Media Corruption
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PBS, Stelter, NYT Agree About Trump’s Kremlin-Style ‘Chilling Effect’ on AP
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour featured guest Brian Stelter, editor of CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter (and reliable white knight for the mainstream media) to discuss the “chilling effect” of the Trump Administration blocking the Associated Press from the White House pool of reporters.
PBS's guest, the ubiquitous media critic (er, defender) Stelter sounded a familiar cry:
Miranda Devine: Pitiful lefty White House press corps whines about access after barely making a peep when Biden was AWOL in office
Snarky Times reporter
“Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of [Vladimir] Putin’s reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access,” Times reporter Peter Baker snarked on X.Their latest Russia-hoax furor erupted after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced she was sidelining the White House Correspondents’ Association — an outdated and unrepresentative group of legacy media outlets — from its previously privileged role of determining which media outlets can participate in the small press pool that takes turns covering presidential events.
The WHCA reacted to this savage diminution of its power with hyperbolic claims: “This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States.”
No it doesn’t.
The WHCA is a private club that wants to keep control of the narrative, just like it did in the first Trump administration when derogatory stories about the president were amplified, hoaxes were treated like Pulitzer material and anything else was ignored.
Where was the WHCA when the Obama administration was spying on then-Fox reporter James Rosen’s email and phone records?
It acts like a cartel, ridiculing and ostracizing conservative voices.
Remember Chanel Rion from OANN?
The WHCA tried to banish her from the White House.
She had to bring her own folding deck chair and sit in the back of the briefing room.
Or Simon Ateba, the African journalist who ran afoul of Biden’s hopeless press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre?
The group rescinded his membership and would not even let him buy a ticket to its annual partisan dinner, where WHCA officeholders canoodled repulsively onstage with Biden and Kamala Harris.
In Trump’s first term, by contrast, the WHCA invited a nasty comedian to trash the appearance of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his then-press secretary.
Despite the kid-glove treatment from the Washington press corps, Biden laughed in their faces.
“In a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office,” he told assembled sycophants at the WHCA dinner in 2023.
“I’ll talk for 10 minutes, take zero questions and cheerfully walk away.”
Biden treated the Washington press corps and the traveling press pool like garbage.
He reveled in their powerlessness, smirking contentedly as his wranglers yelled at them and forced them out after a photo opportunity.
Perhaps they were suffering from Stockholm Syndrome because they put up with it for four long years.
CBS News Makes It Clear Biden and Harris Were Lying When They Said the Open Border Wasn't Their Fault
On Joe Biden's first day in office in early 2021 he signed orders undoing everything Donald Trump had put in place that secured the border during his first term. The ensuing four years saw millions and millions of people illegally streaming across the border after Biden basically sent out invitations.
When the issue of open borders because a political liability for Biden, Harris and the Democrats, they made lame attempts to blame Trump and the Republicans for the massive influx of illegals. The media also predictably tried to help with the Dem spin:
"Trump pounced" on the tragic consequences of Biden's open border. Never fails.
CBS News has a story that inadvertently sinks Biden and Harris' "there's nothing we can do about it" approach. Trump's only been in office for a few weeks and looks what's happened to the numbers:
Lib Media Meltdown Compilation Proves Trump's Meeting With Zelenskyy Triggered All the Right People
Add it all up and the lefty media and the "experts" they talk to (many of which are serial gaslighters who have been nothing but wrong in the past) were beside themselves.
He Sleuthed It Out! Jonathan Chait Solves the Mystery Of Trump and Zelenskyy (You'll Never Guess)
The leftist legacy media is still reeling today from the unhinged, hissy fits they threw after Donald Trump and J.D. Vance refused to let Volodomyr Zelenskyy waltz into the Oval Office in his military fatigues and try to make demands of the United States.
Everyone who loves America first cheered the fiery comments from Trump and Vance, not to mention the applause when Secretary of State Marco Rubio unceremoniously showed Zelensky the door out of the White House.
The legacy media, of course, does NOT love America, and hundreds of journos have been screeching on Twitter ever since the incident, shouting the question, 'How, oh how, could Trump treat a respected ally so disrespectfully?'
[Editor's Note: Ukraine is not, in fact, an ally of the United States.]
But leave it to one of journalism's greatest living embodiments of Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery. This morning, Jonathan Chait of The Atlantic, most recently noted for referring to American voters as 'an occupying army,' took to Twitter to announce to the world that he, and ONLY he, understands Trump's motivations.
Are you ready for it? Chait's revelation will shock you.
He figured it out, everyone! This is bigger than the Pentagon Papers and Watergate combined!
... sigh.
Can we also pause for a moment to note that Chait's tweet consisted of him posting a screenshot of an article that he wrote? Who does that, other than an unhinged narcissist?
It reminds us of the photos we used to see of Tony Fauci's office, which is adorned with pictures of ... Tony Fauci.
He's SO BAD at This! David Frum Goes All Doom and Gloom on Trump, Trips Over Biden's Record Instead
Shortly after the election, Democrat weasel Will Stancil told Democrats their job was to make sure there was never, ever any good news about the Donald Trump administration. Scott Jennings called CNN's panel of Leftists out on it, too, saying they're cheering for recession, big government, and illegal aliens.
It seems David Frum took Stancil's advice to heart, posting this list of stuff and mocking the American voters for it:
And Donald Trump is enjoying a 20%+ approval rating among Black voters and his overall approval is at 52%.
So keep it up, David.
Makes sense now after Carl Benjamin's Great Men video.
Where Do You Go After 'Literally Hitler'?
Whatever. It’s all stupid, and it doesn’t work anymore if it ever worked at all. You can’t call Trump “Hitler” for the nearly ten years since he came down the escalator in the farthest thing ever from a Leni Riefenstahl rally and, after he fails to grow a tiny mustache, start wearing Hugo Boss uniforms and invade Poland, expect people to take it seriously. And people don’t care. It’s now just background noise. Trump is Hitler. What else is new? What else you got?
“He’s Hitler” is a shorthand for leftist disapproval, much like the term “racist.” If you’re not a leftist – and sometimes if you are – you’re a racist. It’s not what you’ve done. It’s who you are. And the term is tossed around so promiscuously no one respects it. It doesn’t matter if you do thing X that they say is racist because you’re still going to be racist anyway. You can’t win. And when you can’t win, it’s not fair. And when it’s not fair, no one takes it seriously. It becomes a joke. No one cares. It’s like the boy who cried wolf, except they don’t teach that story in schools anymore because it privileges the male gender experience. And no, the story wouldn’t work if the boy who cried wolf were the she-male who cried wolf because the trans folks are often the ones crying “wolf,” and they hate irony almost as much as using the right restroom.
Meet Pablo Manríquez. Apparently, Manríquez is the editor of some lefty rag called Migrant Insider, which really just looks like an outlet for him to use to leak information to criminal illegals in our country. You'll note the mask in his photo and how he likes to shut down replies.
Yeah, he's a real sweetheart.
The 'leak' may just be a strategy. If they know ICE is coming, gives them time to head home and ICE doesn't have to spend time and money processing them.
In reality, the illegals will just hide under the sink until ICE is gone, then come back out.
I think ICE should hit every Democrat's home and check out the hired staff.
In reality, the illegals will just hide under the sink until ICE is gone, then come back out.
I think ICE should hit every Democrat's home and check out the hired staff.
