By DEXTER DUGGAN
From media conniptions against “fake news” to U.S. left-wingers denouncing Russia, the landscape certainly has changed with the advent of aspiring Republican Donald Trump.
For longer than the lifetimes of many current media consumers, dominant liberal U.S. media have conjured one twisted narrative after another of their own fake news stories to try to sway Americans toward leftist results. To cite a very few examples:
Tyrannical Communist revolutionaries from Asia to Latin America were admirable “freedom fighters.” Conservative Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 was a homicidal, fascist madman. Pro-lifers are a small band of superstitious religious fanatics, and abortion is legal for only “the early months” of pregnancy.
None of this true, but each one is asserted by dishonest media as undeniable fact.
Yet today, these duplicitous media seethe with resentment that alleged right-wing fake news cost Alinskyite Democrat Hillary Clinton the presidency in November.
Meanwhile, the brand of left-wingers who adored the monstrous Soviet Union for decades, despite its drenching nations in a tsunami of blood, is shouting its antagonism against the alleged dangers and threats posed by today’s Russia, the non-Communist central shard of what’s left of the USSR.
However, not so long ago Democrat Barack Obama, campaigning in 2012, was caught asking for Russia to give him some maneuvering space so he could be more flexible after winning re-election.
Outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev understandingly replied, “I will transmit this information to Vladimir” Putin.
Before this, Hillary Clinton as secretary of state unsuccessfully launched her “reset with Russia” to improve relations.
On December 13 the Conservative Daily News blog nicely summarized the liberal flip-flop in a headline, “From a cuddly Russia to a monstrous Russia, thanks to Trump.”
Critics said Obama and Clinton had given Russia everything it wanted, making the U.S. weaker and Russia stronger.
Conservative national radio talk host Dennis Prager wondered why accusations were being swallowed that Russians tried to make Trump win. “It’s not like they did poorly with the Democrats,” Prager said on December 13.
In a telephone interview, former California conservative Republican Cong. Robert Dornan told The Wanderer that the Democratic Party is engaged in “a stunning and hypocritical reversal” of its longtime admiration for Moscow that expects Americans to overlook what they know.
“Don’t pay any attention to Hillary with that reset button,” Dornan said during the December 13 interview. “. . . Don’t pay attention to any of the record of the Democrat Party. . . .
“I believe Putin is a murderer,” Dornan added, but if Trump goes into a Russian relationship with his eyes wide open, better ties could be beneficial for the U.S.
Putin did realize what no Soviet atheist ruler would, that Russia won’t progress without recognition of Christianity, Dornan said.
After the fall of Communist totalitarianism there, churches reemerged as valued contributors to society.
Many of Trump’s voters weren’t interested in having a hostile relationship with Russia, Dornan said. “The blue-collar families that have made Trump the president-elect. . . . They wondered what is wrong (with) getting along” with Russia.
“This turning (against) everything Russian” by Democratic politicians “is about the most hypocritical reversal in my lifetime,” Dornan said.
Dornan, 83, maintains an intense interest in politics and is a regular Wanderer reader. In the U.S. House of Representatives, he was a staunch foe of Communism. He served nine terms in the House, ending in early 1997, and also worked as a television and radio talk host and actor.
As for media unfairness, Dornan said, “All my life I’ve developed an expertise over bias in the media. . . .The liberal media bias is so skull-crackingly obvious. . . . The bias is just blatant and arrogant.”
He thinks many appointments to the Trump administration are cause for optimism, although there have been some regrettable choices.
With such strategists as “solid Catholics” Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon as his counselors, Dornan said, “Trump is in good hands there.”
“Like all Americans who have watched the moral meltdown of our culture,” Dornan said, he felt “euphoria” that the November 8 national election resulted in “the rejection of the raw evil of the Clinton Crime Family.”
However, “the next morning I thought, ‘Now comes the hard part’,” the successful work of the Trump administration, an intention that he prays for, Dornan said.
“I always thought his motto should have been, ‘Make America good again,” Dornan said. “. . . . The idea that virtue begets greatness should have been on the ball caps” that Trump campaign supporters wore.
Trump’s announcement of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on December 13 to be secretary of state was unfortunate, Dornan said, explaining that the energy executive was head of the Boy Scouts “when the Boy Scouts accepted homosexuality, and he recommended that….Nice going, Rex.”
This means parents with moral concerns can’t let their sons become Boy Scouts now, Dornan said.
And the selection of fast-food executive Andrew Puzder to be secretary of Labor recalled that Puzder helped promote Carl’s Jr. hamburgers with racy television commercials, which “crushed the great legacy” of the Karcher family, Southern California Catholics who founded Carl’s Jr., Dornan said.
At least, Dornan said, Puzder had to acquire the hamburger chain by using a hostile takeover.
The Los Angeles Times posted on December 8 that Puzder “turned around the Southern California-based parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s with…women hawking oversized burgers in racy ads.”
“But on the positive side,” Dornan told The Wanderer, “I’m absolutely in awe of Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway” as Trump’s campaign manager and strategist.
Overall, Dornan predicted, Trump’s cabinet “will be as solid as any since Ronald Reagan’s.”
However, Reince Priebus, head of the Republican National Committee and Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff, “has taken a bad rap from conservatives,” Dornan said.
“I think he did a stalwart job of trying to get Republicans to come back on the reservation” after some prominent Republicans backed away from Trump as he campaigned for the presidency.
As for accusations that Russia was committing some monstrous violation if indeed it tried to influence the U.S. election, national radio talk host Sean Hannity recalled on December 13 that it was fact, not speculation, that Obama sent a campaign team to Israel to try to defeat conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu there in 2015.
Arizona conservative GOP political consultant Constantin Querard told The Wanderer on December 12 that countries take their turns interfering with each other.
“Is Russia working on hacking us? For sure they are, as are the Chinese. And I assume we’re doing the same back,” Querard said. “It’s like Cold War spying. Everyone is doing it, everyone denies it, every once in a while someone gets caught doing it, and the world finds its nearest fainting couch, then everyone goes back to doing it.”
But that’s not the same thing as Russia trying to make Trump win, Querard said.
“Russia had its way with Obama, and likely would have continued to do so with Hillary, so it seems unlikely that they were opposed to Hillary winning,” he said. “Then again, Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager for much of his campaign, had a long and seamy history with at least one dictator and assorted Putin allies, so who’s to say that they didn’t have a preference?
“Now, did they interfere in the election? I have no idea,” Querard said, “but if they did, they weren’t the ones who convinced the Democrats to run the one candidate who could lose the race, nor did they convince Hillary to ignore Wisconsin and elsewhere, or to fail to deliver an economic message, etc. She was a terrible candidate who ran a terrible race and still barely lost. Hard to see how Russia gets the blame for that.”
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British conservative commentator Tim Stanley posted at CNN on December 13: “Donald Trump is…trying to reset U.S. policy toward Russia to begin a constructive dialogue. For this, he ought to be applauded. Instead, he is almost accused of treachery. The situation is surreal. . . .
“If I sound cynical, then it’s because I am,” Stanley said. “The core of senators demanding an investigation of Russian involvement — Chuck Schumer, Jack Reed, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham — are two Democrats who have votes to win on this issue and two Republicans who are prominent neoconservatives. . . .
“For Trumpites, the Cold War was a struggle with an atheist, socialist superpower that had to be won. Once it was over and Russia reverted to its Christian roots, Moscow evolved from an enemy to a cultural ally in the far more relevant conflict with radical Islam,” Stanley said.
Trumpites differ with the viewpoint of the “Russophobic neocons,” Stanley said.
Republican McCain jumping into the controversy about Russia made Arizona conservative GOP activist Rob Haney recall why he tried to persuade voters to defeat McCain in his re-election race to the U.S. Senate in November — McCain’s capacity to stir up trouble against Trump. Haney told The Wanderer on December 12:
“Being well acquainted with McCain’s record, I campaigned in vain to have Republicans vote for the Democrat who ran against McCain in the November 2016 contest. I was absolutely convinced that if McCain were elected, he would do more damage to Trump, the Republican Party, and the country than any Democrat could.
“Shortly before the election, McCain proclaimed that he would not vote for Trump. He has since come out against Trump’s stronger plans to address terrorists and keep Guantanamo open. McCain also…pushed for an investigation of the fake news story of the Russians hacking the presidential election to benefit Trump. McCain is the epitome of a Democrat representative and the perfect example as to why we should have term limits,” Haney said.
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