MY TURN: Time to ignore the lies
I hate to say it — and I’m sure a lot of you agree — but it’s great to see the right people so upset.
The post-election histrionics have been amusing, to say the least. And a great deal of ink has already been spilled discussing the crushing defeat of the big propaganda machine.
It’s true, though: They threw everything they had at this election. They told lie after lie after lie. They insisted Biden was fit as a fiddle, and Kamala was the rightful nominee who energized and unified her party.
Years ago, they declared Kamala the “border czar,” but leading up to the election, they insisted she wasn’t. They misrepresented everything they could about Trump — his comments about Liz Cheney, the “bloodbath” comments. They whined about Hitler, fascism and the end of democracy.
In fact, right up to election day, this was Kamala’s central election pitch. She practically told everyone that the world would come to an end if she didn’t win.
And then, literally the next day, in her concession speech, she said that “the light of America's promise will always burn bright.”
Wait a minute. You just said that democracy would come to an end. Now all of a sudden America’s promise will always burn bright?
She also said she was, “so proud of the race we ran. And the way we ran it,” — i.e., stealing the nomination from her boss and demonizing her opponent to the point where there were two assassination attempts against him.
She added that, “we all have so much more in common than what separates us.” Again, coming from someone whose party calls the opposition deplorable, misogynist, Nazi garbage.
In the end, nobody believed Kamala or the media. People aren’t as stupid as they think.
Perhaps the best part is that legacy media ratings were down dramatically.
CNN, for example, saw its election night coverage drop by almost 50% compared to 2020. That’s got to be a five-alarm fire, and I have to imagine that in the coming weeks and months, heads are going to roll.
Not to mention — once again, the polls were all wrong. The so-called “experts” and pollsters predicted a razor-thin, ultra-close election — and the legacy media dutifully reinforced that narrative.
They tried to make people believe Kamala was wildly popular and that everything was on a knife’s edge. But it wasn’t. Not even close.
This represents yet another blow to the “expert” class. I’m not sure if it’s the final blow, but it’s a major one.
But my greatest pleasure in all of this is watching how much the ideological leadership on the left — those preening, pearl-clutching, self-important, highly overpaid elitists — STILL don’t understand. And they refuse to engage in any self-reflection.
Their reaction has been exclusively anger. They’ve launched into tirades, hurling verbal assaults at the 73 million people (and counting) who rejected them, their lies and their propaganda.
The reasons they gave? Well, apparently, Americans are all just too dumb to understand MSNBC’s brilliance.
MSNBC host Joe Scarbourough blamed a “Russian embrace of disinformation,” and “a radical devaluing of truth,” and wondered, “How do we reach those Americans who apparently didn’t go to civics class?”
Just keep telling them how stupid they are, Joe. I’m sure that will work.
The ladies on "The View" said a dominantly Latino town on the border voted overwhelmingly for Trump due to misogyny.
A guest of Joy Reid on MSNBC went even further, and said those misogynistic Latino men who voted for Trump have internalized bigotry from “the weight of colonialism.”
Sure, that’s plausible. Or maybe voters didn’t want a communist dingbat running the country.
It’s offensive when these people talk down to you, when they call half of America fascists and Nazis.
But I really hope they keep it up.
The longer they talk like that, the longer they refuse to reflect and change their tune and the longer the media executives keep those same clowns on the air, the longer they’re going to keep losing.
And maybe, just maybe, American voters will keep ignoring the lies and putting people in power who make sensible and rational decisions.
To your freedom.
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Longtime resident Red Hat Caroline Griffin has lived in Coeur d'Alene since 1989.