Posted on 07/02/2015 4:10:33 PM PDT by Red Steel
The media establishment is having a cardiac arrest.
The reason? Donald Trump has thrown his hat into the Republican presidential race.
The billionaire businessman is a straight shooter, known for his bluntness and tough talk. Unlike most politicians, he speaks plainly and directly. He doesn’t mince words or engage in the kind of double talk that pervades Washington. In short, he does not defer to the media elites, who cherish their role as the gatekeepers of our political class.
The ruling establishment’s dominance is based on the complicity of the mainstream media. It is an unspoken bargain: New York-Washington journalists depend upon having access to politicians in exchange for safe, almost sycophantic news coverage.
Instead of holding our leaders accountable, we have a lap dog press that acts more like mouthpieces for either the Republicans or Democrats.
The days of genuine media independence and hard-hitting investigative reporting are gone. Big Media is now in bed with Big Business and Big Government, forming an unholy alliance.
Hence, American politics has become venal and corrupt. No one is guarding the guardians; rather than serving as a check and watchdog on the abuse of power, too many media outlets are deliberately turning a blind eye.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, the Associated Press, NPR, the Huffington Post and Salon — they have degenerated into a sophisticated propaganda arm for President Obama and liberal Democrats.
Conversely, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Weekly Standard and many so-called “conservative” voices on talk radio have become shills for corporatist Republicans, beholden to the donor class and wealthy bundlers.
Their goal is not to tell the truth, but drum up support for the Mitch McConnell-John Boehner-Paul Ryan-Mitt Romney wing of the GOP. These are the “moderate,” “responsible” and “grown-up” leaders we are told America needs.
The result has been the creation of a two-headed monster: The Republicrats and the Democans, a political oligopoly in which both establishment parties form a ruling class. Like any governing elite, the goal is to maximize their power and wealth over the citizens they seek to control. Any individual who threatens the ruling class’ dominance must — and will be — destroyed.
This explains the media’s bizarre, almost hysterical reaction to Trump’s candidacy. CNN and MSNBC have openly mocked him; FOX News pundits Charles Krauthammer and George F. Will declared Trump’s run to be fundamentally “unserious”; Dana Perino, the former George W. Bush hack who is a co-host on FOX News’ “The Five,” had an emotional meltdown while railing against Trump’s trade policies; and National Review’s Kevin Williamson in a puerile, vicious hit piece even called Trump a “witless ape,” “an ass” and a “baboon” who should be “crucified.”
Glenn Beck also jumped on the anti-Trump bandwagon. Beck claims that Trump is “not a conservative, but a progressive” — someone the Tea Party right has no business backing. The reason: Trump supports protective tariffs. That’s right. Beck believes that the businessman’s opposition to NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, PNTR with China and other free-trade deals disqualifies Trump as a genuine conservative.
Beck, however, is wrong — dead wrong. Economic nationalism has been a cardinal principle of conservatism dating back to our Founding Fathers. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams — all supported protective tariffs and a trade policy that guaranteed America’s economic independence. By Beck’s standards, Washington and Hamilton were “progressives.”
In fact, the opposite is true. Trump is an anti-globalist conservative, a nationalist who seeks to put America first. This is why our media elites despise him. He does not care for the New World Order based on free trade, open borders and globalization. Instead, he champions patriotism and populism — the very things our transnational ruling class fears.
On Iraq, he was right: Americans did the fighting (and the dying) while Iran and ISIS — our mortal enemies — now control that fractured country’s vast oil supplies. He is an unabashed capitalist. Unlike Romney, Trump is proud of his immense personal wealth.
Moreover, he promises to unleash our shackled private sector and restore the American Dream. He vows to slash taxes, excessive government regulations and our crippling budget deficits. He is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage and anti-global warming. In short, he is a Reaganite Republican.
Yet, it is his flinty attacks on illegal aliens and our porous southern border that has made him public enemy number one. For stating the truth — that many illegal immigrants pouring in from Mexico are violent criminals, murderers, sex offenders, drug dealers and gang bangers — Trump is now being crucified. Univision has canceled the Miss America and Miss Universe pageants; NBC has severed all ties with him; and Macy’s has just announced it will no longer carry Trump brand merchandise — shirts, neckties and cologne. The reason: The billionaire’s comments were allegedly “racist” and “offensive.”
In other words, our elites are effectively embracing treason. They are siding with law-breaking foreigners and the government of Mexico over Americans.
The government-media-industrial complex has shown—beyond a shadow of a doubt—they no longer hold any allegiance to America or its citizens. Transnational progressives are determined to destroy our sovereignty, borders and culture.
Trump frightens them because he poses a direct threat to their power and influence. He is a Teddy Roosevelt-style nationalist, who seeks to break the stranglehold of Big Business, Big Media and Big Government. Moreover, his vast wealth means that he cannot be bought and paid for. Unlike Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, Trump is not in the pocket of special interests and foreign governments. He is genuinely independent. Ironically, the more he is vilified, the more his popularity surges. Middle America is with him. He is the anti-politician in an age when politicians are rightly despised.
It is too early to say whether I will support him. And there are excellent conservative candidates — Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Scott Walker — in the race. But Trump is a serious force to be reckoned with.
Liberals and RINOs beware. If Trump wins, you are all fired.
Have we really reached the point where we are cheering this clown? If so, then things truly are desperate.
‘He’s not for sale’ and weird.
A good editorial by Jeff Kuhner.
Oh, this is rich.
The man ALL about money, can’t be bought, for the right price or profit?
PUHHLEEZE!!!
LOL!
Personally I do not think Trump is a serious candidate but on the other hand I am one of those cheering what he's saying.
He's pinching leftists' n*ts and they're squealing like little piggies.
Nonsense, he is the biggest sell out of all.
Who leaves the GOP and becomes a democrat in 2001 to 2009?
The party of Al Gore, and Hillary, and John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama, and tells us 2 weeks ago that his favorite president is Bill Clinton.
Clown? Really newbie quoting the liberal establishmedia? Go sell your plant somewhere else.
Pray America is waking
Desperate times require desperate measures.
We need to shake up the establishment and get rid of the crap we have now!
Sick and tired of the same old establishment.
They are.
I like Trump. He truly does speak what’s on his mind. He’s right about Nafta, Grafta, and Pufta....trade deals by puffsters seeking graft.
He’s right about open borders; it’s a highway not just for illegals but for undesirables.
And I enjoy watching while others get their pantaloons in a wad over him.
Cruz/Trump
Trump/Cruz
You're a businessman in NYC. What are you supposed to do to get the deals and leverages going your way?
Yes we have, and they are
Seriously?
And “professional politicians” - people who never did a damn thing in their lives without other people’s money aren’t clowns?
What, pray tell, do you think they want when they go into “public life”?
Accolades? Personal satisfaction? Power? To do what?
To get rich and be above everyone else, that’s what.
And they can’t do it by starting a business and selling goods and services that other people want for a profit.
So Trump did that. True, he had a head start with his Daddy’s business.
So what. He came back from bankruptcy. His “act” is part of his business, genius.
So uh...think he can be bought? By who? Soros? Gates? Carlos Slim?
He has nothing but contempt for those bozos.
They used to say it about Nelson Rockefeller: couldn’t be bought. Who had the money to bribe him?
Sit back and enjoy the show. Trump is from the hardest end of Noo Yawk, and he knows when a bunch of punks are trying to get over on him. And how to take the fight right back to them.
And as for every pathetic lightweight politician with their meager “achievements” behind them, Ted Cruz here excepted, they wouldn’t hold a candle to this guy in terms of managing the government. Congress might end up hating him, but...tuff. Grow a set.
You will obviously say anything, even the wildest absurdity, with no shame or sense of honor, nor expect it from your candidate.
That is some insane devotion you are showing towards this pro-abortion gun banner.
The party of Al Gore, and Hillary, and John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama, and tells us 2 weeks ago that his favorite president is Bill Clinton.
< snip>Their goal is not to tell the truth, but drum up support for the Mitch McConnell-John Boehner-Paul Ryan-Mitt Romney wing of the GOP. These are the “moderate,” “responsible” and “grown-up” leaders we are told America needs.< / snip>
Yeah, I suppose, because he is a clown, we should stand behind the GOP elite and Rick Perry and call Trump an anti-immigrant racist
Kuhner is correct. taxed raw materials from the American colonies would be sent to Great Britain and then it would return as finished products and retaxed by the Parliament/ King. The Founders balked at the unfair trade and taxes with England. The prelude to American Revolution.
Yeah, I enjoy what he says but suspect his script is written by RINO Central: he’s being ‘paid’ to be a divider IMO. A stalking horse for Jeb.
But what the heck. Until the primaries he’s not hurting anybody.
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