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| The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick's Death. And They Just Got Caught |
| 2021-04-20 |
| [Glenn Greenwald] Just as with the Russia Bounty debacle, they will never acknowledge what they did. Their audience wants to be lied to for partisan gain and emotional pleasure. It was crucial for liberal sectors of the media to invent and disseminate a harrowing lie about how Officer Brian Sicknick died. That is because he is the only one they could claim was killed by pro-Trump protesters at the January 6 riot at the Capitol. So The New York Times on January 8 published an emotionally gut-wrenching but complete fiction that never had any evidence — that Officer Sicknick's skull was savagely bashed in with a fire extinguisher by a pro-Trump mob until he died — and, just like the now-discredited Russian bounty story also unveiled by that same paper, cable outlets and other media platforms repeated this lie over and over in the most emotionally manipulative way possible. Just watch a part of what they did and how: [video here] As I detailed over and over when examining this story, there were so many reasons to doubt this storyline from the start. Nobody on the record claimed it happened. The autopsy found no blunt trauma to the head. Sicknick's own family kept urging the press to stop spreading this story because he called them the night of January 6 and told them he was fine — obviously inconsistent with the media's claim that he died by having his skull bashed in — and his own mother kept saying that she believed he died of a stroke. But the gruesome story of Sicknick's "murder" was too valuable to allow any questioning. It was weaponized over and over to depict the pro-Trump mob not as just violent but barbaric and murderous, because if Sicknick weren't murdered by them, then nobody was (without Sicknick, the only ones killed were four pro-Trump supporters: two who died of a heart attack, one from an amphetamine overdose, and the other, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot point blank in the neck by Capitol Police despite being unarmed). So crucial was this fairy tale about Sicknick that it made its way into the official record of President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate, and they had Joe Biden himself recite from the script, even as clear facts mounted proving it was untrue.... |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #9 We know they are lying. The question now is what do the lies mean. The lies mean: "We are above the law. We ARE the law." and "We are going to grab as much as we can-- grab your job, grab your wealth, grab your children's future, grab your ancestors' past. It's OUR country now, and you serve us." |
| Posted by: Grorong Hatrack4129 2021-04-20 18:48 |
| #8 These assholes are so dishonest they can't tell you the weather without making up ridiculous lies. We are long past the point of "In Truth there is no news, in News there is no truth". We know they are lying. The question now is what do the lies mean. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-04-20 18:43 |
| #7 Thank you, Bobby. I should have read to the bottom of the article. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-20 18:41 |
| #6 To TW's comment (#1) - So crucial was this fairy tale about Sicknick that it made its way into the official record of President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate, and they had Joe Biden himself recite from the script, even as clear facts mounted proving it was untrue.... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2021-04-20 18:31 |
| #5 Amazing how stupid and obvious their lies are. Trump's not just a conservative whose policies we hate, or a bad man and a boor, he's actually an agent of the Kremlin. Kavanaugh's not just a conservative judge whose views we hate, he's actually a gang rapist. Capitol trespassers are insurrectionsts and killers. These assholes are so dishonest they can't tell you the weather without making up ridiculous lies. |
| Posted by: Hupomomp Spawn of the Esquimeaux8016 2021-04-20 14:52 |
| #4 Liars gotta lie. I think they prefer to lie by omission meaning the leave important detail out of their reports while focusing on the aspects that advance their narrative. But when that's not enough they have no qualms with the invention of pure fiction. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-04-20 13:17 |
| #3 State Media. Pravda. |
| Posted by: Jack Dark Lord of the Hatfields3424 2021-04-20 12:12 |
| #2 ...got to remember, its the party's media. Its all one cosy family. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-04-20 09:42 |
| #1 Was it just the media who lied? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-20 08:59 |