Let’s put aside the crumbling ruins of the Democratic Party to celebrate, by making the rubble bounce, the total destruction of any residual credibility in the regime media. The regime media minions called in a napalm airstrike on their own position, and the fireball is rising. It’s beautiful, man.
For the last four years, the regime media has obediently defended Joe Biden against accurate observations by outsider media that he was a senile, decrepit, corrupt, old, perverted weirdo. This is because it didn’t matter to them that he was a senile, decrepit, corrupt, old, perverted weirdo. All that was fine. The regime media was perfectly happy with him being a senile, decrepit, corrupt, old, perverted weirdo as long as he wasn’t Donald Trump. So they either lied about it or did not do their purported job competently. Either way, they suck, and their sucking cannot and will not be hidden or excused.
Now, if you are of a certain age and you remember when the media at least pretended to be something other than a licensed and authorized propaganda front for the Democratic Party, you might be a little surprised at its open and obvious cheerleading for one partisan side. But to be surprised, you would literally have to have been in a coma for the last 20 years. The regime media is no longer a collection of once prestigious media outlets but a unified propaganda outfit. We based conservatives knew it. We had no doubt about it. We’ve been saying it to each other all along. This did not shock us. But it did shock normal people who still expected that the norms that the left had bulldozed, set on fire, and buried were still in play. It turns out they are not still in play and have not been in play for quite a while.
It was hilarious to watch the regime media hacks get all huffy about being shown to be clowns in the week of the disastrous debate. I wish I had invested in Jiffy-Pop. The simple fact is that they either knew about Joe Biden’s descent into dementialand or they didn’t know about his descent into dementialand. Neither one is a good look. Either they knew about it and covered it up, which I think is what actually happened, or they didn’t know about it and ended up looking almost as incompetent as the guy they were protecting. That might be worse.
We conservatives knew about it. We in the conservative media have been talking about his senility for years. I have certainly done my part. Do a Google search using the terms “Kurt Schlichter Townhall dementia Biden” and you get countless columns pointing out that this guy was a shambling golem since before he ever even allegedly won the presidency. How did we knuckle-dragging right-wing extremists manage to discover something all the geniuses of the regime media somehow overlooked? We conservative media types didn’t attend the University of College’s prestigious Media Matters School of Journalisming. They all did. That’s how they got their gigs at the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC News, and all those other paragons of reporting excellence that didn’t manage to notice that Joe Biden was perpetually on the verge of soiling himself in public. How could they fail to ferret out this important information? Obviously, they weren’t looking. Did they somehow believe that because the right-wing media had identified an issue that they couldn’t look into it? Yes! We just watched over the last month as the regime media dismissed our observations of reality as a “cheap fake” conspiracy theory. Or, even more embarrassingly, did they actually believe the lies the Biden courtiers told them? “It’s a stutter, and if you say anything about it, you are a right-wing racist!”
There is no good outcome for them. There is only a good outcome for us, assuming our enemies around the world don’t use the incompetence of the White House as an excuse to nuke us. As I have said many times before, we are not the target of these revelations. All these revelations do is confirm what we’ve known through all the various regime media lie-cycles over the past decade. Remember the Russiagate lie? They gave each other Pulitzers over that one. Remember how Covid wasn’t brewed up in a Wuhan lab, and to so say it was anything but contagious pangolins was racist? Remember how Hunter‘s laptop was Russian disinformation – 51 bureaucratic hacks said so, dammit!
No, we conservatives know that if the media is talking, the regime media is lying in the service of the Democratic Party. But normal people don’t, or at least they didn’t until debate night. Normal people don’t go through life following these issues. Normal people go through life having actual lives. Every once in a while, politics intrudes on them because they’re good citizens, and they feel that they should at least pay a little bit of attention to politics around election time. And, unfortunately for Joe Biden, they paid attention when he challenged Donald Trump to walk into an ambush and ended up staggering out mortally wounded.
You couldn’t ask for a better humiliation for the regime media, which has no real choice but to fall back on “Gosh, can you believe those people in the Biden administration lied to us? What a bunch of rascals they are!” Their shameless finger-pointing is hilarious. It’s delightful to remind the Jake Tappers and Peter Bakers and Tater Stelter that if you have been reading Townhall, you knew the truth, and if you had been watching/reading CNN, the New York Times, or the Potato Post, you were utterly ignorant and misinformed.
What the regime media is going to find is its already limited credibility even more hamstrung, and that’s great because the regime media has been a potent weapon in the Democrat arsenal. Normal people just going through their day watching “Good Morning America” or “The View” or any of those other idiotic shows did not realize that they were actually being wet down by an unfiltered fire hose of leftist propaganda. The leftist messaging was hidden behind a haze of objectivity and delivered by nice ladies and men who pretended not to have an agenda when they totally had an agenda. But now, normal people know that these folks are liars. They know that they have been pulling an okey-doke. They know that the regime media has been treating them like idiots, and, hopefully, they are offended.
Yes, for the next couple of decades, every time the regime media says anything to us, our response needs to be, “What about Russiagate, Laptopgate, and Dementiagate?” To the limited extent that any Republican ever again goes on any of those regime channels or talks to any of the regime reporters, the first thing out of his mouth needs to be, “You’ve already shown yourself to be liars by pretending Joe Biden wasn’t senile until he senile all over himself on the debate stage, so I don’t expect to be treated fairly here. I expect you to continue to lie to your viewers and to me, and I’m going to point it out. Now, what are your loaded questions?”
The regime media could never endure for long pretending to be objective to get the benefits and respect an objective outlet is entitled to while simultaneously shrimping the toes of the Democrat Party. This collapse was inevitable. This humiliation was deserved. And this farce will never be forgotten.
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