It has become rather apparent how much the press has not only enjoyed the flap over Jimmy Kimmel’s return, but they have needed it. The hysteria over the weekend was followed by the stampede of gushing reports that he was set to return Tuesday evening. All of this media meant something else: The flood of Kimmel coverage ensured that major stories were allowed to drift by the wayside.
One such item was tangentially connected to the late-night flap. Recall last Friday when the news broke that a local ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California, had its lobby targeted by a drive-by shooter. The press was all over that story Friday evening and throughout the day Saturday. It was tailor-made for media outrage – until the facts rolled in.
By late Saturday, the shooter was arrested, and once it was exposed that this was a hyper-leftist with a history of Democrat donations and a social media account littered with TDS, the story dissipated from the headlines faster than the compelled clap-ter heard during a Jimmy Kimmel monologue.
Then there was the painful revelation that the press had to actively run away from, as their narratives surrounding the “Kimmel Kancellation” were blasted into confetti. Case in point: CNN's Jake Tapper appeared on Seth Meyers' NBC late-night talk show Monday evening, and the esteemed newsman (ahem) declared that he had not seen a level of government effort to silence a citizen ever before in his career. “The most direct infringement by the government on free speech that I've seen in my lifetime,” said the newsman. (Reminder, this is the journo who wrote a book about the cover-up of the mental decline of the prior president, another detail he had not seen in his career.)
The unintended comedy was that Joe Biden had been renowned for his blatant censoring tendencies. Apart from the effort by many to kill the Hunter Biden laptop story, Biden was exposed in the Twitter files as having a conduit to Facebook to shut down speech and accounts, and his FBI had agents embedded in that company. A judge ruled the administration had to suspend contact with social media platforms. His DOJ even arrested a journalist.
Then came the knockout blow. A House hearing with Google executives revealed that Biden’s censoring influence spread even wider. On Tuesday, it was revealed that the Biden administration was behind the numerous YouTube accounts that had been censored over the years. The company admitted to legislators that Biden’s White House compelled them to silence and/or deplatform content providers for delivering information that defied COVID protocols, or were conservative accounts combating the administration.
So just as the press is desperately accusing President Trump of the most egregious First Amendment violation ever seen, more evidence of worse activity emerges, and what little coverage is seen is perfunctory at best. Absent is that hyperactive pundit class churning this story repeatedly, and the accusations of the administration overstepping by Biden are unheard. Then there was even more.
Monday saw the president sign an order declaring Antifa a domestic terror organization. Rather than explaining the need for this move or exploring the details of this outfit, the press stance has largely been that Antifa is some kind of amorphous cabal, more of an idea than an organized group. Putting voice to this asinine position were two dispatched journalists, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza.
Appearing on Cillizza’s vid-cast, Mr. Todd was declaring that Antifa is just a mysterious concept that he cannot wrap his head around. Cillizza was there along with Chuckles, declaring boldly, “There is no GROUP.” It is kind of amazing, the gaslighting these two attempt.
"And if the Trump administration decides to say, 'You, George Soros, are a part of this group that I designated,' and you're like, 'No, I'm not,' and it doesn't matter."
Now, to help out Mr. Todd, I want to provide an explainer for his benefit. As he asks with concern, “Who’s going to define who the group is?”, allow me to give him a source – that would be Chuck Todd. A few years ago, he brought on author Mark Bray, who wrote a book on Antifa and was there with Chuckles to detail what Antifa is all about. The two discussed this topic on both “Meet The Press” and on Chuck’s show at MSNBC.
Professor Bray was on to specifically “explain this movement,” one that Todd himself declares is “far left,” and somehow was able to even declare its mission statement. Yet today, Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza are completely feigning being in the dark about what this "mysterious" Antifa word even means.
Yet they, and the rest of the media, want to pretend the group is just some nebulous entity that cannot be explained, let alone shown to exist. This, despite the fact that this very week we see Antifa surrounding an ICE facility in Eugene, Oregon. But if they are not being covered by the primary media, their little fable of this being a mystery group can continue.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.
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