The heroic folks over at the Media Research Center have the numbers.
On Monday, the day before former President Trump's most recent criminal indictment, the propaganda factories at MSNBC and CNN were busy doing some of their most impressive wagon circling to date. Between the hours of 6 am and 4 pm, the two left-wing outlets mentioned the name of Donald Trump 759 times. Within that same time frame, they mentioned the name of Devon Archer - the business associate and personal friend of Hunter Biden whose testimony before Congress implicated President Biden in criminal behavior - just 48 times.
When I first saw those numbers I shook my head, but attributed at least some of it to the feverish feeding frenzy another Trump indictment was sure to set off between the two network staffs loaded with Democrat operatives. But then I saw the date was July 31, the day before the indictment. That was also the day that Archer's testimony lit the powder keg of impeachment-level mischief directly under the Biden White House. And yet CNN and MSNBC uttered Trump's name over 700 more times than Archer's.
That's precisely why I call the good people at the Media Research Center "heroes." They watch this nonsense day in and day out in order to quantify and publicize how irresponsible, contemptible, and unsalvageable American media has become.
The revelations that came out in Dominion's lawsuit against Fox News, about its hosts intentionally misleading audiences regarding Trump's stolen election claims, were bad. The question always remained, however: Where else were viewers supposed to go to get honest reporting? It's fine to say Ingraham and Hannity were dishonest, but who on CNN or MSNBC is a step up? For that matter, who at NBC, CBS, ABC, or in print is better?
Is the Gannett media corporation with their flagship USA Today a more trustworthy source? The same paper that just referred to Hunter Biden's bottomless corruption as "foibles" and framed what could be an emerging Watergate scandal as little more than a "Republicans pounce" non-story?
I suppose they at least get credit for mentioning the Joe and Hunter Biden scandal at all. The day the story broke, this is the content CNN went with:
Remember, this behavior is all from the same media that ran a million breathless, "walls are closing in on the White House" stories when Trump was in office.
Over at NBC, they did bring up the president and his son, but only to praise the "big guy" for the strength of his admirable family story.
I admit I read that story, only because I was curious which Biden "family story" they were talking about - the one where:
- Joe was born in the same hospital where his granddad died two weeks before (he wasn't)
- Joe grew up with Polish neighbors (he didn't)
- Joe's mom had to wipe oil slicks off the window when he grew up (she didn't)
- Joe was raised by Puerto Ricans and blacks (he wasn't)
- Joe drove an 18-wheel tractor-trailer (he didn't)
- Joe was arrested while protesting for civil rights (he wasn't and he didn't)
- Joe graduated in the top half of his law school class (he didn't)
- Joe's house burned down with Jill inside it (it didn't)
- Joe's son died fighting in Iraq (he didn't)
- Joe went to Jewish synagogues to worship (he didn't)
- Joe traveled 17,000 miles with China's president (he didn't)
Alas, none of those made it in NBC's story. Oddly enough, it was the perilously liberal New York Times that managed, at least once upon a time, to point out the absurdity of the president's dishonest claims:
But now that the "walls are closing in" on Biden's apparent corruption, that same paper is happy to sell its credibility in the cause of gaslighting America:
It may be that President Biden will soon follow in his predecessor's footsteps, being criminally indicted for fraud and corruption. But unlike his predecessor, the troubled and troublemaking first family will enjoy galactic levels of media protection and sanctuary before it happens.
