Mainstream Media United in Forcing 'President-Elect' Biden Down Your Throat
Few people are gullible enough to believe everything anybody tells them. But how suspicious is it when nearly everybody seems to be telling you the same thing even though you know of obvious exceptions? How about when people flat-out lie and misrepresent?
Whom are you going to believe: the mainstream media or your own lying eyes?
Some skepticism is called for when the mainstream media are so uniformly in agreement about anything, let alone about a hotly disputed presidential election.
"President-elect" is the legal term for the person with 270 or more votes cast in the Electoral College, which doesn't even meet this year to cast those votes until Dec. 14, a month in the future.
Then, and only then, will we have a "president-elect." And maybe not even then if the investigations of corruption in several states haven't concluded and hold up certifying state election results.
So, at least until then, the correct term for Joe Biden is not "president-elect," despite the mainstream media gratuitously hanging that title on him.
It's not a casual mistake. Check CNN, CNBC, USATODAY, CBS, Politico. Even Al Jazeera.
More accurately, Biden should be referred to as "the guy who has been hiding in his basement and demanding that you wear a mask." Or maybe "the daddy of the guy with no particular known skills who has apparently made himself rich by selling access to his dad to China, Ukraine, and who knows whom else."
Or, if you want to be charitable like Bill Whittle and extend grace, the proper technical term for Biden is "some guy."
Purposeful distortions like referring to Biden as what he isn't are designed to reinforce the idea in the public mind that the election is over. Nothing to see here. Move along.
It's a tactic perfectly captured by this New York Times headline: "Officials in Every State: No Evidence of Voter Fraud."
You can bet that you can find an official in every state who will say that. Whether it's an official in a position to know is an entirely different question. Whether it's an honest official without an agenda to advance is another question altogether.
But enterprising reporters can always hunt down an "official" to give them the answer they want. It's a skill soon mastered by even the greenest cub reporters. I've known editors who instructed reporters to "call so-and-so if you need a quote." You knew that the editor knew what the gist of the quote would be.