Thursday, December 17, 2020

D.L. Gardner: The Narrative is Neither News Nor Truth

 Even after more than four years of fake news trying to make connections between President Trump and Russia, about half of all Americans still believe The Narrative preached by ninety-percent of media. The New York Post broke the story about Hunter Biden’s emails in the middle of October giving details about his international business dealings in Ukraine and China. Then, The Narrative media as well as social media covered it up.

Hunter’s emails go back to 2014 when he was using his dad’s position as Vice President to make million dollar deals with corrupt foreign entities. The NY Post printed some of Hunter’s emails as proof. But, the story is not about Biden family lies and corruption.


The Narrative is whatever the LEFT says is true during any given news cycle. Essentially, President Trump has been the butt of LEFT narrative 24/7 for more than four years. So, when real news about the Bidens appears during the critical weeks leading up to the election, The Narrative naturally becomes “Russian misinformation tries to smear Biden family.” 


Not only LEFT “news” sources like New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, but also Twitter and Facebook censored or blackedout the story completely and religiously touted The Narrative about Russian misinformation. 


Kimberly Strassel, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board and columnist, wrote a column about the Biden kerfuffle and was immediately blasted by LEFT media! Tucker Carlson, FOX TV Host, interviewed Tony Bobulinski, one of the Bidens’ business partners, who provided all kinds of documentation about corrupt Biden business deals with China. Of course, Carlson was blasted and mocked by the LEFT.


Sharyl Attkisson is an award winning independent journalist, a five-time Emmy Award winner and Edward R. Murrow Award recipient. Her latest book, “Slanted,” is a case study on how American media have moved away from news coverage to report The Narrative of the LEFT. Bottom line of the book: vast majority of media is completely corrupted and in league with The Narrative of the LEFT. 


Attkisson writes, “The trend of mainstream media outlets acting as police and enforcers over other media is a shocking change to our news landscape. Reporters are now less concerned with facts and more with demanding adherence to The Narrative. They determine the position that is to be taken on issues or the facts that can be written about. They use their platform to insist that theirs is the only right and correct view. They convince their colleagues that the job of a reporter is not to be neutral or fair but to take the ‘correct’ position. They define the parameters of the language deemed acceptable or unacceptable for the media to use when covering an issue. They punish, cajole, and threaten those who do not comply. They write ‘news stories’ criticizing journalists who do not comply. In other words, instead of covering the news, they attack those who are off narrative and cover that as if it is big news. Their goal is to stop the freethinking, independent interlopers, to make it where nobody dares to go off script or disclose facts or ask questions that the media bullies want to keep hidden.”


The Narrative is neither news nor truth. The Narrative stands alone as the only thing any reasonable person should believe.

 

Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

54 comments:

Anonymous said...

So the next President’s son has done/is doing what the current President’s sons, son-in-law, daughter and a bunch of friends have done/are doing? Wow, what insight. Yawn.

Trump was supposed to drain the swamp. Putting the spotlight on other’s supposedly corrupt actions isn’t draining the swamp; it’s a diversion. Gardner is about as big a nitwit as the media he blasts.

Anonymous said...

The right has a long way to go to establish any credibility. The last 4 years have sealed their fate as fringe conspiracy theorists and they will not be taken seriously except by those who have been radicalized.

Anonymous said...

I’ll be curious to see what type of outrage comes from the radical right when Trump pardons his kids and himself.

Anonymous said...

The problem is there is little/no evidence of any Trump corruption. But there are emails, pictures, and millions in foreign payment establishing likely corruption perpetrated by Joe Biden and family. An objective review of the information already available demonstrates that the Bidens (along with many democrats and fair amount of republican careerists) are compromised by Chinese entanglements.

Anonymous said...

why are we giving DL a forum on here? This isn't OANN.

Anonymous said...

As if this is something new. You could take the next to last paragraph of his rant and apply it one hundred years ago and it would be just as true. There have always been scapegoats and sacred cows and there are now. If Trump had his way nothing he says would be questioned, there would be only his will. Ask Mr. Barr, and numerous other appointees who no longer saw something "his way." Pound sand.

Anonymous said...

"why are we giving DL a forum on here? This isn't OANN." If they let people like you and me on here, well, anyone can get on here.

Anonymous said...

8:39 AM
If you prefer something a little more mainstream there's always CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS along with the wingnuts at Vox and Mother Jones.

Anonymous said...

Wait till they dont report on cartel activity.

Anonymous said...

If you’re getting information from mainstream corporate news then you know nothing but propaganda. It’s unbelievable how ignorant and naive Americans are. Don’t be lazy, search out true news and facts, it’s easy to find.

Anonymous said...


Is Ghislaine Maxwell still alive? When is she scheduled to talk? And is she scheduled to be suicided just before then?

Asking for a friend since that story has been lost (perhaps purposefully because of too many prominent people).

Now back to MSM's regularly scheduled propaganda...

Anonymous said...

why are we giving DL a forum on here? This isn't OANN.

We? Are you an investor in JJ? Start your own gig.

Anonymous said...

Tell you what, anyone who drops a comment like @8:25 is the person who can't be taken seriously. That's a blinder wearing horse who's been whipped one too many times.

Anonymous said...

So long as he doesn't appoint Hunter to a job in the White House and give him security clearance, then it's a non-issue.

Your own skewed narrative even fails to assign wrong doing to Joe Biden. "[H]e was using his dad’s position as Vice President to make million dollar deals with corrupt foreign entities"

Why does Kingfish continue to publish these D.L. Gardner pieces.

Anonymous said...

So this is a "fringe conspiracy theory", and yet you were likely all in when the Trump/Russian collusion accusations were all the rage. Yeah right. We'll see how this plays out, but remember one thing...none of that shit stuck to Trump because it wasn't true.

Anonymous said...

There is no constitutional right to the truth. In our free market economy information is a commodity, plain and simple. News is information. Buy what you want. If you want truth, find it for yourself and pay for it. If it's free it's probably propaganda anyway.

Nitwits like this guy won't be satisfied until the government controls the news outlets, otherwise it remains in the free market. And he claims he hates socialism!

Anonymous said...

$50 million, 3 years and 40 FBI agents and lawyers and they could not prove one thing Trump or his family did illegally. Not one thing- yet you have idiots parroting the claims. Even when the recently released Brennan notes state that this was started and paid for by Hillary and the DNC and is likely filled with Russian disinformation- yet the fools above believe it. Unreal. The media is their Judas Goat.

Anonymous said...

@9:30AM

People have been conditioned against believing the truth. You won’t ever find the truth searching Google or DuckDuckGo.

The truth is not permitted for the proles. You aren’t allowed to break the conditioning. You either consume the mainstream narrative or consume the controlled opposition like Q Anon, Infowars or OANN.

Even Kingfish won’t allow comments that speak the truth. He does not dare to hurt the feelings of the protected classes.

Or you can just ignore everything since it is all a pack of lies. Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.

Anonymous said...

The author's own bias was evident from the first line: "Even after more than four years of fake news trying to make connections between President Trump and Russia . . . "

With that one phrase, Gardner dismisses the Senate Report, the Mueller report, and any and all who reported their findings. He then turned to Joe Biden, whom he declared guilty by association with his son.

In other words, Gardner's message is: "You can't believe anyone else, except me and those who agree with me, when I tell you this." That, in my opinion is classic propaganda methodology. It seems like projecting our own faults onto others is the political tool of choice these days.

Anonymous said...

RussiaScam>ImpeachmentScam>ChineseBiologicalWeaponAttack>ElectionFraud

All by the same hand, timed like shots from a revolver, and abetted by media and tech.

Pray for America..."deliver us from evil".

Anonymous said...

How do you validate the news you believe, for those that say that their various news sources that they trust are giving truthful information? I think they are all full of propaganda, and they all have been since the beginning of time.

Who really knows the truth? As much as I like KF, I know that some of his news is propaganda-ish.

Anonymous said...

I’ll defend Biden in a way the right can understand. The “Fake news Biden Hoax Witch Hunt” is nothing more than the president and the Koch Brothers spying on Joe Biden’s little boy for their own kicks. The illegal spying is the biggest crime in the history of the world. A vote for Trump is a vote for communism and sharia law to take away your guns and your church and your Christmas. We have to stand up to this treasonous regime and protect the constitution from the deep state Trumpers who are never-Bideners and the fake news media who are controlled by the deep state trumpers.

Make sense now?

Anonymous said...

If I want to know the truth I just believe the opposite of whatever the SPLC and ADL claim on their website.

If they say Proud Boys are nazis then I know they are patriots. The ADL used to say that it was an antisemitic conspiracy theory to claim that Jeffrey Epstein flew former presidents, politicos, and tech billionaires to a remote island with Ukrainian preteens on his Lolita express. Later we found out that was all true. The ADL was originally formed to protect a convicted pedophile murderer named Leo Frank.

Anonymous said...

Its as if some of you have no memory of the last four years at all:

Roger Stone. Michael Cohen. Michael Flynn. Paul Manafort. Rick Gates. George Papadopolous. George Nader. Steve Bannon. ALL arrested and convicted of crimes.

The President was impeached.

The Mueller Report concluded there was obstruction of justice but DOJ rules prohibit a sitting president from being indicted.

He paid off not one, but two porn stars using campaign funds.

He's had 4 national security advisors, 3 chief of staffs, 3 secretaries of state.

He's been golfing 295 times over his term at a cost of $144M to taxpayers.

At best, he's been the poster child for incompetency.

Anonymous said...

Why not just call off future elections? People have lost their right to vote.
The media choses who wins or looses. There is no need to go to all of the trouble and expense with elections.

The media will tell us what they think we need to know. After all, we are not capable of making a decision as important as who our leaders will be. That is something only the elite is capable of doing.

The media will handle all of the important decisions.

Anonymous said...

Some of today’s animosity could be abated by going back to the federalism of “these” United States rather than “the” United States. If you don’t like the government in California, move to Texas and vice versa. E pluribus unum has left the building. One size fits all can only stretch so far for so long.

Anonymous said...

In other news, South Park once again predicted the future:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-considering-disney-ceo-for-china-ambassador-after-company-praised-ccp/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hCRBwGAXE

Calm Down said...

@ 10:26 AM

"The author's own bias was evident from the first line"

As a believer in the narrative, could you explain what it is that you believe Trump is guilty of, based on "the Senate Report, the Mueller report, and any and all who reported their findings"?

What crime did Trump commit? If you could provide a source/link, you get extra points.

The investigation did not identify evidence that any U.S. persons conspired or coordinated with the IRA.

the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.

while the investigation identified numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign, the evidence was not sufficient to support criminal charges. Among other things, the evidence was not sufficient to charge any Campaign official as an unregistered agent of the Russian government or other Russian principal. And our evidence about the June 9, 2016 meeting and WikiLeaks's releases of hacked materials was not sufficient to charge a criminal campaign-finance violation. Further, the evidence was not sufficient to charge that any member of the Trump Campaign conspired with representatives of the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.

and the kicker:
Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.

source: https://www.lawfareblog.com/full-text-mueller-reports-executive-summaries


Anonymous said...

One day closer to our civil upheaval. Are you prepared? Because history repeats and if you think our powder keg will never happen or never go off then you simply are not an astute student of history.

Anonymous said...

11:03 Right. Trump lost. We are doomed. What flavor Kool-Aid for you?

Anonymous said...

The Trump crowd has a real problem on their hands. Almost to a man they now consider Bill Barr and his Justice Dept. to be errand boys for the deep state. Once the Justice Dept or special counsel reports their findings,guilt or innocence,there's no way that they can logically accept them. Who can believe anything from a nefarious,discredited deep state !!

Anonymous said...

@11:21
Nothing will happen because the “right” is leaderless and cowardly. And the “left” has free reign and a complicit media.

You nuts can all stockpile overpriced ammo and reloading supplies. But nobody, not Trump, not Q Anon, not OANN, or even Rush on his deathbed will call you to arms. The rich were bought by the globalists long ago. They have too much to lose.

You can still go without a mask as an impotent form of protest.

Anonymous said...

What hogwash!
I don't " believe the narrative".
I believe the Mueller report and the Senate Intelligence Committee report.
I READ official documents where people have to be under oath. I don't wait to be spoon fed information from anyone!
I suggest DL do the same before he publicly embarrasses himself.

Anonymous said...

11:20 "...the evidence was not sufficient..." Now where have I heard that phrase lately? It couldn't cut both ways could it? Nah!

Anonymous said...

11:01 makes a pretty good point. Most of you Trump blow hards have a very selective and short memory. Trumps family works in the White House and they have absolutely no business doing so. They aren’t close to qualified, not to mention how bad it looks. But hey, y’all gotta be mad about something.

Anonymous said...

The time was Feb. 1981. The place was the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing of the White House. The man was William Casey director of the CIA. He was asked concerning the goals of the CIA. The question was asked by the President at that time Ronald Reagan. The answer was as follows " We will know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." This quote was revealed by Barbara Honegger who was present when this quote was made. Have they succeeded?

Anonymous said...

11:20, The first line of the editorial used the word "connections," which you, yourself, concede.

You are the one who elevated the standard at issue from "connections" to "crime," which is not the point I was making. The author of the editorial went so far as saying that reported "connections" to Russia were "fake news." That is clearly false, as your own comment points out.

It seems to me the you and I actually agree that "connections" between Trump and his associates with Russia is a fact, supported by overwhelming evidence. It follows that we also agree that the reporting of those "connections" is not "fake news," and that the author of the editorial must therefore be biased in stating as much.

This presumes that one who denies an established fact is "biased" against that fact. "Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias

-10:26

Anonymous said...

The issue is joe is neck deep in this and he has already lied about it numerous times, including in a televised Presidential debate seen by millions

Anonymous said...

And off he goes, Little D.L., down the rabbit hole again. Believing he is one of the chosen few who can see what others cannot. Because he watched Q Anon and Infowars videos and OANN. He knows they tell the truth. He knows because he has this little hat, made of tin. It tells him what to believe. With it there is no need to use your own little brain cells anymore. Makes life sooo much easier. Doopsy doo diddely ding...

Anonymous said...

Wow, didn’t realize how many libs hide in the weeds of JJ. Anyone that believes the mainstream media doesn’t support the left must be related to Chuck. What happened to fair reporting of the news? The amount of hate from the left and anti Trumpers grows every day. Just remember y’all will reap what you sow. The next fours years will be just what hate produces. For myself I will gain no pleasure watching what comes of this.

Anonymous said...

From where do you get your info 4:12?

Anonymous said...

Wow. So we have Democrats here criticizing Trump for playing golf. This is after eight years of Barak "Lower your handicap while President" Obama was in office.

Actually, I loved it when Obama was playing golf (or taking Air Force One to Chicago so he and Michele could go eat at their fav restaurant). The more time Obama spent on the golf course the less time he spent in the Oval office screwing up.

Anonymous said...

I just wasted about fourteen minutes reading this entire thread. I was hoping to learn something...And I DID. I learned that I'm an idiot.

Anonymous said...

But 12:04 PM, are YOU ready?

Kingfish said...

So you crybabies whine about Bill Crawford being too liberal, you whine about this guy being too right wing, and you just whine whine whine.

Guess what? It is a frigging opinion column. You don't like it, DON'T READ IT!!!

No one is making you visit this site nor read the posts. No one held a gun to your head to make you read an opinion column. Don't like it? Get lost.

Anonymous said...

What gets me is all the commenters on this board that think they are the smartest person in the room, but can't see they are being played like the simpletons they are. The powers that control the news media are really rubbing your nose in it.

Calm Down said...

@10:26 / December 17, 2020 at 1:05 PM

So you believe connections are equivalent to guilt of some crime? If so, could we find any candidate who doesn't have connections? Does Biden pass the same test?

The premise of the Mueller investigation was that Trump was a part of a well developed conspiracy with foreign powers. The basis for that was bar talk with a low level campaign volunteer having bar talk about having heard 'some sort of suggestion' from Mifsud and Flynn having an innocuous conversation with his Russian counterpart. The Biden team has been doing the same thing daily.

It is not the 'reporting of connections' that was ever at issue. It was that the reporting of the connections was deliberately designed to give the FBI an excuse to then brief Trump that 'people are reporting' which they in turn immediately leaked to the press, creating the false narrative that there was something to investigate.

For all the cries of how Trump was destroying democracy and breaking norms, this is the whirlwind that democrats have encouraged, and it will be reaped in the next 4 years and beyond.

Anonymous said...

Biden #NOTMyPOTUS

Anonymous said...

Reading a DLG column is like an extended Trump Tweet. They are both devoid of reality, but non the less very entertaining.

Anonymous said...

@11:32 - what country you moving to? Need any boxes, I have plenty and would be willing to help you pack.

Anonymous said...

Don't have to move. Going to stay here and strenuously oppose every thing Biden every day of his term. That's the Democratic Party way.

Anonymous said...

You mean the same you did for eight years with Obama?

Anonymous said...

Dec. 17 @8:30, Perhaps you could have added something to the discussion, instead of just criticizing it. Declaring yourself an "idiot" for reading the opinions of others is really nothing more than a dishonest way of declaring your own superiority.

Anonymous said...

Americas billionaires are laughing all the way to their offices every day as they hear about the idiot fringes on the left and the right. Everyone should know that the rich don't pay taxes by now



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