How Mainstream Media Will Protect Harris-Walz Against Real Journalists

Somewhere in the afterworld, Grigory Potemkin is laughing like a crazed hyena, thanks to the way America’s Mainstream Media (MSM) is extending its kid-glove treatment of President Joe Biden to his chosen successor, Vice-President Kamala Harris.

If you are unfamiliar with Potemkin, he was a Russian military leader and lover of Empress Catherine during the late 18th century. She was on a river tour to the Ukraine during which he allegedly constructed elaborate building facades that were erected, disassembled, and then repeatedly reassembled a little further downriver. The intended effect was to fool Catherine into thinking all that uncomfortable talk from the Tsarist regime’s critics about peasant poverty, deteriorating housing, and spreading despair must be nothing more than malicious lies because everything she saw looked just fine.

There are credible doubts about some aspects of that story, but there is no doubt that the Potemkin Village of the Stalin era (and succeeding generations of Leftist propaganda) was all too real. As Sheila Fitzpatrick wrote in her “The Potemkin Village:”

“The Potemkin village existed for the benefit of the educated Soviet public-even to some degree for the benefit of peasants. Like other socialist-realist representations of the Stalin period, the image of the New Soviet Village so lovingly created in newspapers, movies, political speeches, and official statistics was not life as it was, but life as good Soviet citizens hoped it was be-coming. The Potemkin village was a preview of the coming attractions of socialism.” […]

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