{"id":35567,"date":"2019-03-04T11:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35567"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:47:54","slug":"its-hard-to-figure-out-who-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35567","title":{"rendered":"It’s Hard To Figure Out Who To Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mainstream media lies. We could debate whether they lie or are simply misinformed, but the fact remains that they do not do a good job of informing the public on current events. Today Fox News<\/a> posted an article that illustrates the problem with discerning the truth.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> was among many news organizations to denounce President Trump\u2019s claim<\/a>\u00a0of tape being used to silence women during illegal border crossings \u2014 but a subsequent\u00a0New York Times<\/a> article revealed the president wasn\u2019t making things up after all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back on Jan. 25, the Post\u00a0published an update to a piece<\/a> headlined, \u201cTrump again mentioned taped-up women at the border. Experts don\u2019t know what he is talking about.\u201d It claimed the president\u2019s “new favorite anecdote” was about tape covering the mouths of migrant women.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post reporter Katie Mettler wrote that Trump, in pushing for a border wall, was claiming \u201cwithout evidence that traffickers tie up and silence women with tape\u201d before illegally crossing the border. The Post called Trump\u2019s claims \u201csalacious and graphic,\u201d even providing a timeline of Trump\u2019s taped-women rhetoric.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYet human-trafficking experts and advocates for immigrant women have said they are perplexed by this increasingly repeated story in Trump\u2019s repertoire \u2014 and are at a loss for where he got his information. It was not from them, they say; in fact, they have no idea what he is talking about,\u201d Mettler wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not so fast. Last week, The New York Times published a piece headlined<\/a>, \u201cYes, there was duct tape: The harrowing journeys of migrants across the border.\u201d The piece \u2013 part of a limited-run series on border crossing \u2013 reveals that tape is <\/em>used during border crossings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Times report said that women are \u201ctied up\u201d and \u201cbound,\u201d featuring first-hand accounts from several women who experienced the brutality themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor weeks, President Trump has been criticized for exaggerating the brutality experienced by migrant women on the border as he makes his case for a wall,\u201d the Times wrote. \u201cBut there is some truth to the president\u2019s descriptions of the threat of sexual assault and of women who have been duct-taped and bound.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Building a border wall will not put an end to all of the evil that is happening at the border. However, we do need to acknowledge that there is a lot of evil happening at the border. The situation at our border is a national emergency with caravans of people breaking into our country. It is time Congress stopped ignoring the safety of Americans and of those in the caravans and got behind President Trump to build the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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