Our Fourth Estate Smolders in the Shadow of its Former Self
From the ashes of American journalism propaganda rises.
After years of misleading the country about Trump’s Russian collusion, the media cabal, especially America’s formerly great newspaper editorial boards, systematically suppressed and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story. Polls show if the truth was known, 6% of Biden voters would have changed their vote, shifting the election to Trump.
Who are these newspaper editors? Ninety percent are unaccountable elitists, who, privileged since birth, believe they are the smartest people in the room. There was a time when Newspaper editors took pride in speaking truth to power and holding the powerful accountable. That time has passed, and the press has deteriorated into an arm of the progressive “Woke” democratic party.
Readers should make no mistake. It was in large part the unaccountable editors of the major newspapers who drove public opinion and elected Joe Biden president. They are directly responsible for America’s economic, societal and psychological pain.
Over the last 32 years, the vast majority of NH’s press has followed the national trend of progressive biased elitism. A former bastion of traditional American thought, the once-highly-regarded Manchester Union Leader, is slowly moving towards the same sad fate.
The author thought it would be worth the effort to test the Union Leader and see if any integrity remained in the paper’s editorial board. An Op-ed calling out the Editor’s flawed Joe Biden 2020 endorsement and asking the editors to be consistent on their 2022 political endorsements, was crafted and submitted. The head Union Leader opinion editor thanked the author for the piece and asked for a headshot to be included with the publication, but the piece was never published.
It could have been sent to any of the elitist newspapers {think NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe} and likewise suppressed. And any national conservative candidate’s name could be substituted for the NH conservative politicians’ names.
Please give it a read and remember Democracy Dies in Darkness, and these former keepers of the light now thrive in a pitch-black environment.
Editors
On October 25, 2020, the Manchester Union Leader endorsed Joe Biden for president.
The editorial board started out by admitting their Trump bias.
"There is no love lost between this newspaper and President Donald Trump".
They grudgingly acknowledged, despite the media and Congress working to stop him, that Trump had many accomplishments. The Editors then took President Trump to task for adding more than $7 trillion dollars to the national debt but failed to note that after the Obama/Biden era’s severe military cuts, rebuilding required compromise and massive spending on progressive priorities. In addition, the editors made no reference to Trump’s determination to address the deficit issue in his second term and went on to criticize Trump’s Covid-19 response. Three weeks after the 2020 election, the Union Leader editorial staff was humbled when Trump’s operation "Warp Speed" provided a miracle - creating a world-saving vaccine.
Surprisingly, this paper’s editors were not happy with the answers Joe Biden gave to the Hunter Biden laptop issue but neglected to mention the freedom-of-speech suppression/censorship championed by almost all of their media colleagues. The editors conveniently ignored how President Biden so impressed the NH primary voters, that he finished in fifth place and left the State before the votes were counted. Also overlooked were the obvious signs of Biden’s cognitive dysfunction, hidden from the public as the Presidential candidate bunkered down in his Delaware home.
The final pitch from the Union Leader editors was:
"Building this country up sits squarely within the skill set of Joseph Biden. We have found Mr. Biden to be a caring compassionate and professional public servant. He repeatedly expressed his desire to be president for all of America" and “He will be a president to bring people together and right the ship of state”.
It is now October 2022 and more Americans have died of Covid 19 under President Biden than President Trump, but the media no longer seems to care. In just two years, President Biden is on track to add $3.4 trillion to the national debt. This debt addition does not include investment in the military and is only this low because Biden was unable to pass his massive “Build Back Better “plan. Over 3 million illegals have crossed the open southern border, along with sex traffickers and New Hampshire youth-killing fentanyl. America is no longer energy independent, and the world is on fire -- with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China eyeing Taiwan. Biden’s foreign policy expertise is nonexistent, and his staff constantly walks back dangerous verbal blunders. Inflation is out of control and gas, oil, groceries, and almost everything else cost more. The stock market is down over 20% and mortgage rates are approaching 7%. And President Biden is trying to make blue-collar Americans pay off $500 billion dollars of privileged American college student loans.
All the while, President Biden’s cognitive dysfunction embarrasses the nation as he tries to shake hands with people who are not there and recently asked for a dead person, whose memorial he attended one month earlier, to come forward and talk. Biden’s latest cerebral slipping involved lamenting how his son Beau died in the Iraq conflict. It would be a powerful and tragic story if it were true. Beau died after an eighteen-month battle with brain cancer.
To say the Union leader editorial board choice of Joe Biden for president failed New Hampshire and America is an astonishing understatement, but time has moved on. The 2022-midterm elections are here, and the editors are again faced with choosing which candidates are good for New Hampshire and the country or with letting their personal dislike of Donald Trump once again warp their perspective. Maggie Hassan, Chris Papas, and Ann Kuster have shown their true colors and have been instrumental {voted with Biden over 96% of the time} in bringing the Biden progressive havoc to New Hampshire and America. To help stop the destructive progressive agenda the obvious choice is to change NH’s Washington DC federal delegation.
In 2020 the Union Leader editorial board suggested as much:
“We suggest splitting the ballot and electing a healthy dose of GOP senators and representatives. The best governance often comes through compromise.”
If the Union Leader editors are consistent, it would mean swallowing their pride, and endorsing Don Bolduc for United States Senate, Karoline Leavitt for New Hampshire CD1, and Bob Burns for New Hampshire CD2.
The citizens of NH should not hold their breath!
On November 8th there is an election.
The same progressive Newspaper Editors will again try and tell America who to vote for. It is time to see through the” Woke” talking points designed to evoke an emotional vote. It is time to remember the oil bill that your neighbor can’t afford, and the second job that your relative needed to pay the bills. The friend’s son, who died of a fentanyl overdose because of the open southern border or the Afghanistan American asset that was left behind and killed by the Taliban.
It is time to make America great!
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