The legacy media seem beyond redemption. They’re like Macbeth, so steeped in blood that going back would be as tedious as continuing onward. So outlets that supposedly write the first draft of history remain determined to distort and deceive rather than enlighten their readers.
You’d think their humiliating exposure as cover-up artists for former President Joe Biden’s mental decline would prompt them to restore some credibility. But their ideological biases are such that, even now, they can’t bring themselves to tell some stories honestly.
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When President Donald Trump started an investigation into who was really running the Biden White House, the Washington Post headline was, “Trump orders investigation into alleged cover-up of Biden’s decline.” Alleged? Haven’t we reached the point where his decline is an established fact — established by, among others, more than 200 witnesses?
The New York Times’s take went further, suggesting the investigation was intended to “stoke outlandish conspiracy theories.” No, it’s to find out the truth. The New York Times’s lack of curiosity is stunning. Also tendentious, for the most egregious conspiracy theory of the past decade was the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, and the New York Times was delighted to stoke that one.
The Left media’s every nuance and word about Biden’s four-year Oval Office snooze implies, “Nothing to see here; move on, folks.” They forgot their job is to interest people in what’s actually happening, so when facts undermine their narrative, they don’t want to say it or you to hear it.
Other examples abound. A big recent one was how some outlets reported an Islamist firebombing of Jewish demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, on June 1. The facts can surprise no one not blinded by ideology. A North African Arab shouting, “Free Palestine,” attacked elderly Jews, burning some, including an 88-year-old, who’d been on a solidarity walk for Hamas terrorists’ hostages in Gaza. The would-be killer was an Egyptian illegal immigrant who told police he wanted all “Zionists” dead.
Lots of interesting details there, which all point to the emerging fact that an American domestic terrorist intifada has arisen alongside the mass Jew-hating demonstrations since 2023 in cities and on campuses.
A CNN analyst, Juliette Kayyem, went so far as to chastise FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino when they swiftly concluded that it was a “targeted terror attack.” They were, of course, right, but Kayyem declared, “It makes law enforcement look disorganized, and it makes the FBI look so juvenile.” Actually, it made the administration officials look quick and clear-eyed, and it made CNN seem intent on not seeing what stared everyone in the face. Obscuring antisemitic motivation and ignoring the overarching national picture of ethnocentric militancy that most interests the public is not a good look.
Middle East security analyst Seth Frantzman noted that despite video of the attacker brandishing Molotov cocktails and raging about Jews, the BBC avoided stating the attack involved racist targeting.
MSNBC, which is squeamish about revealing race when the criminal is from a minority group, quickly reported that the perp was “a white male,” even while it displayed on screen a photo of an olive-skinned North African evildoer. “White man” suggests Caucasian, ethnically northern European, which would have been a surprise and was not true.
Not jumping to conclusions was once an admirable trait in news media, but it has become an excuse for not presenting the facts plainly when they contradict the narrative peddled by a press corps that wishes the facts of life were different.