It is a truth universally acknowledged that the mainstream American media includes many homely, bitter, left-leaning women and numerous left-wing men who are just as unattractive. No wonder, then, that Kamala is the media’s favorite, and  they call Trump the next Hitler. The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum goes further and writes that Trump comes from the political tradition of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. In the words of a New Yorker magazine writer, the grotesquely balding Quasimodo lookalike Adam Gopnik, Trump is “a vile and malignant actor.”

Another universally acknowledged truth is that the American mainstream media, in lockstep with the entertainment industry, pursues a left-wing agenda. Broadcast executives, print editors, and book publishers—whose core jobs are to decide which stories are told and which are not—have decided everything Trump does or says is vile and everything Kamala says or does is not.

In fact, in its dedication to destroying Trump, the media has sabotaged its own credibility. CBS News allegedly trimmed and favorably edited Kamala’s answers on 60 Minutes in a failed attempt to make her sound like a female Demosthenes, rather than the inarticulate blowhard she is. The New York Times, needless to say, attacks its new Hitler daily and manages to sling mud at The Donald even in stories that have nothing to do with politics. 

I am writing this column five days before the election, an election that I cannot see Trump winning as long as the media, Hollywood, much of Big Tech, and even parts of Wall Street are stacked up against him. For years, I’ve watched the networks slant their reporting to the point of straight-up propaganda, and now it has grown to sheer deceit. This corrupt media-Democratic Party alliance is a scandal, but no one seems to be doing anything about it. Talk about a biased system.

Call me a pessimist, but I see Kamala’s message making headway in Trump’s base through intelligently placed ads injected into blue-collar pastimes like pro football games. Kamala’s ads before each quarter reach tens of millions of possible Trump voters. They threaten that his victory will mean the end of Social Security. It’s all lies, of course, but our so-called independent media are not about to denounce it.

The media clearly chose long ago to become a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories galore. Just for starters, there are more than 10 million men, women, and children who have illegally made it to these shores since the Biden-Harris duo came into power in 2021, yet the media does not hold Kamala, a border tsar with a broken border, to account. No Times, Washington Post, or network TV reporter has made a fuss about her phony posturing as a border hawk, the biggest of all her lies. These people call themselves journalists but are merely activist hypocrites.

There are thousands of illegal migrants from Mauritania flooding into the small Ohio town of Lockland, doubling its population, with the federal government doing zilch about it. Thousands of illegals from Haiti are turning the Indiana town of Logansport into a hellhole, yet it’s Trump the Fascist who occupies the attention of our Fourth Estate. Almost 1 million illegal migrants have been given quiet amnesty under Biden-Kamala and can remain in the country without the possibility of deportation. 

So, what will happen five days from now? America will go to the polls, the major networks will do their damnedest to claim irregularities and cheating if the Donald lucks out, and dismiss any irregularities if Kamala wins the top prize. 

This media’s behavior during this election reminds me so much of all the lies spread during the run-up to the Iraq War 21 years ago. National Review Editor William F. Buckley, who gave me my start as a journalist, was disappointed in me for not only writing against the war but also starting a magazine to protest it. Later on, when I visited Bill in Connecticut, he told me in no uncertain terms that he regretted being taken in by the neoconservatives and their lies. He was not the first nor last to be taken in by the neocons, who are essentially unpaid agents for Israel.

Bill certainly should have known better. So should have American voters. Unfortunately, most people get their opinions from the media. Movies, podcasts, and television play a very big part in how Americans think. Just look at the Menendez Brothers: they were convicted of murdering their parents with a shotgun in 1989, but are now about to be freed by California Governor Gavin Newsom because a Netflix series excuses their crimes as a reaction to sexual abuse. Even if the father did molest them, which I doubt, what about their mother, murdered in cold blood?

The pestilence of wokeism and the media’s left-wing bias has sickened more souls than COVID. I hope I’m wrong and that The Donald wins. But I fear the worst. ◆