Trump's victory proves that legacy media is full of liars with huge egos

The 2024 presidential campaign is almost over where it began: loathing the never-ending presence of Donald Trump. The day before the election, the front page of the New York Times carried a flashy editorial (a terrible disguise as “news analysis”) titled “A torrent of lies redefines political norms.”

Doesn't that sound like a hard-charging rerun from 2016? Nothing seems to have changed from the newspapers that loudly proclaimed that “the truth matters now more than ever” under the Trump administration.

The New York Times refused to acknowledge that Hunter Biden's laptop, filled with details of corruption, was real until 2022, but then confirmed the reality in paragraph 23 of the article on page A-20. Now that you've acknowledged that, you can point and laugh. It was almost buried. It's like an unmarked grave.

An editorial by White House chief correspondent Peter Baker erupted with disdain for how many lies Trump told in the first 300 seconds of his interview with Tucker Carlson on Halloween. “Mr. Trump's public appearances throughout this year's campaign have been an Alice in Wonderland journey through a political mirror, a journey into an alternate reality where reality often betrays him.”

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Baker thinks it's funny that President Trump touts his administration as the best in American history. Baker can't imagine anyone thinking that he, his journalist wife Susan Glasser, and his journalist friend are polar opposites. They tout the Trump administration as the worst year America has ever seen.

Every American who pays any attention to American politics knows that Trump wildly and selfishly overstates himself, promoting himself as if he's putting together another real estate deal. Everything is either the best or the worst. Everyone is incorporating it into their political calculations. But the journalists who coddle the Democrats act like they're all in constant shock, as if they're all appearing on “50 First Dates,” and how President Trump will act. I forget that every night.

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What's really shocking here is that the mainstream media pretends that Democrats are dramatically more honest, like 10 times more honest. On page A-16 is a New York Times analysis of the candidates' speeches. It said the number of false or misleading statements made at a typical Trump rally is 64. In contrast, 6 is the number of false or misleading statements Kamala Harris makes at a typical rally.

The obvious joke is that Trump's rally speech lasts 90 minutes, while Harris will close out her campaign with a 10-minute speech. So what is the minute-by-minute falsehood rate?

Beneath those hard numbers is “33 percent,” as well as the percentage of registered voters who agree with President Trump's false claim that Joe Biden “didn't win legitimately.” The Times is unable to acknowledge this segment of voters who believe Biden's dramatic media curbs on scandalous news could lead to an “unfair” victory. You can accept the outcome, but you can also protest the unfair process.

Partisanship is then reinforced by the experts they choose. “No one in American politics has ever lied on such a grand scale,” said Bill Adair, founder of PolitiFact, who has published a new book, Beyond the Big Lies. The Times omitted Mr. Adair's partisan subtitle, “The prevalence of political lies, why Republicans do more of them, and how it's burning down our democracy.”

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Republicans lie far more, perhaps 10 times more, and are therefore more likely to “burn down our democracy.” Adair said frankly that he thinks the Republican Party before Trump was an aggressive liar, so he's going to keep the Democratic donkey ears on his head.

Because Republicans see themselves as nonpartisan truth-tellers, they refuse to accept the “norm” that political news must be dominated by those who wish to marginalize and then destroy the Republican Party. are. That is a very large and selfish lie.

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