Republican Lawmaker Introduces Bill Labeling CNN, Washington Post as ‘Fake News’

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Rep. Micah Van Huss introduces bill labeling CNN and WaPo as fake news

Tennessee State Rep. Micah Van Huss on Wednesday introduced a new bill that would label CNN and the Washington Post as “fake news.”

The filed bill brands both outlets as “fake news” and part of the media wing of the Democratic Party. It also accuses the media outlets of “denigrating our citizens and implying that they are weak-minded followers instead of people exercising their rights that our veterans paid for with their blood” – a reference to a recent CNN segment, in which anchor Don Lemon and guests Rick Wilson and Wajahat Ali laughed hysterically and mocked Trump supporters as illiterate “credulous rubes.”

Breitbart.com reports:In a Facebook post, Van Huss wrote that he filed the bill on behalf of voters who are “tired of fake news” and Republicans who refuse to confront it.

https://www.facebook.com/MicahVanHuss/posts/10159392964818206

Read the full text of the resolution here.

CNN has promulgated numerous demonstrably false reports and conspiracy-theory punditry in the Trump era, sparking ire from President Trump and his supporters.

In December 2017, CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju falsely reported that WikiLeaks emailed Donald Trump Jr. access to information nearly two weeks before the organization released it to the public.

CNN reported in June 2017 that fired White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci was under federal investigation for meeting with a Russian banker prior to President Trump’s inauguration. CNN eventually apologized for its false story after Scaramucci vehemently denied its contents. CNN Executive editor Lex Haris, editor Eric Lichtblau, and journalist Thomas Frank resigned over the article.

In August 2018, CNN also reported that President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was prepared to tell then-special counsel Robert Mueller that the president had advance knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting between his son, Donald Trump Jr. and a Russia lawyer, and others. Cohen’s spokesperson, Lanny Davis, later told CNN had “mixed up” its facts and denied claims that his client possessed any advance details of the gathering.

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  1. Those on the Left/Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, the “Fake News” mediums, etc. knowingly/purposely lie, lob false allegations, offer up farfetched/contrived “speculation”, misdirect, & utilize the “fake news” to spread rumors for the express purpose of “gaslighting”, causing chaos, ginning up fear/anger, fanning the flames of dissent, & inciting violence. “Fake News” mediums like CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, BuzzFeed, National Review, The Washington Post, social media platforms like Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc., late night hosts like Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, & the liberal left in Hollywood then purposely, exponentially increase/amplify & telegraph the anger, hatred, & violence of the Left, Progressives, Democrats, & their base against others across the nation/world by to divide, destabilize, & damage the nation, the President, & our citizens. This explains why they are viewed as the Enemies of the American People….

    SHOCKED by the blow-back, they proclaim their innocence while we all know that they are nothing but instigators with their incendiary/despicable reporting. They, like we, all learned in grade school that those who report the news must stick to the facts, “who, what, why, where & when”. Instead, they speculate, manipulate, contrive, edit audio/video, omit, & when all else fails, they fall back on their so called “anonymous sources”.,,

    Lacking even the slightest modicum of ethics, honor, & integrity, they are best described as intellectual contortionists, they bend/twist reality to fit a narrative of their own creation based on their own personal biases or that of their Elite masters, the Marxist Progressives and Demogogue Democrats …..

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