{"id":3204,"date":"2016-08-11T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T19:29:15","slug":"clinton-vs-trump-no-media-vs-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/clinton-vs-trump-no-media-vs-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton vs. Trump? No, It’s the Media vs. America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014 Reprinted with Permission of The New American.com \u2014<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Liberal media bias has long been an open secret. But now it\u2019s so bad that even a liberal mainstream newspaper notes that, in an effort to destroy Donald Trump, the media have jumped the shark.<\/p>\n

In a Los Angeles Times<\/i> piece, columnist Justin Raimondo\u00a0writes<\/a> that to \u201cfight Trump, journalists have dispensed with objectivity\u201d; he then asks, \u201cWhy are the rules of journalism being rewritten this election year?\u201d He also theorizes that the pro-Hillary Clinton bias has become so blatant it may actually backfire on the media.<\/p>\n

As his first example, Raimondo cites how the media present out of context Trump\u2019s statement that the Russians should release Clinton\u2019s 30,000 \u201clost\u201d e-mails, portraying an obvious joke as dangerous encouragement of foreign espionage. On this count Raimondo makes a good point, though: If the e-mails are all \u201cpersonal,\u201d as Clinton has maintained, how could they threaten national security?<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the media casts Trump as \u201ca kind of Manchurian candidate,\u201d as Raimondo puts it, \u201cin what was once called red-baiting.\u201d Yet this smacks of projection. Consider that former Bill Clinton political hit man Larry Nichols revealed in 2015 that the first time he met Hillary, she was wearing a medal around her neck stating, \u201cProud member of the American Communist Party\u201d (video\u00a0here<\/a>; forward to 6:07). Also note, the Clinton Foundation has received millions of dollars from Russian sources, and many allege that these monies essentially were bribes in exchange for access to American technological secrets<\/a> and for a huge portion<\/a> of the United States’ uranium stockpile. This, not to mention that our country is in many respects now more \u201cred\u201d than Russia \u2014 largely due to the machinations of Clinton and her fellow travelers.<\/p>\n

Even more strikingly, the media have engaged in outright collusion with Democrat operatives. As Raimondo reports:<\/p>\n

DNC emails, published by Wikileaks, reveal a stunning level of collaboration between important media outlets and the Democrats. Former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz sought to silence NBC\u2019s Mika Brzezinski, who had found fault with the DNC\u2019s role in the primaries. The emails have headings like \u201cThis must stop.\u201d Incredibly, NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd agreed to act as a go-between, even arranging a call between Wasserman Schultz and Brzezinski. Which raises the question: Why was a major media figure taking his marching orders from the Democratic party chair \u2014\u00a0and how did this affect his network\u2019s coverage of the Trump campaign?<\/p>\n

The DNC emails also show that Politico<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>reporter Kenneth Vogel sent his copy for a story on Clinton\u2019s fundraising operation to the DNC\u2019s national press secretary, Mark Paustenbach, prior to publication. Politico<\/em> has since apologized, but Vogel has his defenders. The Washington Post\u2019s<\/em> Erik Wemple said Vogel\u2019s \u201cprepublication generosity\u201d was meant to give \u201cthe people you\u2019re writing about \u2026 the opportunity to rebut all relevant claims in a story.\u201d One wonders if the Washington Post<\/em> does this for the Trump campaign. Somehow I doubt it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet it must be pointed out that, contrary to Raimondo\u2019s assertion, media rules aren\u2019t being rewritten; written long ago, they\u2019re just more devoutly embraced with each succeeding media degeneration. For example:<\/p>\n

\u2022 In 2004, famed newsman Dan Rather\u2019s career was ended when it was discovered<\/a> that he had peddled forged documents purporting to show that President George W. Bush had shirked his Texas Air National Guard duties in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In 2010, there was the JournoList Scandal<\/a>, involving an online meeting place in which journalists would conspire to slant the news; this proved that not all media bias was unintentional.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The media happily reported the claim that WWII-era pontiff Pius XII was \u201cHitler\u2019s Pope.\u201d Yet they just as happily ignored an even bigger story: the 2007 revelation that the allegation was a malicious fabrication promoted by a Soviet disinformation campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 While the media can\u2019t let go of the Catholic Church sex scandal, they ignore the child sex abuse in government schools, a phenomenon a federally funded study found<\/a> was 100 times the magnitude<\/i> of the church scandal. In fact, the researchers evaluated a certain time period and discovered that California\u2019s 61 biggest newspapers ran 2,000 stories about the church scandal but onlyfour<\/i> about the school scandal.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The media gratuitously report stories of police shootings of black criminal suspects, despite these occurrences having declined 75 percent<\/a> during the last few decades. Yet while the police not only shoot more whites but, according to studies<\/a>, are actually more likely to do so, such events are never widely publicized. This lends the illusion that blacks are under assault, creates racial unrest, and has led to the \u201cretaliatory\u201d murder of cops.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In 2012, NBC heavily doctored<\/a> George Zimmerman\u2019s 911 call in a manner many describe as malicious, as it did a cut-and-paste job that made him appear bigoted.<\/p>\n

The above is, of course, just a short list. In addition, there\u2019s also the \u201ceveryday\u201d bias, such as calling statist politicians with anti-immigration policies (e.g., France\u2019s Marine Le Pen) \u201cright-wing\u201d while refusing to call socialists such as Francois Hollande left-wing; branding semi-automatic rifles \u201cassault weapons\u201d; and labeling pro-life people \u201canti-abortion\u201d and pro-abortion people \u201cpro-choice.\u201d And then there\u2019s social-media bias, which is just as profound and which I reported on here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And this bias has a devastating effect. The media are the people\u2019s conduit of information, and how can Americans make the right decisions regarding politicians and policies if they\u2019re given misinformation? As with a computer, it\u2019s garbage in, garbage out.<\/p>\n

And what is the nature of the political litterbugs? In his 2011 book\u00a0Left Turn<\/i>, UCLA political science professor Tim Groseclose quotes \u201ca well-known poll in which Washington correspondents declared that they vote Democratic 93 percent to 7 percent,\u201d writesU.S. News<\/i>. The site continues<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As a result, he says, most reporters write with a liberal filter. “Using objective, social-scientific methods, the filtering prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is. Instead, we see only a distorted version of it. It is as if we see the world through a glass \u2014 a glass that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the facts that conservatives want us to see.”<\/p>\n

He adds: “That bias makes us more liberal, which makes us less able to detect the bias, which allows the media to get away with more bias, which makes us even more liberal.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this sways elections. As Groseclose also wrote, “Media bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election. I find, for instance, that if media bias didn’t exist,\u00a0John McCain<\/a>\u00a0would have defeated Barack Obama 56 percent to 42 percent [in 2008], instead of losing 53-46.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve often quipped that the Democrats have the world\u2019s most effective public-relations team: the U.S. media. And what of Raimondo\u2019s theory that their now bare-naked bias may inspire a backlash that elects Trump? Such a phenomenon would likely just diminish, but not completely negate, the Democrat-buttressing effects of media manipulation. With only six percent of Americans approving of the media, though, Trump would be wise to portray himself as the opponent of this fourth estate-cum-fifth column. It\u2019s morally fitting, too, to run against a group that is running against America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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