Our media elites like to tout themselves as “unbiased” and “fact-based.” However on virtually any story on Donald Trump, they will’t assist however put these phrases within the shredder.
The Kennedy Heart illustrates one main distinction between the 2 Trump phrases. Within the first time period, the president deferred to the leftists who gave all of the Kennedy Heart Honors in 2017 to Democrats and Trump haters. He selected to not attend the ceremony so no honoree would refuse to attend after which hail themselves as “courageous.” It was atypically well mannered and deferential, and Trump obtained zero credit score.
Within the second time period, Trump shortly proclaimed himself Kennedy Heart chairman and kicked out the administration. Whereas the Kennedy Heart hasn’t been a blazing sizzling spot of woke tradition, the media’s intense response to this motion demonstrated this area will not be for all People.
This place has drawn means much less controversy than that putrid public-private partnership often called “public broadcasting,” which is certainly conquered leftist territory. However the media accounts have been filled with overwrought angst.
On CBS’s Sunday Morning, former Night Information anchor Norah O’Donnell assembled all of the anti-Trump speaking factors. She turned to pop musician Ben Folds, who served as an inventive advisor to the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra. He fearful out loud that artists who’ve “completely different views than the president” would really feel “protected saying what they imagine.”
There are three questions I might ask Mr. Folds. First, are artists coming to carry out, or make political speeches? (The stand-up comics they choose are most likely each.)
Second, isn’t it apparent that individuals who assist the president may not “really feel protected” in stating their beliefs there? Trump truly stayed away from occasions, in order that demonstrated intolerance on the Left. In its story, CBS confirmed Vice President Vance and his household getting booed throughout a current go to, so what occurred to “arts for everybody”?
Third, why does the Left at all times counsel that conservatives couldn’t presumably be seen as patrons of “the humanities”? Artists, they imagine, are delicate souls, not callous brutes. Their assumption appears to be that Shakespeare and symphonies aren’t actually engaging to the right-wingers, who’re the varieties that drink low cost beer and watch skilled wrestling.
CBS unloaded this whopper from Folds: “There may be an intuition, an authoritarian intuition, that’s true in all authoritarian instances in historical past: Take management of the tradition, take management of the humanities early on.”
Properly, heavens to Gramsci, the Left are essentially the most ardent fans in controlling the tradition. Their fierce grip on the tradition is demonstrated when the “tradition wars” are solely recognized when somebody challenges leftist dominance.
Right here’s the worst half. CBS and O’Donnell laid down this line that Trump is a dictator, no “truth examine” included. As an alternative of discovering somebody to object, O’Donnell introduced: “We reached out to the White Home and Kennedy Heart for this story. Nobody responded to our request for interviews.”
In actuality, calling round to conservatives would simply discover many people keen to debate Folds on his Incipient Hitler Principle. We may begin by mocking Folds as a 2016 backer of socialist Bernie Sanders, the man who honeymooned within the Soviet Union. Who backed a inflexible authoritarian for president? Taking the reins of the Kennedy Heart is way much less invasive to People than a federal takeover of the whole well being care system.
The hypocrites at liberal TV networks wail about “authoritarianism,” however it’s they who’re unwilling to have interaction with an opposing perspective. They like a nationwide “debate” that is one-sided and mean-spirited. They’re what they declare to oppose.
