You knew the press was biased. You knew they’re nearly all liberal democrats. You’ve watched as reporting has been replaced by editorializing. Outside of Fox News, there really are no reporters left. Everyone’s a commentator, a pundit. But the left wing media has transcended bias and evolved into bald political propaganda worthy of Pravda. Pravda was described by one left wing writer:
“Pravda” is the Russian word for “truth,” but as the old Soviet joke goes, there was no truth in Pravda. For decades the newspaper was the mouthpiece of the Soviet Union’s ruling Communist Party, a broadsheet filled with propaganda and false news, the adoring lapdog of Joseph Stalin and his successors. Even when it came to covering the more unsavory details of Soviet life, Pravda could “turn black into white,” to borrow the phrase George Orwell used when he all but personified the publication as Squealer in Animal Farm.
The article was titled American Pravda: How Donald Trump could sovietize the media
The media has become sovietized. It has become Pravda. You will find more truth in Pravda than you will find in the American press.
We’ll lead off with Jake Tapper.
Jake Tapper, CNN’s struggling afternoon anchor, led his fake news network on a dishonest crusade, all in a partisan effort to spread lies as a means to blast President Trump for not taking media questions during his China visit. In a tweetstorm Thursday morning, Tapper began with, “The Chinese government never wants to take questions from US reporters. In the past American presidents have insisted upon it.” And then, while doing his best Frank Burns imitation, Tapper self-righteously added, “as a demonstration of standing up for the freedoms our nation believes in.”
The rest of the left wingers piled on quickly:
Asked why President Trump didn’t take questions from reporters today, Sarah Sanders said, “It was at the Chinese insistence there were no questions today.”
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 9, 2017
China isn’t supposed to have a say about press access. Previous press secs used to fight with Chinese counterparts for press access when in China. Witnessed personally. https://t.co/IWMgOoy7ZB
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) November 9, 2017
When Obama went to China we insisted that they take questions and they did. https://t.co/h5m8dcoyd1
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 9, 2017
As Trump might say
And wrong they were. CNN issued this correction:
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect neither Trump nor President Barack Obama took questions alongside his Chinese counterpart during their first visit to the country. A previous version misstated that Obama had.
In their haste to demean Trump, they would up looking like jackasses. And don’t forget that Rhodes is a fiction writer.
Katy Tur and Nicholas Kristof suggested that Trump might have millions killed to boost his poll numbers.
TUR: We should be raising the alarm bells much more, you believe? Covering the story more? Talking about it every day?
KRISTOF: I think we should be ringing the, ringing the alarm bells in the night because I’m afraid — and, I guess I worry a little bit also that, that at the time when there is a lot of political pressure on the President, political crises at home, that that may lead leaders to behave in more aggressive ways, take more risks. And, right now, Korea is kind of on a knife edge and both sides can miscalculate. They are both on a hair trigger. It would be very easy to have an escalation.
“To be extraordinarily skeptical [sic], you can point out that wars tend to raise people’s polling average, their approval ratings, at least in the short term.”
Tur also intimated that Trump might have reporters killed:
Why — what is your sense of why this president is going above and beyond — bending over backwards, if you will — to stay away from criticizing the Russian president and to almost give him an excuse? As we know, there’s, since 2000, been a couple dozen suspicious deaths of journalists in Russia who came out against the government there. Donald Trump has made no secret about going after journalists and his distaste for any news that doesn’t agree with him here. Do you find that this is a dangerous path he is heading down?
As the author points out, it was Obama who had a video maker imprisoned. It was also Obama who spied on James Rosen.
Then this PMSNBC airhead host comes out with this:
“Everyone needs to tone it the F down, just tone it down,” Tur said on an episode of “Recode Decode” published Wednesday. “Bring down the volume. If we’re all loud about everything, nothing penetrates.”
Trump called her a “third rate reporter” and a “liar.” Here I disagree with Trump. She is not a reporter. She is no journalist. She is simply an idiot.
But the following proves just how low, dishonest and smarmy the press has gotten:
Anthony Mason brandishes a completely false headline. It is an outright lie.
“The House committee investigating Russian meddling in the presidential election heard quite a story this week from President Trump’s former bodyguard,” announced temporary Anchor Anthony Mason during CBS Evening News as he led into a report on the leaked testimony, with the on screen headline “Blackmailed by Russia?” enblazoned behind him. “He seems to suggest Russians may have tried to blackmail Mr. Trump.”
And ABC?
Meanwhile, on ABC’s World News Tonight, Anchor David Muir sensationalized the non-story as possibly being important. “And there is another major headline at this hour, involving the President’s long-time bodyguard, and what he told Congress about the President in Moscow, and an alleged offer of several Russian women in 2013,” he declared, before handing the report off to Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross.
The truth?
WASHINGTON — After a business meeting before the Miss Universe Pageant in 2013, a Russian participant offered to “send five women” to Donald Trump’s hotel room in Moscow, his longtime bodyguard told Congress this week, according to three sources who were present for the interview.
Two of the sources said the bodyguard, Keith Schiller, viewed the offer as a joke, and immediately responded, “We don’t do that type of stuff.”
Schiller also added:
Schiller said he and Trump were aware of the risk that hotel rooms in Moscow could be set up to capture hidden video, two sources said.
But CBS wants you to believe Trump was blackmailed no matter how false the story is. That is why they presented the image they did. The intent is to damage Trump.
CNN is such a mess it is almost sad. Check out the results when you search “Jim Acosta attacks Trump”
CNN selectively edited a Trump quote to make Trump look bad and then edited a video to make Trump seem recklessly over feeding fish. It’s gotten so bad that even the Russians are calling CNN “fake news.”
CNN’s Matthew Chance wanted to asked Deripaska about all this at the APEC summit in Vietnam on Friday. Deripaska didn’t feel like talking.
He really didn’t feel like talking.
In the video above, you can see the comical lengths to which Deripaska went to avoid talking to Chance.
As Deripaska kept briskly walking, Chance was unable to get him to stop. Eventually, he did offer a brief retort — as he maintained his fast getaway.
“Fake news,” Deripaska said.
Not liking the way the real world is, the Washington Post has taken a step toward dwelling in its own virtual reality world:
The Washington Post acknowledged the one year anniversary of the 2016 presidential election by offering readers an alternate timeline wherein Hillary Clinton did not end up wandering aimlessly in the woods of Chappaqua, drowning her sorrows in buckets of Chardonnay but, instead, won the election and ascended to her rightful place on her throne in the Oval Office as President of the United States.
The Style section article titled “What if Hillary had won? A jolly trip down memory lane, alternate-timeline edition” is clearly a witty exercise in satire and it is accompanied by a alternate reality newscast imagined by the creative minds at the Post.
The press has gotten so bad that former President Jimmy Carter recognizes the problem:
Jimmy Carter told Maureen Dowd of the New York Times that the media has been harder on Donald Trump than any other president “in recent memory” (and at 93-years-old, the guy has been around for a while).
Chris Wallace had this to say
“I believe some of our colleagues — many of our colleagues — think this President has gone so far over the line bashing the media, it has given them an excuse to cross the line themselves, to push back. As tempting as that may be, I think it’s a big mistake.”
Yes it is a mistake. Trump goads them for a reason- to smoke them out. It really doesn’t matter what Trump says- reporters are supposed to be professionals and stay above the fray and on task but sadly, they are not very professional and they are not reporters. They’re all critics. They infuse opinion into everything and when Trump is the topic it’s all negative.
They have become sovietized.
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To expand on the quote you provided, I have this which I cannot remember where is got it.
I suppose our liberal, socialist-leaning media can take pride in having achieved the same level. They don’t care how blatant and thin their lies are and neither do their fans, who find it a soothing salve for their butt-hurt; they WANT to be lied to for the truth is far too difficult to digest.
Communists News Network(CNN)The Communists Broadcasting System(CBS)The Nazi Broadcasting Company(NBC)A-Mess-NBC,The Communist?Nazi Broadcasting Company(CNBC)Datelies NBC,The Anarcists Broadcasting Company the New York Pravda(Times)and the talking heads like Dan Blather,Tom Brokejaw and Baba Wawa the NYT’s covered up for the Nazis and Co0mmunists Walter Duranty and Herb Mathews were the commies propegandists
I hate Polls unless I like them 😉
@kitt: I’m surprised Rich didn’t post that, he is such a fan and believer in polls and popularity.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: I must have been channeling 8^P
What used to be the news media have been infiltrated by the ones who want to destroy America, and they are now a PROPAGANDA MEDIA for the liberal agenda, which is world domination. They seldom go OUT TO THE NEWS. Instead, they usually all meet together, and come up with their stories, and their catch phrases. For those who watch the PROPAGANDA MEDIA, have you noticed that they usually use almost exactly THE SAME CATCH PHRASES? They are now BRAINWASHING MACHINES.
@kitt: When we want to know what Americans think about something, why do we ask the Polls? Why don’t we ask Americans? What do the Polish people know about America that Americans do not?
Actually, they haven’t, but we do have a likely candidate for the spot.
Why has RT registered as a foreign agent with the US?
@Greg: It is astounding your lack of understanding, RT has always been a pro-communist station anti-american programming. They are being forced to register or face arrest.
Why now? Why not when they first began to broadcast in 2009 ? Ed Schultz, the progressive talk radio host and former MSNBC personality, landed at RT America –
Anyone who did not know it was Kremlin backed was/is an idiot. All the lefty weirdos land there. You may have to follow Rachel there.
And the New York Slimes(All the Sludge that’s Fit to print) leads the pack no wondeer americans trust in the main-stream media is at a all time low
@kitt, #10:
There’s nothing pro-communist about RT. The network is the Putin government’s propaganda tool. Putin’s Russia has far more in common with the social and economic structure of czarist Russia than with the former Soviet state. This guy is no communist, though he’ll sometimes say nice things about communism in passing as a pitch to Russian nostalgia for “the good old days.” Putin is a kleptocrat. What his government has in common with that of the former Soviet state is the ruthlessness and the authoritarianism.
Is Vladimir Putin Secretly the Richest Man in the World?
@Greg: So if RT is Kremlin backed what does that have to do with our MSM and it being the mouth piece for socialist Democrats?
Yes he is one of the richest in the world untold wealth in the Islands and Switzerland, plus a palace filled with treasures that makes any of Trump properties look like section 8.
@Greg: Standing up for Putin? Careful, you’ll get the scarlet “C” stamped on your forehead.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: Something tells me Obama and predecessors have a few bucks hidden. https://solari.com/blog/dod-and-hud-missing-money-supporting-documentation/