The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Corporate Media is the Left's Soviet-Like ‘Propaganda Organ’

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

Look at some of the recent examples of what is factually accurate vs. what the media says: Trump pressed Cyril Ramaphosa on the “White Genocide” unfolding in his country = Trump ‘Ambushed’ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the oval office, pushes false claims. Two Israeli embassy employees were shot and killed by a pro-Palestine protester with ties to Left-wing groups = Amid Israeli’s ongoing war in Gaza, where thousands have perished, Elias Rodriguez, a Chicago native and activist, shot and killed two Israeli embassy employees. Over the past month, the corporate media, most namely CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, have proven, yet again, that they are a ‘Pravda-like propaganda organ’ for Left-wing causes: “We know what you're doing. You're trying to gin up momentum, enthusiasm, for a Left-wing cause that 50% of the population just doesn't support," argues Victor Davis Hanson on this bonus edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ 0:00 Introduction 1:06 Example of Media Bias: Ramaphosa's Visit 3:22 Case Study: Lischinsky and Milgrim Tragedy 4:35 Media's Role in Political Narratives 6:42 Conclusion and Call to Action #DailySignal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. How much has been said about the media, the mainstream media, the legacy media, there's not really much to add because we all know that it's not really a disinterested media, but it's kind of a probda like propaganda organ. We know what you're doing. You're trying to gen up momentum, enthusiasm for a left-wing cause that 50% of the population just doesn't support. This is a pattern and it won't stop. And the result is you wonder why when you look at liberal polls or liberal media, nobody has any confidence anymore. Nobody trusts you. It's like the Democratic operatives issue a probda-like order. And then these mindless people just say, okay, today's talking ports are...

Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. So much has been said about the media, the mainstream media, the legacy media. There's not really much to add because we all know that it's not really a disinterested media. but it's kind of a probda-like propaganda organ. I'll give you a few examples more recently. When Mr. Romposa came to the White House, the president of South Africa, did you see the word ambush? It was in every mainstream paper, every left-wing website, every radio, NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC. It's like the Democratic operatives issue a probda-like order.

And then these mindless people just say, okay, today's talking ports are he met Trump. He wasn't really surprised that Trump was going to confront him because he bragged that he was going to confront Trump. There was no secret place. It wasn't a sudden, unexpected attack from a secret place, the definition of an ambush, yet it was ambush, ambush, ambush, ambush, ambush. And when some questions arose about the visit, it was just typical. The press secretary, Caroline Levitt, fielded a question from an NPR. That's whom we hire an NPR journalist. And I hope we're not subsidizing that politically left organ anymore.

It's an agent of propaganda. But she was very angry because Donald Trump mentioned to President Romposa that see this picture of a thousand graves. And she said, well, he was lying. There weren't graves. And the press secretary replied back, they were commemorations. Each one of those crosses represents a dead South African who was murdered by virtue of his race. And she said, yes, but it's not.

So what they were arguing about, the NPR was semantics that Trump had improperly, and he had improperly, confused grave with Sintotaph, a Sinoetaph. That's Kinnos in Greek meaning empty. So these crosses were not on top of a dead person, but they represented a dead person. But NPR was so fixated on embarrassing the president that they didn't even want to discuss the fact that there were a thousand crosses. And they did represent individual lives destroyed because of their race. But she just wanted to make the point that you could nullify all of that and excuse it by saying they were not grazed but synotaphs. And there you have it. So lately, we see it everywhere.

And we had the tragic killing of Mr. Lyszynski and his fiancée, Ms. Milgram, at the two Jewish diplomatic workers in Washington. And what was interesting about, I've been reading the mainstream media accounts. So Elias Rodriguez goes in there. shoots, empties a gun 21 times, murders these wonderful couple, and then he yells Free Palestine, and they just can't resist. They have the description of the shooting. They mention who he was. They don't mention the left-wing groups that he worked with or the funding that came from places like the MacArthur Foundation that funded groups that he used to work for, or they don't mention the fact that his father attended Congress as a guest of a Democratic

congressman. But they do do this, about eight, usually about eight paragraphs down, they say, and tensions rose because of the Israeli assault on Gaza and the thousands of death. In other words, they're trying to contextualize the murder by saying that this person was driven to it in the manner perhaps like Luigi Mangione, who shot the United Healthcare Executive. In other words, there's always a contextualization. And when you start to add all of this stuff up, it all is in an atmosphere of Jake Tapper co-authoring this original sin book when he was one of the principal people who promulgated the idea that Joe Biden was completely fit

and anybody who questioned it, Lord Trump was a good example. He demonized and tried to destroy on national TV. Now he's going to make millions saying, I didn't do it. They did. And it's an indictment of the Biden circle who knew that he was cognitively challenged. We knew it. I shouldn't even say they knew. Everybody knew it. But they were prevented from commenting or they were demonized if they did comment by the media and by the Biden team. And this is on top of the fact that the media never even looked at the released records. They never even asked a question, as they did of Donald Trump's cognitive abilities.

They never said, did he have a PSA test? Trump, it's on his medical record. Obama did. They didn't ask any of these things. And now they're trying to say, we were hoodwink. No, you weren't hoodwinked. You were operating in the same fashion you did to promulgate the Russian collusion lie that you never apologized. The laptop disinformation lie that you've never apologized for.

The 51 intelligence authorities that you never apologized for. the partnering of the FBI with social media to censor the news before the 2020 election that you never talked about. This is a pattern, and it won't stop with this. And the result is you wonder why, whether when you look at liberal polls or liberal media, nobody has any confidence anymore. Nobody trust you. Don't you understand that when you say ambush, ambush, ambush, ambush, or you ask questions that don't even get to the point? Just a matter of semantics.

We know what you're doing. trying to gen up momentum, enthusiasm for a cause, a left-wing cause, that 50% of the population just doesn't support. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansson.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition. You know, Thank you.