How the Propaganda Is Done

CBS is calling the unfortunate shooting of Renee Good “murder” now, and Indivisible-sponsored anti-ICE protesters are producing videos purporting to show ICE officers behaving badly. (Indivisible is funded by Soros’ Open Societies Foundation and the Tides Foundation, among others.)

CBS News has made great strides under Bari Weiss, but clearly there remains work to be done. On Monday’s “CBS Evening News,” CBS reporter Nicole Sganga declared that the video released by DHS shows “the minutes leading up to the murder of Renee Good.” https://t.co/vtafErSwCk

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 13, 2026

Almost all these incidents are staged for propaganda purposes. Even the incident in which Good was killed was a staged photo-op gone wrong, which is why her wife and others were there on the sidelines filming from many different angles. 

Well, in Tennessee, these protesters were caught in a hoax. They released a video purporting to show the Tennessee Highway Patrol running down a protester. They released the video on Facebook and caused quite a stir. I haven’t found an embeddable version, so hit the link. 

The video has the caption: “Tennessee State Troopers aggressively hits safety marshal that was trying to protect peaceful protesters. At #ICEOutForGood” From the angle the video was taken it is all hard to make out, but it appears that the protester was knocked down by the vehicle. 

Only that is not what happened at all, and the State Troopers released the dashcam video to prove it. 

NEW: Tennessee Highway Patrol releases dashcam footage after protesters allegedly claimed a man was hit by a trooper’s vehicle.

The footage shows the man flopping after jumping in front of the car.

“In Memphis, there are social media posts alleging that an individual was hit by… pic.twitter.com/AfliYQHlMY

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 13, 2026

NEW: Tennessee Highway Patrol releases dashcam footage after protesters allegedly claimed a man was hit by a trooper’s vehicle.

The footage shows the man flopping after jumping in front of the car.

“In Memphis, there are social media posts alleging that an individual was hit by a Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper. This is false. Have a look for yourself,” THP posted on Facebook.

“We respect and protect the right of people to protest peacefully. That right, however, does not include entering active roadways or placing themselves in danger.”

“In this case, video clearly shows the individual holding onto the front of the trooper’s vehicle, lying down, then standing right back up afterwards and leaving the scene under his own power.”

“At no point does the video show the individual being run over or injured, despite the narratives circulating on social media.”

Notice the language they use: “safety marshal.” He literally jumped out in front of a moving car, grabbed the bumper, and disappeared while holding the bumper to make it look to observers like he was hit by the car. He only stayed down for a few seconds because the point was to create a viral clip without context to push out as propaganda aimed at credulous AWFLs. 

Of course, this is Tennessee, where the media is not so friendly to the protesters, and they pushed out the Highway Patrol’s video as soon as it appeared. 

The whole point of these confrontations, which are taking place all day, every day, all around the country, is to capture footage that makes law enforcement look bad. 

It is the same strategy as Pallywood, and that worked out quite well for Hamas propaganda, inflaming tensions around the world. There are millions of people primed to believe the worst. 

It’s all about The Narrative. There are websites that describe how to do this, such as Beautiful Trouble, that organize training sessions to maximize propaganda effects. Then, of course, there is the Antifa Handbook, which happens to be my Attorney General’s favorite. 

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— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) January 12, 2026

Liberals want to believe we are living in a fascist regime, and these paid actors—because that is what they are—are happy to create the dystopian Truman Show for them, and many in the media are happy to blast out their hoaxes. 

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and his administration’s bold leadership, the Left’s attempted radicalization of American culture has stalled – for now.

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