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Greg Abbott Proves Why We Should Stop Believing the Media About Everything

By Brandon Morse | May 17, 2021 2:15 PM ET

The media is not a public service. It’s not your friend. The media is a business with an agenda and a vested interest in making you click their articles and keep their channel on as much as possible. They want something to bleed so it can lead, and if they can find a way to make it into a political tool to benefit the left (and they will) all the better.

Case in point, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifted the lockdown measures and removed the mask mandate, leftists who have made their home on the summit of Mt. Bulls**t became heralds of doom, declaring Texans would meet the maker they love so much.

After providing numerous examples of the hysterics’ worst efforts, Morse sums up:

There’s a lot to take from all this.

We were straight-up told we were going to die by the people who tell us to trust them when it comes to telling us about what’s going on in the world around us. The people with the largest stage in history were using their time in the spotlight to sew fear and encourage discord so that you would do their work for them and push your leaders into doing things against your best interests so their ideology could reign supreme.

The short version of this is that you were lied to. The science told red-state leaders like Abbott what would happen if the lockdowns and mask mandates were lifted and he was proven right. The liars wanted you to believe that you were one Republican decision away from annihilation and that they were the true followers of science. Only they could be trusted to interpret the medical professionals they put on their channels with accuracy.

Also, women are men and we’re all going to die in a few years, again, from global warming…or cooling…whatever, I don’t know.

Republicans don’t trust the media according to pretty much every poll released over the better part of a decade, but it’s not enough. There needs to be more distrust of the media and that starts with the understanding that the media aren’t the professionals they present themselves as.

They’re grifters with an activist bent, not fellow citizens hungry for the truth and ever-searching for the whole story as Hollywood portrays them. They will tell you what they want you to hear in order for you to believe what they want you to believe. They’re not like you and me, they’re elitists who wine and dine with the powerful people they cover. Mainstream journalists, like the rich and powerful, are often rich and powerful themselves and wish to stay that way.

So they scratch each other’s backs, carry each other’s narratives, and tell you what they need to in order to keep you acting in ways that benefit them. A school shooting, a pandemic, a war in the middle east where children die, or some other horrific occurrence is the most fun a journalist can have without taking their clothes off. These are their best days.

While that might seem hyperbolic of me to say, but we all know it’s true to some degree, and some of us more than others. Thing is, the fact that our mainstream media is an industry and not a service needs to be common knowledge.