Did You March on Saturday? What Breitbart Says

These days, I am reading Breitbart along with the New York Times and Wall Street Journal to see who is telling the truth and who is telling lies.

In a lead Breitbart story today, “Senior Writer” Joel Pollak has a story titled, “FAKE NEWS: THREE MAINSTREAM MEDIA LIES ON TRUMP’S FIRST DAY.”

To begin, no mainstream journalist writes quotes in all capital letters. If you’re secure about the facts of your story, you don’t need to scream to people. 

But you would use all caps if you were insecure about the story you were telling, and if you were using your headline to bully your reader into believing you.

In the red below, I quote (with redactions):

Lie #1: President Trump was focused on the crowd size at the inauguration. He mentioned it in passing in his speech at the CIA, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer took the media to task for trying to downplay attendance figures….

Lie #2: President Trump insulted the CIA. Extending the faux outrage at Lie #1, the mainstream media criticized Trump for talking about crowd size in front of the CIA’s memorial wall for agents who have died in the course of their duties….

Lie #3: The anti-Trump protests in Washington, D.C. were important. The protests were nothing more than the venting of outrage at Trump’s election. For all the talk of “women’s rights,” there was nothing particular to point to that Trump had done about anything relating to women. The demonstration was large, but also disorganized, as well as vulgar, and protesters left heaps of trash over the various routes they took, including protest signs abandoned at Union Station as they left the capital.

I marched on Saturday in Champaign, Illinois. I can’t remember a more peaceful, uplifting public assembly.

Mr. Pollak, my family was nearly destroyed by a Nazi propaganda machine that would have been proud of your twisted work. But at the end of the war, Hitler’s elaborate “lie machinery” was thoroughly destroyed and discredited.

We will read your lies; and your lies will inspire us to act for goodness.

This story will be tweeted to Mr. Pollak on Twitter at @joelpollak.