DON’T get me wrong: I’m painfully aware of how the left-leaning legacy media both here in America and in my home country of Britain are more than happy to tell lies when it serves their agenda. To say their mendacious flights of fancy would have made Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels green with envy is, I confess, shameless hyperbole. But think about the thousands who march through London calling for the destruction of Israel and, dare I be so bold, the elimination of the Jewish people – after all, what else can they mean when they chant ‘Death, Death, to the IDF’ or ‘Globalise the Intifada’? – and the comparison seems a little less excessive.
Often overlooked, however, is the tendency of the mainstream media (MSM) to lie by omission.
A blatant example of this happened recently when the BBC covered riots in Dublin without mentioning that protesters took to the streets in response to the alleged rape of a ten-year-old girl by a migrant who had been issued a deportation order in March. Without attempting to rationalise the violence, it would have helped our understanding of events had the BBC included this crucial detail. I’ve no doubt that such tactical omissions are legion in the legacy media as they struggle to frame the left-wing, globalist, anti-Christian and anti-Western narratives that are their stock-in-trade.
On Saturday, ‘millions’ of men and women, we are told, took to the streets in the United States to express their opposition to President Trump and the policies being pursued by his administration. While the numbers who took part are contested, one commentator speculating that the number of demonstrators was only 10 per cent of the seven million claimed by the organisers, it is undeniable that in some places many thousands showed up.
So far, it looks as though there was no violence apart from one or two minor incidents. No need, therefore, for news outlets such as CNN and MSNBC to feature reporters standing in front of burning police stations and stores being looted prattling on about how what they are seeing is, in that now damning phrase, ‘mostly peaceful’.
The paucity of violence comes as no surprise given the demographics of those in attendance, mostly elderly white people, a preponderance of whom were women. On the left-leaning The Rest is Politics podcast, Katty Kay told viewers: ‘It looked like a whole load of grannies carrying NPR bags.’ Indeed, after seeing the footage and photos of many of the demonstrations, it is hard not to come away with the impression that the vast majority of those in attendance were people of a certain age and a distinctly Caucasian pallor. Even in Atlanta, where the population is predominantly black, those who took to the streets were mostly affluent-looking white baby boomers.
There was also a definite suburban aura around those who took part, not to mention more than a suggestion of material comfort and affluence. Participants reminded me of those who attended the Women’s March after Trump was first inaugurated in 2017.
Inevitably, there were many cringe-inducing moments, too many to cite here. But watching a group of late-middle-aged women and a few quite elderly-looking men dancing aerobically scored high on the cringeworthy scale. A 61-year-old woman dressed in a costume made to look like male genitalia was an affront to public decency, especially as children were nearby.
There was worse, much worse, although the MSM refused to cover it. While physical violence was noticeable by its absence, threats of violence were prevalent. Indeed, despite the geriatric makeup of the protesters, some of these threats were surely unlawful. One very elderly man using a walking stick was filmed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the numbers 8647, usually interpreted as ‘kill the 47th president’, a reference to Donald Trump. When asked what it meant, he answered unequivocally: ‘Kill the son of a bitch.’ When asked which ‘son of a bitch’ he had in mind, he answered with no hesitation: ‘The 47th president.’
Having reviewed a lot of video and photographs of the marches, I can say with certainty that this was not an isolated incident. When interviewed, one young white woman stated her belief that Trump was taking us back to 1930s Germany and that incarcerated illegal immigrants were being used for human experiments at the University of Miami. Another white woman, this time a youngish mother, opined that the Jews owe Germany an apology, adding that ‘the Germans are the ones who recognised the issues that the Jews had with other people and the entitlement they had with their religion so that now they’re committing genocide in order to grant a landgrab just like the United States did’.
Other extraordinarily tasteless episodes celebrated the recent murder of Charlie Kirk, including a lower-school teacher gyrating weirdly while mimicking the shot in the neck that killed him. One posh-sounding and wealthy-looking middle-aged woman said she was glad Kirk was dead.
Unsurprisingly, allusions to the Third Reich were in abundance throughout these marches, with posters showing Benjamin Netanyahu in a German SS uniform and people calling for the death of homeland security adviser Stephen Miller and referring to him as a Nazi. It is, of course, enjoyable to call people Nazis, but there is an added frisson of pleasure when those people are also Jewish, as both Netanyahu and Miller are.
None of this was covered by the MSM, which increasingly resembles what I call ‘a news laundering service’, cleaning things up for public consumption.
Surely, I am not alone in noticing how it focuses on the most clean-cut and preppiest of participants at Pride marches, while ignoring the middle-aged men twerking in their underpants and those simulating anal sex as they parade past families with young children.
I put it to you, ladies and gentlemen, that what took place on Saturday on the streets of my beloved America was evidence of a nation in decline, a civilisation on the point of imploding, and a great power that once possessed the moral authority and military might to save the world. Now, she can barely save herself.
