Independence Day is supposed to be a day of national unity. President Joe Biden proclaimed: “The Fourth of July is a sacred day in our country — a day of history, of hope, remembrance and resolve, of promise and possibilities.” Liberal Biden voters in the media did not concur.
These are the people who refuse to wear flag pins or say the Pledge of Allegiance at news events they cover. They love their own freedom, but they use it to be professionally unpatriotic. Oh, they would claim that people who love their country can be the most passionate critics, fighting for the still unfulfilled promise of liberty and justice for all. But that’s not what they do.
They besmirch America as a systemically racist nightmare, and anyone who disagrees is a bad person. Take issue with their hot takes, and you are the “divisive” one starting a “culture war.”
On July 4, The Washington Post ran a big piece in their Arts & Entertainment section by art critic Philip Kennicott on how the Statue of Liberty is a shabby symbol. The Post illustrated it with an image of Lady Liberty posted on a fingertip, a tiny embarrassment.
To Kennicott, it’s a sad reflection of hypocrisy for Blacks, women, gays — pretty much everyone except cisgender, straight, white men. “This is your symbol, not mine,” he reported saying to himself out loud. He added he was “repeating if not the exact words at least sentiments similar to those others had no doubt felt since the beginning of the republic.”
The New York Times ran a front-page story by reporter Sarah Maslin Nir on how liberals think flag-wavers must be disreputable right-wingers. She began with a liberal farmer on Long Island who posts a large flag on his rusting pickup as he sells his farm goods. He realized it could be hurting his business when he sounded a liberal note to a customer, who expressed great relief: “I thought you were some flag-waving something-or-other.”
Waving the flag is inherently suspicious, a sign of craziness. Or, as the Times tweeted, “Today, flying the flag from the back of a pickup truck or over a lawn is increasingly seen as a clue, albeit an imperfect one, to a person’s political affiliation in a deeply divided nation.”
And who’s doing the dividing?
So-called National Public Radio tweeted out a thread of the original Declaration of Independence, blasting it as “a document with flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies.” It says “‘that all men are created equal’ — but women, enslaved people, Indigenous people and many others were not held as equal at the time.”
See? You can’t see the text as a statement of idealism, a promise to be fulfilled in time. The Declaration is painted as a lie perpetuated by malignant, propertied white men … with your taxpayer dollars.
Then there was National Geographic, who offered this gem of a kill-joy article: “The hidden toll of July Fourth fireworks: Using crowdsourced data from home air quality monitors, scientists found that vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations.” This is not a Babylon Bee parody.
Flag-waving or singing the national anthem or fireworks displays could be unifying. But our media isn’t interested in national unity.
They seem more interested in shaping America in their own revolutionary image. They sound like their knees jerk dramatically at anything that makes patriotic Americans happy and proud. That good feeling can’t possibly be indulged, even for one day. It has to be scolded and “corrected.” Then they wonder why the “news” business is sinking.
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.
“President Joe Biden proclaimed: “The Fourth of July is a sacred day in our country — a day of history, of hope, remembrance and resolve, of promise and possibilities.” Joe must be plagiarizing again—that sounds too patriotic and Conservative. Regardless of how he intended it, he did make a true statement.
When I was in elementary school, we started every day with the Pledge of Allegiance and a reading from the Bible—and this was public school. There weren’t any charges of racism nor any objections to patriotic and Christian values. We were taught respect for the flag and the country and nobody was harmed by any of it. It seemed to be a common bond that brought us all together. Fast-forward to today and its like it is another country. Too much allowed in the name of freedom threatens that very freedom.
Communist and Socialist ideologies, anti-Christian influences, foreign interference, and the saturation of schools and society by Liberal agendas—and here we are. We need to shut the door on a lot more than just the Southern border if we are going to save and maintain this Nation as founded.
IMO we as a nation screwed up BIGLY, when we removed the requirement to say the pledge in schools etc..
“And who’s doing the dividing?”
The traitorous, socialist, dishonorable Democrat Party and its news/propaganda outlets are deliberately dividing our citizens.
The Democrat Party is pushing Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project, rubbing salt into racial wounds daily, and promoting the fiction that the greatest threat to the republic is “white supremacy.”
These Dishonorable liberal Democrat phony anti-racist crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the sensitivities of Black Americans and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of racial discrimination. For their cause is not defending the oppressed or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political Con.
The Dishonorable, Socialist Democrat Party game plan is to lie, cheat and steal elections in order to take total control of the American people, increase Taxes on everything and bring American commerce and economy to its knees.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
no matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
If they got Cuomo to change the Inscription on the Statue from “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”.,,,,to EAT FREE, they would probably lay off attacking the Statue of Liberty. As for the Democrat owned media, they always embrace the flag BEFORE the elections to fool THE PEOPLE they love the nation and everyone should vote patriotic Democrats into office. Then after the elections they just use our flags to satisfy their needs brought on by a shortage of toilet paper, when all along it is their own publications that are not even fit to line the bottom of our bird cages, all the while American media canaries in the political coal mine of darkness, whose job is to warn us of oncoming danger are all dropping dead about them.
On Laura Ingraham’s show last night, Laura was saying the same thing, on how the communist press was praising the leader of communist China and at the same time berating and denigrating our Country. Send all of these liberal clowns in the media to Communist China and North Korea. These will be a fitting places for the Pravda News media in our Country!
AND never let them back IN!