Washington Post Secretary of the Interior Haaland "I Feel Your Pain" Emmett Till Article -- What the WaPo Left Out (More Lies of Omission)

 

Opinion: Black and Native people are kindred spirits in adversity. Deb Haaland understands that.

By Jonathan Capehart Columnist  18 February 2022

Jonathan Capehart is a member of the Washington Post Editorial Board, writes about politics and social issues

“So it wasn’t a surprise to watch tears well this week for Haaland, now the interior secretary, as she stood outside the Mississippi courthouse that once set free the murderers of Emmett Till. For Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, visiting these sites doesn’t just mean remembering the injustice inflicted upon Black people; it means walking the ancestral lands that were home to Indigenous people long before the slave ships came…. She knows
what it means to come from people who experienced prejudice and violence”

Read the whole Washington Post article at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/18/deb-haaland-emmett-till-sites/

This is just a snippet of the article but what is interesting is that Capehart writes this entire article about how Secretary Haaland “feels the pain of oppression” without once mentions her life story growing up as the daughter of a highly decorated United States Marine Corps Field Grade Officer of Norwegian ancestry living on or near Military bases all of the country and even attended 13 different schools.  She never got near an Indian Reservation until she was nearly grown and even than she never lived “on” one. When her father finally retired after his 30 year Marine Corps career, the family settled down in an affluent neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico, home of the sprawling Kirkland Air Force Base so the family could avail themselves of all the amenities the base could offer, e.g. Base Exchange, Commissary, excellent medical facilities and recreational opportunities.

I would also mention that when President Biden appointed Representative Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary she had very little executive experience and can’t be very bright as she spent three years in law school and graduated but couldn’t even pass the NM Bar exam. Then again, this was the norm for most of Biden’s Cabinet appointees. See:

https://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-open-letter-to-my-senators-opposing.html

 

There are Lies of Commission involving generating false information and Lies of Omission involving leaving out pertinent information. With WaPo commission is also when they state opinions as fact and acts of omission where they omit facts that might not support their desired narrative. WaPo Liberal propagandists masquerading as “columnists” or “reporters” or “journalists” are masters at both techniques but this article is an excellent example of Capehart’s expertise in lying by omission.

 

Of course the Washington Post has a special way of dealing with commenters that continually call attention to their lies and correcting their attempts to plant “Fake News” and that is to ban them from commenting like this:

 

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Then when you “contact the WaPo community team,” here is the response you get:

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The WaPo Tagline used to be: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”

The new one expands the Tagline to confess to what they really mean: “Democracy Dies in Darkness and the WaPo Is Turning Out the Lights”