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The Washington Post’s Latest Hannity Attack More anti-Fox, anti-Trump Propaganda

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There it goes again. The Washington Post, in business these days to defend the ramparts of the Leftist State Media by attacking Fox News and President Trump, is at it again.

The Hate Trump paper has one columnist after another whose main task in life is to make war on Fox News. This time the target is…..Sean Hannity. Again. (And again and again and again, but I digress.)

This go-round features the viscerally anti-Trump Greg Sargent. Mr. Sargent’s problem this time? The interview the President gave to Sean Hannity on Tuesday. Here’s the headline:

Hannity’s latest propaganda actually exposes Trump’s epic failures

The laughable irony, of course, is that it is Sargent and The Post that are the real propagandists here. The reason for their fury – and that of the larger Leftist State Media – is precisely because Hannity and Fox have the nerve to call out the LSM’s leftist propaganda – in chapter and verse.

So let’s get into this latest volley of LSM propaganda dished by Sargent. He says this:

“Sean Hannity’s latest effort to portray President Trump as a heroic and decisive leader throughout the coronavirus crisis belongs in a time capsule. It will aid future study of one of the most monumental and destructive leadership failures in modern times — and the extraordinary lengths to which Trump’s propagandists are going to rewrite it as a spectacular triumph.”

Say what? Who, exactly, is doing the rewriting of history here?

Recall that on January 31 President Trump announced the travel ban with China. And three days later here was this headline in The Washington Post:

Why we should be wary of aggressive government response to coronavirus
Harsh measures tend to scapegoat already marginalized populations

In which Sargent’s paper said this of the Trump administration’s China travel ban decision:

“Its decision Friday to deny entry to non-nationals who have recently traveled to China and quarantine Americans who are returning from that country marks a significant, and potentially counterproductive, escalation in the U.S. response to the coronavirus crisis.

Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity

Although this may assuage critics who insisted that the administration take more aggressive action, history and epidemiology warn us that such measures are unlikely to work. Respiratory diseases are not easily contained by travel bans or quarantines. Rather than contain an epidemic, harsh, coercive policies often scapegoat already-marginalized populations and intensify panic rather than quell it.

In such an atmosphere, public health officials may lack the tools to calm the public and guide it through a health crisis. That, in turn, may enhance the risk that they will employ coercive and discriminatory measures, based more on fear of others than on epidemiological best practices. If history is any guide, such efforts are doomed to make a bad situation worse.”

In other words? The Trump-China travel ban was racist. And Sargent re-writes history to say that Trump was “downplaying” the virus – when in fact the downplaying of the virus was being done by The Post itself.

Sargent wants to pretend – propagandize down the memory hole – this headline from The Post on February 1st, the day after Trump announced the travel ban. The headline:

Get a grippe, America. The flu is a much bigger threat than coronavirus, for now.

This gem from Sargent’s paper began this way:

“The rapidly spreading virus has closed schools in Knoxville, Tenn., cut blood donations to dangerous levels in Cleveland and prompted limits on hospital visitors in Wilson, N.C. More ominously, it has infected as many as 26 million people in the United States in just four months, killing up to 25,000 so far.

In other words, a difficult but not extraordinary flu season in the United States, the kind most people shrug off each winter or handle with rest, fluids and pain relievers if they contract the illness.”

And oh….by the way? Fox’s ratings, not to mention Hannity’s, are leaving the LSM media and its cable and print outlets  – like The Washington Post – in the dust.

Got that? There in black and white is The Washington Post saying that the big threat out there was the flu – not the coronavirus. And what does Greg Sargent have to say of this in this piece of propagandist drivel?

Zero. Zip, zero, nada. In other words – the actual record of The Washington Post on the virus is just swept under the LSM’s very big propaganda rug as if it never happened. Dropped down the memory hole and flushed away. Or so he erroneously thought.

So let me take a moment to re-write Sargent’s closing paragraph. Sargent’s propaganda piece concludes this way:

“Hannity has unintentionally done us all a public service. He has reminded us just how vast the gulf was between many members of Trump’s administration, who did urgently want to take coronavirus seriously, and Trump, who serially and pathologically refused to do so.”

I will re-write this – factually – this way:

“Greg Sargent has unintentionally done us all a public service. He has reminded us just how vast the gulf is between The Washington Post and Hannity, Fox News and many members of the Trump administration, starting with the President himself, who did urgently want to take coronavirus seriously. While The Washington Post and other LSM outlets said to do so was racist, or, as in the case of Media Matters, headlined this:

Fox News fearmongers about coronavirus with dubiously sourced viral video

Right.

And oh….by the way? Fox’s ratings, not to mention Hannity’s, are leaving the LSM media and its cable and print outlets  – like The Washington Post – in the dust.

Which is exactly why LSM propaganda attacks like this latest one happen in the first place.

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