The Media Will Destroy Jill Stein
For those impatient progressives,
feminists and disenfranchised Bernie supporters who absolutely must
have a female president in 2016, there is another choice. The rest of
us are asking the progressive mouthpieces and mainstream pundits what
voters should be asking them. Why does America's first female
president have to be Hillary Clinton? If 2016 is the year America has
to elect its first female president, then let us take a look at
the other woman running for president alongside what would be the
country's first black vice president.
Jill Stein is a devout feminist,
environmentalist, unionist and doctor. If disenfranchised Bernie
Sanders supporters care about climate change, feminism and busting up
the Democratic establishment, there is no better way to do it than by
voting for Jill Stein. If voters make this move, however, the media
is sure to step in.
We can be sure that – if Jill Stein
starts creeping upward in the polls – the mainstream media will
knock her down to protect Hillary Clinton and keep her from reaching
the 15% threshold required to participate in debates. To the pundits
and journalists in America's news establishment, electing Hillary
Clinton has become a righteous duty. In their minds, Donald Trump is
the greatest evil threatening the American way of life, while Hillary
Clinton represents a progressive step forward to a new milestone in
American history. If you think America's mainstream news media is
one-sided, corrupt and biased by accident or for reasons of simple
partisanship, you are wrong. Journalists and executives in America's
mainstream news media believe they are doing the work of god –
whatever that god might be. They believe that defeating Donald Trump
is their moral duty and they're willing to sacrifice everything to
accomplish their mission.
A strong Jill Stein puts Hillary at
risk, because her campaign threatens to siphon votes from Hillary
without actually putting Stein into the White House. This is the
belief among American journalists that will ensure Jill Stein's
minimal poll numbers, or a barrage of negative news stories if Stein
happens to make any gains. This means that Jill Stein not only has
something in common with Bernie Sanders, she has something in common
with Donald Trump. All three candidates face the same uphill battle
against the well oiled Hillary machine inside American media.
The one third-party candidate who does
not face the same afflictions is Gary Johnson. CNN was quick to give
Johnson not just one, but two exclusive town halls when some
Republicans in the “Never Trump” movement began throwing
endorsements at the Libertarian Party. It wasn't until people began
asking for a Green Party town hall – one month later – that CNN
agreed to host an exclusive town hall with Jill Stein and Ajamu
Baraka.
So, to clarify, CNN has hosted two
Libertarian Party town halls and only one Green Party town hall.
Ratings for all three town halls were sad. Even after viewers turned
the channel on CNN's first town hall with Gary Johnson, they went
and did a second town hall. In the world of ratings-based mainstream
media, this makes no sense. It only makes sense if we subtract the
traditional ratings-based model and replace it with an agenda-based
model. CNN wasn't doing town halls with Gary Johnson for ratings,
they were doing them to damage Donald Trump's chances of winning the
presidency. The exclusive Green Party town hall was only devised to
give CNN a way to disprove its own bias.
If Jill Stein gains any popularity at
all between now and November, we should expect the mainstream media
to throw away all their own rules that forbid criticizing a
progressive, left-wing woman. Criticisms about Jill Stein's mental
health, sanity, temperament and history will be fair game for a media
establishment that has tried desperately to stick the “conspiracy
theorist” label on anyone hurling the same criticisms at Hillary.
Just like Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein gives us a lot to criticize,
but when it comes to her, the media won't hold back.
Media won't sink to the lowest of lows
by breaking their own rules until Jill Stein begins to pose a threat
to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party's left wing. To prevent
any kind of surge in Green Party support, mainstream media will keep
trying to ignore Jill Stein. In the off-chance that Stein and Baraka
begin to surge for whatever reason, this is how the mainstream media
will destroy them.
“Jill Stein Is Nuts”
Jill Stein has stated several times
that vaccines have cured thousands of illnesses and saved millions of
lives, but the mainstream media will try to portray her as an
anti-vaxxer wingnut. They will base their claims in an
interview Stein did with the Washington Post, where she
said that many of the concerns regarding toxic chemicals, like
mercury, in vaccines were a legitimate cause for concern. In
the same interview, she also stated that most of the chemicals have
since been removed from most vaccines and that much of the concerns
have been addressed. During the Green Party town hall on CNN, Jill
Stein was drilled on the issue by host Chris Cuomo, who implied that
her views were “outside of the mainstream”.
The Green Party town hall gave us
plenty of insight as to how the media attacks on Jill Stein would
play out in the future. Expressing legitimate concerns about mercury
and other chemicals in vaccines makes Jill Stein an anti-vaxxer, even
though she has expressed full
support for vaccinations on countless occasions. This is the spin
media will use to hurl attacks at Jill Stein while trying to portray
her as unhinged and nutty.
Stein has also criticized the FDA and
the pharmaceutical industry, which is one of CNN's biggest sponsors.
Their attacks against Stein will mostly be based on her so-called
“anti-science” views, which will put her on the same list of
“wingnuts” that have criticized vaccines or the pharmaceutical
industry.
The attacks on Jill Stein's mental
health won't stop there. Her support for homeopathy and her past
comments about the dangers of Wi-Fi exposure in children will be
thrown around the mainstream media like a football. Along with
allegations of being “anti-science”, Stein will also face
allegations of nutty bigotry. Following Brexit, Stein originally
supported the Leave vote in a now deleted statement:
“The vote in Britain to exit the
European Union (EU) is a victory for those who believe in the right
of self-determination and who reject the pro-corporate, austerity
policies of the political elites in the EU. The vote says no to the
EU’s vision of a world run by and for big business.”
To make it worse for Stein, she
originally supported what the mainstream media has been calling a
racist, crazy, right-wing movement. This will very likely come up in
the barrage of carefully released attacks planned by mainstream media
in the event of a Jill Stein surge.
Nevermind that Hillary Clinton once
threw a book at a Secret Service agent, made her husband bleed and
has had periodic
meltdowns on the campaign trail – it is Jill Stein who is unfit
for public office. The media will also use Jill Stein's criticisms of
employment statistics, the FDA, the Federal Reserve and various
government branches against her to portray her as a nutty conspiracy
theorist. They may even use her past
arrests at political protests and her support for Edward Snowden
to portray her as a criminal.
“Jill Stein Flip Flops”
Nevermind that Hillary Clinton has
flip-flopped on everything from gay marriage to the TPP in less than
5 years – Jill Stein is the real flip-flopper. That's what the
media will have you believe when Jill Stein starts to pose a real
threat to Hillary's campaign.
After deleting her support for Brexit,
Jill Stein tried to calm her left-wing base and critics by claiming
that she first supported the Remain campaign, until the Leave
campaign won. Her new statement explained that Brexit was the
democratic will of the people and that it should be accepted – a
strong reversal of what her original Brexit statement claimed. The
media will run with the claim that Jill Stein flip-flopped on her
support for Brexit while trying to question her integrity. They'll
dig up old archives of her original statement and dissect it
word-for-word, along with other Stein flip-flops from the past.
The media will likely also portray Jill
Stein as a flip-flopper on vaccinations. They will dig up her past
claims and criticisms of vaccine schedules to paint a contrast
against her current full support for vaccination.
In 2012, Jill Stein wanted to
nationalize the Federal Reserve. This time, she wants to democratize
the Federal Reserve. The media will take this as a full blown
contradiction and use it to help smear Stein as a ruthless
flip-flopper.
“Jill Stein Is Anti-Semitic”
You've heard it before and you'll hear
it again and again if the media launches a full blown attack on Jill
Stein. Jill Stein has toed her party's line by supporting the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. It won't
matter that Barack Obama has been the least friendly president toward
Israel in US history, or that he helped Iran get closer to acquiring
a nuclear weapon – only Jill Stein's apparent hatred of Israel will
matter.
Many of Barack Obama's supporters from
2008 expressed anti-Israel sentiments, including his good friend Bill
Ayers, and his first trip as president was to Palestine, not Israel –
but Jill Stein has called Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal and
accused Israel of apartheid. We can look forward to hearing about
Jill Stein's anti-semitism in the coming weeks if her poll numbers
start to rise, which will be a complete flip compared to how the
mainstream media covered Barack Obama's anti-Israel views in 2008.
Nevermind that Hillary Clinton has been a long-time friend of
notorious anti-Israel pundit, Max Blumenthal, or that her campaign
tried to
exploit Bernie Sanders' jewish ancestry.
Ajamu Baraka
As for Jill Stein's running mate, Ajamu
Baraka, he'll be a target too. As Chris Cuomo pointed out at the
Green Party town hall, Ajamu Baraka has said controversial things
about Barack Obama, Israel and race that are sure to start brush
fires across America's political landscape. All the rules around
racism that mainstream media applied to Barack Obama will be thrown
away and forgotten when it comes to criticizing Ajamu Baraka. When
and if Jill Stein's Green Party gain a dangerous amount of momentum,
we can look forward to a new kind of media firestorm that will help
cement the death of American journalism for good. Most of this only
scrapes the surface of what the media will dig up on Jill Stein and
Ajamu Baraka just to protect Hillary Clinton, so rest assured, there
will be more.
