No, you're not dreaming. Much of the mainstream media really did try to manufacture a hit on President Trump last night with misleading reports about a guy who killed himself by drinking aquarium cleaner.
The same media that shrieks about "deceptive editing" whenever an alternative media report or campaign ad makes Dems or their big donors look bad - well, they just kinda forgot to mention that the man who died drank aquarium cleaner instead of taking the medicine Trump talked up.
Headlines, Tweets, and lede paragraphs were carefully crafted to give the impression Trump killed the man by telling him to take a drug. You had to dig deep into the stories to learn what really happened. The man's hysterical wife was extensively quoted screaming curses at Trump.
Some outlets tossed in warnings about taking drugs without medical supervision to further obfuscate the fact that the dead man did not take medicine at all. Multiple major news orgs simultaneously did everything possible to consciously create a false impression about the story.
This wasn't just the usual garbage reporting where a bunch of reporters saw a wild story that fit their biases on Twitter and rapidly cranked out articles based on it. They all knew what the true story was - it's buried in all of their pieces.
I did not see a single mainstream media post about the phony story that mentioned anyone other than Trump who has discussed chloroquine as a possible treatment for the Wuhan virus. Almost every post worked Trump's name in.
It's heartening in a way - the Democrats and their media are clearly losing their minds over Trump's rising approval ratings during the coronavirus crisis. They're frantic and desperate. It's one of the reasons the Dems sabotaged the coronavirus aid bill. They need to bleed him.
It's a little ray of sunshine in a dark hour that Democrats and their media are so clearly worried America will come through the coronavirus crisis with a remarkable recovery and Trump will get credit for it. They're increasingly obsessed with preventing that outcome. /end
