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Written by Carey Wedler
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Right on schedule, the corporate media is in a tizzy over President Donald Trump’s failure to acknowledge the death of Senator John McCain, who passed away over the weekend after a battle with brain cancer.
As CBS “reported”: “While the White House originally lowered the flag late Saturday evening, White House reporters, including CBS News’ Mark Knoller, noticed that the flag was back at full staff Monday morning.”
“As Trump Stays Silent on John McCain’s Death, the Senator Gets a Last Word,” reads a New York Times headline.
NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw tweeted Monday:
Tom Brokaw✔@tombrokaw
pres trump – you are commander in chief by law, duty bound to honor sen mccain
ignoring his death is a disgrace
You get the picture. The media feeding frenzy has reached a fever pitch over Trump’s failure to adequately honor the same senator who pushed for war in Iraq and advocated arming and training Syrian rebels, a U.S. government program that eventually saw the Department of Defense empowering extremist factions. McCain then criticized Trump for ending the CIA’s iteration of that program, claiming doing so was handing a win to Russia.
But McCain is an American hero today, seemingly because he was a Republican who openly challenged Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the media is ignoring a far more important development: Read the rest of this entry »
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