George Rebane
The country continues to suffer under the devious reporting of the lamestream media. The progressive propaganda outlets regularly output two important types of lies (here) in their published content. The first type is not reporting certain information critical for readers' decision making, the second type is outright false/fake news, in other words making statements that are blatantly false. As readers have been advised for years in these pages, our Fourth Estate is dead but not buried. It continues to live and thrive in a zombie-like existence, first impeding, then devouring the nation’s ability to think critically. Two examples follow.
The lamestream elected Biden. This conclusion is supported by more than several years of witnessing anti-Trump lies in every dominant leftwing news and entertainment media outlet – most of the them have been detailed and debated in these pages. But a post-election poll provides, perhaps, the clearest evidence of that. (here) About 17% of Biden voters – an outcome changing percentage – would not have voted for him had they known a number of salient facts about him and his record as a politician – all of these facts were prominently absent from the lamestream’s content during Biden’s candidacy and purposely subverted after he received the DNC’s imprimatur. RR’s liberal commenters have provided reams of additional evidence of that as they regularly accuse me (and other better-read commenters) of making up stuff that is already known nationally, but not through the ‘information’ channels they regularly consume.
Then there’s withholding critical information on various proven effective Covid-19 (C19) therapeutics, this because a more successful approach at early intervention could have markedly changed the course of the disease for the better. Specifically, I’m talking about the suppression of fluvoxamine, ivermectin, and hydroxychloroquine as safe, proven drugs for early intervention. (here) Instead, the Democrat politicians and their lamestream lackeys made clear on the daily national news that such drugs were risky and not to be trusted. The latter on the basis that the Trump administration was an early promoter of these medicines. Because of that the nation’s healthcare clinicians took the legally less risky route and eliminated wholesale prescription of these medicines to early-stage patients. Instead, all this supported the continuation of command/control unproven dicta of lockdowns, social distancing, and masks. Even herd immunity was denied and Operation Warp Speed denigrated as being ineffective in combatting C19. Because of that criminally misguided messaging, thousands of additional people died who could have been helped by vigorous intervention with these proven medicines. But the progressive narrative was saved, and worth every life sacrificed in its service.
