Posted on 09/08/2021 9:17:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
After the Labor Day weekend, Joe Scarborough sat on the set of "Morning Joe" and told the Democrats that to succeed in the midterms, it was essential that they somehow repeal "40 years of Reaganism" by passing a massive expansion of government disguised as an "infrastructure" package.
"I remember hearing Biden's speech back in April and was shocked by how sweeping it was for this supposed moderate guy from Delaware," Scarborough proclaimed. "This will reverse 40 years of Reaganism, just like Ronald Reagan reversed 45 years of Roosevelt's New Deal."
Now, believers in Reaganism would look at the last five years of big spending hikes and suggest Reaganism has not exactly dominated in recent federal budgets. But that's the framing for anyone now opposing a "historic" expansion of the state.
Scarborough insisted Democrats have to agree to pass something enormous. "(C)ompromise has to be found. They have no other choice. They have to make history or, of course, there will be no justification for them to run for re-election."
This Scarborough segment was not unusual for TV "news" punditry. There is a tone when Democrats are in the White House and hold a majority in Congress, however narrow. Anchors, pundits and correspondents have a tendency to talk about how Democrats succeed. It's not unlike, say, the local sports channels on a Washington football team show: How does our team win? What do they need to improve on? In this case, how can they pass some "landmark" legislation and look "historic"? They fawn over Democrats, favor them, coach them and only fault them when the polls falter.
These networks cheered along and gave free publicity to Texas Democratic state legislators when they flew to D.C. to lobby quite hopelessly for Congress to pass the "For the People Act" federalizing election laws. Almost every strategy that Democrats attempt -- even the quixotic ones -- are promoted and explained by a pliant press.
Obviously, in the Trump years, these TV pundits and correspondents didn't ask, "How do Trump and the Republicans succeed?" Instead, former President Donald Trump was treated like a horror movie monster threatening everything Americans hold dear. The Republicans were perpetually denounced for refusing to cast Trump out into the political wilderness. Four years ago, Scarborough insisted Trump was mentally unfit, "that people close to him during the campaign told me had early stages of dementia."
He would never say anything like that about the current president.
In a similar way, Democrats are always presumed to be operating in a "mainstream" of public opinion. They're almost never "extreme" on anything -- never wildly out of touch with the public mood. The media pretends that they can speak for the masses and what they want. If anything, journalists press Democrats to take more extreme steps, such as scrapping the filibuster, to get the win.
But the Republicans receive the opposite. They have been quite routinely described as dangerously extreme on issues, and even largely popular stances, such as standing for the national anthem, are presented as wildly controversial matters that are cynically exploited.
All of this can turn out as the media would like -- that they have almost hypnotized the voters into supporting a Democrat agenda. Or it always has the potential to backfire, and the media gives Democrats a false sense of security and popularity. Then, when they lose elections after going ideologically overboard, they have trouble believing that it's a real result.
Whatever the outcome, our media cannot be expected to resemble a "referee" or a neutral observer. They can't help but expose their rooting interest, like a streaker on the playing field of politics.
The so-called “news” media actively aids and abets the criminals and traitors in the Democrat Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M
A. Reagan didn't reduce spending; he increased it. Did he spend like the past few presidents? Of course not. Did he spend more than his predecessors? Unfortunately, yes. I loved Reagan's other fiscal policies, such as lowering taxes. But crediting him with being a spending cutter has as much truth as saying I still look like I'm in my 20's.
B. In the last few years of Rush Limbaugh's life he began instructing us that the media controls the Dim politicians, not the other way around. He used to say the Dim media supported whatever policy the Dim pols wanted. But eventually he realized that the Dim media controlled the pols, not the other way around. One example was Obama was against gay marriage until the media made it their cause célèbre.
Because this guy came into Congress as a rock-ribbed conservative in the 1994 Republican Revolution.
There's simply no other explanation for a former Republican to embrace Marxism.
Perhaps a revolution is what is needed. Perhaps the time to “water the tree of liberty” is upon us.
That Joey Scarborough is a real lady killer.
This is all true, of course, but the important takeaway is that it is not going to change. Mainstream media is not going to see the errors of their way and repent. They will not start reporting the news or giving fair analysis. That will never happen. CNN and MSNBC are not ever going to get “owned” by conservatives; at least they will never admit it. To the media, the only good Republican is one that’s a traitor, and even that is situational. Remember back when Mitt Romney was “literally Hitler?” He doesn’t remember that.
The liberal media and the democratic party, are one and the same. No difference.
One is the political party which nominates candidates and sets party and government policy, and the other is there to advocate for those candidates and democrat government officials and the party policies.
IOW, they are inseparable.
MSM has been working for Democrats since both were infiltrated by communists decades ago, along with colleges and government schools. 2020 didn’t happen overnight, it was organically grown. Shockingly the left don’t have as much common sense as Afghanistan terrorists. I saw a video about the Taliban destroying a mural of George Floyd in Kabul, and you can check it out at Whatfinger News in crawler link top of page. Perhaps they knew he worked in pr0n as ‘Floyd the landlord’ and ran an armed robbery gang. Shrug. Cutting the cord goes a long way towards avoiding MSM too.
Seriously folks, we need to stop referring to the Democrat propaganda arm as media. They are not.
Reagan did NOT increase spending. When he was President the House was in a period where Democrats controlled it for FORTY F’n YEARS, and all spending Bills must originate in the House. Tip O’Neill increased spending. That period ended January 1995 when Gingrich took over, and it’s been swapped back and forth since.
Agreed. But Reagan could have vetoed.
Joe Scarborough killed his intern (Lori Klausutis) then quickly resigned from the House and switched from R to D. He also (along with Mika) violated their marriage vows while each of them was married to another person.
I don’t see democrat or msm or college professor or school teacher, I just see communists.
This is so much drek. Biden is no ‘moderate.” That’s Washington weasel talking points. He always voted with Ted Kennedy and George McGovern.
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