When the liberals at Norman Lear Middle at USC handed out their Walter Cronkite Awards for Fervent Leftist Bias – oops, for “Excellence in TV Political Journalism” – you may depend on the winners delivering wild-eyed speeches about America descending into despotism beneath Donald Trump.
You possibly can simply know the way a lot that is Democrats Applauding Themselves when the emcee is Marty Kaplan, who was, again in 1984, the deputy marketing campaign supervisor of Walter Mondale for President.
Kaplan hailed Maddow’s work on the “nationwide pro-democracy motion.” Democrats always equate themselves with Democracy, and Republicans with despotism. It by no means issues that Trump lately received within the election outcomes. American democracy leading to Trump’s election by no means stops their democracy-is-dying claptrap.
Rachel Maddow thrilled the viewers by proclaiming her heroism of her work: “The story of our age, I actually consider—the story of our democracy proper now—isn’t a Washington story. And it’s not simple to cowl. However proper now, it’s a very powerful story on the earth.”
The “most necessary story” is any band of protesters or disrupters of Trump and his makes an attempt to implement the immigration legal guidelines, which they paint as “authoritarian” stuff. Maddow stated telling the story isn’t about specializing in Trump “the despot,” however on the “response of the folks” [leftists] resisting the alleged despot:
MADDOW: Think about a faraway nation with its democracy in danger. It’s beneath stress from a pacesetter having his buddies purchase up and cultivate beforehand unbiased media, doing his finest to intimidate or shut down the remaining. He has the intent to rule by drive, to consolidate all energy in himself and rule indefinitely with out being constrained by election outcomes.
The Left appears to be like ridiculous once they declare Trump is “domesticating unbiased media,” which is their code for “making leftist networks in any manner much less fervently leftist.” Defunding PBS and NPR is in some way “intimidating” or “domesticating,” however anybody observing them is aware of they have not modified their tilt a bit this yr. CBS Information hasn’t become Newsmax, regardless of dramatic leftist claims on Twitter.
MADDOW: On this faraway hypothetical nation, if our overseas correspondents had been to evaluate whether or not that nation would make it, whether or not they would climate this storm, they might not attempt to discern that by ever nearer and extra minute scrutiny of the phrases and even the actions of the despot. They’d file their dispatches and their reporting and their evaluation on the response of the folks to what the despot is making an attempt to do. They’d file their dispatches and their reporting and their evaluation based mostly on what is clear within the resilience of the folks and the standard of their response and the cleverness of their response and the variety of inflatable frog costumes they’re in [as in anti-ICE protests in Portland]….
I need to encourage all of you to look to the response of the folks and never simply the best way they’re victimized and affected by these in energy, as a result of it’s the response of the folks that can determine whether or not or not we’re right here subsequent yr doing awards like this once more.
There’s Democracy’s Drama Queen, suggesting that Trump will ban all awards exhibits for leftist bias within the coming yr. Did something like that occur in Trump’s first time period? Retaining Jim Acosta out of the briefing room for per week, that is about as dramatic as you may cite.
Additionally discover that anybody who’s deported is “victimized.” People killed or violently harmed by unlawful migrants should not counted as “victimized.” Democrats counsel that “Democracy” and open borders and 0 deportations are the identical factor.
