Posted on 11/25/2020 6:15:31 AM PST by Kaslin
Journalists have strongly slanted the "news" during the Trump era in order to destroy Donald Trump's presidency, and to destroy it early if possible. Their actions betray that they feel they have important and influential platforms from which they can and should run America in between elections. The voters can have a say for about two weeks every two years.
Recall 2004, when Newsweek's Evan Thomas admitted the press would go all in for Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees John Kerry and John Edwards, and that the effort would "be worth maybe 15 points." That wasn't enough in 2004. But what about in elections decided by 3 or 4 points? The media felt robbed in 2016 because they had tried so hard. And then they never let up. The president's being infected with coronavirus didn't even cause them to stop beating their war drums for a moment.
In this election, it wasn't just the reporting power of the news media but the censorship power of Big Tech that could be credited with shaping the election. Fox News' Tucker Carlson said that "Democrats harnessed the power of Big Tech to win this election."
In his partisan nightly newsletter, CNN's Brian Stelter mocked Carlson: "These are Jell-O arguments, all about emotion. But I suspect that this will be the go-to position for many GOP media stars: Trump was robbed, thus we were robbed -- no, we can't prove it, but we know it in our guts."
This is not an emotional argument. You can watch the difference between CNN reporters at President Trump's press conferences and CNN reporters at President-elect Joe Biden's press events. It's the difference between rabid tigers and domesticated kittens.
A new Media Research Center poll of 1,750 voters in seven swing states, conducted by The Polling Company, demonstrates how the suppression of news that was potentially damaging to Biden was successful:
-- Forty-five percent of Biden voters were unaware of the financial scandals of Hunter Biden, which were wrapped up in then-Vice President Joe Biden's foreign-affairs power during Barack Obama's presidency.
-- Thirty-five percent of Biden voters were unaware of Tara Reade's allegation that Biden sexually assaulted her on Capitol Hill when she worked for him.
-- Twenty-five percent of Biden voters said they didn't know about Sen. Kamala Harris' left-wing ideology, that she was ranked America's most "progressive" senator in 2019.
The media also suppressed good news on President Trump's record:
-- Forty-nine percent of Biden voters had no idea economic growth surged by 33% in the third quarter of 2020, which would be unheard of if not for the extraordinary pandemic lockdown during the second quarter.
-- The five preelection jobs reports from June 5 to Oct. 2 showed a record 11.1 million jobs were created in the summer and fall. But 39.4% of Biden voters said they didn't know about this good news.
Fifty-one percent of Biden voters did not know that in 2018, the U.S. became a net exporter of oil for the first time in nearly 70 years.
-- Forty-four percent of Biden voters had no idea that Trump's team had helped broker historic agreements between Israel and Arab nations.
-- Thirty-six percent of Biden voters said they did not know about the administration's key role in promoting coronavirus vaccine research through Operation Warp Speed.
In every case, Biden voters said they might not have been Biden voters if the "news" media had done their job and reported all the news, rather than burying stories that didn't match their manipulative narratives. One of every 6 Biden voters we surveyed (17%) said they would have abandoned the Democratic candidate had they known the facts about one or more of these news stories. This would have swung the swing states the other way. That's why the media hit the Mute button.
Kind of sad, that freedom of the individual is being extinguished by our freedom of the press. Ironies of ironies.
They will remain unaware. Their TV will tell them everything is wonderful and their new president is a fine statesman, and a sterling role model.
They’ll be happy, because in the under 40 age group, most don’t like America, and many hate America.
Schools. If we don’t fix the schools, nothing else matters.
At this point I think explaining bias by the “press” or media is misleading.
They aren’t reporters, it’s just like getting a handout straight from the Democrat party. I shouldn’t say “like” it is straight from the party they ARE the Democrat party.
They’re endangering the security of this country and they don’t give a damn. It’s what democrats do.
If they had done their jobs as citizens, they would have learned what the press was suppressing.
I'm afraid the same may be true in America when Biden becomes president.
I am afraid too that this will happen
I don’t know about the accuracy of that. Liberals are die hard. I don’t think they’d have been swayed at all by learning those things about Biden.
I just found out a relative voted for Biden because he’s a CHRISTIAN!!!! My gosh - these people are so ignorant, it should be punishable by never ever having access to another election ballot. A Christian? Yep - a Christian who supports abortion big time. You just can’t change minds like that!
The left side of the bell curve votes, too.
Yep. “Think of your average person. Then realize that half the people you meet are dumber than that...”
Bkmk
I’m no genius, but hiding a demented guy in the basement for 9 months with NO unrehearsed press avails which should be plentiful and long - tells me something about what people didn’t know. They didn’t see his obvious dementia.
Biden voters miss the Obama&Co depression years welfare to sky rocket again and then is gets real bad with the Biden clown company.
Obama 2.0 ensues
Do they have the inability to produce news, report news, own
News Media outlets, on and on. It's damned easy to blame others
rather than take responsibility and fix the problems. JMO
Pray that it doesn’t happen ...
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