The Mainstream Media Fraud

The conjoined Democratic Party and mainstream media's despicable character assassination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh combined with the two-year single-minded determination to destroy the Trump presidency by any means possible has irretrievably awakened a preponderance of the citizenry.  In a recent poll, 70% of all Americans and 90% of Republicans have lost faith in the self-styled mainstream media.  They are imploding due to the self-inflicted destruction of their credibility and integrity, which has exposed the fraud this cabal has carried out over the past 85 years.  The damage done to this nation and its citizenry is incalculable.

There have many frauds perpetrated on the American people.  Perhaps the most notable, and consequential, was the media persuading an overwhelming majority of citizens that journalism is not only a noble profession, but one that always strived to be fair and balanced.  Journalism, in this or any nation, has never been fair and balanced.  Nor has it been afforded the exalted status of a profession, as the definition of a profession is an occupation that involves prolonged training and formal qualifications.  Journalism encompasses neither.

Prior to the 1930s, there was no pretext of fairness, as the reporters of the day worked for newspapers that openly and unabashedly advocated for a political party or an ideology while reporting minimal national news via telegraph and wire services (after 1848).

Newspapers were the primary and sole source of news for 150 years after the nation's founding.  In 1926, the first national radio network was established, known as NBC, or the National Broadcasting Company.  By 1934, two additional networks had begun airing news and entertainment to an ever growing national audience. 

Thus, the citizenry began to increasingly rely on the news as aired on radio.  In 1925, less than 19% of all homes had a radio; by 1941, that number had increased to 75%.  This growth prompted the passage of the Communications Act of 1934, which created the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), thus placing de facto control of the electronic media under the federal government and greatly limiting competition.  Three networks essentially had a national monopoly on the dissemination of news broadcast over the airwaves in the 1930s and '40s.

It was then when the issue of fair and balanced reporting began to be bandied about and the so-called journalists in the broadcast media found it necessary to initiate the mantra that their "profession" was the epitome of credibility and integrity.  All the while, nearly all, together with their cohorts in the print media, were unabashedly and stealthily promoting Franklin Roosevelt and the bulk of his big-government policies – marking the beginning of the cozy relationship between the media and the Democratic Party that exists to this day.

By the late 1950s, television assumed the role of being the dominant source of news for Americans.  In 1960, nearly 90% of all homes had at least one television.  However, the same three networks that controlled news on the radio also monopolized the dissemination of news on television.  As an unintended consequence of this market hegemony and the near instantaneous and graphic nature of news reporting on television, newspapers began an inexorable and precipitous decline – thus relegating the major-market, and more liberal, papers to essentially being an arms-length partner and the investigative arm of the electronic media.

Many television reporters and anchors assumed celebrity status, as they were in the homes of Americans on a daily basis.  As such, their credibility was rarely if ever questioned.  The term "mainstream media" began to be used by the television networks and their allies in the print media to further enhance their image of impartiality and believability.

While there were a few news anchors and reporters who tried to be impartial, the majority were not.  Walter Cronkite was portrayed and feted as "The Most Trusted Man in America."  Yet he almost single-handedly, along with his cadre of reporters, convinced the populace that a significant victory by the American Army in Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, was an overwhelming defeat and embarrassment, thus denigrating the valor of the soldiers and turning public opinion against them.  Across the spectrum, his reporting, abetted by what stories the network chose not to cover, skewed significantly toward the Democrats and liberalism.  This approach to presenting the news was essentially the same on all three networks and replicated by their collaborators in the print media.

On a national basis, the American people, unable to receive any alternative broadcast media until the mid-1990s, were gulled into believing that journalism and the media did indeed strive to be fair and balanced.  This was an ideal scenario to dramatically assist the left in the indoctrination of the citizenry into slowly but surely accepting liberal orthodoxy – a tactic that has, for the most part, succeeded.

Despite the proliferation of talk radio, Fox News, and the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s, the mindset of unquestioningly accepting the image the mainstream media promoted still prevailed among far too many, allowing the denizens of the dominant media continued believability and access to virtually every American home.

Therefore, the preponderance of the current generation of so-called mainstream journalists, more ill educated and steeped in left-wing ideology than their predecessors, had a platform to unabashedly promote leftist social and economic policies.  Also, unlike their predecessors, they no longer attempted to hide or obfuscate their agenda or bias, as the goal of transforming America was within reach – until the election of 2016, a catastrophic event that precipitated a renewed determination by the American left to obliterate conservative and Republican opposition by any means possible.  The mainstream media would be the spear-carriers in that effort.

In their anger and retaliation, far too many mainstream reporters, editors, anchors, and columnists exhibit an inability to generate an original thought or comprehend basic concepts, hence fabrications, innuendo, and "fake news" are the hallmark of the mainstream media today.  Further, they are much more impatient than those who preceded them – thus, the herd mentality in the despicable reporting on Judge Kavanaugh, the distorted coverage of Donald Trump, and the determination to foment tribalism and resentment.

These overt actions are why Americans, as polling reveals, have become increasingly suspicious of the mainstream media and are searching for alternative sources of news.  The current state of anxiety and bitterness throughout the nation can be laid primarily at the feet of the media as they took advantage of their monopoly of the electronic platform available to them to promote and give cover to the left while proactively and falsely declaring their objectivity and integrity – thus perpetrating the greatest fraud in American history.

 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/10/the_mainstream_media_fraud.html

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The Kavanaugh setup becomes clear

With each passing day and with each bit of information that seeps out about Christine Blasey Ford, it is clearer and clearer that what the Democrats have done to Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been a setup from the outset.

Most of us are relatively naïve, ready to believe what our news outlets put forth.  We have open minds and were ready and willing to listen to Ford's testimony and consider for ourselves if it was believable.  It was not.  Her testimony was obviously scripted, practiced, massaged, and fabricated out of whole cloth.

Ford may have seemed like a victim, not of Kavanaugh, but perhaps of her Democrat operatives.  Over the past days, however, what is nearer to the truth is that she was and is part of a faction of anti-Trump activists bent upon destroying Kavanaugh in order to deny Trump another nominee to the Supreme Court.

They have badly misjudged the wisdom and sentiment of the American people.  These Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are so deluded by their belief in their own intellectual superiority that they felt comfortable publicly, derisively attacking a man with a reputation finer than any of those who sat in judgment.  This was like Salieri sitting in judgment over the music of Mozart – preposterous.

At first, those of us paying attention were anxious to hear Ford's story.  The bits of news that preceded her appearance before the Judiciary Committee were titillating.  Was it possible that this man, Brett Kavanaugh, with a thirty-years-plus record of impeccable judicial service to his country, had a dark side?  Then we heard Blasey Ford "testify."  How anyone who listened to her practiced, phony childish act could believe that this was not calculated is a mystery.  She was obviously scripted, coached, and performing.

Perhaps she did not expect to have to appear before the committee.  She and her handlers may have assumed that the taint of her accusation would bring about his withdrawal from the nomination or that Trump would withdraw it.  Guess they have not been paying attention to how Trump operates or who Kavanaugh is.  They guessed wrong.

Given the numerous falsehoods of the FBI and DOJ we now are aware of – the "two front doors" lie, the fear of flying lie, the claustrophobia lie, her polygraph lies – what seems credible now is that this was a manufactured, orchestrated setup at the outset.  They used Mark Judge's book as a template and contrived a tall tale.

Trump nominated Kavanaugh, and the left shifted into overdrive; he would be defeated by any means necessary.  Schumer said as much twenty minutes after Trump announced his nomination.  From that moment on, they would dig down deep into the reservoir of radicals willing to go to the mattresses.  Schumer likely began the plan with Feinstein.  They knew that Katz and Bromwich would come aboard.  Blasey Ford most likely volunteered her services.  Ford's lifetime friend, retired FBI agent Monica McLean, may have been on board to help write that ridiculous letter that ended up in Feinstein's hands.  Schooled, allegedly, in psychology, hypnosis, and all the attending versions of mind manipulation, Ford probably felt confident she could pull off the charade; she would use her baby voice to appear fragile and vulnerable.  But she did not pull it off.  There is a mighty chorus of Americans who pay attention to these issues and events.  They were not fooled.

The "narrative" of her alleged groping was vague enough to provoke doubt but wholly without corroboration.  That the persons involved in this farce thought she would be convincing without a shred of evidence is comical.  They really do think all of us outside their bubble of leftist groupthink are imbeciles.  They actually thought we would all fall for Ford's absurd performance.  Sure, the dupes on the left loved every moment of it.  They don't need evidence or witnesses.  They believe survivors.  Survivors of what?  Nothing.

Ford now looks like a liar and a fraud.  There is most likely a real journalist out there right now who will dig deep and write the book about this travesty a few radical leftists perpetrated on all of us.  It was all a lie.

These people feel so entitled to force their agenda upon all of us that they have lost all moral sense.  They will lie, cheat, and steal to win in the end.  That is exactly what they did.  They lied, cheated, and stole Brett Kavanaugh's reputation, his life's work, his love of teaching and coaching girls' basketball.  They did it without a moment's thought for what it meant to him or to those of us out here in this great nation.

What we saw at that hearing Thursday last week was an abomination.  It was Kafkaesque, the shameful, purposeful attempted destruction of a fine man without a kernel of evidence.  And they knew what they were doing.  Our left today is monstrous.  Leftists learned well from the Clintons' politics of personal destruction.  It has always worked before; why not now?  Not now because of Trump.  He fights back.  And Kavanaugh stands tall.

It is hardly surprising that the Democrats who were never going to vote to confirm Kavanaugh before still will not.  The same three squishy Republicans are still on the fence, as they were before.  The red-state Democrats, with the exception of Heitkamp, are still waffling.  So, after thirty hours-plus of hearings and the additional blistering hearing of Ford and Kavanaugh a week ago, we are still exactly where were before Feinstein threw her Blasey Ford grenade into the mix, hoping to upset the whole apple cart.

Feinstein is a menace, as are Schumer, Blumenthal, Harris, Booker, Whitehouse, and Klobuchar.  They need to be voted out of office; they do not seem to have this nation's best interests at heart.  That should be clear to everyone by now.  It is but for those hordes of paid-by-Soros protesters haranguing Republicans to vote against Kavanaugh.

If there were ever in the last forty-one years, since they kept Robert Bork off the Court, a man who should be confirmed as a justice, it is this man, Kavanaugh.  Anyone the left is this viscerally frightened of belongs on the Court.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are indeed at a crossroads.  Kavanaugh must be confirmed, and we must all vote Republican next month.  Conservative mortals, join the mighty chorus.  Call your senators.  Tell them to vote to confirm Kavanaugh and vote Republican on November 6.

 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/the_kavanaugh_setup_becomes_clear.html

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