May 10, 2021
Democrats seem to believe Americans are so gullible and stupefied that friendly reporters can openly quote the left gloating about how they lie, steal, and cheat to get power.
We saw it in February with a bombshell Time magazine article crowing about Democrats’ successful “conspiracy” to rig the 2020 election through aggressive lawsuits, a compliant corporate media, and the ability to deploy rioters. Big tech still chokes people on the right who make similar claims, including former President Trump, but not Time magazine. It’s like they want their political opponents to know they’re liars who abuse power and that we can’t do a thing about it.
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The myth of the “moderate” Joe Biden stubbornly refuses to die partially because the Democrats and the legacy media are working overtime to keep it breathing. From day one, Biden has aimed to erase his predecessor’s legacy, rejected Republican efforts to pass clean bills on COVID-19 and infrastructure, and inflamed the culture war on abortion, transgenderism, and race. He even called Georgia’s new election integrity bill “Jim Crow on steroids.”
Yet, somehow, Democrats and the legacy media continue to twist the limits of deception by branding this firebrand a “moderate.” This weekend, a White House staffer confessed that this is a key part of Biden’s strategy.
NBC s Chuck Todd failing to ask Dr. Fauci about the origins of COVID and more round out today s top media headlines.
A New York Magazine article Sunday quoted a figure close to the White House who said the Biden White House s tightly controlled media strategy has been successful in getting the administration portrayed as moderate when it s the most liberal one in history.
The piece by correspondent Olivia Nuzzi explored how President Biden s communications team guards him and polices language in Washington, such as repeatedly claiming the migrant surge at the border is not a crisis.
Nuzzi noted that while the Biden team s fixation on the term crisis had the reverse effect of focusing more attention on the administration s border problems, it may have pushed the Associated Press to not use the term in its reporting on the situation.
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