Several years ago, Donald Trump created a minor controversy when he called the media “the enemy of the people.” So-called “journalists” couldn’t believe the president would refer to them with such harsh rhetoric.
After all, they were members of an elite class – the Fourth Estate. They were the “free press,” defending truth and acting as a check on government power. Except they weren’t doing any of that.
Far from being “free,” independent, and objective truth tellers, today’s media are combatants in America’s culture war. They are fully aligned with the radical left against the values of most Americans.
The truth is that media routinely lie. Their bias has given way to deceit. They are spewing such partisan propaganda that Marxist regime mouthpieces sound credible by comparison.
Today’s media are not trying to inform; they are trying to misinform and indoctrinate. That malfeasance makes them enemies of the people.
The media lied to us about the Russia collusion hoax, insisting, without evidence, that Trump was a Russian asset and a traitor to America.
The media lied to us, saying Trump praised neo-Nazis when he actually condemned them. How sick is that?!
The media lied to us about the COVID pandemic, saying anyone who thinks the Chinese virus came out of the Wuhan lab is a kook. Why? Because Trump said the virus came out of the lab. And Trump was right.
The media lied about Trump mocking our dead war heroes. An absolutely disgusting lie!
The media lied to us about Hunter Biden’s laptop. They said it was “Russian disinformation.”
Over the last four years, the media did everything they could to prop up Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. They tolerated Biden’s disrespect. He ignored the media as much as possible, holding the fewest press conferences of any president in modern history. The few he did do were highly scripted events with pre-selected questions.
The media not only took this abuse; they were co-conspirators in the biggest scandal in modern American history – the cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline. They knew he was incompetent and incapacitated, but they didn’t care. Why? Because “Orange man bad.”
Now, these same “journalists” are making money off their malfeasance. At least two books have been written by big media personalities on how Biden’s mental decline was covered up.
It’s a real shame there were no reporters around the last four years who might have done some real journalism and told us the truth, instead of lying about Biden’s condition.
One might think the media would be chastened or humbled by the 2024 election results. But, no. They’re doubling down on deceit and deception.
While Donald Trump is trying to make our streets safe, the media are going to the mat for illegal alien gang members. They’re telling us that Trump accidentally deported a “Maryland father with protected status” to El Salvador.
What they’re not telling us is that this “father” is an illegal alien and a member of MS-13. They’re not telling us that a judge previously ruled he could be deported, just not to El Salvador.
In other words, the “accident” wasn’t deporting an innocent man, which is what the media is trying to make us believe. It was deporting him to the wrong country.
If only the media cared as much about Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Lizbeth Medina, Jocelyn Nungaray, or any other American citizen murdered by illegal aliens.
But there’s more.
The Biden administration aggressively persecuted pro-life activists engaged in free speech by praying and singing at an abortion center. Joe Biden had them arrested and prosecuted. He had American citizens, including grandmothers, thrown in jail for years.
The media was silent about that violation of free speech. They didn’t accuse pro-abortion Joe Biden of acting like a dictator when he prosecuted his pro-life political opponents.
Now, all of a sudden, the media really care about “free speech.”
Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian citizen studying in the United States, was arrested for “protesting.” But he wasn’t praying or singing. He was encouraging Jew-hatred.
Mahmoud Khalil is NOT an American citizen. He is a radical Islamic extremist and the leader of the antisemitic, anti-Israel, anti-American riots at Columbia University. Khalil’s “protest” led to Jewish students being terrorized.
But left-wing journalists want us to believe that Khalil is a choirboy, and they’re accusing President Trump of attacking the First Amendment.
To the leftist media, Christian grandmothers are terrorists, while antisemitic foreign Islamists are heroes.
The entire leftist establishment was outraged by Vice President J.D. Vance’s “arrogance” when he told European leaders to stop censoring their own people. “Hate speech,” they insisted, isn’t free speech and should be censored.
Meanwhile, they’re rushing to defend foreign extremists on our college campuses who are spewing hatred of Jews, Israel, and America.
And then there’s “Signalgate.”
Desperate to distract the American people from the many accomplishments of the Trump administration, the media seized a conversation among top national security officials about a military strike against our enemies.
The media don’t want to tell the American people about the nature of these enemies or how successful the strike was.
The media don’t want to tell the American people how successful Donald Trump has been at securing the border.
The media don’t want to tell the American people how successful Donald Trump has been at bringing trillions of dollars of new investments in manufacturing to America.
Here’s the good news: The American people aren’t falling for the media’s deceit.
The number of Americans who say our country is headed in the right direction is the highest it has been in decades.
The approval rating of the Democrat Party is the lowest it’s ever been.
And so, too, is the public’s trust in the media.
Gary L. Bauer, former Chief Domestic Policy Adviser to President Reagan and a Trump-appointee to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, serves as President of American Values, Chairman of Campaign for Working Families PAC, and Senior Vice President of Public Policy for the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.
