As anti-ICE protests continue to increase in intensity — from the far-left strongholds of Minneapolis and Los Angeles, to Chicago and other Democrat-controlled cities across the country — the coordination behind the uprisings gets ever clearer.
And so do the tactics — with perhaps the most effective tactic being "flooding the zone."
Flooding the zone consists of overwhelming people with lies, misdirection, attacks on American institutions, incendiary rhetoric, et al., until a point is reached when folks can’t tell what’s true, why it should matter (or not), and on what stories and narratives they should focus on. The goal is to cause confusion, numbness, or both, which can then lead people to tune out — which in many cases is exactly what the Democrats and their pals on the radical Left want us to do.
Make sense? Of course it does. Is ethical? Of course it's not.
The Left's reliance on flooding the zone, while not a new tactic, relies on the ever-eager so-called "legacy media," social media (read: "cesspool"), left-wing chat rooms, and, arguably, most effectively, activist networks.
The Left's goal is to bury damaging stories, drown out dissent, control preferred narratives, and keep their storylines dominant by sheer volume rather than merit. The goal of flooding the zone isn't merely to win arguments; Democrats seek to overwhelm voters by confusing and numbing the masses.
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Here are a few perfect examples, via investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield, writing for Front Page Magazine on Wednesday:
The media put out thousands of stories claiming that Israel was killing women and children in Gaza and committing other atrocities. Pro-Israel people tried fact-checking them, but not only did the media rarely acknowledge any fact checks, but even when something was proven wrong, it didn’t matter because there were 999 more of these stories out there.
The media has been doing the same thing with Trump and ICE. As an example of its low standards, consider this trending story about Sioux tribe members supposedly being detained by ICE:
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention – AP
Oglala Sioux Tribe says ICE holding tribal members – Axios
The Oglala Sioux Tribe, one of the largest Indigenous tribal nations in the U.S., is accusing ICE of illegally holding four tribal members picked up during Minneapolis raids.
Oglala Sioux Tribe president Frank Star Comes Out wrote in a memo Tuesday to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that ICE recently detained the tribal members and demanded their release.
Star Comes Out said the men were homeless and living under a bridge near the Little Earth housing complex in the East Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis.
Why are the names not listed? Greenfield:
The AP story claims that three tribals had been arrested while the Axios story claims that it’s four. But what’s really missing are their names. Where are their names and their sympathetic profiles that the media usually loves to run?
The entire basis for this story was a claim made by a ‘bystander’ who supposedly knew they were members of the tribe… but didn’t know their names.
The media has no factual standards for the lies it runs. Only political ones.
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As Greenfield explained, the AP says three tribal members were arrested, while Axios says four. But the real story isn’t the number, as he noted; it’s the names we’re not seeing that is.
The bottom line here is when facts don’t fit — or run counter to —the narrative, the left-wing lapdog media runs interference, not factually correct reports or stories.
Hence, President Donald Trump is incessantly portrayed by the left as a dictator, autocrat, white supremacist, and countless other ridiculous monikers — none of which are backed by facts.
Never forget: the Left isn't concerned with informing the public, but rather with running cover — including by omission — and laughably calling it journalism.
Hence (yours truly wrote, satirical jest), CNN, MS NOW, The New York Times, Google, and CBSABCNBC, et al., were unavailable for comment.
