{"id":563551,"date":"2021-06-14T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=563551"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:21:54","slug":"4-baseless-conspiracy-theories-the-media-continues-to-report-as-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-baseless-conspiracy-theories-the-media-continues-to-report-as-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Baseless Conspiracy Theories The Media Continues To Report As Fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2F4-baseless-conspiracy-theories-the-media-continues-to-report-as-fact%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=563551&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1062450640-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing the legacy media believe separates them from the unwashed masses who keep voting Republican, it\u2019s the latter\u2019s support for \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d The media have made refuting such theories a major part of their job, not only to defend the truth, but to safeguard the nation from more riots and insurrections.<\/p>\n<p>As long ago as 2017, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/are-conspiracy-theories-threat-democracy-n732571\">asked<\/a>, \u201cAre Conspiracy Theories a Threat to Democracy?\u201d More recently, CNN warned that conspiracy theories <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/10\/politics\/qanon-republican-party-congress\/index.html\">could<\/a> \u201cturn to political violence, like what happened on January 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the legacy media may want to correct their own coverage, since the most prestigious outlets continue to propound baseless and discredited allegations, nearly all of which happen to favor Democrats.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Trump cleared Square for a \u2018photo op\u2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-legacy-media-finally-discover-antifas-violence\">staged violent riots<\/a> nationwide, the media saw an opportunity to flip the narrative by claiming that President Trump had ordered \u201cpeaceful\u201d protesters gassed so that he could stage a photo op of himself holding a Bible in front of a besieged Episcopal church. MSNBC\u2019s Nicolle Wallace alone has mentioned the \u201cphoto op\u201d story <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1402732534476201995\">43 times<\/a> over the last year, according to Grabien media founder Tom Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the media\u2019s disappointment when a reporter from the Interior Department\u2019s inspector general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/inspector-general-debunks-claims-made-by-biden-harris-left-wing-media-against-trump\">issued<\/a> a report saying that the president\u2019s visit had nothing to do with the decision to use tear gas: The rioters\u2019 violence did.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than consider the government report as authoritative as, say, an international agency\u2019s guesstimate about the long-term impacts of climate change, the media immediately tried to save their original narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe, I don\u2019t even know what to say,\u201d said MSNBC\u2019s Mika Brzezinski, before Joe Scarborough called the idea that the IG report exonerates the administration \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/10\/msnbc-morning-joe-ig-report-trump-photo-op\/\">laughable<\/a>.\u201d CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta responded by assaulting the integrity of the author. \u201cIt sounded as if this inspector general was auditioning to become the inspector general at Mar-A-Lago,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9675153\/Jim-Acosta-accuses-IG-whitewash-report-clearing-Trump-teargassing-protesters.html\">said<\/a>, calling the report \u201calmost a whitewash of what occurred on June 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, a few reporters adhered to the facts. MSNBC\u2019s Ken Dilanian admitted, \u201cThe narrative we thought we knew was not the reality.\u201d Chuck Todd then asserted, \u201cThey\u2019re saying the Park Police decision wasn\u2019t based on having the photo-op happen, but it does sound like the Park Police accelerated their efforts when they found out the president was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report doesn\u2019t say they accelerated their efforts,\u201d Dilanian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/nbcs-dilanian-admits-no-evidence-police-cleared-lafayette-protesters-for-trump-narrative-we-thought-we-knew-was-not-the-reality\/\">responded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet somehow, the media have decided that they want to believe President Trump was let off the hook\u2026 by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Russiagate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>On no issue have the legacy media shredded their credibility more than the Trump campaign\u2019s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. CNN assured its viewers daily that Robert Mueller\u2019s official investigation would reveal details of an impeachable, possibly treasonous, offense any day. The actual report disappointed, and decimated, its audience.<\/p>\n<p>Yet some media figures now apparently believe they can ride the Russian hyperbole back to ratings gold. During a retrospective on the Trump administration on the eve of Biden\u2019s inauguration, MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-joy-reid-trump-servile-russia\">said<\/a> that no other American president \u201cwas elected with the help of a foreign power \u2014 none of them \u2014 let alone a hostile foreign power like Russia.\u201d More recently, winks and nods about Trump\u2019s special relationship with Putin dominated the media\u2019s coverage of Biden\u2019s European trip. Despite a thorough refutation of the claim by the chief investigator himself, the media continue to cling to the narrative in which they so long invested.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Someone \u2018leaked\u2019 the text of the Green New Deal<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came to Washington with \u201cambitious\u201d plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/prageru-what-is-big-green\">socialize the entire economy<\/a>. The media and the Democratic Party vested more credibility and sagacity in her than perhaps anyone since Barack Obama, so they had to come to the former bartender\u2019s defense when her environmentalist manifesto, the \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d read like \u2026 a policy manifesto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/limbaugh-ocasio-cortez-and-her-green-new-deal-just-james-barrett\">written<\/a> by a former bartender. A FAQ of the bill said the GND would phase out all air travel, eliminate \u201cfarting cows,\u201d and furnish economic security to those \u201cunwilling to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her office responded to backlash by running in every direction at once. The congresswoman personally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-runs-interference-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-emily-zanotti\">blamed<\/a> shadowy GOP operatives for creating \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/429419-post-fact-checker-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-doctored-documents-claim\">doctored<\/a>\u201d versions of her plan \u2014 which somehow got uploaded onto her website and triumphantly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/02\/07\/691997301\/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-releases-green-new-deal-outline\">released to NPR<\/a>. Her counselor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-adviser-admits-he-falsely-claimed-green-new-deal-didnt-promise-security-for-those-unwilling-to-work\">Robert Hockett, lied to Tucker Carlson<\/a> that the summary Carlson accurately quoted was a forgery. Meanwhile, her spokesman, Corbin Trent, told The Washington Post that the FAQ was accurate, but Americans are too stupid to understand it, because any embarrassing provision is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/11\/whats-actually-green-new-deal-democrats\/?noredirect=on\">literally \u2014 clearly \u2014 irony<\/a>.\u201d Eventually, her office <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/429282-ocasio-cortez-camp-clarifies-green-new-deal-details-after-faq-sparks-backlash\">settled<\/a> on the story that \u201c[a]n early draft of a FAQ that was clearly unfinished and that doesn\u2019t represent the GND resolution got published to the website by mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the legacy media carried her water. \u201cOcasio-Cortez Team Flubs a Green New Deal Summary, and Republicans Pounce,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/11\/climate\/green-new-deal-faq.html\">wrote<\/a> the New York Times. The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/11\/ocasio-cortez-retracts-erroneous-information-about-green-new-deal-backed-by-democratic-candidates\/\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cOcasio-Cortez retracts erroneous information about Green New Deal backed by 2020 Democratic candidates.\u201d The Washington Post fact-checker graciously awarded the socialist congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/11\/whats-actually-green-new-deal-democrats\/?noredirect=on\">zero Pinocchios<\/a>, since \u201cOcasio-Cortez has now disowned the FAQs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The media proved remarkably incurious about the tangled web of tales emanating from everyone associated with Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s office, including the congresswoman herself. Who was this mysterious staffer who wrote this summary? How did it get released everywhere, by her office, and retracted only when it earned the mockery of everyone who read it? We still don\u2019t know, although the media now accept it as fact.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Republicans in Congress aided the \u2018insurrection\u2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Members of Congress regularly have staffers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitthecapitol.gov\/plan-visit\/book-tour-capitol\">lead tourist groups<\/a> through the Capitol. After January 6, the media amplified Democratic conspiracy theories that Republicans <em>actually<\/em> used these routing tours to smuggle insurrectionists into the cathedral of our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations began when Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/01\/13\/mikie-sherrill-reconnaissance-capitol-attack\/\">claimed<\/a> that \u201cmembers of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on January 5\u201d actually led insurrectionists in a mission \u201cfor reconnaissance for the next day.\u201d Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2021\/01\/15\/boebert-fires-back-over-ny-rep-maloneys-tour-accusation\/\">told<\/a> MSNBC that he, too, had heard about the tours from <em>other<\/em> congressmen \u2014 and that second-hand rumor was good enough for MSNBC to run with it. Politico called these apparently baseless claims \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/01\/12\/mikie-sherrill-capitol-hill-attack-458655\">startling allegations<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, at least one name surfaced, to the media\u2019s chagrin. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2021\/01\/18\/lauren-boebert-said-she-didnt-give-insurrectionists-or-anyone-else-a-tour-of-the-u-s-capitol\/\">told<\/a> CNN that his office had seen \u201cCongressman [Lauren] Boebert [R-CO] taking a group of people for a tour sometime,\u201d possibly on January third, although he admitted, \u201cI don\u2019t remember the date.\u201d Boebert immediately batted back the charge in a <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1.14.21-Letter-to-Rep.-Maloney.pdf\">letter<\/a>. \u201cI have never given a tour of the U.S. Capitol to any outside group,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThe only people I have ever had in the Capitol with me during the 117th Congress are my young children, husband, mom, aunt and uncle.\u201d Although Democrats have yet to provide a shred of evidence for their incendiary claims, fact-free notions of perfidious Republican recon continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/03\/were-republican-lawmakers-in-on-the-us-capitol-siege\">crop up<\/a> in the media.<\/p>\n<p>This is far from a comprehensive list of the media\u2019s conspiratorial worldview, but you may notice all of the media\u2019s conspiracy theories have one thing in common: They present conservatives as a unique threat to the peace, stability \u2014 indeed, the survival \u2014 of our nation. You might even describe the media\u2019s view of conservatism as conspiratorial, the one meta-conspiracy that explains all the others reporters bitterly cling to without evidence.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one thing the legacy media believe separates them from the unwashed masses who keep voting Republican, it\u2019s the latter\u2019s support for \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d The media have made refuting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280241,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1062450640-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"4 Baseless Conspiracy Theories The Media Continues To Report As Fact","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1062450640-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"4 Baseless Conspiracy Theories The Media Continues To Report As Fact","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563551","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}