Trump’s achievements too often ignored by politically-correct media
The US electorate is not universally enamoured of Democratic candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But for consumers of “our ABC”, you would never know, writes Piers Akerman.
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The world, including Australia, is suffering from a surfeit of politics and a dearth of leadership.
Unfortunately, “our” ABC usually fails to see beyond the politics.
Whether it’s the ultra-parochial politics of fear practised during the Wuhan flu disaster by Labor premiers Mark McGowan (Western Australia), Daniel Andrews (Victoria) or Annastacia Palaszczuk (Queensland) or the politics of envy card played by Prime Minister Scott Morrison in his over-egged attack on Australia Post boss Christine Holgate, the razzamatazz only distracts from the real challenges facing the nation.
That the under-edited and overly-hyperbolic social media also bears a great deal of responsibility for this situation is reflected in the declining level of trust in news media overall.
The ABC’s particularly poisonous bias against conservative thinking has so seriously undermined whatever remnants of the taxpayer-funded organisation’s reputation remain after its strident campaigning for inner-urban latte-Left causes that ABC boss Gaven Morris has reportedly had to tell staff they were too focused on the interests of “inner-city left-wing elites”.
Having just voted to block an attempt by management to delay a two per cent pay increase even as the nation struggles to restore the coronavirus shattered economy, the ABC staff have shown themselves to be abysmally blind to the plight of those whose taxes pay their salaries.
Not that they’re efficient, either.
I lodged a complaint a fortnight ago — using the official ABC complaints site — just after Radio National broadcast what seemed to be a baseless claim about US President Donald Trump and haven’t even received an acknowledgment.
Given the priorities as gauged by the news items “our” ABC chooses to air ad nauseam, staff were probably tied up covering a children’s rally to save the planet, give or take a couple of hundred self-beaching whales, or the effect of global warming on the annual celebration of homosexuality and sundry other gender issues now that identity politics is a top tier inclusivity issue with the virtue-seeking elites.
Or perhaps it was because my complaint concerned the ABC’s coverage of Trump?
Given that the ABC’s highly-paid clutch of political commentators nearly choked when they realised that Trump had won the 2016 US election and almost collapsed into tears when Morrison scraped home in last year’s federal election, its endemic failure to recognise that there are actual conservatives in the real world is undeniable.
Bound by the straitjacket of inane political correctness, legions of those who have suffered at the hands of the failed state education system and now take their news from the ABC, the Guardian, Crikey, Twitter or Facebook would largely be unaware that the US electorate is not universally enamoured of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his Svengali-like running mate Kamala Harris.
While former president Barack Obama may have been the pin-up boy for the latte left, his record of achievements is negligible. It was a good thing he was given a Nobel prize before he had time to settle into office.
President Trump, on the other hand, has an admirable record as a peacemaker in the Middle East and stands as one of the few presidents in recent history who has not committed troops to a new conflict, instead, actually reducing the numbers of US servicemen and women serving abroad.
Despite the mantra of the Marxist-led Black Lives Matter cult, the lot of black and Hispanic families improved under his administration.
Further, the per capita mortality rate to the coronavirus in the US is not the worst in the world, as the ABC would have listeners believe
If “our” ABC ever got around to acknowledging even some of these facts, the result of Tuesday’s election, as close run as it may be, just might not be as shocking to its listeners as it promises to be.
When it comes to the Melbourne Cup, the form guide is always a good place to start.
A horse’s previous record is a helpful guide to its future performance.
So, too, with politicians.
Ignore the talking heads who don’t like a politician’s style and concentrate on their achievements in office.
The ABC’s commentators suffer from a herd immunity to facts when delivering their opinions but the likelihood of a Trump victory is a better bet than a punt on a Melbourne Cup favourite.
