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‘For the record’

Dear Editor,

This is not the letter I wanted to write, but it is the one that I feel obligated to write. A few weeks ago, WTO published a letter of mine titled “Cheap Shots.” Two days later, another concerned citizen challenged one of my examples of literary cheap shots. I wrote, “Our President never called or hinted that the virus was a HOAX”“If the author thinks he reported the truth, show me the video.” My challenger offered as her evidence a political ad video created by “Priorities USA Action, a PAC that has supported Democratic presidential candidates” and was reported in an article that appeared in the WaPo January 14th 2020. I checked it out. She was partially right. In the ad, the Pres. appears to be implying the Hoax narrative. However, the Trump Team demanded the ad be taken down citing FCC rules saying, “The PUSA stitched together fragments from multiple speeches by President Trump to fraudulently and maliciously imply that President Trump called the coronavirus outbreak a ‘hoax… Trump was “abundantly clear” in referring to the “Democrat’s politicization of the coronavirus outbreak” when making the description.”

UNFORTUNATELY, my challenger didn’t read all the way to the bottom of the web page. “The Washington Post previously did a fact-check of an ad by former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign that made a similar juxtaposition. It featured clips of Trump at a campaign rally in February saying “coronavirus” and “this is their new hoax” that were edited to make it seem as if he said the words together.”

The Post transcript excerpt of a Pres. Trump Rally shows him quoting a conversation with a staffer. “Coronavirus…One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax… They tried everything, they tried it over and over… It’s all turning, they lost.’ And this is their new hoax.” Note the omitted text. The media’s “Sins of Omission” taking words, phrases, or video out of contexts and or leaving out text or video to fit a preconceived narrative is well documented. CNN and others got caught doing just that with the edited video of the teenage Nick Sandman at an anti-abortion rally in D.C.

Additional examples are: From the Washington Free Beacon, “Biden earns 11 pinocchios in one month,” Washington Post fact check March 13 awarded Biden 4 Pinocchios, their most severe rating, for two manipulated videos that the Biden campaign circulated. The first video is the “Hoax” video sited above. The second campaign video showed Trump saying the “the American Dream is dead,” which the Post found missing the second part of Trump’s statement promising to “bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before.” March 15, Biden falsely claimed that Trump refused coronavirus testing kits from the World Health Organization. The kits were never offered in the first place. The lists go on.

I was just going to let this challenge go. I had my say and she had hers, but then I saw with my own eyes Rachel Maddow MSNBC, Don Lemon CNN and 2 others calling for all networks to cease airing the Virus Briefings because of the “misinformation.” These overpaid ($7,000,000 and $4,000,000 per year) “smarter than thou” anchors with no DR. or MD would then pass their medical opinions on to us peons. I knew then that I had to set the record straight. Truth matters and where you get the NEWS matters. I watch the Virus Daily Briefings and the interviews with the President’s Team in real time. By watching and reading different news sources, I see what these talking heads are telling you about what is going on with this crisis. At best, it is slanted and at worst is down right lies, BUT don’t take my word for it. Watch in real time then check the other media to see how the talking heads interrupt what YOU saw. The first time I did that, I was shocked.

Think about this. Every bad thing that has ever happened in history has started with a LIE. The Truth will set you FREE if you do your homework and choose your sources wisely.

Joanne Oviatt,

Youngsville

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