The Media's Big Lie

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Members of the media love to talk about the big lie. They use it regarding Donald Trump's claims that the election was stolen. Donald Trump's claim that the election was stolen is indeed a big lie. It is a lie. It is not true that the election was stolen. Some of you right now are rushing to your keyboards to send me hate mail for telling you the election wasn't stolen. You will include scores of instances you say are proof that there were problems. When I say the election wasn't stolen, I'm not saying there weren't problems. There were problems. There were inconsistencies and there were irregularities and there were undoubtedly instances of fraud, but not enough to throw out the presidential election.

Did you know in Georgia, 27,000 people voted in the election and they refused to vote at the top of the ticket? They refused to vote for President. That's not unusual. In fact, in 2016, it was closer to 100,000 people. Johnny Isakson in 2016 on the ballot in Georgia got about 100,000 more votes than Donald Trump. There were a lot of people who refused to vote for President. They didn't like any of the candidates so they went elsewhere. The Republicans say they only have to find 11,700 votes and toss them in Georgia because that was the gap between Biden and Trump. But not everybody voted in the race. There's actually a law. I know this because I was an election lawyer. You got to find 11,700 plus 27,000.

Why? Because the standard to cast in doubt an election is the number of votes between the candidates in the race to be contested plus the number of votes of people who didn't vote in that race. You can't just take 11,700. This is well-settled law and all the lawyers know it. There were problems in the election and it is a lie to say the election was stolen. You may not like it, you may nitpick and say, "Well, this is a flaw." Every election has flaws. Do you know why? Because elections are run by people and people are stupid. Everybody makes mistakes in elections. They're not perfect. You're never going to have a perfect election. The election that got Donald Trump elected was not a perfect election. There were flaws there too. That doesn't mean it was stolen.

Now that I've thoroughly aggravated and angered all of you and you're rushing to send me your hate mail, pay attention to this part. It was a lie to say the election was stolen, but it's not the big lie. Members of the media who are calling it the big lie, do you know what they're actually doing? They're calling you Nazis. If you believe the election was stolen, they think you are a Nazi. The big lie is a phrase coined by Adolf Hitler.

What Hitler said was that it was the Jews who lied about World War I. It was the Jews who blamed Germany and the Jews knew if they told a big lie, a preposterous lie, a lie so inconceivable but no one could possibly believe it, it must be true because who would say something so impossible and preposterous unless it was true. Tell a lie that's so big no one can dispute it. That's the big lie. That's why the media is using the phrase the big lie, because it is a lie to say the election was stolen and it is so preposterous no one could possibly think it's not true.

What's striking here is the number of members of the media who are willing to use a phrase coined by Adolf Hitler to subtly passively suggest that you, a Trump supporter, are a Nazi. 48% of voting Americans are Nazis according to members of the media who used this phrase.

It wasn't that long ago where if you compared anything to the Nazis or Hitler, you were immediately discredited. Yet, here comes the media using essentially the same language as what Hitler said of the big lie. You say something outlandish and preposterous enough that people don't even think to challenge it. It must be so.

Why are they comparing Republicans to Nazis? They get mad at Republicans for using the rhetoric, calling people Nazis, comparing the vaccine stuff to Hitler's programs in Germany, but then they call Republicans Nazis by using the phrase the big lie to talk about the President's lies about the election. They equate the President of the United States lying about the election to the Holocaust. That's what they’re doing by using the phrase the big lie because that is how Hitler and Goebbels used it. They use the phrase the big lie to blame the Jews and engage in the Holocaust and that's what the media is doing to Donald Trump's supporters which happens to be 48% of the country.

They don't have any shame about it. In fact, if you're sending me hate mail defending the comparison, you are no better than the people you think are the Nazis. You've come full circle into the sphere and seen yourself complete with swastikas, have you not?

Herschel Walker is running for the Senate in Georgia. He has canceled a fundraiser with some idiot who has a swastika as their Twitter profile. The swastika is made of syringes with needles. The person whose profile it is is not a Nazi. This person is some sort of Hollywood disruptor, a conservative in Hollywood who's so in your face that nobody gets their supposed nuance.

They use that Twitter picture in their profile to suggest the vaccine mandates were like something the Nazis would do. The media outrage is about Herschel Walker having a fundraiser with a person who would use a swastika in their Twitter profile.

From the AJC:

The fallout continued for Herschel Walker after his campaign canceled a fundraiser at the home of a Texas woman who once sported a swastika composed of vaccines on her social media page. Dov Wilker of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee said that scrapping the event doesn't go far enough. Jewish groups have condemned the use of the syringe swastika in protest to vaccine requirements. "A swastika is a symbol of hate," Wilker said. "Walker may have canceled his fundraiser after a sponsor associated with the event displayed the anti-Semitic symbol proudly, but he must condemn Holocaust and COVID health policy comparisons immediately."

Notice that he's now got to do something else. It wasn't enough that he canceled the fundraiser. Now, he's got to do something. He's got to do more. He's got to condemn the Holocaust as if Herschel Walker would support it, except the members of the media who are using the phrase the big lie are using a phrase Hitler deployed to advance the Holocaust. Where's the demand for them to apologize? Or do they get to compare Republicans to Nazis?

Here then is the problem. All of us are alive in the 21st century at a time the word racism is used for anything people don't like. We will slowly now begin to slide down the slide of Nazi comparisons. If the media gets to use the big lie, Republicans get to use Nazi comparisons as well. Republicans get to do this. Democrats are doing it. The media is doing it. Why can't Republicans do it? They'll do it. Nazis and Nazism will be redefined to the lowest common denominator the way racism has, where everything is racist. If one person disagrees with it, it's all racism. Racism is a word that used to have real meaning. It has been devalued by the left as they use it to attack everyone, Nazism will to.

Nazism is the one thing, the one thing from the last hundred years you should not want to debase and make common and popular in culture because it really is the big, bad thing. The big lie really was a big lie that led to the near eradication of an ethnic group. Get online now and Google the word the big lie, and almost the entire first page of Google is about Republicans believing the election in 2020 was stolen.

Again, that's not the big lie. For the media to say that is the big lie, for the Democrats to say that is the big lie, they are saying that if you believe it, you are a Nazi, but they've gone beyond that in their rhetoric and in their statements, to the point where if you support Donald Trump, you're a Nazi. They've internalized that Donald Trump is some sort of authoritarian fascist dictator and the way to stop him is to have your own fascist dictator.

If they think democracy dares a chance of electing him again, you just wait until you see the lengths the Democrats will go to stop it from happening. When they internalize this and they so casually drop the reference, they don't care. They don't care that they are lumping roughly half the country on the side of Nazis. Trump supporters aren't on the side of Nazis. They're on the side of a losing presidential candidate who didn't like the fact that he lost, who was very prideful and lied about it. Yes, there was a fringe of crazy who has perpetuated that lie and even now wants audits of elections to try to cast doubt on the election and it's bad.

I'm sorry that some of you are mad at me for not going down the crazy rabbit hole of believing the election was stolen. It wasn't. It wasn't stolen. There were irregularities and there were problems. The Republicans got outmaneuvered in courtrooms. They got out-lawyered by the Democrats. They left the A-team Republicans off the table. They didn't allow the A-team Republican lawyers, the Ben Ginsbergs of the world to pursue election strategy for them. Nope, they went with Cletus O'Shaughnessy, the DUI lawyer from Podunk, Alabama to be their chief legal strategist with Rudy Giuliani and the My Pillow guy. They could have done a better job there. They screwed it up and now they’ve got to lie about it, but it's not the big lie.

Every reporter who calls it the big lie is calling Republicans Nazis and most of them know it and they don't care. This problem will fester and build resentment and destroy their own credibility. One day they will wonder why no one listens to them and sadly, we're almost at that point now. It will be because they brought it on themselves by calling half of this country Nazis and not thinking a second thought about it.