Trump Calls Out Media Bias, CNN & MSNBC Fear Orwellian Dictatorship

By Kyle Drennen
News Busters
Jul. 25, 2018

Over an 18-hour period spanning two days, anchors on MSNBC and CNN all read from the same script as they warned viewers that President Trump’s typical criticism of the liberal media during a Tuesday address was akin to the authoritarian regime described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.

After the president spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Tuesday afternoon, the left immediately zeroed in on a single sentence in which Trump denounced the “fake news” media and declared: “This country is doing better than it’s ever done before economically, but it’s all working out. And just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”

During his 6:00 p.m. ET hour show that evening, MSNBC anchor Ari Melber began parroting the liberal talking point that Trump’s remarks were something out of 1984:

Now Donald Trump not only polarizes people’s feelings, he polarizes the very perception of reality out there and he knows it....While many politicians, of course, cherry pick information, Trump’s blatant request that people ignore their own eyes could literally be ripped from George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel 1984, which casts partisan censorship of truth as, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

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