What will ultimately happen with the elections? If I knew I would be a repeat lottery winner, living on an island in a sultry place. As I sit in the icy Maryland air, it becomes abundantly clear that I am not a fortune teller. But there is one prediction that I am willing to make and of which I am quite certain: the media really is the enemy of the people.
Their task, as they constantly tell us, is simply to report on what is happening in the country and in the world. It’s strenuous to write this line without laughing.
Over the last four years, they have accomplished the activism that the Democratic National Committee could not – they have wrapped liberal BS in a blanket of objectivity.
It doesn’t work like it used to, the Internet exists so there are too many different, unobstructed paths for information to flow for these leftists to completely prevent information from leaking to the public, but it doesn’t have to work with everyone. It just needs to work with enough.
No matter how the election turns out, never forget the lies we were told in the liberals’ quest for power.
Three years of “RUSSIA”, 4 months of “IMPEACH OVER UKRAINE” and four solid years of nitpicking, false stories, and insisting that the President and Republicans are liars who want to kill people. For the average news consumer, there is no way this wouldn’t have any impact.
Worse than the obvious “lies of opinion” presented as indifferent observations and truth, was the more nefarious attempt at manipulation by our “fourth estate.”
They say polls are an inexact science. But it’s no more a science than having a bingo strategy as a retirement plan.
However, polls justify many reports that the media presents as journalism. We were told the results were known before any votes were cast. The only question was how immense Joe Biden’s margin of victory would be.
No liberal establishment poll came close to the actual results. It’s a testament to President Donald Trump’s campaign that he’s won what he’s done (so far). No “news” organization gave him a chance in hell to do what he did, and most actively worked against him.
Fake, wildly inexact polls have infiltrated the media over the last few months NOT to inform public opinion, but to influence it.
Motivation is incredibly essential when it comes to voting – why bother going to the polls if you’ll just be banging your head against a brick wall? You probably don’t like it, but for millions of Americans who don’t pay attention to things like this, it could be a deciding factor in whether or not they go through the process and vote.
That’s why there was so much coverage of the polls – they were an attempt to fulfill wishes. What would the margins be if these polls were not accepted as a truth yet to come? There’s no way to know, but dismissing the idea out of hand is absurd.
The research companies and their media benefactors knew what they were doing. Co-founder and CEO of RealClearPolitics Tom Bevan described how wrong the much-discussed New York Times/Siena poll was that simply being wrong cannot explain it. They “overestimated Biden’s support” in Florida by 6 points, in Iowa by 10, in Ohio by 9, in Wisconsin it was also by 10, and in Michigan by about 6.
These aren’t mistakes, they’re trying to shape the outcome – why bother voting, the race is over?
You’d think this would spell ruin for the election industry, but it doesn’t. They are too valuable a tool to face the consequences of their failures.
There will be some “think pieces” about how they need to really figure out why they got it so wrong, but the real question is why they insisted they got it right in the first place. Demographics change, voter patterns change, people move, and sometimes a candidate excites people in a way they haven’t before. Donald Trump is such a candidate. Only willful ignorance or corruption would ignore this reality, and polls have almost universally ignored it.
But nothing the pollsters did caused the media to criticize them, to “sell” them in the way they did. They were treated as if the results had been carved on stone tablets by a burning bush, rather than as a random sample of 500 people who bothered to answer the phone.
The media knew what they were doing, that’s what they were doing all along. The polling “data” was nothing more than the latest in a string of garbage stories aimed at lowering Trump’s voter turnout. While TV talking heads were constantly complaining about “voter suppression,” they were engaging in a more nefarious and effective form of it. It’s always the people who complain about the “threat to our democracy” who work the hardest to undermine it.
Whatever happens, never forget what they did here. (And I’m not just talking about the usual suspects. Fox News, with its early and unwarranted call to Arizona while it vacillated over Florida and Texas, is no better than any of the others.)
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!), host of a daily radio show in WCBM in Marylandand author of the book, Outrage, INC.which exposes how liberals exploit fear and hatred to manipulate the masses. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
