The media and the myths they create

I wish I had recorded the CNN report. But it's strange enough for me to be watching a CNN report, let alone recording one.

It went like this.

The "story" was why Donald Trump can't win the presidency because he has alienated the Hispanic vote with his close-the-border platform.

To illustrate the point, the discussion included some polling data on racial voting breakdowns.

It showed Trump's support among whites, Hispanic and blacks.

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Trump was strongest among white voters, but only scored 10 percent of the Hispanic vote, according to the unattributed polling data on screen. The focus, however, was only on those two statistics. Unmentioned in the discussion was the percentage of black voters Trump attracted – 24 percent!

What percent of the black vote did Mitt Romney get in 2012? Just 6 percent.

If those numbers are accurate – and I have no reason to believe they are not at least close to reality – Trump would be taking away millions of votes the Democrats depend on for their election victories. It is not unusual at all for 94 percent of blacks to vote Democrat.

Yet the CNN team never once mentioned this incredible pickup of black votes by Trump – thus, completely missing the real story of the poll it was citing to make its point about Hispanic voters.

By the way, there's another Republican presidential candidate who scores even more black votes than Trump. That would be Dr. Ben Carson, whose percentage of black votes in recent polls has been between 28 and 30 percent.

Isn't it interesting that no news agency has focused on the appeal of both Trump and Carson with the black vote – the one the Democratic Party has taken for granted since the late 1960s, when blacks apparently forgot that Republicans freed the slaves and passed the Voting Rights Act of 1964 over the objections of Democrats.

For 100 years, the Republican Party was the champion of black voters. Even Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican for most of his life.

The Ku Klux Klan was the military wing of the Democratic Party for 100 years. It didn't just lynch blacks. It lynched white Republican elected officials by the score. If you don't know this history, it's time to catch up by reading Ben Kinchlow's remarkable book "Black Yellow Dogs."

So why would CNN ignore the real story of growing black support not just for one Republican presidential candidate, but for two?

The establishment corporate press is the semi-official propaganda arm not just of the Democratic Party, but for bigger and more intrusive government involvement in every facet of our lives – a principle shared by the media and the Democrats.

The media haven't been "watchdogs" on government for a very long time in America. They have become the "lapdogs" of government, and, by association, the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.

The media not only try to persuade their viewers of what they "report," they have often found many Republicans buying into their myth-making.

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But something is happening in 2015 that is very healthy. Americans are getting their news and ideas elsewhere in bigger and bigger numbers – from the alternative digital media and from talk radio.

Even Mitt Romney bemoaned this fact in a recent interview with none other than David Axelrod, Barack Obama's political guru, of all people. Romney longed for the day when the establishment, corporate press had a virtual monopoly on what he called "the facts."

In other words, Mitt Romney, the de facto leader of the establishment Republicans, blames the alternative media for his loss in 2012.

Maybe that's why his campaign completely boycotted any advertising in WND, while his opponent, Obama, flooded WND with ads, making it seem like it was a one-candidate race.

And maybe it was because Romney had drunk deep of the establishment media's Kool-Aid.

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