Four weeks before the 2024 presidential election’s last day, one of the most effective and corrupt politicians in America is spreading a dramatic lie to sway voters. The rest is that Donald Trump threatened to kill hereditary war bird Liz Cheney with a firing crew, and the blame is America’s advertising press.
Someone who watches the video of what Trump said will see that he was implying that Cheney should take a rifle and join the thousands of young Americans she has sent abroad to fight in their own long war. Everyone who interprets it separately should take a longtime pledge of silence starting today because they are lying or so terrible.
” She’s a radical war hawk”, Trump said of Cheney on Thursday night. This place her in front of a rifle with nine containers pointed her way, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the weapons are trained on her mouth. You know, they’re all conflict hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a great building saying,’ Oh dang … let’s give 10, 000 troops straight into the mouth of the enemy.'”
Cheney ripped the first half of Trump’s statement from its context, claiming that he had” threatened ] ] her” with death” by being embarrassed by the thought of having to do what she asks young American men and women to do.
The corporate media did n’t issue one of their infamous “fact”” checks” or call Cheney out for her disinformation. They immediately fabricated the falsehood that Trump intended to place Cheney in front of a firing squad.
What became of Democrats ‘ fears that deception threatened politics? They worry that low-information voters will vote on the basis of a phony information function, but are they also concerned about this?
The formal definition of “disinformation” that has been used to consistently silence real and constitutionally protected speech is misleading information “deliberately created to persuade, harm, or change a person, social group, organization, or country”. This Cheney fake is text, also, that.
By the public’s standards, every tale spreading the hoax may be nuked from the internet, and every store publishing those stories may be banned from Big Tech platforms and Facebook searches, demonetized, and possibly sued into nothingness for good measure.
Disinformation does pose a real threat to American self-governance. But it’s not the “disinformation” that gets “fact-checked” by media gatekeepers, like the ( true ) Hunter Biden laptop story or the ( true ) reporting that Covid lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccines were ineffective. It’s deliberate fake news that propagandists who only exist to spread the favored narratives of established swamp dwellers like Liz Cheney projectile-vomit their message throughout the nation every day. It’s lies like the Russia-collusion hoax, or the” suckers and losers” hoax, or the lie that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, or the lie that the sitting president of the United States is n’t an Alzheimer’s patient, or the” Trump is a Nazi who hates soldiers” hoax The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg spread last week. These deliberate deceptions, supported by government and intelligence actors and spread by news media monopolies, harm the nation in evidence.
The answer is, for the most part, for Americans to stop believing in the propaganda press, not censorship by Big Tech and its government informers. It’s actually possible to stop disinformation without violating the First Amendment! All you have to do is reject the narratives that media outlets want you to consume incessantly. If you stop believing them, they lose their power.
The corporate media are well aware that their standing is weakened, which means that they could lose their entire standing as an organization by the time this election is over. If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they are not reading any of this media, and we have completely lost this audience, according to an anonymous TV executive who spoke to New York Magazine earlier this week. A victory for Trump would mean that the media was in its current form.
Unlike Liz Cheney, the media-industrial complex is in danger.
Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women’s Forum. She was given her B. A. in government from Patrick Henry College and a journalism minor. Follow her on Twitter @_etreynolds.
