What the Legacy Media Won’t Tell Us, Part One

We’re living in abnormal times. The news outlet The Epoch Times gave themselves that title, because an “epoch” (not “epic”) means a distinct period of time in history marked by particularly defining events. An epoch refers to an altering of the times.

Painting by Matthew McGahee

Unfortunately, deception marks our era. Deception has become billion-dollar business. We live in days of corruption, where many basic institutions and organizations we should be able to trust have betrayed us. Hardly a month goes by without another revelation of a Christian leader marked by sexual scandal. Government agencies like the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the Justice Department, and others have been compromised and weaponized in alarming ways. (See The Political Weaponization of the CIA and FBI from Michael Waller at Hillsdale College.)

The term gaslighting, when someone manipulates circumstances or evidence to deceive another, has become common vernacular.

It doesn’t take a brain scientist or Ph.D. to understand something is badly amiss. When the Justice Department and other agencies continually protect and prop up the Clinton-Obama-Biden machines while trying to annihilate conservatives, Lady Justice has dropped her scales.

Regular people – small business owners, accountants, homeschool moms, farmers, mechanics, pharmacists, and 1000s of others – have realized what we hear and see on legacy media – and from some of our politicians – does not always line up with reality. And authors like Eric Metaxas keep warning us to wake up before we lose our liberties. (See his book and movie, Letter to the American Church.)

“Legacy media” refers to the old ways we received news in the 20^th century: newspapers, nightly television broadcasts, radio shows, etc. The presentation can be easily manipulated in those outlets – and many of them are owned, if you follow the money trail, by a few large conglomerate corporations.

Legacy media outlets are easily controlled.

The nation didn’t know FDR was in a wheelchair until after his death. With traditional, legacy media, it was easy to plan staged events and present fabricated news. That’s also why the sexual trysts of several U.S. Presidents – like FDR and JFK – were unknown from the majority of the public until well after their deaths. FDR was actually spending the weekend with his longtime girlfriend when he died. The secret service had to get her out of the place quickly before his family arrived.

Today it is much harder to keep such secrets from the public – but oh how they try.

During the 2020 pandemic, several employees of CBS news stations across the nation resigned. These whistleblowers revealed CBS corporate kept sending instructions down the line about what they were allowed and not allowed to say about the pandemic, the vaccinations, remedies President Trump suggested that were later proved helpful (like Hydroxychloroquine).

A new way of receiving news emerged with the digital age. No longer do I wait for the 6 o’clock news to hear the weather report. An app on my phone shows it instantly. With the explosion of digital communication means, information flows through social media, podcasts, texts, emails, videos, and dozens of other sources. New technology makes us not dependent on legacy media. Thus, many traditional outlets are drying up – newspapers, magazines, traditional television shows, and old-fashioned news broadcasts.

During the last four years, we’ve lived through significant events – civilization changing events – that leave millions of Americans with more questions than answers. Take the recent attempted assassination of President Trump, for example. We don’t trust the narrative. And we’ve realized much of traditional legacy media props up the Left’s agenda and narrative.

The Left and Deception

The Left thrives on deception. It lies continually. Dennis Prager explains, “The first example is what is known as political correctness. Leftist denial of what is true is so widespread that we have a term for it, political correctness. There is no comparable right-wing political correctness, i.e., denying truths so as not to offend right-wing values or certain groups.

For example, among many on the left, especially academics, it has been almost impossible for decades to tell the truth about the innate differences between men and women because of the leftist dogma of innate similarities between the sexes. So deep is the left’s hostility to truth regarding the sexes that a president of Harvard University was forced from office after suggesting that men’s and women’s brains process math and some science differently.”

Bill Clinton lied his way through Arkansas on to the White House. Newt Gingrich once said of Clinton, "He is one of the finest story-tellers in American politics. Clinton spent his entire life telling you whatever you needed to hear to make you like him." And, he added in 2016, “"Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to run for President of the United States."

Modern leftist politicians like Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden have taken Crooked Bill’s deception and institutionalized it. They are students of the Saul Alinsky playbook for politicians. Alinsky trained his students to master deception, create chaos and division and use them to your advantage, and to organize social upheaval.

Josh Hammer writes, “The corporate media, whose 21st-century raison d’etre is propping up the Regime Party (Democrats) and punishing the Deplorable Party (Republicans), often joins the fray. The Russia-collusion delusion disinformation operation was laundered by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to seedy ‘intelligence’ firm Fusion GPS and law firm Perkins Coie LLP. For years, the corporate media then dutifully pushed the false narrative. Indeed, it is unclear to this day whether MSNBC has ever read the Mueller report.

But after [the recent] CNN presidential debate in Atlanta, in which President Joe Biden delivered a catastrophic performance for the ages, there is only one conclusion . . . . For years, Democrats and the corporate media lied through their teeth about the blatant decline of the president’s physical and mental faculties.”

These players are masters of manipulation, gaslighting, getting the crowds to focus on their right hands while doing their real work with their left, and creating diversions to cast blame. Their key to success is libeling the Right. They know the Right will stand in their way of totalitarianism and their globalist agenda. So they must vilify and destroy the right.

Many of them – certainly Obama – were mentored in Communist ideals with the intent of turning America away from her fundamentals. Since his election, Obama has struck me as a type of the future antichrist prophesied in the Bible. A charismatic leader with supernatural (not from Jehovah) sway and influence, who hides his real intentions from the masses masterfully.

Newt Gingrich said, “We have watched the hard left, the America-hating totalitarians who want to define acceptable speech, as they took over the academic world. The college boards – made up of supposedly sound community leaders – refused to fight. Public universities and colleges continued to hire vehement anti-American professors, the state legislatures and governors refused to fight. Alumni continued to give to schools, which were teaching their own children and grandchildren to despise them.

We did not think through the eventual reality that graduates who had been taught systematic falsehoods would take those falsehoods into their jobs. As President Ronald Reagan said, “the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. . . .  This educated ignorance has now infested our news media, bureaucracies and corporate headquarters. These are sincere fanatics.”

And David Lane writes, “There are very real consequences to having allowed secularists - those in rebellion against God - to imbue the minds of America’s youth with their profane propaganda for the last 75 years.”

They are experts at capitalizing on people’s good intentions (related to race, equality, liberality) and manipulating them for other agendas. Look no further than the Black Lives Matter movement for an example.

Leftism is the single greatest natural threat to liberty, religion, and America.

The Left loathes Western Civilization.

The Left does not value truth.

The Left dismantles free speech.

The Left destroys more than it creates.

Whatever the Left touches, it ruins.

The Left hates conservatives.

And, Leftism is not liberalism. But the Left has hijacked the Democratic Party. Obama, Clinton, Biden and the like – Pelosi, Newsom, Schumer – these are not liberals. They are Leftists. And the legacy media largely bows to their agenda.

But many people are no longer deceived. People have woken up. And they are warning others.

 

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