The Unparalleled Hypocrisy of the Liberal Media Class

Joe Biden has been unanimously declared by the media as the winner of the 2020 USA presidential election. While the prevailing narrative in the social media sphere is a proud declaration of the triumph of American values, a rejection of fascism, and a bright day for democracy, the reality is that the only winners in this election are the corporate looters of America. The pitiful climax of the disastrous performance by the Democratic Party in this election has been brewing since the conclusion of the previous election in 2016. The ecocidal Cold War 2 psyop known as Russiagate saw the entirety of corporate media morph into intelligence community stenographers, uncritically repeating anonymously sourced CIA talking points alleging myriad foreign interference threats, while simultaneously turning a blind eye to (or in many cases cheerleading) disastrous US-backed coups, interventions, and ongoing proxy wars. As the Democratic primary campaigns began in mid-2019, the media worked in lockstep with the corporate Democrats to warp, hamstring, and outright rig their party’s primary election process to promote a walking corpse who’s only consistent ideological theme was that he opposed President Trump.

It is the least bit surprising that running a carbon copy of the 2016 Clinton campaign resulted in a nail-biter of an election decided by a mere 50,000 votes (21k from AZ, 20k from WI, and 8k from GA), despite the fact that not only is Trump one of the most vilified public figures in all of media, he also catastrophically mismanaged a pandemic response that resulted in hundreds of thousands dead, millions of small businesses bankrupt, tens of millions of workers unemployed, and billions of dollars siphoned directly from the treasury to corporate executives. True to form however, the media is already shifting the blame for this pathetic showing by the Democrats to, surprise surprise, the voters! From the perspective of the media class, the Donald Trump presidency was an aberration on an otherwise exemplary democratic and just government, a dark era where a descent into full blown totalitarian authoritarianism was an imminent and constantly looming threat, a time when the US government committed unspeakable and unprecedented atrocities against its own citizens. There is not a single liberal mainstream outlet that reacted to the loss in 2016 with an introspective analysis of the deep-rooted problems within the Democratic party, instead preferring to advance the evidence free conspiracy theory that the Russian government colluded with the Trump campaign to get him elected in exchange for a pro-Russia foreign policy. Even a cursory analysis of modern US-Russia relations calls into question the narrative underlying this investigation. In an April 2017 interview, the late scholar Stephen Cohen described the geopolitical relationship between the two nuclear-armed states as:

The most dangerous moment in American-Russian relations, at least since the Cuban missile crisis.

He continues:

No American president has ever been accused, essentially, of treason. This is what we’re talking about here, or that his associates have committed treason.

What moral standing does an institution which spent the better part of the past 4 years accusing a sitting president of high treason in response to an election loss have to criticize the current reaction from the Republican party? How does the 4th estate have the nerve to comment on the “deep divisions” in the American public while never placing the blame on the politicians who are ostensibly there to represent the electorate? The answers to these questions are obvious; it all boils down to servitude to the US-led neoliberal/neoconservative global hegemonic empire. Once the mask of objective journalism is removed to reveal corporate media for the mass-propaganda factory it really is, finding examples of narrative management operations, and more importantly the motives behind these operations, becomes an imperative component in holding power to account. It has become abundantly clear from the behaviors of both prominent parties in the past few years that the only vehicle available to the people for enacting desperately necessary progressive policy change is that of independent journalism and massive social organization.

For all the skeptics who do not agree, one only needs to point to Bolivia as a shining example of the power that an organized people have against tyranny. In November of 2019, President-elect Evo Morales was forced into exile as a result of a US-backed military coup - a plot that not only was a strike against the left (Morales belonged to the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party) but simultaneously a Monroe doctrine era imperialist attempted pillaging of resources. After all it is not so difficult to imagine that in the Brave Green World awaiting us that lithium will undoubtedly become one of the most valuable resources in the world. There are of course several interconnected reasons for the US government’s disdain for Morales, but it is my assertion that the primary concerns were the resources and the growing relationship with Venezuela.

The 2019 Bolivian coup begins with the Organization of American States (OAS), a union of North and South American nations that purportedly “promotes representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of non-intervention”. But before we can discuss the atrocities committed in the name of democracy we must first establish context. In late 2017, President Evo Morales was granted the right to seek a fourth term in office by the country’s supreme court. Thousands took to the streets in protest, despite the fact that Bolivia’s GDP had risen nearly 400% (from 9.55 billion in 2006 to 40.29 billion in 2018) since he was voted into office. Then-President Morales invited the OAS in 2019 to observe the elections, and in the aftermath they reported that “the manipulations and irregularities [in the election] do not allow for certainty about the margin of victory of the candidate Evo Morales over the candidate Carlos Mesa. On the contrary, based on the overwhelming evidence found, what can be affirmed is that there has been a series of intentional operations aimed at altering the will expressed at the polls.” Unfortunately, the narrative promoted by the OAS was a flagrant bald faced lie. As reported by The Grayzone, Morales responded to the OAS allegations by agreeing to both a new election and a replacement of the board of the electoral authority. This response however was insufficient, and on November 10th Evo Morales resigned from office at the “suggestion” of the head of the Bolivian armed forces and the chief of Bolivia’s police. What followed was the installation of hard-right Christian fundamentalist Jeanine Anez, who “immediately pre-exonerated security forces of any crimes in the ‘re-establishment of order’, leading to massacres of dozens of indigenous protestors.” One year later, after multiple election delays by the Anez regime, the Bolivian people elected MAS party member Luis Arce with nearly 55% of the vote (with the coup party candidate Carlos Mesa receiving 29%), defeating the coup regime through courageous populism. The Morales-era foreign minister Diego Pary is now calling for an investigation into the actions of the OAS.

As reported by FAIR in 2019, “the Bolivian coup is not a coup - Because US wanted it to happen”. This is the reality of MSM reporting on horrifying atrocities committed by the US government today in 2020. This begs the question though: if the narrative surrounding desirable coups refuses to even use that word, what can we glean from the motives of the MSM for describing the current actions of the Trump administration as such? To finish this string of logic: Trump’s actions are a coup because the MSM knows that it will never come to fruition. Not only does framing Trump’s frivolous legal battles as a coup allow privileged suburban liberals to feel as if they are stalwart defenders of democracy, it has the secondary effect of insinuating that the following administration will exemplify the return to the true American values that they believe were demolished by Trump.

To describe Trump’s actions as a coup is an insult to the victims of US interventionism over the last 70 years. It is an immense display of privilege made by those who cannot comprehend the horrors of famine, drone strikes, or full scale military invasion. The reality is that this “coup” is the desperate attempt by an industry frightened by the loss of ad revenue and ratings that Trump brought; the loss of the asset that single handedly saved the corporate news media in 2016. For those who saw through the media hysteria over Russian interference in the 2016 election as the psyop it truly was it will be clear that the elite media class engages in hypocrisy that eclipses the imagination of Bernard Mandeville himself. I can only hope that the current generation will see through the twisted half truths of the media and understand that what we are seeing is not a coup by an unhinged authoritarian aberration in the history of US politics, it is Kabuki theater performed by billionaires to coerce the public into accepting the neoliberal devastation that the Biden administration will undoubtedly inflict upon the world.