“Cheap fakes” have suddenly become the rage.
Since the term was pushed by the White House earlier this month, liberal media has used the phrase to describe unpleasant viral videos of President Biden, which his critics say show signs of his mental decline.
Various experts quoted by the media have defined “cheap fake” as manipulation of video or audio material that misrepresents facts, such as the video in which Biden was escorted off stage. by former President Obama earlier this month.
The sudden concern over allegedly out-of-context video clips comes after liberal media organisations aired a number of “cheap fake” videos over the past few years.
Critics say liberal media outlets are trying to protect Biden by calling viral clip a ‘cheap fake’
The media has spread the narrative that viral videos of President Biden looking frozen are “cheap fakes.” (Getty Images)
Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ remark
At an Ohio rally in March, Trump warned voters about China’s victory over car manufacturing, telling them, “Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole country — it’s going to be the lowest of the low. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. It’s going to be the lowest of the low. But they’re not going to sell those cars. They’re building huge factories.”
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word “bloodbath” most often refers to a violent massacre, but it also has an older alternate meaning of “major economic disaster.”
However, most media coverage either downplayed or completely ignored the context of Trump’s comments discussing car manufacturing and focused on the words themselves, portraying them as a threat from Trump that he would do so if he did not win.
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“When the former president, who has already incited violence among his followers, says there will be bloodshed after the election if he doesn’t win, he’s telling us exactly what he’s going to do,” The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“bleeding” made several headlines From Politico’s “Trump says country will face a ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November” to Rolling Stone’s “Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he’s not re-elected and the election is over.” It’s even been featured in a political ad for Biden’s campaign narrated by Robert De Niro.
Stigma on Covington teen Nicholas Sandmann
One of the most infamous “cheap fakes” in recent times was a group of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, who went to Washington DC for the annual March for Life in 2019 and were portrayed as virulent racists.
A video went viral showing student Nicholas Sandmann, wearing a “MAGA” hat, smiling at Native American elder Nathan Phillips playing drums and singing a chant while surrounded by Sandmann’s teammates who joined in the chant in front of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann was accused of being offensive in a viral interaction with Native American elder Nathan Phillips in 2019. (AP)
The clip went viral and was criticized and characterized as a mob of white teenagers mocking a Native American man.
Several media outlets also characterized the incident with Sandmann and the other teens as racially charged, before additional footage revealed that a group of radical Black Hebrew Israelites had instigated the confrontation by yelling racial slurs at the students while they were waiting for their bus. The footage then showed that Phillips, who was in the city for the Indigenous Peoples March, approached the students amid growing tensions between the two groups.
Sandmann filed a multimillion-dollar defamation suit against several media organizations. CNN, nbc news And Washington Post He settled his matter with the teenager.
MS-13 ‘The Beast’
During a White House meeting in 2018, then-President Trump was asked about members of the brutal MS-13 gang who commit violent crimes after crossing the border illegally.
Trump responded at the time, “You would not believe how bad these people are. These are not people, they are animals, and we are kicking them out of the country at a level and rate that has never happened before.”
multiple outlets instead Trump’s comments featured As if he were calling all illegal immigrants “animals.”
C-SPAN tweeted a video titled: “President Trump during California #SanctuaryCities Roundtable: ‘These are not people. These are animals,'” with no reference to MS-13. The misleading video received more than 2.6 million views in less than 24 hours.
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new York Times, ABC News, nbc news, CBS News And CNN All of them posted similar tweets — much of the misleading content coming after it was well-publicized that Trump was specifically referring to MS-13 gang members.
The Times wrote, “Trump attacked illegal immigrants during a White House meeting, calling those trying to breach the nation’s borders ‘animals,'” while CBS News tweeted that Trump “used harsh rhetoric to describe some illegal immigrants.”
CNN’s on-screen chyron read, “Trump slams some illegal immigrants: ‘They’re animals'”, while its senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson noted that he was talking about MS-13.
Haitian migrants ‘whipped’ at border
In September 2021, amid the migration crisis that has plagued the Biden administration, viral images showed Border Patrol agents on horseback attempting to round up a group of Haitians entering Del Rio.
Liberal critics claimed border agents were using “whips” on migrants, leading President Biden to denounce the agents, who were quickly punished pending an investigation.
In reality, they were not using “whips” to control the horses, but reins. The photographer who took the viral photos denied the claim that the agents were whipping the migrants. The border agents were eventually cleared of any wrongdoing.
But that did not stop the media moving forward with lies,
News organizations falsely claimed that Border Patrol agents used “whips” against Haitian migrants at the southern border in 2021. (Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images)
MSNBC host Joy Reid accused border agents of repeatedly “beating” migrants, linking their alleged actions to the Fugitive Slave Act. She reacted to the photos on Twitter, saying, “This is beyond disgusting. Are these photos from 2021 or 1851?”
CNN’s Victor Blackwell suggested there was no “distinction” between agents using whips and reins. Vice News ran the headline, “US border agents are using horses and whips to expel Haitian migrants.”
The New York Times accused border agents of “using their horses’ reins to strike fleeing migrants.” The report was later corrected, admitting that it “exaggerated” what was known at the time and that the newspaper had not seen “conclusive evidence” that floggings had occurred.
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Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
