The real battle for America isn’t one of bullets, but of stories. It’s a bitter contest between objective, verifiable truth and the emotionally convenient “personal truths”—whatever those are—that the left now treats as gospel. One side believes in a shared reality built on facts. The other champions the power of narrative, where a story’s political usefulness is far more important than its accuracy.

This is a dangerous game. Compelling personal anecdotes can be powerful tools for propaganda, especially when broadcast to millions without a shred of scrutiny. When fabricated, they become a poison designed to gin up resentment, validate a political agenda, and convince entire generations that America is a land of unrelenting evil. A recent, nationally televised spectacle provides a perfect, and frankly pathetic, example of this tactic in action.

From ‘Breitbart’:

“My mom would go, ‘Don’t look! Don’t look! Don’t look!’ and she’d pull us away, because there was someone hanging from a tree,” she said, eliciting gasps among audience members of The View. “They have a memorial for it now, where you can see where people were and left,” the Crime Story actress added. “It triggers me today, to see that a voice can be silenced.”

A Powerful Story Meets an Inconvenient Truth

A real tear-jerker. It’s a gut-wrenching account designed to horrify you and break your heart. There’s just one problem: it’s pure fiction. The studio audience gasped on cue, the hosts nodded with grave solemnity, and this toxic narrative was injected into the national bloodstream as fact. But the truth has a funny way of coming out, not from the supposed journalists on stage, but from regular citizens who still care about it.

X users, doing the job ABC News apparently won’t, quickly slapped a Community Note on the clip. It pointed out a few glaring holes in the story. The last recorded lynching in Ohio happened in 1911. Actress Pam Grier was born in 1949, nearly four decades later. Worse still, according to America’s Black Holocaust Museum, there has never been a recorded lynching in Columbus, Ohio, the city at the heart of her tale. Her story, emotionally manipulative as it was, simply never happened.

The Network’s Deafening Silence

Any outlet with a shred of journalistic integrity would have paused to vet such an explosive claim. But on the set of The View, there was only the sound of crickets. The panel of supposed truth-tellers didn’t challenge her. The producers didn’t intervene. Inside the Mouse House’s premier daytime propaganda slot, they just sat there, nodding along like bobbleheads on a dashboard while a lie that smeared an entire city and state went out to millions.

This wasn’t an oversight; it was a feature. The story was too good to check because it perfectly matched their pre-approved narrative of a wicked, racist America. Why let stubborn facts ruin a perfectly good moment of outrage? This is the modern media machine in a nutshell: not a purveyor of truth, but a curator of feelings. They have gladly abandoned journalism for activism, sacrificing reality at the altar of their radical ideology.

Fueling the Fires of Division

Don’t be mistaken. This wasn’t some simple slip-up. It’s a textbook play from the leftist handbook, designed to keep Americans at each other’s throats. By relentlessly promoting stories—real, exaggerated, or entirely fake—of American depravity, they work to demoralize the country and cultivate a permanent culture of grievance. Their goal is to convince minority communities that no real progress has ever been made, and that their neighbors are their enemies. This manufactured resentment is the fuel that powers their political engine.

The hosts of The View didn’t just passively allow a lie to be told; they were active accomplices. They offered the platform, the sympathetic nods, and the implicit stamp of approval. They knew this divisive fairy tale would spread like wildfire, inflaming the very racial tensions they pretend to lament. It is a cynical, destructive, and profoundly un-American game.

Of course, we must remember and learn from the real injustices of our past. But fabricating them is a despicable insult to the memory of actual victims and a poison to our national unity. The only way to fight back is to reject the emotional manipulation and demand the facts. It’s up to us to douse these fires with the cold, hard water of the truth.

Key Takeaways

• The corporate media prioritizes emotional narratives over factual reporting.
• Fabricated stories of victimhood are used as weapons to stoke racial division.
• The View proved it is a propaganda outlet, not a news program.
• Americans must demand truth to reject the left’s divisive media machine.

Sources: Breitbart