We don’t have a mainstream media. We have a meathead media.
Actor and director Rob Reiner captured the paranoid style of the press in summarizing the latest nationally televised Republican-smearing speech by our president. “President Biden couldn’t have been clearer. These midterms will determine whether we want to preserve our 246 year Democratic experiment in self rule or surrender to the Tyranny of Fascism,” Reiner tweeted.
This kind of deranged speech is treated as conventional wisdom. Everyone is supposed to understand that you should feel compelled to vote down the ticket for the Democrat Party because the Republicans are the Tyranny of Fascism Party.
“Democracy is on the ballot,” our president says, which heavily implies voting against his wishes is voting for the end of the American experiment. It would be a vote for autocracy, or monarchy. Democrats somehow cannot see that this carries the echoes of autocracy, or monarchy. They tell voters they don’t have actual choices on the ballot. It should be a one-party state, or democracy dies.
They want to run our country exactly the way they have run the House Jan. 6 committee. There are two legitimate political parties: the Democrats and the Cheney-Kinzinger Republicans. Both are deeply committed to the belief that the actual Republican Party should be dismantled.
The press has presented this argument in a very undemocratic way. No one questioning the committee’s hearings or rulings deserves to be heard. No one suggesting the committee is a partisan enterprise should be acknowledged — even when it’s obvious to everyone that Democrats believe Jan. 6 is somehow the best partisan argument they can make for themselves in these midterms.
The Democrats and their repeaters in the press don’t actually want the Cheney-Kinzinger Republicans to succeed, either. See how Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger won’t be in the House in 2023, and how the Democrats cynically supported what President Joe Biden calls the “extreme MAGA Republicans” in primary contests against Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump over Jan. 6. Of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach, four retired and four were defeated in primaries. Only two are on the ballot.
One of them is Rep. David Valadao of California. Before his primary in June, Democrats spent $110,000 on ads criticizing his impeachment vote. Now a Democrat PAC called the Voter Protection Project has created a website, traitordavidvaladao.com, calling Valadao “a traitor who turned his back on President Trump to serve his own interests.”
This project claims to be “holding Republicans accountable for their attacks on the ballot box.” But in reality, It’s not about accountability. It’s about putting each and every Republican in the Tyranny of Fascism box, regardless of their actual votes and beliefs. Any Republican who seeks the approval of the press should see the dead end.
Biden’s latest speech against GOP tyranny was broadcast live on CNN, and then host Erin Burnett turned to a CNN repeater, and then to a panel of three liberals and a Cheney-Kinzinger Republican. After live coverage on MSNBC, Joy Reid turned to florid celebrations by Rep. Jamie Raskin, who called Biden’s speech “beautiful.” There was no “fact-checking” and no opposing view.
Later, ex-Republican Matthew Dowd attacked the media for its alleged objectivity as it scans polls and tries to figure out who will win. He compared Republicans to a devastating hurricane, and the media are like a weatherman saying, “Oh, by the way, a hurricane is gonna hit in three days. Good night, and (I’m) not telling you what damage it’s gonna do, what you can do to prevent it.”
That’s the deranged sound of the meathead media, slanting everything in favor of Biden’s vote-for-us-or-else “democracy.”
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
“We have a meathead media”. We have a “meathead media” that is “communist”. With regard to the Democrats, they are right, we are going to lose our Democracy to fascism, as the Democrats are communist fascists (a metastatic cancer that destroys civilization)!!!!!!!
“We don’t have a mainstream media. We have a meathead media.”
That is only partially correct; We have a treasonous, destructive, lying, immoral, socialist Democrat Party’s political propaganda meathead media. 99% of what they say are lies, cons, deceptions and biased toward and for the Democrat Party’s propaganda.
They are the Pravda of US media.
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Whenever I hear of the “Meathead” media, my mind conjures up how the meathead in the “All in the Family Show” used to perk up and pay attention whenever Archie Bunker flushed the toilet. The Democrats similarly respond when the Meathead media try to flush out the openly visible truths of American political reality. Whenever their fake news polls show elections as toss ups, WE THE PEOPLE just want to toss up our last meal in response to the lies that hide an obvious impending runaway Conservative win. Their true tyranny of Fascism is reflected in Dictator-like executive orders that redistribute half trillion-dollar student loan forgiveness thieveries to buy votes before elections, depriving WE THE PEOPLE of the Constitutional protecting checks and balances via the hard tyranny of liberal lies purchased with the votes of hard-earned Conservative tax money to the benefit of one political pandering profligate Unconstitutional Democrat party. The power of the purse belongs specifically to the Congress, unless you are too dumb or too corrupt to want to read the actual words of THE PEOPLE protecting U.S. Constitution.
To biden/democrat party, cnn and other similar bias media reports all I have to say to them is quote what one person said “who in the hell do they think they are” or the pot calling the kettle b…k. Last word not used to avoid being said I was racist even if the quote states it.
I am shocked, with all the OTHER words/phrases the left’s cancelled the past 5 years, THAT IS ONE They have not worked on…
ALmost as socially damaging as the Democrats calling the pot ilegal.
I love the meathead reference. And it is very apropos in the case.
What they say is true; our 246 year experiment is self-rule is on the ballot, but they are gaslighting to make it seem that the Right is responsible for all the awful things!!! How any of them sleep at night is beyond me!!! i guess they are Sociopaths as well as Socialists!!!