{"id":2428377,"date":"2025-04-28T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-you-have-to-say-youre-not-the-enemy-of-the-people-you-are\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:05:40","slug":"if-you-have-to-say-youre-not-the-enemy-of-the-people-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-you-have-to-say-youre-not-the-enemy-of-the-people-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Have To Say You&#8217;re &#8216;Not The Enemy Of The People,&#8217; You Are"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fif-you-have-to-say-youre-not-the-enemy-of-the-people-you-are%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=2428377&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>The article critiques the media&#8217;s reaction too Donald Trump&#8217;s influence on American culture and politics,highlighting two recent incidents that exemplify what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fans-furious-as-disneys-star-wars-officially-jumps-the-shark-with-lesbian-witches-conceiving-babies-in-new-show\/\" title=\"Fans outraged as Disney&#039;s new &#039;Star Wars&#039; show introduces lesbian witches having babies, sparking accusations of jumping the shark\">author perceives<\/a> as self-righteousness and absurdity among media figures. The first incident involves Scott Pelley, the host of CBS&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; who solemnly announced the resignation of the show&#8217;s executive producer, bill Owens, attributing it to concerns over editorial independence amid corporate mergers. The author suggests that Owens&#8217; departure reflects a deeper issue of journalistic credibility, implying that the show has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-regularly-abuses-nyu-students-nyu-keeps-taking-chinese-money-anyway\/\" title=\"China Regularly Abuses NYU Students. NYU Keeps Taking Chinese Money Anyway.\">long favored<\/a> a biased narrative against Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The second incident occurred at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association (WHCA) dinner, where WHCA President Eugene Daniels declared the importance of reporters to the public while denying claims that the media is the &#8220;enemy of the people.&#8221; The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">author sarcastically questions<\/a> the need for such a declaration, referencing a quote from Margaret Thatcher to illustrate that those who must assert their virtue likely lack it. The conclusion of the piece argues that these displays of media self-importance are counterproductive and indicative of a corrupt media landscape that ultimately harms American democracy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>An under-appreciated benefit of having Donald Trump as America&rsquo;s dominant cultural figure is his effortless ability to inspire cringeworthy exclamations of self-worth from pathetic people in the media. This past weekend saw two that really should go down in history among the most self-discrediting episodes of anti-Trump, anti-American hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>CBS <em>60 Minutes<\/em> host Scott Pelley summoned his most solemn expression and tone to bore viewers on Sunday for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Phil_Lewis_\/status\/1916669302402420875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly two minutes<\/a> about an internal HR matter dressed up as a stunning news event. The shock development: Bill Owens, the show&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-comedy-continues-tanking-in-the-ratings\/\" title=\"Late Night &quot;Comedy&quot; Continues Tanking in the Ratings\">longtime executive producer<\/a>, quit.<\/p>\n<p>How America will ever recover is anyone&rsquo;s guess. I&rsquo;m certainly in deep prayer about it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[O]ur parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger,&rdquo; Pelley said by way of explaining Owens&rsquo; departure. &ldquo;The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Though he said nothing had changed with the program&rsquo;s editorial content &mdash;&nbsp;nope, their lying on behalf of Democrats was coming along just fine! &mdash; Pelley said Owens &ldquo;felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.&rdquo; In other words, Paramount executives might have told Bill that perhaps 50 back-to-back segments on &ldquo;why Trump isn&rsquo;t Hitler, but kind of is&rdquo; weren&rsquo;t really necessary right now.<\/p>\n<p>Pelley said that Owens&rsquo; resignation was &ldquo;for us and you&rdquo; and that it &ldquo;proved &hellip; he was the right person to lead <em>60 Minutes<\/em> all along.&rdquo; How does it feel knowing that Owens sacrificed himself for you, just as Jesus Christ did?<\/p>\n<p>We were treated to a similar sickening display at the annual White House Correspondents&rsquo; Association dinner in Washington, D.C., just one day before. WHCA President Eugene Daniels, of MSNBC and old lady wardrobe fame, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cspan\/status\/1916321195881799894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the room<\/a> full of deceitful propagandists (often self-identified as &ldquo;reporters&rdquo;) that they matter and are very important to the world. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We miss our families and significant life moments in service to this job,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We care deeply about accuracy and take seriously the heavy responsibility of being stewards of the public&rsquo;s trust.&rdquo; And then he lied some more: &ldquo;What we are not is the opposition. What we are not is the enemy of the people, and what we are not is the enemy of the state.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He earned a standing ovation for that piece of wince-inducing dreck. But, to quote Margaret Thatcher, if you have to tell people you&rsquo;re not the enemy of the state, you are. (More of a paraphrase, I guess.) If you have to tell people how virtuous you are, you&rsquo;re not.<\/p>\n<p><em>60 Minutes<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/06\/unedited-60-minutes-kamala-interview-proves-again-the-democrat-2024-campaign-was-a-media-driven-psyop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hasn&rsquo;t been a respectable program<\/a> for about two decades now, which is about how long Bill Owens was with the show. He didn&rsquo;t sacrifice just his job, he helped squander all of CBS&rsquo;s credibility by using it to prop up one political party and demean half the country. Recall the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/06\/flashback-60-minutes-claimed-no-evidence-for-russia-collusion-biden-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump interview<\/a> Owens oversaw in 2020, during which <em>60 Minutes<\/em> correspondent Lesley Stahl denied the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story and Trump&rsquo;s demonstrably true claim that his 2016 campaign was spied on by feds. Yet we&rsquo;re supposed to be moved by his resignation and angry that it might change things at <em>60 Minutes<\/em>. If only.<\/p>\n<p>And the Washington press corps (soon to be stylized as &ldquo;corpse&rdquo;), plus its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/27\/eugene-daniels-encapsulates-all-the-reasons-the-whca-deserves-to-burn-down-in-flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">self-congratulatory dinner<\/a>, are so far beyond parody that the WHCA president declaring them &ldquo;not the enemy of the people&rdquo; was like George Santos swearing he never stole from anyone while checking his Cartier wristwatch.<\/p>\n<p>These melodramatic displays of defiance produce the opposite of their intended effect. Ultimately, that&rsquo;s a good thing for America, which can&rsquo;t sustain itself with a media so thoroughly corrupted as ours.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s influence prompts cringe-worthy media reactions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2428378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Eugene-Daniels.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5157,4188,51324],"class_list":["post-2428377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-trust-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Eugene-Daniels.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428377","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428381,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428377\/revisions\/2428381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}