Climate Of Fear: How Libs Will Torque Media Hype in Election

The term ‘Master bedroom’ is being dropped from home-sale listings over slavery connotations as ‘wokeness’ spreads among realtors.

Anyone who thinks there’s any coming back from the far side of the cultural bedroom is no longer paying attention. The Andrew Cuomo public execution the past week illustrates the new reality. The New York governor sent 17,000 of his elderly citizens into LTR facilities where they almost immediately died of Covid-19. But he emboldened Trump-obsessed New Yorkers with his press-conference mockery of #orangemanbad in the pandemic. 

For that, Cuomo received an Emmy award and a $ 5M book contract. But for the crime of being a handsy lecher with his female staff? Cuomo was forced to resign in disgrace as governor. The same late-night meat puppets who buried his deadly Covid blunder now condemned him for touching his executive assistant’s bum. 

Meanwhile, his brother Chris, a primetime anchor with failing CNN, remains on the payroll after being exposed for writing his brother’s PR defence of the charges. Needless to say Canadian media applauded the Emmy Cuomo while slamming the lecher. Guilt is fungible in modern journalism.

Which brings us to the upcoming federal election and what’s sure to be similar ethical gymnastics. As the disgraced PM readies the writ, the IPCC (a United Nations mix of Woke politicians, pliant media and scientists whose funding depends on panic) has issued its latest apocalyptic warning replete with biblical fury.

You remember? 96 months to save the earth? The Maldives submerged? For those who’ve been following at home the past two decades, the recipe is to hype melting ice and forest fires so that the UN secretary general says something like “code red for humanity” and a reporter predicts that just going outdoors some places in tantamount to a death sentence. Newspapers splash volcanic eruptions above the fold on A1 with breathless reports.

As Gerard Baker in the Wall Street Journal notes, ““Reported” is a misnomer. They aren’t facts; they are sacred revealed truths, unchallengeable arguments invested with epistemic certainty and moral clarity.”

Al Gore let this cat out of the bag in 2018 when the IPCC issued an interim report of fire and brimstone: “The language the IPCC used in presenting it was torqued up a little bit, appropriately. How do they get the attention of policymakers around the world?”

No worries, Al. You’ve had Skippy’s attention since he left drama teaching for the prime minister’s office. And the attention of former climate czar Catherine McKenna who is unironically spreading jet fumes around the continent to swim in pristine waters as an advertisement for $12 million for bike paths.  

This climate double-dose will be levered as truth serum against the hapless Tory leader Erin O’Toole whose job it is to tell Canadians (in the words of René Levesque) to “take a valium” on climate. Fat chance Facebook’s twenty-something censors ever let him challenge their sacred climate doctrines.  

To make sure that Jerry Dias and his Unifor members in journalism get the message out on doomsday climate the PM loosened up the purse strings to the tune of $60.8 M to help them make ends meet. This after spreading about a billion to “ailing” media during the 2019 election. (@CdnHeritage refuses to name the publishers awarded millions in pre-election “emergency relief”, in addition to subsidies already paid.)

Don’t look for that story leading any newscasts or bannered across the front pages of papers and digital sites. Nor will you see them reporting how the WE charity consistently underbid but still got contracts from the Liberal government. You will get an eye roller on right-wing militias threatening abortion, however. Hey, you’re got to get some value for your bribes… er, subsidies. 

In the U.S. 50 percent of the population is represented by a couple of TV networks, a handful of digital sites and a few newspapers. The other 50 percent of America is blanketed by dozens of TV networks, hundreds of digital sites and a bushel of newspapers. Plus Jimmy Fallon. Try to get a dissenting word in there.

It’s worse in Canada, where diversity now has the opposite of its previous meaning. The 35-40 percent of the population that supports conservatism has no TV or radio networks, a couple of digital or newspaper sites and a hostile culture industry. The remainder of the Liberal, NDP, Green etc. has 95 percent of the coverage: a plethora of TV/ digital sites, state-supported media, newspapers and the government supported arts community to blanket the PM’s agenda. Hubris abounds.

The results are predictable, says Baker. “Journalism is no longer about trying to tell us what happened; it’s about telling us what we must believe, on pain of moral peril. On every major topic—climate, Covid, race relations, electoral law—almost every story blares out at us with censorious didacticism, the journalist’s smug disdain for the unbelievers poring through the prose.”

Expect a heaping helping of didacticism as they protect their flank by re-electing progressives across the nation— while simultaneously excoriating conservative provincial governments. 

When I first began this column I used grim photos from the Chinese cultural revolution of the 1960s as an ironic footnote about cozying up to totalitarianism. As Canada heads toward an election that will be laced with climate, race, Covid and capitulation the irony is gone. Citizens are willingly headed to the Little Red Book of truth from radicals led by Trudeau. Read it and weep. While you can.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his new book Personal Account with Tony Comper is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx