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July 6, 2017July 25, 2017

Why the Left Wing Media is Obsessed With Trump’s Base

Our press has an unhealthy obsession with “Trump’s base.” The obstinate 38% or 39%, that the media can’t stop talking about. The ones who still support Trump.

There is now, and has always been, an immovable base on both the Democratic and Republican wings of the electorate. However, the media is unconcerned with the base on the left because they view them as normal reasonable people and there is no need to examine or discuss them. The world will be fine if they remain right where they are. However, the base behind Trump is a different story.

The origin of the press’ infatuation with the Trump base was the election loss of Hillary Clinton. The media believes it is their job to shape public opinion. The clip below supports this. An MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski was caught in a Freudian slip as she warned her audience about Trump: “He [Trump] could control exactly what people think, and that is our job.”

The NY Times, CNN and MSNBC spent the campaign season ripping Trump apart with innuendo and lies; racist, sexist, assault, Russian spy, unfit, narcissistic, violence inducer and homophobic. And yet Trump won and Hillary lost. They saw his win as their failure and as their sin.

All sins need repentance and a crucial aspect of penance is a vow not to repeat the same sin again. Within the first week of the election-postmortem, the press went on a mission to understand these people who defied them and voted Trump into office. The manner in which they studied Trump voters resembled more of a recon mission of the enemy looking for weaknesses to exploit. The media needed to turn some his base to their side.

CNN sent correspondent Van Jones out to middle America to see what was wrong with these insubordinate fools. CNN host Alison Camerota conducted (video link) focus groups with Trump supporters. Political pundits and pollsters chastised themselves for not understanding the plight of these Trump voters. In time, the quest morphed into an angry frustrated mission. This base of voters became the silent enemy of the media. An enemy in need of conquering. A conquering that is proving difficult to achieve.

The warped sense of their role as mind-molders had a detrimental effect on the press. They devolved further into what we have now. A bunch of folks hell-bent on destroying Trump without any need to hinge their reporting to reality. They feel a responsibility to change the minds of Trump’s base to do the right thing and vote Trump out.

The Russia collusion story dominated the airwaves for months, the press abandoned the need for facts or actual news. The mission wasn’t to inform the public but rather to say both “Trump” and “Russia” together in the same headline to get the Trump-base to change its god-damned mind. And when that massive story didn’t dupe the Trump supporters they felt failure. In the following clip, we see CNN report on how their Russia story didn’t persuade the base.

“…not any of them [the base] willing to entertain that there might be more than just smoke to this [Russia] fire.”

The media is now constantly reporting polls to see if their propaganda is breaking the base. It never does. So after they perform a little self-flagellation, and some mocking of Trump supporters, the feeling of ‘if at first you don’t succeed try-try again” perseveres and a new slew of stories awaits on the horizon.

June 28, 2017July 6, 2017

CNN Achieves Rank of Masterclass Propaganda on Healthcare

CNN continuously produces human interest pieces in opposition to Trump. In the daytime hour this usually entails exploiting children. Stay-at-home mom watch CNN in the mornings and moms like kids. That appears to be CNN’s thought pattern. The two videos linked above are prime examples of how the network skillfully tries to woo moms away from Trump.

In the video below, CNN takes a person’s misfortune, and gracefully weaves her story into a story about the healthcare debate of which her tale has nothing to do with.

This mother has no idea what she is talking about in relation to the healthcare debate. Her situation would be exactly the same without Obamacare, with Obamacare or with Trumpcare. Yes, it is equally plausible that the mom is a willing participant in this farce. She totally avoided the question about the effect the [proposed Republican] bill would have on her because the answer is zero, none, nada, absolutely no effect.

Tears, kids, a desperate plea from a mom. Cheers CNN, you truly are a masterclass propagandist. And don’t think we haven’t noticed what gender host you cleverly choose to do these stories every time, you sexists.

June 22, 2017June 23, 2017

CNN Reaching New Lows

Many Americans suspected, based on incessant media reports, that Trump colluded with Russia. When the evidence showed otherwise, Trump asked the intelligence chiefs to go public with this revelation. Trump felt it was important Americans didn’t think their President was a Russian spy. Somehow CNN twisted this into something sinister. Their allegation is Trump ordered the intelligence chiefs to do something illegal or moral.

And when the intelligence chiefs testified they didn’t feel “ordered to intervene,” CNN analysts overrode what the witnesses said with their own opinions. Opinions based on… well nothing.

Another low for CNN occurred this past week. Many of the critics of CNN caught Jim Acosta in a big screw up. He tweeted that Trump, who went to visit Rep. Scalise in the hospital, never got to see him in his hospital room. This was later corrected by Acosta and he admitted Trump did get to see him. But the lie is not the worst part:

How sick is Jim Acosta? Did he try to make the President look bad by pointing out that Trump did not get in to Scalise’s hospital room? Scalise was fighting for his life after being shot, Trump went to see him and somehow Acosta finds a negative angle to a hospital visit. Who reports this as news? The fact that it was later shown as untrue overshadows how diseased CNN has become?

June 13, 2017June 22, 2017

CNN Disavows Journalism to Bash Gingrich

Newt Gingrich, the former Trump advisor and former speaker of the house, has been taking flak from CNN. His crime was two (see picture above) seemingly contradictory tweets. Mr Gingrich went from calling Robert Mueller, the man investigating Trump, a “superb choice” to labeling him unfair based on who he is bringing on his team. The punishment for this crime- repeated lambasting by every CNN anchor for a twenty-four hour period.

However, not one journalist bothered to research what Newt was talking about to see if there was a reason for his turnaround. If they did look into the hires Newt mentioned, they would have seen that Newt had a rationale for his new position. CNN never even mentioned one of these hires in their snarky reporting. Had they bothered to look into it, they would have noticed Mueller hiring a series of Clinton faithful as explained by Zerohedge here. This is not to say these people are inherently biased but it’s a valid discussion point.

Maybe twitter needs to lower the character limit of tweets from 140 so CNN can keep up.

UPDATE: Chris Cuomo did bring up the reasoning for Gingrich complaint. He did more than only pointing out the face-value inconsistency.

June 9, 2017June 23, 2017

CNN and the Democrats Preparing Strategy for Trump Exoneration

Most democrats, of even limited intellect, are confronting the reality that there was no collusion between President Trump and the evil Russian government. The allegation that Putin conspired with a bunch of Americans, that included a sitting US senator, to concoct an unholy alliance to manipulate an election, is looking more and more like a fiction. Although Putin does revel in making a mockery of democracy, he could not risk getting caught. Making alliances with Americans is a tad too risky. This beckons the question: What will CNN do when they are left standing naked with their false accusations?

CNN and the democrats have limited options:

(1) They can pretend the stories they’ve been pushing for the past six months were about Russia interfering in the election and not about Trump colluding with the Kremlin.

(2) They can say there wasn’t evidence of collusion but steadfastly imply that the Trump campaign was an ally of Russia.

(3) They can move on to new conspiracies involving conflicts of interest or discuss Trump’s tax returns.

A more in-depth look into the three options:

(1) Option one: There has been a litany of stories lasting one news cycle then dying, centered on the Trump-Russia narrative: The Trump computer server, Trump golf courses and Russian money, Kushner meetings with Russians, the secret dossier, the unknown derogatory information, Flynn taking money from RT, Carter Page, Jeff Sessions’ undisclosed meetings, possible back channel communications, and so on, and so on. One Russia story after the other has surfaced without any follow-up. The media devoted thousands of hours to possible Trump wrongdoings, but the entire narrative will be swept under he rug as they announce: see we told you the Russians tried to interfere in the election and pretend the Trump angle never existed.

(2) The second option is a more difficult magicians trick to pull off. At its core, it is simply double talk. The cable news networks will basically blather on about innocuous nothings, and banal coincidences as they simultaneously imply collusion. In the video below you can see how a typical CNN pundit demonstrates the maneuver.

Even Hillary Clinton knows how to feed this drivel to a salivating public.

“So within one hour, one hour of the Access Hollywood tapes being leaked, within one hour, the Russians — let’s say WikiLeaks, something — dumped the John Podesta emails”

Above she implies that after the infamous Trump video emerged, Donald called on Russia to create a distraction. No evidence needed when you own the minds of the media.

(3) The third and final option is the scenario I consider most likely. This option requires a belief that the vast public consists of morons. A belief widely adhered to by the brass and anchors at CNN. These people feel no obligation to back up or apologize for endless time wasted on the Trump-Russia shenanigans and will instead move on to new nonsense. Trump is a rich man with global business associates and international ties. The Trump empire is three degrees of separation away from everyone. It is the business version of Kevin Bacon. Conflict of Interest stories require no investigation to manufacture daily, and they can all culminate with the democrats rallying cry; “we want your tax returns.”

Are you ready to rumble?