The Death of American News.

For years slightly nutty right-wing Americans have complained about a vast liberal conspiracy within the mainstream media. Recently though those paranoid ramblings have become a lot more credible.

The days, well these days the US media seems only capable of reporting on Donald Trump - nothing else. When they managed to break away from their obsession with Hillary Clinton's running mate for a few moments though they seem to be happy to just completely make things up.

A big area where this is a problem is the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The US media still insist on reporting on this as long oppressed Muslims rising up in popular revolt against dictatorial governments in both Syria and Iraq. In reality it is foreign invasion by Sunni Arab nations of Syria and Iraq in order to overthrow their Shia governments and destabilise the region.

The biggest symptom of the US' mis-reporting is the use of the term "ISIS." This means the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" but three quarters of the acronym is in English while the final quarter "Sham" is in Arabic. However the US media will often go so far to say that ISIS stands for the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria." This is an open and wanton lie intended to disguise ISIL's ideological purpose and avoid uncomfortable questions about why the US is supporting similar groups such as the Islamic Movement of the Freemen of the Levant (FML) under the guise of the 'moderate' opposition.

Then there is the civil war in Ukraine. According to the US media a popular revolution took place prompting Russia to invade to crush it. What actually happened is that Nazi groups like Svoboda violently overthrew Ukraine's elected government and announced they were going to cleanse the nation of the ethnically Russian minority. That minority then took up arms to defend themselves.

This complete detachment from reality has also become widespread in the reporting of domestic news within the US - particularly the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest movement. This began with the shooting of Micheal Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Almost universally the US media reported that Brown was shot in the back whilst holding his hands up in surrender. This coined the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" slogan.

However the reason why no-one was prosecuted over Brown's death is that this simply did not happen. All the witnesses to the shooting confirm that Brown was killed whilst charging at a police officer he'd attacked moments before in an attempt to escape after committing a robbery.  Despite this - more then a year later - the US media are still reporting this fictional story of an unarmed black man being brutally murdered.

Things really descended into farce in March 2015 when protesters - who the media constantly refer to as peaceful and unarmed - opened fire on police officers in Ferguson. Rather then admitting that they'd done this the protesters instead invented a wild conspiracy theory about a police sniper carrying out the shooting in an effort to smear the protesters. The US media - CNN in particular - pretty much just reported this conspiracy theory as fact.

I remember watching an hilarious report by Don Lemon in which he stood at the point where the shots had been fired from and declared that a 9mm pistol couldn't possibly hit a target at that range of around 100 yards/metres. He then went on to claim that some sort of specially made 9mm rifle must have been used. CNN repeated this story for like two days before someone finally dragged them down to a gun range and showed them a 9mm pistol repeatedly hitting a target at a distance of 100 yards/metres.

Despite this the nonsense reporting has just continued. For example in the recent Sam Dubose case the deceased is constantly referred to as "Unarmed." This is completely untrue because he was armed with a car - a weapon that is frequently used in what are termed "Run-over terror attacks."

Following the recent sharp exchanges between the US and pretty much the rest of the world over the war against ISIL as I was going to bed last night CNN's reporters looked pretty heartbroken as if the fictional world they'd created for themselves had been torn away from them.

It should come as little surprise then that today in Virgina, US two journalists were shot and killed by what is being described as a "disgruntled employee."

Unfortunately for those who are keen to rush to use this call for more gun control just before hand in Indianapolis a man went on a knife and car rampage. Now doubt though people will still continue to claim that Sam Dubose was "unarmed."

It should come as little surprise then that US President Obama is being referred too in Pennsylvania as the White House intruder that law enforcement would very much like to shoot.

16:40 on 26/8/15 (UK date).

Edited at around 11:15 on 27/8/15 (UK date) to add;

The perpetrator of yesterday's shooting who later took his own life has been identified as Vester Flanagan - an extremely angry black, gay man with a long history of inventing accusations of homophobia and racism. At one point he had to be disciplined for wearing an Obama campaign badge to work in violation of the rule that journalists have to be politically impartial.

As such the man who killed American journalism is equally a metaphor for Obama himself. After all the current widespread bias in the American media is clearly a result of the media's support for Obama.

Immediately following the shooting Flanagan faxed a 23 page manifesto to ABC News. In this he ranted extensively about racism in America and claimed that he was carrying out the shooting as a way to punish white people for the Charleston shooting. In short he saw his actions as part of a race war.

Unlike with the attack on two New York City (NYC) police officers with an axe back in October 2014 by an ISIL supporter, the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France in January 2015 or the Chattanooga attack in July 2015 Obama did acknowledge the Virginia attack giving not one but two in depth interviews to the media. In these interviews Obama called for more gun control claiming that more Americans are killed by gun violence then by terrorism.

The problem with this is that with a clear political agenda the Virginia shooting wasn't an example of gun violence but an example of domestic terrorism. As such Obama's comments are further evidence of the fact that with both ISIL and BLM Obama simply cannot recognise terrorism when it happens. This is a serious failing in a man who is charged with fighting and defeating terrorists.