Here’s my observation on how our media are no different than the Russians.
By now you’ve heard about the 13 Russian nationals who were indicted for spreading misinformation via purchased space on Facebook to supposedly meddle in our presidential election last year. They used our institutions – free speech and social media – against us, to divide us, to sow discord.
What the mainstream media isn’t telling you, because it doesn’t align with their narrative that the Russians helped Trump win, the majority of the money spent by the Russians happened after the election.
Just like the liberals in the United States have “Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals,” the KGB in Russia have had their long-term plan for ideological subversion, designed to alter the average American’s perception of reality in order to confuse and divide the U. S. population, Tyler Durden reminds us in his recent post to ZeroHedge.com.
“Give me two generations of children of Americans in school without God and I will take the nation without firing a shot.” – Lenin
“One need not look no further than the generation of pink pussy-hat wearing, hypersensitive, multi-gendered, ultra-politically-correct social-justice warrior mentality that’s infiltrated the west,” writes Durden, to understand what’s happening in the U.S. “under the guise of equality and humanitarianism.”
BUT OUR OWN MEDIA, too, is sowing discord; much of it the result of the hate campaign being waged by CNN, MSNBC and others to bring down the Trump presidency. They are promoting the polarization in this country.
The Viewpoints section of the Sunday Arizona Republic, devoted nearly two pages to a column by Phil Boas, in which he compares President Trump to Rooster Cogburn, played by John Wayne in the 1969 classic “True Grit.”
“Donald Trump is Rooster Cogburn,” Boas writes, “a fat, undisciplined, ornery old cuss who became the man of the moment because he is all of those things and worse.” Boas drops in quotes from the film in a lame attempt to draw the comparison, but it was a poorly conceived over-reach to slander Trump.
Boas recounts his discussion with groups of college-educated conservative Republicans.” Boas tells them he’s angry at them because they don’t see what he sees in Trump. In fact, they do, and that’s why he was elected.
They tried more polite conservatives – McCain and Romney – but they couldn’t win elections. So, they found someone who would brawl, was the message he received.
“He (Trump) embodied virtually all of the worst qualities of human behavior, and they knew it, yes, they knew it. And they don’t give a damn,” Boas wrote, quoting Newt Gingrich, who said, “There’s a large block of people, including sophisticated people, who are just so sick of Washington, who will overlook almost anything as long as he shapes it up.”
Boas was critical of his campaign boasts of his wealth and intelligence, as he “slipped into his more natural role of loudmouthed provocateur, bashing, blaming and fuming on Twitter.” His supporters didn’t care.
I don’t suppose Boas asked his group what they thought of Hillary Clinton’s assessment that Trump supporters were “deplorable” and “irredeemable.” That insult was a more persuasive reason to vote for Trump than any Russian Facebook message.
Here’s my message to Mr. Boas: John Wayne won the Oscar for his role as Rooster Cogburn. Donald Trump won the presidency for his role playing himself. And you will not win a Pulitzer for your ridiculous political hack job.
“(Deputy Attorney General Rod) Rosenstein said that there’s no allegation that any American was knowingly involved in the conspiracy, nor was there an allegation that efforts of the defendants affected the outcome of the election. My God, what is MSNBC going to talk about now?” – Greg Gutfeld
Photo credits: John Wayne (pintrest.com), Donald Trump (fox10news.com)
