Ideas So Good You Have To Lie About Them

We've discussed the ways the media manipulates you: Deception, Double Standards and Selective Amplification. Last week, MSNBC broadcast a commentary that was a clear case of Media Deception.

The network invited analyst Dr. Jason Johnson on to the network to make the divisive - and false - claim that Republicans are pushing legislation across the country to "ban teaching [the] history of slavery," because lawmakers, parents and even educators across the country want to keep Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory out of classrooms. Kathleen digs into what the bills to ban Critical Race Theory actually look like.