Looking past the numerous accomplishments made by former President Donald Trump while at the White House, before stepping into the Oval Office, he exposed the mainstream media that continuously vilified him. During his rallies, attended by thousands, Trump harped on how the media no longer cared about facts or the truth. They only sought to embellish the story to fit their narrative. Not only did Trump criticize the media, but outlets like CNN and MSNBC were also caught numerous times altering facts. Now, it seems that the agenda of the news media is no longer a secret, as host Mehdi Hasan suggested outlets not report on both sides of a story. 

In the video below, Mehdi Hasan, who works with MSNBC, told former New York Times reporter Ben Smith that when it came to major issues, there was no reason to report both sides. “There are two words we need to remove from our media vocabulary right now, and that is ‘both sides. This fundamental crutch, this reliance on ‘both sides as a kind of lazy way of covering our political moment is deeply dangerous.” He added, “There are a bunch of major issues on which there are not both sides. There are not both sides on climate change. There are not both sides on white supremacy. There are not both sides to democracy. Ben, there are not both sides on the Holocaust.”

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The host referenced the administrator at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, who believed students should be taught about opposing sides of the Holocaust. While alarming, Republican State Sen. Bryan Hughes, who presented legislation that would require opposing views to be taught on some subjects, declared, “That’s not what the bill says.”

Considering voting to be one of the biggest issues in America, Mehdi Hasan said there should be no reporting on opposing sides. “On the big issues of our time, on whether people should be able to vote, on whether they should be able to get to a ballot box, on whether one party should be able to overturn elections, no, there are not both sides.” 

Released on YouTube, users quickly filled the comment section, with many of them shocked by the brazen admission. “A true adherent of the neo-Marxist maxim that “objectivity has no place in journalism as it gets in the way of activism”… and of course, there is a LONG anecdotal history of his hostility to the truth as well.”

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One person pointed out, “The communist left doesn’t hide anything anymore. He just admitted there should only be one view, the communist view. Why can’t brainwashed democrats see this?”

Another concluded, “As far as MSNBC goes, they need to cover ‘both sides’ because they just might get one of them correct. Their record on truth-telling is not very strong!”  

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This piece was written by Jeremy Porter on September 8, 2022. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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