The Media and The Big Lie

For John, BLUF:  The "Big Lie" about the 2020 Election is a concoctioon of the media and the Democrat machine.  It is a disappointment.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Big Lie about 'The Big Lie'

From American Thinker, by Reporter William Sullivan, 4 November 2022.

Here is the lede plus four:

With only a few days left until the 2022 midterms, Newsweek laments a new poll by Redfield and Wilton Strategies showing that 40 percent of Americans still believe that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged or stolen."

This is presented as a shocking revelation about the number of Americans who still buy into the "Big Lie," despite its "being proven false," according to the article.

Newsweek buries this particular poll's more interesting observations.  For example, only 36 percent of respondents disagree that the 2020 election was rigged or stolen.  Of that group, more than one in three find it "understandable" that others might believe that the election was rigged or stolen. Another 15 percent of respondents neither agreed nor disagreed, and 8 percent signified that they "didn't know."

One way to characterize these data is the manner in which Newsweek does, which is to suggest that a horrifying 40 percent of Americans believe in what a bipartisan mainstream media blitz has promoted as "the Big Lie" for nearly two years.

A far more accurate way to characterize these data, though, is to recognize that there are more Americans confident that the election was rigged than there are Americans who are confident that it was all on the up and up.

Using the Newsweek data, only 25% are shocked that folks question the election.  Well, 25% plus President Biden.  That the media does not recognize this is a disappointment, and it is dangerous to our Democracy.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff