by Frank Holmes, reporter
2020 is over tonight, and for most of us, the end couldn’t come soon enough. Unfortunately, one of the worst problems of the year—the liberal spin of the Fake News media—won’t disappear when the ball drops in Times Square.
Here’s a look back at the worst media outrages of the last year:
- Hunter Biden’s laptop is “Russian disinformation.”
A bombshell dropped on the American people just before the election: Hunter Biden’s laptop had been located in a repair shop, and its emails detailed how he set up phony influence-peddling deals with foreign dictators…and how he made sure a cut of the profits went to “the big man.” The big man was Joe Biden, the vice president of the United States, who would make foreign policy to enrich his corrupt family.
But anyone who watched the outdated media would have no idea that it ever happened and, if it did, it was just more “Russian disinformation.”
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The media didn’t just ignore the story: They lied their pants off.
Politico said the story looked like it was “part of an active Russian disinformation effort aimed at the 2020 election.” NPR said it couldn’t be bothered to look into the story, because “we don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.” Only weeks after Biden was elected did the liberal Daily Beast admit that this really is a story. The liberal media engaged in a little disinformation of its own.
- Accusing Trump of calling the coronavirus a “hoax.”
The biggest story of 2020 is the coronavirus—and the media lied through its teeth about that, claiming that Donald Trump had called the entire illness a “hoax.”
At a rally in South Carolina on February 28, Trump said, “Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus.” The Democrats lied about their views of the virus to attack Donald Trump politically. After calling Trump a racist for banning travel from China, they turned around and said he hadn’t acted fast enough.“They tried the impeachment hoax…and this is their new hoax.”
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But the media said he called the virus a myth. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank tweeted, “Remember this moment: Trump, in South Carolina, just called the coronavirus a ‘hoax.’” Politico rolled out the headline, “Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’” NBC News said, “Trump calls coronavirus Democrats’ ‘new hoax.’” Even long after the rally, MSNBC hostess Joy Reid claimed that the president’s COVID-19 policy had been “tossing it off as a political hoax.”
Trump never said the virus didn’t exist—he said the Democrats lied…and so did the media. Even the left-wing Snopes.com had to admit the media fudged their coverage of the whole story.
- Donald Trump’s tax returns.
The New York Times tried a little October Surprise of its own: It published what it claimed were Donald Trump’s tax returns, showing that the billionaire paid $750 in taxes a few years in a row. It’s illegal to leak anyone’s tax returns—a massive invasion of privacy that should land somebody behind bars. The facts show that Trump paid millions of dollars in taxes…but he was able to pull his losses forward to minimize his tax bill in later years. Besides, considering how the Times backed up the fake Russian dossier, there’s no way to know if the returns are legitimate or not.
- Rigging the election.
Joe Biden’s campaign had an MVP: The media. From letting him hide out in his basement, to asking him softball questions about his favorite kind of ice cream, to ignoring major stories, they helped keep enough Americans in the dark just long enough to get the Democrat elected president. The Media Research Center broke the news: They surveyed Biden voters in seven swing states and found that, if the media had reported on any one of eight different stories, Biden would have lost the 2020 presidential election, even after all the shenanigans and middle-of-the-night maneuvering Democrats pulled on election night.
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You can’t trust the “mainstream” media to give you anything but propaganda and warmed-over Democratic talking points. The Horn News promises that in the new year, we’ll bring you even more of the stories the rest of the media will cover up, lie about, or ban from their platforms. Join us in ringing in a 2021 that’s honest, truthful, bold, and unafraid.
Happy New Year!
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”