You might be hearing how great Kamala Harris is from every working speaker and television screen, but the truth is that the Democrat complex has found itself in a nightmare scenario. Harris is not a good candidate. She was wildly unpopular for years, both during the 2020 election and while VP to Joe Biden. She’s awkward, she’s inarticulate, she’s impersonal, she’s plastic, and she has no real accomplishments to her name.
Which means the media has a huge job to do in making Harris look like one of the greatest candidates America has ever seen, and according to a new study, they’re working around the clock to make this nightmare candidate look like a dream.
According to the Media Research Center, the media is skewing favorable coverage to Harris by a huge amount. This isn’t necessarily a new thing. The corporate media sector has always slanted so far to the left that it’s fallen over. However, the lengths they’re going to do it is pretty incredible:
Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative).
And it’s not just the amount of positive spin, it’s the way they’re spinning it according to the MRC:
As always, our calculation of spin omits so-called “horse race” assessments (see methodology statement below), but a separate count shows those statements have also favored Harris by a whopping margin (94% positive, vs. just 43% positive for Trump). At the same time, the network coverage has virtually eliminated any discussion of the strident left-wing positions Harris took as Senator or during her 2020 presidential campaign. And while Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance and his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, have received nearly equal amounts of airtime, the networks have celebrated Walz (62% positive press) and punished Vance (92% negative).
Moreover, the corporate media has all but eliminated talk about the controversies happening within the Democrat Party, such as the backstabbing of Joe Biden, Tim Walz’s stolen valor, and Harris’s lack of any accomplishment to speak of. To give you an idea of how in the pocket they are for Harris, the fact that she hasn’t even talked to them has only received 57 seconds of air time over the past four weeks.
Then there’s the fact that it’s portraying Harris as having a massive amount of momentum, backed up by polls that should be about as trusted as a fox around an unguarded hen house.
From July 21 to August 17, evening news viewers heard 192 positive statements about Harris’s huge crowds, fundraising success, and momentum in the polls, vs. only 12 negative such assessments, for a 94% positive horse race score.
There were far fewer such statements about former President Trump’s campaign standings: 21 positive vs. 28 negative, for a 43% positive/57% negative score.
Again, the media going hard for a Democrat is more than expected, but the way it’s running the machine harder and longer than it ever has before is a testament to just how much work it requires to keep a woman like Harris looking like a viable candidate. This is every machine in the hospital keeping a campaign that should be (and likely will be) dying a quick death on life support.
It’s unclear how the media will keep it afloat once the initial hype around the Harris campaign begins to fade, which is something that can be felt in the air now in spite of the “joy” and “electricity” around the DNC. I predicted this a while back, calling it the “Disney dip,” as America is slightly attracted to the shiny new candidate and then watch as the excitement quickly wanes when they figure out the product is garbage.
(READ: Kamala Harris Needs to Prepare Herself for the Disney Star Wars Effect)
Regardless, the power of the corporate media shouldn’t necessarily be laughed at. The polls and the momentum might be fake, but many people don’t know that. They’ll be reminded when their bills continue to come in, and they remember that Harris is partly responsible.
