'Fake news' hysteria is fake news

The lying media is lying again

This post first appeared on Daily Caller.

All of a sudden across the nation citizens are being warned by the media to avoid a dangerous threat to democracy and our way of life. It is not weapons of mass destruction or ISIS or Vladimir Putin that we must be frightened of this time, although Russia plays a role. The latest threat to our peace and safety is something called ‘fake news’.

The New York Times has published a piece linking fake news to the gunman who marched into Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in Washington, D. C. last week with a gun, let everyone walk out and then oddly waited for arrest. The piece even hints at the spread of fascist ideas across America, with ‘liberals across the country asking how a nation of millions could be marching to such a suspect drumbeat’. Terrifying stuff.