Never Mind the Cat-Eating; the Damage to Small Town America is Very Real
Commentary
October 25, 2024
By Brian Lonergan
Americans have been told by their government and media that disinformation is all around them, and that is not entirely false. One of the corporate media’s favorite tactics for swaying public opinion is to isolate a small part of a story, claim to debunk it, and then to declare the larger point of the story also to be without merit.
We saw a glaring example of this recently with the story out of Springfield, Ohio. The town of less than 60,000 residents between Dayton and Columbus has been swamped over the last few years with more than 20,000 migrants from Haiti. At a townhall meeting in August, residents aired their grievances about the impact of the migrants on the town, including accounts that migrants were catching ducks and cats for the purpose of eating them.
The sensational claim was all the media needed to draw attention away from the larger issues surrounding the mass importation of migrants into small-town America. The usual gaggle of self-appointed fact-checkers announced there was “no evidence” to the claims, discounting the numerous testimonials of residents who said they had seen migrants with cats or ducks. Keep in mind this is the same media that promoted, with almost no scrutiny, the evidence-free testimony of one woman that a Supreme Court nominee with an impeccable reputation was actually a rapacious sex offender.
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