{"id":36126,"date":"2019-05-17T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36126"},"modified":"2019-05-17T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:43:35","slug":"when-the-truth-arrives-will-the-public-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36126","title":{"rendered":"When The Truth Arrives, Will The Public Believe It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mainstream media hates the phrase &#8216;fake news,&#8217; but the problem is that it often applies to what they report. Even if the news is not fake, it can be distorted in a way that leaves a totally false impression. Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2019\/05\/16\/fake-news-cnns-jim-acosta-spreads-misquote-from-trump-immigration-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breitbart<\/a> reported one such example.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta tweeted the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet.png 523w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet-500x131.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a>Well, that&#8217;s a little misleading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet2.png 508w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet2-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JimAcostaTweet2-500x231.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As Breitbart News\u2019 John Binder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/04\/03\/doj-border-crossers-have-88-percent-chance-of-evading-deportation-by-claiming-credible-fear\/\">reported<\/a>, foreign nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. evade immediate deportation after claiming credible fear in 88 percent of cases, according to the Department of Justice. Yet, only 50 percent of the foreign nationals who evade immediate deportation by claiming credible fear end up filing for asylum status following there released into the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is a direct quote from the article. The editor missed the fact the last few words should read, &#8220;following their release into the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tweet by Jim Acosta leaves you with a very unfavorable opinion of President Trump and his view on immigration. I strongly suspect that is by design. This is the kind of poison the mainstream media has spewed against President Trump for the last two-plus years. My question is this&#8211;if it turns out that the Russia investigation was in fact a failed coup (which I believe it was), are Americans going to be willing to face the truth after hearing two-plus years of hate speech and misreporting against President Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mainstream media hates the phrase &#8216;fake news,&#8217; but the problem is that it often applies to what they report. Even if the news is not fake, it can be distorted in a way that leaves a totally false impression. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11507,10348,10331,6252,10833,6127,1399,11761,10589,11379,11925],"class_list":["post-36126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asylum","tag-breitbart","tag-breitbart-news","tag-breitbart-com","tag-fake-news","tag-hate-speech","tag-immigration","tag-jim-acosta","tag-president-trump","tag-russia-investigation","tag-tweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36129,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36126\/revisions\/36129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}