CNN’s Jake Tapper was chosen to be one of the moderators in Thursday’s Trump-Biden debate. In an interview a couple of days ago on CNN, Trump’s press secretary Karolin Leavitt pointed out that Tapper has repeatedly compared the former president to Adolf Hitler. Her point was that he hardly qualified as a neutral moderator in anything pertaining to Trump. Kasie Hunt, her CNN hostess, immediately responded by threatening to terminate the interview. When Leavitt insisted she was simply stating a verifiable fact, Hunt kept her word and put an end to their discussion.
As noted by The Blaze on June 27, political commentator Sara Gonzales found it incredibly ironic that stating indisputable facts was no longer acceptable on what purports to be a “news network.” A truth which my many “liberal” friends refuse to admit is that CNN and the mainstream media in general, throughout both the States and Canada, is, when it comes to politics, floundering in an ideological swamp. They are in no way interested in the Truth when it does not serve their agenda. Believe me, this is no exaggeration!
For months the various “conservative” websites to which I subscribe have been posting videos of Biden stumbling around in confusion, their point being that he is not fit to be president. Of course they were denounced as brazenly biased by most mainstream “journalists.” Yet the morning after the recent debate, the consensus view on CNN seemed to be that Biden’s performance was in fact disturbing and that the Democrats must find themselves another candidate. Why was the obvious fact of Biden’s mental debility ignored for so long by those who claim to be champions of the Truth? How could any man of integrity present only those facts supportive of his personal point of view and continue to see himself as a journalist? Have you ever seen a picture of Donald Trump on CNN or in any number of newspapers where he is not snarling like a lunatic? Has CNN ever interviewed one of the many people of color who have worked with him and claim he has always treated them with respect? Has there ever been an honest appraisal on any mainstream outlet of the catastrophic results of Biden’s open border dementia?
I am not idealizing Donald Trump. While I find it sad that the world’s foremost Democracy has no better candidates to offer than the two deemed likely in the upcoming election, I would, were I an American, vote for Trump and his policies without hesitation. It’s a matter of simple common sense. That “news” commentators everywhere are doing everything in their power to demonize “conservative” views of every kind, represents a dire threat to the free flow of information necessary to the functioning of any healthy Democracy. Of course those locked in “liberal” dementia will counter that networks such as Fox in the States and The Rebel here in Canada are themselves conspicuously biased. What they fail to acknowledge, however, is that these networks see themselves as necessary antidotes to the tyranny of our mainstream culture. However essential the architects of our Democracies deemed the Free Exchange of Ideas, i.e. that Dialectic which Socrates saw as essential to civilized progress, it is of no interest to the contemporary Left and its media minions who are convinced that theirs is the one and only valid approach to the issue of “social justice.” It is this narrow-minded certainty that makes them inherently anti-democratic, indeed that makes their purported concerns for the health of our Western Democracies so utterly hypocritical.