Washington Post Resorts to Fake News to Politicize Tragedy

By NRAHQ

Opinion

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Last Monday, the Washington Post published an editorial about last Saturday’s heinous crime at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The piece was titled “We can stop this American carnage.” True to form, the Post blamed the event not on the actions of a hateful and manifestly evil individual but on a supposed need for more federal gun control.

The newspaper’s editorial board is certainly entitled to that opinion, wrong though it is. What they are not entitled to do by any decent standard of professionalism or integrity is to spread demonstrably false and misleading information in a fraudulent attempt to persuade readers.

Put another way, the Washington Post was propagating fake news to politicize tragedy and to encourage “voters … to send their own message” in the midterm elections by voting for anti-gun candidates.

Let’s start with the headline itself, particularly the notion that “[w]e can stop this … .” This suggests that enlightened thinkers already know how to “stop” mass shootings in the U.S. and that the failure to do so merely reflects a lack of action or will by those …Read the Rest

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