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).
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