The Press Is Public Enemy No. 1 bit.ly/2RNWGHA
Why do Americans entertain the press as safekeepers of democracy? We are not a democracy, nor is such deep trust in the press warranted by history.
When George Washington sat at the head of the table at the Constitutional Convention, he allowed no daily briefing of the press and forbade notes to leave the room. Washington, like President Trump, did not take kindly to leakers.
Washington knew that if the public heard the details of debates and disputes at the convention day in and day out, filtered through the back and forth of partisan press (which, for its faults, was at least honest about its partisanship—unlike today’s “objective” journalists)
— the people might well be excited into losing hope in legitimate political processes. The father of our country had little confidence in the power of the press to inform the people properly.
Members of the excitable press, who insist that Americans thank them like soldiers “for their service because they devote themselves to protecting our freedoms,” went into hysterics over the “devices” that they insisted on calling “bombs.”
Sure, they were “missing a crucial component for a functioning explosive device,” but you say “tomato,” they say “bomb.”
Never ones to let an opportunity to politicize a crisis or take shots at Trump go to waste, the whole of the establishment media (including the effeminate wing of Fox News, Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace) made the bombathan appear to be a national emergency.
Many people scratched their heads at the rhetoric. The media has lauded Antifa, which has been inciting and engaging in political violence since Trump was elected. Now all of a sudden, the nation had a crisis of “right-wing terrorism.” It was strange to see.
The press blames the president for his “attacks” on them, only to turn around and run headlines such as: “Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.”
Of course, questioning the narrative of the “bombathon” only made the managers of public opinion livid. So much so, that they couldn’t even keep their attacks on the president coordinated.
“There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media,” said CNN President Jeff Zucker on October 24.
“I didn’t hear one CNN employee on TV or privately accuse anyone other than the bombers of being responsible for the devices. Not one,” said CNN’s @JakeTapper on October 25. Is Tapper a liar or an ignoramus? The two, perhaps, are not mutually exclusive.
Then some 200 journalists signed a letter condemning what they perceived as the president’s attacks on the media, accusing Trump of inciting violence against the press.
Trump, they say, should “claim personal responsibility” for these “bombs,” though these signatories were conspicuously silent when a Bernie Sanders supporter attempted to kill Republican congressmen in Northern Virginia last year.
The press has used the event exactly as it would have used a false-flag operation: to advance a narrative, to demonize their enemies, and to call for retribution against a straight white male president who refuses to be cowed by them.
They are banking on the incident and subsequent skirmishes between the president and insignificant members of the “objective journalism profession” to shift popular opinion. And it’s worked.
Meantime, the press continues to whitewash and cover for left-wing political terrorism. The violent black-clad leftists of our time seek “peace through violence,” we are reliably informed by CNN.
CNN’s @ChrisCuomo has gone on the record to defend Antifa, claiming that though the are perhaps too excited when they viciously maul police officers and bystanders, “fighting hate is right,” and “those who oppose it are on the side of right.”
In other words, Cuomo excuses the political terrorism of leftists, because they are aligned with his preferred ideology.
.@DonLemon, arguably CNN’s biggest stooge, has also defended violent leftists for being on the side of “right.” While “no organization is perfect,” said Lemon, what matters most is that Antifa is “fighting racist fascists.”
If Lemon has made it his “obligation as a journalist” to call President Trump, and by extension his supporters, racist, and if he condones political terrorism by Antifa toward “racist fascists,” is this not something like the press inciting violence from the left?
Consider that in a typical presidential election, Washington correspondents vote 93–7 percent for the Democrat, while the rest of America votes somewhere around 50–50, according to Timothy Groseclose of George Mason University.
The reason that we will never hear our moral superiors in the press condemn Maxine Waters, Tim Kaine, Keith Ellison, or Eric Holder for their endorsements of political violence, then, is that they do not see it as political violence.
In their view, it’s self-defense against those who threaten their ideology.
Now, I’m not saying that president’s critics deserved to receive “suspicious packages,” but I am saying that no one group has done more to promote political terrorism, and excuse it, in this country than the Left—and they should be reminded of that, good and hard.
The fault for the number of incidents of political violence, as well as the number of people actually killed (Charlottesville included), can be attributed disproportionately to the Left. Moreover, the Left has consistently shown little remorse for hatred and pain they’ve sown.
Why should any American care what the leftists of the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, et. al., have to say?
These people have made fortunes polarizing the country and promoting the destruction of our civilization.
These people have made fortunes polarizing the country and promoting the destruction of our civilization.
Political terrorism is a means to an end for the Left. We must not forget that as “they turned the Dems and other leftist recipients into pretend-victims and really victimized Trump/ GOP on the eve of important elections by imputing to them responsibility for political violence.”
We must not be cowed into silence by the revolutionists waving the bloody shirt that they, not we, have soaked.
