As is typical of the legacy media, with all the information President Donald Trump presented in his Thursday night speech on election integrity and the newly declassified information about the vulnerabilities in our election system, and how China had acquired U.S. voter files, they chose to fixate on themselves. As my colleague Nick Arama reported:
Now you might think that this would be something the media would want to cover, given how much time they spent on the fake Russia collusion hoax. But as we reported, major liberal media outlets like ABC, NBC, and MS NOW passed on the president's prime-time address, even though such speeches are routinely televised in full.
None more clearly reflected the media's ambivalence to reporting facts and informing the public than this USA Today headline:
Seriously, do we really care how they "handled" them? Isn't the job of a news outlet supposed to be reporting on the speech and allowing the viewers to make decisions based on the information given?
Well, that would be too much like right. Why report on something when you can just spin the narrative you want?
Headlines from the typical outlets reflected this: manufactured spin to fit an already chosen agenda.
The (dis)Associated Press headline was quite the whopper.
You see, it's not China and other adversarial people attacking our elections; it's TRUMP, and never forget it. While the Washington Post headline discreetly reflects: "Key Takeaways," the URL with the words, "Trump Revives Election Fraud Claims," shows how they really feel. Once again, it's Trump's fault for making the claims. Why can't he get over 2020? Probably because outlets like WaPo ran interference and claimed it was the safest and most secure election evah!
In their headline, The Columbus Dispatch accused Trump of raising old grievances, and claimed Trump compared U.S. elections to a third-world country.
No... that's not what he said, but if you're going to blackout Trump's speech, is the low-information viewer going to bother to check what was actually said? Sadly, probably not.
The McClatchy Company, which owns The Sacramento Bee and a majority of the California news outlets, put up this gobsmacking headline.
First of all, "leaders" is a relative term. California Gov. Gavin Newsom barely stays in the state, let alone leads it. As stated in Thursday Hot Takes on the Democrat response:
This is the same governor who stomped on the California constitution and a bipartisan redistricting committee which the voters chose, in order to redraw electoral maps to benefit Democrats. Now that President Trump is pushing election integrity, Newsom signed a law preventing any law enforcement, including federal election officials, from being able to access the voter rolls or voting technology without a court order.
Yeah... Take all the seats, SacBee.
MS NOW was having a normal one with "Trump's Primetime Speech: Exaggerated Claims and Conspiracy Theories" as their lead-in to their video and print commentary.
Enough said.
The Hill pretended it listened to the speech and "fact-checked," making the claim that "Trump's Receipts Don't Back Up Election Claims." As my colleague Rusty Weiss reported, investigative reporter Catherine Herridge confirmed otherwise.
"The threat comes from combining the data: weaponizing voter rolls, health care records, and security clearance applications can build an entire profile of a US citizen," Herridge explained. "This can be used for fraudulent voter registration, identity theft, targeting US citizens for recruitment by China."
She expanded upon that notion of combining the 2015 hack with the 220 million voter rolls that were compromised in an interview with NewsNation's Katie Pavlich.
“You can really build this kind of digital composite of an individual and you can use that for, you know, voter registration fraud, you can use that for identity theft," she revealed. "And significantly, you can also use it to recruit American citizens to your efforts.”
Herridge was fired from CBS, allegedly as part of a layoff, but Herridge has been on top of China's infiltration for a long time and has the receipts, which is why she is able to confirm the receipts Trump presented. So, I would take her assessments over the politically-driven The Hill any day of the week.
Read More: Forget the Voter Rolls—China May Be Building Digital Dossiers on Millions
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But the ultimate head-up-their-hindquarters take probably came from The Atlantic's attempt to riff off the rock band U2: "Trump Still Hasn't Found What He's Looking For."
The subhead read: "The president's prime-time speech was more notable for what it didn't prove than for what it did."
If we go off that basis, neither has The Atlantic. How many articles about FBI Director Kash Patel being fired or Secretary of War Pete Hegseth being compromised have they spilled ink on?
I rest my case.
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