OPINION:
Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff for President Trump, just unleashed a barrage of civic lesson bullet points against the White House press corps after fielding faux outrage about Elon Musk’s unelected status. Good. It’s time to restore truth-telling in news.
Let’s Make Media Great Again.
Too often, those in the press sling stupid questions that aren’t aimed at getting answers but rather building cases against their conservative targets and coddling their Democrat friends.
Hey, Joe Biden, what’s your favorite ice cream flavor?
Hey, Barack Obama, what’s your favorite Snooki moment?
Hey, President Trump, when you colluded with Russia and shot illegals at the border and handed out red MAGA hats as trophies to White men carrying semi-automatics who successfully kept minorities from voting — was all that before or after the FBI found the prostitute pee tape?
Curious people wanna know.
The American public has a right to know!
“A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump,” The Associated Press wrote in January of this year.
“Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30573 over 4 years,” The Washington Post wrote in January of 2021.
Seriously? Seriously.
From the White House this week — Miller, responding to a question about the “unelected bureaucrat” called Elon Musk: “You’re tempting me to say very harsh things about some of our media friends. It is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country. It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works. So I’m glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.”
Indeed. For four years — more than four years, if the campaign season is included — members of the mainstream media did the bidding of the Democrat Party and pretended that anyone who questioned Biden’s obvious mental incapacities was a conspiracy theorist. As if watching Biden call out dead people was normal. As if listening to Biden refer to his vice president as president — again — and again — and then again — was typical presidential stuff. As if watching Biden fall off his bike, fall down the stairs, struggle to put on his coat, and stumble in his specially made shoes as he tried to traverse a beach — as if those are all standard actions for fit, mentally adept men.
For years, Democrats denied Biden was brain dead. For years, the press diligently reported the lies of Democrats and attacked the political opponents of Democrats.
The press wasn’t always this way.
Members of the elite media weren’t always so hateful to Americans who held differing political views.
A biased media is not the problem.
An anti-American, enemy of the people, enemy of the Constitution, enemy of Christianity, enemy of Western values, enemy of individualism media is the problem. And this is what elitists in the media have become. They’re so enamored with their own intelligence and so sheltered in their own bubbles and so desirous of the chance to schmooze with stars and the star-powered they’ve shunned their core duty — to serve as the voice of the people to get to the truth.
They’re largely ignorant of how government works because they don’t care how government works — they just want to get the Democrats’ talking points out there while cleverly pretending they’re not parrots for the Democrat Party.
They should have to pass a Constitution test as a condition of serving in the White House press corps.
“The threat to democracy,” Miller said, Fox News reported, “indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime-tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believes [sic] they can do whatever they want without consequences, who believes they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for.”
Miller, by way of example, called out the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department.
But he could’ve been talking about the media.
MMGA — Make Media Great Again. Let’s. Media bias won’t be media bias if those in the media hold both parties’ politicians to the same level of watchdogging.
The press is most powerful and necessary when it keeps the liberty of the American people as its beacon for coverage — not the interests of the politicians, no matter which party they serve.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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