A Letter to the Editor By Rhino Times Reader Alan Burke
Former President Trump receives heavy criticism for rally-size media coverage. Democrats/liberals view this as another example of Trump’s “narcissism.” Republicans/conservatives are more mixed. Some think it isn’t legitimate. Others believe it is a distraction from more important issues.
It’s worth examining the “why” of the issue. Why is the media fawning over Harris while refusing to cover Trump rally sizes?
First, Biden didn’t excite voters. His events were rarely attended. The DNC, I mean mainstream media is excited their party is finally attracting enthusiasm. The bias is on full display.
Second, they don’t know or care about Trump rally attendance. He is an evil manipulator. His voters are either evil or manipulated. As a result, biased reporters refuse to listen to anything Trump says or does. They only report on negative news items reported by other reporters. Similarly, they “protect” their viewers from being “manipulated.” Why was Rachel Maddow visibly shocked by Trump winning the first 2024 GOP primary after polling showed him with a commanding lead? She refused to do her job of reading anything that painted Trump positively. Biased media only reads and reports negative Trump coverage. At the same time, she “shielded” her voters from Trump’s “manipulations.” So, she refused to cover Trump’s victory speeches. In short, mainstream media refuses to research Trump. They only report negative/biased reports. It’s manipulation, not protection.
Third, they are intentionally manufacturing momentum for Harris and choking momentum for Trump. The more they talk about how much voters love Harris, the more we believe it and jump on board. They are afraid large Trump crowds encourage voters to investigate Trump’s message for themselves. It’s the bandwagon effect. This is a popular biased media trick. Reporters repeatedly make biased claims. Media outlets then poll viewers on the biased claims. The results are then reported to convince other voters to change their minds.
Biased media has a preferred candidate. They are shielding themselves and us from a different perspective because we are either dumb or evil. They are purposefully manufacturing momentum.
They claim to be protecting us from manipulation. In reality, they are keeping us from knowing anything positive about those with whom they disagree.
Alan Burke
Alan,
Your analysis is insightful and logical. If I’m understanding you correctly you are not buying into the poll numbers being published, that in fact Trump is leading. Maybe not as much as some would want, but he is leading.with the majority of the vote.
The question becomes what will the Left/Democrats do and how far will they go to manipulate the election results. One of these is the early voting scam. Another is the electronic voting machines, which can be manipulated, contrary to what people believe. Add to it the ineligible voters (illegal aliens, dead voters, etc.) Then there is this nonsense of mail-in ballots (voting by mail) and online voting.
If our “professional politicians” were serious about ensuring the American system of government that has worked as well as it could, voter ID WITHOUT ALL THESE RIDICULOUS EXCEPTIONS would be made nationally mandatory. This stupid idea of voting months early should be eliminated. I can see allowing 2 or 3 days early, but no more. Also, Election Day should be a National Holiday with only necessary services permitted to be open.
We need, We MUST, clean up our election circus.
Require paper ballots
Require State issued ID
Eliminate early voting
Election Day designated a National Holiday
Alan I’m 69 years young and voted my first time in 1978 and I have never been polled. Have you. I think and always have that the so called polling is a crock of horse hockey
IMO the majority of people will tell a pollster what they think that pollster wants to hear. The bad part is there are people out there that use these polls as their basis for who or what to vote for.
Only when people start seriously thinking for themselves will we continue to have these “professional politicians”, these “career politicians” on ALL levels, making decisions THEY think are best for US, not what we ask for or make known what we want.
Term Limits
btw, first time voted 1972
No one fears Trump crowd sizes. It clearly didn’t help him in 2020. It is weird how he feels compelled to repeatedly lie and overstate his crowd sizes and lie and understand Kamala’s crowd sizes. Not to mention his silly twit about Kamala using AI to fake her crowd size at an airport rally. LOL. Just weird.
But you be you.
LMAO….share your pixie dust!
Ho hum. . .But you be you.