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https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/08/media-outrage-over-capitol-riot-isnt-about-defending-democracy-its-about-wielding-power/

For our political and media elites, the capitol riot on Wednesday is the perfect excuse to ‘cleanse’ the country of Trump supporters.

After the pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Twitter blue-checks, politicians, and elite corporate journalists wailed and rent their garments in outrage. But they weren’t really outraged.

Yes, the breach of the capitol was appalling and disturbing. Most people didn’t see it coming and were understandably shocked when images of MAGA bros fighting capitol police began popping up on social media (although the authorities should have been better prepared, most of all D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had earlier rejected offers of additional law enforcement.) There’s no question the protesters who decided to riot should be prosecuted, as all rioters everywhere should be.

But elite outrage is not really about what happened at the capitol—about the “sacred citadel of our democracy being defiled” and so on. The outrage, like almost all expressions of righteous indignation from our elites in the Trump era, is performative. It is in service of a larger purpose that has nothing to do with the peaceful transfer of power and everything to do with the wielding of power.

Specifically, it’s about punishing supporters of President Trump. If the pro-Trump mob can be depicted as “terrorists” and “traitors,” then there’s almost nothing we shouldn’t do to silence them. Right? Rick Klein, the political director at ABC News, said the quiet part out loud on Thursday when he mused (in a now-deleted tweet) that getting rid of Trump is “the easy part” and the more difficult task will be “cleansing the movement he commands.”

That’s not the kind of language you use when you’re in the business of reporting the news. It’s the kind of language you use when you’re in the business of social control.

Mitch McConnell’s Finest Hour

By The Editors

The Senate majority leader’s statesmanlike actions were worthy of his long and distinguished career.

Who Says A Must Say B

By Richard Brookhiser

He should be impeached and removed from office.

End This Republican Nightmare

By Kyle Smith

The Constitution is clear about the remedy for a president who has become politically untenable: impeachment and removal.

James Lankford’s Abdication of Responsibility

By Mark Antonio Wright

James Lankford had a duty to tell the truth, the whole truth, to Oklahomans, not pander to them.

Ted Cruz Fails the Moment

By Isaac Schorr

This hour was made to be Cruz’s finest, but instead it was his most dishonorable.

Elaine Chao Resigns as Transportation Secretary over Trump’s Handling of Capitol Riots

By Mairead McArdle

Several other high-ranking officials have tendered their resignations in the 24 hours since chaos descended on Washington.

Remove, Impeach, Convict

By Michael R. Strain

This is another all-hands-on-deck moment.

Schumer Says Trump ‘Should Not Hold Office One Day Longer,’ Calls for 25th Amendment or Impeachment

By Tobias Hoonhout

He added that the Capitol breach on Wednesday, “was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/people-lie-joseph-hippolito/

Many Americans know about the New York Post’s exclusive reporting on Hunter Biden’s questionable foreign business deals that implicated his father: Joe Biden, the ostensible President-elect. Many Americans know Hunter Biden’s laptop provided the information. But most Americans have no idea what else that laptop contained:

— Joe Biden’s private e-mails and cellphone numbers.

— The names and contact information for the former vice president’s Secret Service agents.

— Cellphone numbers for such figures as Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Mitch McConnell, members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.

— Information identifying Hunter Biden’s passport, driver’s license, Social Security card, credit cards and bank statements.

— Bills for thousands of dollars Hunter Biden spent on pornography and escorts.

No American outlet reported those facts. They came from Britain’s Daily Mail, in another exclusive published Oct. 30, two weeks after the Post’s articles.

“Strangely, the story got little traction in the US media,” the Mail’s Caroline Graham and Ian Gallagher wrote. “Stranger still, Twitter blocked the New York Post’s account while Facebook and Google censored any mention of the article. Under pressure, they relented.”

Stifling that news provides the most dramatic evidence of this disturbing fact: media corporations collude with foreign governments, federal agencies, big business and private foundations to mold public opinion and hide embarrassing facts, often to protect financial interests.

“We are in a scary place right now in the United States,” said Amber Lyon, who won two Emmy Awards for investigative journalism with CNN. “The American public — the poor, trusting American public — are being lied to.”

Lyon saw that collusion at CNN. In March 2011, she covered Bahrain’s brutal response to protesters demanding greater freedom as part of the Arab Spring. Lyon said she was “violently detained” by security.

https://issuesinsights.com/2020/12/31/mad-at-2020-dont-be-it-was-the-far-left-trump-hating-media-who-made-it-such-an-awful-year/

Nearly all would agree that 2020 has been a miserable year. A major reason for that misery, apart from the Chinese COVID-19 pandemic, was the utter failure of the American media. Our information purveyors no longer tell the truth or deal in facts, but rather trade in bankrupt far-left theories of wokeness, political correctness and cancel culture.

And now that Joe Biden could be our next president, the big media’s soft gloves will go back on. No more tough questions, according to The Atlantic.

“As the White House beat became the biggest story in the world, once-obscure correspondents were recast in the popular imagination as resistance heroes fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. They were showered with book deals, speaking gigs, and hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers,” wrote McKay Coppins in a piece titled: “The Resistance’s Breakup With the Media Is at Hand.” He goes on to wonder what those who “got famous fighting with (President Donald) Trump” will do next?

The answer appears to be “coast.”

“I don’t think the press should be trying to whip up the Biden presidency and turn it into must-see TV in a contrived way,” CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta told The Atlantic.