It’d be nice to say that American media doesn’t hate this country. It’d be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American – that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects. Recall the quote from Daniel Patrick Moynihan while Ambassador to the United Nations: “Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don’t. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do. Have we done obscene things? Yes, we have. How did our people learn about them? They learned about them in the newspapers.” And that is important.
But we cannot say these things when the American media, time and again, illustrates its utter hatred for the nation and its people in those newspapers and on television. Having judged the American project kaput after the election of Donald Trump, they are now stooping to the level of defending the North Koreans – perhaps the most brutal and heinous regime in the world today – thanks to some side-eye from its minister of propaganda, the sister of Kim Jong Un. If the headlines are to be believed, “North Korea heading for diplomacy gold medal at Olympics” is the story American media want to tell about this moment.
I wish this was an exaggeration. Witness this story from CNN today, with its dripping credulousness in attacking Mike Pence with a story sourced entirely to a diplomatic source close to the North Korean regime.
“The senior diplomatic source said Pence “degraded the image of the United States as a superpower” by meeting with North Korean defectors along with Otto Warmbier’s father, and by speaking strongly against North Korea on multiple occasions.
“Fred Warmbier accompanied Pence during his visit to South Korea. His son Otto was jailed in North Korea and died upon his return to the US last year after suffering extensive brain damage…
“The source also described as “undignified behavior” Pence’s decision to stay seated and to not applaud the unified Korean team at the opening ceremony, adding that the Vice President “took the low road instead of acting like a big brother.”
Let’s be clear about what this is: this is 15 year veteran reporter at CNN, Will Ripley, just straight up delivering North Korean propaganda whole cloth to an American audience, simply because it criticizes the Trump administration. Of course, Pence’s actions were intentional and bringing victims of this brutal regime to light was not taking the low road, it was showing North Korea what we think of them. But leave it to CNN to just parrot what any critic says about this country without a thought to context.
And CNN’s not alone! Bre Payton reports:
Does anyone wonder why the language used around the Olympics is English? English language countries have been the most progressive, successful, productive and influential nations in world history and the United States is preeminent among those. The left hates this.
What’s more, the left believes greatness occurs in a vacuum. They think they can take all the capitalistic wealth, spread it around to gain influence in their own way and that the wealth will just keep coming. Even though this formula fails 100% of the time, they still cling to it and insist anyone NOT buying into it is full of hate.
CNN the Communists News Network called Trump Stupid for dumping the Paris Accord well the real stupid ones still work for CNN after all CNN was once owned by Red Ted Turner who produced junk like Captain Planet and the Planeteers as well as Network Earth National Geographic Explorer and hosted those so called Goodwill Games
Apparently, by Ben Domenech’s definition, anyone who recognizes Donald Trump for the amoral, narcissistic con man that he is and his co-conspirators and enablers for the lying, opportunistic weasels that they are hates America.
We just got set up for a trillion-dollar-a-year deficit—without taking into consideration Trump’s proposed trillion-dollar infrastructure program, or whatever wars we blunder into. In 7 years your tax cuts will have been phased out, and you’ll suddenly realize your Social Security and Medicare have been sacrificed to finance permanent cuts for somebody else.
@Greg: You need to substitute Trumps name in your post and put in Obama. It fits much better.
It’s not Barack Obama who has orchestrated this epic shakedown.
@Greg:
Except that you don’t actually describe HIM, you describe the caricature of him you have created in order to try and make him seem worse that Hillary. He is none of that and has, up to this point, proved to be an able and dedicated leader of the nation and Commander in Chief.
Obama spent $10 trillion dollars to jog in place for 8 years. Initially, Trump WILL run up deficits to, for instance, rebuild infrastructure because Obama spent almost a trillion on that yet did nothing. Obama let the military deteriorate as well, like Carter did, and like Reagan Trump will have to spend more to get it back in shape.
In other words, it will cost a lot of money to repair the damage Obama did.
Liberals are absolutely disgusting
the media is no different than Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Germany. Goebbels where are you when cnn, needs you the most
@Greg:
No, he only orchestrates the illegal spying on innocent citizens and using the power of the federal government against them.
Have we forgot the media always dictates what is “right think.”
CNN has even hired CIA agents to provide the deepstate think directly.
Now OBEY, no individual thought, the talking heads are experts.
@kitt:
true, no different than the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda