{"id":838292,"date":"2021-10-02T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=838292"},"modified":"2021-10-02T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T14:14:12","slug":"graham-the-media-roots-for-routing-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-media-roots-for-routing-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: The Media Roots For Routing Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fgraham-the-media-roots-for-routing-republicans%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=838292&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/4C3BD127-17AB-44BC-BF85-08F0A2627BCC-scaled-e1633115559478.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden ran for president, in part, on the idea of being a national unifier \u2014 someone who could work across the aisle and strike a bipartisan compromise. But that\u2019s not at all the way he\u2019s governing. The media is fine with it. They\u2019re rooting for routing Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s recall Biden\u2019s speech at his party\u2019s national convention in 2020. \u201cBut while I will be a Democratic candidate, I will be an American president. I will work as hard for those who didn\u2019t support me as I will for those who did. That\u2019s the job of a president. To represent all of us, not just our base or our party. This is not a partisan moment. This must be an American moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, in a similar situation, Democrats inside the news media insisted George W. Bush was going to need to govern as a moderate. Winning by a whisker means he had zero mandate to do anything. They wanted him to follow his father\u2019s example and cave to the opposing party.<\/p>\n<p>This was ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos on Inauguration Day: \u201cWith a 50-50 Senate and a tiny margin in the House and a majority in the country who actually voted against President Bush, he\u2019ll be able to fulfill that central promise of unifying the country only if he\u2019s willing to compromise on some of the big issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But today, the growing expectation that Democrats will lose control of Congress is creating a sense of desperation that requires \u201cbold\u201d socialist action. In March, the same Stephanopoulos lectured Biden that the Republicans weren\u2019t going to vote for his agenda: \u201cI know you\u2019ve been reluctant to do away with the filibuster. Aren\u2019t you going to have to choose between preserving the filibuster and advancing your agenda?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats not only shouldn\u2019t compromise, but they should nuke the filibuster and pass things 51 to 50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. Sadly for them, Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema support keeping the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>This angers \u201cobjective\u201d journalists such as MSNBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell, who echoes the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crowd, demanding that Sinema needs to toe the line: \u201cA lot of the House members are saying now that Joe Biden can\u2019t be asking, \u2018What can I do for you?\u2019 The President has to be saying to her, \u2018I am your president, you\u2019re about to take down my presidency, and you\u2019ve gotta get in line.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican mavericks are cherished; Democrat mavericks are despised. Republicans are only useful if they help Democrats with their goals. Democrats are only useful if they help Democrats with their goals. Four years ago on MSNBC, disgraced anchorman Brian Williams proclaimed John McCain was a \u201cprofile in courage\u201d for defying Trump and preventing a repeal of Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, columnist Eddie Zipperer offered two contrasting New York Times headlines on senators from Arizona. Back in 2018, during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, it was, \u201cHow Jeff Flake May Have Saved Republicans From Themselves.\u201d In the present day, the Times\u2019 emphasis was, \u201cKyrsten Sinema Is at the Center of It All. Some Arizonans Wish She Weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csome\u201d are hardcore Democrats. The Times is promoting an internal revolt against Sinema as she stands in the way of \u201ca vast Democratic effort to remake America\u2019s social safety net.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The media elites, like Biden, pretend to be bipartisan unifiers in occasional bursts of public rhetoric, but their behavior \u201cin office\u201d (in the newsroom) is entirely different. They don\u2019t participate in politics as moderators or referees. They are aggressive players, pushing Democrats around like Mitchell. Get in line, or get out!<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden ran for president, in part, on the idea of being a national unifier \u2014 someone who could work across the aisle and strike a bipartisan compromise. 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