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The results are in, and former President Donald Trump didn't just win the presidency. He defeated his nemesis, the media. It could be seen in the hysteria as many left-wing news outlets reported the numbers on election night. As time passed, red became visible in more areas of America.
In the words of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “Never before had so many suffered so much against so few.” Journalists conducted the worst election in American history, losing to President Trump and ordinary voters. Indeed, Vice President Kamala Harris has done her part by giving boring interviews, stupid sound bites, and refusing to even engage in conversations with major influencers like Joe Rogan .
But the news organizations that opposed Trump in 2016 and defeated him in 2020 are back with a vengeance in 2024. They continued to shout “fascist,” “Hitler,” “Nazi” and “trash” at both Trump and his supporters. They trumpeted every negative article, every nasty name call, every pro-Harris poll, including the horribly wrong Iowa poll released just before the election.
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Journalists whistle past graveyards of decaying industry, ignoring anyone who brings up the response to a deadly hurricane, borders, crime, the economy, national security, or wars in Europe or the Middle East that didn't exist at the time. , discussed and thoroughly bashed. Trump was president.
The news media has turned the Fourth Estate, one of the hallmarks of our democracy, into a cottage industry for those promoting the most insane far-left views. Ordinary Americans grew increasingly angry and made their voices heard.
I agree.
Americans voted for Trump because they noticed every time the supposedly neutral media called Trump a “fascist” and compared him to Hitler and others. They realized that wealthy elite journalists were pretending that inflation wasn't a problem and that people could somehow afford the huge increases in the cost of housing and food. Oh, and by claiming otherwise, you make ordinary voters stupid, or worse.
voters saw ABC News host Martha Raddatz When violent foreign gangs took over apartment complexes in Colorado, they acted like it didn't matter because “the incident was limited to a small number of apartment complexes.” She was referring to the small number of apartment buildings that are inhabited by poor people and not occupied by ABC News staff.
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Legacy media continued to lose respect. And it's well earned. A new Gallup poll finds that fewer than one-third of Americans have “a lot” or “a lot” of confidence in the media to cover the news well. Americans are clearly paying attention to campaign coverage.
And that was before they lost this election. What will they tell readers and viewers now? We've already seen how bad the news media has been during President Trump's first term. This time it will be worse. The media has already lost. they think they have nothing else to lose
We have repeatedly seen examples of journalists pretending that anything contrary to their opinion is “misinformation” or “disinformation,” even if it turns out to be true. (Hunter Biden's laptop is just one example of many.)
And when we don't openly lie about the news, we rely on so-called fact-checking to misrepresent the facts. how The ABC host only does fact-checking. In a debate with former President Donald Trump vice president kamala harris. Or how President Joe Biden allowed himself to repeatedly make false claims about President Trump's comments about the Charlottesville protests.
The disturbing thing is that these are not all the worst examples of pathetic liberal reporting in this election. Here's a reminder:
1. It's real “garbage”
A comedian who jokes about “trash” and president of the united states Are you calling half the country “trash”? If you were a news media, you reported the first thing and covered up the second thing. And Biden's comments came as he stumbled against Harris.
The Washington Post tried to muddy the waters and claim that it was unclear what Biden had done. “Did Biden call Trump supporters 'trash'? It comes down to the apostrophe.” Not really. If the Trump team had tried to falsify White House documents to pretend otherwise, the Post would have gone crazy. But if the current administration does that, no. Even the left-leaning Associated Press reported, “AP source: Despite stenographer's concerns, White House changed record of Biden's 'garbage' remarks.”
The comments were so bad, Harris had to distance himself. From Biden's statement. So even Harris was more honest than the press. However, since early voting has already taken place, most media outlets are unable to give President Trump any talking points. Even if it were true.
2. Biden's health remains an issue
Biden's cognitive decline is a huge problem that the mainstream media doesn't dare touch on – even though he still has the nuclear codes and is still president. Just like they avoided it before the discussion. But when Biden humiliated Trump, the press threw Grandpa off the train and the ticket.
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But journalists have not called for his removal. Because that would put Ms. Harris in office, and she would be implicated in every stupid and horrible thing this administration has done. Instead, they presented her as a candidate for change, even though she said nothing would change.
It's worth remembering that Biden's mental health was such an issue even leading up to the last election that he hid in his basement. After he won, his obvious failures became worse; white house staff One person wearing an Easter Bunny costume pulled Biden away from reporters' questions. And that was in April of 2022.
Back in March, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough Biden went on a classic rant, claiming he was at the top of his game. “Start the tape now, because I'm going to tell you the truth. If you don't understand the truth, you stop. Intellectually and analytically, this version of Biden is the best Biden of all time,” he said on the network. I wasn't made fun of.
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Someday, when reporters in Washington, D.C., write a book about the Biden era, they will all admit to stories about how crazy Biden was. But they refused to report them because they had to stop Orangeman Bud.
3. Recommendations are not very important
Readers and journalists don't care about political endorsements unless it undermines their sense of being on their team. Both were so outraged that the Los Angeles Times withdrew its endorsement of Harris. But when the Washington Post protested, they were going to protest by throwing pumpkin spice lattes.
The post is included Democratic Center, or DC; This place is so left-wing that Trump won 4-5% in national elections. Twice. So when leftist readers and even more leftist staffers couldn't bash Trump one more time, they revolted. (The postal worker is outraged… write your own joke here___________.)
Other news organizations were so angry that Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) even suggested that the Post's owners give up the paper. ”jeff bezos Donate the Washington Post to charity.'' The article said donating the paper, along with perhaps $100 million to cover nearly a year's worth of losses, was a “bold and patriotic move.'' Will be back.
What CJR didn't realize was that the Post was already a charity. It lost $77 million in 2023 alone. Even if you are such a reader.
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The New York Magazine Intelligencer summarized the news media campaign meltdown that led to these and countless other examples of bigotry. One network executive declared that if Trump wins, “everything will change.” That idea is intolerable to newsies. “If half the country decides that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they don't read this media at all, and we have completely lost this audience. trump victory This means mainstream media is dead in its current form,” the executive concluded.
yes. He was right. D.O.A. Activists have taken over and destroyed journalism. After all, Trump is back, and maybe so will honest journalism. But don't bet on that.
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