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Pallywood Has Been Replaced by Minnewood – HotAir

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How Is This Not an Insurrection? – PJ Media

If I believed the lies the Pravda Media and the Democrats were selling I, too, would be outraged about what is happening in Minneapolis. 

I don’t disbelieve them merely because they are the liberal media and proven liars. (Sharp as a tack, anyone?) I disbelieve them because I have actually seen not just the “evidence” they choose to show and the pundits they allow to spew their lies; I do my best to see it all, and just as happened in Gaza, what is being presented is a carefully curated version of reality. 





Or often, not reality at all. We are seeing the “fine people” hoax, the Jussie Smollett hoax, and the Covington Kids hoax repeated a thousand times. And no matter how many times these hoaxes are debunked, the next one generates the same outrage in the usual suspects because they are primed to believe the worst of anybody they dislike. 

One of the most recent and notorious of the hoaxes is the so-called “bait boy” hoax. By now you know the story: ICE detained a 5-year-old boy to use as bait to force his father to turn himself in. It is a story designed to inflame your emotions, confirm that Trump’s Gestapo is just one step away from gassing the illegal immigrants, and prime you to believe that tales of ICE or Border Patrol agents casually assassinating people in the streets. 





The Bait Boy story is a classic case of what I am dubbing Minnewood, the successor to Pallywood, even though the same tactics are being used throughout the country. Minneapolis is ground zero, and in a city that envies more famous ones (when I moved here, they sold mugs calling it the “Minne-apple”), it makes sense to give them a comparison to Hollywood. 

Below is my column in The Hill on the false “bait boy” story that went viral last week, the latest concoction of the left and an enabling media. It was an all-too-familiar pattern. Even after it was debunked, Gov. Tim Walz was still raising it late last week to paint ICE as soulless, depraved thugs. It simply does not matter that it is untrue in our post-truth political environment.

Here is the opinion:

“I am outraged, and you should be too.” That message from former Vice President Kamala Harris has been a virtual mantra of the Democratic Party for years. For several months, this has meant decrying the imminent death of democracy and our descent into authoritarianism. Now, it means falsely claiming that ICE “kidnapped” or “arrested” a five-year-old boy and used him as “bait” to catch someone.

The “bait boy” story is actually the latest clickbait hoax in our “Age of Rage.”

Five years ago, Harris was expressing the same call for outrage over the false story of Border agents whipping migrants in Texas. She expressed disgust over the “horrible and deeply troubling” scenes reminiscent of the slave period.

It quickly became a pile-on, with the media spreading the false account. Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) described the incident as “worse than what we witnessed in slavery” and “white supremacist behavior.”

President Biden threw the agents under the bus, publicly expressing disgust over their conduct and promising punishment before any investigation had occurred: “It was horrible what to see, as you saw — to see people treated like they did: horses nearly running them over and people being strapped. It’s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay.”

The media continued to repeat the false account, even as many of us pointed out that the publicly available video showed the story was demonstrably untrue. It did not matter. It fit the narrative on the left, and the agents were left under investigation for more than a year before being cleared of the “whipping” charges.

After the false story was exposed, the media just shrugged and went on to the next gotcha story.





The casualness with which lies are told is only possible with the complicity of the media. You probably recall the media frenzy surrounding the Covington Kids or Jussiee Smollett, but you may not recall how many days and weeks were spent pounding the false version of those stories. We are occasionally referring to the “fine people” hoax because it stuck. 

As for this new hoax, Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) declared the incident to be “the worst of the damn worst” in a video on X. Craig, a candidate for Senate, accused federal officers of taking the boy to “use him to lure his father out.”

That is false. According to reports, the father was spotted in public and fled, abandoning the boy. Like Harris, Craig reminded citizens that “this is a time where we should all be outraged. If this doesn’t pierce through your humanity, as a Republican member of Congress, if you can’t speak out about this, then you’ve got no humanity left.”

The key, again, is the requisite outrage. If you are not outraged, you are not human.

Big lies work. 





The irony of the “Bait Boy” story is that it was his FATHER who abandoned HIM, knowing full well that ICE would take care of him. Suburban moms are more afraid of ICE than actual illegal aliens because they know better. 

In this case, ICE officers were trying to detain Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, an undocumented Ecuadorian national, when he bolted and left behind his five-year-old child, Liam Conejo Ramos.

Rather than leave the child in the freezing cold on the street, the officers took the child to his home to get his mother to take him in. She refused to open the door despite agents reportedly saying that she would not be detained. They proceeded to take the boy to McDonald’s, play his favorite music, and take care of him. He was never arrested. They also did not send him into detention. According to ICE, his father asked for the boy to be allowed to stay with him at a detention facility, and ICE agreed.

But none of that matters in the propaganda war. Repeat “Gestapo” enough, and the outrage meter is pegged. People see what they want to see, and they want to be angry at Bad Orange Man and MAGA. Defund the Police has turned into Defund ICE, and the Democrats are talking about shutting down the government to defund ICE. 





Amazing. 

The whole point of the assaults on ICE is to generate clickbait. Clips taken out of context that make ICE look bad, happily spread by a media that wants the story. They don’t challenge lies and are willing to amplify them if they fit The Narrative™.

A bald-faced lie told, and the response? “I am not going to dispute your saying what happened.”

Have you ever heard a reporter not take every chance to challenge a Republican? But a communist agitator—spew whatever lie you like on our airwaves. 

We see hoaxes every day, yet somehow the credibility of the hoaxers is never challenged. That’s because the media, for the most part, likes the hoaxes. 





It’s easy to tell lies when nobody calls you out on it. Even easier when the media is in on it with you. 


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