How the Legacy Media Ruins Everything. Or Tries To

First it was the Olympics, where sportscasters at NBC played down the patriotism of young American hockey players — who in a major upset won the Gold Medal for the USA. Instead, the Peacock Network’s team and the editors of Time Magazine promoted Eileen Gu, a skier born and raised in America, who competed for her mother’s native China. On winning a gold medal, she pocketed the Communist regime’s reported $23 million and sang the China National Anthem. She knew the words.

Then, at his first State of the Union address of his second term, President Trump dared Democrats to remain sitting as the mother of Iryna Zuretska cried for her daughter, viciously attacked on a Charlotte light rail by a repeat offender criminal illegal alien. And of course in what is already an ad for the GOP during the midterms, Trump dared again by asking any legislator to stand who agreed: “The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.” Except for Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who puts country above party, Dems sat.

Salon accused Trump of “swift-boating” the midterms. (See John Kerry, 2004, for anything the Left sees as a campaign smear). Public reaction to the SOTU was thunderous in Trump’s favor, but NPR found an expert to set the record straight: “With your expertise in fascism, what did you see at the State of the Union?” asked the smug NPR host. Said the smug expert: “Well it was a classic fascist performance.”

But nothing, absolutely nothing in the past two weeks of media disdain for America could have prepared me for the fake news’ reaction to the triumphant US-Israeli campaign to topple the evil Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran. Consider:

• On ABC’s This Week, anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) if he was glad Trump had killed the evil dictator who had terrorized his own people — reportedly massacring 32,0000 Iranians in the last few months alone — and leading a regime that chanted ‘Death to America’ for nearly 50 years. “No,” said Schiff. Iran “posed no imminent attack on the United States.” According to Israeli and US intel, Iran was planning precisely that. No followup Q from George.

• On CBS news, a reporter in Austin, TX was covering a spontaneous outpouring of praise for Trump by Iranian-Americans who are part of a diaspora said to number 500,000 to 1 million. Many live in Los Angeles, called Tehrangeles. Receiving a text message from his superior telling him not to focus on the massive crowd celebrating Trump’s actions in Iran, he said on camera. “They don’t want us to focus on this.” Then he added, “Well, I am.” His live feed was quickly cut off. What’s it going to be Bari Weiss — cover the news or hide it?

• On CNN, Dana Bash got walloped on State of the Union by two Iranian-American guests, one who had been threatened with death by the regime, the other who was a devout Democrat. Moj Mahdara, co-founder of the Iranian Diaspora Collective, told her, “I am a Democrat. I am incredibly disappointed with my party. I do not see myself with them in this moment.” Likening the death of Khamenei to the fall of the Berlin Wall, he said, “It is imperative for the Democrat Party to wake up and get past their feelings about Donald Trump.” Bash looked nauseous.

• And in this gallery of media rogues, none holds the hill higher than our once-great newspapers. The Washington Post was so fawning that Breitbart’s Matt Doyle wondered aloud what the paper would have done with a Hitler obit. After noting the Ayatollah was something of a Santa figure, the Bezos-owned newspaper wrote, “With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.” Not be be outdone, the NYT — which the Daily Wire’s Andrew Klavan calls “once a newspaper” — penned the obit headline above, as if the Ayatollah who issued fatwas on critics and assassination threats against Trump had simply died in his sleep instead of at the hands of a might armada of US and Israeli weaponry — and strategy. Contrast this to the send-off the NYT gave Scott Adams, beloved creator of the Dilbert cartoons. The newspaper called him “a sensation until he made racist comments.” Not true, by the way, the elitists canceled him for straying from orthodoxy.

All of this made Red State remark, “you don’t hate the media enough.”

And that’s probably true.

But the larger and more frightening point here is that the mainstream media have become full-out, Baghdad Bob propagandists, in service to the clarion call of the Iranian regime — Death to America. They think their ideology of Marxism and chaos is simply superior to the constitutional republic we inherited from our founders. That is why the Left denigrates Thomas Jefferson and George Washington — not because they care about slavery but because radicals will use any cause to forward their own.

And that is why in my new book, Trump’s Superpower: A Historical Novel about the Founding Fathers & One Founding Mother, I bring the founders down from heaven for our 250th Birthday. They come to remind us of the America they meant to leave behind. President Trump is channeling them, because he understands that if he wants to rescue America from globalism, he has to reclaim the values, principles and words of the men and women who at great personal risk founded our country.

How wonderful that this weekend — in liberal cities like DC, NYC, LA, Toronto, London — Iranian Americans came out to celebrate an Iran without the Ayatollah, a country where women can throw off their head coverings and dance in the streets, where all are free to express opinions, where government is of, for and by the people.

And how exciting that pressure is coming from Brazil and from Cuban-Americans to restore those countries too to an enlightened form of governance. Who knows, maybe Trump will even win a Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine the media outrage then.