VANITY: Is the Wall Street Journal “Conservative?”

Readers of the WSJ are smart enough not to be fooled by liberal view point hidden messages, but it would be nice, especially now that the democrats have gone full communist mode, for the WSJ to start a campaign of exposing the individuals in the republican party who must be voted out of office because they are not joining Trump in his efforts to expose the deep state and the hypocrisy and corruption of democrats. The Journal could also find a way to reach moderates who read the publication and move them further to the right.

It is important for conservatives to be as far right as the democrats have moved left. To reiterate for emphasis lest it be overlooked. We do not have far right radicals with conservatives in between them and moderates. That’s a ploy to either embarrass and silence right thinking individuals, or it is a confirmation that being GWB like is how a “real” conservative act, talks, and does not respond to criticism.

The problem with the WSJ is that it is stuck in what used to pass as conservative opinion but is no longer enough to overcome the opposition. The Journal has not put up roadblocks and guard rails to channel conservatives. It has not fearlessly stood its ground to prevent the slippery slope into a China centered domestic policy. It could have been antidote to a media which has pressured WSJ readers who are CEO’s of multinational companies to donate millions to Black Lives Matter and support the China centered policy positions of the democrat party. WSJ has not been ahead of the wave of China centered policies that has now engulfed the nation. But others were.

Many authors have published books for several decades warning about China, the devaluation of the Dollar, the unsustainable national debt, inflation, deindustrialization of America, and other topics that were not taken seriously by the WSJ. So-called conservatives accused Glenn Beck when he was a FOX of being a fear monger, an opportunist and a flake. Only he got it correct 100%. Beck was awake while the WSJ and others were asleep.

My opinion of the WSJ is not recent. I have been comparing the WSJ to authors of more than 50 books, beginning twenty years ago just prior to GWB running for office. As the slide into a China centered and now full blown cultural socialist nation was occurring, the WSJ was talking about rearranging the chairs on a nation sinking into a sea of propaganda by the national media, foreign government influence, and global governance. The WSJ was authoring article about how the Freedom Caucus was standing in the way of bipartisanship bills, such as the first government stimulus, when the Caucus stood its ground. Republicans (read RINO’s) and democrats in Congress responded by not only closing the government but were successful in blaming conservatives. And this included the WSJ.

This is a quote from a more recent WSJ issue entitled “U.S. Government Shutdown Enters Fifth Day”

“The majority of Americans don’t think a #TrumpShutdown is good policy, and it’s unfortunate that it continues during this holiday season. It’s time Trump and the Republicans re-open the government now!” Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui of California tweeted on Wednesday."

You might say, that it was not the opinion of the WSJ. It was the opinion of Democrat Rep Doris Matsui. Still the WSJ repeated the message unnecessarily without any pushback. In fact, it was worse. The WSJ instructed its readers with this quote:

“I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security,” Mr. Trump tweeted earlier this week. “At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. Crazy!”

I doubt the WSJ would have included this quote except that it makes Trump look like a cry baby “(poor me).” In case you missed it, the democrats were being reasonable but Trump AND House Republicans (read Freedom Caucus) were the obstructers.

"The shutdown, the third of the year, started early Saturday after Mr. Trump and House Republicans upended a bipartisan Senate agreement to fund the government through Feb. 8. The president has indefinitely delayed his holiday trip to Florida as the White House negotiates with lawmakers."

There can be only one conclusion: WSJ is not conservative by today’s standards, and it certainly is not a Trump supporter.

The short answer is NO, the WSJ generally speaking is not Conservative.

Long answer is, it depends on what part of the paper you are reading.

When the Murdoch’s bought Dow Jones (parent of WSJ & Barrons) the previous owners got a deal in addition to money. They got a legally binding agreement that they, the previous owners, retained editorial control of the Opinion section of the paper. That - the Opinion section - is where you will still find some Conservatism and the most Conservatism there is in the WSJ.

Long history: The staff of the WSJ have never been Conservative during or since the previous owners. Even the staff of the Opinion section is not Conservative and not in sync with their editors. 280 of the Opinion section staff wrote a letter to the editors of the Opinion section airing their complaints about the direction those editors take the Opinion section pages. Those editors have some cajones and in very polite journalistic language told the 280 individuals they could say what they want but the editors are not changing their postions at all.

Because the Murdochs did not get editorial control of the Opinion section, they added some columns to the general news pages - particularly those by Gerald Seib - that are really editorials in the style of Pravda On the Hudson - editorials written as if they are “news reports”.

Under the Murdochs the general news pages have also become direct advocates (which is different than merely reporting) of (a) electric vehicles, (b) green energy, (c) “diversity” and (d) social “equity”. They PUSH articles carrying those themes far beyond a mere daily reporting of new newsworthy events.

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