Commentary

I give regular thought to the bias corporate legacy media, often referred to as the mainstream media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC/MSNBC and CNN.

I wonder how those who consider themselves journalists can look themselves in the mirror each day, believing they are journalists, when they are not.  They are not because they are not permitted to objectively cover the news.

We see evidence of it every day when those media, mentioned in my lead, refuse to cover any story that makes the Biden administration look bad. To them, it simply didn’t happen.

Two months ago, when I read John Kass’s piece, “Where Have You Gone Woodward and Bernstein?” I laughed out loud, but placed it on my stack of stuff for future reference.

That time has come.

It’s hard to believe that it has been 51 years since two young Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the story of Watergate that led to the movie, “All the President’s Men,” and the resignation of President Nixon.

The journalism schools loved it as the media sought the next Woodward or Bernstein, but alas we saw leftist professors feeding the leftist media with individuals they can mold to cover who and what they can cover. 

What must they think when the truth is revealed.  Like when they learned that former President Trump did not collude with the Russians and that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was behind the claim.  And that the Hunter Biden laptop did contain evidence of his illicit activities.  There were no mea culpa’s.

That leads me back to my laugh out loud over Kass’ headline question, “Where Have You Gone Woodward and Bernstein?  “Whatever Woodward and Bernstein once stood for – and they did some heroic work – is defiled every day by the new journalism,” writes Kass. 

You won’t find them with the leftist media, but Miranda Devine, a 2022 transplant from Australia at the New York Post, and John Soloman from Just the News, are doing great research and reporting on the right.

Today, while Woodward has become known for his tell-all books of recent presidencies, Bernstein, a contributor at CNN, is regularly mocked for his claims that everything is “worse than Watergate.”

“You would think Bernstein would actually know when something is ‘worse than Watergate’ and would be circumspect before bellowing such a thing,” wrote John Nolte in a piece for Breitbart, citing five times Bernstein has made that claim. “The man is such a self-parody,“ Nolte added.

In 2016, however, when Trump used the “bigger than Watergate” claim while discussing Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, Bernstein was there to defend her, saying, “no way was than an accurate comparison,” because Watergate was about a criminal president (Nixon).

In one of Bernstein’s recent CNN rants, he claimed that the phone call President Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was “worse than Watergate” with this statement:

“This was far worse than occurred in Watergate.  We have both a criminal president of the United States in Donald Trump and a subversive president of the United States at the same time with this one person, subverting the very basis of our democracy and willing to act criminally in that subversion.”

Interestingly, in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Raffensperger downplays the left’s move for secretaries of state to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot under Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment, noting it was a product of the Reconstruction era, immediately following the Civil War. 

“It’s merely the newest way of attempting to short-circuit the ballot box.  “Anyone who believes in democracy mush let the voters decide,” he wrote.

There’s More

Woodward and Bernstein are gone from the Washington Post, but Philip Bump, the Post’s guy behind the numbers in politics, was captured in a highly embarrassing interview with podcaster Noam Dworman earlier this month.

For nearly an hour, Bump refuted Dworman’s statements about Joe Biden’s connection with Hunter Biden’s business dealings, even when he played video clips, cited testimony and reading from e-mails.  “You’ve offered no evidence. There is none.”

Bump repeatedly questions Dworman as to why he doesn’t accept his (Bump’s) versions of things, complaining that he brings up things that have been “debunked.”

“What’s been debunked,” Dworman asked.  “It’s been debunked in the sense that I’ve already addressed this, and presented the counter-arguments to it,” Bump responded.

How’s that for east coast elitist snobbery?  At least Bernstein won a Pulitzer.

When Dworman read from a Hunter Biden text, “I have to give 50 percent of my income to pop,” Bump declared, “I have no idea what that means. I don’t. I have no idea what that means.”  It was at about that time that Bump walked out of the interview.

Forget Woodward and Bernstein

“As long as there are low-information voters out there (i.e. stupid, easily manipulated voters) who don’t read and don’t pay attention,” writes Kass, “guys like Joe and Hunter Biden are protected and saved.”

May God continue to bless the United States of America.