Roy Moore, WaPo, and the problem with an untrustworthy press

When the story broke an hour ago that Roy Moore was being accused by mul­ti­ple women of inap­pro­pri­ate sex­ual behav­ior when they were under­age teens, I thought, “uh oh.” Then, I saw the source: Wash­ing­ton Post. A short wave of relief came over me before the real dread of our cur­rent sit­u­a­tion took hold.

I don’t trust the Wash­ing­ton Post. They are among the worst jour­nal­is­tic preda­tors in the coun­try in that they claim to be the bea­con of truth while con­stantly spin­ning facts to match their lib­er­ally approved nar­ra­tives. They adamantly protest accu­sa­tions of being biased while demon­strat­ing pure and unadul­ter­ated bias with every polit­i­cal story they post. What’s worse is that they have, for sev­eral years now, allowed their “news” sto­ries to be edi­to­ri­al­ized. They are a pro­pa­ganda machine. They should not be trusted.

That’s the prob­lem. I have no idea whether or not Roy Moore did what they claim. As Bre­it­bart points out, it’s con­spic­u­ous that the story broke shortly after the paper endorsed his oppo­nent. That SHOULD shine a light of skep­ti­cism on the story alto­gether, but it won’t. Most Amer­i­cans, even the ones who acknowl­edge there’s plenty of fake news out there, will­fully stick their heads in the sand when it comes to the “respected” pub­li­ca­tions of old like WaPo, USA Today, and the New York Times.

I’m not against edi­to­ri­al­iz­ing. I’m doing it right now. What con­cerns me is the intel­lec­tual dis­hon­esty and bla­tant manip­u­la­tion these news out­lets embrace. They are not unbi­ased. I’m biased and read­ily admit it. Most if not all writ­ers on this pub­li­ca­tions are equally biased and in no way attempt to hide that fact from our read­ers. WaPo does. Their façade of jour­nal­is­tic integrity means that sto­ries like the Roy Moore block­buster will do major dam­age whether it’s true or not. In gen­eral, Amer­i­cans do not put on the glasses of skep­ti­cism when WaPo pub­lishes something.

The left won’t believe Red­State or Daily Caller. The right won’t believe Slate or Salon. Both are work­able dynam­ics because there’s no illu­sion attempted by these pub­li­ca­tions. They’re biased and proud of it. WaPo per­pet­u­ates an illu­sion if jour­nal­is­tic integrity. By doing so, they have far too much power in wield­ing the “truth” even if it’s spun in the direc­tion they want.

These reports are so old that there’s very lit­tle chance they can be proven. Unfor­tu­nately, there’s also very lit­tle chance they can be prop­erly refuted. That’s the power of the “unbi­ased” main­stream media. They can cast shad­ows of doubt in any direc­tion they choose based upon their bias. They can choose to print alle­ga­tions about Moore. They can choose to ignore alle­ga­tions about Barack Obama. When a major media out­let is biased while claim­ing oth­er­wise, we’re left with decid­ing which truth to believe.

Update DTG: Steve Ban­non in a speech in NH and Corey Lewandowski in an exclu­sive DTG inter­view weigh in plus Insta­lanche Thanks Ed

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