By\u00a0Andrea Widburg<\/p>\n
When Tucker Carlson attacked Sidney Powell, I was unhappy with him.\u00a0\u00a0However, I said I would still watch Tucker because he’s mostly smart, brave, and funny, qualities I like.\u00a0\u00a0Some people (politely) disagreed with me.\u00a0\u00a0Having seen Tucker’s Monday monologue, though, I am glad that I stuck to my guns by sticking to Tucker.\u00a0\u00a0Tucker excoriates the real fraud in the 2020 election, which is the way the media and Big Tech manipulated the system to destroy Trump.<\/p>\n
It’s hard to explain to people who came of age during the Trump era how differently the establishment treated his presidency.\u00a0\u00a0Even when the media loathed presidents \u2014 as they did with Nixon and Reagan \u2014 they at least went through the motions of showing respect.<\/p>\n
With Trump, the media’s hate-fest is unbounded.\u00a0\u00a0They ignored the usual 100-day honeymoon.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, from the moment Trump was elected, media hacks began to exhaust their limited vocabulary of insults: Trump is Hitler.\u00a0\u00a0Trump is worse than Hitler.\u00a0\u00a0Trump is a Hitlerly copy of something worse than Hitler.<\/p>\n
If they’re not making Hitler analogies, you have\u00a0Anderson Cooper<\/a>\u00a0calling the president of the United States an “obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun.”\u00a0\u00a0Stay classy, Anderson!\u00a0\u00a0Where’s that\u00a0sophisticated guy<\/a>\u00a0who got drunk and talked about his mother’s sex life on air?<\/p>\n At the end of the day, what the media have done for the past four years is inane, shallow, vulgar, and mean-spirited to the point of evil, but the steady drumbeat works.<\/p>\n Although it’s hard to remember, before Trump came along, the media would at least occasionally report rather objectively about actual news, both foreign and domestic.\u00a0\u00a0Nowadays, the news is blatantly slanted in whatever direction benefits Democrats.<\/p>\n Black Lives Matter riots are racial freedom fests while the people who protest being locked in their homes and losing their livelihoods are white nationalist haters.\u00a0\u00a0Nor do the media ever report Trump’s accomplishments.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, taking in the media is liking listening to the two meanest girls in high school gossip about someone they hate.\u00a0\u00a0Again, it’s inane, shallow, vulgar, and mean-spirited, but effective.<\/p>\n Most significantly, it’s impossible to explain the effect of Big Technology to young people who, having been raised within its omnipresent ambit, are as unaware of its power as fish are of the water in which they swim.\u00a0\u00a0When Google hides search results and Twitter and Facebook de-platform people for being “mean,” that’s normal to the young.\u00a0\u00a0To them, that’s the appropriate elevation of “safe” speech \u2014 and please, stop nattering about “free” speech, which all these young people know is a secret code for saying “hate speech of the type a Hitlerly Hitler would use.”<\/p>\n Incidentally, it’s also impossible to explain any of pre- and post-internet concepts about journalism and free speech to stalwart leftists.\u00a0\u00a0Because the media and Big Tech align perfectly with what our leftist (AKA Democrat or progressive) friends believe, they too view bias, censorship, and manipulated information as a fish does water: they are normal, and only conspiracy theorists would believe that the water is toxic and deadly.<\/p>\n Enter Tucker Carlson’s Monday-night monologue, with its bracing dose of reality about the way in which the 2020 election was rigged.\u00a0\u00a0We conservatives have every reason to believe in shadow-rigging, in the form of cemetery votes, faked ballots, and election machine manipulation.\u00a0\u00a0All of that, though, requires investigation and a lot of work to establish.<\/p>\n However, Tucker points out that what the media and Big Tech did in the 2020 election is in our faces, it’s devastating, and it’s frightening for the future of a free America.\u00a0\u00a0No wonder Trump pinned Tucker’s monologue to the top of his Twitter page.<\/p>\n