Timing. It’s all about timing.

And if you’re going to shoot me an email essentially asking why I sometimes accuse the mainstream media of manufacturing news perhaps you shouldn’t send it on a day when ABC had to take down footage of a firefight in Syria.

Because it was actually an old clip of a shooting range in Kentucky.

Honestly. You couldn’t make this stuff up. 

After using this to horrify viewers on Sunday night and again on Good Morning America, ABC removed the segment with this feeble apology:

Brass at ABC “regrets the error”? Sorry, not good enough. That looks more like a deliberate attempt to foist some explosive footage on a clueless public in an attempt to gin up outrage over the withdrawal of American troops from Syria. 

Here’s what ABC viewers were actually watching when the horrified talking heads were assuring them they were seeing carnage courtesy of President Trump: A Machine Gun Shoot at the Knob Creek Gun Range in appropriately named, Bullitt County, Kentucky.

Yep, a bunch of good ole boys at night shooting at “used appliances, abandoned vehicles and barrels of fuel with pyrotechnic charges attached...The charges are set off by the impact of the bullets, creating large mushroom clouds and fireballs from hell!”

How in God’s name did footage from Kentucky wind up on the nightly news at ABC? It would be nice if someone would elaborate. 

Oh, and that email? I won’t go into details, it was from someone who challenged me about a benign Tweet I sent months ago that apparently hurt the feelings of a newspaper journalist. The sender called me a “former journalist. ”

Uh, no.

I quickly pointed out that I am now a member of the free press who doesn’t answer to bedwetting editors and who also does her research before publishing.

Unlike some in the mainstream media, who can’t tell Kentucky from Syria.