In a panel discussion over the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, CNN panelists once again insulted President Trump and accused him of attempting to create a state-run media.

Joining the panel was Democratic Representative Dan Goldman of New York, who criticized media companies for not opposing the Trump administration with sufficient vigor and who then compared the President to a crime kingpin.

"The companies that continue to cave to this completely improper behavior. And we saw it with ABC when they settled. We've saw it with CBS. We now see it again with ABC. We've seen it with tech companies. We've seen it with law firms," Rep. Goldman said. He then continued with his insult to the President: "Donald Trump is a bully. He is a wannabe mob boss who will push the envelope to the end of the earth."

The panel then swiveled to Meghan Hays, a Democrat "communications executive" who was special assistant to President Biden from 2021 to 2022. 

"We are running dangerously close to state-run media" Hayes opined, continuing: "We are losing our democracy. They are dismantling democracy by doing this."

Left-wing Strategy

It is standard left-wing propaganda strategy to accuse their opponents of that which leftists are themselves guilty.

If any side of the political aisle is guilty of "dismantling democracy" it is the Democrats and the extreme socialists of the far left. From the illegal immigration scheme that saw them attempt to replace the existing American electorate with a massive surge of new illegal Democrat voters to very dark and questionable policy changes governing voting and vote counting, over the last few elections the Democrats have engaged in a tremendous conspiracy to cheat the American people out of free and fair elections. 

An incredible insider account of just how the Democrats worked to undermine elections was published in Time magazine on February 4, 2020. 

"There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes," Molly Ball wrote. She then described the efforts undertaken by those involved in the "conspiracy":

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.

In addition to a conspiracy to alter democracy in their favor, contrary to Meghan Hays' accusations that Trump is creating a state-run media, the fact is that for decades we have had a de-facto state-run media working on behalf of the international socialist agenda pursued by the Democrats.

For example, Mike Benz pointed out on X.com in a post on Sept. 17 that "the Biden Admin paid Reuters over $300 million in government contracts." Benz, a former State Department official, continued: "11 different Biden government agencies targeted Elon's businesses. All 11 agencies paid millions to Reuters. Reuters then won the Pulitzer Prize for 'their work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses."

To these findings, Elon Musk replied: "What a Scam!

Utah Senator Mike Lee, in his own reply, accurately noted: "This is what fascism looks like."

The fact is that mainstream media has been a one-party operation for many years, and it has gotten worse over time.

In 2022 a study from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University found just how lopsided the bias in the media really is. The study reported that "Journalists who said they were Republicans continued to drop from 18 percent in 2002 and 7.1 percent in 2013 to 3.4 percent in 2022." 

By 2022, the Democrat side of the equation had reach 36 percent, with about half of all journalists claiming to be independent. Many of those, possibly most of them, lean strongly to left side of the aisle as well.

If there is or has been an effort to create and operate a state-run media, it's a one-sided affair, and its all on the Democrat side of the aisle.