing is giving me serious “Austere Religious Scholar” flashbacks. How any media outlet could write such a white-washed, almost glowing piece about a murderer is beyond me. Also not that they had no problem smearing the victim as a right-wing extremist in the same article.

The media are truly the enemies of the people. I have no qualms with that language at this point, and anyone that does should get their head out of the sand.

That this even had to be explained was ... something.

Ryan Long and his fellow actors portray an editorial room now faced with the prospect of writing articles in a world where there is no President Trump. The initial joy of Biden’s victory quickly wears off as they attempt to come up with something, anything, to write about.

Frustration immediately sets in, followed by panic. Before you know it, they’re wishing they had their favorite punching bag back.

“I’m 2o-something and I hate Trump. That’s all I know!” says one of the journos.

“I don’t remember life BT,” says another, meaning “Before Trump.”

As hilarious as this is, it’s likely that this may well come true. Without Trump to drive the clicks, it’s unclear what leftists sites from HuffPo to CNN will actually talk about. For months, CNN relied on the Russian conspiracy to drive eyeballs to its channel, and then once that was over, viewership collapsed.

It was suspected there was a reason the former backers of the protest violence began a new narrative. //

The cheerleaders suddenly are waving for the crowds to disperse, and now they are pleading for Kamala Harris and her running mate to adopt the very opposition language that has been labeled as ”racist’’ all summer long.

This is such a revealing moment. For tortuous months anyone calling to curtail violence, destruction, attacks on police, and the threats to communities were deemed intolerant. Only now, when it looks bad for the prospects of Democrats, do the sophisticates in the press consider rioting to be condemnable. When it was politically expedient the burning of cities and violence visited on citizens was an acceptable result.

"If you don't like it, well too bad." //

Fox News coverage of Trump’s acceptance speech topped CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS combined.

"Our viewers don't really consider us the news." //

Perkary said a ‘high profile TV veteran” once told her, “We are a cancer and there is no cure. But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.” She added: “As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis.”

And of course it’s always about the ratings.

“The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings.”

There was never any reason to give credence to any of the salacious allegations in Christopher Steele's dossier. That didn't stop corporate media. //

It turns out Christopher Steele wasn’t 007.

For years, the media assured Americans that the dossier alleging treasonous collusion between Donald Trump and Russia was based on the scrupulous work of a mastermind British ex-spy and his vast network of credible and well-connected sources spread throughout Europe. It wasn’t true. //

Steele did not personally collect any of the factual information in his reports. The “vast network” was instead a “social circle” of an American-based former Brookings Institute junior staffer, recently identified for the first time as Igor Danchenko. The friends didn’t have well-documented claims so much as rumors, drunken gossip, and outright brainstorming, conjecture, and speculation. Even that information was “multiple layers of hearsay upon hearsay” before it got to Steele, who then hyperbolically overstated it. And the damning claims of “collusion” appear to have been scandalously misattributed or invented out of whole cloth. //

The media have a problem, then, given that they repeatedly led viewers and readers to believe Steele was a master spy. They can almost get away with ignoring the recent news that once again shows their previous reporting was catastrophically wrong. In fact, some media outlets did just that.

"There are views I really disagree with on Fox." //

James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, resigned from the board of News Corp, the publishing arm of daddy’s media empire on Friday, citing “disagreement over certain editorial material.”

Translation: Rupert’s left-wing son can’t handle “fair and balanced” news that isn’t all left-wing, all the time.

News Corp is the parent company of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, and is one of two media companies owned by the Murdoch family. The second company, Fox Corporation, owns Fox News, Fox Business and the Fox television network.

During a 2019 interview with The New Yorker, Murdoch was clear about his disdain for Fox News news.

“There are views I really disagree with on Fox,” he said, presumably referring the views of on-air personalities such as Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jessies Watters, Lou Dobbs, and others. James’s older brother, Lachlan, 49, has run Fox Corporation since 2018.

On Thursday, the first protest held since the federal agencies agreed to pull back their officers was a markedly more peaceful affair than in recent weeks.