Trump Kicks Media Out of Black Church While Surrogate Lashes Out at Media for Leaving

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Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:08 pm

Earlier, I wrote about Trump’s campaign, via racist troll Milo Yiannopoulos, getting some push-back from the mainstream media. It’s happened again as conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham tried to push a blatant lie down the throat of CBS News’ Sopan Deb, who was covering Trump’s publicity stunt at a black Detroit congregation this morning.

Laura Ingrham tweeted,

Sopan Deb wasted no time setting Ingraham straight, tweeting back:

He followed this up with another tweet:

The Associated Press’ Jill Colvin had this to add:

One wit had perhaps the best response to the whole affair, tweeting,

Couldn’t have said it better. Far from being persecuted by the mainstream media, Trump is continuing to bring on his own problems with the press and its constitutional freedoms, content to blame them for his mistakes, or to let low-information surrogates like Laura Ingraham, who, like Trump, can’t be bothered to check the facts, do it for him.

This time it didn’t work as, happily, the media stepped up and quickly slapped down the lie.

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Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.

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