Articles: The Liberal Media War on Thomas Jefferson

By Don Fisher, Jr.

The Lying and Corrupt News Media never lets the truth get in the way of a good character assassination hit piece.

On Tuesday, March 7, the CBS Evening News, anchored by news reader Scott Pelly, continued the liberal lie that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with slave Sally Hemings.  Even though DNA evidence has proven that Jefferson was not the father of her children, it’s too salacious a story for the liberal media to leave alone.  In the CBS story, reporter Chip Reed claimed that the Jefferson/Hemings liaison is “…widely accepted by historians…,” which is just code for “we don’t have proof of this, but we want to run with it anyway.”

The Jefferson/Hemings lie is demonstrably false, but it has everything the dishonest media need.  Accusations of sexual impropriety against a powerful, beloved, white male: check.  Victimization of a poor, black, female slave: check. Innuendo and urban legends as proof: check.  With those boxes checked, they’re good to go.

This libelous accusation dates back to 1802 when discredited political journalist James T. Callender invented the preposterous notion that President Jefferson not only fathered many children with Hemings, but kept her as a concubine as well.  There was zero proof then, but that didn’t stop Callender or Jefferson’s other detractors from running with this salacious gossip.  Then, in 1998 when modern DNA proof cleared Thomas Jefferson, but pointed to his brother Randolph, the liberal news media recanted and apologized for spreading lies.  No, of course they didn’t.  I was just fooling with you.  Instead, they doubled down on it and spread the lie in an attempt to shape popular opinion into the provably false belief that Jefferson sired bastard children with one of his black slaves.

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Articles: The Liberal Media War on Thomas Jefferson