Media is the Narrative

This is titled with apologies to Marshall McLuhan's memory for the bastardization of his famed pronouncement, "the media is the message". Truly though, the apology should be rendered by the media itself rather than a poor political missionary attempting to characterize the dissolution of the once-respected profession of journalism. Perhaps it would be more fitting to say the 'message is the narrative,' but both turns of phrase are applicable. Media is the vehicle to disseminate tales as well as the embodiment of those tales contrived to promote a social outcome. In other words, media carries the narrative and is the narrative (message) at the same time. Either way, the narrative is propaganda, plain and simple.

Not that this was meant to turn into some kind of philosophical dissertation, which it could hardly be--I don't enjoy that kind of intellectual propensity--it is, instead, an observation of what modern media has become... an unquestioned authority. That is, if you happen to be the product of today's progressively minded education. There was a time when "question authority" (even I had a bumper sticker with that axiom) was defined as "consider the source" before forming an opinion to follow blindly, turn onto another path or blaze your own trail. These days, the only authority to be opposed or resisted (the democrat term of choice) is that of lawfulness or, more to the point, what's sensible. Still wondering the purpose of the preceding diatribe? It is the fatuous nature of liberal assertions and news that's saturating most of the media. That the democrats and media expect everyone to accept as gospel the contradictory statements emanating from Capitol Hill and inside the Beltway is their telltale assumption of public ignorance. They are partially correct. There is a large portion of the populace that swallows whole their specious, unsubstantiated arguments. Among them are: Russian manipulation of the election; that Obamacare is universally loved; that the public's idea of tax reform is to soak the rich; and defending our borders is racist and unAmerican. Every one of these liberal theses is based on deceit. See if we can pigeonhole the underlying lies...

---

1. After more than a year of investigating Trump campaign insiders, including eavesdropping on phone calls (just the Russian side, of course), combing through financial statements and checking dead-end allegations, according to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and current Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, there is no evidence of collusion with the Russians to finagle the election for Donald Trump. 2. Obamacare premiums and deductions have doubled, tripled and quintupled under the weight of more than 20,000 pages of regulations that have resulted in single carrier markets, millions dropped from private coverage and unprecedented rollback of full time to part time employment that's not eligible for private coverage. Americans now unable to afford insurance, through the exchanges, employment or privately, is more than double the 16 million who receive Obamacare subsidies, creating a vast majority who find Obamacare untenable and definitely don't love it. 3. Americans are clamoring for tax reform to lessen their burden, drop the corporate rate and simplify the Internal Revenue Code. The press, however, hound democrats (who are not the majority) for their preference on accomplishing tax reform. Their answer is unchanged, antithetical, counter productive and not shared by the electorate--expand spending and raise taxation on the wealthy rather than cut tax rates to boost reinvestment in the economy and job creation. There are three main issues that elected Donald Trump to the presidency--Repealing Obamacare (it is not universally adored despite the paid protesters in the streets), reforming taxes to create more jobs and a strong economy, and building the wall.

---

Support Canada Free Press

---

4. The last issue of protecting the border has become a cause célébre among any progressive (professional) victim minority that now tags the American majority as 'racist' 'fascists' for standing to protect American culture from denigration and degradation. Telling citizens who wish to uphold the law that they are unpatriotic and unAmerican for refusing violent criminals, terror suspects and the disease-infected entry into the country is the motto of the 'resist' campaign. What they are 'resisting' is hard to define. It appears to be anything remotely related to common sense. Day to day, the narratives emanating from what we refer to as the news media have become so unbelievable that they are, without doubt, unbelievable. The firing of FBI Director James Comey took the incredible turn of being called a "constitutional crisis" and a "coup" despite the president's action being constitutional in every way. Only the press likes to think that it dictates how the actions of government should be perceived and accepted. The real coup is the media's attempt to usurp power by writing and directing their own story, not the facts and certainly not the truth. The media, i.e. narrative, is now anything that contravenes the Constitution and the U.S. Code, which the president has pledged to uphold. The left will go to any extent to contradict logic if they believe it will further their irrational aspirations--First saying "fire Comey," then when he is removed from office, calling for the president's impeachment for agreeing with them. Crying for 'free speech' but then, with violent rioting, they shut down speakers whose opinion differs from theirs. In Congress, democrats, claiming they want bipartisanship block and berate every move by republicans to actually include them in productive conference regarding any legislation. This is not discussion or even argument, it is flat-out, immovable opposition. Referring back to Professor McLuhan and his spot-on aphorisms, this one perfectly describes the mire that is Washington, D.C., especially the progressives' and media's upside-down view of government: "Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions." Which is why government circles itself ad infinitum.