OPINION:
We are looking at a “1984”-style Soviet news blackout right now on several crucial news stories.
Before departing as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released, on June 19, a declassified smoking gun report about the COVID-19 pandemic. It was ignored by all major media except Fox News.
The report documents how Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about the likely origin of COVID-19. He denied facilitating federal grants to the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, which conducted gain-of-function research on bat-borne viruses at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Among other things, Dr. Fauci steered media away from the obvious lab leak explanation and toward wet-market-based nonsense about tasty bats infecting people.
“Politicized self-serving leaders like Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly elected President by restricting his access to vital facts,” Ms. Gabbard charged.
Yawn, said media.
If Dr. Fauci did what Ms. Gabbard and Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, have documented, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases should be serving a life sentence.
Yet to the press, this is not newsworthy and might reflect badly on the previous Democratic administration. For some reason, the Biden administration’s autopen issued a sweeping pardon to Dr. Fauci, as it did for members of the House Jan. 6 committee.
On June 19, Yahoo News carried a clip from Fox about the Gabbard report, but just below it ran this from Salon: “Tulsi Gabbard was in more than one cult.”
You have heard of “The Art of the Deal?” This is “The Art of the Smear.”
Here is another massive cover-up. On June 16, Restore Britain Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe issued “The Rape Gang Report,” a 219-page study documenting “the systematic rape and even slaughter of White British girls” by “chiefly Pakistani Muslim men” over the past few decades.
According to the Media Research Center, the report was ignored by major American cable and broadcast media (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN and MS NOW) and covered only by Fox News. It was virtually ignored or dismissed as “right-wing” in The New York Times and The Washington Post but got significant coverage on Newsmax and in The Washington Times, The Epoch Times and the New York Post.
“The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. … At the very least, 250,000 young White girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rapes, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversions and lifelong trauma,” the report says.
It contains eyewitness accounts too horrifying to share here and that match atrocities suffered by Israeli women during the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
The grooming and rapes began in the 1950s but took off after the 1997 election of Prime Minister Tony Blair of the Labor Party, whose government “orchestrated mass immigration,” the report said. The report noted that officials looked the other way or were even complicit.
In London, Union Jack-waving Britons who say they want a full stop to immigration from countries that don’t share Judeo-Christian values have held massive demonstrations.
On June 18, the Lowe report “still has yet to receive a single second of airtime on any of the left-wing cable or broadcast networks” in the United States, the Media Research Center reported.
Meanwhile, media are still going crazy over maintenance problems at the Reflecting Pool in Washington.
The same major networks that gave zero time to the Fauci and rape gang reports devoted nearly seven hours of total coverage to the pool’s algae blossom, the Media Research Center said. The pool’s renovation had been one of President Trump’s most touted efforts to clean up Washington for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration. So there.
Other major stories that media have ignored include the arrests of hundreds of people accused of stealing billions of dollars via welfare fraud in Democratic-run cities, as well as the shocking backgrounds of successful democratic socialist candidates in the Democratic Party primaries Tuesday in New York City who were backed by communist/Islamist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Most media accounts describe these candidates as “progressives” or just part of Mr. Mamdani’s slate of leftists, but they are certifiable, and the public should not be kept in the dark.
Aber Kawas, an American-born Palestinian American woman who won a state Senate seat primary, justified the 9/11 terrorist attack by saying America has a “system of capitalism, and racism, and White supremacy.”
Darializa Avila Chevalier, who won a New York congressional primary, attended a pro-Palestinian rally on the day after the Oct. 7 Hamas slaughter. She also expressed contempt for America by saying, “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”
Ms. Avila Chevalier supports open borders, seizing private property, nationalizing industries and abolishing — not just defunding — police. In a 2020 social media post, she wrote, “The pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me.”
That year, antifa/Black Lives Matter mobs torched hundreds of cities, killed more than 25 people, wounded hundreds of police officers and caused $2 billion in damages.
Seven of eight democratic socialist candidates won, including four congressional primaries in New York City. This pushes the Democratic Party closer to forced collectivism, outright antisemitism and hostility to Christianity.
Will American voters learn in time to prevent what these people intend for this country, which is to replace the American way of life with communism and/or Shariah? Do not count on media to tell them.
• Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.
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