Media Bias

 American politics never really interested me until I began to see the polarization that began to take place when Donald Trump got the nod from the Republicans to run for President. It fascinated me to see how the two parties, who were similar in so many ways, would suddenly take on different personas and lay out two entirely different visions for the country. 

I realized from the beginning that Trump was not a career politician and that could work either for or against him in the presidential race. It became apparent that he was going to upset the apple cart and I soon realized that there was a systemic problem in the Washington DC world and Trump was not coming to play by the rules. Feathers would be ruffled and it would not be business as usual. 

Of course, this made him a lot of enemies and the way the press would cover his campaign as compared to Hillary Clinton's was going to make a difference. There has always been immense power in the press. Who would they side with? The media's hand was played early and if there was ever any doubt as to who they were backing, it was made so very evident on election night when beyond all odds and against the pollster's predictions, Trump won and the talking heads were on the verge of nervous breakdowns realizing that Hillary had actually lost the election.  

The world of politics in the USA was upset forever and the efforts to take the presidency away from the outsider was unprecedented.  Obama and Clinton cooked up a scheme to discredit Trump with the big Russian collusion accusations, which lasted for three years, and ended up in an impeachment, but in the end was proven to be a hoax. The media played a huge roll in the deception, and the coverup when the deception was being discredited. Trump was being bashed on the nightly news, relentlessly, all the while, doing some good things for the country and gaining a solid following. 

Then, for me, what was the ultimate dirty trick by the mainstream media, began to play out. A laptop belonging to Joe Biden's son, Hunter, was discovered, and contained some pretty damning evidence that Joe and son were up to no good. After the FBI sat on this evidence for almost a year, Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer,  finally went public with it but there was not a word of it in the mainstream media. Basically, millions of Americans went to the polls in 2020 not knowing. A few weeks later, polls were taken and fully 30% of those who had voted for Biden would not have done so had they known about the laptop. Meaning that whether by election fraud, or withholding information, the election had more or less been stolen. 

By now, I was disgusted by the media and knew they could not be trusted. The bias was not limited to the USA media. Here in Canada, the Liberals set up a fund of more than $500 million for "trusted media". It is called buying the media. Who would bite the hand that feeds them? According to some sources, more than 95% of journalist in Canada and the US are 'left leaning' so it only stands to reason that they would support Liberals in Canada and Democrats in the USA. The media has always been biased but being so blatantly obvious about it is unprecedented. 

All of this forced my hand to begin searching for alternative news and viewpoints because I certainly was not getting them from any of my TV channels, newspapers, or radio stations. 

And then came the "pandemic".