The media 'election denier' nonsense

 Richard McDonough:

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The recent exchange between Chuck Todd, presenter on NBC's Meet the Press, and Chris Sununu, governor of New Hampshire, was illuminating for a number of reasons.  Chuck Todd has not been this upset since Texas's Gov. Abbott sent 50 poor Venezuelans to Martha's Vineyard, the Democrats' safe, quaint, quiet, mostly white elitist paradise that "liberals" desperately want to keep rigorously illegal alien–free.  Sununu's sin is that he supports his state's Republican candidate for the Senate, Don Bolduc, and this, Todd informs him, is not acceptable to the left, which now believes that it has the right to decide whom Republicans are permitted to support for higher office.

Gov. Sununu responds, correctly, that Todd lives in a (liberal) bubble because the voters are concerned not with alleged "election deniers," but with the economy, crime, children's education, etc.  However, there is a more basic problem with Todd's question (and implicit argument that so-called "election deniers" are not acceptable candidates).

The first point is that Todd and others who have suddenly cultivated an aversion against "election deniers" are themselves in denial.  Democrats have "denied" elections for decades, but for some mysterious reason, the category of "election denier" was coined only recently, when Donald Trump "denied" the victory of Joe Biden in an election the Democrat-media complex had employed "any means necessary" to "win." 

Al Gore denied the 2000 election for months, tying up the Bush transition team in lawsuits while Osama bin Laden was planning the terror attacks on America.  Hillary Clinton "denied" the 2016 election, claiming, falsely, that Trump won because he colluded with Russia to steal the election when, in fact, Hillary and the DNC had bought the Trump-Russia dossier to frame Donald Trump and steal the election from the American people (yes they are that shameless).  Stacey Abrams denied the 2018 Georgia governor's election when she claimed, falsely, that the election was stolen from her.  Hillary Clinton has already denied the 2024 election two years before it is even held (yes, she is that shameless).

One can surely sympathize: Trump had inflation down to 1.4%, the southern border was more secure than it had been in decades, North Korea had stopped testing nuclear weapons and firing ballistic missiles over Japanese territory, Trump brokered the Abraham accords for peace in the Middle East, China was forced for the first time to sign fair trade agreements with the United States, crime was down in the U.S., and the United States achieved energy independence.  Clearly, all this Trump success had to be stopped!

There is, however, an even deeper problem with the notion of "election denialism" that goes beyond the Democrats' shameless hypocrisy.  That is, in order to neutralize criticism of their hypocrisy, the Democrat-media colluders have defined "election denialism" to mean that only Republicans, specifically Trump-Republicans, can be "election deniers"!

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There is much more.

The media double standard is hard to hide.  What the left would like to do is deny free speech to Republicans and make it only for Democrats and those who agree with them.  I suspect that the media so hated Trump that they were unwilling to seriously consider any questions about the 2020 election that Biden allegedly won.