Posted on 01/12/2021 7:26:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The media is in the process of echoing “The Big Lie.” They want the American people to believe that President Trump engaged in inciting insurrection, violence, and rioting. They want you to believe five people died because the President essentially ordered their executions. And sadly, “Christian” broadcasters at the 700 Club are in on the gaslighting.
A news report and accompanying video portrayed President Trump as clearly inciting riots with a single quote. Out of context and in the incorrect order, the words are very damning. The problem is CBN pulled two separate quotes out of context, reversed their order, and made it appear that the President was calling for his supporters to storm the Capitol. Here’s the quote from their video and article:
The President is blamed for inciting the violence at the Capitol when he told supporters, “We’re going to the Capitol…and if you don’t fight like hell we’re not going to have a country anymore.”
The use of the ellipsis (…) is a journalistic technique to indicate omission. It’s used to take long quotes and connect two relevant portions while eliminating minutia. Both the video’s deceptive cut to reverse the order and the article’s deceptive flipping of the quotes and insertion of the ellipsis would be considered journalistic blasphemy by any ethical reporter. It completely changes the meaning of the actual words the President spoke.
Let’s look at the two portions they reversed and strung together to build their narrative. But first, it should be noted that CBN is considered by millions of Christians across America to be a reliable source that looks at things from a Biblical worldview. Some of what they report falls into this category, but we’ve seen an increasingly anti-Biblical tilt to their reporting in recent weeks that coincides with their shift away from supporting President Trump.
Here is what the President actually said at the rally before the attack at the Capitol. We highlighted the portion of the speech they pulled out and used as the tail-end of their supposed quote:
“Our brightest days are before us. Our greatest achievements still wait. I think one of our great achievements will be election security, because nobody, until I came along, had any idea how corrupt our elections were. And again, most people would stand there at 9 o’clock in the evening and say, “I want to thank you very much,” and they go off to some other life. But I said something is wrong here, something is really wrong, can’t have happened, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
It’s clear that the President was referring directly to fighting voter fraud, which he (and millions of other patriots) have claimed happened during the 2020 election. Mountains of evidence back it up despite a coordinated effort between mainstream media, Big Tech, Democrats, and much of the judiciary to keep the information suppressed.
What he said next is also part of the “quote” highlighted by CBN. It’s important to notice that the first part of the “quote” by CBN was actually said AFTER the portion where he mentions “fight like hell.” The way CBN and others in mainstream media have conspicuously doctored it, one would think the President was saying they should go to the Capitol and fight like hell.
“So we are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue — I love Pennsylvania Avenue — and we are going to the Capitol. And we are going to try and give — the Democrats are hopeless, they are never voting for anything, not even one vote — but we are going to try to give our Republicans — the weak ones because the strong ones don’t need any of our help — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Again, there’s no mention or even insinuation of insurrection. No calls for violence, rioting, or storming the Capitol. Instead, he said they’re going to the Capitol to give staunch Republicans “the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take our country back.” It’s a message of support that the President wanted delivered.
This is the type of coverage we’re seeing across the board as Democrats prepare to impeach President Trump just days before he’s supposed to leave office. Here’s CBN’s Tweet linking to the doctored video and fraudulent article:
Pelosi told CBS' 60 Minutes program she's ready to impeach Trump a second time, something that has never been done in our nation's history. https://t.co/TYKjisr4TD # via @CBNNews
— CBN News (@CBNNews) January 12, 2021
When we look at it all in context, it’s clear that the President was NOT calling for violence. This is why mainstream media, sadly including CBN, must use doctored videos to “prove” their point. This is an example of The Big Lie referred to by Nazis.
Here is the full video of his speech starting at the 1hr3m mark:
He cheated Burt Reynolds out of his money for his tv show “Evening Shade” when he bought the broadcast rights.
- 1 Timothy 6:10 RSV
You can trace all of this back to states allowing “counselors/social workers” to have complete and final say and the power to pull children from homes and the growth of de-centralized welfare . When states and localities gave up the control of assistance with conditions and the systematic bleeding of our manufacturing base it led to the society we have today , where our population is eating itself from the inside out . All government employees will do what they are told in order to keep their pay going into their account and will support whoever is keeping that a float while never considering the erosion of God and the manipulation of those either to lazy or to ignorant to pay attention and curb the gradual loss of independence . Pandora’s box was opened back in the 50’s...GREED and POWER / GOOD and EVIL we see this throughout human history.
Oh, he had marbles. But, Pat always had a bit of huckster behind his sincere smile and sympathetic eyes. He was the son of Absalom Willis Robertson who was a career politician and US Senator from Virginia. He thought that Pat's little UHF TV station started in 1961 that he called CBN the Christian Broadcasting Network, would bring shame on the family's name. With this latest slander against President Trump he may have finally succeeded.
Whereas such statements as “pigs in a blanket fry’em like bacon” lead directly to the open execution of LEOs, and Black Lies Matter was never held to account. Hussein’s call to bring a gun to a knife fight was dismissed. Incitements such as Sandra Bernhard calling for her “black brothers” to gang rape Sarah Palin if she came to NYC were laughed at if not applauded by the left. Numerous unequivocal calls to violence by the left, handwaved away if not outright supported.
I hate these people. I spit on their false calls to “unity”, which mean nothing except “succumb or else”. They clearly have absolutely no problem with one party government, and judging from the existence of the uniparty, we are headed there.
too, too slick
and now sick
Amen on that.
If his son Gordon was worth his salt, he’d see that things are done openly and above board.
I have always considered CBN to be a collective of phonies, who wear their religion on their sleeve, akin to the Pharisees. Their holier than thou schtick gets old in less than 30 seconds.
That is because it was taken down and removed from CBN's archives as soon as leadership found out about it. CBN know which side their toast is buttered on. Sorry to have doubted you Pat.
CORRECTION: In this story from January 11th news, we used a video clip of President Trump's rally speech that was taken from a different source rather than the original event. Unknown to us, this video had been edited so that portions of President Trump's speech were out-of-order (CBN did not edit the video in this manner). We regret not fact-checking this video prior to using it, and we apologize for this oversight. We have removed this video from our web version of the story and removed it from our archive.
The very so-called “opposition” party to the left has been infiltrated, as has media and academia-the two primary drivers of culture and knowledge-so anything even peripheral to these institutions will also have been.
And conservatives who oppose the left’s agenda are actually forced to fund it by such things as public funding of PBS, NPR, public education (indoctrination), etc.
The incident at the Capitol occurred long before Trump even finished speaking.
My dad walked out on the back porch to tell us that Get Smart was starting, missed a step and fell down popping the joint out of his right forefinger. The bone came right through the skin. He walked back in the house and sat down in front of the TV while trying to pull the joint back together. On that day the 700 Club somehow preempted Get Smart. I had never seen a man so disappointed. His forefinger never healed correctly because he didn't bother to go to the hospital. So for over 50 years it has always looked like he is pointing at something with his crooked finger.
They were only sorry that they got caught and called out on it. But, to be fair, they are merely responding to what they know will be a complete crack down on religious liberties and don’t want to lose their tax exempt status.
>>> They were only sorry that they got caught and called out on it.
Yeah... I’m not defending them. This isn’t the first time they’ve shown true colors.
TV religion is all about staying on TV for money. Selling out grandma is necessary to keep the gravy train going.
RE: I can’t find the video.
It’s at the bottom of the article.
Too many water walkers
I am a true follower of Jesus. I could never enjoy their shows or personalities. Same for Dobson. They were lukewarm to me at most.
My e-mail to CBN:
“Just learned of your manipulation of President Trump’s Save America speech, given on 1/6/2021 at the Ellipse in Washington D.C.. Reversing his phrases, omitting context, and doctoring the video so to fit the Left’s narrative is hardly Christian. Did you all forget the commandment - “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” or are you just another example of butt-kissing, back-stabbing cowards? Your actions would make Judas Iscariot proud.”
CBN’s response:
“In a January 11th news story, we used a video clip of President Trump’s rally speech that was taken from a different source rather than the original event. Unknown to us, this video had been edited so that portions of President Trump’s speech were out-of-order (CBN did not edit the video in this manner). We regret not fact-checking this video prior to using it, and we apologize for this oversight. We have removed this video from our web version of the story and removed it from our archive.”
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