Manipulation Media

It is hard to pick up a newspaper, turn on a radio or watch television and not be bombarded with reports of how unhinged and unpopular President Trump is.

In story after story that is the incessant message from the media. It has been a steady drumbeat since Trump entered the race for President.

In the immediate aftermath of President Trump's executive action to temporarily suspend the granting of visas to enter the United States from seven unstable countries that have terrorism histories I drove 500 miles across the southeastern United States. I heard story after story on the radio as I drove about the numerous protests against this "unprecedented action." However, in all that travel I did not see one protestor or protest sign. I have not seen one in the two weeks since either. I doubt you have either.

If we have learned one thing from the 2016 election it is how deeply invested our media institutions are in promoting the liberal, progressive agenda. Of course, by corollary, that also means doing all they can to destroy any alternative agenda. I knew there was bias. I knew there was an agenda. However, the scope and scale is beyond anything I could have imagined.

It is as we are living in a parallel universe. The universe the media has constructed that they believe we should be living in. And the universe that we know that we are actually living in. Most of media is no longer reporting the news. They are more focused on manipulating the public into believing what the news should be.

You can better appreciate this when you look at this poll that surveys voter opinions on all of the significant executive actions that President Trump has taken in his first two weeks in office.

If you have been paying attention to what the mainstream media is "reporting" you would think that each of these actions is overwhelmingly unpopular with the American people. In fact, you would probably think that you were the only one in America who was supporting what Trump was doing.

However, on every action Trump has taken, a significant majority of Americans support what he has done, according to this Morning Consult/Politico poll that was released today. Sanctuary cities. The terrorist country visa suspension. The border wall. Obamacare. Keystone XL Pipeline. TPP.

Majority public support exists for every Trump action.

It is all the more remarkable when you consider the media manipulation that has attempted to portray all of these actions to be out of the mainstream. Yet, the American people are showing a remarkable ability to see the media manipulation for what it is.

In looking at the temporary suspension from predominant Muslim-terrorist countries, I also found this survey by Chatham House of 10,000 European people in ten European countries on this subject interesting.

It shows that 55% (coincidentally the same percentage approving of the Trump action in the U.S.) believe that "all further migration from Muslim countries should be stopped."

 
Chatham House called the results as "striking and sobering."

Sobering? Perhaps it is just a sane response to what these people are seeing in their world.

The same could probably be said for the reasons behind the public approval of Trump's actions.

The more the media tries to convince us we are insane, the more we understand that the opposite is what is true reality.