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Beyond Bias: What the Media Are Not Telling Us
By Robert Knight
We are looking at a 1984-style Soviet news blackout right now on several crucial news stories.
Before departing as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released, on June 19, a declassified smoking gun report about the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was ignored by all major media except Fox News.
The report documents how Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about COVID’s likely origin.
He denied facilitating federal grants to a nonprofit company, EcoHealth Alliance, which did gain-of-function research on bat-borne viruses at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Among other things, Dr. Fauci steered media away from the obvious lab leak explanation and toward wet market-based nonsense about tasty bats infecting people.
“Politicized self-serving leaders like Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly elected President by restricting his access to vital facts,” Ms. Gabbard charged. “Yawn,” said the media.
If Mr. Fauci did what Ms. Gabbard and Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, have documented, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) should be serving a life sentence.
But to the press, this isn’t worthy of reporting and might reflect badly on the previous Democratic administration.
For some reason, the Biden administration’s autopen issued a sweeping pardon to Dr. Fauci as it did for members of the January 6 House Committee.
On June 19, Yahoo!News carried a clip from Fox about the Gabbard report, but just below it, this from Salon:
“Tulsi Gabbard was in more than one cult.”
You’ve heard of “The Art of the Deal?” This is “The Art of the Smear.”
Here’s another massive cover-up. On June 16, Reform Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe issued “The Rape Gang Report,” a 219-page study documenting “the systematic rape and even slaughter of White British girls” in the United Kingdom by “chiefly Pakistani Muslim men” over the past few decades.
According to the Media Research Center (MRC), the report was ignored by major American cable and broadcast media (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and MS NOW) and covered only by Fox News.
It was virtually ignored or dismissed as “right-wing” in The New York Times and Washington Post but got significant coverage on Newsmax and in The Washington Times, The Epoch Times and The New York Post.
“The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. … at the very least, 250,000 young White girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rapes, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversions and lifelong trauma,” the report says.
It contains eyewitness accounts too horrifying to share here, which match atrocities suffered by Israeli women during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas invasion.
The grooming and rapes began in the 1950s but took off after the 1977 election of Labor Party Prime Minister’s Tony Blair, whose government “orchestrated mass immigration,” the report said, noting that officials looked the other way or were even complicit.
In London, there have been massive demonstrations by Union Jack-waving Brits who say they want a full stop to immigration from countries that don’t share Judeo-Christian values.
On June 18, the Lowe report “still has yet to receive a single second of airtime on any of the left-wing cable or broadcast networks” in the United States, the MRC reported.
Meanwhile, the media is still going crazy over maintenance problems at the Reflecting Pool in Washington.
The same major networks that gave zero time to the Fauci and rape gang reports devoted nearly seven hours of total coverage to the pool’s algae blossom, the MRC said.
The pool’s renovation had been one of President Donald Trump’s most touted efforts to clean up Washington for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration. So there.
Other major stories the media have ignored include the arrests of hundreds of people accused of stealing billions via welfare fraud in Democratic-run cities, and the shocking backgrounds of successful Democratic Socialist candidates in last Tuesday’s Democratic Party primary in New York City who were backed by communist/Islamist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Most media accounts describe them as “progressives” or just part of Mr. Mamdani’s slate of leftists. But they are certifiable, and the public should not be kept in the dark.
Aber Kawas, a Muslim naturalized Palestinian woman who won a state Senate seat primary, justified the 9/11 terrorist attack, saying America has a “system of capitalism, and racism, and white supremacy.”
Darializa Avila Chevalier, who won a New York congressional primary, attended a pro-Palestinian rally on the day after the Oct. 7 Hamas slaughter.
She also expressed contempt for America, saying, “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”
Ms. Chevalier supports open borders, seizing private property, nationalizing industries, and abolishing—not just defunding—police.
In a 2020 social media post, she wrote, “The pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me.”
That year, antifa/BLM mobs torched hundreds of cities, killed more than 25 people, wounded hundreds of police, and caused $2 billion in damages.
Seven of eight Democratic Socialist candidates won, including three congressional primaries in New York City. This pushes the Democratic Party closer to forced collectivism, outright anti-Semitism, and hostility to Christianity.
Will American voters learn in time to prevent what these people intend for this country, which is to replace the American way of life with communism and/or Sharia law?
Don’t count on the media to tell them.
Illustration by Linas Garsys in The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
Illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times.