Lies of Omission

Shepard Smith, one of the most liberal commentators on Fox, “reported” on that tired, old, accusation made by Stormy Daniels that she had had sex with Donald Trump many years ago, long before he ever thought about running for president, and got a $300,000 “payoff” for her silence. Boy! That’s really an expensive prostitute! He reported that Trump’s lawyer, on his own, made that payoff, not mentioning the lawyer thought the charge was false, but could cause problems, anyway. Then he “reports” about that “send her home” chant at Trump’s latest rally, saying that is what Trump had said, when he demonstrably did NOT say anything of the kind. He advised them that, if they thought they could do better than him, they should go back to their home countries, solve all their problems, and then COME BACK and show us how they did it. IF they did it. But Smith left that out, repeating the “fake news” more often heard on other news outfits, but not nearly as often on Fox. The “Stormy Daniels “affair” is simply an extortion scheme that worked, and later she came back for more, and failed. (New York Times)