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Algorithms gone awry … Earlier today I noticed a tweet from Adrienne Royer that showed a Google search result for “california republicans (sp)” that returned a result of “Nazism” under the category of ideology on the Google Knowledge Graph card you get on Google search results. I reached out to Google, and you can read the company’s response over at Conservative Review. Suffice it to say there needs to be safeguards in place to ensure that this sort of slander of conservative organizations doesn’t happen due to an “algorithm.” Google should be held accountable when things like this happen.

NY Times writer roasted … New York Times writer Julie Davis complained on Twitter Tuesday night that a child at a Trump rally said she was “Fake News.” Fast-forward less than 24 hours. The same writer had to correct her story to reflect the real number of attendees at the rally was 5,500 instead of the 1000 people she initially estimated. The Daily Caller’s Amber Athey has the hilarious side-by-side tweets.

Truther Joy? … MSNBC’s Joy Reid is facing another problem from her old blog. It has now surfaced that Reid seemingly published blog posts advancing 9/11 “truther” conspiracies. The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi explains. Reid was able to skirt around past blog posts that some said had an anti-gay tone. Will this latest revelation result in any consequences for Reid?

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Stelter on spying … This is absolutely hilarious and something I had completely forgotten about. Back in 2016, CNN media critic/cheerleader told colleague Chris Cuomo that when he was in college, he believed Fox News assigned an employee to “spy” on him by dating him. Today, Stelter bristles that anyone would call it spying to fish for information from someone and report back to your bosses about what you find. Twitchy has the details on this hilarious double standard. File under “honeypot.”

“Deception” … Speaking of Stelter, his newsletter last night was once again him saying things by not saying them. In this case he talked about a “deception campaign” by the president. Or did he? Because he put “deception campaign” in quotes. So you see, it was really Anderson Cooper who was saying it. Stelter just wrote a whole section on it. Funny how he rarely puts in quotes that would disrupt his narrative, isn’t it?

The obfuscation is strong in this one … If there were a Pulitzer Prize for media obfuscation, Jay Willis deserves it for this piece at GQ. Willis writes:

This is how conservative media transformed a small news item into a full-blown conspiracy theory that the president (apparently) believes to be true.

In this piece, Willis even breaks down the multiple stories confirming that human intelligence assets of the FBI approached the Trump campaign. But you see, it wasn’t spying. This reminds me of back in early 2017, when LevinTV host Mark Levin put together that there was surveillance of the Trump campaign by the FBI. Levin took the media’s own reporting and pieced it together. That is apparently now a sin.

Each and every media report is carefully crafted to leave out information that the media doesn’t want you to know. So when you bring together multiple media reports that paint a different narrative from what the media wants, that’s a major problem.

Unintended consequences …

Oh, fudge … After a full year of nonstop Russia collusion coverage by the mainstream media, are media types finally figuring out the error of their ways? Despite all the attacks on the president and cheering of the Mueller investigation, has the investigation actually helped Trump? The Daily Caller’s Peter Hasson has the details of how the New York Times’ Frank Bruni has reached that conclusion.

Bruni believes that the focus on the investigation has diverted attention from other things Trump has done that he believes people would not like. As examples, Bruni cites Trump’s use of an unsecured phone and Scott Pruitt. Here’s the thing Bruni doesn’t realize: A focus on what Trump has actually accomplished might be even worse for him and his fellow leftists. For example, household income is at its highest level ever in the U.S., and the rubes are giving Trump credit.

Can Cillizza handle the truth? … CNN’s Chris Cillizza asked  – probably rhetorically – his followers on Twitter the following question yesterday:

This is simple, Chris. Bill Clinton wasn’t the president in 2016. Donald Trump is the president. He has the power under Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution to run the government of the United States. There is no such thing as an independent agency. That’s why we have elections.

Independent agencies not subject to control by the elected executive, nor subject to oversight by the people’s legislature, have no place in a government of, by, and for the people. I answered Cillizza on Twitter, but he probably didn’t really want responses.

Say what? … The mainstream media’s favorite arbiter of “hate groups” aka “people they disagree with” is the Southern Poverty Law Center, a once proud institution that has turned itself into a hatemonger for hire. Just how outside the mainstream is the SPLC? It just tweeted that Donald Trump and the White House staff are racists, wait for it, because they called MS-13 members “animals.”

The SPLC wasn’t talking about Trump’s misconstrued comments last week. No, it included a screenshot of a White House webpage on MS-13. You’ve got to see this ridiculousness to believe it.

Sayonara, narrative …

One-sided … The National Review’s John Fund wrote on Sunday, “The media see only one collusion story.” Fund is absolutely right. For people like CNN’s media critic/cheerleader Brian Stelter, any suggestion that evidence exists of malfeasance by Obama administration officials is an attack on the rule of law. Fund laid out how the media has been fighting back on any collusion narrative other than Trump-Russia. Fund also acknowledged one glaring truth: After a year of being attacked as a “conspiracy theorist,” LevinTV host Mark Levin “has been vindicated.”

Praetorian Guardsman to the end … CNN”s Brian Stelter has been a loyal member of the media’s Praetorian Guard for ages, and he shows no signs of turning. In his newsletter last night, Stelter devoted the majority of his writing to fighting back against recent revelations that the Justice Department used an informant to investigate spy on the Trump campaign in 2016. The piece is clearly Stelter trying to weave a narrative.

When called out on that narrative-weaving, mainly using the phrase “far-right bloggers,” Stelter leapt into his standard defense mode. You see, HE wasn’t saying it was “far-right bloggers;” someone else did and he just quoted that phrase from someone else. That’s a bovine excrement response from Stelter and he knows it.

Stelter’s modus operandi is to weave a narrative that suits him, then when called on it, to fall back on “it wasn’t me.” It makes one wonder if Stelter’s diploma came from the Shaggy School of Journalism.

“Offensive” … Just like a schoolyard bully, when Stelter gets called out for his partisanship, he gets offended and cries. That’s exactly what he did in this exchange with Kellyanne Conway on his television program Sunday. When Conway said that Stelter said “something that a lot of people on your [Stelter’s] side of the aisle are not willing to say,” Stelter shot back, “I’m not on a side of the aisle. That’s an offensive remark.”

Sure, Brian. Your entire body of work since 2016 shows that you are clearly on a side of the aisle. You’ve been a protector of your side of the aisle interests. You call people conspiracy theorists when they put together information that the media has dribbled out piecemeal. Then, when you are proven to be wrong, you can’t man up and say that you’re wrong. You double, triple, and even quadruple down on it.