It’s even worse than that. Abby Phillips, the openly biased and incompetent host of CNN’s “NewsNight,”repeated the dishonest Axis media spin that the ISIS attack against a group of protesters outside Gracie Mansion was against NYC’s Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani last night.
ABBY PHILLIP: Up next, two Republicans say Muslims don’t belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing, really, to condemn those comments.
This lie, as discussed in the earlier EA post,had been debunked far and wide by that time, but never mind! It was apparently too good a Big Lie for a dedicated Axis propagandist like Phillip to surrender. Nobody spoke up on CNN (of course not!) to correct her, but enough abuse was heaped on Phillip that she issued a foxy “correction”…
Not “specifically” targeting the Muslim mayor, Abbe, you irredeemable hack?
Ethics Alarms 
Actually, I don’t think these “news” people are smart enough to concoct a conspiracy. I think they lie simply because they don’t care whether what they say is true or not (like an AI). What they say just has to fill air time between commercials. If they say something startlingly ignorant and incorrect, well, they got another moment of attention from the audience, didn’t they. That’s a point for them.
But Chuck, the “mistakes” always fall in the same direction.
I didn’t mean to imply that they were unbiased; that much is obvious. I’m just claiming that they aren’t coordinated and intentional about expressing biased opinions.
These are deliberate efforts to confuse and mislead a public that is ill-informed and incapable of following complex events in order to achieve an hidden agenda. Yet even that fact, and it is a fact, can’t penetrate the fog or deception coming from a sector that we have been told all our lives not only that we can trust, but that we must rely upon to allow our nation’s democratic principles to be more than empty aspirations.
In the widest and most consequential sense, in dismantling and exposing “lies” were the object of anyone, and certainly of any corporation-aligned media organization, the entire focus of Americans in every sphere of life would necessarily be completely different.
Correct me please if I am wrong, but the following seems to me a sensible statement about as to how an ‘average person’ must understand the nature and intentions of the present environment of narrative control:
[Andrew Torba wrote:] Governments, political campaigns, intelligence services, marketing firms, activist groups, and media organizations all understand the same brutal truth of the internet age: if you control the narrative online, you control how millions of people interpret reality.
Brad Parscale, Trump’s former digital guru, isn’t just consulting for Israel; he’s commanding a multi-million dollar digital mercenary army. They are seeding the training data of large language models—the “brains” that increasingly define reality for the AI—with deliberately crafted pro-Israel propaganda. They want to ensure that when your child asks an AI about this war or about Israel, the machine doesn’t just answer, it evangelizes for the “official story.”
Influencer campaigns. Coordinated messaging. Targeted advertising. Bot networks. Algorithmically amplified outrage. Manufactured consensus. Entire armies of accounts pushing identical framing across every major platform. This is psychological warfare.
If I consider such a statement as making sense and seeming to be true, have I fallen into interpretive error? Am I seeing things wrong or paranoiacally? It is your civic duty to set me on the right track. Please do so. I will be eternally grateful to have it outlined: 1) what is the right view to have, and 2) what method of analysis is to be used?
This type of obvious lie is required and has its intended effect. The true believers believe it. They never see the correction and they don’t believe the people who refute it. The people who know it isn’t true spend all their time refuting the false reporting, not about why there was a protest against the Islamification of NYC.
So, why are they protesting? Muslims in NYC are now staging mass prayers in public. NYC blocks off a street every Friday for Muslim prayer. Times Square is blocked off on Fridays during Ramadan. They do this in England as well. They will surround a church and ‘pray’, blocking the Christian church. They pray in the streets and block traffic. They pray at Westminster Abbey, they block the streets and pray outside Downing Street Why don’t they pray in their Mosques? It is about control. In the UK, you can be arrested for preaching in pubic if you are a Christian. They even arrested a woman for silently praying after a complaint. But Muslims can block traffic 5 times/day, broadcast prayer 5 times/day and it is fine. England is even removing their former leaders, like Winston Churchill from their currency because it offends Muslims.
In NYC City Hall, even non-Muslim employees are fasting during Ramadan because Ramadan is being observed in City Hall. Mandami is going to the different departments and having all the top brass participate in Islamic supplication rituals to celebrate Ramadan. They pray to Allah, wipe their hands on their faces, the eat the Ramadan meal. Sanitation, Police, Fire, etc. In addition, Mandami has invoked the Hijira, when the Muslims left Mecca and conquered Medina as the model for immigration policy in NYC. Imagine if a Christian NYC mayor had all the heads of departments, Jewish and Muslim included, go to a sunrise service for Easter. Imagine if he invoked the 1st Crusade or the Inquisition as a model for how to approach Islam.
“This type of obvious lie is required and has its intended effect. The true believers believe it. They never see the correction and they don’t believe the people who refute it.”
This is correct. They know they can get away with it, too. True Believers will not believe the correction even if they do see it. They will argue that CNN is “caving” to Trump and/or his followers.
Michael, this stuff is really happening in New York? Caramba! How did so many Muslims get into the metropolitan area? Where are they from?
Sharp as a tack… Which end of the tack?