The Press as an arm of the Democratic Party
The American mainstream press is in general an arm of the Democratic Party, aptly named "fake news". Some of it is positive fakery, as in the multi-year attemp to brand Trump a Russian spy. Some of it is negative fakery, as in the non-coverage of Rep. Swalwell's liasion with a Chinese mata hari or Vice-President Biden's heavy-handedness with the Ukraine to stop it from investigating the company that was paying his son hundreds of thousands of dollars. Discussion and examples can be found in the sources below.
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Fake Stories
"Aaugh! A Brief List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus," Matt Taibbi (2021).
NPR
- In the 2006 Court case that reached the Supreme Court, CRAWFORD v. MARION COUNTY ELECTION BD.
472 F. 3d 949, affirmed. Souter in dissent says, "Afair reading of the data supports the District Court’s finding that around 43,000 Indiana residents lack the needed identification, and will bear the burdens the law imposes." That is about 1% of Indiana residents eligible to vote. So all the Brennan Center numbers and surveys and moaning about inaccessibility is fake.
- "Why Millions of Americans Have No Government ID," February 1, 2012.
"...Democrats and progressive groups, say the laws are really designed to suppress voter turnout, especially among certain groups.
And it turns out that more than three million Americans actually don't own a government-issued picture ID. That's according to a recent study by New York University's Brennan Center for Justice."
- I don't think that 3 million figure actually comes from the Brennan Center. That woudl be about 1.5% of voters, and the Brennan Center says 11%.
- " "Citizens Without Proof" Stands Strong", Wendy R. WeiserKeesha GaskinsSundeep Iyer September 8, 2011.
"A 2006 national survey commissioned by the Brennan Center found that as many as 11% of voting-age adults, millions of Americans did not have a current and valid government-issued photo ID. This is a troubling statistic for advocates of strict photo ID policies. Hans von Spakovsky and Alex Ingram of the Heritage Foundation recently published a memo attacking our study and this widely-cited, independently confirmed statistic. This document contains details on our study and explains why their attacks are baseless."
- "How the Left Misreported the Number of Voting Americans Without IDs," Don Palmer / January 13, 2016.
"However, a simple comparison of Census voting-age population data to the state driver’s license records showed that only 43,000—or approximately 1 percent of voters—did not possess a state-issued driver’s license or ID card, and that number ignored Indiana’s inflated voter rolls, other acceptable forms of ID possessed by voters, and voters who did not need an ID to vote."
- In 2020, the Cato Institute opposed voter ID laws and quoted the 11% figure as if it were accurate.
- See John Lotts 2021 working paper for how all but one country in Europe require photo ID, and the vast majority ban absentee voting altogether for people living in the country.
The New York Times
The January 2021 Capitol Demonstration Fake Police Killing
- "Did The New York Times Spread Disinformation About a Capitol Officer’s Death?" APRIL 22ND, 2021 / BY JULIE MASTRINE. This is a very good and complete article on the lying by the New York Times and the other liberal news outlets. Sicknick died of two strokes,which the Capitol Hill Police must have known immediately but instead claimed he died "of injuries". The New York Times said he was hit by a fire extinguisher. The medical report was covered up for months, and the police opened a murder investigation, knowing it would go nowhere. The New York Times updated its story in April, but still concealed that the medical reports said he died of a stroke and had no injuries.
The Washington Post
[The Washington Post anonymous source lied about the Trump conversation they "quoted" with exact words, a recording shows.
The real story re: WaPo's correction of its Trump/Ga. investigations chief "scoop."
A bunch of newsrooms claimed at the time they “confirmed” the details of the "scoop" with their own anon sourcing.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/audio-shows-the-media-got-the-trump-georgia-story-all-wrong
Media Coordination
- Andrew Sullivan on the Atlanta brothel killings and how there is zero evidence it was racially motivated and lots of evidence that it wasn't, yet the New York Times and Washington Post wrote many many stories on the racial angle.
Michael Waller article on Capitol Hill protest and how many many media outlets then parroted the same false story about his Federalist story, showing coordination.
Great Thunberg's accidentally leaked instructions from her handlers.
Like the wider Trump-Russia story itself, which magically vanished from coverage before both the 2018 and 2020 election seasons, audiences were asked for a time to care about certain things as if their lives depended on it, then just as quickly asked to forget the issues ever came up. And they wonder why people feel manipulated?
We went through many of these episodes, from Bountygate to the “mass hysterectomies” story to the recent spate of “What if Trump blows up the universe?” scare-o-grams (Forbes, echoing the famed “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is Still Dead” construction, wrote the best of these, with “Enraged and Isolated, Donald Trump Still Has Sole Control of America’s Nukes”).
We were repeatedly told that revealing the name of this or that patriotic news source would “risk lives,” only to have those sources turn out to be people like paid DNC researcher Christopher Steele, the “informant” Stefan Halper (exposed as an FBI source in the press in the eighties), or Brookings Institution fellow Igor Danchenko, who produced the pee tape tale over “beers” at a conversation made in “jest” with a pal in Moscow. Needless to say, no lives were ever threatened, and in many of those cases — Steele’s especially — the rationale for keeping the person’s name and employer a secret was clearly corrupt. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-echo-chamber-era
- [https://thefederalist.com/2017/01/04/watch-bunch-journalists-freak-asked-know-anybody-drives-truck/%7C"Watch A Bunch Of Journalists Freak Out After Being Asked If They Know Anybody Who Drives A Truck," (2017).
- 2020 was the point of no return for establishment media, December 1, 2020, Washington Examiner.
Axios, one of the more aggressive and fairer online news outlets, revealed in December that failed presidential candidate and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California developed a relationship with a suspected Chinese spy ... ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored the story entirely when it broke. The major broadcast networks continued to ignore it even after Republicans moved to have the congressman removed from the intelligence committee. NBC has nothing on its website about the Chinese spy scandal. Neither does CBS or ABC. The New York Times, the Associated Press, and the Los Angeles Times, similarly have avoided reporting on the scandal. ...
Next, there is Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock, whose ex-wife, Ouleye Ndoye, is on tape alleging assault by her former spouse. Ndoye told Atlanta law enforcement officials in March that Warnock had run over her foot during a domestic dispute, according to a police report obtained this month by the Washington Examiner. ...Neither NBC, nor CBS, nor ABC has reported on her allegations. The Washington Post hasn’t touched the story. The New York Times has not touched the story. CNN hasn’t touched the story. MSNBC hasn’t touched the story. The New Yorker hasn’t touched the story. And so on. Just a brief reminder: The New York Times and the New Yorker share a Pulitzer Prize for their #MeToo coverage...
Hunter Biden revealed in December that he is under federal investigation. The FBI, the IRS, and federal prosecutors in Delaware are reviewing his overseas business activities for possible tax and money laundering violations. Evidence of the investigation, which launched in 2018, first came to light in October after the New York Post revealed the existence of a laptop that reportedly belonged to the president-elect’s son. ...The New York Post's coverage was questioned and ridiculed for weeks by competing newsrooms, including the New York Times, Politico, and MSNBC, which alleged, without a shred of evidence, that the laptop story was Russian disinformation. The New York Post was even locked out of its Twitter account because of its laptop coverage.
https://twitter.com/JusticeTristan/status/1349404316763787264
Its been just more than two months since Axios dropped its bombshell report documenting Eric Swalwell's relationship with a Chinese spy.
The extent of Swalwell's coverage in the @nytimes features two articles on his role as impeachment manager with no mention of the scandal.
Follow the link to see the NYT article.
