Jul 28, 2020
In a nation ruled by the people, the media and educators play a
vital role. Voters need unbiased reporting. and the historic
knowledge to place news into context.
That reality makes the leftist bias of most news, academic, and
entertainment outlets deeply troubling. It’s not just bias
that is disturbing. Major stories that do not fit in with
progressive views are frequently ignored.
Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s recent bizarre statement that
blacks who vote Republican aren’t really black is a prime
example. The media didn’t make much of the comment, despite
the fact that both the historic and current record of the
Democratic Party is hardly conducive to black interests. It’s
hardly mentioned that it is the party that started a Civil War to
protect slavery, then pursued segregation in the Reconstruction
era. It is the party that idolized Margaret Sanger, who
staunchly advocated abortion explicitly to reduce the number of
black babies being born. Its “Great Society” economic
policies, perhaps inadvertently, created economic conditions that
delayed blacks from moving into the middle class. An educational
system overwhelmingly dominated by Democrats refuses to teach those
facts to students.
The bias makes reasonable debate politically risky; conservative
viewpoints are inevitably portrayed as cruel. Consider the new
third rail of political discourse: Those who criticize any spending
program produced in the name of COVID, no matter how pointless,
ineffective, excessive, corrupt, or even wholly ridiculous, will be
castigated as heartless.
America urgently required quick, clean legislation that simply
provided cash to those in dire need. But Democrats loaded
Covid bills with items that benefited them politically. The media
ignored the scandal, the same way they continue to ignore the
inexcusable refusal of Nancy Pelosi to allow the House to return to
work on a timely basis at a time of dire national need.
Consider the debate over how to distribute COVID relief
funds. For America to return to economic normalcy, businesses
need to be able to reopen and hire back employees. Federal
legislation provides $600 weekly benefits to those who are out of
work, in addition to state unemployment funds. It’s a generous
benefit. Some out of work recipients are now making more than
they did when they were working.
But those benefits are unaffordable for the nation in the long
run. Our grandchildren will be paying off that
debt. Businesses that have been forced to close need to be
able to reopen, rehire, and pay taxes. But attempts to funnel
assistance to them is portrayed as tilting towards capitalists at
the expense of workers—sheer nonsense. That logic doesn’t fit the
progressive preconceptions of the media elites, so discussion of it
is not widely covered.
President Trump campaigned in 2016 against China’s growing monopoly
on vital industries and its increasing hostility. He was
prophetic, but the media ignores that. In January of 2020, he
shut down travel to the U.S. from China. Democrats portrayed
him as “racist and xenophobic.”
In large, progressive-run cities, a failure to timely acknowledge
the COVID threat led to disaster. New York became the worldwide
epicenter of the disease, due to the refusal of the hard-left mayor
and his clueless health commissioner to acknowledge the
threat. On an almost a daily basis, the city’s mayor and his
state’s governor absurdly blame the White House for the mistakes
made by city hall and the governor’s mansion. The reality that
Governor Cuomo’s deadly decision to place COVID patients in nursing
home, causing vast numbers of needless deaths, receives little more
than a shrug from the national media.
As the 2020 presidential campaign moves forward, Democrats
nonsensically seek to place blame on the White House for the spread
of COVID. They ignore explicit evidence that China
maliciously, negligently, or both is solely responsible. They take
that position because to not do so would be to admit that they have
been wrong all along, and that candidate and then President Trump
made the right call.
You will rarely see that analysis reported.