Try to have a civilized discussion on the subject of leftwing bias in the media, or ‘fake news’, with just about anyone on the left and what you will most certainly be met by is nothing more than a rolling of the eyes. And maybe, if I were they, my response would be much the same, since ALL of the ‘fake news’ would be slanted in favor of those whom I support. But that said, it’s whenever seeking to demonstrate the degree to which our supposed “objective” news media is filled with little more than Democrat partisans, the best place to start is scandals, as in “Have you heard all about the latest Republican scandal?” versus “What Democrat scandal?”
For instance, back on August 8 it was Republican
congressman Chris Collins who was indicted for insider trading and lying to the
FBI. ABC, CBS and NBC all played up this
story to the hilt, with 18 minutes and 24 seconds of coverage in just the first
24 hours. CBS devoted the most coverage,
pounding away for 7 minutes and 6 seconds. ABC came in second, offering 5
minutes and 41 seconds, and NBC was right behind, with 5 minutes and 37
seconds. Not exactly what you could call
fair and balanced, but then these folks long ago stopped being interested in
providing to their viewers that which continues to be anything other than pure
leftwing propaganda.
And then it was on August 21 that prosecutors
indicted California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter on charges of wire
fraud and campaign finance violations. The
morning and evening ‘newscasts’ on ABC and CBS spent a total of 4 minutes and
44 seconds covering the story within the first 36 hours. And it was those doing the ‘reporting’ on
these two scandalous politicians who were absolutely beside themselves that
these two men, Collins and Hunter, were the first congressional endorsers of
Donald Trump for president. So it should
come as no surprise that that somehow multiplied the “newsworthiness” of their
situation.
And why is it that that’s such a loaded,
unsubstantiated conclusion? Well, it
actually isn’t! Because what is it that
happens whenever a Democrat, any Democrat, is indicted, tried, convicted, and
then sentenced. Nothing! Consider that these same three networks,
these champions of public integrity, were bored to tears by the indictment and
trial of former Democrat Congressman Chaka Fattah. During the year and a half between his 2015
indictment and 2016 conviction and sentencing for misappropriating hundreds of
thousands of dollars of federal, charitable and campaign funds, ABC, CBS and NBC
offered up a measly 68 seconds of ‘news.’
In other words, Collins received 16 times as much
coverage as Fattah in just one day. But wait. It gets worse. Because there's former Rep. Corrine Brown of
Florida, who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 for using an alleged
children's charity called One Door for Education as a personal slush fund for
herself and several aides. She used it for more than $300,000 in personal
expenses, including tickets for NFL games and a luxury box for a Beyonce
concert. “Brazen barely describes it,” the judge, Timothy Corrigan, said of
Brown's sham charity. Never heard of her? There's a reason. And yet network
coverage was Zero, Zip, Zilch, Nada!
Both Fattah and Brown were members of that blatantly
racist little group commonly referred to as the Congressional Black Caucus and both
were defeated in 2016 primaries by other black Democrats after the national
whisper of their indictments. Both had
been in Congress for two decades and faced no serious general-election opposition
for most of that time. There are other
House Republican scandals the networks have taken notice of since Fattah and Brown.
On Dec. 13, 2016, NBC’s ‘Today’ featured a nearly two-minute-long ‘report’ on
former Republican congressman Aaron Schock's arraignment on corruption charges
in federal court.
And finally we have that resident moron at NBC, Chuck Todd, who proclaimed on this past Sunday’s episode of ‘Meet the Press’ that charges of a liberal bias in our ‘news’ media are nothing more than an old Roger Ailes tactic “not based in much fact.” But he is far from being the only member of the so-called ‘mainstream’ media to downplay that which has now become so obvious to anyone with a brain. Folks like him actually see themselves as being bona fide ‘journalists’ when in fact that are little more than stooges of the Democrat Party and very happy to be so. The truth to these people is like sunlight to vampires. It is to be avoided at all costs.
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