Larry Elder (jewishworldreview.com)
"The continued decline of the American press is shocking to watch. Panels of "experts" lie with impunity, and yet no one takes them to task. On-air personalities make outrageous claims but are not publicly confronted in ways that would expose their falsehoods to their audiences. They have an oligopolistic stranglehold on propaganda and no one is breaking it." Larry Elder
. . ."MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is a textbook case. As the Iowa results were announced, Maddow explained that Republican voters are the problem. She intoned ponderously:
"If we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country; if we are worried about the potential rise of fascism in this country; if we are worried about our country falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government, the leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation. But people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation. ... and I know because I've been studying this ... [t]here is an authoritarian movement inside Republican politics that isn't being bamboozled by Trump; they are pushing Trump to get more and more extreme."
"Meanwhile, the other talking heads — including Jen Psaki, Lawrence O'Donnell, Joy Reid and Chris Hayes — all nodded gravely in agreement, periodically interjecting, "Correct!" and "That's right!"
This is not just nonsense on stilts. It is an outrageous lie of the highest order — and a massive deflection from the real threats Americans face. Yes, Americans should be worried about the "rise of authoritarianism" in this country — and millions are. But they understand that it is not coming from their neighbors who wear "MAGA" hats or the populist political Right.
"The media has been manifestly deceitful about Republican and conservative politicians for decades. They have taken it to new and shocking levels with Trump. But this latest angle should concern more than just political candidates.
"The Left fears that they might not be able to stop Trump despite all their efforts, so they have apparently decided to turn their attention to the tens of millions of Americans who have voted and will (or may) vote for him. When Hillary Clinton called them a "basket of deplorables," that was bad enough. Now those voters are being smeared by the Democratic Party and their shills in the major media as longing for "authoritarianism" and "fascism."
"What might the consequences of such a broad-based propaganda effort be?" . . . Full article here.
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