Daily Verse | 2 Kings 5:15
Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel.”
It’s Thursday and while you were minding your business and taking care of your loved ones, the ground beneath your feet continued to move. It may not look a lot different today but, believe me, it’s different than yesterday.
It’s particularly different when it comes to the legacy media and, specifically, when it comes to CNN. I’ve made no secret of my disdain for the legacy media outlets like MSNBCNNDNC+. They’re basically mouth organs for the anti-American Democrat party. Glenn Reynolds and his company of writers over at Instapundit often say things like, “Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.”
Except at CNN, you can’t think of them as Democrat party operatives, but as members of the Ministry of Truth in America; more like Pravda, the former official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It’s no secret that CNN and other left-wing “news” outlets are biased in favor of the Democrats, but it wasn’t until this last week that they actually admitted what they are: a propaganda publishing house.
You may remember we recently covered that: “The term for people who lobby for Democrat policies in this clumsy of a manner is ‘Democrat activists in the propaganda field,’ certainly not reporters, or journalists. They need to be treated as what they are. It’s time to stop acting like these political activists are professionals who do honest journalism” (Mollie Hemingway).
In the latest Project Veritas sting video, CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester admits that CNN uses “propaganda” to help the Democrats.
“Look what we did, we got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that Trump would have got voted out,” Chester says. “I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that.” He then admits that CNN made up a story about Trump’s health. “[His] hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to tell a story that was all speculation … we were creating a story there that we didn’t know anything about. That’s what—I think that’s propaganda,” he says—and then shrugs off his admission.
“I think that’s propaganda.”
Yeah, I think that’s propaganda, too. Here’s how Merriam-Webster defines the word propaganda: “the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.” Hmm. Does that fit? CNN says they worked to harm president Donald J. Trump while propping up a “young geriatric” Biden to get Trump out.
Rumor? Check. Helping a cause? Check. Injuring a person? Check.
I think that’s propaganda.
In a second video, Project Veritas revealed the same junior commie talking about how CNN is trying to destroy Rep. Matt Gaetz. Here Chester admits CNN has an agenda and is intentionally trying to hurt Gaetz.
“If the agenda, say, is to like get, like Matt Gaetz right now—he’s like this Republican. He’s a problem for the Democratic Party because he’s so conservative and he can cause a lot of hiccups in the passing of laws and whatnot. So, it would be great for the Democratic Party to get him out. So we’re going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him. and make it so that it can’t be buried, and like just settled outside of court and just like, you know, if we keep pushing that, it’s helping us.”
Rumor? Check. Helping a cause? Check. Injuring a person? Check.
I think that’s propaganda.
When our Founders guaranteed “freedom of the press” in the First Amendment, what they meant was the right to publish apart from government approval. They intended to prohibit “Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely.” And by “press” they literally meant the printing press.
What they did not mean was “journalism” or “newspapers” or “mainstream media”—and certainly not “CNN.”
The establishment media “press” of today has arrogated to itself a freedom belonging to all Americans and has used that theft to elevate itself to constitutionally protected status. The implications of this error are profound: those preening and self-righteous media elitists have no more rights or privileges under the Constitution than any other citizen and merit no special consideration from any other American, including elected officials. The same crowd which perpetrates fake news on us has perpetuated a fake meme about their own existence. It’s not quite stolen valor, but it’s at least stolen position, authority and reputation.
Here we have a member of the “establishment media press” which now openly admits that it has a viewpoint, an agenda, and a willingness to publish disinformation in pursuit of both. It probably also believes that it has “constitutionally protected status.”
“Look what we did, we got Trump out,” says Charlie Chester. Yeah, look what you did: Millions of illegal aliens crossing the border, kids being separated from parents, sex trafficking, paying $3.00/gal at the pump, and a brainless puppet occupying the White House—all courtesy of CNN!
CNN is an enemy of the people and should be treated like one.
Say, does anybody know if there’s a regulatory body that’s responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations? A federal commission or agency, perhaps?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Trump was more right than we knew when he called CNN “Fake News.” Even CNN admits as much. Equally pathetic is that CNN has billed itself as “The World’s Most Trusted Name in News.” That’s propaganda if I’ve ever heard it.