Sorry, mainstream media, but the internet doesn’t forget.
Recent social media posts have brought back to light a scathing article from October titled, “There is no possible way Donald Trump’s team actually believes this is their path to 270” printed by The Washington Post — and months later, it’s a great read.
Because critics of the media can point to this article as undeniable proof that the mainstream media is completely biased and unfair.
In it, The Washington Post’s Philip Bump attacked then-campaign manager Kellyanne Conway’s appearance on the short-lived Trump TV, produced by the President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign during the lead up to November.
And Bump was harsh.
[Conway] was arguing that Trump had a viable path to victory, using, in the email, a map that resembles some other race than the one that we’re in. In reality, the race we’re living through shows Trump is at risk of losing Arizona, Texas and Georgia — all states that Romney won.
Trump won all of those states by approximately 20 points.
The only problem is that the foundation of Conway’s argument — that map — is so bafflingly distant from reality that it’s hard to think this isn’t somehow an inside joke.
Conway’s map was 100% correct.
This map comports with the state of the race, according to public polls. I mean, look. Clinton has a 6.2-point lead in Pennsylvania. She’s up 6.5 points in Wisconsin. She’s up 10 in Michigan. She leads in Colorado by 8 and Virginia by 10. Those are margins that put those states easily out of reach.
Trump won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
But that’s why Conway used the language she did in that Trump TV segment … The numbers don’t show a close race. They show a race that it will be very hard for Trump to win without a massive, collective underestimation of his levels of support.
Whoops!
Then, The Washington Post really hits the nail on the head with their tongue-in-cheek attack on conservative media:
The map Conway sent in the email was the best semi-believable map they could think of, and even then, Trump struggled to reach a tie.
But on Trump TV, viewers didn’t get any of this ‘spin.’ They just got the unvarnished truth, straight from the people responsible for getting Trump into striking distance: Trump’s in striking distance. On Nov. 8, I fully expect Trump TV to say that Trump actually won.
Spin?
Looks like conservatives and the Trump campaign were the ones basking in reality, and it the mainstream media was simply lying to America… again.
We at The Horn News understand the desperation of the mainstream media.
They’re losing their control of the news. For decades, the corporate spin machine decided how Americans would get their information. Corporate media decided what the majority believed, because they were the ones controlling the narrative.
In the past few years, the media has lost that control.
In their place, The Horn News and others have filled the spin vacuum with facts… and the mainstream is NOT happy about it.
So they’re on the offensive, ready to pounce.
Fortunately for conservatives, we have truth on our side — and it put our man in the White House.
Sorry, Washington Post, but we remembered.
— The Horn editorial team
False news. Censoring of differing opinions. Smear campaigns. It is beyond belief as to what the mainstream media has become.
But Mr. Trump won despite all of their BS. This should be a positive sign. Maybe enough Americans are waking up.
FAKE NEWS, BIASED JOURNALISM,LIBERAL AGENDAS,AND MANIPULATED
NEWS………..it’s no wonder Trump
was elected!!!
The BEST way to fix the MSM is an all out BOYCOTT. They are irrelevant anyway. Nothing but lies and Liberal / Democrat / Commie opinions. NO TRUTH!! DRAIN the swamp!!!
Did you ever notice that the letters in the word “liberals” includes the words LIE, LIARS, and LIBEL? Three things liberals are famous for!
Never thought about that idea, but a good one. So true. Why aren’t they being sued for libel?
Interesting???????????????????
Hard to prove in court. Otherwise these guys would be bankrupt and we would have to find another subject. I could live with that.
I started that BOYCOTT a year ago and now it’s a way of life. I will never go back and never read another newspaper. EVERYONE needs to BOYCOTT the Libtard main steam media…They are the inventors of FAKE NEWS and are still at it today. Don’t turn them on and Crash their ratings…Make them pay !!!
My main reply is “awaiting moderation”. ??? The programs I mentioned were both produced by NBC–big surprise. One was “Nightingales” (1989) and “The Book of Daniel” (2005). You can find information on both in Wikipedia. It will give a synopsis and explain why they were dropped. “Te Book of Daniel” made it to episode 4 and had only one advertiser by then–Burlington Coat Factory.
To Connie Condra——This “awaiting moderation” is a term used by Disqus. which means if your opinion doesn’t jive with theirs, it doesn’t get published. I don’t use vile language, but I am a patriot and my views do not agree with those supporting Hildebeest. So my posts are also held up or disregarded. They certainly are not a proponent of free speech. Disqus is part of the swamp Trump is draining………………..
THE ONLY TIME I SEE MSM IS WHEN IT IS BEING EXPOSED AS FAKE ON THE REAL NEWS ON CABLE.
Don’t forget to add CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC…they are all biased as hell and I do not watch any of them.
That’s why the only news I watch is the local news. They aren’t biased. And the only paper I read is the National Enquirer. (Yes, that’s a paper). It tells it like it is!
Rip your cable cord and get an HD antennae, don’t pay for that fake news.
I once was told that the secret to one’s success is often the reason for one’s demise.WP became so good at what you did, they became smug, ignored the signs, and rode their horse right into the crapper. Now they don’t want to have to pay the price. Unless you change as the country has changed, you can put a fork in it, you’re done.
Sorry to get off subject. Did anyone see on the news the story about Biden receiving the Medal of Freedom Award? Like a bunch of dictators giving each other medals. Biden got several deferments to avoid the military draft 50 years back. They serve themselves.
Yes, I saw that… give each other medals… cheapens the meaning of the award. Biden reminds me of that wooden dummy Walter… looks just like him! but the dummy is more intelligent than biden. nothing good has come from these last 8 years. Hopefully, these next 4-8 yrs will be better. At least it looks that way from where I sit…
Just like that ridiculous Noble ‘Peace Prize’ awarded to Obama because he was elected, not for anything he had actually done.
That boggled my mind. Did they ever explain how Obama earned this prestigious award? As far as I know he didn’t do anything. Just more butt kissing.
Yeah. A mutual admiration society if ever there was one–much like the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Emmys, all the music awards. If I missed any, feel free to add to the list.
I DON’T KNOW IF U MISSED ANY. I HAVEN’T WATCHED OR FOLLOWED ANY OF THOSE SHOWS FOR 20 YRS OR BETTER. THEY ARE BORING TO ME AND AS I REMEMBER THEY ALWAYS GANGED UP AND GAVE ALL THE AWARDS TO THE WRONG MOVIES. I GUESS THE OTHERS DIDN’T PAY ENOUGH BRIBES OR SUMTHING.
allen they are so politically correct in hollyweird that they give the awards to the blacks for mediocre productions and still they whine about it.
same here!
No one else is praising or honoring them do they have to do it themselves
Medal , really?
I just laughed , more propaganda to control the image of a rather failed administration.
Not unlike celebrating the release of 1 army deserter for 5 high level
Al Qaida leaders. Good deal? Worth celebrating in the Rose Garden with mainstream press on hand? Does everyone remember that one?
Myself, I would of traded one dead body for a deserter , that’s all they would have been able to negotiate with me.
I do remember this and, still find it hard to forget. Especially since we DO NOT negotiate with terrorists…. At last until obummer took over….
Yeah, even obummer gave himself a medal, or maybe just a participation award!
No one believes or has confidence in the “Mainstream Media” nothing, but a front for the incompetent Obozo the “Big Eared” Clowns administration and their failed policies and attempts at governing.
Not only that, but the incredibly successful lie support system obama rode since 2004. No one, no one dared publish the truth about the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on any country at any time in history.
Mikeyavelli-
i beg to differ as to size of hoax; if one seriously investigates the “income” tax, one will find no law specifying that everyone has to pay it. In fact, most do NOT(and cannot, according to the legal definition of “pay” as opposed to “discharge”). SCOTUS has often ruled that the 16th Amendment “imposes no new tax” and “is in the nature of an excise tax,” that is, upon engaging in a “privileged activity,” e.g. rental income, stock/bond income, or from working for the Federal government. If one wishes to inform their discretion, one place to begin might be with the legal definition the IRS uses for the word “income.” (i also have a website or two to recommend if any express an interest in the subject matter.)
This one hoax has cost Americans trillions, and continues to do so, for most remain deceived.
As to watching MSM, i turned off the teevee – that hypnotic medium designed specifically to make us susceptible to “programming”(quite literally), indoctrination, and propaganda more than five years ago. If i watch anything these days, it’s on youtube.
i’m glad that the writers for The Horn have reinforced the suggestion that getting REAL news is MUCH better coming from the internet, but even with that, it’s rare that it should be trusted on first glance; it’s smart to check things out with other sources, too, before even BEGINNING to believe anything found on the internet…for as many already know, the internet can also be a place for DISinformation, as well.
The main problem i have with The Horn is their repetitious promotion of a system of governance the F&F were well-aware was a pernicious evil, “democracy,” especially by continually referring to it as “our” democracy. One need go no farther than the Pledge of Allegiance to know what form of governance we DO have, but if one desires more proof, they can word-search the Constitution(CTRL f in the Word program) for “democracy.” It cannot be found there…and the Constitution is the SUPREME Law of the United States AND the UNITED STATES. (if you do not yet know the distinction between the proper capitalization and ALL CAPS, you should; learn it.)
Another hoax–Social Security. First, it was never meant to be one’s total support. It was meant as a “safety net.” Second, FDR “promised” that it “would never be taxed.” PROMISED! That is the only way he could get it through Congress. If you want to royally screw something up, let the federal government manage it.
‘Connie –
Yep; originally, it was also NEVER to be used for identification purposes, either.
In addition, here’s something else i learned about the SSN:
TITLE 5 – GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
PART I – THE AGENCIES GENERALLY
CHAPTER 5 – ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
SUBCHAPTER II – ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
Sec. 552a. Records maintained on individuals
-STATUTE-
(a) Definitions. – For purposes of this section –
(13) the term ”Federal personnel” means officers and employees of the Government of the United States, members of the uniformed services (including members of the Reserve Components), individuals entitled to receive immediate or deferred retirement benefits under any retirement program of the Government of the United States (including survivor benefits).
Perhaps you can see that from the beginning, the SSN program was designed to steal from the People their Inalienable rights as one of We the People, and convert all those Rights into 14th Amendment “privileges and immunities” by changing your status to that of “Federal Personnel.”
This situation was foretold in the bible, several times and in several ways; one such example is “Let their table become a snare and a trap unto them” and “when you sit down to eat with a ruler, put a knife to your throat if you are given to have an appetite.”
When you have sought and accepted the “benefits” of Caesar, they come at a price: your Headship. i read a quite good thesis that the SSN is the “number of the Beast,” too – and i know of one guy from Virginia that successfully got a driver’s license without an SSN by objecting to it’s use on religious grounds.
Conservatives love to see the Liberals and MSM inn agony. It’s so much fun to watch
You would have to be stupid and illiterate not to see the bias media from the beginning. I believe that most people that voted for Trump were very closed mouthed from the beginning to end and then voted for their choice. I myself kept it quite simply to avoid confrontation from a Brainwashed Democrat Follower . You cant argue with them ,they don’t understand common sense or economics. I really wish they would leave Trump alone so he doesn’t have to spend all his time running around putting out fires that the media fabricates. That way we could move forward with making America Great Again . The silent majority has spoken . Go to hell spoiled loser Democrats , GOD SPEED TRUMP!!
I’M PLEASED TO SEE THAT YOU SUPPORTED TRUMP, AS FOR ME, I SUPPORTED HIM FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY AND THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN I NEVER CLOSED MY MOUTH ABOUT VOTING FOR TRUMP! FIRST OF ALL, HOW COULD A VOTER THINK ABOUT HILLARY WITH WHAT SHE BROUGHT INTO THE CAMPAIGN. SINCE THE ELECTION OF TRUMP, I’ SLOWLY BRINGING SOME OF THE HARD NECK DEMOCRATS INTO THE FOLD SEEING WHY I SUPPORTED TRUMP! GIVEN HIM SOME SHORT TIME, YOU WILL BEGIN TO SEE A REMARKABLE TURN-AROUND IN THIS COUNTRY!
Yes, thank you! I’ve been a supporter from day one also! Love our Trump and his family!
Make America Great Again!
Steve, I loved reading your post, but it is very hard to do in all caps. Hard on the eyes.
Jonny O-
You make an excellent point; it seems to me that the owners of MSM either forgot or never learned the lesson of “The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf!'”
Yeah, you get a good laugh from deceiving people repeatedly – but when they finally DO catch on, you’re not believed again.
i watched that NWO/OWG/globalist sellout on CNN interview KellyAnne Conway the other day about “fake news”(and the consequent fallout for the Commie News Network); this SOB got CAUGHT using green-screen tech to pretend he was on-site at more than one location! What a hypocrite! Can’t remember his name; he’s kinda skinny w/white hair.
I believe that would be Anderson Cooper!
Thanks, Gary-
Yep, that’s the shill, the sellout, the creepy NWO/OWG/globalist sycophant and toadie, sucking up to the PtB because they pay so well for your soul…
Appreciate your assist in naming the scum.
I admit that I was not a Trump supporter from the get-go, did vote for him. I am still somewhat uncomfortable with his brusque manner, but am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and support him unless or until he does something that I cannot support. Leaders are, for the most part, human. They can and do make mistakes. If they own up to those mistakes and try to correct them, I have no problem. Obviously, those qualifiers mean that I have/had BIG problems with Obama. So far, I have been pleased and pleasantly surprised by Mr. Trump’s nominations. We gave Obama 8 years of chances and he d@mn near destroyed this country. I am quite willing to give Mr. Trump a chance to do his best. One suggestion I would make to him is to ignore criticism from irrelevant persons (i.e. Meryl Streep and the rest other Follywood liberal snowflakes.) To respond to them is demeaning at best and damaging at worst. Any attention he pays to such persons increases their credibility. Ignoring them underscores their irrelevance. His focus should be on the citizens of this nation, whether or not they voted for him. By doing that, he will win over those who opposed him. Stubborn petulance and narcissism are the hallmarks of the individual who will be unemployed at 12:01 on January 20. The Oval Office has “glass” walls and someone will always be waiting to throw a rock through one. That does not mean that Mr. Trump has to throw the rock back. His best defense is to quietly do the job and let the results speak for him.
u said it all 4 me!
Well Stated!!!
It looks like the media are controlled by the CIA in the program entitled Mockingbird–where the news the public receives is filtered by this program thereby we only get the news the Government approves. My best guess.
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
— William Colby(1920-1996) former Director of the CIA
Source: in Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don’t Want You to See (2000), by Dave McGowan
Note 1: Colby did NOT limit his statement to JUST US media.
Note 2: Colby died very mysteriously. A “canoeing accident,” allegedly.
Let nobody tell me REVENGE is not sweet. FAKE news and proven to be just that.
Even though since the election you have to believe polls with a ton of salt, didn’t a recent poll show that the public’s faith in the MSM at an all time low?
Great article! I still enjoy reading about all the people that are ‘Pros’ saying how badly Trump was going to lose! In reality, a REAL Pro took the amateurs out back and gave em a spanking!
We now see what all the claims re Russia was about, they planed to go with the fake news before the election. Funny, at that point, the obvious fabrication would likely have been ignored by propaganda media if it had been released by anyone else. we need to revoke band licenses and turn our leased public airwaves to people who will serve the People’s interest, instead of acting as a political parties propaganda machine.no censorship, just put the mainstreet media where they belong, on the bottom shelf with the rest of the tabloids!
i prefer the INQUIRER 2 the nyt or wp after all they have better pictures & their stories r much more believable. so i would put the NI above those fishwraps.
For every story that is not true they should be sued for everything they’ve got.
WaPo good for lining my cats litter box.
😀 ha ha ha
Trump was not my number 1 choice. He was in the top 3. Clinton was on the list of 1000 at number 1002 !
I would vote for her after Alfred E. Newman and Bonzo the APE! (MAYBE)
One of the first objectives both Hitler and Stalin had in mind during their rise
to power was to control the media. Ask yourself who is in control of the media in America today, and you will know which groups control what information the American public will be allowed to receive. That information doesn’t necessarily need to be true, and it seems that the American public
is too lazy, or unwilling, to make the effort required to verify what has come to be called “fake news” for themselves. Hypnotic induction works in much the same way, until resistance
to its agenda disappears, and full control of a people’s collective minds
and hearts has been achieved. At that point, whether the citizens realize the
gravity of having been asleep at the wheel or not, a country can be taken over without a shot having been fired.
I no longer have the slightest amount of faith in our religious or political leaders’ ability to take the necessary steps to ensure that this progressive deterioration of the American republic can, or will, be reversed. What, in my opinion has happened, is that the American people are too stupid, these days, to realize the danger(s) involved
in holding a “let someone else do it” mindset.
While I am disgusted with what I believe I’m seeing on the American horizon, I will continue to do my best to hold on to the values I believe we should all share, and act accordingly.
The people were smarter than you think. They saw through the lies and deceptions and cast them aside. They voted for Trump! His will is, our will.
These “main stream” news people have shit for brains!!!!
Don’t forget, GOD (the power of prayer) was in the “mix”!!!
The Washington Post, like so many formerly venerable old mainstream media outlets has aged-out, become corrupted by financial incentives from liberal elites and is quickly becoming irrelevant. Journalistic integrity and ethics have been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness and partisan payola.
They got really bad when the paper was bought by liberal elitist and Amazon owner Jeff Besos. Not TOO much bias there, eh Jeffy Boy?
I started believing the media lies but I also worked at a local Republican County Headquarters and I kept seeing these people who were the salt of the earth people coming into the center for Trump and Johnson signs. When we talked they kept telling me the same things we need these people this country is going against everything we stand for. These were not rich or educated idiots they were everyday Americans who were very fed up. Even more amazing they looked poor but they all wanted to put money in the pot to pay for the campaign signs they were getting. Through all of this I kept seeing the rays of hopes. I am now one happy and proud again American. And yes I now get my news from the Horn and Fox.
The main stream media is like most really big industries; they are looking for fame and profit and can’t be counted on for doing the right thing. Unfortunately, power is corrupting. For this reason, although we want to promote Constitutional freedom of speach, we have to monitor and personally assess the “news” that is reported. Fortunately, there are many, many resources for obtaining information at this point. It’s just frustrating to spend so much time trying to weed out personal opinions and agendas from the simple facts. In my humble opinion, I believe hyper news distribution should be left as fodder for the intertainment “rags.” President Elect Trump has certainly blown the complacent acceptance of the “news” as reported! Good for him! The wake up America call has been issued! It’s good to know not everyone has been asleep too long to listen.
This morning I was watching Varney and comp on Fox, and he said that he thought that had Biden Ran He would have beaten Donald Trump, and I am one who supported Trump all the way threw and so I would just like to say this,,
I don’t know why people who were watching the polls didn’t see that what the left was doing every time Trump got into the lead in the polls They would find a way to stack the deck and she would run ahead of him but for the life of me I couldn’t see how even Fox could be so wrong about what was going on.. I’m also sorry Varney but You were wrong this morning too.. Donald Trump was ahead the whole intire way and the American people just made sure that they didn’t cause to much dust up but they went to hear him at his rallies. and if all these left leaning people believed so much in old Hildaebeast. Why couldn’t she get anyone to come to her Rallies and sit there and listen to her knock the whole world because she was losing..
Now they again want us to believe that she didn’t really lose.. but she did… and the left needs to get over it..
Its was up to Mr Trump what he had decided to do about her, but I feel that he made a big mistake by not just saying when asked what he was going to do about her that he would make that decision after he had looked at all the Paper work. and let it go at that.. but by telling the lap dog media that he would do nothing to her. he turned lose her dogs on him and I don’t know about anyone else but Her and Obama are behind this latest hit job,, They are trying to mortally wound him before he gets in office and all I can is that Schumer and Mc Cain are the ones who made sure this mess leaked out and If I was McCain
I would keep a low profile for the next four years Your back side. is now on the chopping block.
Donald Trump :
The People’s President.
That rag isn’t fit for bird cage liner. They keep spewing their hatred and lies and call others haters and liars. The internet will kill the lame stream propaganda machine, that’s why Obama and his ilk were trying to gain control of the internet.
The polls got it wrong in Kentucky’s 2014 senate race and 2015 statewide races. In 2014 Mitch McConnell’s opponent was supposed to be slightly ahead of him heading into the election–he won re-election in a landslide. In 2015 news media reported on election day that the Democrat candidate held a comfortable lead in the final poll before election day. Later that night the Democrat candidate lost in a landslide to the Republican candidate. Most of the other stars of Kentucky’s Democrat party lost in their attempts to win statewide offices.
We need to realize the only poll that makes the difference is the one conducted at the voting booth. The media’s eagerness to declare Hillary the winner may have backfired. Some Hillary supporters may have decided to stay home since they thought she had the race locked up.
What can you expect from a guy with a name like Bump. He just thinks he’s getting even for people laughing at his name. Now he’s given them a reason. Not because of his name but because of how stupid and biased he really is. Sore about his last name. Change it. Don’t act like an spoiled brat.
can not believe what you read or hear or see and can not believe the CIA or FBI about TRUMP
The CIA is a shadow government within the government. No one can even tell you what the CIA’s annual budget is. They have their own agendas besides those of elected officials. The FBI has dropped the ball once again concerning Hillary’s emails and illegal server, the foreign government hacking that has been going on for years and lastly they dropped the ball on Esteban Santiago, the shooter at Fort Lauderdale Airport just like they dropped the ball also on the two radical brothers that set off bombs at the Boston marathon. All examples on how the government cannot protect us. We must do our own vigilance and report anything we feel is out of the ordinary or suspicious.
False News outrages America more….. Getting very black & white America is pro fighting for black & white truth.
WaPo
Should be:
WaPoo
I think it was Mark Twain who said ” If you don’t read a newspaper you’re uninformed. If you do read a newspaper, you’re misinformed”.
The Washington Post is famous for liberal bias and fake news. Tell Jeff Bezos (Amazon) to straighten out his newspaper.
The Arizona Daily Star in Sh@thole Loser Coty Tucson is a super Liberal newspaper that is a pile of sh@t, that paper is only good for burning trash. The Arizona Daily Star is in the same Liberal League with the Washington Post. I prefer to read the San Diego Union Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Denver Post those 3 newspapers are far more Conservative than the Arizona Daily Star, Washington Post.
My family and I avoid the MSM trolls and have been doing so since the Bill Clinton days which revealed the Criminal Cartel that they brought with them, right into every branch of our Government. It was readily accepted then and is rabidly protected now by the majority of our elected officials, from local all the way up to POTUS. We became supporters of Donald J. Trump early into the announcement of the herd of GOP candidates. Our primary reason is the fact that Mr. Trump is a businessman, not a politician. Our secondary reason was because Mr. Trump had the audacity to point out the bias of the MSM and their overbearing attitude that their job was to “make the news, not report the news”. If the “real news” did not fit the agenda they wanted to put forward or in support of the candidate “they picked for us”, then there was no barrier to prevent them from producing what we now know as “Fake News”. The most admirable quality I personally admire about Mr. Trump is that he says what he thinks in very plain, understandable language, leaving no one with any question as to exactly what his thoughts or ideas are. WE, the “deplorables” are now the enemy of the MSM because we supported Mr. Trump, a man we proudly call ‘President-Elect Donald J. Trump’ and believe will “Make America Great Again”. In five days we can refer to him as “President Donald J. Trump” and there is nothing the MSM nor any of the anti-America groups of trolls can do to stop that. Finally, America Wins!!!