The “Conservative” Media Are Hypocrites!

One of the hallmarks of being a conservative is a great love of the truth.  It is the very core definition of conservatism.

In the culture wars raging in America today, the rhetoric inundating the airwaves, computer screens, and print pages is filled with all kinds of lies, half-truths, and deliberate misrepresentations of the facts.

The average person has more than a difficult time sorting out fact from fiction – just look at all the hype surrounding “climate change” for example.

The main service conservative media are supposed to provide to America is presenting unvarnished truth – being a solid source for reliable information and commentary that is fact-based.

The left has long “manufactured” its “truths” and fed them to unsuspecting “low information” voters across the land – just look at all the “Crazy Bernie” supporters, for example.

But, what happens when “conservative” media decide to play fast and loose with the truth to obtain a political objective?  That’s right - they descend to the depths of left-wing “tabloid” journalism.

This is happening more and more frequently with a goodly portion of so-called “conservative” media now out unashamedly shilling for Donald Trump.  And, they are becoming damagingly self-righteous about it.

What do I mean?  Let me give you a few recent instances:

First, the conservative media have beaten a loud drum about President Obama’s frequent prevarications on many of his policy positions.

For example:  “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”  And, “The average family will save $2500 a year under Obamacare.”

Obviously, we all know now that those were deliberate lies - designed to sell Obamacare to a trusting, yet gullible public.

The conservative media have rightfully pointed out and hammered Obama on these lies; among many others.

But, (and here’s some of the hypocrisy) when Donald Trump has flip-flopped on a myriad of positions from years of holding liberal views to suddenly become a “conservative” to win a Republican Primary . . . crickets.

Apparently, truth only matters to these folk when it is used to bludgeon Democrats for their deception.  When it’s “one of their own”, it’s perfectly acceptable.

When Obama ran for office, conservative media went into full-scale investigation mode to expose Obama’s radical roots and socialist bent.

But, when Trump, a mostly life-long Democrat, suddenly began singing a right-wing tune, the “conservative media” drank it in like the average, ignorant dupe of the old “snake oil salesmen.”

Not just becoming Trump fans, they exchanged their collective souls in order to get on the bandwagon.  They lost the one distinctive that made them unique and trusted by millions of Americans – a deep commitment to the truth.

Now, the conservative media rightly have criticized all of the lies of the Obama Administration.  But, since they’ve gone all soft and squishy when it comes to Trump, they are looking far more like love-struck adolescent girls than the guardians of the Republic.

Another example: 

The conservative media rightly have criticized President Obama’s incessant dependence of a teleprompter to speak – even to grade school kids.  It shows he has no soul – only a pre-printed agenda.

But, when ‘the Donald” used a teleprompter for the first time to regurgitate a pre-written speech about foreign policy (since he is otherwise clueless on the issue), it is suddenly commendable for someone to deliver such a speech via canned technology.

It seems to me that if it is a legitimate criticism of Obama; then it also needs to be expressed the same way about Trump when he does it.

One of the things conservatives screamed about prior to the 2008 election was the fact that the national media refused to thoroughly vet Obama – he was considered a pliable, “blank slate” who could be anything to anyone.

This was certainly a legitimate criticism.  If the national media had done its job back then, we might not have had to endure the past 7 years of disaster in America.

But today, the “conservative” media refuse to apply that same standard to vetting Trump.  More and more, any revelations about his dubious past in business and political influence-peddling are dismissed as either fictitious or irrelevant by those best in a position to get to the bottom of things.

Just as the national media has turned a “blind eye” to the transgressions of all liberal political figures for the past half century, so now too, the “conservative” media are employing the same philosophy of “see now evil; hear no evil; speak no evil” when it comes to Trump.

The “conservative” media have become hypocrites of the worst sort – bragging about their own self-righteousness when it comes to exposing lies of liberals while at the same time keeping all of Trump’s skeletons buried deep in the back of his “yuuuuge” closet.

If Trump should prevail, the level of “buyers’ remorse” that will ensue will dwarf what happened right after Bill Clinton got elected back in 1992.

For those old enough to remember - one of the central campaign messages Clinton shoveled onto the American people was a “middle class tax cut.”

But, as soon as Clinton got elected, he pivoted 180 degrees and gave us all a huge tax increase on everyone, including the “middle class.”

One wonders how many “reversals” from campaign rhetoric would ensue in a Trump Administration; especially since he has already declared his willingness to “make deals” with liberal Democrats.

These possible tragedies could all be avoided if the “conservative” media would just do its job of putting the truth above individual loyalty; especially irrational, slavish devotion to one of the most media-savvy con men to come onto the America scene since P.T. Barnum (remember – “There’s sucker born every minute.”).

If America is stuck with Trump, the American people will have no one left to trust in the “conservative” media (except for a few brave prophets who have been calling their brethren out for their hypocrisy and fraud).

And, an America without a “truth detector” is a lost America.

But, as things stand right now, far too many in the “conservative” media have “rose-colored glasses” on their noses and “Trump green” cash in their pockets.

What they are too short-sighted to see is the fact that all fascist demagogues (be they left-wing or right-wing) first stomp on the 1^st Amendment “Freedom of the Press” as a way to consolidate their power.

In a Trump Administration, these “conservative” media outlets will either have to become “Tokyo Rose” or be sent to the journalistic gulags.

Now, it is certainly true that the very same thing will happen if Hillary becomes President (read Czarina), but Trump will behave exactly in a similar fashion – they are both thin-skinned egomaniacs who cannot tolerate scrutiny, let alone criticism.

So, one final appeal to those in the “conservative” media – the “Trumptanic” has hit the iceberg.  You can get off the ship now, or you can join Leonardo DiCaprio on the bottom of the Atlantic!!

Only one candidate running is who he says he is and has done what he said he would do.  If you have any interest at all in being a guardian of the truth, it is time for you to promote and support Ted Cruz for President!!

You won’t have to “sell your souls” to do it.

Rush Limbaugh has put it this way, ““You will never, ever have to worry about that with Ted Cruz.” And then I expanded on it. And let me say one thing: If conservatism is your bag, if conservatism is the dominating factor in how you vote, there is no other choice for you in this campaign than Ted Cruz, because you are exactly right: This is the closest in our lifetimes we have ever been to Ronald Reagan.

In terms of doctrinaire, understandable, articulated, implementable conservatism, there’s nobody closer.”   

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