Twilight of the Free Press, Thanks to the Left

“Misinformation.” You hear that word an awful lot these days, and the more you hear it the more the smell it carries with it makes you want to choke.

Tony Branco

  Scott McKay  "When Jen “Circleback Girl” Psaki announced, to the astonishment of half the country, that the White House was going to flag social media posts for deletion based on whether or not those posts fit the official COVID narrative, on its face the statement was objectionable enough.

"One can conjure countless scenarios of Sarah Sanders or Kayleigh McEnany doing the same thing, and the country erupting in outrage. They never did, and still their critics on the left called the Trump administration “authoritarian.”

"But we know now that virtually everything the Left — and those of its votaries who now control the tech space, corporate news and entertainment media, the arts and academia, and even a large swath of corporate America — does is projection. Call Team Trump authoritarians, and all you’re really doing is signaling your own intentions.

"Sometimes it works in reverse. You can see that if you compare the free-wheeling destruction of Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and other places by mobs of woke idiots stoked up by committed Marxist revolutionaries over a man who probably died of a fentanyl overdose while in police custody to what happened on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, and note the reaction of the Democrat establishment.

"But the fascistic impulse is very strong with these people, and Psaki, who’ll need a better nickname than Circleback Girl, Peppermint Patty or Raggedy Ann to more completely capture her shilling for the regime that employs her, simply said the quiet part out loud.

"The regime will brook no dissent from its official line.

"Psakigate took on a bizarre tone after her presumed boss Joe Biden attempted to talk his way around it, first accusing Facebook of “killing people” by allowing “false” statements on COVID and then incompetently shuffling back to the position that only a few people on Facebook were spreading “misinformation.”

“ 'Misinformation.” You hear that word an awful lot these days, and the more you hear it the more the smell it carries with it makes you want to choke." . . .

“Fox News beat CNN by a staggering 83 percent during the Biden town hall with regular programming.” . . . "Fox News beat CNN by a staggering 83 percent during the Biden town hall with regular programing on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and a special edition of “Hannity” that featured Florida Republicans Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Maria Salazar and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez." . . .