In a shockingly desperate push by the mainstream media to declare victory for at least one Establishment candidate in the primary process after Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination, the Associated Press declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the Democratic nomination, less than 24 hours before an important round of primary contests in six states, including the largest and most populous state of California, where polls show a statistical tie, with momentum leaning towards Bernie Sanders.
The Associated Press, of course, was merely setting up the false narrative (and providing cover) for other mainstream “respected” media, such as the New York Times, to run with. The New York Times wasted no time: as of Monday evening, June 6, their online headline declared “Hillary Clinton Has Clinched Democratic Nomination, Survey Reports.”
This must come as some surprise to the millions of voters who were planning to go to the polls today in California and the other primary states that have yet to have their say in our alleged “democracy.”
The Washington Post went with an even more bold headline, choosing to omit from its title the cleverly inserted “Survey Reports” that the Times carefully chose for the end of their misleading headline. The Washington Post, as of Monday night, June 6, at 8:40 p.m., led with the headline “Hillary Clinton Just Clinched the Democratic Nomination. Here’s the Math Behind It.”
Yes voters, no need to go vote today, because apparently Clinton “Just Clinched” victory, and there is “Math Behind It.” Who can dispute something that has already happened, and in fact “just” happened, and with the hard cold evidence of “math” proving it?
It is hard to believe that the major newspapers -which pick and chose which stories to publish and help create the framework of the news cycle, from which most political discussion follow – weren’t aware of the possibly significant impact on voting that could occur today, if many would be voters were given the wrong impression that Hillary had already won. Especially independent voters who often don’t vote in primaries, but have shown up in significant numbers, heavily in favor of Bernie Sanders.
The newspapers will undoubtedly deny this as the criticism begins and outrage on social media begins. They will probably say that if you read their story, they were only saying that Hillary will be the nominee, if the “survey” of unnamed super delegates cited by the Associate Press vote for Hillary at the convention. But the headlines are deliberately misleading, and the lower you go down the totem pole of what’s considered “credible” and “respected,” from the New York Times to the blowhards of Fox News, the narrative will be that Hillary won the nomination, a day before the primaries were even held.
No one outside of the media Establishment who knows the facts will be able to say with a straight face that this was anything other than the media blatantly trying to sway the voters in a presidential election, through outright and deliberate deceit.
It’s a play pulled right from George W. Bush and Fox News’s playbook, when Fox declared Bush the winner over Gore, paving the way for all the other networks to do the same. The impact of that narrative of Bush being declared a winner, undoubtedly aided Mr. Bush in the dispute over the final election results.
As anyone following the Democratic primary closely already knows, the media has from the beginning, misrepresented the state of the race by including superdelegates in the count, after each contest, to give the impression that Hillary Clinton had an insurmountable lead. The media continued to do this, even as Bernie Sanders won nine contests in a row.
But this election cycle is different, with more Americans than ever learning the details of how the two corporate owned political parties have rigged their nominating processes to protect Establishment candidates from the will of the voters, should the voters vote the wrong way.
On the Republican side, the voters began to hear about a messy convention fight that could deny Donald Trump their nomination, as he continued to win the overwhelming majority of early contests. They learned that the Republican Establishment could use their “rules” – which every major television pundit spoke of as they were a God given, infallible and natural part of democracy and the Constitution – to amass their delegates in such a way to not only deny Mr. Trump the nomination, but even install a “white knight” such as Speaker Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney as the nominee, even though they were not on the ballots. Trump supporters were outraged, and Mr. Trump did not take this news quietly.
On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders supporters quickly learned about the Democratic party’s own way of rigging their nomination process with superdelegates – party officials, elected officials and ex-office holders who are not bound to primary election results – that make up almost a third of the total number of delegates the Democrat candidate needs for the nomination. When voters learned that the number of delegates the media kept reporting that Hillary Clinton had “won” and all but guaranteed her the nomination, were actually superdelegates, they were outraged. As reported here in the Rant previously, the DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz explained quite frankly that the purpose of the superdelegates were to ensure that a grass-roots candidate could not come into the party and actually win the nomination. Calls for her resignation, like my call here on the Rant months back, are now a rising chorus that may actually bring her down, as her corruption has become obvious to everyone but the most loyal Clinton backers.
Something amazing has happened though, and the mainstream media pundits and Establishment politicians are pulling out their hair, trying to figure out how it is, despite their 24 hour, 7 days a week attacks on Trump, and under-reporting of Bernie Sanders, that the voting public is not doing as they are told and anointing one of the oligarchy puppets. Since Donald Trump officially became the presumptive Republican nominee, and since Bernie Sanders is still winning contests, drawing huge enthusiastic crowds, and vowing to take his campaign all the way to the Democratic convention to battle for the necessary super delegates, the mainstream media is taking desperate measures to ensure that at least one of the two candidates is a corporate owned puppet.
The declaration of Hillary Clinton’s victory as the Democratic nominee in yesterday’s reporting, is the most glaring evidence yet, of the collusion between the corporate owned mainstream media and the owners of both political parties.
The literal contempt for democracy that the powerful elite who own and run this country and it’s political system, is on display in bright, glowing, impossible to miss colors. The pundits on television seem unaware sometimes that they have dropped their pretense of respecting the voters, as they dismiss both Trump’s victory and Sander’s staying power as some oddity that is hard to understand. They blame racism on Trump’s success, even though exit polls have shown that illegal immigration was not the primary motivation in most of Trump’s supporters. They continue to call Bernie Sanders a socialist, and act offended that he refuses to concede before the rest of the votes are cast. They dismiss his voters as primarily young and naive, and even bristle at criticism that their inclusion of super delegates in Hillary’s score in the contests since the beginning, was misleading.
Donald Trump continues to say that most of the media are “scum of the earth.” If by most of the media, he means the mainstream pundits, editors, broadcasters, and propaganda opinion writers, he has hit the nail on the head. This is one claim of Mr. Trump’s that is supported by hard evidence, and has become blatantly obvious, as the pathetic claim of Hillary’s nomination victory was reported yesterday before the polls opened this morning. Many newspapers are casting her alleged victory as an historical moment for women in American politics.
All of the newspaper editors knew better. Certainly all but the dumbest of television pundits knew better. That they all have obviously, deliberately, tried to deceive the public in such a way the day before the election, unequivocally qualifies them as scum of the earth, and deserving of our scorn and cynicism.
It is an historical moment for sure, but not for women. It’s historic because the usually sophisticated American propaganda machine may have revealed itself in such a sloppy and desperate way this time around, that the voting public may forever be wiser to future broadcasting of such utter and pure bullshit that currently serves to maintain the illusion of democracy here in the United States.