SPECIAL REPORT: The Stealing of the Presidency, 2020 (FLASHBACK, November 24th, 2020 )

The left-wing news media didn’t just poison the information environment with their incessantly negative coverage of President Trump going into the 2020 election. They also refused to give airtime to important arguments of the Republican campaign — both pro-Trump and anti-Biden — which meant millions of voters cast their ballots knowing only what the media permitted them to know about the candidates.

To measure the true effect of the media’s censorship on the election, the Media Research Center asked The Polling Company to survey 1,750 Biden voters in seven swing states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), six of which (all but North Carolina) were called for Biden (survey details below). We tested these voters’ knowledge of eight news stories — all important topics that our ongoing analysis had shown the liberal news media had failed to cover properly. We found that a huge majority (82%) of Biden voters were unaware of at least one of these key items, with five percent saying they were unaware of all eight of the issues we tested.

This lack of information proved crucial: One of every six 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. A shift of this magnitude would have changed the outcome in all six of the swing states won by Joe Biden, and Donald Trump would have comfortably won a second term as president.

■ Burying Biden’s Bad News: The media’s censorship of Biden’s scandals had the strongest impact on this year’s election. According to our survey, more than one-third of Biden voters (35.4%) were unaware of the serious allegations brought against the Democratic nominee by Tara Reade, a former

This is interestingn but the core problem is there is now a well-established Democrat machine that will harvest hordes of votes during “Election Month.”

Until we get a handle on the VBM , vote by mail, election a month for Dems and one day for us , it doesn’t matter who is on the top of the ticket, Trump, DeSantis they will lose.

Dems collect ballots from Dems for a month-sort of legal cheating-plus it allows the other kind of cheating-

“ In fact, years later, this episode of media history was still celebrated, notably with the legendary Hollywood director Steven Spielberg making a major motion picture of the episode focusing on The Washington Post. Titled simply The Post, it featured Hollywood stars Meryl Streep as Post publisher Katherine Graham and Tom Hanks as executive editor Ben Bradlee. Graham and Bradlee were portrayed as heroes for standing up to just get the facts of a major story out on the table.

But today is a whole different era. The Twitter files story is every bit a major story as the Pentagon Papers were in the day. Yet there are no Grahams and Bradlees here. To the contrary, just as Breitbart has reported and Shellenberger is noting, today's media - per Breitbart that would be The Washington Post, New York Times, Politico Playbook, Punchbowl News, and the Los Angeles Times - simply ignored Shellenberger’s ace reporting Monday and into Tuesday of this week.

Whatever else this shows, it is a vivid illustration of a hard fact about today's media. Long gone are the days when it would launch serious journalistic efforts to get to the facts of a major story and publish them. See: Watergate.

Today the first, gut instinct of the liberal media is to simply suppress the facts, suppress the story. And hope that the new conservative media - Fox, NewsMax, talk radio, The New York Post, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Free Beacon, NewsBusters, Conservative Review, The American Spectator, National Review etc etc - can't get the story out.

Thankfully, they can.

In this case, there was Mr. Shellenberger’s reporting on the revamped Musk/free speech Twitter, in Breitbart and on Sean Hannity’s show to name but a few.“

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