Why Do Any Americans Still Believe the Pravda-Like Media?

Is the media – also known as the mainstream media or legacy media – like a Pravda propaganda organ? Victor Davis Hanson believes that it is. He even gave some examples to prove his point. 

More recently, when Cyril Ramaphosa came to the White House, the president of South Africa, did you see the word “ambush”? It was in every mainstream paper, every left-wing website, every radio – NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC. It’s like the Democratic operatives issue a Pravda-like order and then these mindless people just say, “Okay, today’s talking points are…”

[Ramaphosa] met President Donald Trump. He wasn’t really surprised that Trump was going to confront him because he bragged that he was gonna confront Trump. There was no secret place. It wasn’t a sudden, unexpected attack from a secret place – the definition of an ambush. Yet, it was “ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush.”

And when some questions arose about the visit, it was just typical. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, fielded a question from an NBC journalist. She was very angry because Donald Trump mentioned to President Ramaphosa, “See this picture of a thousand graves.” She said, “Well, he was lying. There weren’t graves.” And the press secretary replied back, “They were commemorations.” Each one of those crosses represents a dead South African who was murdered by virtue of his race. And she said, “Yes, but it’s not…”

So what they were arguing about – NBC – was semantics that Trump had improperly – and he had improperly – confused “grave” with “cenotaph,” a cenotaph. That’s “kenos” in Greek, meaning “empty.”

So, these crosses were not on top of a dead person but they represented a dead person. But NBC was so fixated on embarrassing the president that they didn’t even want to discuss the fact that there were a thousand crosses and they did represent individual lives destroyed because of their race. But she just wanted to make the point that you could nullify all of that and excuse it by saying they were not graves but cenotaphs. And there you have it.

Hanson continued his article published at The Daily Signal by giving several other examples of how the mainstream media act like Pravda: (1) their accounts about the killing of the two Jewish diplomatic workers in Washington --  Yaron Linchinsky and his fiancée, Sarah Milgrim. Their articles discuss the shooting but they fail to mention the left-wing groups who support or fund such behavior. (2) Jake Tapper, co-author of “Original Sin,” never mentions that he was of the many people who proclaimed that former President Joe Biden was in good health and fit to be the leader of the Free World. Now he is set to make millions of dollars excusing himself and accusing others in the media. Everyone – including the media and the Biden team – knew that Biden was cognitively challenged.

Tapper and others are trying to defend themselves by claiming that they were hoodwinked. However, Hanson does not accept their excuses. They never asked the necessary questions. They did not ask  questions, such as “Did he have a PSA test?” The medical records of Donald Trump and Barack Obama show that they had the test. Hanson hit back:

And now they’re trying to say, “We were hoodwinked.” No, you weren’t hoodwinked. You were operating in the same fashion you did to promulgate the Russian collusion lie that you never apologized for, the laptop disinformation lie that you’ve never apologized for, the 51 intelligence authorities that you never apologized for, the partnering of the FBI with social media to censor the news before the 2020 election that you never talked about.

This is a pattern. And it won’t stop with this. And the result is you wonder why, whether when you look at liberal polls or liberal media, nobody has any confidence anymore, nobody trusts you.

Don’t you understand that when you say, “Ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush,” or you ask questions that don’t even get to the point, just a matter of semantics, we know what you’re doing? You’re trying to gin up momentum, enthusiasm for a cause, a leftwing cause that 50% of the population just doesn’t support.

The thing that makes me wonder is why anyone still believes what the mainstream media tells them. Are they not paying attention? Are they so mentally ill from Trump Derangement Syndrome that their brain simply does not work with anything Trump? Are they enemies of America and actively attempting to destroy it? What else could be their reason? I do not know the answer, but I am certainly curious as to their reasoning.