A "Free" Press and "Fair" Elections?

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      The medias influence on our elections cannot be underestimated. We have seen in the immediate past how they can "push" the vote in the direction of the favored candidate. They have brain-washed most Americans believe that the Republican party is the party of the rich and they control the process. The truth is that quite the opposite is true. The five top political donors – Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Pierre Omidyar, Tom Steyer and George Soros’s own son, Jonathan – are major funders of the left. Together, they have contributed at least $2.7 billion since 2000 to groups pushing abortion, gun control, climate change alarmism and liberal candidates.

     That’s not how major media depicted them. Broadcast networks have portrayed billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer  an “everyman.” When former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg promised to devote $50 million to limit American gun rights, the networks praised his efforts as “grassroots.” They are hardly everyman or grassroots as these Leftist billionaires control most of what we see and hear in our media. Collectively they either supported or owned 88 separate media outlets. Those organizations had a combined print circulation of 3.6 million and a digital circulation several times larger.

      George Soros and his allies learned long ago that those who control the media control the national

conversation. Buffett made headlines, in more ways than one, when he began buying up 75 small and mid-sized newspapers throughout the country. Bloomberg and Omidyar also own small media empires in their own right, while Steyer and the younger Soros have poured millions into liberal media outlets. More than half of those outlets, 46 in all, were in the crucial election swing states of Florida, North Carolina, Iowa and Virginia.

      Destroying the opposition candidates in the media begins the minute they are identified as possible nominees. In the coming election of 2016 the first shots have already been fired from the Left. It started with the microscopic look at Governor Christy as he was identified as the front runner of the opposition. The next target was Governor Perry of Texas. Let us take a closer look at this latest attack and where it came from, and who is funding it, and, of course, the slanted news coverage.

       The moment Perry was indicted on two flimsy counts by a Travis County, Texas grand jury on August 15 through the morning of August 20, the Big Three broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC –  ran 24 stories totaling 38 minutes and 34 seconds across their morning and evening broadcasts. In all that coverage, not one single story mentioned that the group responsible for filing the complaint against Perry in June, Texans for Public Justice (TPJ), is part of a “progressive” coalition that has received $500,000 in funding from prolific left-wing billionaire George Soros.

      Any mention of Soros-funded TPJ is almost as difficult to find. Of the Big Three, only ABC named the organization during it’s "World News" broadcast and made no mention of the Soros connection. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow praised the group and on CNN’s "New Day," correspondent Peter Hamby referred to TPJ only as “a left-leaning watchdog group.” The next day it was referred to as " a non-partisan watchdog group but some consider Texans for Public Justice to be a left-leaning group."

      It’s a clear effort to undermine and circumvent the political process and yet the media refuse to divulge Soros' role. Not one reporter, on any program, could find the time to report this as part of the Perry story – never mind this being its own story? This is deliberate censorship. The media’s double standard in covering a story such as this misleads and misinforms the very public it claims to serve. In this case, the media have gone beyond mere bias and are complicit in the Soros machine’s scheme to take down  conservative leaders and make elections in this country one-sided affairs.