The Dems Jan. 6 delusions

 Newsbusters:

In his Monday "Fourth Watch" newsletter, media critic Steve Krakauer reports The Acela Media is more out of touch than ever," and the proof is their ardent belief that the January 6 Committee is the dominant issue of our time, and the public is ardently bored, which makes journalists upset. "The corporate press has been hammering the issues of "democracy," January 6 and election denialism nonstop in the run-up to this midterm election," he writes.

He starts with the bizarre episode of Peter Strzok telling MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that when it comes to an attack on democracy, "9/11 is nothing compared to January 6," then turns to the polls. 

The latest Monmouth poll tracking the American people's attitudes toward the January 6 committee and its revelations came out on Wednesday, and the results are more of the same. Just 8% of Americans say their opinions about that day have been changed by the committee's hearings - the exact same as in August and up from 6% in June. 44% say they have no faith the committee could conduct a fair hearing -- that's the highest number yet, up 8% since August. But most importantly, just 36% of Americans say Donald Trump is "directly responsible" for what happened that day, a percentage that has been progressively declining since the hearings started.

He mentions the latest Gallup poll, which we noted shows that independents are losing trust in the press -- their belief that the press is fair and accurate has fallen from 42 percent to 27 percent. 

Then there's the New York Times / Siena poll. It's hard to get partisans to agree on just about anything these days, but this poll shows one area where there is some consensus - disdain for the press. When asked what is a threat to democracy, 57% said Republicans were a major or minor threat, while 63% said Democrats. But far exceeding those numbers were those who said "the mainstream media" - that figure was 84%! 

Guess how much the media have been talking about the public thinking THEY are a threat to democracy! Guess zero.

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The Democrats' delusions about a threat to democracy because voters do not agree with them looks out of touch with reality.  I certainly disagree with them on many things and I plan to vote against them at every opportunity.  That is what democracy is all about and the events of January 6 were of zero threats to democracy.  It was just some rowdy freedom of speech by people dissatisfied with the election results.  They were a zero threat to overthrow the government.  Heck, they didn't even have F-15s.