The Journalistic Patriots Who are Fighting for Us

The past two days I had the joy of listening to presentations by Scott Jennings (adversary extraordinaire), Catherine Herridge (champion of truth) and Seamus Bruner (colleague of Peter Schweizer, author of The Invisible Coup). Much of what they shared reflected the latest attacks on journalism and on our country, but each one’s unique perspective was eye-opening. I’d like to share some of what I learned.

First, Scott Jennings. Yes, he’s as handsome and bright in person as on CNN. For those of you who may never have seen Scott, he battles regularly with the clueless and biased members of CNN. He’s known for his aplomb, his rightness on the facts, and his insistence on the truth, no matter how the other panelists respond. He was a great admirer of Charlie Kirk (as were most of us), and his willingness to take on the Left reflects what Charlie stood for: we have to talk to each other. Scott believes that we are living through a time when our democracy is being hijacked, the bureaucracy continues to try to run this country with the assistance of Leftist media, and the judiciary has joined in, too. He believes that ordered liberty is worth understanding and preserving. And he stated that he and our audience that day had a mutual calling: We were fighting for the future of Western Civilization, and the soul and survival of the nation. His passion was moving and I so appreciated hearing his perspective.

Our next speaker was supposed to be Salena Zito, but she became ill the day before the conference. I would have loved to have seen her and heard from her; fortunately, I had read her most recent book, so I probably felt less disappointed than others who don’t know her work. She planned to speak on the presidential assassination attempt at Butler (the topic of her book). It would have been not only informative, but moving, too.

So, Catherine Herridge was moved up on the schedule, and she was an incredible presenter. First, I had no idea how much she despised James Comey (which you would not hear in her reporting). She repeatedly referred to his “false statements.” She believed that no one had done as much damage to this country as Comey had. She described him as “having a difficult relationship with the facts.” I was also fascinated by an observation she made about Comey’s “86/47” disaster. (You may remember the sea shells in the sand and how he had no idea what they meant—right.) Catherine explained that when he took the post down from Instagram, he incriminated himself. She described it as “consciousness of guilt behavior”; in other words, he knew he was lying. Her favorite labels of him were “The Leaker in Chief,” and “King of the Double Standard,” referring to his letting Hillary Clinton and her email server off the hook. She also explained a common misleading strategy that many in government use, called circular reporting: frequently stories were planted, and later used by the media as “evidence.”

You may know that Catherine worked at Fox News and then moved over to CBS. Her boss and the owner, Shari Redstone, had directed her to investigate the Hunter Biden laptop story; unfortunately the leadership beneath Ms. Redstone decided to defy her, and tried to stop Catherine; they even stole her records. And then fired her. She believed she was being fired for the “crime of journalism.” It was a difficult time for her.

A fascinating observation she made was that in these times, you can no longer hide information. One way or another, the truth can be found.

Catherine has found new success as an independent reporter; her son calls her a “60-year-old influencer,” according to his teenage friends. But, of course, just as important as influencing is her commitment to the truth.

Finally, Seamus Bruner spoke; he has worked with Peter Schweizer since 2011 at the Government Accountability Institute. Seamus’ talk updated us on Antifa, and described the process they followed, with the funding provided by several insidious organizations. He called the overall cabal funding these protestors “Riot, Inc.,” describing a three-step process to their strategy: (1) Migrant, Inc.—enlisting the migrants through NGOs and creating financial dependency, so that the migrants were beholden to these groups; (2) Election, Inc.—the key steps to mobilize the electorate with funding from Soros, Arabella and other international funders; and (3) Disruption, Inc.—when protests and riots were organized to create maximum chaos. Since many of the Leftist organizations are funded by these players, more has to be done to make sure that our own government is not funding them in the form of grants.

To me, the best parts of these presentations were not just the information and perceptions shared, but the fact that I had the chance to hear from people in journalism who put their lives on the line every day, defending our rights and this country with truth and justice.

God bless them.