You are forgiven if you have been watching mainstream “news” and have been convinced that you have travelled back in time to 1980 USSR or sent into the future to a dystopian 1984-like society. In functional terms, neither are very far from the truth.
Right now, the MSM is engaged in an all out last-ditch assault on the truth. The only thing more obvious than their lies and distortions is their desperation. With Hillary cratering in the polls and effectively exposed as a hollow shell with near-zero public appeal, they are deploying every dirty psyop trick in an attempt to regain control of the narrative.
Unfortunately for the special interests, foreign governments, corrupt politicians and treasonous press, it’s a suicide mission The smarter and less controlled among them will soon abandon ship.
Signs of the pivot are already evident as the race becomes a toss up. Once Trump’s dominance becomes undeniable, some of these news actors will actively start shilling for Trump, while even the bold amor them will temper their criticism.
Mainstream media is a confidence game, and the army of paid shills is well versed in the rules. The effectiveness of their psyops relies on the their ability to maintain a high-level of credibility with at least a segment of the population. In other words, they can’t lie all the time about everything or tell a lie so outrageous and unbelievable that even the most uniformed and uneducated among the population identifies then as bold-faced liars. Even the most strident among them don't want to find themselves at the center of a “Baghdad Bob” moment; telling the public that they are winning the war as we see the tanks cresting the hill behind them. Likewise, their handlers in the halls of power - the political parties, the advertisers, the special interests and the government - wont to destroy their investments in a suicide mission. The ONLY reason they would ever do so is if the cost of losing was their utter destruction. In other words, if I’m wrong and they don’t start to pivot and eat their own, they are covering something so egregious that their very lives or fortunes are at stake.
We are lucky enough to be witnessing a sea change in how the world gets its information. The press’ lies and distortions are most effective when told to an uninformed or uninterested public. Once the public actively engages, it's power to control the narrative and popular opinion wanes and crumbles. Right now it has two major factors working against it: one, the public is hungry for truth and information, has instant access to honest independent reporters and has the biggest media figure in America, Donald Trump, aligning himself with the truth. Indeed, the one thing that blew me away when I first considered giving Trump my vote was his willingness to call out the media for their dishonesty; two, in pursuing the goals of their charter - to protect the establishment - they have jumped the shark SEVERAL times. This has not gone unnoticed by the public and has destroyed almost all of their credibility.
In the most recent Gallup polling, only 14% of those that identified as Republicans - which at this time in America most likely means Trump supporters - believe that the media is honest and trustworthy.
Amazingly, an astounding 51 percent of Democrats believe the mass media is honest and trustworthy. The reason for the disparity is obvious: more Democrats believe the press is trustworthy because of confirmation bias. Simply put, the press says what Dems want to hear, which leads them to think the media is honest.
At the risk or retreading the recent past, let me point out an obvious example of their bias. This last Sunday, Hillary “fainted” about 90 minutes into the 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero. Not only did she “faint”, but her security details had to drag her and shove her limp body into her van as it pulled up to the curb. Not one single mainstream media outlet thought it worthwhile to follow Hillary as she left the ceremony well ahead of schedule. In fact, after the story broke, many mainstream outlets reported that the Clinton Campaign told them to stay in the press area. The only reason we have the video of her medical emergency is because citizens in the vicinity captured it with their cell phones.
Fox News was the first outlet to report on the incident - accurately, I might add - well ahead of anybody else touching the story. For hours, the Clinton Campaign maintained that she had overheated and had gone to Chelsea’s apartment. This obvious lie was parroted by the mainstream media until, in the face of overwhelming public skepticism and independent media pushback, her campaign was forced to “admit” that Hillary had fainted due to dehydration brought on by pneumonia! That was good enough for the likes of CNN and NBC, who quickly worked to frame the story as some act of heroism on the part of Hillary. According to their narrative, she is brave and selfless because she went to the event, and continued to campaign despite doctor’s orders. Also, Trump supporters are sexist. For them, case closed, change the subject.
I’ve heard scant discussion of Hilary’s obvious medical concerns for days on MSNBC. In fact, I’ve heard more about Trump’s health, which has never been in question.
Somewhere around Tuesday, the media decided that all questions about the story had been resolved. Not only was it not worth discussing, they told us, it was beneath the America people to dwell on something as unimportant and immaterial as the health of the potential next President. Instead, the likes of MSNBC, CNN and the Washington Post decided to furiously throw as much anti-Trump bullshit against the wall to see what would stick. Out came coordinated attacks on the Trump Foundation, the Pam Bondi “donation” mistake(?), the racism card (complete with an attack against Pepe, a revered cartoon Frog). They finally found something sticky with an attack against Trump for his past Birther comments. Suddenly laser focused, they coordinated an endless anti-Birther narrative, which coincidently aligned with campaign appearances by both President Obama and First Lady Michelle. Great timing, wink-wink. Never mind that they brazenly ignored the fact that Hillary herself had once engaged in Birther-like comments during the death-rattles of her 2008 campaign. Or that President Bill Clinton had remarked that then candidate Obama would have been fetching his coffee in the good old days. Hillary’s record of baseless attacks against Obama’s birth status aren't acknowledged or are outright denied.
It’s almost like they were all working together….
Can anybody say with a straight face that if Trump had fainted, been dragged and thrown into a van like a corpse, disappeared for hours while his campaign lied about his condition and then been forced to admit that he had been diagnosed with a potentially fatal sickness that the media would have even paused their perpetual hate machine for one second to launch coordinated attacks on Hillary? The bottom line is that the propaganda has NEVER been turned up this high.
To our benefit and their chagrin, its not working anymore. It’s becoming more and more obvious every day that old media is dying before our eyes. Citizen journalism is pervasive and now has the public’s trust much more than the bought and paid for shills and MSM news actors. Facts are vetted in real time, independent journalists are household names and each lie they tell blows up in their faces.
We aren't lucky enough to get rid of them completely. Soon, the media’s will to survive and their utter lack of morality will lead more and more of them to jump ship. The more opportunistic, less owned and boldest among them already have. Look no further than the recent transition of several Never-Trumpers as proof that this process is already underway.
Unfortunately, if Trump captures the presidency, they will find plenty of sponsors eager to buy their professional mind-fuck services. The good news is that they now face a lucid public, with the truth at their fingertips and desperate for real reform.
MAGA Deplorables!
Brandon
@bmtoy79
(c) Copyright Brandon Toy 2016
(c) Copyright Brandon Toy 2016
