After watching the theater put on by the Democrats at the DNC in Chicago, there was one consistent strategy on display: lie and gaslight the American people, knowing that the legacy media has their back, scrutiny be damned.
It was indeed a remarkable scene at the Democratic National Convention where there was absolutely no hesitation at lying about things that are provably false. The biggest lie was the effort to completely erase the Biden/Harris administration from the history books. Why? It’s the most surefire and poisonous effort to annihilate their responsibility for the dumpster fires here at home and abroad for last three and a half years. Imagine you have an arsonist stealing a firefighters uniform and showing up at the fire she created insisting she’s the new anti-fire hero. Yeah, no.
Having such little regard for their own base, they worked very hard hoping people would walk away from the convention thinking that Donald Trump has been president since 2020 and all problems that exist are his fault. ‘Biden who? Harris who? Oh yeah, that’s the new girl!’ is their con.
The convention has been presenting a vacuous Harris as a change agent. This requires a complicit media willing to ignore the fact that as vice president, for the last four years, she was admittedly the one in the room and knew what was going on during our various and continuing catastrophes. This collusion between the Democrats and the media is not new, but it seems more blatant and gratuitous than ever before. Legacy media is dangerously abandoning any semblance of investigative curiosity or responsibility to contradict the lies being shoveled at the American people.
The Democrats’ lies are great and small, but they all flow from the same malignant narcissism as an ingrained habit to con and trick people into doing their bidding. The final night of the convention, wherein Harris would give her acceptance speech for a nomination for which no one voted, was abuzz with “surprise guest” Beyonce. But even that was a ruse to get more people to tune in for Harris’s speech. A TMZ headline blared “Beyoncé Performing at DNC’s Final Night!!!” Yes, that’s with three exclamation points. The always reliable leftist rag “The Daily Beast” giddily blurted, “Beyoncé frenzy at Kamala Harris’s DNC Reaches fever pitch,” for the media, that is. The problem is it never happened because it wasn’t true. An “election columnist” for The Cut cooed how well that gaslighting worked, posting on X: “teasing a huge surprise guest and leaking that it’s both beyonce and taylor swift just to get people to tune in is actually kind of funny.”
On the other hand, it might be important to note that the Dems realized the only way they could get people to tune in was to promise viewers someone other than Kamala Harris. As is their nature, like lying about creating 800,000 jobs that never really existed, promising 500,000 electric vehicle stations and delivering only 8, claiming the economy is just fine, inflation is retreating, and insisting Kamala is tough on border security, lying to inflate television ratings is par for the course. There is simply nothing that they won’t lie about. And why is that? Because everything they’ve done and plan to do will harm the country and destroy lives and they don’t want to be stopped.
Of course all of this relies on a legacy media that plays along and doesn’t ask questions, illustrating just how idiotic the useful idiots can be. Behold the Media Research Center’s gobsmacking new report illustrating just how much the media is in the bag for the Democrats, noting that the “leftist media are unapologetically promoting Kamala Harris with 84% positive coverage, while trashing Donald Trump with 89% negative coverage.” Nothing to see here, folks.
Courtesy of PBS’s Judy Woodruff, we also got a glimpse of just how panicked the Democrats and their media water carriers are becoming. At a roundtable on PBS, Woodruff falsely claimed that during a phone conversation that former president Donald Trump had urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off on a cease-fire deal because it would help the Harris campaign, saying: “The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now because it’s believed it would help the Harris campaign.”
Her accusation was horrific and completely false, she eventually issued a statement of which many called an apology, but it was far from it. Instead, she deflected saying that she was referring to Axios and Reuters reports about an alleged phone call between the two men, which has also now been proven false. But there was nothing in either report remotely implying that Trump was trying to stop any cease-fire deal, quite the opposite in fact. Yet, Woodruff says nothing about that part of her incendiary allegation. In the end, it comes down to saying whatever it takes to move the needle for ideological comrades.
That the media is still operating on a level of hubris allowing them to operate in such a brazen and openly hostile way with the American people is an astounding, and increasingly dangerous development. After all, how can we make informed decisions when those we trust to inform us are lying about virtually everything, either directly or by omission? Their behavior becomes the ultimate election interference.
The good news is there’s public discussion and even news coverage of the decline of trust in media. But what is happening now, like the Woodruff misinformation, is not journalism at all. What’s happening to legacy media is of their own doing.
In the meantime, expect the legacy media to continue to do the bidding of the Democratic Party while nursing their hatred for Trump and anyone else who dares to challenge the status quo. Our job is to make sure that we do not allow them to gaslight us into oblivion.
Tammy Bruce, an Independent Conservative, has traversed a unique political journey that reflects her commitment to principles rather than party affiliations. She joined Fox News in 2005 as a Political Contributor, hosting her show “Get Tammy Bruce” on Fox Nation and providing insightful commentary on various issues for the Association for Mature Americans (AMAC).
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of AMAC or AMAC Action.
Bottom line — nothing has changed with the tactics of the DEMOS, keep lying and deceiving while rigging the election again in their favor so they can finish their destruction of our nation. PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!!
Anybody remember Dan Rather making up “breaking news” about GW Bush’s military service? Brian Williams “taking fire” in Iraq or “bodies floating down the street” after Katrina? How about knowing about John Edwards mistress (while his wife dies of cancer) and saying nothing? The “good people on both sides? The “bloodbath if Trump loses”? “Refusing to visit veteran cemeteries because “they’re fools & idiots”? They are not press, they’re political activists who are as big of liars as the Democrats they lie for!
My 2% pension increase means I have lost 2-4 full years of my recent pension income under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. And I’m promised an encore!
Appears to be a game for dems who support these even more radical socialists/marxists to rewrite history/lie.
Harris/Walz both rewrite history. Their history. Two clowns and they might run the United States of America. And they will make us ununited. Harris/Walz will separate everyone, so we are too busy arguing and will not see the harm they will do. Unbelievable!!!
It is just amazing that Kamala, who was the albatross around Biden’s neck and was going to be replaced because her ratings were lower than Joes, now has become the darling queen of the Democrat party. Just unbelievable that she is the best that the Democrats have. Scarier is her VP pick!
Judy Woodruff and Dan Rather are two peas in a pod. Both went with a story that was false. Judy gave a poor semblance of an apology by saying she was only reporting what others were reporting (i.e. she did no work to confirm the story she “reported”) and Dan ignored the truth that was shoved in his face until his CBS had to do something. These pathetic “journalists” are emblematic of the news media in the 21st century. They might as well have offices at the DNC.
Too bad for the Democrats they could not just bomb some random terrorist group, or third world country to make the American people forget about their lies, and scandals like they did whenver one of Bill Clinton’s lack of zipper control bimbo eruptions came to light. We all better watch out with their lack of outlets for their hyper aggressive tendencies they are liable to take it out on all of us in one form, or another. If not in all out oppression, they might resort to more taxation, and inflation to inflict more pain. There is nothing more anti-social than socialism.
This is a well-written article that must have been a challenge to write, given the sheer depth of the dishonesty that Ms. Bruce represented to us.
As stated, an enormous number of blatant lies are being told by these “Democrat” candidates. The blatant ones, though infuriating, are all at least subject to near-term discovery… even by the “democrats”.
The lies that often bother me more are the contextual lies that are broader in scope and have a higher impact… but don’t lend themselves as much to discovery, because the people who vote for this party are too intellectually lazy to investigate them or their context.
Of course, that’s most of what makes them “Democrats”! “Oh, to see life as a child…”
I have alway found Tammy Bruce effectual and truthful, in content and if she is expressing. her opinion it is fact based. She is a real journalist reporter on whom we can rely.
I hope Donald will get Fox News to promote a debate on Sept. 4, with Kamala and an empty podium if she does not show and turn it into a town hall exposing her cowardice to expose her inability to tell the country how she plans to reverse what she and Joe did to totally destroy the USA.
DEMONcrats at their finest hour LIES, LIES and More LIES. God Help America if they steal another one. The Main Street Media Mob is just as bad,
100% agree with you Tammy. I have seen the manipulation at the convention also. Every day more gaslighting and acting like Kameltoe wasn’t VP the past 4 years. There was so much Trump bashing and lies told. If you had a clicker to keep track of how many times Trump’s name was mentioned that thing would be broke. They never mentioned inflatio,it became price gouging. Not the border, Afghanistan debacle, Middle East only to say Hamas are fine people. Crime and destruction in America. To hear the dems tell it it’s the garden if Eden. All peaceful and full of joy. No drug problems no unemployment and no tent encampments in our inner cities. Kumbaya my Lord Kumbaya. Only Elon showed Oprah and the View an interview they did with Trump years ago. When Oprah and Whoopie were soooo enamored with Trump. Gushing all over him. Trump talking the same talk as he is now and supporting jesse Jackson financially, as Jesse was running for president. I guess Oprah and Whoopie forgot already. Trump hasn’t changed these women have changed. They fell for the brainwashing of O because he was black. And they are doing it again because she is a woman and she is 25% black. Merit is not a qualification, gender and the color of your skin is. In other words DEI. I hope that many Americans saw what a gaslighting show the DNC put on in Chicago. They tried everything to distance Kameltoe from ole Joe and since they didn’t do anything in the past 4 years than tearing America down they had to destroy Trump and his supporters instead. Mr and Mrs O were the greatest liars by skimming over the past 4 years. They sounded like Trump was in the White House the past 4 years. Like ole Joe acted, every time something went wrong like in Afghanistan the border inflation it was always Trump’s fault. It was good Trump was there otherwise they would have to own up to their mistakes. And a dem never admits he is wrong or tells lies. Only all the time. VOTE TRUMP/VANCE IN 2024. Stop the gaslighting and vote for the truth.
If the mainstream media would actually report the news instead of bowing to the radical progressives, there wouldn’t be millions of people out there who only vote with their emotions and totally disregard what a destructive 3+ years of Biden/Harris caused to our country. Harris and Walz are even more radical than what the regime has been so far. The fake media is the biggest enemy of our survival as a free nation.
It is bizarre. But, I am surrounded by people in my neighborhood wearing pro-Harris T-shirts and caps, signs in yards. One yard sign says “Veterans for Harris.” I feel like I am living in enemy territory. This article has presented the problem well. But, what can I do to reverse damage done by the Dems? What can I say, or what evidence can I show, that will convince my deceived neighbors that they are believing destructive lies? Right now they are blissfully unaware that they are being used as useful idiots. How can I rescue them?
Been doing that since Biden took offrice
The GREATNESS of AMERICA is faltering from within. GOD gave us the gifts of Freedom of speech, religion, assembly, petition and freedom of the press. Look what has happened! the government ts chipping away speech, religion, and by limiting assembly and petition by the two tiered justice government we are like slaves, and then comes the PRESS which is the ENEMY WITHIN as an arm of the very government our founding forefathers worked for years with GOD to present it to us worth pure gold, however evil took over between then and now.
In the thirties journalists went to Soviet Union to see the fruit of the glorious revolution and came back gushing over it Everything was beautiful. When Andre Gide reported on what he witnessed they’ve ripped him to pieces mercilessly. There is journalism and there is deliberate misleading and lying. These guys covering the DNC gathering all deserve Walter Muggeridge award.
The media was given freedom of the press to ensure that government had a watchdog. Unfortunately, the ones that hate America have taken over and are using their bully pulpit to destroy the very country that gives them the freedoms they enjoy.
Tammy is spot on regarding the Democrat/communist party and the Pravda media gas lighting on everything.
“The convention has been presenting a vacuous Harris AS A CHANGE AGENT.”
Does anyone remember before Obama was first elected he ran on a slogan of hope and change? I told anyone who would listen that “change” is a nebulous term since it could be change for the BETTER or change for the WORSE. Everyone assumes it will be for the better and ignores the other possibility. How did his “change” turn out for the nation’s well-being?
Harris is taking pages from both Obama’s (change) and Biden’s (hide him in the basement so he can’t explain his positions) playbooks. If she’s able to implement her desired “changes” it will make Obama’s look like the good old days.
idiots, yes. Useful? not so much. The only people on whom the gaslighting and the rewriting of history being done by the dnc and media will work are the ones with really short memories.
Hollering Hillary also baited attendance at her rallies with musical “talent,” and thankfully Trump still won in 2016. “Tay-Tay” and be-yawn-ce and their liberal views are repulsive. I was happy to have intentionally “missed” watching the DNC (Deceiving Nutso Cheaters) clown show.
Is there really only 8 charging stations in the whole USA at this time? And a couple of weeks ago Trump said that two did not work & that the 8 cost $8 billion. Where are these 8 stations and are they free or do you have to pay to use?
Good work, Tammy!