Mainstream News Accuracy
Barack Obama claims that the “mainstream news still does a very good job of just presenting facts.”
IN FACT, the mainstream news systematically reports false “facts” that advance liberal narratives. Here are 40 notable examples among hundreds:
- Violent crime reached a 50-year low in 2023 under President Biden.
- “Greedflation” is the reason why “grocery prices” went “through the roof” during Biden’s presidency.
- The president “has nothing to do with the price of bacon,” “or eggs,” “or gas,” “or any of it.”
- Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.”
- Donald Trump called immigrants “animals.”
- Donald Trump threatened a “bloodbath” if he didn’t get elected.
- President Trump teargassed peaceful protestors for a photo-op.
- President Trump deployed the “full might of federal law enforcement to crush protests” by “Black Lives Matter” activists.
- President Trump had a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine.
- Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by J6 protesters.
- JD Vance said that “school shootings are a ‘fact of life’.”
- Obamacare will make wages “go up.”
- Health insurance premiums will “skyrocket” unless enhanced Obamacare subsidies are extended.
- The national debt isn’t large enough to lower economic growth.
- Hunter Biden’s laptop is “Russian disinformation.”
- The contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop “can’t be verified.”
- The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says, “All persons born in the United States are citizens.”
- Donald Trump killed bipartisan legislation that would have fixed the border crisis.
- The Democrat bill to end the government shutdown contained no taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.
- President Biden deported more illegal immigrants than President Trump.
- Illegal immigrants “commit crimes at a much lower percentage than Americans do.”
- Border barriers are an expensive and ineffective means of curbing illegal immigration.
- President Biden presided “over a job-creation boom that would have gotten almost any of his predecessors re-elected in the postwar era.”
- “There is little historical evidence tying regulation levels to” economic growth.
- Masks work.
- Less than 1% of people who died of Covid-19 in mid-2021 were fully vaccinated (while the actual figure was around 74%).
- The “tax code isn’t progressive.”
- Global wildlife abundance has “collapsed 69%” over the “past 50 years.”
- The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin told 911, “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”
- Michael Brown held his hands up and said “Don’t shoot” before he was gunned down by a police officer.
- “Black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality.”
- “Black and Hispanic home buyers” “tend to pay higher interest rates than whites with similar credit ratings.”
- “Virtually no evidence” of illegal voting by non-citizens “has been discovered.”
- Global warming turned the North Pole “into a lake.”
- Global warming has caused “an intensification of rainstorms.”
- “The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities. Rising seas and flooding are swallowing our homes. And record-breaking heat waves are reshaping our way of life.
- Late-term abortions “mostly often involve severely troubled pregnancies that pose risks to a woman’s health or life.”
- Democrats don’t support “an unfettered right to terminate pregnancies up until the point of birth.”
- “Medical evidence does not support” the idea that “an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain at least by 20 weeks after fertilization.”
- Public schools “tend to have less money” than private schools.
