You are no doubt aware of Joe Biden’s response to an inappropriate joke told by a comedian at Trump’s recent NYC rally in which Puerto Rico was said to be “a floating island of garbage.” “The only garbage I see floating out there,” Joe said, “is his [Trump’s] supporters.” So he was basically referring to approximately half of America’s citizens as “garbage.”
In various attempts to reduce the harm done to the Democratic Party and Kamala’s chances of winning the upcoming election, the so-called news media swung into action. The New York Times said that while Biden had appeared to insult anyone intending to vote Republican, there was an implied apostrophe in the word “supporters,” meaning he was actually defining not them but their beliefs and values as trash. On CNN, Joan Walsh said Republicans were deliberately misinterpreting Biden’s comment. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, outrage was expressed that many had brought up Hillary’s famous 2016 statement in which she referred to the bulk of Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables.” The comparison of her statement to Joe’s seems perfectly rational to me! But then again Reason is hardly a priority of the demagogues at MSNBC. They actually had the audacity to suggest that as Madison Square Gardens was the site of an infamous 1939 Neo-Nazi rally, it was only appropriate that Trump had selected it as the site of one his last major pre-election appearances. Trump, they were clearly implying, is but a latter day Adolf Hitler.
While it is an ideal which was perhaps rarely achieved, there was a time when reporting the News was deemed to entail supplying citizens with the facts of a story while allowing them to draw their own conclusions on the relative merits of those involved. Of course there were exceptional issues such as the war in Vietnam which drew passionate and radically different commentary from news outlets, depending on the politics of their owners. But over the last few decades, mainstream Television Networks, Newspapers, etc., have utterly abandoned the ideal of Objective reporting and now pass every story with political ramifications through the lens of their Leftist bias. What is truly obnoxious about this practice is that they continue to pretend they are reporting just the Truth! While Joe Biden clearly called anyone who would vote for Trump “garbage,” that’s not really what he meant according to the hypocritical jerks employed by the various “news” sites mentioned above.
The typical response of my “liberal” friends to my disdain for the mainstream media is that Fox News in the States and The Rebel here in Canada are equally biased in their commentary. But both of these networks openly define themselves as antidotes to the B.S. being spewed all around them. They are, that is to say, perfectly frank in admitting they are the proponents of an alternative point of view. The word “Rebel” says it all. That the various organs of the mainstream media purport to be purveyors of the Truth while in fact being little more than propagandists for the Left, is truly disgusting and indeed a threat to the freedom of thought deemed an essential aspect of every healthy Democracy. The contemporary Left knows it is right about everything and has no patience for any other point of view. Its disdain for populism, its assumption that “ordinary” people are too stupid to think for themselves, is no doubt why millions have ceased to go to the mainstream media for the news. While this trend is in fact a cause for hope, online alternatives to the mainstream narrative are generally dismissed as just so much “disinformation.” You don’t dare disagree with the “liberal” Left or it will try to have you “cancelled.” Such is its idiotic definition of Liberalism!