Those in the media who complain that their bellies are about
to explode due to the rage caused by politicians that engage in “swamp talk,”
should stop complaining and start looking inward at themselves. They need to
examine their own performance where they'll find the causes that give rise to
that kind of politics.
In fact, something happened recently illustrating that
reality superbly. It was the appearance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the PBS
show “Firing Line” on July 13, 2018 during which time she was quizzed about her
views concerning the situation in Palestine. She made it clear that her
interest in the subject related to the human condition under which the
Palestinians live and die. And it is here that journalists who respect
themselves and their profession can identify what's wrong with what they do.
They'll discover that instead of adopting the professional
approach by restricting the questioning to the areas of interest indicated by
Ocasio-Cortez, the host of the show –– who was primed by the Jewish lobby ––
repeatedly asked the guest to expand in areas where she could be trapped in a
“gotcha” moment. But despite the fact that even seasoned politicians of the
swamp get trapped by this method, Ocasio-Cortez whizzed through the moment and
came out unscathed.
She managed to do so because she was powered by the energy
of her total honesty. The young woman cut through the dark moments of the
interview like sunlight created specifically to expose the hidden affinity that
exists between modern yellow journalism and the politics of the swamp.
But how do we know that the host was primed by the Jewish
lobby? We know because the approach taken by the host had the signature of the
lobby etched all over it. What happens when a host prepares to interview
someone that the lobby has in its cross-hairs, is that the lobby descends on
the host ahead of time and tells him or her of the urgent need to ask the guest
one question, which they pronounce “waaaaan question.” It would be the one that
will lead to the gotcha moment and the checkmating of the victim in the
cross-hairs.
As it happened, however –– shielded by the honesty that even
the armor-piercing questions of the Jewish lobby could not penetrate ––
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez survived the treachery of the lobby and its
journalistic lackeys. This fiasco so enraged the lobby, its operators arranged
to attack the good woman at a venue where she would not be allowed to defend
herself. They attacked her in a publication calling itself The American
Thinker.
They authorized Monica Showalter to do her thing, and she
wrote: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one very low-information voter on Israel
and Palestinians,” which is the title of an article that was published on July
16, 2018 in that most infamous of English publications.
When done with the preamble; with the introduction and the
narration of the event the way she chose to spin it, Monica Showalter said she
was ready to draw a couple of conclusions. Actually, she pontificated over four
of them as follows:
First, Showalter said that Ocasio-Cortez is a young
“Milllenial” that knows nothing about the news, being of a generation that does
not read newspapers.
Second, she will not be an asset to the talent pool of the
Congress because she is a dimwit that wouldn't know how to make laws that
please the Israelis and the Jews of America.
Third, she is a kind of election dummy because she lives in
New York, a city that's full of Jews who care about Israel more than anything
else. Monica Showalter predicts that come election time, the voters will stay
home rather than go out and vote for her. That's because, in their view, she is
shallow and ignorant, says Showalter.
Fourth, because Ocasio-Cortez doesn't know what she is
talking about, the socialist masters in charge of the political party she
represents, will manipulate her like a puppet.
In view of all this, the one observation everyone will not
fail to make is that the future of the young politician-in-the-making will be
shaped by the kind of journalism that surrounds her. By contrast, the future of
the journalist that started her career as a disaster-in-the-making, will have
no one to alter it.
The net result will be the further deterioration of
journalism that will, in turn, continue to degrade the political establishment.
And this will be the recipe that will maintain the downward spiral on which we
already find ourselves as a society.