China has released their much trumpeted report on human rights within the United States. It reads like a nightly broadcast from CNN during the Trump Presidency. In fact some of the material used in its pages came right out of that network:

An article published by CNN on May 9, 2020 called the U.S. response to the pandemic “consistently inconsistent,” and noted that there were no national guidelines and no organized efforts to reopen the country beyond what measures states had taken. The article also said that in terms of pandemic control and prevention, public health officials say one thing while governors say another and the national leader says something else entirely.

And another example:

According to a report of CNN on Sept. 30, 2020, in the 2020 fiscal year, 21 people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, which was more than double the number of deaths in the fiscal year 2019 and marked the highest annual death toll since 2005.

These reports may be technically true, but as usual they limit the context around the stories so that it delivers that maximum partisan impact. In the case of the first story, the federal government has limited authority to tell states to do anything. That is the idea behind federalism. In the second, they fail to mention that this was during the pandemic. Deaths attributed to the virus were the norm, even if it wasn’t really the cause.

Here is another great example of completely biased hype that was pulled directly from supposed journalists:

 There were at least 117 cases of journalists being arrested or detained while on the job covering anti-racism protests in the United States in 2020, a 1,200-percent increase from the figure in 2019. The Guardian reported on its website on June 5, 2020 that, reporters were beaten, pepper-sprayed and arrested by police in numbers never before documented in the United States.

Included in these numbers are the Antifa members who taped the word “Press” on their vests so they could try and evade arrest. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. But it sure makes for a good blunt force weapon to hammer at the US with.

And lets not forget the grand daddy of them all. This is even mentioned in the foreword to the report. Its the “I can’t breathe” line that has been trumpeted around the world. That pretty much sums up the whole thing as an out of context propaganda tool to embarrass the United States.

The press took those three words and propped up an entire movement. Even though George Floyd was high on multiple substances at the time, and likely fatally so. The truth is not what they are peddling though.

I shouldn’t be disappointed. The press has largely been bought by the Chinese. So, of course they will do their bidding and pump out useful agitprop for the communists. I would hope that they feel at least a little shame.