To win elections from a local school board to the presidency requires neutralizing key parts of the leftist media and Silicon Valley, which promote lies and misinformation about President Donald Trump, or any Republican president, and Republicans in general, while covering up Democratic wrongs.
This manipulation of the American electorate, also by selective coverage of news stories, delivers hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free Democrat media during each election cycle that the GOP cannot match.
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With some creative thinking and without attacking the media directly, we can reduce the media’s influence by challenging biased coverage in a manner that encourages greater objectivity or exposes clear inconsistencies to the public. A dollar contributed to a single Republican candidate benefits that individual campaign; a dollar invested in efforts that counter distorted or unfair media narratives can strengthen the position of every Republican candidate running for local, state, and federal office.
MEDIA MIND CONTROL: NEWS OUTLETS HIJACK NARRATIVES THROUGH DISHONEST LABELS
The problem is Democrats and their media partners control the message, which becomes control of the mind. The leftist party is leveraging a ruthless media apparatus to be pro-Democrat, anti-Republican, knowing the truth is difficult to break through. It’s the oxygen enabling the Democratic Party to exist and thrive even as it lacks positive policies. Their goal: to achieve power by any means necessary by creating a distorted reality that threatens the very foundation of our country.
Without platforms such as social media, the New York Times, CNN, The View, ABC News, Salon, Meet the Press, Morning Joe, etc., plus Google ensuring their stores are always at the top of searches, Democrats winning elections would be extremely difficult, as the leftist media might be worth five or more points in every election.
Should they control the House in 2026, they will be impeaching the president and attempting to imprison every Republican associated with him, thus, for all intents and purposes, ending his presidency. A Democrat president in 2028 with control of Congress could mean, well, let’s not even think about that disaster.
The Democrats’ goal is not just to win elections. Besides ending the current presidency, it’s to dismantle the constitutional checks and balances that hold our nation together.
Countering lies and misinformation is ineffective: Having Trump’s press secretary respond to individual falsehoods and distortions is ultimately ineffective when the same media outlets that spread them refuse to report the corrections.
Likewise, elected officials appear on programs such as Sean Hannity to challenge false reporting, but those audiences are largely already sympathetic to their views. The same is true for conservative watchdog sites such as NewsBusters, whose readership is predominantly Republican rather than those consuming the misinformation from legacy and social media outlets.
The problem is that these efforts focus on treating the symptoms, responding to one misleading story after another, while leaving the underlying cause untouched. It is comparable to repeatedly applying lotion to poison ivy rashes without removing the poison ivy bush. In this case, the bush is the media.
Covert media: A good deal of the Democrat-supporting media is hiding in plain sight.
One example is the cellphone company, Metro by T-Mobile, that exposes its 19,000,000 subscribers, which is about 35 times more than CNN and much younger, to a constant barrage of articles every day that automatically pop up on their screens. More than 90% is left-wing propaganda denigrating Republicans from MS Now, Salon, and others, with an occasional Fox News story thrown in for “balance.”
According to the Gallup Party Affiliation Poll, the percentages of Democrats and Republicans have remained consistent over the last five years, with both parties hovering at 27% or 28%, with the remainder of the electorate identifying as independent.
Despite this, media and college polls rarely reflect this parity as media and college polls normally over-sample Democrats while under-sampling Republicans. This discrepancy delivers misinformation by failing to accurately mirror the true composition of the electorate.
Because polling data can significantly influence low-information voters and sway election momentum, transparency is essential. Legislative action should require any media outlet reporting on a poll to include a breakdown of respondents by party compared to the Gallup Party Affiliation benchmark, a standard that does not pre-select participants based on party.
RIG THE HEADLINES, SHIFT THE POLLS
This can make biased polls more objective by accurately mirroring the number of Democrats, Republicans, and independents, which would deliver honest snapshots of American voters’ sentiments. Polls that resist, even though they normally already include the percentages on their websites with the entire poll and results, are admitting they are part of the Democrat machine.
The two pillars: A more honest media and accurate polls can create a more level playing field, which can only help all Republican candidates.
Ken Convoy, [email protected], has an advertising background, thinks outside the box and is the only person ever invited to present a creative model to the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the trade group for the advertisers controlling most U.S. advertising.
