MATHEWS GINS UP STORY THAT TRUMP BLAMES GENERALS FOR OWENS DEATH
GINNING A STORY--TAKING A FEW WORDS OUT OF CONTEX TO ATTRIBUTE SOME EVIL INTENTIONS.
March 2, 2017
Last night I watched Chris Mathews, on Hardball, (MSNBC) a once watchable news program. In this segment Mathews blatantly try to "gin up" a negative storyline concerning President Trump. The phoney story was one that claimed President Trump "blamed" his own generals for the loss of the life of Ryan Owens, the heroic Seal petty officer who was killed in the recent (Jan 28, 2017) Yemen raid which went awry with heavy loss of life in Yemen. The so-called "evidence" upon which this story was based were a few casual words mouthed by President Trump during a Fox News interview in which he offhandedly stated as an aside that "They lost him" (in regard to Mr.Ryan Owens) . President Trump does not speak "legaleeze". He does not parse each word like a Harvard trained attorney--or like Hillary Clinton. But listening to the speech, it was plain that the President was not "blaming" his generals. It was not "news" or newsworthy to try to attach another meaning to his words. Chris Mathew's motives are impossible to plumb---but the effects of his efforts in this case was clear----simply a means of delegitimizing and degrading our own President.
Chris Mathews, formerly a fine journalist, has become something else in the past few months since the election of President Trump. Cherry picking a few words out of the President's recorded speech or an interview, while studiously ignoring the context and intention of the words, then attempting to weave some sinister significance to what the "victim" has said has become the literal "modus vivendi" the way of life of the left-leaning press. It is too bad. It does not go unnoticed or unremarked by the majority of American observers and viewership. It undermines any faith one has in even a remote sense that the story is true or deserves credence. It leads only to the further crumbling of respect for these former journalists and the media outlets they represent.
Isn't it time to end the propaganda war? Throwing raw meat to the partisans who tune in to MSNBC may marginally raise the channel's viewer share over the short term, but such behavior is not journalism, is not part of the democratic ideal to "inform" the electorate for its purpose is to misinform , and is does nothing to make our nation a better place...for all Americans.
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