A free press is essential to a democratic
republic. Our Founders knew this in their marrow. Unfortunately, as recent
events have proven, we no longer have one. Bizarrely, those in the mainstream
media have muzzled themselves, locked their minds and souls in a prison
of their own making, and relinquished their integrity for power and the
affirmation of their peers. They will not hold their own feet to the fire. They
won’t speak truth to themselves. They may not even realize what it is any longer.
Today, the “Fourth Estate” literally
wouldn’t report it if they came across information proving that Joe
Biden was a Russian stooge, though they’ve spent years trying to find
evidence that President Trump might be. (Biden is, apparently, a stooge
for China). In light of their breathtakingly universal—and steadfast-- refusal
to report on the shocking Hunter Biden laptop revelations and the multiple,
credible instances of graft and payola in which Joe Biden himself was almost
certainly involved, mainstream media outlets have revealed themselves to be
nothing more than members of an authoritarian, shockingly close-minded leftist cult. I am
left with no doubt that, if conclusive proof surfaced that Joe Biden recently raped
an underage girl at a Church
of Satan gathering while texting Vladimir Putin asking for a substantial
campaign contribution, not one single legacy media outlet would report it.
How
times have changed. America’s reverence for a free
press can be traced all the way back to Cato’s Letters, a collection of essays criticizing the British political
system that were written by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, under the
pseudonym Cato, and published between 1720 and 1723. (Cato was a Roman soldier, senator, historian, and outspoken critic of corruption in the late
Roman Republic. He was a man of moral integrity, immune to bribes and
graft.) Those letters offered a vigorous defense of freedom of
speech and conscience.
The Founders
wanted to codify these principles. And they did. After America declared
independence and (eventually) ratified the Constitution, it also adopted
the Bill of Rights. This was done to make absolutely certain there would be no
mistaking what rights its citizens possessed. The Bill of Rights (for those of
you voting for the Harris-Biden ticket) is comprised of the first ten
amendments to the Constitution. The First Amendment guarantees the right
to free speech and freedom of the press, and it was adopted on December 15, 1791. For well over 220 years, the press,
in general, with notable exceptions, has interpreted its freedom mandate as an
obligation to inform the republic’s citizens without significant bias, wherever
a worthy story might lead.
No longer. It is now unreservedly engaged
in an attempt to systematically dismantle America as it was founded. Think
that is an exaggeration? It is not. That is why it is wholeheartedly cheering
on those who want to do away with the Electoral College and pack
the court. It’s why those in the mainstream media—ironically—seem to
disdain the First Amendment and want to repeal the Second Amendment. And why they
support those who have literally dismantled and destroyed statues and
monuments…and those who distort our history. It is also why they no longer act
as a free press would, but as utterly shameless champions of a one-party
socialist state. They have excused or supported those engaged in ritualistic
orgies of speech
suppression on college campuses, even while proclaiming that “Democracy
Dies in Darkness.” They have made a mockery of their own slogans. And
themselves. They utilize their visceral hatred of President Trump and his
tendency to exaggerate as an excuse to flat out lie. They claim those to the
right of center have violent tendencies, even as they excuse the looting,
pillaging and physical assaults committed by the so-called progressives who they
deem to be their constituents. And they lie about their lying. (As in, “we
are the truth.” Sound familiar New York Times?) And Big Tech aids
and abets them, while cravenly genuflecting towards China, in the hopes of
raking in cash.
Thomas Jefferson said: “I have
sworn on the altar of God, eternal hostility to all forms of tyranny over the
minds of man.”
Today’s “journalists” say: “We have
sworn eternal hostility to the minds of those who dare to disagree with us.” So
they try to stifle dissent, ban the truth and cancel reality. Tragically, they
are, in a very real sense, a clear and present danger to the republic.
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