. . .“ 'If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?" . . .
"In my previous life as a newspaperman, I was rather smug about the First Amendment. The press pleasured itself about its support of a free speech. It stood up to allow Nazis to rally in Skokie, Illinois.
"But that was last century. In this benighted century, the press has become insufferable HOA presidents who want the power to silence people in the name of freedom. All you have to do is call someone a liar to get him censored. It is the equivalent of calling a SWAT team on a neighbor.
"But the First Amendment and the God-given rights it protects are not dead. New champions have arrived because nature hates a vacuum and Americans hate a censor.
"The new guys replace the ink-stained wretches of the Fourth Estate. The new guys arrive just in time to sweep the press from burning the Constitution, just as Cubs outfielder Rick Monday ran in and saved The Flag from being burned in the outfield of Dodger Stadium. It was voted the greatest play in baseball history. The Dodgers later traded for Monday.
"But first things first. Let us review the situation now as the Fourth Estate pours lighter fluid on the Constitution." . . .
"The lies the press ran include:"
The lie that Putin fixed the 2016 election for Trump.
The lie that ivermectin is just a horse medicine.
The lie that the riots of 2020 were peaceful protests.
The lie that the 2020 election was on the up-and-up.
The lie that a protest in the Capitol was an insurrection. . . .
"Today’s Journalists Seek Power, Not Truth"
--J.B. Shurk, American Thinker, Jan. 15, 2024
Media Keeping Trump Off The Air Will Only Make Him Stronger (thefederalist.com) . . ."Trump Won in 2016 Without the Media’s Help
"Yet they failed to understand that the working class, conservative, and evangelical voters who responded positively to Trump’s appeal were looking for someone to challenge the uniparty political establishment. And they were not generally watching left-wing outlets. More to the point, the more they covered Trump, the more outrage they generated about him among Democrats. He won because of Clinton’s lack of personal appeal and credibility as well as the incompetence of her massively funded campaign apparatus." . . .
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