Just a quick note on an article I came across this morning.  I know it’s The New York Times, but remember that there are many in this country who still consider it to be a source of news.  The article is not specifically identified as an opinion piece, although it may be so labeled in the print edition.  Or heck, it could be a straight news piece.  It’s The New York Times.  Hard to say.  I pasted the first few paragraphs below.  Anyway, please read the whole thing:  The Buffalo killings are part of a pattern: Most extremist violence in the U.S. comes from the political right.

‘Numbers don’t lie’

Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists.

Of these 450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75 percent. Islamic extremists were responsible for about 20 percent, and left-wing extremists were responsible for 4 percent.

Nearly half of the murders were specifically tied to white supremacists:

Source: Anti-Defamation League

As this data shows, the American political right has a violence problem that has no equivalent on the left. And the 10 victims in Buffalo this past weekend are now part of this toll. “Right-wing extremist violence is our biggest threat,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, has written. “The numbers don’t lie.”

Whoever wrote this article apparently struggles with math, calling 55% “nearly half.”  The New York Times editors also apparently struggle with math.  So they should change their title from, “The Numbers Don’t Lie” to something like, “The Numbers Don’t Lie, But We Don’t Understand Them.” But hey, don’t sweat the details.  Just remember that Republicans are bad.  That’s all you need to know.

Whoever wrote this article is also apparently unaware of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, or other Democratic Party supporters who burned cities for a year during the Trump-Biden campaign.  Or, more likely, the author doesn’t consider Antifa and BLM to be extremist organizations — to him, they’re moderates!  So their violence is not ‘extremist violence.’  Or something.  But hey — don’t sweat the details.  Just remember that Republicans are bad.  That’s all you need to know.

Now, of course, The New York Times would never make such inflammatory claims without backing up its point with data from a neutral, non-partisan source:  The Anti-Defamation League (Fighting Hate for Good!).  The ADL article doesn’t break down its data, either.  I would love to see the details on how exactly they came up with these stats.  But hey – don’t sweat the details.  Just remember that Republicans are bad.  That’s all you need to know.

Remember that the Democrats did not have to pay for this campaign ad, or any of the others provided by news media across America every day.  It’s free.

The media is just doing its job, here.  They’re trying to create a plausible background narrative in preparation for the trials of the January 6th protestors, which of course will be timed to have the maximum possible impact on the midterm elections.  Making a group of goofy unarmed hooligans look like dangerous armed insurrectionists would be impossible, without the media’s help.  So they do what they can.

They also keep attention off inflation, our border crisis, Ukraine, the opiate crisis, the crime wave in cities, election irregularities, baby food shortages, supply chain problems, and all the other things that have blown up under Democrat rule.  Change the narrative to violent Republicans.  Since Republicans are known more for their love of golf than for their love of firebombing, this is difficult.  But the media does what it can to help.

The New York Times and every other old media outlet will always have more impact than a 30-second paid campaign ad during a sitcom.  They work together to create the narrative they need at the time — it’s so ubiquitous, it becomes as natural as the air we breathe.

And the Democratic Party doesn’t have to pay for all this electioneering.  It’s free.

Most of the Democrats’ efforts to control the outcomes of elections don’t involve stuffing ballot boxes in Philadelphia.  There’s so, so much more.  And the problem is, most of it, like the article above, is not illegal.  And you can’t cut off its funding, because the Democrats didn’t pay for it to begin with.   As Time Magazine pointed out, the Democrats “save elections” through many different techniques.  And most of them are legal.  Perhaps not ethical.  But legal.

And it all is so ubiquitous, it becomes as natural as the air we breathe.  After a while, you don’t even notice it.

Just relax.  It’s easier that way.  It’ll be ok — really.

It’s amazing that Republicans ever win an election anywhere…