1st American Reserve Blog

When you read the heavily biased Washington Post or New York Times, or watch CNN or any major network (NBC, ABC or CBS), pay attention to what is not said, as much as what is said. They often state the worst case without interviewing the other side, or else editing out or constantly interrupting those on the other side. No matter what the subject, they often present only one side, as advocates, rather than both sides. Small town media is often more balanced.

In gun control, for instance, they attack “assault weapons,” while seldom defining what the term means, or asking politicians to define the term or defining the difference between semi-automatic and fully automatic. They do not mention that the vast majority of murders involve handguns, not rifles. They typically do not mention the many mass murders in Europe, where all such weapons are banned. They don’t mention the lives saved by honest, law-abiding citizens bearing arms against criminals. They often don’t mention deaths by many other causes greater than rifles, including alcohol, swimming pools, smoking, drugs, knives and speeding automobiles.

That’s just one example, but when nearly all of the large city media and government workers come from one side of the political fence, it’s too much to expect them to be fair and unbiased in their reporting. They may become a “mob” of their own making. Any reporter who comes from the other side is sometimes liable to be shunned, so they join the left-wing mob, or they may be suddenly out of a job or not hired. Keep that in mind as you watch the news.

The same is true in the government swamp. There were constant “leaks” of classified information in the first year of the Trump administration, feeding the Mueller investigation, which still could find no Trump collusion. There were multiple work slowdowns and subversions of Presidential orders when employees too often expressed “disgust and shock” at the President’s executive orders. Of course, they typically don’t have the courage to quit, since government jobs are the best paid jobs in America – the three richest counties in America are all suburbs of Washington DC – so some just subvert Trump and wait for the next Democrat to win.

In other words – impeachment proceedings may be good for our business and our customers, perhaps, but not so good for America.

(Recommended Reading for further information: “Resistance (at All Costs): How Trump Haters are Breaking America,” a new book by Kimberly Strassel, )