In a week in which CNN cried wolf when there was no wolf by falsely condemning Trump for poor fish-feeding habits, is it surprising that decades-old charges of sexual impropriety being leveled against Judge Roy Moore aren’t being unquestioningly accepted by voters?
We can all remember a number of times when the media has proclaimed a wolf was present when we later discovered they were wrong.
There is Global Warming… err, Climate Change where we were told that by now the world would be doomed but somehow that hasn’t happened.
We were told that the black man shot in Ferguson was holding his hands up to surrender.
In the last century the media informed us that overpopulation would lead to mass starvation. Of course, that was bogus.
We were told that many women had been assaulted by Trump but the fact that they all apparently disappeared after the election makes reasonable people wonder if there was a wolf.
The media can’t stop talking about Russian colluding with Trump even though after months and months of investigation absolutely nothing has been found.
Clearly a reasonable person would hesitate before assuming that salacious charges raised weeks before a contentious election by a highly biased news source is true. The media has cried wolf so often when there was no wolf that sane people reserve judgement until there’s more proof.
That attitude is exacerbated by the fact that when wolves do appear the media often fails to mention them.
We know that none of the major networks have mentioned the fact that for more than two months a Democratic senator has been on trial for accepting bribes.
We know that the media ignored a credible claim that Bill Clinton raped a woman.
We know that the media ignores the fact that thousands of blacks are shot each year in Democrat-run cities.