If you'll just pay close enough attention to what the mainstream media mouths you'll quickly realize that much of it is not only contradictory, but chucklesome. For instance, take its frequently used onion head anonymous sources, such as the so-called "top White House official" used by The Atlantic in its recent hit piece on FBI Director Kash Patel. According to this anonymous source, Patel is the next Trump Cabinet Official to go. However, as FBI Director, Patel is not a member of Trump's Cabinet, which one would certainly expect a real "top White House official" to have sense enough to know. 

Then, there is the mainstream media's salivating over the serious threat posed to international shipping by mighty Iran's little speedboats. According to Iranian state TV, which is about as trustworthy as a cat watching a fish tank, Iranian speedboats fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, seizing two and leaving the other stranded off the Iranian coast. Of course, our press immediately parroted this Iranian propaganda, despite the fact that the ship supposedly stranded on Iran's coast was safely docked at Khor Fakkan, in the United Arab Emirates. Still, in spite of the Strait of Hormuz being blockaded by the largest US armada of warships to be assembled in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iran, our mainstream media sketches Iran's little speedboats up to be a a formidable foe for our aircraft carriers and destroyers.

Fox News, which has certainly become unfair and unbalanced, thanks to reporters like its Chief National Security Correspondent, Jennifer Griffen, who bends over backwards to spin ever positive into a negative in her reporting on Pete Hegseth's Pentagon, couldn't help but join the rest of our mainstream media in needling and nudging us to bite our nails over Iran's nifty little speedboats. However, it's head anchorman, Bret Baier, got visibly hot under the collar last Thursday night, when General Jack Keane took him by the nap of the neck and scolded him, as well as Fox News, for making a mountain out of a molehill when it comes to Iran's speedboats. According to Keane, they are no match for the United States Navy, which now has standing orders from its Commander-in-Chief to blow them out of the water on sight.

You've undoubtedly heard the old adage, "Perception is reality." What we perceive to be true will have the same effect upon us as if it were true, regardless of whether it is or not. Our present-day propagandizing media is all about creating perceptions, not about reporting facts or truth. It no longer tries to inform us, so that we can make up our own minds about things, but to manipulate us, so that it can make up our minds for us. However, if you pay close enough attention, you can catch them in their contradictions, craziness, and craftiness.