If you could travel back in time 20 years, aside from giving your younger self some winning lottery numbers or advice to buy Apple stock, I think you’d have difficulty finding anyone who would believe you if you explained what Democrats were doing with the southern border. Sure, they were not all that much interested in a secure border even back then, but the current flood we’re seeing is something even they couldn’t have imagined not caring about not so long ago. The reality of what Democrats have should be THE driving issue of the 2024 election, and the GOP needs to be educating the public on it starting now.
In a perfect world, the news media would simply report the truth about what’s happening in the world, with no outlet ignoring big stories because they don’t fit their political agenda. Everyone would also be great looking and in great shape. A trip to any local mall will quickly make you realize that we do not live in a perfect world.
But we don’t even live in an honest world anymore, or anything close to one.
Watch any daily press briefing from the White House and you will see just how different the two world views are now. Left-wing outlets ask questions about worthless events, nothing controversial, while the “super-historic” Karine Jean-Pierre still struggles to read what her handlers wrote in her three-ring binder on the subject for the 20th time.
Then you have Phil Wegman from RealClearPolitics or Peter Doocy from Fox News asking about things that polls show Americans actually care about – things like the economy or the border.
KJP’s answers aren’t any better on those topics either. But one thing you will notice is how, with rare exception, there are no follow-up questions from anyone else in the room. During the Trump administration those briefings were a non-stop tag-team event, with hacks from every outlet picking up where the last one left-off, turning the daily briefings into an hour-long debate over whatever the topic of the day was. Nothing remotely close to that happens now.
A record number of illegal aliens cross the border in December and no one is interested? Those are the hundreds of thousands we know about, who were “processed” and released into the US on the pinky-swear that they aren’t criminals and will show up to a court date in 10 years to find out whether or not they can stay. It’s insane. And barely anyone from the “speak truth to power” patrol gives a damn.
The Biden administration fought to remove two-and-one-half miles of razor wire from the southern border that Texas put up to at least slow the invasion, and they won (at least for now). The US-Mexico border is 1951 miles long, and 2.5 miles of it being secure was too much for Biden, so much so that he actively worked to free it up. Illegals can flood over at either end of those 2.5 miles, but that’s not good enough.
Doocy asked about this, what the administration was hoping to accomplish by “un-securing” the only secure part of the border and got a worthless word salad tossed back at him. No follow-ups, no add-on questions from anyone else there.
“Why isn’t this a bigger story?” isn’t the question to ask, it’s why aren’t Republicans flooding the airwaves to tell the public about it?
The media isn’t going to do it. What Fox did is great, but Fox reaches less than 1 percent of the population on a good night, whereas all the other outlets combined have an audience in the tens of millions. It’s not enough.
The RNC, Donald Trump, and honestly every Republican candidate for any office need to do the job the media won’t – educate the public about what’s really going on in the world.
Don’t lie, don’t exaggerate, the truth is bad enough. Get the footage of the Biden administration removing the razor wire, or the various White House spokesmodels talking about it, and run the audio over the footage of a conga line of military aged men marching into our country, being greeted by government officials and given cell phones and cash cards.
If Republicans can’t message on this issue, quit. If they can’t educate the public and absolutely bury Joe Biden with this, get out of the business.
At the same press briefing where Doocy asked about Biden fighting to open the border wider, the following questions were asked by other “journalists.”
This from CNN’s Arlette Saenz, “You started at the beginning talking about some of these positive economic indicators and how the mood of consumers is changing as you’re seeing some of these positive signs in the economy. But, so far, it really hasn’t changed in their perception of how President Biden has contributed to this and — and helps them. Are there discussions about different ways that you can try to communicate this message, given the fact that so far has it just sunk in with the American psyche that Biden should be getting credit in your belief?” No, she wasn’t auditioning for a job in the White House…I don’t think.
And then there was this beauty from Anita Powell from taxpayer funded Voice of America, who asked the super-important “Just a quick question about whether the castration includes environmental impact assessments in calculating how to support allies like Israel and Ukraine, Just for reference. We interviewed some environmental experts, who estimated that in the last 60 days U.S. supply flights to Israel contributed to 133,000 metric tons of C02 emissions. It’s a lot, right? So, is that part of the calculation that you make? And how do you balance your desire to protect the environment with your desire to protect your allies?”
I’m embarrassed for them.
But their worthlessness, while fun to laugh at, needs to also be countered by a real effort to get the truth out there. Soundbites from candidates won’t do it, especially when the majority of the media outlets simply won’t play them.
I know it will be expensive, but so what? How expensive do you think it will be to lose power to these complicit anti-American cretins again?
Spend now or we’ll all pay later.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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