Sunday, October 27, 2024
A lot of people scratched their heads when they heard that Trump was going to hold a rally in New York City. It turns out it is yet another brilliant campaign move in a series of brilliant campaign moves including McDonalds and Joe Rogan (both of whom have been as memory-holed as the assassination attempts within 48 hours).
Why? Because even if Trump cannot win New York, the media has no choice but to cover it. Just as Hollywood continues to be the center of entertainment (even though very few studios operate out of there anymore), New York continues to be the center of news. And so you see on the Harris and Trump sides wall-to-wall coverage of the event.
Was there coverage of the thousands and thousands of New Yorkers who lined the streets from 34th to 59th in support of Trump (remember that MSG only seats 20,000 people)? Was there coverage of the impressive lineup of speakers, from Vivek Ramaswamy to Tucker Carlson to Tulsi Gabbard to RFK, Jr. to Elon Musk?
Well..no. MSNBC is repeating the downright irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric that this rally is a reincarnation of a Nazi rally in 1939 (never mind that Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Jimmy Carter all spoke from that same stage). Rolling Stone’s only takeaway from Elon Musk’s speech was that reforming government would result in “hardship” for some (they want you to think it’s poor people, but it’s really career bureaucrats).
It’s the Washington Post, however, that is leading the charge in terms of finding the lynchpin that they hope will take down the entire event. One of the speakers was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. Very early in the evening he had a set in which he had a throwaway line about the floating pile of garbage in the Pacific which he later equated to Puerto Rico, an obvious reference to the Puerto Rican and US Federal Government’s inability to fix the ongoing mismanagement of landfills.
This is called comedy. The Puerto Rico landfill crisis is one of many that nobody is reporting on, and so Hinchcliffe decided to call attention to it. Because Puerto Ricans are humans and government mismanagement is resulting in horrible living conditions. Ironically, the joke is one that wants to HELP Puerto Rico, not disparage it.
Remember that Media Matters and every mainstream media outlet have one goal: it’s not to tell the truth, it’s to find just one sentence or phrase to take out of context and build a narrative around. They had their angle: A Trump speaker is racist against Puerto Ricans and called them garbage.
Right away, you see hundreds of social media accounts using this one line in an obscure set by a comedian to complete the confirmation bias that MSNBC started: Yes! The Trump Rally WAS a NAZI rally and this line called Puerto Ricans “garbage” proves it!
I’ve been watching this for years. More and more of you have been seeing it too. But will the American people?
Monday, October 28, 2024
Predictably virtually ALL the news about Trump is about his “racist”, “offensive” “Nazi” rally at Madison Square Garden. That’s right, that throwaway joke that took all of 5 seconds in a rally with 5 hours of uplifting, positive messages and speeches is all that the mainstream media and Google can report about. CNN, the Washington Post, NBC News, The Hill, The Guardian, Politico, and the New York Times are all shouting it from the rooftops and making it THE story.
Word has it that Jeff Bezos—who if you recall bought the flailing Washington Post in 2013—blocked their endorsement of Kamala Harris. He wrote a surprisingly even-handed op-ed explaining his decision, but not before the media went ape-sh&t crazy that the Washington Post was not allowed by this evil billionaire to bow at the altar of Kamala. I don’t believe for a second that Bezos has gone based, but amazingly, he seems to have caught a little bit of common sense.
In the meantime, Harris is doubling and tripling down on calling Trump a fascist—despite the fact that Israeli flags were flying at his rally and there is video of orthodox Jews wrapping tefillin at the rally. Harris and the mainstream media are practicing the time-honored propaganda trick of “repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. Strange…now WHO is that quote attributed to most often…?
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Joe Biden, never one to turn down a chance to put his foot in his mouth, went on a conference call and called Trump supporters “garbage”. Conservatives and independents on X immediately cried foul, but the left-wing media went into full damage control mode, writing an entire Politico piece on how “he didn’t really mean it” and following up with Biden himself issuing a statement saying “he didn’t really mean it”. Funny, because the left constantly twists words of the right out of context and doesn’t give them an inch to say “I didn’t mean that”.
Google News is predictable as always. Leftist propaganda outlets like ABC and the Washington Post dutifully parrot that Harris is giving her “closing argument” (get it? she’s a prosecutor!). NBC drags out yet another former Republican who doesn’t support Trump, Barbara Bush (no, not that one. Her daughter. You know, the one no one remembers or really thinks about). On the anti-Trump side, despite hundreds of Puerto Ricans posting on social media that they understood the joke, USA Today manages to stoke “outrage” in a group of voters in Pennsylvania (conveniently), and Yahoo is thinking past the sale by projecting that people voting on the betting markets for Trump are going to lose their money…as if they know something we don’t. Hmmm…
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Selective poll-watching again as The Hill trumpets apparent leads for Harris in Wisconsin and Michigan, while conveniently never having mentioned the Trump had a clear lead across nearly all swing states. The Economist jumps on the bandwagon, declaring that Harris’s chances of victory “jumped”. NBC News declares that Harris “strongly disagrees with criticism of people based on who they vote for”, an apparent reaction to Biden’s comments but completely ignoring that she’s called her opponent (and by extension everyone who supports him) every name in the book.
In the meantime, The Hill reports on the Trump side that Trump “is sowing doubt” about election integrity in Pennsylvania, completely ignoring the very real signs of fraud. The Guardian decides to spend time talking about statues that random citizens put up mocking Trump, while The Nation spins complete fiction about Trump supposedly taking power like a dictator.
Trump had yet another PR triumph as he took Biden’s comments about Trump supporters being “garbage” and put on a sanitation worker’s vest and rode to his rally in a garbage truck in honor of blue collar workers. Complete silence from the media who is memory-holing it before it even starts.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
More of the same. CBS News speaks chillingly of Halloween decorations depicting Harris as being “chained up”, using incidents like this to paint all Trump supporters as abusive to women. The Washington Post decides to resurrect the “grab them by the” comment that turned suburban women away from Trump in 2016 and use it to turn off young voters on TikTok. The Economist paints a chilling picture of what a Trump administration would look like.
Friday, November 1, 2024
Still more of the same. Hit pieces by The Atlantic, Politico, the Washington Post and Reuters. But the most egregious story of the day was one where Trump supposedly said that Cheney should be executed in front of a firing line. Let’s break down exactly what happened.
- On Thursday, Tucker Carlson hosted Trump in an event where they sat down and spoke candidly. Tucker asked interesting questions and let Trump give answers. Trump’s answers were measured, insightful and, well, presidential.
- In one segment, Trump was speaking of neo-cons like Liz Cheney and started to get emotional.
How is it that people like that sent young men and women to war to die so easily, without doing everything in their power to try to solve problems diplomatically?
How could they live with themselves as they made millions of dollars for themselves giving defense contractors record profits, while at the same time telling soldiers and civilians to die?
He wondered out loud how Liz Cheney would think about war if she had to stand in the place of those soliders, holding a gun while there were enemy guns trained on her?
That was the moment that Aaron Rupar and the dishonest news media were waiting for. - Rupar immediately cut out a portion of the video, completely out of context, and posted that Trump had called for Liz Cheney to be “executed”.
- CNN quickly picked up the story and repeated it, knowing that NONE of their viewers will bother to listen to the full clip.
- From them, no one had to report on the lie itself. All they had to do was report on the REACTIONS to the lie. Dutifully, the AP, the Daily Beast, and Al Jazeera didn’t have to repeat the lie; all they had to do was report on Liz Cheney’s outrage that Trump called for her to be executed—which of course she never did.
- By the middle of the day, the corrupt Attorney General of Arizona Kris Mayes—another Soros-funded AG—declared that she would “investigate” Donald Trump’s “death threat” towards Liz Cheney.
Of course, she knew exactly the truth, but she also knew that just as AGs in Atlanta and New York she could abuse the power of her office to smear Trump. Which is exactly what happened. ABC News and local Arizona news breathlessly reported that “Trump is under investigation for making death threats”. By the time the record is cleared (if ever), the election will be over and the damage will already have been done. - And of course, Google News features it as their #1 Trump story.
We’ve seen this happen over and over again; I detailed it many months ago in the smear of Elon Musk. The truth is irrelevant to the left and the establishment media. All that is important is to cause enough doubt and confusion around Trump to repel voters away from him and his message.
A quote that is often attributed to Joseph Goebbels is “repeat a lie over and over again and it becomes truth”. That has become standard operating practice for the American left.
Will it work? Maybe. But let’s hope and pray that the American people can see beyond the lies.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
I noticed something interesting. For the first time since I started doing this in July, Google News is sourcing top stories from sites like ProPublica and local media outlets like The Des Moines Register, the Charlotte Observer. This isn’t “The Algorithm”. Someone at Google is putting their finger on the scales to ensure that there is no chance in hell that Donald Trump will get any positive press.
In the meantime, the media is almost willing a Harris win. The New York Times continues to portray Trump as “seething”, the Atlantic as him being “ruthless and restless”. Fortune magazine gleefully says that “Trump blew a huge lead”, even though they didn’t report on him ever building that lead, just supposedly losing it. Politico celebrates that he’s (supposedly) behind in the polls in Virginia. In the meantime, the Harris campaign is portrayed as ascendant. She’s appearing on SNL tonight, she’s “leapfrogging” Trump (again, the press never reported her ever falling back), and The Washington Post quickly reports that a pro-Harris group that gave her little chance in October now sees a “clear path to victory”.
If you’ve been following me all this time, you know that all of this is pure fiction. The media doesn’t know how to report the news anymore, it is desperate to make the news, to push the news, to influence the news.
So what was the biggest story today? One that no major media outlet reported on. A little squirrel named Peanut the Squirrel, an Instagram star, was taken from his owner and killed in what perhaps was the most salient demonstration of big government power, over-regulation, and progressive politics gone amok.
Every move of the Harris campaign in the last week has been one of sheer desperation. Dragging out Neocons desperate for war and aging celebrities well past their prime to declare their love for Harris. Take a sentence that Trump said about wishing that Liz Cheney could experience war like the soldiers she sends to the front lines experience war—and having it twisted to say that Trump wants to put her “in front of a firing squad”. Taking a few words from an obscure comedian and using them to paint all Trump supporters as racists. Portraying a rally as a “Nazi rally” just because it happened in MSG. Silencing Biden and Mark Cuban who continually put their foot in their mouths, ruining the carefully crafted fiction of Harris. Having 60 Minutes literally edit a different answer into her interview than the one she gave. Saying that she’d go on Joe Rogan, but then refusing to.
Every move of the Trump campaign in recent weeks has been picture perfect. The return to Butler. The day at McDonalds. Driving a garbage truck in response to Biden’s insult of Trump supporters. Having an insightful, intelligent conversation for three hours on Joe Rogan. It has been a spectacularly run campaign. The only question is—how many Americans actually saw it outside of the corrupt media’s completely distorted portrayal of it?
We’ll know on Tuesday.
