Regime Media Is Not Your Friend
Oftentimes on this website, and for the nearly 10 years John Campbell and I have conducted our weekly chats within the Hughniverse as part of my Aftershow program, the descent into abject propaganda by regime media has been a recurring theme. Now that we’ve begun the Look Through The Chaos podcast, whenever the media attempts to confuse, complicate, or flat-out cheerlead Democrats, we will be here to shine a line of truth.
For virtually all of our conversations, whenever John would invoke the name of Chuck Todd, the former host of NBC News’ Meet the Press Sunday show, I’d fire off a ding. Some weeks, there’d just be a token ding or two. Other times, when Todd was especially egregious in how he handled an interview or subject, we topped out at 60 dings in an hour. Does that mean that Chuck Todd is the worst offender in regime media propaganda? Hardly. His show was the top-rated Sunday show for a very long time for NBC, and Chuck was simply the standard-bearer, the repository for everything we conservatives see wrong with regime media. There certainly have been dozens, if not hundreds, of other crazy things heard and said that were purportedly trying to pass as objective news and/or analysis.
Now that Todd has left Meet the Press and is no longer on camera with any regularity, John and I have been searching for the person who seems most appropriate to earn the ding whenever it’s time to call media on the carpet. For me, the choice is easy – George Stephanopoulos, co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America and co-host of their Sunday show, This Week.
This past Sunday, among their guests was Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina. Mace is in her second full term, and sits on three different committees in the House of Representatives – Transportation and Commerce, Veterans Affairs, and Oversight and Reform. There are plenty of issues with which Stephanopoulos could have addressed with Mace that fall under her purview in any of these three committees. I’m sure she was ready to answer anything regarding the latest on the Joe/Hunter/Frank Biden family corruption investigation, how the ongoing attacks in the Red Sea by the Houthis are affecting commerce here and abroad, or how to handle the problem of homelessness, which is nothing short of a pandemic within the ranks of a lot of returning veterans. In my home state of California alone, according to CalMatters, up to one-third of the entire state’s homeless population are veterans. That’s a big problem. There is a lot to talk about in terms of possible steps the government can and should take to help tackle that problem. That’s not why George Stephanopoulos had Mace on This Week, though.
Mace worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, got elected in 2020, and was, like a lot of Americans, very upset at how the President handled himself on and after January 6th. Now that four years have passed since that awful day in Washington, Mace has reconciled herself with the prospects of Trump as the GOP nominee for president, and Stephanopoulos wanted her on to exploit what he perceives as her capitulation. As a Democrat, and make no mistake, George Stephanopoulos is, has been, and always will be an activist partisan Democrat wearing a journalist suit, George saw a window to exploit and took advantage to divert attention away from how bad a job Joe Biden is doing as president, instead focusing on Republican hypocrisy.
According to a Pew Research Poll two weeks ago, here is a chart that shows what the top issues are for Americans this fall in the presidential election.
Notice anything missing from that list? If you’re a Democrat who only gets their news from regime media, you should be stunned that abortion isn’t on there, and neither is J6/election stealing/muh democracy. It just isn’t important to the majority of Americans. The country has real problems, not the ones Stephanopoulos and his colleagues in regime media want you to believe are the most important. Here’s the main part of his interview with Mace.
Border issues? Fentanyl affecting commerce and veterans? Reaction to the State of the Union speech by Joe Biden? None of that interests George. He wanted to fight a very disingenuous fight with Mace over the rape she suffered, and how she can square that with her now-support of Donald Trump. Mace was appalled by the rape shaming in which Stephanopoulos was committing, but George didn’t back down. Instead of an interview, it turned into an argument, with Stephanopoulos taking the side of presidential advocate/prosecutor instead of a neutral journalist asking elected officials questions and then letting them respond.
Five seconds into the clip, Stephanopoulos is already lying. Donald Trump was not found by two juries to be liable for rape. Our friend, Byron York, the Washington Examiner's chief political correspondent, caught the lie and spin right away.
Even though George tried to wallpaper the interview with the Democratic talking point that Trump is a convicted rapist ten times, it’s just factually untrue. I’m not here to excuse the former President’s behavior. He has to answer for his actions just like we all have to answer for our own actions. But the narrative regime media has settled on is that Donald Trump is a rapist, a racist, and a fascist. That’s Joe Biden’s entire campaign platform for 2024. Democrats can’t run on immigration or the border, because they’re getting killed in polling on that. They can’t run on crime, the economy, foreign policy, or any of the dozen or so issues Americans care about. All they can do is paint Donald Trump as the devil they believe him to be, and hope the country will repeat how they voted in Trump-Biden I.
Kara Swisher, another Beltway-Manhattan regime media elitist at the New Yorker, repeated the talking points on CNN late last week.
So this is the Democratic playbook, and George Stephanopoulos on Sunday was doing his part to help the team.
Keep in mind that prior to becoming a “journalist”, George Stephanopoulos was the boy wonder who served as communications director for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. His greatest accomplishment? He set up the war room that was designed to aggressively respond to the attackers of Bill Clinton. Who were the “attackers”? Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Cristy Zercher, Eileen Wellstone, Sandra Allen James, Karen Hinton, and Leslie Milwee, all of whom have testified in print or under oath that Bill Clinton either sexually assaulted them in some cases, raped them in others. George Stephanopoulos’ job was not to discover the truth. His sole mission was to discredit the women, all of them, making the allegations to protect Clinton’s presidential ambitions.
Once in the White House as an advisor, Monica Lewinsky’s episode in the Oval Office with the blue dress became public. Stephanopoulos was the architect of the mantra that while you may not approve of Clinton’s personal behavior, what he was accomplishing as president was too important to impeach or remove him from office during his reelect campaign of 1996. For George to now rape-shame Mace by lying repeatedly about what Trump was convicted of is beyond ironic.
John Campbell was right in that Mace’s only mistake here was agreeing to go on This Week in the first place. Sunday shows have become ambush zones for Republicans, regardless of the intentions. What once was at least an attempt at objectivity by the networks has been replaced by pure partisan activism and propaganda. Republicans should use the media they have, whether it’s internet, radio, or actual balanced TV, and not give partisan Democrats dressed up as journalists the oxygen they need to put out their agenda.
