I was returning from a sales call and flying down I 95 South when the phone rang and an old friend was on the line from Baltimore. Upset over politics he reached out to me because he knows I am a news junkie and would understand his gripe. He wanted to vent his frustration on politics and our current Presidential race, and I let him vent.
The core of his frustration was the “Diary”. The fact that Biden’s daughter kept a diary, which was found after she’d left a rental apartment and left it behind. Inside the diary are some salacious revelations about her and her interaction as a young girl, and young adult with her father, our President.
Very much like the “Laptop from Hell” news treatment of the diary has followed a curious path. The woman that found the diary and saw it for what it was worth contacted a right wing “news” organization, and they became involved in wanting to “own” the diary so as to spread some real dirt on the sitting President. Let us just say that the President’s daughter was far less than kind to her father in multiple entries, suggesting he was inappropriate with her at times, particularly when he took showers with her up until the age of twelve.
For some reason the FBI and Justice Department stepped in just as the right wing organization began to attempt to gain some traction with the sordid tales from the diary, the woman who found the diary was arrested for “stealing” the diary. Stories leaked by the mainstream media denied the diary was real and had ever belonged to the President’s daughter.
The script followed the same as with the “Laptop from Hell”, earliest reports claimed the diary had never belonged to the President’s daughter, was part of a “right wing” smear campaign to harm the reputation of the President, and that it wasn’t “real”.
Turns out after a few years that in a court deposition Ashley Biden had to admit that yes, the diary is real, and was hers. Much the same way that her brother Hunter was compelled in court to admit that the “Laptop from Hell” was his as well, after months and months of equivocation, complete fabrications, obfuscation, and outright lies.
So it has been clearly established by now that both the “Laptop from Hell” is real, those are Hunter’s photos, they are real, here is hunter cavorting with Russian hookers, here he is smoking crack, here he is just dancing naked, and here is Hunter being just a junkie sleaze bag, a complete low-life pig of a human, living a life of debauchery and filth. From sleeping with his dead brother’s wife, to impregnating a pole dancer from a downtown DC strip club, to being the bag man for his father in Ukraine, and China, this was not someone you just wished your own son would turn out to be.
And the diary paints a picture of a completely dysfunctional relationship of a daughter and dad. The “showered with me until twelve” notation being particularly loathsome and troubling.
I myself raised three daughters and while I might participate and be there when they were taking bubble baths and all in the tub together at the same time, playing with toys, laughing, getting scrubbed clean before bed, I would never, ever, ever in a million years have ever, ever, ever considered showering with them at any age. The mere logistics of physical size causing height issues that could be extremely disturbing to say the very least. This was not a practice to ever be considered, and certainly never condoned.
Had any of the golf buddies at the old Country Club ever said, “You know guys I shower with the little one at night, she just loves getting into the shower with dear old dad” I would have told them they were sick, twisted, deviant, and harming the child for life, causing life altering mental problems for their child, and that they should cease and desist immediately. I am certain I would have been joined by a chorus of voices at that bar that “Holy Shit, that just isn’t done, ever”.
There are other salacious stories in the diary, I will not enumerate them here, how much of what she writes is true, how much the product of a daughter whose dad was in a high government positions that kept him away for much of her childhood and built some resentment, and how much is just “fantastical diary writing”, an embellished version of her young life that didn’t mesh with reality perfectly, but was more of an emotional view, a slightly skewed version of real events, who can tell. So I will not go into any detail about the sordid events she recalls in the diary.
But my buddy who called from Baltimore, as concerned as he was for the diary and it’s contents, was more upset about what he perceived as a “News Blackout” on the diary, there was no mainstream coverage of the story, as if there was no news to be had inside the story now that ownership and chain of control had been verified.
He was livid that no major newspaper, network, or cable news channel was mentioning the salacious details, questioning the President, or making an issue of the more twisted nature of what is revealed in the diary. He mentioned that from his perspective any “story” the mainstream media refused to cover just disappeared, as if the events didn’t happen at all. Teflon, no stick, all negative stories that could harm the President’s re-election chances magically wiped away.
So I asked him and I ask you, why would that enrage you, why would you care, why wouldn’t you recognize the pattern that has been created from similar stories in the past, why can’t everyone see that we no longer have a functioning press in this country, they are an arm of the DNC, the mainstream media does nothing but spout talking points from the DNC, and is really a giant election arm of the Democratic Party. A set of cheerleaders who only produce good news stories on Democrats, and do hit-piece stories on Republicans.
From the Russian Collision story, through Covid, onto the “Laptop from Hell”, and now including the diary story we see a standard and similar pattern emerge.
First claim the story isn’t real, or, claim a story that is not real has been actually verified by multiple sources. The fact the same source may have planted the bogus story with the two different sources, and therefore the verification is nothing but a “circle of shit” means nothing, the article or news story can add the veracity of “we have talked to multiple sources, or “we have verified the story with a second source”.
On both the “Laptop from Hell” the first thing you do is deny that it is real. Second, you claim that since those promoting the story are right wing, that this is a made-up right wing hit-piece meant to harm the Democratic candidate. Then, you have reputable sources claim on camera, and in writing, that the entire reveal wreaks of a smear campaign from either “Russia”, or “right wing operatives”, or “someone out to destroy the President’s fine reputation”, a good way to deflect from whether or not the story is truthful is to have 50 former CIA and “Deep State” officials from “Official Washington” sign a full page published letter stating that the information has “all the earmarks of a disinformation campaign”.
Even though all 50 are liars of the highest order.
Deflect, deflect, hide and dodge, until the news is old news, and at some point when the truth comes out, and yes, we find out there is a blue dress that exists, the story is true, it cannot be denied because the blue dress she kept happens to be semen stained with the President’s, uh, well, umm, “leakage”, you then have your press spokesman come out and say ‘this is all old news, very old, the people of the United States have moved on to more important things, and are more interested in what the President is doing about “X”, “X” being any concern of the day from a war, to tax breaks, to some distraction from the scandal.
We live in a new world order where all news that damages the Democrat, or official Washington, DC is not covered. It isn’t necessarily “covered up”, of courses at first there are lies, deflections, obfuscations, that could be construed a “cover up”, it isn’t, they acknowledge the existence of the bad news, they just claim it isn’t real. That it is part of some Republican political operation. But they pivot quickly to killing the story by not covering it at all, giving the story no oxygen, no coverage, no publication.
We now live in a world where no “bad news” that would harm Democrats can be covered by the mainstream media.
No stories, not even any real stories, where there is a chance of harming either Democrats, their liberal proposals, or “Official Washington, DC” can receive any amplification. At all. Full stop.
Since the diary story could be extremely damaging to the Democratic President then it can’t be covered.
I just watched Megan Kelly interview a former New York Times reporter who admitted on camera to Megan that she was in meetings with New York Times editors where they instructed reporters not to cover the “Laptop from Hell” story. They put into place and imposed a black out of the story. From their perspective the story didn’t exist.
The fact the woman being interviewed was a lesbian who married fellow lesbian reporter for the New York Times Bari Weiss, is a story for another column completely, as one might wonder if perhaps there might be a “big city lesbian perspective” that is over represented in the pages of the New York Times. Just as people claim that white guys view points are over represented in voices writing for the times, which is why and how we need to see more diversity from the pages of the New York Times, it would make me wonder, in viewing the very limited space allotted to the front page of the New York Times if perhaps two or more white lesbians gained column inches that it is possible we were getting too narrow a perspective. I know the complaint of “too many lesbians” sounds wrong, but the front page of the New York Times is only so big.
I think that is a valid complaint along the lines of “too many old, white guys”. But I digress.
I am used to a biased press, I’ve seen it my entire lifetime. But we are in a new paradigm. A blackout of relevant news stories so that no harm can come to Democrats renders the news dead and buried. Gone, done. And incapable of ever recovering.
Once you know the news is being filtered for you through a narrow prism, you cannot trust the news source. You cannot trust you are getting real information. You cannot rely on the information being provided.
The New York Times is the walking dead. So is the Washington Post. And ABC News, NBC News; all of them. All of the mainstream news.
They may have a constituency, they may have an audience, but even the sycophantic, even those who willfully and willingly swallow the bias, eventually being spoon fed lies, or just a one sided viewpoint, will sour. The confirmation bias loop swirls ever inward until it crashes at the center. You can only eat so much sugar before it makes you sick. And what is a constant stream of confirmation bias but a brain sugar that makes you feel smarter, makes you feel as if you are on the “right side”, makes you feel superior.
But in real life you can only float on the high of lies that confirm your own narrative for so long. Because a foundation of lies must fall eventually. The cleat of reality will indeed smack you right in the face at some point, causing you to see reality.
Just as the morbidly obese one day looks into the same mirror they’ve checked everyday, and all those days combed their hair, smiled and moved on, on that one day they finally see. They see a fat, obese individual who has consumed so much sugar they’ve ruined themselves. There always comes a day unlike others, and the view what all that consumption of sugar has done to them,
biased news, the consumption of confirmation biased news that is nothing but lies, has the same effect. Once you come upon the truth you can never go back, ever. You go on a steady diet of truth, so that you can look into the mirror and see a healthier minded individual.
How many liberals who have been red-pilled go back? None. Your eyes open, they open.
Those of us who have ignored the mainstream narrative for years, and years, and haven’t trusted the mainstream news for much longer than Democrat insider George Stephanopoulos has been at ABC, we knew the diary was real the day it was announced it was found. Just as we knew the released contents was the unvarnished truth. The same way we knew the “Laptop from Hell” was real the day the store owner came forward to announce Hunter had left it there in a drugged stupor.
We don’t have to hide from mirrors. We know how to see a reflection of truth.