2024 was a year of gaslighting here are the worst media lies

Let’s be blunt: 2024 was the worst year ever for legacy media, and it ain’t even close.Journalism morphed into blatant activism before our eyes.We were told things we all witnessed or heard didn’t actually happen.But Americans knew better, and the gaslighting got increasingly hysterical as the year went on.Amid the relentless madness, some egregious examples deserve special mention.

And if we staged an annual tournament of media malfeasance and meltdowns, my bracket would peg these as the Final Four of 2024. When President Biden wandered off from a group photo shoot with other world leaders in June during the G-7 summit in Italy, the clip understandably went viral.The worrisome walkabout followed several instances of Biden shaking hands with the air, sharing conversations he had with long-deceased world leaders and forgetting the names of his own Cabinet members. But the media insultingly told us all these videos were actually “cheap fakes.” “Some of us are watching long, complete speeches by the president.Others just watching short, out of context clips on social media,” claimed Brian Stelter, CNN’s chief media correspondent at the time.

“Two audiences are seeing two very different reflections.”The Washington Post pontificated that the “deceptively edited videos” that “misrepresent events simply by manipulating video or audio, or by leaving out context” were “staples of Republican attacks against Biden.” Two weeks later, when Biden’s brain turned to applesauce (again) during his debate with Donald Trump, the narrative collapsed. Sure, Kamala Harris was on video in 2019 saying she opposed fracking and wanted to ban all offshore drilling.Sure, she compared ICE agents to the KKK while calling former President Donald Trump’s border wall “medieval.” And sure, she supported US taxpayer dollars for imprisoned illegal migrants’ sex-change procedures. These are all profoundly unpopular positions, so Harris flip-flopped on�...