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By Jon Sutz, Editor, SaveTheWest.com
Continued from “Who benefits from the lies being spread about the “caravans”?
The following is a small sampling of the key lies that are being, and have been widely spread about the “caravans,” and related issues.
UPDATE, November 26, 2018:
Contents
(1) Lie: President Trump, and anyone who supports him, are only opposing the “caravans” because they hate “brown people” (CNN)
(2) Lie: The only people who support strict enforcement of our immigration laws and border enforcement are white supremacists, racists and neo-Nazis (Southern Poverty Law Center)
(3) Lie: There is no evidence to support President Trump’s assertion that there is a high probability that there are people in the “caravans” that are of Middle Eastern descent, and likely affiliated with Islamist terrorist gangs (Southern Poverty Law Center)
(4) Lie: Because Fox News dares to expose the reality of the threats posed by the “caravans,” it is now an attractive investment opportunity for “white nationalists” (MSNBC)
(5) Lie: “There is no crisis” (about the “caravans”), except the one that Fox News and President Trump have created (HuffPost)
(6) Lie: “Half of (caravan marchers) are girls and women” (Vox)
(7) Lie: President Trump is sending the U.S. military to our southern border to “protect America from women and children,” for his “political gain” (The Independent – UK)
(8) Lie: President Trump’s January 3, 2019 press conference with leaders of the U.S. Customs & Border Protection Agency and its related unions, was intended to convey a message of, “Let’s Keep America White Again” (MSNBC)
(9) Lie: The security wall that President Trump’s plans to build a at the U.S. southern border is not to protect America, but rather, is “a monument to white supremacy”
(1) Lie: President Trump, and anyone who supports him, are only opposing the “caravans” because they hate “brown people” (CNN)
CNN describes Nia-Malika Henderson as:
“[A] senior political reporter for CNN, reporting on politics, policies, and people shaping Washington.”
In this clip from October 23, 2018, however, Henderson demonstrated either her ignorance, or her malicious willingness to incite racist hatred, based on demonstrable lies. Specifically, she alleged that President Trump (and presumably, anyone who supports him) is only opposing the “caravan” because they are “brown people,” and that there is “no evidence” of any indication that any may originate from Middle Eastern nations. See the 00:18 second mark.
“One of the things you do see him (President Trump) doing is ginning up this cultural war, ginning up this idea that there are these horrible brown people coming to America, possibly Middle Easterners, even though there’s no evidence of it.”
Is Henderson really unaware of the following evidence of who may well be traveling within the “caravans” — or is she just hoping that CNN’s viewers don’t discover the reality?
(2) Lie: The only people who support strict enforcement of our immigration laws and border enforcement are white supremacists, racists and neo-Nazis (Southern Poverty Law Center)
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was once a legendary civil rights activist group, dedicated to standing up for the rights of black Americans. Unfortunately, since then, it has devolved into one of America most notorious hate groups, whose lies and incitement (1) helped trigger a domestic terrorist attack, and (2) compelled to issue a $3 pre-trial settlement to a Muslim reformer, whom it falsely smeared as “an anti-Muslim extremist.”
The SPLC has been exposed repeatedly for its willingness to viciously smear anyone who dares to expose the threat of Islamist terrorism, and of having a porous southern U.S. border. Examples include:
It is against this backdrop that one must consider the SPLC’s October 25, 2018 article that implies only the “radical right,” “white supremacists” and “anti-immigrant hate groups” share President Trump’s concerns about the “caravan” marchers:
Hate groups and extremists cheer President Trump as he vilifies migrant caravan, by Swathi Shanmugasundaram, Southern Poverty Law Center, October 25, 2018. Excerpt:
As thousands of migrants fleeing poverty and violence attempt to make their way to the United States, anti-immigrant hate groups and the radical right react with warrantless fear-mongering.
And the president has seized the opportunity to vilify immigrants, calling the caravan of Central American migrants an “onslaught of illegal aliens.”
Hate groups and conservative publications alike have rushed to add their voices to the mass hysteria around the caravan, creating and feeding into the damaging narrative. The far right employs dehumanizing language that frames these asylum seekers as dangerous “invaders.” New York magazine’s Ed Kilgore in an article published this week noted the rhetoric coming from the president and his supporters echoes Camp of the Saints, a 1973 racist dystopian novel that depicts France being overrun by non-white immigrants.
Hate groups including the white supremacist website Stormfront and the anti-immigrant organization Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) first took hold of this story in mid-October. On Oct. 13, ominous messages started popping up on Stormfront, such as “No More Mr. Nice Guy” accompanied by a picture of migrants.
Is the SPLC really unaware of the following evidence of who may well be traveling within the “caravans” — or is it just hoping that Americans don’t discover the reality?
(3) Lie: There is no evidence to support President Trump’s assertion that there is a high probability that there are people in the “caravans” that are of Middle Eastern descent, and likely affiliated with Islamist terrorist gangs (Southern Poverty Law Center)
This is the second part of the SPLC’s efforts to deny the legitimacy of concerns about Islamist terror group and fundamentalists’ infiltration of the “caravans” — and the severe threats they pose to America’s national security. See Lie 2 for a backgrounder on the SPLC, its lost credibility, and its willingness to lie about and incite hate against anyone who dares to raise awareness of these threats.
Hate groups and extremists cheer President Trump as he vilifies migrant caravan, by Swathi Shanmugasundaram, Southern Poverty Law Center, October 25, 2018. Excerpt:
On Oct. 18, the conservative organization Judicial Watch publicized the unfounded claim by President Jimmy Morales of Guatemala that the country had captured 100 ISIS terrorists over an unspecified amount of time. Morales made this assertion Oct. 11, before the formation of the caravan, at the Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America. Then, on the morning of Oct. 22, Peter Hegseth, co-host of Fox & Friends, repeated this claim. “You got the president of Guatemala saying to a local newspaper down there just last week they caught over 100 ISIS fighters in Guatemala trying to [use this caravan].” Just two hours later, President Trump tweeted:
“Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy (sic). Must change laws!”
Later that afternoon, Trump told Jon Karl of ABC News:
“You know what you should do, Jon? Go into the middle of the caravan, take your cameras, and search. Okay? Search. No, no. Take your — Jon, take your camera, go into the middle, and search.
You’re going to find MS-13, you’re going to find Middle Eastern, you’re going to find everything. And guess what? We’re not allowing them in our country. We want safety.”
Antigovernment groups including United Constitutional Patriots and Patriots of the Constitution released a “call to arms” on Oct. 22 asking for supporters to show up armed. The two groups claim to be working with the U.S. Border Patrol.
The following resource page contains vast documentation to show why concerns about Middle Eastern (and Southeast Asian) Islamist terror group infiltration of the “caravans” are extremely legitimate:
(4) Lie: Because Fox News dares to expose the reality of the threats posed by the “caravans,” it is now an attractive investment opportunity for “white nationalists” (MSNBC)
‘Morning Joe’s’ Mika Brzezinski Claims Fox News Is Open For Business To White Nationalists, by Nick Givas, Daily Caller, October 30, 2018. Excerpt:
Mika Brzezinski tried to link white nationalists with Fox News on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday and said they could financially invest in the network.
“If you like white nationalism, you can invest in some of these Fox News programs and these Fox News hosts,” Brzezinski said. “You can do that. They’re there for you.”
Brzezinski and her co-host Joe Scarborough were alluding to a “certain media company” earlier in the interview, saying it was complicit in spreading racism, fear and hate.
“You know, I don’t think we with — I think we always expected possibly people like this with impulses like this, but I don’t think we expected a complicit media arm or a complicit Congress to be part of this,” Brzezinski said.
Is Brzezinski really unaware of the following evidence of who may well be traveling within the “caravans” — or is she just hoping that MSNBC’s viewers don’t discover the reality?
(5) Lie: “There is no crisis” (about the “caravans”), except the one that Fox News and President Trump have created (HuffPost)
Among other watchdogs, SaveTheWest has repeatedly exposed HuffPost’s long pattern of lying and incitement. A few examples:
The lies, deception and incitement documented in the above offerings reveal the depths to which HuffPost betrays its readers and advertisers, according to the journalistic and ethical standards that it defined, and has repeatedly claimed it upholds, since its debut in 2005.
Against that backdrop, one is prepared to approach this latest HuffPost lie, from October 29, 2018 — which should be given extra significance, as it claims to have 200 million monthly readers from around the world:
How Hysteria And Hatred About Migrants Spread From Fox To Trump — And Pittsburgh; There is no crisis except for the one that Fox News and Trump have sought to create in order to get GOP voters to the polls, by Matt Gertz, Huffington Post, October 29, 2018.
This “news” story was featured at the top of HuffPost’s front page. It conveniently ignores all of the essential facts that are contained on the following pages in this report, regarding who benefits from lies such as this, propagated through the media:
(6) Lie: “Half of (caravan marchers) are girls and women” (Vox)
Vox is a notorious, left-leaning “news” site that has downplayed and whitewashed the most significant threats facing U.S. national security. Examples include:
Vox even argued that the American Revolution should not have occurred:
Vox: 3 Reasons The American Revolution Was A Mistake – The Daily Wire
It is against this backdrop that one is prepared to approach Vox’s latest effort to downplay and dismiss legitimate concerns about the “caravan” marchers, through demonstrable lies — which was exposed on October 27, 2018 in the Daily Caller, in Basic Math Disproves The Media’s Caravan Narrative, by Allan Stevo.
On October 25, 2018, Vox published this story, which was visibly enabled and legitimized by Volvo:
The migrant caravan, explained: How a group of Central American migrants hundreds of miles from the US border became Trump’s closing election argument, by Dara Linddara, Vox.com, October 25, 2018.
Note that the only photo that accompanied this “news” story was…
… the one at top, showing a man, holding a toddler boy, and a young girl beside him:
There were no other photos in this “news” story — probably because it was employed to support one of Vox’s core contentions:
But the caravan is real. The migrants in it — mostly Hondurans (with some Guatemalans), half of whom are girls and women, many intending to seek asylum in the US — are real people.
Take a look at SaveTheWest’s slide show of pictures taken of the caravans — and judge for yourself the ratio of men (of military age), versus women and children:
There is no denying that there are, in fact, some women and girls within the caravans. But given the (actual) photographic evidence, any “news” source claiming that half of the people in the caravans are women and girls, cannot be attributed to an editorial error — especially given Vox’s pattern of deception.
(7) Lie: President Trump is sending the U.S. military to our southern border to “protect America from women and children,” for his “political gain” (The Independent – UK)
On October 25, 2018, the UK Independent published the following “news” story:
Note the wording of this “news” headline:
These are the migrant women and children Donald Trump is sending the army to protect America from; US president is using the plight of refugees and migrants for his own political gain, by Andrew Buncombe, The Independent (UK), October 25, 2018.
Take a look at SaveTheWest’s slide show of pictures taken of the caravans — and judge for yourself the ratio of men (of military age), versus women and children:
Is it possible that the editors of an esteemed “news” organization with the stature and global resources of the Independent really did not know how dishonest and inflammatory its headline was? To imply that the duly-elected President of the United States had deployed the U.S. military to “protect” us from (exclusively) “women and children”?
We argue no, this is not possible. With this incendiary, lie-filled headline, the Independent joined the cavalcade of self-professed “objective, nonpartisan” news organizations that are:
- Engaged in a systemic, escalating assault on America’s natural right of self-defense, against the clear and present dangers that are present at our southern border
- Whitewashing and acting to benefit the people and organizations behind those dangers
(8) Lie: President Trump’s January 3, 2019 press conference with leaders of the U.S. Customs & Border Protection Agency and its related unions, was intended to convey a message of, “Let’s Keep America White Again”
On January 3, 2019, President Trump held a press conference in the White House Press Room with leaders of the U.S. Customs & Border Protection Agency and its related unions, to discuss the status of America’s border with Mexico, the “caravans,” and the infiltration of foreign nationals onto U.S. soil, and the prospect of building a border wall.
With Trump were Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, who is clearly white Caucasian, and Art del Cueto and Hector Garza, two of the NBPC’s vice presidents — who are clearly Hispanic:
Trump Brings Federal Employee Union to White House to Make Case for Shutdown, by Eric Katz, Government Executive, January 3, 2019. Excerpt:
President Trump on Thursday afternoon called an impromptu press conference to trot out unexpected guests: leaders from a federal employee union.
The top officials of the National Border Patrol Council, a division of the American Federation of Government Employees, addressed reporters at the White House to discuss their support for Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump said he was meeting with the union representatives and decided they should “go out and speak to the press.”
Brandon Judd, NBPC president, said in his 21 years of experience he has seen first hand that walls are effective.
“Anywhere that you look that we have built walls, they have worked,” Judd said. “They have been an absolute necessity for Border Patrol agents in supporting the border.”
Here is video of the press conference:
On January 4, 2019, New York advertising executive and MSNBC contributor Donny Deutch said Trump’s press conference was intended to convey a message of, “Let’s Keep America White Again.” This allegation quickly went viral on social media. As reported by Fox News:
From: “Donny Deutsch: Trump’s CBP Press Conference Message Was ‘Let’s Keep America White Again’,” Fox News, January 4, 2019. Excerpt:
The panel on “The Five” reacted to New York City ad exec and MSNBC pundit Donny Deutsch saying that President Trump’s wall is a ploy to “Keep America White.”
Deutsch’s projection, a play on the president’s 2016 “Make America Great Again” and 2020 “Keep America Great” campaign slogans, was in response to a press conference Trump held with members of the U.S. Customs & Border Patrol brass.
Trump spoke about the importance of building a border wall to stem illegal immigration and ensuing crime and drug trafficking, flanked by officials Art del Cueto, Brandon Judd, Hector Garza and another gentleman.
Deutsch, 61, remarked how all of the men appeared to him to be white: “four white men, four stoic strong white men of a certain age — not smiling by the way.” […]
Deutsch also compared Trump supporters to German border guards during World War II.
Here is video of the segment, from the Washington Examiner, which further reported:
Host Mika Brzezinski opened the show by saying the image of Trump with three bald representatives of border patrol officers “speaks volumes.” “It is quite a picture,” host Joe Scarborough added. “The diversity in that Donald Trump press conference.”
Scarborough then asked “legendary branding, advertising guy” Donny Deutsch to weigh in.
“You have four white men, you have four stoic, strong white men of a certain age, not smiling by the way,” Deutsch said.
“This is all Donald has left,” he said. “This wall is not a wall, it is a let’s keep America white again.”
Conclusion
It is SaveTheWest’s position that there is nothing within the press conference that even hints of racism. For Deutch to claim that by mere appearances, of Trump inviting the heads of the CBP and its union onstage to discuss, from their experiences, the situation at the border, and dismiss all the evidence that supports what they say, is itself racism.
This, however, is nothing new for MSNBC, which insists it is delivering honest, objective “journalism” to the American people. A few recent examples of MSNBC’s chronic lies and incitement include:
MSNBC Puts Florida Vote-Count Graphic Onscreen On Night Before Election – Deadline
Joy Reid Suggests Florida Democratic Voters Might Be Racist – The Daily Caller
(9) Lie: The security wall that President Trump’s plans to build a at the U.S. southern border is not to protect America, but rather, is “a monument to white supremacy”
MSNBC Guest: Trump’s Wall is a ‘Monument to White Nationalism’, by Tamar Auber, MediaIte, January 5, 2019. Excerpt:
Speaking to MSNBC’s Al Sharpton on Saturday, political editor at TheRoot.com Jason Johnson said that President Donald Trump‘s wall is a “monument to white nationalism.”
The comment came during a discussion about how Trump has said that he is reportedly willing to compromise with Democrats but that a lot of the concessions seem to come in the form of how the wall is actually being described aka concrete wall versus steel fence.
“You know, Rev, you can call it a slap, a tap or a beatdown, I’m still getting punched in the face, right?” Johnson said in response to Sharpton’s question if changing the name but not what the wall is being erected for amounted to a compromise.
“Like you can’t change the words and change the impact on something,” Johnson continued on. “This wall that the president wants is a monument to white nationalism. Anybody who agrees to give any money to this wall is foolish.”
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