Media

The left is having a very hard time accommodating the reality of a conservative electoral sweep and a national tilt to the right. To put it in mental health diagnostic terms that leftists would understand, they appear to have an “adjustment disorder”; that is, they’re having great difficulty adjusting to a new political world. 

It’s been decades since being a newsman or reporter was a working class job, and it shows. Today’s TV “personalities” are as removed from the concerns of the average American as it is possible to be. More than half the country voted for Donald Trump, and the majority is aligned with several of Trump’s policies on expelling illegal aliens and having the government recognize the reality that there are only two sexes. 

You’d never know it to watch mainstream news coverage on NBC, CNN, NPR, or in the pages of the New York Times and the like. The writers and on-camera personalities are not only at odds with majority American opinion, they don’t even seem to be aware that they are. Take someone like CBS anchor Margaret Brennan, who has repeatedly disgraced herself with her hostile, mean-girl demeanor and scoffing at Donald Trump and JD Vance. Her latest move was to react to Vance’s address to a meeting of European leaders—Vance took them to task for surveilling and punishing the speech of their own citizens—by claiming that “free speech” allowed the Nazis to perpetrate the Holocaust. 

Or, take CNN’s Brianna Keilar, who seems to be personally offended on behalf of the numerous federal staffers that Trump has fired as duplicative, incompetent, or obstructive to his agenda. Like most on the left, Keilar seems to be unclear on the fact that a boss has the right to hire and fire subordinates. She seems to want to suggest that Elon Musk, Trump’s pick to head the Department of Government Effiency (DOGE), is somehow out of control, or acting in a way he’s. . .not supposed to? 

Her guest, Stephen Miller takes the nonsense right apart on the air. As if he were instructing a schoolchild taking her first civics lesson, Miller calmly explains, “The way that Article II (of the Constitution) works is that a president wins an election, and then he appoints staff . . .and those staff report to him.”

Undeterred, Keilar keeps going, asking, “Does Elon Musk know he’s not in charge of DOGE?” It’s the kind of disingenuous fakery the Democrats resort to constantly now as they refuse to engage on substance. Miller comes right back: “Again, the president runs the government, and the president appoints advisors. . .and then those staff in turn execute the president’s commands and directions to all the agencies of the federal government.”

Take a look at the video highlighted by Collin Rugg to watch Keilar try to tamp down her frustration as Miller placidly smiles. 

Keilar is staring daggers at Miller as he says, “This is how democracy works, something that we treasure in America.”

X/Twitter users picked up on what was going on: 

Graeme was delighted with the primary-school lesson delivery: 

Alan noted how strange it was for a national news anchor to seem “confused” about the president’s ability to fire federal staff. 

CNN commentator Ashley Allison accused the network and former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden of racial and gender discrimination while defending Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Allison made the outlandish claim while debating Scott Jennings, who supported President Trump’s decision to scrap the policy.

Allison said that as a “black woman in this country,” she does “not have the same opportunity” as the other panelists.

“I do not have the same opportunity as you. I know I don’t. And you know that too,” Allison said.

“I’m not talking about how you feel. I’m talking about how I feel, me, a black woman in this country,” she continued after Jennings interrupted her.

She continued to list her qualifications, which she said include a law degree, a master’s, and two bachelor’s degrees – which she claimed is probably more than all the panelists combined.

“And I have always been the least-paid person on payroll at every institution I have worked in, and it’s not because…,” she dropped the bombshell.

One of the panelists sought clarification on whether even a Democratic White House paid her less than other employees for being a black woman.

“Even in the White House?” Asked the panelist.

“Even in the White House,” Allison confirmed.

The panelist also suggested that it was the Left’s problem as she did not work for Republicans when the alleged racial discrimination occurred.

“Whose fault is that?” he asked. “I don’t think you worked for George W. or Trump.”

Allison worked for Obama as a senior policy advisor and the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, managing associate directors who worked with leaders in the African American community and other groups, such as LGBTQ+.

She also worked for the Biden-Harris campaign in 2020, which, according to her statement, must also have underpaid her based on her race and gender.

Ironically, she also inadvertently accused CNN of racial discrimination by stating that she did not have the same opportunity as other panelists. Similarly, claiming that she has always been the least paid in every institution she has worked for, suggests that even CNN was underpaying her.

Either she was lying, or Democrats have actually racially discriminated against her, with the former being the most likely. Her credibility took a nosedive when she claimed that DEI did not exist when she worked at the White House between 2014 and 2017, while Obama had already introduced it in August 2011 under Executive Order 13583. It is also unfathomable that someone employed to fight discrimination would herself be subjected to it. 

While Allison’s racial discrimination claims at CNN and the White House are hard to believe, the policy she defends perpetuates racial discrimination.

In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s race-based college admissions practices. The court stated that the practices violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.

According to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), “DEI policies are nothing more than state-sanctioned racial discrimination.”

The disconnect between real world events and the beliefs and statements of “respectable” mainstream media is wider than at any time in living memory. Our grandparents who grew up on the “big three” channels-ABC, CBS, NBC-would not recognize what passes for news reporting today. There was never a golden era when everything the newspapers and TV anchors said was the whole truth, but there was a stronger anchor to reality reflected in the news coverage that began in the mid-20th century and continued through at least the year 2000. 

Not anymore. All the broadcast stations (with the partial exception of Fox News), and all the cable news networks appear to have no actual understanding of the real world. It’s impossible to say whether the beat reporters, correspondents, and anchors actually believe what they say, or whether they are consciously lying. But what they appear to believe, and what they’re trying to get you to believe, bears no relationship to observable events in the real world. 

This is most apparent in coverage of the so-called riots that took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. What nearly every news source has called a “violent insurrection” for years was not an insurrection at all. It’s certainly not the case that a total of 1,538 people committed acts of violence or threatened police – yet that is how many protestors have been put through the court system or sent to jail. 

All along, the media, the White House, and Democratic politicians have lied to make the event seem darker and more sinister than it really was. They lied and said Donald Trump encouraged a “violent insurrection,” when in fact he addressed the public and told them to protest “peacefully and patriotically.” Even the compromised Associated Press had to admit it. 

Politicians and the media accused rioters of killing police officers, yet no police officers were killed. They claimed that rioters had bashed capitol police officer Brian Sicknick over the head with a fire extinguisher, killing him. That never happened. Sicknick died of a stroke the day after the non-riot.  

It’s been four years, and the media is still either lying, or is somehow so disconnected from the real world that an impartial observer would legitimately question if there’s a form of mental illness at play among the media elite. While it does appear that some rioters did physically assault Capitol officers, none of them were killed. The media does not seem to care at all about the person who was killed: veteran Ashli Babbitt. She doesn’t rate, you see, because she was MAGA, which for leftists is code for “disposable subhuman scum.” 

Ashli Babbitt’s death didn’t even rate a mention from this pool of reporters asking questions of incoming President Donald Trump when he was asked about Jan 6 pardons Watch this exchange below – the reporter asked Donald Trump if he planned to pardon any of the rioters who attacked police officers. Trump turned it around and replied, “The only one that  was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashli Babbitt.” He went on to remind the press pool that there were never any charges of “insurrection” against anyone, because no insurrection occurred. 

Response from X/Twitter users was mixed, but most appeared to side with Trump’s approach: 

It’s rare today to see a major media outlet have anything critical to say of anything, anyone, or any practice in the media itself. While the news business has always been clubby, it did not used to march in absolute political lockstep. But it has done so most obviously since at least 2016 with the first election of Donald Trump to the presidency. 

The New York Post has started off the year with a bang in a long overdue excoriation of the craven lying of basically all of the press regarding President Joe Biden’s obvious senility. It’s not surprising that it’s the Post taking the issue on, as that paper has every reason to be critical of its colleagues and competitors. The New York Post is America’s oldest newspaper, and it was the paper that broke the Hunter Biden laptop story. 

Hunter, the president’s son, abandoned a laptop at a computer repair shop in Maryland. Predictably, the contents leaked, and what contents they were. There was evidence that Hunter and his father Joe were engaged in unsavory, unethical, and possibly illegal dealings with Ukrainian businesses like the energy company Burisma. Not only that, but the computer was full of prurient photos depicting Hunter Biden smoking hard drugs and consorting with what appeared to be prostitutes. 

The All-Democrat-All-The-Time mainstream media either ignored the story, or accused the Post of making the whole thing up. Under its pre-Elon-Musk ownership, Twitter banned the New York Post’s account entirely, preventing it from posting anything on the platform. All this was a far cry from the heroic narrative about the hard-hitting independent press that has lingered on since the days of the Watergate scandal depicted in All the President’s Men. 

Now the Post strikes back. In a blistering editorial, the editorial board accuses its media colleagues of exactly what they did: “President-elect Donald Trump is forcing the Democratic politicians who spent years lying about President Biden’s senility to take their bitter medicine, but we’re more concerned about the toady media who played along . . . Every last [Democrat who covered it up] deserves scorn, but so do the journalists who not only let these fantastical fibs go unchallenged, but even parroted the lies: Biden was showing no signs of mental decline, they insisted — and it was offensive, ignorant and borderline bigoted to even suggest otherwise.”

What’s so infuriating about the press trying to hide Biden’s senility was that everyone could see it. Despite what your Democrat aunt might claim, and despite what talking heads on television claimed, no adult American of ordinary intelligence could not see that Joe Biden has been in dementia for years. 

The New York Post points out, “The entire idea that Biden was anything but healthy — virile, even — was treated as a right-wing, tin-foil-hat talking point.The public wasn’t buying it: Back in February, 86% of Americans thought Biden was too old to serve a second term because they had watched his decline happen in real time, and over the course of several years.”

It’s hard to recollect a time in living memory when the entire press apparatus lied about the most obvious deficiencies in the leader of the free world, and tried to tell sane Americans that it was they who were losing their minds for noticing the truth. 

The public is beyond fed up. Here’s a sampling from X/Twitter under a Fox News post about the topic. Fox framed it as the media “being in denial,” and the public isn’t letting them get away with it. 

Billionaire George Soros’ controlling interest in 227 radio stations — a quarter of the radio stations in the country — appears to be on track, but for the watchful eye of incoming Federal Communications Commission chief Brendan Carr.  Soros, and a conglomeration of companies under his control, received unprecedented approval from the FCC for the acquisition of Audacy in the wake of the company’s bankruptcy filing this year. But approval for the leftist billionaire’s purchase of the radio stations, which span 45 media markets reaching 165 million Americans, wasn’t just fast-tracked.

The FCC’s move broke with precedent by skirting a rule that protects U.S. communications channels from foreign influence. The FCC’s expeditious approval of the deal sidestepped the fact that the Soros-controlled Audacy will be more than 25% foreign-owned, which requires additional scrutiny the FCC withheld from the process.  Meanwhile, Audacy, presumably under Soros’ auspices, has re-upped a deal with Bloomberg to distribute news content across the syndicate’s news/talk markets. 

Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the role, criticized the decision back in September, and told Fox News before Thanksgiving he intends to give the authorization a second look. Incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the role, criticized the anomalous decision back in September, and told Fox News before Thanksgiving he intends to give the authorization a second look.

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The Germans have a word for every emotion, don’t they? Today’s article is brought to you by the word “schadenfreude.” It’s the delicious sensation of enjoying the misfortune of others. It’s a bit close to the concept of sadism, but schadenfreude need not be that wicked; it’s generally something you feel when someone gets the comeuppance they deserve. 

That belated comeuppance has made an appearance in the MSNBC newsroom. After losing a shocking and actually unprecedented number of viewers after Trump’s election—MSNBC lost about half its audience, had only 17,000 viewers in the key demographic—the uber-liberal cable offshoot of the big peacock is finally letting some of the consequences roll downhill onto its overpaid anchors. 

Take Rachel Maddow, who went from normal high school student to angry lesbian in just a few short years. Her show lost 43 percent of its audience overnight after the presidential election November 5. As a result, network bosses took a look at their bottom line and decided to cut her pay from $30 million to $25 million. She isn’t going to starve on that salary, of course. But her high rate of pay is odd to begin with: Maddow now only does one hour on MSNBC per week. Nice if you can get it. 

It doesn’t stop with Maddow. Prolific Twitter/X news purveyor Collin Rugg reports that queen of wigs Joy Reid will have to agree to a pay cut if she wants to keep working for the network.

Right now Reid is making $3 million a year to lie about Trump and castigate white people every evening from her studio chair. 

What do the people say? 

This guy says he has the details.