November 5th is Trash Day.
Nationally, Biden trashes Americans. Statewide, special interests coordinate to trash the FL Constitution. On Tuesday, throw them all out and make America first.
Last month, 60 Minutes was caught red-handed editing answers from their interview with Kamala Harris. There has been a huge outcry online by national journalists and citizens to release the transcript. News media companies use to do that as practice following their broadcasts. The courtesy was to serve the public interest.
Not anymore.
On Wednesday, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit against CBS for “election and voter interference” and demanded the transcript. President Trump and his lawyers seek $10 billion in damages for deceptive media practices “to (a) confuse, deceive, and mislead the public, and (b) attempt to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party…”
Fact-checkers follow political operatives - not facts
The same day, in an attempt to shame Google for hosting conservative voices on their YouTube platform, The New York Times published an article by their technology reporter, Nico Grant, titled, Election Falsehoods Take Off on YouTube as It Looks the Other Way.
The people that concern The New York Times are mainstream commentators that engage large audiences daily. Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Benny Johnson, Rudy Giuliani, Tim Pool and Charlie Kirk are among those that the newspaper targets in the report. In the arena of ideas where the debate happens concerning what America is, ought to be, and how the country should achieve the objectives, censorship was presumably against the rules.
But wait, the word ‘censorship’ has been replaced by ‘removing disinformation.’ The rhetorical sleight-of-hand is the latest linguistic rubbish from elite propagandists who really want to shut down informative conversations. In the New York Times article, the specific ‘falsehoods’ were the claims of a ‘rigged’ or ‘stolen’ 2020 election, and illegal immigrants being allowed to vote in 2024. Mr. Grant mentions them under the assertion that making these claims to an audience is journalistic malpractice and outright lying. Mr. Grant went after Benny Johnson over the issue of illegals voting. He noted Mr. Johnson’s statements that Democrats wouldn’t close the borders because they want millions of new voters. He attempts to debunk Mr. Johnson by parenthetically noting that illegals cannot vote in elections and there is no evidence of it according to officials.
It seems deliberate that Mr. Grant, who is based in San Francisco to cover Silicon Valley, ignores his own state government making it illegal to ask for an identification at California polls. He was also not aware of the Biden Administration’s lawsuit in Virginia that challenged the state’s purging of voter rolls of non-citizen registrations. Two Virginia courts permitted the registrations saying the state violated a department deadline. However, the Supreme Court overturned the ruling. In political harmony with Democrats, judges, Elena Kagan, Sonya Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented.
Not that Mr. Grant’s disclosed research partner, Media Matters for America, would inform him or the New York Times of the Virginia case. Today, most legacy media receive their narratives from the research of Media Matters. Founded in 2004, the organization is the brainchild of David Brock, Hillary Clinton and former Bill Clinton Whitehouse Chief of Staff, Harold Ickes. Mr. Brock who has a very intimate media relationship with the Clintons, wanted to launch an operation to counter what he thought was an overwhelming conservative bias in major news.
Mr. Brock partnered with Mr. Ickes who is probably the single most influential democrat operative in the last 40 years. He was the campaign manager for Ted Kennedy in 1980. The Empire State power lobbyist got Bill de Blasio elected as the Mayor of New York. He and Bill Clinton worked on legislation together since 1970. He managed President Clinton’s first campaign. As his Chief of Staff, Mr. Ickes was personally responsible for burying the excrement caused by Clinton Administration scandals. He once mockingly referred to his White House title as the “Director of Sanitation.”
In 2004, Mr. Ickes coordinated with George Soros to launch the ‘Shadow Party,’ a network of left-wing policy think tanks such as America Coming Together, Center for American Progress with organizations such as Planned Parenthood, MoveOn.org and others. Media Matters was their news watchdog.
With Soros money, Media Matters has had transformative effect on newsrooms across the country. Mr. Grant’s research is nothing more than political dreck derived from insinuations of certain facts provided by the progressive establishment machine. Indeed, Mr. Carlson, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Shapiro all posted their email or text exchanges with Mr. Grant to X. Mr. Carlson and Mr. Shapiro replied with their own versions of an Elon Musk directive to “G.F.Y!”
In an effort to cover for President Biden’s comments referring to MAGA supporters as garbage, it is no wonder these same media talking heads make such excuses. News organizations are waiting for political marching orders. Suddenly the spin in newsrooms is that Mr. Biden’s comment was misunderstood because, by looking at the assumed grammar of it, you can determine he didn’t mean half of America.
What? Somebody provided a transcript? Yes, only to learn from the Associated Press the White House altered it.
If all else fails, change the narrative to something else!
To bury the garbage comment, on Friday, the left-wing narrative suddenly pivoted in headline after headline to “Mr. Trump wants to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad.”
The composed narrative was manufactured from an interview with Mr. Carlson at a fundraiser for hurricane relief in Arizona on Halloween night. Again, not true. He commented how she would never go fight the wars and face the guns in the conflicts she authorizes.
The NBC affiliate in Phoenix, KPNX, is reporting that Arizona’s Attorney General, Kris Mayes, a Democrat, has announced an investigation of Mr. Trump over his comments. The state could file potential felony charges for making a death threat. Mr. Trump never made one. Democrats are littering newspapers and trashing the airwaves to pollute minds with a false accusation. By late afternoon, CNN republican pundit, Jonah Goldberg, apologized for misreporting President Trump’s comments. Upon actually hearing them, the Never Trump republican said, “I was wrong to say he was calling for a firing squad execution … I let my disgust at Trump’s comments get the better of me as this was the first time I’d heard them."
In the fog of a propaganda war, Mr. Goldberg piled on without doing his own investigation. It is hard to watch news and not think there is some form of basic objectivity being presented to you. The real truth on these matters is easily obtainable in the Information Age. Yet, Americans have been trained to somewhat trust the press enshrined in the First Amendment.
However, in 2024, you would be wrong to do so. To further prove the point, watch this exchange on Friday during Washington Post Live. It is with WAPO’s associate editor, Jonathan Capeheart, and conservative talk show host and WAPO contributor, Hugh Hewitt. Mr. Hewitt walked-off the set saying he did not want to be apart of a Kamala campaign ad.
LINK: Hugh Hewitt walks out of Washington Post Live!
How can people be so unintelligent to deliberately say things when you can immediately be corrected in seconds for all to see? Later in the day, Mr. Hewitt announced his resignation from The Washington Post.
For their part, Google has realized with the rise of competing platforms like Rumble and the dominance of X, they cannot remain the thought police. They cautiously defended the conservative influencers because they recognize the revenue streams these creators generate. In a preemptive attempt from behind the paywall to shame Google for their capitalistic instincts, The New York Times reporter heavily implies that the advertising advantages for the tech giant are unethical.
In part, this type of malfeasance has caused bitter reactions online and in the public. Nationally, Trump has survived two assassination attempts. Locally, Trump signs are regularly stolen by the self-righteous that believe the nonsense. A man in Sebastian was arrested for petty theft. Other police reports have been filed. Let’s hope it does not get any worse in our little community.
Corporate influence and the ‘Shadow Party’ attempt to buy their way on to Florida’s Constitution.
The organizations behind amendments 3 and 4 employ the same strategy. Amendment 3 was written by Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers. Her company, the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the USA, has put $140 million of the $148.7 million raised by the Smart and Safe committee that is promoting legalization efforts. Two other marijuana companies have put in over 2 million dollars each. The Florida market has the potential to reach $6 Billion in revenue. Trulieve with a few others would be an oligopoly.
Those behind Amendment 4 get their money the old-fashioned way. The amendment was written by Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The funding to get it passed comes from the same place Media Matters gets their cash, George Soros. At the time of the development of the aforementioned ‘Shadow Party,’ Planned Parenthood’s former president, Cecile Richards, accepted an invitation to join the network of Democrat activist groups. Soros’ Open Society Foundation has been funding Planned Parenthood’s federal and state government initiatives ever since. They have passed constitutional initiatives in Michigan and Ohio.
These well-financed invaders from outside the state are attempting to force their views on to Floridians. Reached for comment, state senator, Erin Grall, said, “[These Amendments] will change the state. They will show the rest of this country and the millionaires, who are spending money to make this happen, that our state's constitution is for sale. And, if they want to change the culture of the state, that's how they'll do it. They haven't been able to do it through the legislature.”
If either amendment becomes enshrined in the Florida Constitution, there will be little residents can do about regulating either of these industries. Power will be taken from citizens to advocate for common sense oversight.
On November 5th, it’s time to dispose of this trash.
That’s what I call closing arguments!