{"id":2377853,"date":"2024-12-09T08:47:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-media-caused-americas-misinformation-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:51:59","slug":"democrat-media-caused-americas-misinformation-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-media-caused-americas-misinformation-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Media Caused America&#8217;s &#8216;Misinformation Crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-media-caused-americas-misinformation-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2377853&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article \u200bdiscusses the phenomenon of misinformation within the leftist political sphere in \u2062the United States,particularly following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-petri-dish-minnesota-gop-hits-reset-after-recent-shellacking\/\" title=\"Minnesota GOP regroups after recent electoral defeat.\">recent electoral defeat<\/a>. It highlights how leftists frequently enough portray a segment of\u200b voters as &#8220;misinformed&#8221; or &#8220;low-information,&#8221; as seen in critiques from\u200b figures like Jennifer Rubin and Alec baldwin, who lament the \u2064lack\u200c of understanding \u200damong Americans about current realities. The author argues that while there\u200d is indeed \u200ba meaningful amount of misinformation circulating, leftist commentators should also reflect\u2064 on their\u200c own dissemination of inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>Several\u2064 examples \u200cof alleged\u200b leftist misinformation are presented. The\u2062 author criticizes claims \u200dsurrounding abortion\u200c post-Roe v. Wade, asserting that the narrative of state laws leading to increased maternal deaths is misleading, as such laws do not prohibit necessary medical treatments for women facing life-threatening\u200c situations. the article also \u2064discusses\u200d the left&#8217;s\u200c promotion of\u2062 gender transitions for minors, \u200barguing that media coverage fails to adequately \u200caddress the\u2063 long-term\u200b consequences \u200dof such medical\u200d interventions\u2064 on\u200c young\u200d people&#8217;s well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, \u2063the article\u2062 tackles the topic of \u2064crime, arguing that claims of systemic racism in police enforcement are misrepresented, asserting rather that higher incarceration rates among \u200cBlack individuals are more attributable to crime rates rather than racially biased systems. The piece ultimately\u2063 suggests that if \u2062leftists genuinely seek to combat misinformation,they must first acknowledge and rectify \u2062the\u2062 false narratives they propagate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Among leftists&rsquo; many methods to comfort themselves in the wake of their disastrous electoral defeat in November is their self-talk that a large percentage of the American electorate is &ldquo;misinformed&rdquo; and that the GOP appealed to &ldquo;low-information&rdquo; voters. The Washington Post&rsquo;s Jennifer Rubin, who regularly outdoes herself in combining elitist condescension and an embarrassing lack of self-awareness, described such persons in a Nov. 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/11\/29\/newsletter-democrats-shortcuts-low-information-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column<\/a> as &ldquo;also sometimes categorized as &lsquo;ignorant&rsquo; or &lsquo;disengaged&rsquo; voters.&rdquo; Actor Alec Baldwin in turn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6365207342112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attracted headlines<\/a> for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wvFHvqLWgCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public comments<\/a> that &ldquo;Americans are very uninformed about reality &mdash; what&rsquo;s really going on.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/05\/politics\/video\/election-viral-misinformation-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leftist corporate media<\/a> meanwhile warn of a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/whats-behind-americas-misinformation-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misinformation crisis<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;re actually not wrong. There is a lot of misinformation out there, and plenty of &ldquo;low-information&rdquo; people peddling and consuming it. But if leftists really want to combat these manifold falsities, they&rsquo;ll have to look in the mirror. For as much as members of the technocratic ruling class present themselves as the defenders of disinterested, unassailable, data-driven truths, they are purveyors of many of the fattest mistruths currently on the market.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Few Examples of Leftist Misinformation<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Abortion is as good a place as any to begin when recounting the left&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-not-listed-on-montana-overseas-ballots-after-system-glitch\/\" title=\"Harris not listed on Montana overseas ballots after system glitch\">egregious misinformation campaign<\/a>. Since the overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/trump-abortion-bans-deaths-agonies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate media<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/abortion-bans-will-result-in-more-women-dying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pro-choice groups<\/a> have incessantly claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-companies-quiet-on-abortion-after-roe-overturned\/\" title=\"Most Companies Quiet On Abortion After Roe Overturned\">state abortion restrictions<\/a> have resulted in the deaths of pregnant women, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/angelusnews.com\/news\/nation\/senate-hearing-pro-life-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the fact<\/a> that there is not a single state law currently on the books that prohibits physicians from treating ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, or women suffering life-threatening complications, even when those complications stem from abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3246668\/abortion-lies-not-bans-are-killing-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">routinely claims<\/a> that abortion laws are &ldquo;killing women,&rdquo; though the women they cite are dying from <em>miscarriages <\/em>that have nothing to do with state-level restrictions on access to abortion. Leftists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/08\/health\/ohio-abortion-long\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disingenuously claimed<\/a> that an Ohio abortion law prevented a couple with an in-utero child suffering from a severe bodily abnormality that almost always results in the baby&rsquo;s death from aborting their child &mdash; when in reality their inability to procure an abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/publication\/the-lefts-abortion-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had to do with their health insurance provider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another example of the left&rsquo;s misinformation is its dangerously irresponsible <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/10\/liberal-media-refuses-to-tell-full-truth-about-transgender-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mission vis-&agrave;-vis transgenderism<\/a>, for years promoting transitions as a cure not only for gender dysphoric adults, but also for <a href=\"https:\/\/crisismagazine.com\/opinion\/transgenderism-is-not-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">teenagers<\/a> and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-transyouth-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prepubescent children<\/a>. The result has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/americafirstpolicy.com\/issues\/gender-transition-medications-and-surgeries-for-children-in-the-u.s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dramatic increase<\/a> in the number of children undergoing so called &ldquo;gender transitions&rdquo; &mdash; via such medical interventions as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and mastectomies.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what should be obvious &mdash; namely, that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">young people undergoing massive hormonal shifts<\/a> and experiencing all the mental and emotional instability typical to their age demographic are not well positioned to make decisions about irreversible physiological decisions &mdash; corporate media <em>still <\/em>won&rsquo;t acknowledge their complicity in this national epidemic. Instead they claim Americans are freaking out over a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/16\/us\/politics\/transgender-care-detransitioners.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">few stories of regret<\/a>.&rdquo; Legitimate protests over the increase<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/gender\/commentary\/liberal-hypocrites-are-destroying-womens-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> in biological men competing in women&rsquo;s sports<\/a> &mdash; which is affecting outcomes from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/08\/us-news\/student-athletes-protest-transgender-athletes-in-girls-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high school<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/23\/world-news\/un-reveals-how-many-female-athletes-have-lost-medals-to-trans-opponents-in-explosive-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">professional competitions<\/a> &mdash; have been met with <a href=\"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2024\/09\/12\/transphobia-womens-sports-trans-women-imane-khelif-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accusations of &ldquo;transphobia&rdquo; from the left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or consider the left&rsquo;s blatant disinformation on crime, claiming that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/opinions\/systemic-racism-police-evidence-criminal-justice-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">police forces<\/a> are systemically racist and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/if-you-dont-believe-systemic-racism-is-real-explain-these-statistics\/2020\/06\/12\/ce0dff6e-acc7-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American criminal justice system is racist<\/a>, given the fact that blacks are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/issue-briefs\/2023\/05\/racial-disparities-persist-in-many-us-jails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incarcerated<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/report-black-people-are-still-killed-police-higher-rate-groups-rcna17169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killed by police<\/a> at higher rates than other demographics. Yet, as bestselling author Heather MacDonald has documented for decades in countless articles and books, the black incarceration rate in the United States is &ldquo;overwhelmingly a function of black crime,&rdquo; rather than a manifestation of bias and racism.<\/p>\n<p>As MacDonald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/is-the-criminal-justice-system-racist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in 2008, &ldquo;In the overwhelming majority of cases, whatever the race of the convicted, prison remains what it has always been: a lifetime achievement award for persistence in criminal offending.&rdquo; In 2015, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/the-decriminalization-delusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">observed<\/a> that &ldquo;blacks commit homicide at 11 times the rate of whites and robbery at 12 times the rate of whites.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>In 2020 she <a href=\"https:\/\/manhattan.institute\/article\/comments-on-george-floyds-death-policing-practices-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> that on average the police kill about 1,000 civilians a year, &ldquo;the vast majority of those victims armed or otherwise dangerous,&rdquo; and that blacks comprised about 25 percent of those victims, &ldquo;<em>less<\/em> than what the black crime rate would predict&rdquo; (emphasis mine). In those same 2020 comments, MacDonald even exposed the fact that The Washington Post&rsquo;s own database on crime &mdash; so often cited to &ldquo;prove&rdquo; alleged systemic racism in the nation&rsquo;s criminal justice system &mdash; found that police were responsible for a negligible <em>.2 percent<\/em> of &ldquo;all black homicide victims&rdquo; (most perpetrators were black).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Left<\/strong><strong>&rsquo;<\/strong><strong>s Control Over the Narrative Is Waning<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The above is only the most cursory study of some of the most blatant examples of leftist misinformation &mdash; one could just as easily cite their messaging on illegal immigration, education, or climate change. Why is the data-driven truth on these issues not more widely known or circulated? The simple answer is that the left dominates the institutions that control that message, from public schools to the academy to legacy media to the entertainment industry. <\/p>\n<p>When the left bothers to cite an expert on abortion (e.g., Ryan Anderson), transgenderism (Abigail Shrier), or crime (MacDonald), it does so only to pillory that expert in hit pieces. Even when <em>leftists&rsquo; own<\/em> data disproves their narrative, they simply ignore it, or, as is often the case, viciously attack the researchers who discover inconvenient truths about their most sacred cows, as they did with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2012\/10\/6786\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sociologist Mark Regnerus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/more-sloppy-scholarship-on-trans-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">physician Lisa Littman<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/03\/middlebury-free-speech-violence\/518667\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political scientist Charles Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the left, its grip over the dissemination of information is weakening &mdash; Americans are <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/651977\/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more suspicious<\/a> of corporate media than ever, and their <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/508352\/americans-confidence-higher-education-down-sharply.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confidence in higher education is also nosediving<\/a>. Ordinary citizens know they are being manipulated and gaslighted by self-interested ideologues, whether the issue is transgenderism or the pandemic, and they are finding alternative, data-driven sources of information. <\/p>\n<p>As our most recent election demonstrated, the American people are realizing that there is indeed a misinformation crisis in America &mdash; and that the deluded, patronizing leftists are the primary culprits.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Casey Chalk is a senior contributor at The Federalist and an editor and columnist at The New Oxford Review. He has a bachelor&rsquo;s in history and master&rsquo;s in teaching from the University of Virginia and a master&rsquo;s in theology from Christendom College. He is the author of The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftists comfort themselves post-defeat by claiming many voters are &#8220;misinformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":2377854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Copy-of-Untitled-2024-12-04T113352.497.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22709,32313,46401,35629],"class_list":["post-2377853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrat-media","tag-media-influence","tag-misinformation-crisis","tag-political-discourse"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Copy-of-Untitled-2024-12-04T113352.497.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377857,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377853\/revisions\/2377857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}