No.
It’s dead. Journalism killed itself covering up Joe Biden’s senility so Democrats could maintain power. Humpty Dumpty can’t be put back together again. The media is a feast for crows.
CNN’s Fake Jake Tapper and the rest of them can shriek and pull out their hair, protesting wildly that they are true journalists interested in "speaking truth to power."
That too, is a lie.
They are not journalists, they are political propagandists. They’re paid whores.
This latest episode of mainstream media corruption brings to mind an apocryphal story often wrongly attributed to Churchill or George Bernard Shaw, "Madam, we’ve already established what you are. All we’re doing now is discussing the price."
| ”That’s not the Chicago Way," he said. "The Chicago Way is they pull out shotguns, shoot all the cows and make a barbecue. And then they ride off looking for more cows to kill." |
The boss whore of this despicable gang is Tapper, who is now cashing in, selling his book, telling the tale he loudly condemned others for approaching . And all of his posse who profit after keeping their mouths shut for so long, after putting the nation through hell, deserve contempt. Tapper’s newfound "humility" is but another means to whitewash this shameful scandal.
In this they are much like the prostitute going through pockets after the client has been bludgeoned. But Jake the Fake is not alone. They told us he was "sharp as a tack" but was he? No.
Just who was running the country? And why should we trust anything the Democrats and their media coms shop tell us going forward?
Democrats worked in concert to cover up Biden’s senility. And so did the mainstream media played along because their hatred and fear of Donald Trump compelled them. We saw it all as it happened, so there’s no spinning their way out of it. But they’re trying desperately, beseeching America to eat their waste. And all we really need are the treasonous actors who used the presidential autopen without the people’s permission.
"We are in the midst of this staggering presidential scandal from the Biden administration. Whether you’re talking about the mental decline or the physical decline, there was a conspiracy to keep the American people from knowing who was actually operating as president," said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway during a Fox News interview. "It really makes all other presidential scandals throughout history seem to somewhat pale in comparison."
It would take volumes to list all the White House scandals, from US Grant, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson and his manipulative wife Edith; Bill and Hillary Clinton and the 30,000 vanished emails; Barack Obama of the Fast and Furious scandal and the thousands of guns Obama had passed through to Mexican narco-gangs, the murders of the Americans at Bengazi and the political partisan abuses of the IRS.
There is a media myth about Obama’s administration perpetuated by the New York Times, that Obama’s administration was scandal free. No, it was not.
And of course, Richard Nixon of Watergate infamy.
But this one about Biden is much worse than the Watergate break-in. In that one the White House covered up the lawbreaking and the media uncovered it. The establishment media, led by the Washington Post hounded Nixon from office.
But in this one Biden and the legacy media covered up his senility, installed him, and publicly ridiculed any of us who dared point out they were protecting a presidential meat puppet at the expense of the American people.
Americans need news that they can trust to make important decisions about their vote and who would govern them. But they can’t trust this sort of garbage.
And the American people are being told to take it and eat it.
We’re told to eat the garbage they throw at us through the video screens and over the internet, to smile and applaud the corporate legacy media for "protecting" our republic from authoritarianism.
But as we say in Chicago whenever they put their lips together and blow: It’s all bullshit.
I take all this personally.
I spent 40 years working in the mainstream media as a reporter, political writer, columnist, and editorial board member of the Chicago Tribune. I loved working there, loved the readers and the paper and the work we accomplished, the detailed reporting we pursued. I just loved it. We were on a mission, in a politically corrupt city, as the tribunes for the people.
The Trib was once the voice of midwestern conservatism. It was about as mainstream as you could get. No longer. Once the leftist Jacobins took over newsroom, the knives came out and I had to go.
But it wasn’t the ideology that attracted me, it was that we could do real reporting and journalism there. The problem with the Jacobins is they pursued a course that moved away from seeking the truth, they were doctrinaire and lost any pretense of curiosity. They helped turn corporate journalism into what it is today.
Years ago, an associate of the Chicago Outfit and I were having lunch and talking about the mob. Specifically, about the economic lessons to be learned from the Chicago Outfit.
"Citizens see a couple, three cows on the side of a hill and think about putting them together and make more cows, make a herd. And sell the beef.
What’s wrong with that?
"Nothing but that’s not the Chicago Way," he said. "The Chicago Way is they pull out shotguns, shoot all the cows and make a barbecue. And then they ride off looking for more cows to kill."
I found the photo of the hyenas to illustrate that point, because hyenas aren’t interested in thinking about the future. And neither was the media, so intent it was on protecting Democrats from the people. And so, the news media devoured its own credibility with Biden, and now wonders where they might find the next feast.
Biden was not fit for office even before his inauguration.
As the great Miranda Devine wrote long ago, Joe Biden has been president-in-name-only since he was inaugurated
Jake the Fake and MSNBC and the New York Times and the rest of the pack of hyenas must now admit there is no feast without customers.
Who would pay for what passes for corporate legacy journalism now?
Only fools. Only chumbolones.
A few are still paying for garbage to eat as Fake Jake squeeze the chumbolones, as the New York Times looks down its nose at the American middle class.
But many others turn away from garbage journalism and reach out to independent journalism every day.
You’re always welcome here at https://johnkassnews.com/
Where did it start?
You might argue that American journalism fell apart with the rise of Al Gore’s internet that killed news advertising. Then the newspapers relied on subscriptions, and if subscribers were rabid Jacobins, they demanded offending heads be lopped.
But I’d argue, yeah, sure, OK but don’t forget the hopium smokers in the Washington press corps when Barry Obama became president.
I remember writing about the depressing Washington Press Corps addiction to hopium as they offered Obama as their Marxist demi-god. All the newsrooms were besotted.
"Obama hopium was so powerful, that that first rush of it, well, it sent a tingle up my leg. Or down my leg. Then up. So now, when I read newspaper stories about Obama’s political history, like a recent gooey, puffy profile in the Washington Post and it didn’t mention Obama as a willing member of Chicago’s Daley machine, well, I didn’t get angry.
"Not anymore.
"Why? Because I’m a hope-head.
"Now, I don’t get upset when foreign and national journalists fail to mention Tony Rezko, or the Daley boys, or how the Chicago machine plans to staff the Department of Justice, and the new Department of Homeland Casinos.
"Who cares? I’m numb with hopium."
But that was then.
I’m much better now.
I asked for a Congressional investigation days ago. And for the identity of who controlled the autopen. There seems to be no other way if we’re to keep the republic. The names must be known.
According to The Hill, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will be investigating Biden’s use of an "autopen" to sign documents such as the pardons issued just before he left office.
The Hill reported that "Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement he plans to subpoena former Biden aides Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal and Ashley Williams, who he claims "ran interference" for Biden and may have overseen the use of the autopen.
"Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is demanding the upper chamber hold hearings on Biden’s health and competence, and rightly so. He wants to interview people who were close to the former president. As he told Axios, "We have to. I mean, who was running the government?"
Years ago, in his first news conference since taking office, taxpayer-funded PBS White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor asked President Joe Biden whether migrants are crossing the southern border because he’s so "moral" and "decent."
She embarrassed herself without a smidgen of humility.
"You’ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn’t come to this country right now, this isn’t the time to come. That message is not being received," Alcindor said as the nation faces a crisis of illegal immigration not seen in decades. "Instead, the perception of you, that got you elected as a moral, decent man, is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and trusting you with unaccompanied minors."
Biden, a moral man? A decent man?
Yamiche, go sit on Jake’s lap and maybe he’ll tell you bedtime stories of the girl who saved journalism. Better yet Yamiche, just cancel yourself.
Last week on the Chicago Way podcast, co-host Jeff Carlin and I interviewed our friend Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of Real Clear Politics.
We talked about Biden, the media, Deep State operative James Comey and more. You might want to listen here.
I asked him about whether the media can survive this.
No, he said.
"The media’s broken," Bevan said. "There is no putting it back together. It is Humpty Dumpty for sure."
And all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men...
Don’t forget that Monday is Memorial Day, for all those who died for this country.
It is not a day to commemorate steaks and hotdogs and beer and chips. It is not the day to raise our glasses to our gluttony. Monday is the day we say a prayer and remember all those who gave their lives for the American republic.
A republic, said Dr. Franklin, if you can keep it.
Can we keep it?
That’s up to you. But they died trying to keep it. In all the cemeteries of American war dead across the world, among the white markers and crosses across the landscape, row after row here, in France, everywhere, it is held in a language unspoken by the political class, but perhaps you can feel it all the same:
A republic, if you can keep it.
Lest we forget.
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