{"id":1431253,"date":"2022-04-11T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431253"},"modified":"2022-04-11T13:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:45:05","slug":"nolte-why-the-medias-moral-panic-around-ukraine-failed-to-reboot-bidens-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-why-the-medias-moral-panic-around-ukraine-failed-to-reboot-bidens-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Why the Media&#039;s Moral Panic Around Ukraine Failed to Reboot Biden&#039;s Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-why-the-medias-moral-panic-around-ukraine-failed-to-reboot-bidens-presidency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The moment Russia invaded Ukraine, the White House, Democrats, and the corporate media saw an opportunity to gaslight the American people into a reboot of His Fraudulency Joe Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign has fired utterly and entirely.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>As he continues to hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/04\/10\/poll-biden-hits-record-low-approval-as-inflation-trumps-jobs\/\">record lows<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/11\/poll-only-7-percent-believe-nation-doing-very-well-biden\/\">polling<\/a> for Biden looks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2022\/04\/11\/poll-only-39-percent-approve-of-joe-bidens-handling-of-crime-surge\/\">as awful<\/a> as it did pre-Ukraine. What\u2019s more, the polling for Republican chances of romping all over Democrats in the 2022 midterms looks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/2022-generic-congressional-vote-7361.html\">as good<\/a> as ever. Ukraine has done nothing to alter anyone\u2019s perception of Biden as anything other than a failure. In fact, on the specific issue of Ukraine, Biden\u2019s poll numbers are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/24\/1088568802\/russia-ukraine-biden-approval-rating-poll-numbers-inflation\">underwater<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what happened?<\/p>\n<p>As we all saw in the first days of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the goal of Democrats and their corporate media allies was to swamp the news cycle with hysterical, 24\/7 stories about <em>this moral outrage<\/em>. The invasion was deliberately covered in an overwhelming and coordinated flood of \u201coutrage\u201d stories that would knock inflation\/crime\/illegal immigration\/gas prices, etc., out of the news cycle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The second goal was to create an actual moral panic. The template would be the same one used to cause so much destruction around the murder of George Floyd and the coronavirus. Remember, it wasn\u2019t enough to want to see justice for George Floyd. You must literally kneel before the terrorists in Black Lives Matter and approve of their riots. It wasn\u2019t enough to get vaccinated. You had to approve of fascist mandates and the abusive masking of two-year-olds. And so, it wasn\u2019t enough to hope Russian President Vladimir Putin was humiliated in Ukraine. You must HATE Putin, HATE all Russians and DEMAND America be on the \u201cright side of history\u201d to destroy Russia and Russians!<\/p>\n<p>Within moments of the invasion, every sector of the organized left (Democrats, neocons, corporate media, entertainment, Big Business, and Big Tech) had mobilized to engineer this moral panic. This is \u201cgood versus evil,\u201d they screamed! This is about preserving democracy! Where is your Ukrainian flag?!?! Where is your hatred for Putin, you Putin lover! How dare you read Tolstoy!<\/p>\n<p>We also saw \u2014 and this was the most crucial part of the plot \u2014 Biden lifted on the shoulders of this moral panic as our warrior and champion. The narrative immediately turned away from record inflation and surging violent crime to <em>Amazing Joe Biden Organizes World Against Evil Putin!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In summation\u2026 The two-art plot was to 1) manipulate the public into a moral panic where we cared about Ukraine and only Ukraine, and 2) present Biden as the competent, strong, moral wartime leader and champion of that crusade. The result was supposed to be a presidential reboot, which is the only thing that could save Biden\u2019s presidency and the Democrat party\u2019s backsides in the upcoming midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for a while, this nonsense looked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/05\/nolte-ukraine-war-fever-could-kill-gop-midterm-chances\/\">like it<\/a> might sucker some of us, but then it quickly fell apart. In fact, it fell apart so badly; allow me to repeat that Biden is upside down on his handling of Ukraine. So the question is, why did it fall apart?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Well, for one thing, no amount of manipulative news coverage can blunt the shock of rising prices, most especially gas and food. Inflation is brutalizing people. Inflation is serious and demoralizing.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Biden blaming record gas prices on Putin and telling us to go out and buy $50,000 electric cars were as tone deaf as any president has ever been tone deaf.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20169338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Media-Blames-Putin-for-Gas-Prices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign displays gas prices at a gas station in Washington, Monday, March 7, 2022 (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik).<br \/>Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Finally, while most of New Media wants to see Putin humiliated and bloodied (this includes me), New Media has also led the way in offering some welcome perspective on Ukraine. Mainly, that America has no business involving itself in a war that could start World War III. Then there\u2019s the fact we just lost a 20-year war to barbarian goat herders, so what do we think we\u2019re going to accomplish against the Russians? Most of all, Ukraine is not our problem. We have no national interests over there, so why are we spending billions on Ukraine while our veterans go homeless? Why are we spending billions to protect Ukraine\u2019s borders while our border is left wide open?<\/p>\n<p>The counternarrative from New Media, this vital perspective the corporate media wanted to gloss over with their hysterical echo chamber, helped a lot of people snap out of the gaslighting campaign. New Media also told millions they were not alone when they thought,\u00a0<em>Why the hell should I care about Ukraine?<\/em> Simply put, the media\u2019s ability to make people feel isolated no longer works.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/a>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment Russia invaded Ukraine, the White House, Democrats, and the corporate media saw an opportunity to gaslight the American people into a reboot of His Fraudulency Joe Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}