We’ve all heard of the infamous “spike” that news agencies
use if they choose to not report a particular story, but this can also be a
form of Fake News, like when the liberal press reports false rumors, or simply
fabricated data, about Republicans, or if they report nothing, like when
Democrats perform outrageous acts or say unfortunate things that the liberal press
wants to suppress. It’s easy to envision what fake news looks like when false
news is fabricated and reported as news, but what does fake news look like when
a story that is unfavorable to a political party, or one that is embarrassing
to them, is spiked? Some examples:
Did the New York Times report the event where
President Obama begged Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to ask Russian
President Vladimir Putin for more time for Obama to get himself re-elected to a
second term of President of the United States, at which time Obama promised he
would be more flexible, compromising and cooperative in meeting Putin’s demands
for the removal of American missiles from Eastern Europe?
Whatever became of Obama’s beseeching Putin for more
time, we don’t know. What did Obama give away to Putin in this unbalanced deal,
we also don’t know. But it may have proved important to America’s interests if
the investigative power of the NYT had reported this event and attempted to find
out what secret scheme Obama and Putin were plotting and tried to determine its
future threat and costs to America.
And especially following the 2016 presidential
election when the rumor of Trump and his newly appointed Secretary of State
were both being accused of being tools of the Russians and serving the
interests of Putin and not of the American public. Maybe at that time a little
balance could have been inserted by the NYT, or CNN, or MSNBC with a mention
that Obama had conducted secret business with Russia’s Putin, while Obama was the
sitting president, that seemed to be serving Russian goals at America’s expense.
But I heard no such reports or speculation coming from the liberal press.
Spiking a real news story is faking the news by pretending it never happened.
One might also call the spiking of news that could inform Americans of
un-American activity by their president, a lie.
Only Fox news reported the Veritas Project video tapes
of Hillary Clinton’s staffers plotting violence and dirty tricks against Donald
Trump and his supporters, with at least one video session mentioning Hillary as
being the approver of the attacks on Republicans. If you recall the Trump
campaign office that was fire-bombed in North Carolina you’ll remember that as
being one of the Democrat acts of violence that just went by quickly while no
one paid much attention, but it was violence committed by Democrats in an
attempt to intimidate Republicans, with further editorial suggestions by
liberal commentators that a Trump supporter may have set the fire himself,
which tactic was also revealed in the Veritas Project tapes being as one of Hillary’s
methods of operation (the insertion of opinion in a news report, meant to
subliminally influence the recipient with the intended lie from the
commentator).
Only conservative news agencies would report that a
disillusioned Hillary staffer, not the Russians, leaked documents to WikiLeaks
that exposed embarrassing emails exchanged by her staff while they worked with
liberal cable channel news agencies to develop questions and answers for the
presidential debates that would allow Hillary to have advanced warning of pressing
questions so she could prepare herself with convincing responses, whereas
Donald Trump didn’t know what questions he would be asked until he was in front
of the cameras and trying to answer a question that his opponent was thoroughly
prepared for.
The rigging of the Democrat primary campaign that
assured that poor old Bernie Sanders never had a chance of beating Hillary was
also exposed in this information leaked by a disgusted Hillary staffer, but the
liberal press decided to blame all of the embarrassing email exposures on the
alleged Russian hacking, and then relate that story back to their lie of Trump
working to have a favorable outcome for Russia and a negative outcome for
America in negotiations with Russia. All of this is why Donald Trump called
Hillary “crooked”, and she certainly was.
To not report current happenings, especially news with
political value that Americans need in order to know what kind of candidate
they are voting for, and why maybe they should not vote for that person at all,
is telling Americans a lie clothed as a “spike”.
The polling that the liberal pollsters found to be exclusively
in Hillary’s favor, until election night when Trump trounced her from Maine to
Florida, was all liberal lies and fake reporting that even the liberal press
didn’t know was fake, because they were dedicated to the business of electing a
liberal Democrat who would continue the “fundamental transformation of America”
that was Obama’s theme, and a possible truth to the contrary was beyond their
comprehension and was something they could not consider reporting.
