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The fight now is not about who will be the next President of the United States. It is about whether the American nation will continue to exist. And this battle pits confrontational conservatives like Donald Trump against anti-American “protesters” working to deny our country a future—in alliance, increasingly blatantly, with the Main Stream Media in its role of Keeper of the Cultural Marxist Narrative.

tauntingOn Tuesday, Trump threw the gauntlet at the feet of the Main Stream Media with an extraordinary press conference blasting the assembled reporters for what he said was their biased coverage. [Trump taunts media to its face, by Eli Stokols and Nolan McCaskill, Politico, May 31, 2016] While ostensibly about his fundraising for veterans, the real aim of Trump’s press conference was to target the MSM as such.

“Is this what it’s going to be like covering you if you’re president?” asked one reporter plaintively. Trump fired back: “Yeah, it is. I’m going to continue to attack the press” [Donald Trump declares war on the press, by Paul Waldman, The Washington Post, May 31, 2016]

In the aftermath, reporters who spent last week writing navel-gazing articles about how nasty it is to get mean Tweets from anonymous Twitter accounts with anime avatars began kvetching about how they are under mortal threat from the “anti-democratic” Trump. [Trump’s crazy, insane, nonsensical, bonkers, and anti-democratic press conference, by Erik Wemple, May 31, 2016]

This, of course, is nonsense. Hillary Clinton h asn’t even bothered to hold a press conference in months. The real sin: Trump calling out reporters as political actors in their own right rather than pretending they are unbiased observers.

And this calling-out is what grassroots conservatives want to hear. As Marco Rubio might say, let’s “dispel” with this fiction that most journalists are any different from far-Left Open Borders activists. They share the same premises, push the same Narrative, and conceal evidence which contradicts the story they are trying to promote. After years of pro-immigrant sob stories and selective reporting, patriotic Americans are right to distrust the MSM.

The hard reality for reporters: more people trust Trump than trust the “lying press.” According to a recent poll from Gallup, Americans have even less confidence in newspapers and television news than they do in banks—notwithstanding the financial crisis [Confidence in Institutions, Gallup, June 2-7, 2015]. According to a survey from the Pew Research Center, 65 percent of Americans say the national news media impacts the country negatively. [PEW: 65% of Americans don’t trust media, by William Bigelow, Breitbart, November 23, 2015]

As Rush Limbaugh enthused:

That was the kind of press conference Republicans voters have been dying to see for who knows how many years…

[H]ow many years have people been begging for a Republican to just once take on the media the way Trump did? All the way from the premise, to the details, to the motivation, he took ’em all on…

But the media, the media totally wants Hillary Clinton to win, but they’re so conflicted. The cable networks, since this thing ended, have been devoted to the press conference and how Trump was mean to them and how Trump insulted them and how Trump criticized them.

[The Press Conference Republican Voters Have Wanted To See For Years, Rush Limbaugh, May 31, 2016]

One of the most important elements driving this fury against the MSM: the absurd double standards surrounding the protests directed against Trump. While the MSM casually calls Trump a “fascist,” reporters ignore or even cover for startling acts of violence directed against his supporters and police. It’s no surprise many Trump supporters are beginning to suspect reporters and protesters are practically in partnership.

Trump’s strategy of confrontation was on display again recently in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Screaming protesters waved Mexican flags, started fires, and even attacked police horses [Mexican Flag-Waving Mob Attacks Police, Horses Outside Trump Rally, by Derek Hunter, Daily Caller, May 25, 2016].

One particularly apropos image: a group of Hispanic protesters holding obscene signs cursing Trump, with one even calling to “Free El Chapo.” Next to that was a young girl holding a sign claiming, “I am not a rapist or drug dealer!”

signsell, obviously not. But a drug dealer is still more respectable in the eyes of the MSM and academia than someone who simply calls for enforcing immigration laws.

Indeed, even as the fires and flags burned and the blood flowed, the MSM worked quickly to pin the blame on Trump. Partially, this was done through the passive language so beloved by reporters—it wasn’t violent protesters who created chaos at the Trump rally; it was the Trump rally itself which somehow “turned” violent.

It was the same story a few days later when Trump held a rally in San Diego. Trump’s presence and rhetoric about immigration (i.e. build the wall and enforce the law) was held to be responsible for the chaos, rather than the people who actually perpetrated it [Violence as Trump brings immigration rhetoric to border, CBS News, May 28, 2016].

On television and in the press, reporters lectured Trump and his supporters about “civility” and worked hard to present a deliberately misleading version of events. One reporter for Telemundo, the Fifth Column Spanish-language network inside the United States, was even caught staging the news by covering up obscenities to present an attractive image of young children holding a Mexican flag. [Watch: Telemundo cameraman helps Trump protesters holding Mexican flag upside-down,by Brett T., Twitchy, May 28, 2016]

What makes Donald Trump different is that he refuses to let this Narrative be perpetuated. Trump called the protesters in New Mexico “thugs who were flying the Mexican flag” and “criminals.” The tweet received over 13,000 retweets and 35,000 likes, large numbers even for Trump’s Twitter account.

Trump’s campaign also slammed the MSM for consistently blaming Trump.

As Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski put it:

“Mr. Trump and the campaign do not condone violence,” Mr. Lewandowski said. “The campaign rallies are attended by tens of thousands of people, and it’s no surprise the dishonest media is intent on focusing on a few professional agitators.”

Protests backfire as anti-American images push undecided voters to Trump, by Seth McLaughlin, Washington Times, May 30, 2016

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Trump’s ability to call his enemies what they are is emboldening his supporters. As one man who attended the New Mexico rally said: “This was not a protest, this was a riot. These are hate groups” [Protests Turn Violent Outside Trump Rally in New Mexico, Newsmax, May 25, 2016]

Donald Trump’s strategy of confrontation is highlighting the reality that Fourth Generation War has already begun in the United States. From the New Mexico to Chicago, the anti-American Left and the revanchist street soldiers of foreign countries are making their intentions all too clear. [The truth is in the streets, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, May 10, 2016]

The MSM is doing their best to pretend anti-Trump protesters are the mainstream and Trump is the extremist. But simply showing the protesters on the screen reveals the fanatical hatred for America, and for Whites, driving the anti-Trump Left.

And that’s why the more Trump takes his patriotic message into the heart of the enemy, the more Americans rally to his cause.

In his famous “Liberty or Death” speech, Patrick Henry mocked those who believed the American Revolution hadn’t already started. “Gentlemen may cry ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace! The war is actually begun!”

And so it has. The only question is how long the Main Stream Media can continue to conceal the obvious truth.

Donald Trump is doing his best to ensure their time of living on lies will soon be at an end.

James Kirkpatrick [Email him] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc.

(Republished from VDare by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Leftist conservative [AKA "corporate slave wandering down fluorescent hallway"] says: • Website

    the same thing is happening in san jose right now–after the trump rally tonight the thugs attacked trump supporters…and let’s not call these people liberal protesters…what they are is people who have been wound-up by the media drumbeat of anti-trump hatred…these are armies in the service of The Establishment.

    And the media is part and parcel of The Establishment.

    Trump scares The Establishment. Trump threatens the economic ponzi scheme. If Trump does deport millions of illegals, that is going to have a domino effect on the ponzi scheme economy: as illegals departs, rental vacancies increases, rents drop, employers have to offer higher wages, corporate profits drop, the stock market drops, 401K balances drop, middle class americans feel threatened economically, so they spend less, corporate revenues drop…and we get a recession…of course eventually things will get better for working class americans–cheap housing and lower wages are a good thing…but asset prices would drop, and The Establishment does not like that.

    The economy that funds The Establishment is like a shark that must continue moving, or else (supposedly that is a myth, but that myth applies here…the economy is a ponzi scheme, and mass deportations threaten it).

    • Agree: Rurik
    • Replies: @CanSpeccy
  2. Kiza says:

    Trump did not invent anti-MSM attitudes, he is riding on them, as he usually does. I just think that if Trump wins it will be a very interesting future, in which all these trumpers of Trump will have to start kissing his behind, or will be out of jobs en masse. I know that many people are already on the verge of switching off, tuning down and kicking out MSM, out of their homes and out of their minds. They have had enough of manipulations, lies and blatant selling of BS.

    Personally, I do not consume MSM “news”, except with an attitude exactly the same as when reading/watching advertisements – I am interested who is selling and what is being sold, that is who is pushing what? What is the angle of these puppety talking heads? I never expect to be informed or, God forbid, made knowledgeable by the MSM. They actively subtract from our existing knowledge by fogging up reality for someone’s profit.

    • Replies: @dahoit
  3. I’m agnostic about Trump, but this press conference swayed me towards him than anything else so far in the campaign.

    Modern society is so full of bullshit and moral preening. Trump’s willingness to tell it like it is will do a great service to America if it catches on (and I suspect it will; politicians always copy other successful politicians). This might do more to “make America great again” than anything he would actually do if elected.

    Modern reporters act as if they are some sacred trust, instead of a bunch of people paid to ask questions and write down the answers. So I loved it when Trump was asked if his battles with the media were going to contintue if he’s elected. The assumption behind the reporter’s question was that there is something wrong with treating them with contempt. When Trump answers “yeah, so what?” you could hear more cracks showing in the facade…

  4. ChrisD says:

    There’s so much going on behind the cameras and headlines in this election campaign that it boggles the mind, it’s truly a once-in-a-lifetime election cycle. James’ article is correct in describing the problem: the MSM is rife with double-standards and hypocrisy particularly among journalists and editorial boards who are given directives by upper management (and ultimately corporate bigwigs). Let’s take the New York Times, they publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton for President and John Kasich for the GOP nomination months ago. Since then, their journalists busied themselves with smearing dirt against Trump’s wall and hoping it stuck. It didn’t.

    Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire, owns the NYT and obviously had a word or two to his editors. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO and a man who is vehemently against anyone who would threaten antitrust laws against his virtual online monopoly, is currently using his asset, the Washington Post, to set up a smear campaign against Trump in the hopes of bringing his astounding popularity down a few notches. Trump picked this early and went after Bezos, accusing him of using the WaPo as a ‘puppet’ for his agenda. This was reported on Hannity and other Fox News reports, but didn’t get much traction on CNN or MSNBC (for obvious reasons).

    All this is simply what is going on behind the scenes, dark powers like Slim and Bezos who champion social Marxist causes and liberal agendas, are the tip of a filthy big iceberg. George Soros is another Marxist billionaire who is financing violent protests against Trump’s rallies in California and previously in Chicago. Ex-neoconservative advisors from the GOP have been hired by the Clinton campaign who currently has an army of 800 spin doctors attempting to erase her grievous foreign policy record, not to mention the Bill Clinton scandals which will no doubt plague her for the foreseeable future.

    All of these clandestine manoeuvres in the dark will largely go unreported in the MSM but this is the point. When outlets like NYT, WaPo, CNN etc have declared all-out war on Mr Trump, there can be no reason or rationality. Objectivity is irrelevant to those people, and Trump has returned that strategy in kind. He no longer tempers his speeches, he goes even harder after the media and doesn’t care about basing his rhetoric on statistics or documented evidence (which, when examined post facto, always ironically confirm Trump’s ‘outrageous’ comments).
    It is easier for the MSM to hone in on Trump University and disgruntled former customers than the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and his men in Benghazi at the hands of AQ terrorists all because of Secretary Clinton’s gross incompetence and negligence. It is easier for the NYT to dig up smut about rumours of Trump and women and make it a front page hit piece than to focus on Hillary’s consistent dismissal of rape allegations against her husband, a continual ‘enabler’ of sexual molestation within the White House itself.

    No, this will not be a fair battle, there is no code of honour among the MSM, simply a fight to the death. They know that if Trump is elected, many of them will be facing early retirement or declining revenues. More people will read Trump’s Twitter feed in the next few years than buy a copy of the NYT on the street. Aided by Establishment cronies in Washington, Trump and the alt right will need to unleash absolute carnage in order to defend America against almost certain destruction and decay if Clinton is to take the Presidency. What I say to Donald and his team is this: If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, then you become something else entirely: Legend. God speed Mr Trump!

    • Agree: Kiza
    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    , @geokat62
    , @El Dato
  5. Unit472 says:

    Last night the mayor of San Jose, Ca, blamed Trump for campaigning in his city! Worse still he, apparently, ordered his police to not intervene while a mob beat and chased people leaving Trump’s appearance.

    Were police officers caught standing by while a mob beat people leaving a BLM rally we all know the Obama DOJ would prosecute the Mayor and Police Chief of San Jose for violating the civil rights of the attendees.

  6. Clyde says:

    I dob’t use twitter but pay attention to The Donald’s twitter stream to see how he propagates his memes such as “crooked Hillary”. Twitter is Trump’s favored broadcast medium with his nine million followers.

  7. Che Guava says:

    Filthy rich, Brett Easton Ellis frequently frequently used him as a background prop in American Psycho, but if he means what he says, he is the best candidate for the U.S.A.

    Not being a citizen, suppose my opinion doesn’t count for much.

    Hillary Pantsuit Clinton’s claim last week that he’d be the most dangerous person to hold the nuke launch codes was hilarious, anyone paying attention knows that she is far and away the most dangerous, and I include the libertarian chap, the Bern and the Greens candidate in that assessment.

    The idiot Kristol’s batshit rabbit out of a hat may match her for danger, but I doubt he’ll get much traction at all.

  8. Meh, all routine. Since Chicago 1968, the Left is violent, fascist and intolerant. The Right in these riots are represented simply by the police, brought there by the violence of the left, the police there to protect property and clean up the mess of the left afterward. But it’s Trump’s fault, it’s Nixon’s fault, it’s LBJ’s fault.

    The left has gotten EVERYTHING they wanted the past 8 years. Women, the Blaxx, illegal immigrants, Muslims, lefist Europe, Soros, homos and men-who-pretend-to-be-women, all of them well and truly served by the Uber-leftist Grand Transexual Baraq Husseini Obama and by extension, Hillary and Bill Clinton. There’s nothing left to give, we hollowed out the entire U.S. for them, the economy, our morals, the society, law enforcement, the culture, immigration, all is bent far, far to the left now. What more could they possibly want? The answer to that is, for the vicious, violent, filthy left, the answer to how much is enough, is always the same.

    More. The left is relentless, they are monsters, they are criminal icemen. And the MSM are their friends.

    • Replies: @dahoit
    , @Eileen Kuch
  9. For the sake of all that’s good, AND to retain any shred of credibility, will people please quit mislabeling garbage media as “mainstream” ??????

    There is nothing mainstream about the blatantly obvious and endless propaganda we’ve been fed for nearly a century and to refer to it that way subtly legitimizes it. So please stop!!!!!!!!!!!

    Call it corporate media, mafia media, mass media, or anything else that doesn’t furnish a patina of legitimacy to the steaming piles of BS.

    Thank you. You can have your credibility back now.

  10. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    Trump is winning. In two months of republican campaign is yet more worldwide known that Hillary…Hillary is now this woman that challenge Trump

  11. Catiline says:

    The Trump campaign should really start airing footage and images of these occurences everywhere: TV, internet and rallies. Trump is doing a good job but there is potential here for a major breakthrough. Twitter isn’t enough.

  12. CanSpeccy says: • Website
    @Leftist conservative

    Nearly all politics resolves to economics and your analysis is exactly right.

    The task of the corporate, globalist media is to blind the masses to their own interest by stoking hate for Trump, thus distracting attention from his platform, which serves the economic interest of most of the 99%.

    Trump’s economic program is good also for most one percenters, car dealers, builders, shopkeepers, operators of golf courses, etc., whose prosperity depends on that of the mass of the people.

  13. A well-developed article. I wish Ron Unz would replace fuzzy thinkers Derbyshire and Reed with Kirkpatrick and Weissberg.

  14. This article by Kirkpatrick is perfectly correct in every detail. All I can do is add my voice and say thank you.

  15. joe webb says:
    @landlubber

    please explain why Derbyshire is fuzzy.

    Great article. The Populism angle now includes lots of street vigor and the liberal/jew pointy heads cannot get hold of this, having spent their girlie-boy lives sucking up and being always nice.

    Joe Webb

  16. The MSM is the source of all our political friction.
    They lie about Dem candidates or under report to protect them,
    then people watching the “news” think they are getting the facts.
    In what other country would Hillary NOT be in prison or swinging from a rope ?

  17. Priss Factor [AKA "Anonymny"] says:

    PC shi*heads yammer about Hate Speech, but it’s time to talk about Hate Free Speech, Repressive Speech, Tyrannical Speech, and Totalitarian Speech.

    Hating Free Speech is not free speech.

  18. Art says:

    Is Trump going to find a way to lose this election. If he can’t beat Hillary, he will be the biggest loser joke of all time.

    There is no turning back. At this moment Trump has the future of America in his hands. If Trump goes down, America goes down – end of story.

    Is he going to blow it protecting his Trump University? Is America’s future going to depend on what happens with TU? Good god – if he is president he will have seven billion people sniping at him all the time.

    Hillary is weak weak weak! Most everyone of the seventeen candidates could have beaten Hillary (maybe not Cruz).

    In a month or two people are going to be tired of his boasting about his victories. In a month or two people are going to get tired of his reflexive attacking of people. It is getting stale. It is no way to run a country.

    If he continues on with his personality cult crap – Hillary is going to win and America is going to lose.

    I still support him – but it is getting harder to do so.

    • Replies: @Stonehands
    , @iffen
  19. polistra says:

    I see some evidence that Trump’s resistance to the media is having an effect.

    Until today, all reports of anti-Trump protesters beating up Trump followers were perfectly Orwellian, calling Trump the attacker. This morning’s reports of the San Jose semi-riot are about 75% correct. All the major networks clearly state that the Mexicans attacked the Trumpians. Of course they still can’t call Mexicans Mexicans, but at least they’ve got the action in the right direction for the first time.

  20. Priss Factor [AKA "Anonymny"] says:

    Trump’s message to Latinos should be this: Are you AMERICAN FIRST(as opposed to America First) or TRIBAL MEXICAN FIRST? Do you support RULE OF LAW that applies to ALL Americans equally or do you favor illegal behavior just for Tribal reasons because bulk of illegals happen to be Latino?

    Trump is accused of tribalism and ‘racism’, but by posing that question, he will put Latinos on the moral defensive. After all, Latinos are supporting Illegal immigration ONLY BECAUSE the majority of illegals are Mexican. If most illegals were Hindu or Chinese or African, would Mexican-Americans support it?

    After all, if all Americans are supposed to be for the common good regardless of race, then why should Latinos not be part of Rule of Law? It is Rule of Law that binds Americans together because Justice is supposed to be blind.

    If laws must be twisted and bent to serve tribal or particular interests, then RULE OF LAW is gone, and the future of Americanism will be tribal. And that means the rise of white nationalism since the rising tide of non-whites will play by their own rules.

    Jews have twisted rule of law to favor Jewish interests and Israel.
    Blacks have twisted rule of law to favor black power.
    Latinos have twisted rule of law to favor more brown power.
    Homos have twisted rule of law to enact stuff like ‘gay marriage’.

    ——————————–

    Two faces of Niceness.

    There is Niceness to win approval from others. It is the Niceness of subservience.

    There is the Niceness to gain control over others. It is the Niceness of power.

    Young Vito Corleone in THE GODFATHER PART II uses Niceness as a weapon.

    Jews and Homos use Niceness as a weapon. They act Nice to you with the veiled threat that they will not approve of you unless you agree with them. If they selling Niceness, you better buy it on their terms. They are not acting Nice to give you something and to serve you. They are acting Nice to sell you something, to manipulate you. There is always the sense that things will be unpleasant, subtly or seriously, if you don’t accept the terms of their Niceness.

    A lot of Northern European types are Nice in the sense of wanting approval. This is why there were vulnerable to both the Nazis and the Jewzis.

    They earnestly sought the approval of the Fuhrer or the Jewrer.

    In contrast, Hitler’s Niceness was a veiled threat. Hitler didn’t rant all the time. Sometimes, he could be Nice and Diplomatic. But he wasn’t begging for approval. He was just using Niceness and charm to gain an advantage and total control.

    Jews are the same way. People like William Kristol may smile a lot and act Nice, but they are always looking to gain control.

    In contrast, Dan Quayle’s Niceness was all about seeking approval of people smarter than him(which was just about everyone).

    Homos often act Nice. They try to win you over by playing on heartstrings and acting like poor poor victims in need of help. But they really want to gain control you. They want to make you swallow the BS that fecal penetration among homos is something to celebrate and associate with the rainbow. And Homos have the backing of all-powerful Jews. Obama knows the politics of Niceness. He was playing for power, but all the Nice White Liberals who voted for him were begging for approval.

    We need to better understand the Politics of Niceness.

    Don’t act Nice in seek of approval from those who use Niceness as a weapon of control and gaining advantage.

    If a snakeoil salesman acts nice to you, beware!!! It’s the niceness of the Serpent in the Eden story.

    Watch David Mamet movies on the Art of the Nice.

    HOUSE OF GAMES. SPANISH PRISONER.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  21. iffen says:

    We had to go all the way to #15 to get to the Jewspiracy angle. Is this a record?

  22. iffen says:

    Mr. Kirkpatrick, I look forward to your articles and I 2nd the motion that we see you here at Unz as much as possible.

    I do have one request. Can you come up with something besides Cultural Marxism? That is just like a black box that says, “here be dragons.”

  23. meh, this just reminds me of obama’s change bullshit.

    can trump deliver once he is voted in? I am 99% sure he cannot.

  24. @iffen

    I also find myself in difficulty with “Cultural Marxism” which sounds a bit like the snappy terms used by one’s more zealous political comrades (and their counterpart enemies). But then they’re just a lot of Comms aren’t they?

  25. Art says:
    @iffen

    I do have one request. Can you come up with something besides Cultural Marxism?

    Dear iffen,

    What — is it anti-Semitic to say “Marxism?”

    The Jew – Marx – caused hundreds of millions of people to live under coercion and mental torture, let alone economic deprivation. His Jew ideologues brought on the Russian camps that the Nazis latter copied and used.

    I can see why you must cover him up.

    Yours — Art

    • Replies: @iffen
  26. @landlubber

    Fred can wander entertainingly but its never occurred to me that he is usually fuzzy and it certainly isn’t a word i would apply to John Derbyshire, the author of, inter alia, Prime Obsession.

    But your thinking seems a bit fuzzy. After all, what possible gain (apart from a few seconds a day of your time) could there be from either FR or JD being “replaced” by others: ie. dropped from UR. (I am surprised that Iffen overlooked this point or condoned the lack of logic).

    • Replies: @iffen
  27. Boris says:

    what he said was their biased coverage

    Media is so biased for pointing out Trump’s lies!

    • Replies: @dahoit
  28. Priss Factor [AKA "Anonymny"] says:

    At his rally, Trump needs to get a giant TV screen and show images like this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=83&v=rux-g-xmvUs

    Libs make a big deal about Selma and Bull Connors and voter suppression in the South. We have Toro Connorez in CA.

    Mexicans act worse in California because (1) all the anti-PC programming in schools (2) huge numbers that generate Mexican nationalism.

  29. @iffen

    Cultural Marxism or Neo-Marxism ( a much better term ) is probably first best discussed in a small but important book, ” Political correctness and the theoretical struggle ” by Dr Frank Ellis ( Maxim Institute, Auckland 2004 ).
    Dr Ellis, then a lecturer in Russian & Slavonic Studies at Leeds University, took early retirement 2 years later after a persistent campaign by turds ( leftist scum ) to get him sacked for his truthful views.
    As Dr Ellis said, the traditional Marxist wanted to control the means of production, the Neo-Marxist wants to control the means of expression ( the dictionary ).
    I strongly suspect that certain Vdare and Unz Reviewers have used Dr Ellis’ ideas without acknowledgement – and that includes you, James Kirkpatrick.
    Like his hero, Enoch Powell, Dr Ellis seems a fairly self-effacing person. Please read all his books and recognise him for the pioneer he is.

  30. @Unit472

    And surprise of surprises, the mayor is Mestizo.

    What an awful thin it is for the U.S. that we did not unapologetically make this an all White country.

  31. anon • Disclaimer says:

    Yes, it’s globalists vs nationalists and the media are the globalist’s foot-soldiers; the media are their army.

    They drive every argument by framing, censoring and lying to herd people in the direction their globalist owners want.

    On the front line

    globalist vs nationalist = media vs people.

    • Replies: @Leftist conservative
  32. @Art

    “In a month or two people are going to be tired of his boasting about his victories. In a month or two people are going to get tired of his reflexive attacking of people. It is getting stale. It is no way to run a country.

    If he continues on with his personality cult crap – Hillary is going to win and America is going to lose.

    I still support him – but it is getting harder to do so”…..

    Aww….Art. Is you skeered?

  33. dahoit says:
    @Jim Christian

    Stop the left right ideologue crap.
    Our enemy is Zionism,and they are the main opposition to Trump,as America first means they have to pay the piper at long last,and either make peace,which Trump wants to help do,or continue on their modern suicide mission to rival Masada.
    And yes,they back every American destroying act,from stupid wars,to trade steals to open borders,to backing terrorists all over this world trying to secure and expand their chosen nation Israel.
    Divide and conquer,and until we wake up,we will be toast.

    • Replies: @Leftist conservative
  34. dahoit says:
    @iffen

    Its the culture of nihilism,believers in nada but self indulgence.Marxists turned Zionist,they hold US in their sway,no doubt of that,look around.

  35. dahoit says:
    @Boris

    Can you point out his lies?
    The MSM lie like rugs.
    Anyone who believes what they say are certified idiots,or fellow Zionist travelers.

  36. Kiza says:
    @landlubber

    I agree with you, although I find Reed at least highly entertaining. Derbyshire however is an unqualified disaster and I have no idea why Ron keeps him on here. Derbyshire belongs to the category of conservative which is shallow, unintelligent and highly self-assured, most useful to the left-wing nutters to laugh at conservativeness as the whole based on such atypical outliers of conservativism. This is even more strongly supported by the two characters who jumped in his defence: Joe the Narcissist and Wizzard of Ooze, who are themselves perfect embodiment of the same characteristics. Conservative, shallow and opinionated.

    • Replies: @anon
    , @landlubber
  37. One more time.

    The political filth and their corporate media whores have no idea how deeply they are distrusted and despised.

  38. @ChrisD

    Amazon is not a monopoly: a monopoly exists because of some government endowed advantage.
    Bezos may be an asshole but is not a monopolist

  39. L Garou says:

    Go ahead pinheads, wake up Los Tigres del Norte.
    Can you say million man posse?

  40. geokat62 says:
    @ChrisD

    Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire, owns the NYT and obviously had a word or two to his editors.

    Not true. The ownership structure of the NY Times is based on something called dual-class shares. This structure allows families to gain access to public capital without losing control.

    According to Wiki, “Slim increased his stake in the New York Times to 16.8% when he exercised stock options to purchase 15.9 million [Class A] shares… Although this acquisition made him the largest shareholder in the company, it does not give him the ability to control the newspaper, as his stake allows him to vote only for Class A directors, who compose just a third of the company’s board.”

    Bottom line: the NY Times is still owned by The Ochs-Sulzberger family through a trust which controls roughly 88 percent of the company’s Class B shares.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times

  41. DaveE says:

    Without two things, the zionists will wither and die like weeds, parched, poisoned and pissed.

    1.) Control of the central banks, to issue as much money as they want, skim as much off the top as they need for their various crime rackets and leave us dumb Goyim to fight for the scraps.

    2.) Control of the media to brainwash the same dumb Goyim into accepting zionist control of All Things That Matter.

    Trump has done a great job with 2.) and has even hinted at doing something about 1.)….. intimating that “the debt” (zionist / Jewish extortion payments) might not have to be repaid in full.

    The guy’s got balls. Much better men have been “eliminated” for saying such things. (Hitler, Kennedy, Gadaffi, Lincoln, McKinley, Garfield, etc. etc.)

    Nice work, Donald.

    As for Sanders and why Trump knows a “loser” when he sees one: “Wisdom, without courage, is worthless.” — Mahatma Gandhi.

  42. Leftist conservative [AKA "corporate slave wandering down fluorescent hallway"] says: • Website
    @landlubber

    A well-developed article. I wish Ron Unz would replace fuzzy thinkers Derbyshire and Reed with Kirkpatrick and Weissberg.

    kirkpatrick is definitely the best writer on the alt-right…and second place aint even close…Derb and Sailer are better “writers,” per se, in that they are better phrasemakers, more humorous. But both Derb and Sailer are lightweight in their analysis. Sailer even seems to work for the establishment and tries to attribute an innocent motivation to the Establishment.

    Kirkpatrick seems to understand what the establishment is really up to.

  43. Leftist conservative [AKA "corporate slave wandering down fluorescent hallway"] says: • Website
    @anon

    exactly…and economics is behind it all

  44. Leftist conservative [AKA "corporate slave wandering down fluorescent hallway"] says: • Website
    @dahoit

    zionism has nothing to do with it…this is all about money and economics…

    • Replies: @dahoit
  45. Leftist conservative [AKA "corporate slave wandering down fluorescent hallway"] says: • Website
    @iffen

    I do have one request. Can you come up with something besides Cultural Marxism? That is just like a black box that says, “here be dragons.”

    that is kind of a good point. Actually, marxism has NOTHING to do with what is going on…the whole liberal platform is primarily based on multiculturalism, and multiculturalism was promoted as a philosophy by the upper class starting many many decades ago–even centuries ago.

    You see, the upper class BUYS labor…and the rest of us SELL labor. That is the crux of multiculturalism.

    The upper class has LONG seen the nonwhites favorably because nonwhites represent competition in the labor pool, which helps the upper class pay less for wages. This started centuries ago here in america…the white majority wanted to shut out nonwhite competition in the labor pool, and the upper class wanted to open up the labor market using nonwhites as competition.

    This is how it all started. Of course the history books do not really emphasize this crucial aspect of american history.

    Eventually, this capital vs labor conflict caused the upper class to create the civil rights movement as a coup against majority white labor.

    So ultimately multiculturalism is all about capitalism and labor. Which means that using the phrase ‘cultural marxism’ to describe the war of liberalism vs white populism is very very wrong.

    multiculturalism is about economics and money, not about marxism.

    • Replies: @iffen
    , @geokat62
  46. iffen says:
    @Art

    What — is it anti-Semitic to say “Marxism?”

    No, Art, it is not. However, noting that he was Jewish is commensurate with your anti-Semitism.

    How many people have to live under the mental torture of watching you play with words?

    • Replies: @Art
  47. anon • Disclaimer says:
    @Kiza

    Derbyshire, unintelligent???

    hmmmm, methinks you doth protest too much. Maybe you’re trying to get rid of him because he is (as a former statistician) just the kind of thinker whom liberals can’t counter on a level playing field.

    From Wiki;

    “Derbyshire’s 1996 novel, Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”. His 2004 non-fiction book, Prime Obsession, won the Mathematical Association of America’s inaugural Euler Book Prize.”

    “Derbyshire’s book, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics was first published in hardcover in 2003 and then paperback in 2004. It focuses on the Riemann hypothesis, one of the Millennium Problems.[27] The book is aimed, as Derbyshire puts it in his prologue, “at the intelligent and curious but nonmathematical reader…”

    “Prime Obsession explores such topics as complex numbers, field theory, the prime number theorem, the zeta function, the harmonic series, and others. The biographical sections give relevant information about the lives of mathematicians who worked in these areas, including Euler, Gauss, Lejeune Dirichlet, Lobachevsky, Chebyshev, Vallée-Poussin, Hadamard, as well as Riemann himself.”

    “In 2006, Joseph Henry Press published another Derbyshire book of popular mathematics: Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra.”

    Not bad for a “shallow, unintelligent” guy whose highest use is to give “the left-wing nutters” a reason “to laugh at conservativeness..”

    • Replies: @Kiza
  48. iffen says:
    @Leftist conservative

    You see, the upper class BUYS labor…and the rest of us SELL labor. That is the crux of multiculturalism.

    Seems a bit Marxist.

  49. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    Why don’t we just come out and say it? We’re not talking about a “mainstream press” here.

    What we’ve had in the USA for over 100 years is a totally owned and controlled Zionist press.

    Just check out who owns what and where there allegiance lies.

    It ain’t me and you bubba.

  50. @Kiza

    I find that both writers produce articles which are no more than embellishments of their own personal biases. Good writing involves some element of discovery.

    Reed is okay when writing about Mexico, of which he has recent first-hand experience, but otherwise he indulges in pining for the USA of 50 years ago.

    I stopped reading Derbyshire after he re-posted his own flippant statement, “Personally I’d fight the war on drugs like a war, rounding up dealers, shooting them in batches, and feeding their corpses to wild dogs.”

    • Replies: @Kiza
  51. Isn’t it racist or something to claim that Mexicans can’t help but rioting when their feeling are hurt? But then again isn’t that basically what the left thinks of all minorities who break the law; They just can’t help themselves because they are victims of “systemic racism”. Sell crack on the streets, kill each other by the thousands each year and it’s all somehow whitey’s fault, right? The cops are just picking on them and that’s why they end up in prison. It’s not because they chose gang life over going to school; it’s because the System is holding them down. Forget that millions and millions of black families have worked hard and joined the middle class, that must be in spite of all the horrors inflicted on them by all the bigots in the country. Forget that millions of Mexican Americans, including my family, are proud to be Americans and have in fact done very well for themselves by simply working hard and following the rules. Forget all that and much more, it’s always someone else’s fault when minorities act out this way. Well you can bet I didn’t raise my kids to believe that garbage.

    • Replies: @iffen
  52. Kiza says:
    @anon

    Would not it have been great if he kept to mathematics instead of being opinionated about things he knows almost nothing about, such as history. Or maybe he is a renaissance man, knowing everything about everything in your opinion,

  53. geokat62 says:
    @Leftist conservative

    Which means that using the phrase ‘cultural marxism’ to describe the war of liberalism vs white populism is very very wrong.

    multiculturalism is about economics and money, not about marxism.

    If this is true, then why aren’t the upper classes in say Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel clamoring to bring multiculturalism to their respective countries?

    No, the origins of Cultural Marxism have nothing to do with economics. It has everything to do with a group of theorists known as the Frankfurt School. Here’s a previous comment:

    The question that has to be asked is: who is responsible for promoting Political Correctness (PC)?

    The brain-trust behind the promotion of PC is the Frankfurt School. The FS identified nationalism as the root cause of the holocaust. To ensure that another holocaust never occurred again, the FS prescribed cultural Marxism (better known as Political Correctness) as the antidote to nationalism.

    Theodor W. Adorno, a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, wrote The Authoritarian Personality in 1950. In it, Adorno invented a set of criteria by which to define personality traits, ranking them on what he called the ‘Fascist scale’.

    Here’s how one observer characterized the book’s goal:

    [it] was to eliminate antisemitism by “subjecting the American people to what amounted to collective psychotherapy — by treating them as inmates of an insane asylum.”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality

    • Replies: @iffen
  54. iffen says:
    @Wizard of Oz

    (I am surprised that Iffen overlooked this point or condoned the lack of logic).

    Iffen didn’t overlook this and I deny you logic points. It is a matter of convenience for iffen to have quality articles in one place. Space is limited. Why grow weeds when you can grow flowers?

    • Replies: @Wizard of Oz
  55. iffen says:
    @geokat62

    The Jews What Done It!

    Don’t say.

    • Replies: @geokat62
  56. iffen says:
    @Brad Smith

    Forget that millions and millions of black families have worked hard and joined the middle class, that must be in spite of all the horrors inflicted on them by all the bigots in the country. Forget that millions of Mexican Americans, including my family, are proud to be Americans and have in fact done very well for themselves by simply working hard and following the rules.

    They don’t forget, they just ignore. It is human nature to ignore evidence that contradicts what one “knows.” It is also human nature to blame someone else for one’s own failures. Some people can’t or won’t rise above our inherent biases.

  57. iffen says:
    @Art

    Artful logic.

    Iffen refuses to believe that the Jews What Done It.

    Art>iffen is a Jew.

    Art supports Trump; iffen voted for Trump>Art is a Jew.

    • Replies: @Art
  58. geokat62 says:
    @iffen

    Ok, Mr. iffen, care to identify the true origins of cultural Marxism for us?

  59. El Dato says:
    @ChrisD

    > Bezos who champion social Marxist causes and liberal agendas,

    Err…. what???

    I don’t even know from what universe this is coming from. Bezos, the money maker extraordinaire has only one agenda: Make More Money. He’s not some super-Engels…

    • Replies: @schmenz
  60. Art says:
    @iffen

    No, Art, it is not. However, noting that he was Jewish is commensurate with your anti-Semitism.

    So pointing out that Marx was a Jew is anti-Semitic – you people are unbelievable. A Gentile cannot utter the word Jew without being under suspicion of wanting to open the proverbial oven doors.

    You Jew live in a cacophony of sickness – hate, fear, and contemptuousness.

    How old were you when you first heard that the Gentiles all wanted to kill you?

    To what degree are you possessed by your tribal Jewdom?

    • Replies: @iffen
  61. dahoit says:
    @Kiza

    Yes,one peruses the MSM to see what the enemy within is up to.
    Nothing good as always of course.

  62. dahoit says:
    @Leftist conservative

    You’ve got to be kidding,or just totally ignorant of reality.
    American economic decline is at the hands of neoliberal Jewish outsourcing,banksters and their control of America.They killed main street,and the American Dream.
    All roads,as with the divide and conquer campaign,which seems to have gravitas with you,lead and emanate from Zion.

  63. Art says:
    @iffen

    Artful logic.

    Art>iffen is a Jew.

    Art supports Trump; iffen voted for Trump>Art is a Jew.

    Cute – I like it.

    No – I am not a self hating Jew.

    But I am a philosophical follower of Jesus of Nazareth

  64. @Jim Christian

    The Left, since Chicago 1968, is fascist, Jim? Now, that’s a real oxymoron. The Left is Bolshevik, as well as violent and intolerant. The Left is even more intolerant and violent today than it was back then (and they were quite violent in 1968 Chicago, clashing only with police).
    Today, these Bolshevik thugs have attacked unarmed Trump supporters who had just left a rally; and the worst of these attacks occurred in Mexifornia aka California. The attackers were mainly illegals from Mexico who had slipped across the border (or trucked in by smugglers), carrying their nation’s flag, and committed their crimes in cities such as San Jose and San Diego. The Mayor of San Jose ordered that city’s police to stand down and allow these illegal alien thugs to terrorize unarmed Trump supporters as they left the building wherein Donald Trump had addressed a large rally.
    The Mayor of San Diego did the right thing and ordered that city’s police to crack down on the thugs, arrest them en masse and restore order. While San Diego’s mayor did right by restoring order, San Jose’s mayor abetted/encouraged chaos and mayhem – committing a felony in the process.
    All of this chaos and mayhem at Trump rallies has only bolstered the Donald’s popularity across the nation; at the same time, doing the exact opposite with both Hillary and Bernie. After each such chaos and violence by the Bolsheviks and their useful idiot illegals, more and more undecided voters joined the Trump bandwagon.

  65. schmenz says:
    @El Dato

    That is certainly true of all the oligarchs: they want to make money. But they also want to jump on any Washington/Hollywood approved cause available. Look at how the giant corporations came flying into states like Indiana because Indiana dared to enact a law to protect people from bowing down to the queer “marriage” crowd. Threats, bullying and you name it were employed against Indiana (helped along, of course, by the corporate media) until a craven Republican governor caved in and reversed himself. And they’re pulling these same stunts in North Carolina as we speak.

    So, yes, Bezos and those other creeps use their millions to coerce governments into accepting insanities like transgenderism and bowing down to homosexuals and, in short, laying the groundwork for worse things to come.

    The plutocrats are not our friends, in case anyone hasn’t noticed.

  66. Kiza says:
    @landlubber

    I stopped reading Derbyshire when he claimed that Otoman Empire was a great example of ethnic and religious tolerance and that modern day Turkey is a peaceful and progressive society. I had a riotous laugh and explained here on unz.com how stupid both points were. I also called the supporters, the derbysireans, the dumb wing of the conservative movement (yes, most conservatives are highly intelligent people). Derbyshireans self-select, which is good, because it keeps the rest of the conservative movement knowledgeable and intelligent.

    Do you think that Derbyshire did even a pause to think when about a week after my criticism a bomb exploded in Ankara and killed a bunch of German tourists? Do you think that he admitted that Turkey is ruthless Neo-Otoman cesspool when Erdogan replaced his PM and started using anti-terrorism laws against members of parliament, instead of a progressive country? Prolific yes, knowledgeable absolutely not.

    There is stupid, there is stupider, and then there is Derbyshire and his derbyshireans.

  67. Leftist conservative [AKA "corporate slave wandering down fluorescent hallway"] says: • Website

    That is certainly true of all the oligarchs: they want to make money. But they also want to jump on any Washington/Hollywood approved cause available.

    Did ya ever think that maybe those Washington/Hollywood approved causes exist because they help oligarchs/plutocrats/corporations make money?

  68. @iffen

    OK, you deny my point is one of logic but you surely have to agree on the empirical proposition that on a webzine space is not in fact limited so that it makes any appreciable difference to your enjoyment of or utilty from it if its editor includes stuff that you regard as a waste of time to read. Are you really wanting Ron to act as censor for you? If you object to “censor” please explain what difference there is between that and editorial judgment to deny you articles others like.

  69. Anonymous • Disclaimer says:
    @Priss Factor

    Excellent analogy.

  70. iffen says:
    @Art

    So pointing out that Marx was a Jew is anti-Semitic

    No, Art, it is not. See, this problem you have with words makes it difficult to communicate.

    John Q. Public says that Marx was Jewish. This is not anti-Semitic.

    Art says Marx was Jewish. This adds confirmation to what we already knew; Art is anti-Semitic.

    • Replies: @geokat62
  71. geokat62 says:
    @iffen

    This adds confirmation to what we already knew; Art is anti-Semitic.

    Given your zeal for scientific objectivity, aren’t you being a little lax in arriving at this conclusion? I mean, how can we really be sure without administering the F-scale test? I suggest you follow proper protocol and have some of your people pay Art a visit at his place of residence in the middle of the night, whisk him away to Gitmo, and make him don an orange jump suit. Iffen when he scores above 80, then and only then can we be sure he is an antisemite.

  72. woodNfish says:

    Excellent article, analysis and exposure of the LSM lies. Thank you Ron Unz for publishing this article even if you are a H1-B visa, anti-amerikan worker traitor – and you are.

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