Milwauke County, WI Sheriff David Clarke agrees with Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson; blacks are being manipulated by the liberal mainstream media and its favored politicians into what to think and say instead of thinking for themselves.

It's a notion Clarke applauded during his appearance on Hannity on Fox News Wednesday evening:

Bravo, Dr. Carson. Of course he’s right. The mainstream media in America has abandoned their constitutional duty, really, to be a government watchdog and to be neutral in all of these things. And instead, they have become the propaganda wing, a lapdog, the public information office, for the Democrat Party; their liberal agenda and their leftist ideology.

Clarke continued, saying that black communities have never thrived under liberal control and in fact, their lives have only gotten worse:

Look, the mainstream media -- the liberal mainstream media -- refuses to tell and write the stories and the op-eds to inform blacks that after 60 years of enslavement under Democrat control, there lives have not gotten better. This liberal mainstream media continues, Sean, to not tell the story that under the first black president, the standard of living of blacks has not gotten better. Poverty has worsened, the schools have gotten worse. They can’t find meaningful work.

He added, “The fact is one of the roles of the mainstream media, the liberal mainstream media, is to demonize and vilify people like Dr. Carson, like Allen West, like Clarence Thomas; because their voices will resonate in the black community. And that is their biggest fear because blacks will open their eyes and bolt from the liberal plantation.”

"They're being lied to and it's a very intoxicating message," Clarke said. Though they are promised "handouts and free stuff," they are never delivered, Clarke added.

One population that Clarke says has favored better under Obama's watch is unions… but that's about it.

Clarke described the Democratic National Convention as a movement; one whose agenda is spread through the built-in medium of the mainstream media.