The week’s news that wasn’t

Busing, banning, shooting and killing the most Obama-esque, anti-American, concealed and theatrical fakeries in the week’s fake news.

Prison buses, child cages and missing kids

The anti-Trump fake news peddling media – which means most of it – lost its collective hive mind this past weekend over one of the biggest contrived controversies of 2018.

The brouhaha erupted on social media – naturally — when a series of half-baked stories and photos congealed into a smarmy mess over the Trump Administration’s alleged mistreatment of illegal alien children captured at the border.

Since we know that Donald Trump is a raving racist – even though our college anthropology courses failed to categorize “Mexican” and “Muslim” as races – it’s only natural to believe that Trump, Jeff Sessions (a white supremacist, according to the fake media) and their minions would create prison buses for toddlers and lock children in cages that look like dog kennels  when they weren’t losing them to sex traffickers.  And that’s something the Barack Obama Administration would never do, right?

Best we can tell, the toddler prison bus photo first hit social media after being posted by a very gay looking anti-Trumper “social media correspondent” for KTRK-TV in Houston with the very Mexican-sounding name Antonio Arellano, who despite appearing to be about 12 years old has received the highly-coveted blue Twitter check mark making him “verified.” Which is simply shorthand for corporate media approved.

In the photo tweet which has since been taken down, Arellano included the text:

ICE’s largest family detention center, Karnes County Residential Center in Texas, run by GEO Group, has a prison bus just for babies.

Unfortunately for Arellano and the rest of the fake media, the photo was taken from a 2016 report by ICE contractor GEO group which converted the buses for ICE to take children detained at the Karnes County Residential Center on field trips. The children at the center are mostly unaccompanied minor illegals captured at the border who were being processed while ICE searched for family or foster homes for them. It was and is an Obama-era program.

The children-in-dog kennel photos were first posted to social media by former Obama speech writer Jon Favreau, apparently in response to Sessions’ announcement that the U.S. would refer “100 percent of illegal Southwest Border crossings to the Department of Justice for prosecution.”

In attempting to taint Trump and Sessions, Favreau tweeted a photo from a 2016 issue of AZCentral.com describing a holding facility as the southern border was being inundated with border-crossers responding to Obama’s promise for “Dreamer” status. So rather than zinging Trump, Favreau and the pile-on press and #NeverTrumper crowd managed to zing their dear leader with a photo from two years ago.

Favreau later deleted his tweet and issued a lame apology and excuse, and then transitioned into whataboutism and more attempts to taint Trump.

As for the 1,500 children the Trump Administration is alleged to have “lost,” once again we’re getting only half (or less) of the story.

The children weren’t “separated” from their parents, as the media claimed – though what is supposed to happen to children whose parents are imprisoned for breaking the law the media didn’t say. The children in question were more unaccompanied minors. And they had been placed with relatives and “sponsors” rather being locked in kennels. They’re only “missing” insofar as Health and Human Services has called the number they have for the sponsor or relative and the phone was not answered. It could mean anything… or nothing at all.

Trump wants to ban Mercedes-Benz because they’re foreign

A report from the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche claims that Trump is preparing to impose a total ban on German luxury car makers.

The report cites unnamed U.S. and European diplomatic sources and claims that Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron that his trade policy was aimed at stopping Mercedes-Benz cars from driving down the streets of New York.

The report is said to come on the heels of the launch of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Commerce into whether automobile imports “threaten to impair the national security” of the U.S.

That Mercedez-Benzes and BMWs come from Germany was a big surprise to thousands of Alabamians and South Carolinians who build them in plants in Vance, Alabama and Spartanburg, South Carolina, who I’m certain have always assumed they’re in American rather than Germany.

Good guy with a gun

One of the favorite tropes pushed by the gun-grabbers is that an armed citizen never stops a bad guy with a gun, so either gun-grabbers are liars or this is fake news.

Last week, a man was fatally shot by a bystander after he “opened fire” in an Oklahoma restaurant, leaving at least four people injured. Police say the gunfire erupted at about 6:30.

Two of the victims – a mother and daughter — were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. They were described as “innocent customers” at the restaurant celebrating a birthday.

One has to ask why the Oklahoma police would lie about something like that. They wouldn’t, of course, but the gun grabbers make their claim that this never happens despite reports that it happens thousands of times a year.

Journalist fakes his own death

In a story reminiscent of a spy thriller, an anti-Kremlin Russian journalist faked his own murder in a plot designed to ferret out those behind an alleged scheme to murder him in Ukraine.

According to Fox News, Arkady Babchenko, 41, told reporters at a news conference in Kiev he used a makeup artist and pig blood to make it look like he had been shot, and was taken to a morgue in an ambulance. He then changed clothes and watched reports of his “violent” death on television, according to Sky News.

Babchenko said that he could have refused when Ukrainian officials approached him with the idea for the ruse about a month ago, but he acted on his own volition.

“Everyone who says this undermines trusts in journalists: What would you do in my place, if they came to you and said there is a hit out on you?” he said Thursday.

The fake murder was complete with a photo of Babchenko lying face-down in a pool of blood and a police release of a sketch of the “killer.”

Babchenko, who bears a striking resemblance to singer Phil Collins, said that he felt he had to act on the Ukranian government’s plan because he feared for his life.  According to Reuters:

Babchenko, who said he was exhausted after playing out the elaborate ruse, said that when Ukrainian security officials had approached him with information about a Russian plot to kill him, “my first reaction was: ‘To hell with you, I want to pack a bag and disappear to the North Pole.’”

“But then I realized, where do you hide? [Sergie] Skripal also tried to hide.”

British authorities say that Skripal, a former Russian double agent, was poisoned in March with a military-grade nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury where he lived after leaving Russia in a spy swap.

Britain says Russia is culpable for the poisoning, an allegation Moscow denies.

Except that Skripal didn’t try to hide.  He was living in plain sight in England where the Russians let him go when they released him from prison. And despite England’s claims that Russia tried to kill Skripal with the deadliest nerve agent known to man, it’s provided no evidence and both Skripal and his daughter made a full and complete recovery.

More than likely the alleged Babchenko assassination plot is as phony as the Skripal assassination plot, and both are designed to cast Putin in a bad light and create a justification for more anti-Russia nonsense from the war crowd.

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