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The News Media Is Apparently Determined To Provoke a Real Insurrection
If Trump Wins In November: Is There Any Way To Stop Them?
JANUARY 16, 2024 / JACK MARSHALL
No.
Not that I can see.
Maybe it’s not their intent. Maybe bias has made 95% of all journalists
so stupid that they don’t realize what they are doing, or how unethical
and irresponsible it is. But doing it they are.
Yesterday was the metaphorical coin dropping. Even though it should have
been obvious that Trump, a former President whose single term looks like
the “Shining City on a Hill” from the perspective of the current Biden presidency ethics train wreck, would win in a walk over the wan GOP
competition in Iowa, Trump-Deranged commentators acted as if the
Hindenburg was blowing up before their eyes. So desperate were they to
see some progress in their endless “Get Trump!” pursuit that they told readers and viewers that Nikky Haley was a rising star in the weeks
before the caucuses, hoping her candidacy would catch fire. Then, as
devoted practitioners of old-fashioned democracy were trudging to their meetings during some of the worst winter weather Iowa has seen in years,
most national news organizations projected former President Trump as the runaway winner before many Iowa caucus sites even even had ballots to
tally. Nice.
Now that’s the way to suppress Trump votes.
Hanlon’s Razor tells us this was stupidity rather than malice, but some conservative sites called the strange goings on “election interference,” and why wouldn’t they? Some polls indicated that a majority of GOP
caucus participants believe that Joe Biden wasn’t legitimately elected,
and the news media hammered on this “baseless” belief. Message:
Republicans are morons. No, Republicans witnessed the Russian collusion
hoax, the two contrived impeachments, the steady anti-Trump Big lies
every day in the Post, the Times and CNN, the nicely-timed national
shutdown that wrecked Trump’s economy, the Hunter Biden cover-up, the
sudden transition to voting methods that minimized election integrity,
and they have some justifiable suspicions.
As do I.
The narrative is now official: Trump is an existential danger to
democracy, an aspiring dictator and an orange Hitler. No balanced
coverage is in the offing: the news media, incredibly, is more openly
allied to the Democrats and united against Trump than ever before, which
is amazing. The objective is to terrify as many Americans as possible,
so they will be panicked and desperate if and when the Republicans win
the White House.
Last night, when Trump’s unsurprising victory was a matter of record and
the MSM knew there would be no upset, Rachel Maddow led a united
anti-Trump panel in doom-saying while refusing to say Trump’s name like
he was Voldemort. “I don’t mean to be again, too dark as you said on
this, but if we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this
country, we are worried about potential rise of fascism in this
country,” shesaid, looking as if she was about to sob. “If we’re worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist
form of government. The leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation… Is a much bigger part of that equation.”
Both CNN and MSMBC refused to show all of Trump’s victory speech while broadcasting the concession speeches of his competition. This is
unprecedented: a former U.S. President, in an election year, had his
speech censored. Yeah, sure he’ll be fairly covered in the upcoming
campaign. Maddow explained the embargo with the ironic and hilarious
statement, “It’s not out of spite, not a decision that we relish, it is
a decision that we regularly revisit and, honestly, honestly, it is not
an easy decision. There is a cost to us as a news organization of
knowingly broadcasting untrue things.” MSNBC broadcasts “untrue things” approximately every 30 seconds! Over at CNN, Jake Tapper pulled the plug
on Trump when he started talking about Biden’s open border crisis. “Here
he is, right now, under my voice. You can hear him repeating his
anti-immigrant rhetoric,” he lied. Trump was speaking about illegal immigration, not immigrants.
This is the kind of “journalism” the news media is offering now, and it will only get worse. Much worse.
Over at the New York Times, the paper made it crystal clear what its
mission is. In a somber, wildly dishonest editorial titled, “The Responsibility of Republican Voters,” the paper’s editors intoned that
GOP voters have an “essential responsibility: to nominate a candidate
who is fit to serve as president, one who will “preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States.”
You know, like their candidate, Joe Biden, of whose party’s recent
conduct Victor Hansen Davis wrote yesterday, “At each juncture of these extra-legal efforts, past precedents, former customs, and accepted
traditions are being destroyed by the Left, whose endless miscarriages
of justice are the real threats to constitutional government. And the
more impotent these serial and unending gambits become, the more
strident and desperate they appear.”
In fairness, I agree that the most responsible course for the Republican
Party to follow would be to nominate someone, anyone, to carry its
standard other than Donald Trump. But the despicable and frequently totalitarian tactics of his political foes even make me guiltily eager
to see him prevail. The Times editorial was more fuel for that emotional position. It called January 6th, 2021 an “insurrection,” signature significance in my estimation for fools or liars. It actually quoted
Trump’s “day one” joke as a serious admission that he plans on being a “dictator”!
The editors cite the charges facing Trump as if there were no political
agenda behind these prosecutions. (Hanson: “In truth, each succeeding
cycle of corrupt leftwing lawfare that ends in failure—the Russian
collusion hoax, the weaponized first impeachment, trying ex-president
Trump in the Senate as a private citizen, the laptop disinformation
set-up, the Alfa bank ping caper, the pathetic attempt to erase Trump
from state ballots, and the unfolding Fani Willis moral debacle—does not return things to zero. Rather, they serve as force multipliers for each
other. Each overreach geometrically increases the dangers to democracy,
ever more turns the public off, and ironically cascades sympathy and
poll numbers for the very target of their paranoias. Some of the
prosecutors have colluded with White House lawyers and congressional
liaisons. Some had run for office, offering campaign promises to get
Trump convicted for something or other. Now, after years of delays and deadends, all four are rushing to synchronize their trial dates to
ensure that the front-running Trump is on the docket daily and not out
on the 2024 campaign trail.”)
Turning the freakout over to its stable of race-baiters, socialists,
Stockholm Syndrome-suffering former conservatives, Democrat operatives
and leftist hacks, the Times presented a series of “Trump is evil and
his supporters are idiots, cultists and fascist” columns. Here’s how Jamele Bouie views Trump’s supporters:
“We frequently hear that Donald Trump represents a large and significant number of Americans, each attracted to him for several different
reasons, none of which are that mysterious. There are supporters
attracted to his doctrinaire commitment to social conservatism, even if
he himself is a libertine. There are supporters attracted to his
belligerent hostility toward a broad variety of perceived cultural
enemies. There are supporters attracted to his open cruelty toward and
contempt for various racial and religious “others.” And there are supporters who simply think he’ll get them a good “deal” in foreign and domestic affairs — whatever that actually means.”
That’s odd: none of the reluctant Trump supporters I know are likely to
vote for Trump for any of those reasons. They support him because
despite all the fear-mongering by the media, no wars started on his
watch. He took great strides to making the U.S. energy independent; he
worked to reverse the Democrat open-borders insanity; he reduced
regulations; he killed many of the worst of Obama’s fiascos (like the violation of due process principles for students accused of sexual
harassment), and he managed to create a healthy economy until the
pandemic destroyed it, all while having to battle a concerted effort by
the Axis of Unethical Conduct (“the resistance,” Democrats and the MSM)
to cripple his Presidency. They might vote for him because, as in 2016, electing Trump sends the strongest message possible that a large segment
of America does not support enforced wokism, school indoctrination,
anti-white racism, the stealth transformation of the U.S. into a
Europe-style nanny state, and, perhaps especially, a rejection of
exactly the kind of creeping fascism…
… that the Times wants to convince readers that Trump represents.
Yesterday made it clear that there will be no fair reporting of the 2024 campaign, that most of the news media will do its best to lie, spin and frighten voters into supporting the failed Democratic President to such
an extent that a Trump victory is likely to spark rioting across the
country that will make the George Floyd riots seem like a Cure Breast
Cancer Walk-a-Thon.
And I have no clue about what can be done about it.
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