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Who Needs Pravda?
Flipping through the channels Wednesday night I noticed CBS had two special programs on. The first was called One Nation: Indivisible. This program had CBS anchorperson Norah O’Donnell reading DNC talking points performing hard-hitting journalism. As you may have guessed, it was a Biden/Harris lovefest. Since there have been so many calls for “unity” they did include some Republican voters. For instance, one woman who voted for Trump in 2016 but not in 2020 said of our outgoing president, “That man is the face of evil in this country.” Can I get a “Kumbaya?” To be fair they did show other Trump voters … waving Confederate flags and beating on Capitol police. You know, a fair representation of the 74 million Trump voters.
After that hard-hitting exposé, another show started called Celebrating America. This was another Biden campaign ad that was televised on multiple channels. Here, celebrities who used to refer to the slightest acts of patriotism as jingoistic, now wrap themselves in the flag and talk about how great America is, now that they have their chosen people in power. If I didn’t know any better I would say they still haven’t gotten over the 2016 election.
Both shows felt a little creepy to me (well, at least the parts I actually sat through). If you ever wondered what state-run media would look like, this is it. The fact that it happens willfully without any involvement from the state makes me wonder where are the objective journalists? I imagine future White House press conferences will now have lots of questions about ice cream and Ray-Bans. Can’t wait to see how this all plays out.
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“The voice from the telescreen was still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter…The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain…But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
Get ready for four more years of the same from our Main Stream Masters. The beast from Eurasia has been vanquished. We will now be happy and content.
As long as we don’t rock the boat…
It does sound like propaganda of the State, doesn’t it? It is unnerving and creepy.
They get fired if they raise even a smidgen of doubt about our mentally-incoherent President.
I didn’t watch anything about the installation yesterday. But at one point, my lovely bride burst, Kramer-like, into my office doing her best Vin Scully – “I don’t believe what I just saw!!!”
Apparently after signing the stack of Executive orders someone in the press had the temerity to ask questions of Sleepy Joe and after one or two some White-House flack just unceremoniously jumped in, shut them up and threw them all out. And out they went without a word of complaint. Mrs E is usually unflappable, so it must have been pretty egregious.
Have you ever wondered what it was like to live during the rise of Hitler or Stalin or Mussolini? Now, you can stop wondering.
Where we are, explained:https://spectator.org/cultural-workers-unite-todays-marxist-revolution/
Yep, the fat lady sang and the communist curtain is falling.
Or a media-run state. I remember for years Rush speculating that the Democrat Party was the political action arm of the media-industrial complex with its increasingly overt kowtowing to the CCP. Since with the partial exception of the last four years the trend for decades has been corporatism and corporate fascism, that could well be the case.
“Journalists” are back in Obama mode, expect tough questions like “What enchanted you about being president”
What will be interesting to watch is the fact that most of the same people doing the rah-rah stuff here already are preparing to do the rah-rah for Kamala. The question is only when the adulation for the VP eclipses that for the new president, and how much Biden’s poll numbers a year from now and beyond have to do with it.
If things aren’t going good, there’s only so long the media’s going to be able to play the “It’s all Trump’s fault” card when the Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress. Given that scenario, it’s easy to see the cheerleading for Biden suddenly turn into ‘serious concerns’ about the aging president’s abilities to lead, if Democrats and the media were to think they could somehow get a boost among certain special interest constituencies by replacing Joe with President Kamala going into the 2022 midterms or the 2024 general election (and where Harris herself probably would want to be the president going into the ’24 primaries, in order to fend off primary challengers due to her less-than-inspiring performance in the 2019 primary season).
And if that day comes, we will no doubt see all of the media coming to the same conclusion at the same time.
Did you miss the Obama era – Remember “Saved or Created Jobs” being used as a metric when the job numbers were poor
They did “It’s all Bush’s fault” for all eight years of Obama.
They can do it, but the effectiveness of it is the question — Obama survived as president, but much as the media might not want to admit it, the Democrats’ midterm losses in 2010 and 2014 were far worse than than Trump’s in 2018, because the voters didn’t want to hear that the problems in 2010 and ’14 were Bush 43’s fault.
Love those rock and roll rebels lining up to support the power of the state.
Yes, that cracks me up, too. They’re SO edgy….
While ignoring their own statements that Trump blamed Obama for everything. The short memories are standard installs. Note that Trump actually had reason to blame Obama- its called RussiaGate.