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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire.<\/a><\/p>\n

By J. Peder Zane<\/a>
\nReal Clear Wire<\/p>\n

In their upside down, Alice-in-Wonderland version of reality, the left has a point when they cast George Orwell as a prophet of our times.<\/p>\n

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Our world increasingly resembles the soul-crushing landscape of manipulation the English writer limned in the pages of \u201c1984\u201d and \u201cAnimal Farm.\u201d Powerful forces in government, media, academia, and business have transformed much of the news into propaganda. During the Biden years, for example, the left cast their push for censorship as a commitment to truth and the coercive control of everyday life as the flowering of freedom. Talk about Orwellian.<\/p>\n

Now that Donald Trump is back in office, they are once again insisting the president and his populist supports on the right are an existential threat to liberty.<\/p>\n

Blessedly, however, we still live in a relatively open society. Many of us can see through and expose their deceit. That\u2019s why Hans Christian Anderson rivals Orwell as our most useful modern prophet. His tale, \u201cThe Emperor\u2019s New Clothes,\u201d captures the daily experience of watching very serious people<\/em> holding very serious conversations<\/em> about total nonsense.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why watching the news makes us channel our inner Elvis \u2013 give me a gun so <\/em>I can shoot that TV<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most recent front-page example is the wall-to-wall coverage of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson\u2019s new book, \u201cOriginal Sin: President Biden\u2019s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.\u201d They report that hundreds of people<\/em> knew that Biden was not up to running the country, and yet this scheming horde hid this secret from the legacy media. It was only after they lost the election that these conspirators decided to spill the beans.<\/p>\n

In fact, polls show millions of people<\/em> knew the score on Biden well before the election. One didn\u2019t need special access, just two eyes to see the truth. Yes, it is nice to have the book\u2019s detail on the consternation about Biden\u2019s infirmities, but that just confirms rather than expands our knowledge.<\/p>\n

Even as it pretends to reveal the truth, \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d is another exercise in gaslighting, because it tries to make the starting point of the story \u2013 the effort to hide Biden\u2019s incapacity \u2013 its endpoint.<\/p>\n

The pressing issue, however, is not the cover-up, but the cover-up of the cover-up. Which unelected officials were running the government in Biden\u2019s name? How did they do it? How did they justify it? Turning the old Watergate question around: What did the president not<\/em>know and when did he not know it? And, why did so many of the nation\u2019s most influential news outlets participate in this charade? How was Biden\u2019s health discussed in top newsrooms? Who made the decision to dismiss these consequential concerns?<\/p>\n

Answering those questions and naming names is the urgent task for media outlets who have already lost the trust of much of the country because of their partisan coverage. Instead of experiencing a come-to-Jesus moment, however, the legacy media is likely to use its coverage of the book to bury the Biden years under the claim that the key questions have now been asked and answered. It will use the \u201clessons\u201d it learned as a reason to pound Trump even harder, including questioning his mental fitness.<\/p>\n

If Democrats and their media stenographers have learned anything, it is that they will almost certainly get away with it. The Biden cover-up is part of a decades-long pattern in which they have stridently misled the American people \u2013 against all evidence<\/em> \u2013 about the biggest issues of the day.<\/p>\n

The short list includes advancing the clearly bogus claims that Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election; attacking those who made the obvious connection between the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology; delegitimizing reports about the material on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop detailing the Biden family\u2019s influence-peddling schemes; and the truly Orwellian effort to disparage honest challenges of official narratives as \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going back nearly two decades, there was the 2006 Duke lacrosse case, in which local and national media outlets echoed a local Democrat district attorney\u2019s assertion that a bunch of rich preppies had raped a poor black stripper. There was never any real evidence for this heinous crime, apart from the troubled woman\u2019s claims. Yet the young men were convicted in the press simply because of their alleged privilege. A few years after this shameful episode, the media were back it, advancing false narratives about the deaths of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and Michael Brown in 2014 to allege a war on blacks \u2013 setting the stage for the racist convulsions of the Black Lives Matters movement and DEI programs.<\/p>\n

None of these missteps resulted in soul-searching \u2013 though a few did result in Pulitzer Prizes. The next few years promise more of the same: the Orwellian twisting of facts that will bombard us with dangerous lies. As the aptly named group \u201cTalking Heads\u201d once sang: Same as it ever was, same as it ever was<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s enough to make you go full Elvis.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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J. Peder Zane is a RealClearInvestigations<\/em> editor and columnist. He previously worked as a book review editor and book columnist for the News & Observer<\/em> (Raleigh), where his writing won several national honors. Zane has also worked at the New York Times<\/em> and taught writing at Duke University and Saint Augustine\u2019s University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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