Dana Loesch Cites the MRC to Slam Media for Their Own 'Fake News'

Nicholas Fondacaro | November 17, 2016
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The Blaze’s Dana Loesch unleased on the liberal media Thursday evening, during her appearance on Fox News’ The Kelly File, for creating the atmosphere for “fake news” to flourish. And she cited the Media Research Center to do it. “It was the Media Research Center and they discovered that about 8 percent of voters, they determined that maybe if what they had believed was being said about Hillary Clinton that they saw on the news, maybe if they would have believed it, it would have had an impact on the way that they voted,” she stated, “70 percent of voters don’t trust the media, that’s and MRC poll from last week.

Fox News’ Digital Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt agreed that the public has a great distrust for the media, and argued that the media themselves were to blame. “So, we earned it in the large part. The broken faith with the American people by dishonest reporting, heavily biased reporting passing itself off as objective journalism, decades of mistakes…” he noted.

And according to Stirewalt it set the stage for the 2016 election cycle, “So all of these decades of misconduct laid open the door in 2016 that you had both campaigns, particularly Donald Trump waging war against the press.”

Going farther than Stirewalt, Loesch explained that the public was happy with Trump’s fight with the main stream media because they had to put up with years of the media’s own fake news stories about them:

Back in 2008, if you didn't vote for Barack Obama, then maybe you have some racist tendencies. That’s how this started. And this in 2010 before the healthcare—the unaffordable health care was passed, that there was a whole story of congressional members that were spit on my Tea Party demonstrators in Washington, DC. There was zero proof of this. It was a made up story. Nothing was confirmed. And it kept going and going the stories kept getting more outrageous.

She reminded viewers that it wasn’t purposely bias websites spreading the nonsense, but “major network news that was doing this.” “I remember there were reports of Tea Party activists that were carrying firearms but they were cropping people out that you couldn't tell it was a black American voter who was carrying a firearm lawfully,” Loesch recalled,  “I mean that’s the kind of stuff they did, so people were fed up.

Kelly shared the public’s frustration exclaiming, “It's almost like you just want a do-over. Let's start with media over again. You know, it's gotten so clammed up with bad information and bad actors.”

Towards the end of the segment, Stirewalt had a dire warning for the public concerning a heavily biased media, “Which is, if we can't be sure that we're telling people the truth, and there aren’t trusted sources, we won't keep the Republic.”

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