By: Mark Glennon*
There’s something telling about what Gov. JB Pritzker wrote during Thursday’s presidential debate that’s utterly disheartening, and it’s about more than Pritzker.
Instead of criticizing Donald Trump with honesty and facts — material for which is abundant — Pritzker chose to repeat a lie. More importantly, it’s a lie widely known and easily shown to be a lie, as Pritzker surely knows.
Pritzker wrote on X, “When neo Nazis marched on Charlottesville chanting ‘Jews will not replace us’, Donald Trump called them very fine people. And now he says it’s all a lie. It’s not a lie, Donald Trump is just a liar.”
That claim has been thoroughly debunked over and over again by sources on both the left and right. When Trump said “very fine people on both sides” he specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and white supremacists and said they should be “condemned totally.”
Here’s the video. It can’t be more clear that he wasn’t talking about neo-Nazis.
Left-leaning Snopes is among the latest to debunk Pritzker’s claim. Its conclusion: “In sum, while Trump did say that there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and white supremacists and said they should be condemned totally. Therefore, we have rated this claim ‘False.'” Snopes included both the video and a transcript. See it yourself.
Here’s CNN’s Jake Tapper on video saying Trump condemned Neo-Nazis and white supremecists, and that Trump was not including them in his “very fine people” remark.
Pritzker’s comment on X has over 420 replies, almost all of which say that Pritzker was lying.
The question therefore becomes: Why would Pritzker use a claim that’s so widely known to be a lie?
Much of the answer, I submit, is in what pollster Scott Rasmussen calls “the most terrifying poll result I have ever seen,” and it goes beyond Pritzker. In that poll, his agency asked, “Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?”
Just 7% of Americans said they would want their candidate to win by cheating.
But here’s the kicker: That number jumps to 35% among the elite 1% and skyrocketed to 69% among those who are part of the politically obsessed 1%, meaning they talk about politics every day. The full poll is here and Rasmussen’s comments on it are in this Daily Signal interview.
If cheating to win is acceptable, lying surely is as well, and the vast majority of people of influence have no problem with it. Just lie like hell. Follow the old rule that lies told often enough come to be accepted as truth by many. That’s what we’ve come to. We can be thankful only that most Americans have better values than our elites.
It should therefore come as no surprise that the debate, too, had plenty of falsehoods from both Trump and Biden, as you can see in many fact checks available online, like here.
*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Two words that should make everyone in America shiver in their shoes…….President Pritzger.
The Illinois Goons, led by the obvious love the idea of a President Pritzker and will keep him in power. Remember, Illinois has no gubernatorial term limits. Be afraid, be very, very afraid and do something about it.
It is like the liberals, democrats and Orange Man Bad people live in invisible crisis world and made up stories to make sure nothing from Trump or conservatives can be heard. They use fear to control people – smart people see this manipulation and lies by people like the fat man.
This thread of comments was impressive. It illustrates the fundamental understanding conservatives have of economics and political dynamics. Thank you, Wirepoints for keeping us informed.
However, if we don’t get out there as individuals and educate our neighbors and friends, nothing is going to change. Save the state, save the country. If the entire US turns into Illinois, California and NY, and the leaders of these states are working towards that end, the republic will end.
We can’t change them. They must come to this realization on their own, which unfortunately, happens rather infrequently. And then, once they are on our side, they must get out and vote. As I pointed out before, the most analogous situation to today is 1980. Jimmy Carter was a near complete disaster. He had a few good things, like no foreign wars and deregulation of the airlines, but the rest of his administration was a complete cluster f…Yet, 40% of the US population (and nearly 43% of Illinois resident, and over 50% of Cook County) looked at Jimmy Carter’s disastrous… Read more »
Your analysis of Jimmy Carter could not be more wrong. Obviously, you have no idea what went on in the 70’s. The economy that Carter inherited was mainly caused by the 1973 arab oil embargo and the policies of the Nixon and Ford administrations. Nixon tried to tame inflation with wage and price controls and Ford with his Whip Inflation Now (WIN) campaign. Neither worked. Carter’s idea to help bring down inflation was deregulation. You are correct that he deregulated the airlines, but he also deregulated commercial trucking, railroad freight rates, long distance phone service, and oil prices. This allowed… Read more »
I agree with most of your entire scenario President Carter did the right thing on inflation, it was the hostage situation than did him in. Congratulations, you clearly struck a nerve with the goons, hence the -2 thumbs down. They hate it when their playbook is exposed by knowledgeable conservatives. Unfortunately, things will only change when they get so bad that there is no other choice. Even then, most people are so disconnected by purposeful distractions that they will never know until the city goes Bankrupt.
Propaganda and it’s means of turning a lie into an accepted truth by continually repeating the lie is very much part of todays Democrat Party. Obama, Pritzker, Biden, Schiff, Pelosi etc all have engaged in high levels of propaganda using repeated lies. In fact Democrats have made lying an artform you can say as they’ve managed to get lies made into law. And why? Authoritarianism requires control of the people.
It’s a fundamental rule of the left “If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated oftenenough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.” It worked for Joseph Goebbels chief propagandist for the Nazi Party and Pritzker believes it will work for him.
The Government and Union Goons don’t like their playbook out in the open.
Pritzker wants to be Bidens replacement. Democrats can’t argue points that matter, so they latch onto Hitler, racism, climate, gender, hookers, etc. so his statement is par for the course. It will be fun to watch how they replace Biden. We always hear electing Trump will be the death of democracy. Well in the next few weeks we will witness the democratic party throw democracy out the window and replace the peoples primary winner with an unelected hand picked person. So much for democracy. But it won’t be easy. They must accomplish one of two things. 1) prove the president… Read more »
For the Dems it looks like a rising star. In reality its a flaming meteor headed straight for the white house.
Republicans have historically been for the corporates and the oligarchs, they also were smart to court Christians and firearm enthusiasts. They’ve been absolute bastards for years, but they are actually the lesser of two evils.
The Dems have taken the corporate cash too, they’ve also become the party of censorship, bureaucratic autocracy, and just plain fraud. Republicans take money, Dems take it with both hands. They’ve also become just as big war mongers as Bush, Cheney, McCain.
I cannot vote for any Illinois dem, state or federal.
They are destroying the country
Maybe people should realize it is the Media who are the biggest liars. They smear and destroy people lives. They conspired with Democrats to cheat and commit Treason against the American People and then hide behind the First Amendment.
No wonder Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and others fear being exposed and sentenced to hanging.
For Democrats the ends justifies the means! That does not say much for where the Democrats will take our Republic.
The only reason Biden was standing on that debate stage is the blatant lies that Democrats and their minions in the media kept repeating about Biden’s mental acuity.
Now JB and the Democrats are like the itinerant salesman in The Wizard of Oz, desperately operating the controls of the “Wizard” after the curtain has been opened. They have been exposed for what they are to the entire world.
Biden also blamed Trump for the ongoing rampant inflation, while Biden’s Treasury Secretary said the inflation was transitory. If it weren’t for Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema finally siding with Republicans, the progressives would have had Dementia Joe flood the economy with trillions more. Biden has continually lied, but he’s a Democrat so that’s okay.
You fail to recognize that Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy raised the national debt severely. People like to claim he’s a smart business man. Not so much when examined more closely, but he cheats steals and spews a web of lies to portray himself that way.
You’re completely wrong. The inflation is caused by government spending, not a lack of government revenue. Even if the tax cuts of 2017 were eliminated, the government would still be spending trillions above what it takes in. You would be best to learn something before posting comments.
A cut in federal tax revenue doesn’t necessarily bring a reduction in its expenses, so borrowing has to make up the difference. The Trump administration did lots of borrowing and consequent debt accumulation beyond the norm.
The tax cut does not reduce expense, it increases GDP growth which increases tax revenue.
They weren’t “tax cuts for the wealthy”—that old and tired Democrat mantra. (Tell a lie long enough and it becomes truth”-Joseph Goebbels).
I benefited from that tax cut as did the people I worked with and NONE of us was even close to “wealthy”. If you worked, you got a tax cut, if not, you didn’t.
If you got a tax cut chances are others got one, too. Whose do you think were larger—yours or those on the Ferrari-driving side of town?
GET OVER YOURSELF
James … the topic whether or not middle class taxpayers benefited from the tax cuts. They did. But rather than acknowledge that FACT, you sink to class comparison.
I read as many comments as I have time for, but I’ve decided to begin skipping yours.
I’m well aware that it won’t impact your life one iota, but it will impact mine.
Buh-bye, James.
Everyone that had normal deductions benefited from the raise in the standard deduction (which will go away under the Biden plan). It made it easier for many to file a simplified return by not requiring itemizing and the government didn’t have to pour through all those receipts.
CORRECT
James, I totally agree that deficits were too high under Trump and the Republican Congress. I don’t agree that the tax cut was for the wealthy. The SALT cap alone hammered upper incomes and the share of total income tax paid by lower brackets actually declined. https://wirepoints.org/2017-tax-federal-cut-turned-out-to-be-progressive-a-few-lessons-for-illinois-and-beyond-wirepoints/
James, the impact of the Trump tax cuts should probably be looked at over a period of time. There are conflicting studies where the political leanings of the writers appear to influence their findings. Shocking I know. Of course there is no steady state environment ever in play, but the pandemic would certainly skew results for both Biden and Trump policy. Points to consider, the economic environment an Administration inherits, in fairness, should be considered. As an example, Obama inherited a nightmare scenario, and 8 years later, it wasn’t much better. Yellen was part of that one too by the… Read more »
I especially appreciate your cordial tone here. The only comment I care to make is that hiring all those extra IRS agents was expected to be a net revenue generator. The number of federal audits in percentage terms is very low, and from I’ve read it’s aimed more toward wage earners than the truly rich who have a mire of business interests and deduction claims. Pursuing such people is extremely expensive by comparison with all the auditing involved. The whole idea of increasing the IRS budget was to generate more auditing of those sorts of people. I do prefer federal… Read more »
As to your comment I had heard a lady who called into C-Span a while back about the addition of 85K IRS agents. She claimed she works as an agent and the 85K agents are over a 10 year period and most of new hires are replacing many who will retire in the future. There will not be too many more than there are now. Also in regards to what the media said that they will be armed is not true. She said there are certain circumstances where they need to be armed but that is a small percentage of… Read more »
I appreciate your detailing here. I think I’ve read all of that elsewhere as well, and I’d forgotten entirely that their computerization processes need serious updating. That explains a lot of their problems most likely.
WRONG…….JUST LIKE A DEM-PROG USUALLY IS! THE ONLY LIARS IN THE PACK HERE ARE BIDEN AND GOOFY JILL
James – I know people in tax policy, including those at Brookings (my college roommate). The tax cuts were not for the wealthy. You may know something they don’t, but given the SALT tax action alone the lower income people received more benefit than the wealthy. Non economic types put too much emphasis on marginal rates and don’t often recognize the significance of the tax base. My mentor – one of the best tax experts then existing – spouse of a Supreme Court justice – explained to me his conversation with the leaders of a Scandinavian country. They called him… Read more »
You must be wrong because the Democratic goons gave you 2 thumbs up. They want you to believe that. Covid and the lockdown boosted the debt, but the Democrats latched onto it and continued the spending spree to pay for all their pet projects, funneling a cut to their donors and the party itself. This will continue until it collapses, allowing them to usher in a world Central Bank Digital Currency, giving them complete control over your life.
And the Russia hoaxes they spread, and the coverup of the laptop and his influence peddling operation.
Its pritzker ….why would anyone expect anything different ?
Marxist know if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the truth to the majority. They will keep doing it because it works on the majority.
I suppose you have no clue that many people of a different political persuasion and disagree would think the same thing if only you would have said Trump instead of Marxist.
Republicans take Trump seriously but not literally; Democrats take Trump literally but not seriously. That’s the different. I’ve yet to see one Republican anywhere who believes everything Trump says. They booed him when he told them to get vaccinated. People got really angry when he said that he wanted to give green cards to foreign graduates. Every Republican knows that he banged Stormy Daniels. You keep projecting how you think conservatives feel but it’s just not true. We, unlike Biden voters, don’t need to live in a carefully constructed fantasy world of lies and make-believe. They’ve been saying for years… Read more »
We “know” a person by what he says and does. I think think those two ways of thinking about Trump more congruent than not even if imperfectly so. I have no comment on the rest. You do you.
We also know Trump by his amazing four years in office; and we know Biden by his four years of disaster.
That’s why the country is in such good shape with num-nuts biden
Exactly. Actually, whether or not Trump is re-elected is more or less a sideshow. The Conservative movement can’t be stopped now. We’ve just seen some more excellent Supreme Court rulings, DEI is on the way out, and we’ve gotten rid of Roe. Next up; “Gender affirming care” (genital mutilation), and hate crimes.
I don’t look at Trump as a conservative movement like the Regan republican conservative movement. The republicans have become a progressive/protectionist/nationalist movement.
The conservative movement is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing: rolling back the globohomo.
Don’t get too excited yet. We’re not dealing with rational people who have any sense of right, wrong, or fair play. Illinois is a cesspool of corruption. Just look at the two bills: HB2412, which blocks Republicans from naming candidates, and the bill allowing political funds to be funneled into primaries. It’s blatantly dirty, but they went ahead and did it anyway.
I disagree, I think most Trump voters do take him literally. That’s why they support him.
This tempts me to say that you think that Trump supporters aren’t smart enough or subtle enough to tell when he’s exaggerating or jousting with his audience … which is the art of the deal. A President should be skilled at bluffing and his adversaries ought to be smart enough to “read” him or her.
Words matter! To the extent that any politician uses language that can easily be interpreted harmfully he’s playing with fire. Such language will be a turn-on to some and a turn-off to others. What’s the sense of doing it beyond appealing to his core supporters’ base intuitive instincts to grab their pitchforks and destroy their supposed enemies? It’s not the sort of uplifting language that appeals to our higher moral aspirations.
I’d like a list of the higher moral aspirations of the CTU, the Governor, the current and former Chicago mayors, Rev. Sharpton and every lawyer suing Illinois municipalities for various violations of statutes, ordinances and other laws. If you run out of their articulated principles, you can move on to Clinton and Obama and their foundations and libraries. I will also raise a cup to Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman and on some days to Winston Churchill. For every so-called Democrat hypocrite, I can find a matching Republican but I can’t find that many in Illinois. … and besides, there’s… Read more »
Trump is always exaggerating with his audience and when you do that long enough your supporters begin to believe everything you tell them. There will be people who vote for Trump who know he has no idea of what he’s talking about half the time, but they look at Biden and realize they can’t vote for him because he doesn’t have the mental acuity to be president. But I believe the true Trump supporter believes everything he tells them.
Having engaged with several Biden supporters on Substack the last couple of days, I can assure you that there are many leftists who believe everything Dems and MSM tell them. If anything, gullibility is more a feature of the left. They need it more.
I agree both sides have their core supporters who believe basically everything they’re told.
This is the pot calling the kettle black. It seems to me that you are doing exactly the same. YOU believe everything the media tells you about Trump supporters. I googled “do trump supporters believe everything trump says” and it was dozens upon dozens of articles from left wing rags, like NPR, NBC and the Atlantic with headlines like: The Motivated Ignorance of Trump Supporters (Atlantic)Why Millions Think It Is Trump Who Cannot Tell a Lie (NYT)Why hard-core Trump supporters ignore his lies (The Conversation) Left wing fake news media is giving you propaganda, fake news, they are feeding you… Read more »
I’ll simplify my argument. If a person is taken seriously it is because of what they say. Donald Trump is taken seriously and he has said a lot. If you believe he’s not to be taken literally then give me 3 examples of statements by Trump that his supporters don’t take literally.
As to Stormy, it seems that Trump is playing the same “no evidence” gambit that the Democrats have used in denying election fraud. Whether Trump did or didn’t is essentially his word against hers with no other testimony as to what “every Republican knows.” The legal system and its premise that juries can decide “facts” opens up a lot of possibilities. Similarly, the idea of “prosecutorial discretion” lets a prosecutor decide that there’s not enough evidence. Consider the decision to dismiss charges against Biden for absconding with classified documents: presuming that the jury would let him off because he’s an… Read more »
Sure, we all play the ‘no evidence’ game but come on, I think we all know he did it. It’s gross, and everything thinks it is gross, but not disqualifying.
There’s certainly plenty of historical evidence — in the sense of being reported by historians — (FDR, JFK, LBJ, WJC) for married presidents cheating on wives. And it’s been established to my satisfaction that journalists knew about it and decided not to report it in the media. I suppose that’s circumstantial evidence that the media has double standards. So what? One way or another most of “us” share that sort of “knowledge” about lots of people. Why do politicians want to post the Ten Commandments (or however many) and how many of those commandments have been transgressed by those politicians… Read more »
Why do you imagine that we have no clue what people of a different political persuasion believe? We are only too aware of what leftists believe; they have forcefully expressed those beliefs for years. They also make it clear that they don’t “think” about anything. They only fervently believe.
You are entitled to your belief system. I’m entitled mine as well, but I take exception at your statement as to which sorts of people put more thought into what they believe. Trump said he “loves the poorly educated.” Yes, I can believe that, and its not hard to understant his reasoning. Tell them falseholds over and over and over, and soon enough they’ll be believers.
That’s why the CTU keeps them all stupid
Wow, to -2 goon thumbs down. You really hit a nerve One must be from CTU
Yes, tell people over and over that Biden is sharp as a tack, completely grasps nuances of policy, he just has a cold, etc, and there will be many who believe it. Even in the face of direct, irrefutable evidence to the contrary. Those people are known as Democrats.
NOPE that is the democrat role……….keep on lying…………..they will eventually believe it…….but finally they are sick of it and are coming over to the right side!!!!!!!!!
Most people commenting here have a reasonable understanding of economics and politics.* You can see that from the comments. They do their homework and don’t accept the propaganda of either side. I find the discussions here rather refreshing and informative.
* (exception for the goons that monitor the site)
JB has created the #1 worst state to live in, why would anyone listen to the moron.
Because Democrats live in a fantasy world of Make-Believe, that ignores reality, for a narrative that make them feel good. They believe Illinois is a fantastic utopia with few redneck conservatives, totally competent, progressive leadership, and their leaders is fighting the Good Fight against racist MAGA Republicans. They really believe this crap. My normie Democrat neighbor, whom I really like actually, told me a while back that JB was doing a really good job with COVID. I said are you aware that all of our surrounding states lifted their restricts 6 months ago or more, and that we keep having… Read more »
Rod Blagojevich was better than Pritzker.
Rod was middle of the road……..not a commie like we have now
Pritzker is a pathetic, lying POS, so not surprising.
Mark, he still said it, and that is not in dispute. It’s still appalling no matter how much he or other conservatives try to walk it back. Trump spewed falsehoods and propaganda over and over throughout the debate and repeatedly refused (yet again) to accepting the outcome of the 2024 election, which will be free and fair. He tried to overturn the last one and will try to do it again if he loses again. He is a traitor, a felon, a rapist, and most importantly a threat to our democracy, and should not be allowed near the White House… Read more »
Andrew, the very fine people were those there peacefully protesting the tearing down of monuments.
That is not appalling.
He said he will accept the outcome if the election is free and fair. That is reasonable.
And you are illustrating Mark’s point that you would rather have your candidate win by cheating.
Again, Democrats live in a world of fantasy and make-believe, where they believe the lies told to them by the media and their peers, because it conforms to their worldview. No matter how hard you try to show them objective facts, right in front of their face: TRUMP DID NOT PRAISE NEO-NAZIs they can’t believe it, it shocks them to their core. They cannot be helped, they can only be outvoted.
That is not an exclusive feature for Democrats. Look no further than Republicans believing the election was stolen with absolutely zero evidence because it conforms to their views. No matter how hard people show them the facts, they can’t help but believe this ridiculous lie.
Look at the debate. Both of these clowns lied and most of their supporters will believe the respective lies.
I agree that both Trump and Biden were not truthful. Since the Kennedy Nixon debate the participants have not been truthful. They just say nasty things about each other and talk about how great they are. The reason the “Trump lied” response by the Democrats and media were amplified is that Joe was so stunningly bad, they had to say something in an attempt to offset the damage. I can’t think of a presidential debate where one of the participants was so awful. Vice President debates, a few come to mind.
Agreed Ex. I don’t think we will ever see such a bad performance again in our lifetime. I used to laugh when Joe would look lost and the Dems denied it. Now it’s just plain sad and cruel to keep him out there.
LOL, there were NO shenanigans in the 2020 election, most secure election ever! We just had to make all of these new rules for drop boxes, early voting, late voting, no ballot signature matching, ballot harvesting….and if you dare question the voter fraud, if you ever dare, you’re a conspiracy theorist!
Thanks for proving my point debtsor.
And you proved mine! https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/where-theres-smoke-theres-fire-100000-stolen-votes-chicago Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: 100,000 Stolen Votes in Chicago Where Chairman Mao believed that all power comes from the barrel of the gun, the late Mayor Richard J. Daley believed that all power comes from the barrel into which precinct totals have been tossed. -David Nyhan, The Boston Globe, December 16, 1982 The “Truth About Voter Fraud,” according to activist groups like the Brennan Center, is that “many of the claims of voter fraud amount to a great deal of smoke without much fire…. The allegations simply do not pan out.”[1] Chicago, however, is… Read more »
I believe that election fraud you speak of was carried out by manipulating voting machines at polling places on election day. Not early or mail-in voting.
How did I prove your point? I clearly showed how both parties feed their disciples lies and those people believe it. You clearly believe the election “was stolen” lies. Doesn’t matter that you have no proof. You don’t care. You just want to complain that the election was stolen because Trump told you so. Trumpers believe anything he tells them and Democrats believe anything Biden tells them. It’s quite pathetic.
LOL
Just another post without facts. I get it. That’s all you have.
Joe Biden: “We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0
The famous Biden gaffe, admitting what he was told likely hours before in some classified meeting…
I remember the BUM saying that also!! Couldn’t believe it
There’s been several times that Biden’s come out of a classified or confidential meeting and then blathered, often incorrectly, about what just happened, not remembering that it was supposed to be a secret. Remember when he got up in front of the world and said that if Russia did a ‘minor incursion’ into Ukraine and gave away the entire battle strategy to Russia? LOL, that’s what they discussed in the meeting probably several hours earlier. This is likely the same with the voter fraud comment. They probably said, “Joe, you’re going to win, don’t worry about it, our people are… Read more »
Well said.
That is the only way they can ever win!! CHEAT AND LIE
What is wrong with you? He did NOT say that about neo-Nazis as Pritzker claimed. If you want to make the case against Trump on those other things, have at it, but do it honestly. You are an example of what the article is about. Because of your other views about Trump, you think you have a license to lie.
Wow did you even read the article or watch the video? Get over your TDS
As opposed to Biden who married his kids’ nanny, took kickbacks from China and Ukraine, showered with his 10 yr old daughter, and is a plagiarist, to name a few.
Also, if I remember correctly Al Gore tried to overturn the results of ab election, and Hillary Clinton still calls DJT’s presidency “illegitimate”. 153 million people “voted” in the 2020 election in a nation of 147 million registered voters.
LOL LOVE YOUR ANALOGY……TRUMP 2024 There is a lot more dirt to say about this guy but that’s good for now!!
I see you’re a devotee’ of MSNBC & CNN.
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
Joseph Goebbels
What are you jealous?????? TRUMP 2024 and beautiful MELANIA AS FLOTUS
Andrew, do you realize that you are parroting the party line without verification?
Open your eyes and read or listen to something other than mainstream media.
There’s a lot of information out there.
The ‘fourth estate’ use to be unofficial gatekeepers of truth and hold politico’s to accountant. Journalists use to be about ‘keeping the big boys honest’. Not anymore – those days are long, long gone. Pritzker, Biden, Pelosi and all the rest get not just a free pass, but the main stream media acts in their interest and even takes direction from the DNC on talking points – they are now operatives. Look no further than CNN and how it desperately tried to rig a simple debate – fortunately Biden is so bad that even a rigged debate didn’t work. Look… Read more »
The fourth estate never held them to account. That’s the lie the journalists want you to believe. Woodword and Berstein were literally FBI assets. Deep Throat – an FBI agent named Mark Felt – was their handler. They willingly participated in a coup against an extremely popular sitting president who two years earlier won 49 states, losing only DC and MA. If I remember correctly, the ‘DNC’ office his people broke into was actually a honey pot set up by the FBI, which I believe was actually being used to spy on Nixon. The supposed deep state was actually out… Read more »
That all started to go away during the Vietnam War, when the New York Times turned against U.S. troops and started advocating for North Vietnam. The current publisher of the NYT, A.G. Sulzberger, is the son of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., a vociferous anti-war/anti-U.S. protester during the war and when he took over as publisher in 1992, he turned the Times into a far left-wing rag. Today, what used to be the world’s greatest newspaper, is a low-end, radical left propaganda sheet.
Its been happening for centuries. Remember the Maine? of course not, we weren’t born yet. Even back then, yellow journalists were pushing fake news during the Spanish American war too. But remember, journalists want you to believe this never happened before or after this … just one bad era in American journalism….
More people relied on newspapers back then than they do now. You should use an example from this century not last century. Does the “fourth estate” or the “main stream media” even matter anymore? People consume the news they want from the sources that curry to the beliefs of the consumer.
The legacy media matters less and less every day. I saw that Charlie Kirk had 12 million people live streaming his after debate analysis. That’s 4% of the country. 12 million viewers is more than most major news media networks have these days. Say what you want about right wing media, sure it’s biased, and yes, major advertiser are scared of placing ads because of left-wing political activists organizing boycotts. But they don’t lie to me. Yes, they tell me what I want to hear, but they aren’t straight up lying to me, peddling fake news to push some narrative… Read more »
Truth has no place in the realm of JB Pritzker. He ignores it regularly, as he spouts off with unsubstantiated claims about Illinois being “the best”. He is a truth denier, refusing to acknowledge fact after fact with regard to the state he governs. Population loss? That’s just not true! Fiscal issues? Not Illinois! How can people be expected to believe anything he says?
Pritzker is a liar, and a booster of perversion and abortion. Three things that God hates!
Not to mention that the Pritzker family has been linked up with the Mob for as long as anyone can remember.
Not to mention a commie hypocrite keep Illinois locked down while he and his family flee to Florida, impose the most unconstitutional gun laws that he paid for via the Illinois Supreme Court justices, while his family operates a gun range in Wisconsin.. I could keep going but as long as you vote blue nothing will change