What The State Of The Union And Congressional Twitter Hearings Have In Common.
This week demonstrated once again that the Country's greatest threat is the Media.
Two events the past week demonstrated that the Media is the enemy of the people. Those two events, Biden’s State of the Union address and the Congressional “Twitter hearings,” seemingly unrelated, prove conclusively that this problem shows no signs of improving. No obstacle America faces, not the deficit, the Southern Border, crime, the environment, or the like can be addressed until we first repair the system by which we as a people get and discuss our information. A brief review of this past week’s main events demonstrate this.
It started last Tuesday with Biden’s second State of the Union address. As with all Presidents, the State of the Union is a political event. So, of course, it came as no surprise that Biden used the opportunity to promote his political viewpoint. But, it is also the duty of the President to speak to the Nation’s issues and offer his solutions to address them. If the Media acted appropriately, this event would be partly a political speech by the party in power and the beginning of a conversation between the American people and their leaders about how to improve and advance our Nation. As Tuesday demonstrated, the MainStreamMedia failed.
As coverage of the Speech demonstrated, the State of the Union is no longer an opportunity for the people to consider whether the Country is on the right track and evaluate our leadership. Instead, it has become an opportunity for the Press to spread whatever narrative it seeks to advance. When a Democrat is in the White House, that message almost always is how great the President’s speech was and how awful Republicans are, along with a sprinkle of whatever pet issue they are found of at the moment. It has gotten so bad, that you can predict accurately the next day’s headlines before the Democrat President has spoken.
This is among the Media’s many failures these days, but it is important to note that they have eviscerated yet another one of the Constitutions checks on out of control government. In prior times, the public required them to take at least this day off from spin and permit the “news” cycle to be dominated by a discussion of where we are and where we are going as a people. No longer. You do not need to review the Media coverage to prove this. As you read this, consider that you have no idea of any concrete policy or project that the United States is addressing or pursing at this time. This is by design.
Instead of checking our government, the Media has turned the State of the Union into an opportunity to promote the Democrat Party and whatever agenda it has at the moment. So, the Elite Media coverage of the event lauded Biden’s speech as, among many other terrific things, “unifying” and “great.” You can watch the entire speech here, but you do not need to watch it to know that Joseph R. Biden never was, and certainly is not now, capable of delivering anything approaching a great speech. The Press’ fawning coverage of the Address claiming he did so fails the Nation because its suggests to those who rely upon the Media for information that the Country is in good shape, or, at a minimum improving when the opposite is the case.
It was not just falsely claiming that Biden gave a tremendous speech. For good measure, the Media also used the event as a vehicle to attack Republicans. To be fair, the Republicans who determined to interrupt and heckle Biden acted inappropriately, but the supposed “journalists” were going to find something, or manufacture it, even if they had not. So, while you have no idea how our Country is going to address its many problems, you have been told that Republicans are evil, racist, a threat to “democracy,” and “stupid” and the State of the Union proved it:
Turning what used to be an important annual political event into yet another day for a media circus harms our Republic. We have written about the current media environment being the Country’s great threat before and the most recent State of the Union proved it yet again.
Were Biden’s Address to the only instance of malpractice it would be bad enough, but the Press also proved its uselessness this week by ignoring the House’s Twitter Hearings. In summary, the House’s Oversight and Accountability Committee called the hearing to investigate Twitter’s decision to block a New York Post article about the potential illegal activities of Hunter Biden and then candidate Biden as proven by the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop that he had abandon at a computer repair shop. The bombshell “October surprise” had dropped just before the 2020 Presidential Election and almost certainly cost President Trump the election.
Among other things, the hearing demonstrated that the FBI approached Twitter before the laptop story was released and convinced them that the laptop was “Russian misinformation” and should be suppressed. It also demonstrated that the Federal government had suppressed the voices of many Americans and politicians based on their political viewpoint, especially if they promoted ideas or information contrary to that of the Federal government. This not only is illegal and unconstitutional, but it is important information for the public to have so that they can make decisions about their government officials. For instance, it is important for the public to know that the FBI believes it should weigh in on what information newspapers should publish to voters in the weeks leading up to an election. Similarly, citizens might wish to know that the FBI apparently is wire tapping the devices of one of the President’s attorneys while he is in communication with new outlets.
Instead of performing the most basic journalism, just as it had with the State of the Union, the Media shirked its responsibility. They not only failed to inform the public of the basic facts, but fed a narrative that not only did not inform, but provided the public with the notion that Twitter censored not conservative information, but those on the Left and that the Hunter Biden laptop story, which now has been admitted to be true by Hunter Biden himself, was “fake.” Not surprisingly, this was the same message pushed by Democrats on the Committee:
What this past week demonstrated yet again is that we cannot address the failure of our leaders and government because the Media not only fails to provide us with facts, it actively promotes narratives that are untrue to promote the fortunes of one political party and/or those in power. Until we reach the point where alternative media sources can challenge the MainStreamMedia’s reach and dominance or otherwise fix the traditional Media, we will not be able to address our Country’s issues because the mechanism by which we provide voters with the information necessary to make course corrections fails to alert them that corrections are needed. This week this most pressuring of our Country’s threats was revealed yet again.