Words that are so casually thrown about by the regime, you immediately know that when they are invoked, that what is about to follow is going to be an outright misrepresentation, or more likely, a blatant lie.

Tucker Carlson said yesterday in a video posted on Twitter that:

“At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie.”

And that is likely the most truth you will hear this year.

Carlson also notes that one of the most common features of the “news” is not what they say, but what they leave out, sort of like the question of whether a tree falling in a forest where there is no one to hear it makes a sound. If they can keep you from hearing it, you will never know the truth.

And that is how they want it.

In a sane society, the accuser is expected to provide proof. When someone classifies information with the prefix “mis” or “dis”, the audience should expect – no, they should demand – an explanation and context for why those prefixes are used.

Doesn’t mean that that explanation and context will prove the statements to be correct, it would be nice if they did, but what such a practice does do is give the hearer enough actual information to make their own informed inquiry and to decide on their own. The worst thing that can be done to an audience is to hide behind silence or any of the hundreds of logical fallacies that are designed to obscure any attempt at reason and understanding.

Politicians and governments have always been the greatest purveyors of mis- and disinformation.

It is based purely on their self-serving nature.

No matter what either say, their most important motivation is self-preservation, and their first instinct is to prevent the public from knowing anything about what they have done, are doing, and are planning to do. The federal government hides information about their misadventures through claiming disclosure would compromise “sources and methods” and classifying information based on the potential for embarrassment or criminal investigation. Politicians use the compliant media to accomplish the same ends. The media just refuses to report anything that hurts their favored politicians and government activities.

The most insidious is when politicians, the government and the media conspire together to “manage” information in such a way to actually prevent informing anyone.

That happened today, May 10, 2023, when GOP Representative George Santos, was arrested and charged with several felony counts, two of the more serous counts alleged fraud in the amounts of $600 each. The press mounted an assault on this proceeding of which the troops at the Normandy beaches would have been proud while in Washington, the GOP leadership of the House Oversight Committee rolled out documented information of an influence peddling scheme implicating members of the Biden extended family amounting to tens of millions of dollars. This proceeding was met with crickets.

I’m sure that these two events occurred at the same time was purely coincidental.

I hope you noticed the sarcasm there. If you didn’t, please know it was powering my fingers as they typed that sentence.

I thought the Obama administration was the worst collection of unrepentant liars I had ever seen, but the Biden administration puts the propagandists in the Soviet Union to shame. Biden puts Obama in the dust with paid liars like KJP and Admiral Kirby. Obama’s spokestwits couldn’t hold a candle to these master prevaricators. I can’t decide if Biden’s team is just so devoted to their ideology, they simply cannot tell the truth or they are just completely devoid of a soul.

Right now, it is a coin flip.

Couple Biden’s team with his paid shills on social media, the unpaid useful idiots and fellow travelers in the print and broadcast media, and Mark Twain’s observation that a lie can travel around the world before the truth can get its shoes on becomes real.

But the fact is that we don’t need to consume the bilge the spew.

As Fox News is learning (quite harshly, as a matter of fact), the conservative information sphere is larger than it ever has been. You no longer need to live in a Walter Cronkite world where the truth is assumed because the words come from one source.

You may or may not like Carlson or how he operates, but his choice to launch his next iteration on a two-way platform is a step in the right direction – the decentralization of information. If nothing else, it forces those who follow to be more thorough and complete in the information they communicate, because every person is a fact check and the Community Notes comes for all (and Holy Moly, the leftist Twitterites DO NOT like having Community Notes appended to their less than truthful tweets).

Suffice it to say that a falling tree does make a sound whether you are there to hear it or not.

Thanks to people like Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly and Dan Bongino, James Lindsay, and an army of truth seeking unknowns who constantly produce factual content to the best of their ability, we no longer need the media to take us to the forest, the forest is being brought to us.

And that may save our Republic.