When gun owners recently organized a peaceful protest of extreme gun control proposals, an NBC News reporter called it a “white nationalist” rally.

When pro-life Catholic school students wore Make America Great Again hats on the National Mall last year and were accosted by a racist hate group and anti-Catholic con man Nathan Philips, the Washington Post smeared the students, reporting without any reliable sources or evidence that the group of students had taunted Philips and blocked his path. Other reporters and commentators gleefully piled on with their own lies.