Dan Bongino, former candidate for U.S. House rep (FL 19th), recently discovered first-hand the ugly truth that we’ve long-suspected about the mainstream media; they inhabit a reality-free bubble, think everyone not in lockstep with their progressive claptrap is crazy, and wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the butt.
 
Bongino was an excellent candidate. An NYPD officer for four years, he spent 12 years with the Secret Service, was twice a NY Times best-selling author and now hosts a popular political podcast. Just the sort of common sense, conservative, patriotic American the Left wants to keep out of political office at all costs.
 
Here’s what Dan says learned about the media while running for office ~

The story they aim to tell is one where good-hearted liberals institute a series of public policy proposals designed to create a fairer and equitable society to protect us from rapacious capitalists and conservatives. This is the story told to them in journalism schools and repeated within the corridors of their media work environments. It is widely considered de facto knowledge in their media inner circles, and anyone questioning this narrative is derided as an intellectual lightweight or an ideological heretic worthy of scorn.
 
I can recall numerous conversations with prominent, established media figures where strict gun control, abortion, and tax-and-spend government policies were assumed to be the default “correct” position. Anyone believing otherwise was simply an intellectual cretin.
 
Resistance to facts and debate was so vigorous that when I offered evidence otherwise indicating that supporters of the opposite positions have evidence to back their claims, it was either completely ignored or condescendingly laughed at.

[Read the rest at Conservative Review…]
 

It just so frustrating for those of us who – naively I suppose – still think honesty and integrity are admirable virtues. The country deserves better from the Fourth Estate. They’re supposed to act as watchdogs on the politicians. Instead, they’re lapdogs.

 
If we ever hope to remotely restore our Constitutional Republic, somehow we have to find a way to neutralize the leftist media and make sure Americans are hearing the truth, the whole truth – and not a bunch of distortions, slanders and flat out lies.