Media Contempt for Conservatives Nearing All-Time Highs
A lot of attention has been spent here covering recent escapades by our 4th Estate, and you would think that by now, all that can be said about the collapse in credibility of American media has been said, that media has reached the floor, absolute zero, couldn’t possibly go lower. And then a week goes by and you discover a tunnel network below ground you never knew media possessed.
In the 1984 mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap, guitarist Nigel Tufnel showed the documentary’s director his equipment, including amplifiers that have volume knobs going from 0 to 11, “When you need that extra push over the cliff”. That’s exactly the setting media have dialed in for this campaign cycle.
On Sunday’s Meet the Press program on NBC, host Kristen Welker interviewed a new hire by NBC – former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. But first, the disclaimer.
Was there a similar disclaimer when Al Sharpton, former Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, joined the Meet the Press panel, as he has done dozens of times? How about when Symone Sanders, weekend MSNBC anchor and Vice President Kamala Harris's former press secretary, was part of the panel? Or Jen Psaki, former Joe Biden press secretary and current MSNBC prime-time anchor? Of course, no such disclaimer about the previous political positions of NBC contributors was offered, because they are all Democrats.
As for the interview itself, it was tortuous to watch, mainly because Welker’s heart was not in it, and couldn’t seem to come up with many topics of interest other than Donald Trump’s financial and legal problems, and what McDaniel thinks about the January 6th defendants. Here’s a news flash for regime media. No one outside of the bubble in D.C. is talking about January 6th. No one is voting on that issue this November, despite the Jedi mind trick media is attempting to deploy. After the interview was over and the panel convened, former Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd offered up this commentary.
Again, no such outrage when any of a number of Democrats traveling the worn-out path between government and media ends up on the same NBC airwaves. The umbrage is only reserved for when a Republican makes that trek, especially one that has ties to Donald Trump. MSNBC, the fever swamp cable channel wing of NBC News, issued a statement from their president, Rashida Jones, that McDaniel would not appear in any capacity on any MSNBC program. Morning Joe anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said as much last Friday.
But this wasn’t even the worst bias or hostility offered up by regime media on this particular Sunday. Over at ABC’s This Week, hosted by Jonathan Karl, Florida Senator Marco Rubio made an appearance and was immediately hit with a gotcha video from 2015.
Karl cherrypicked a 20-second video clip from a campaign rally for Rubio in the heat of the GOP primary race for president in late 2015. Trump was not there, and as is usually the case at virtually any rally, Republican or Democrat, sharp words and accusations are made about the people you’re trying to knock off. Rubio immediately countered the clip by invoking Kamala Harris, who ran very unsuccessfully for president against Joe Biden in 2020, yet effectively called him a segregationist on a Democratic debate stage. Karl wanted nothing to do with that. He cut off Rubio and said, “We played that.” Well, he didn’t.
That debate took place on June 18th, 2019. The first opportunity for This Week to cover it would have been June 23rd. Martha Raddatz was the host, Jonathan Karl was not on that program, and Raddatz only referred to Joe Biden’s race problems in an interview with New Jersey Senator and then-Democratic nominee for president Cory Booker. Except Raddatz didn’t use the clip from Harris. She pulled another racially-tinged gaffe by Biden, one of dozens he’s uttered over his 50 years in public life. So Karl didn’t just cut off Rubio, he lied in the process. When Rubio pushed back further and said you didn’t play Harris right now like you did with my clip, Karl said, “That was in the past.”
It’s actually incredible to see the bias roll out in real time like that. Karl goes out of his way to play a 9-year-old clip to drive a potential wedge into the present or near future, being that Rubio is rumored to be on Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate list. And yet in the same breath, Karl dismisses a 5-year-old clip of the current Vice President calling the current President a segregationist to his face as ancient history. Since Karl wouldn’t present it, I will.
Once Rubio had him cornered and Karl had to shut him down and move on, his distraction question took him, naturally, to what Rubio thought about January 6th defendants.
Thus far, attempts by the media to knock Republicans down and drag Joe Biden across the finish line in November have not resulted in the polling they wish to see, so panic is setting in. Democratic politicians are ramping up their rhetoric, and their allies in media are dialing up the amplification to 11, because again, to quote from Spinal Tap, that’s one more than ten.
The hostility regime media shows toward conservatives, whether they be pundits, business owners, or elected Republicans, is growing in intensity. In fact, just using hostility as a measurement, the media dislikes conservatives in the same way the left wing of the Democratic Party dislikes Jews. This open hostility is unlikely to ease for the remainder of this political cycle, because media has made the calculation that since they’re not succeeding at convincing anyone in the middle or the ideological right in this country, they have to keep their core audience as ginned up as possible to keep this election within the margin of cheat, and that can only be done with hyperbolic rhetoric and volume.
Our mission here is to help you dial down the noise, listen to what’s being said, and arm you with the facts and information you need to decide the direction this country should take in this election and beyond.
