IRONY: Panicky CBS Staffers Prove They Understood Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Language All Along
With their own jobs suddenly on the line, they're using the same line they once demonized
After feigning outrage over Trump’s use of ‘bloodbath’ to describe a financial collapse, the Media (D) are suddenly echoing his own language now that the ax might fall on them.
Oops. There’s another macabre image. I wonder if they’d understand it’s metaphorical. Oh, right. It affects them, so they’ll understand.
Remember attempt at ginning up the ‘bloodbath’ scandal?
Roll back the clock to March of 2024. Dems decided they would be able to skip the primaries and acclaim a turnip as their nominee for re-election without anyone really noticing, while Trump faced wave after wave of criminal allegations by prosecutors who themselves had plenty of mischief for which they needed to answer.
Shockingly, the allegations and charges were going nowhere. The public had grown weary of the politics of personal destruction and were rallying around Trump despite it all. Looking for a new angle of outrage, preferably one that could invoke J6 imagery, they thought they had found the answer when Trump made a prediction about what would happen to the markets — and specifically the auto industry — if Trump’s re-election bid should fail. The line, in context was difficult to misinterpret by anyone of honest intent.
Trump, March 16: China now is building a couple of massive plants where they’re going to build the cars in Mexico and think, they think, that they’re going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border. Let me tell you something to China, if you’re listening President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now, and you think you’re going to get that, you’re going to not hire Americans, and you’re going to sell the cars to us? No. We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars. If I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath, for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars. —Factcheck
The same Presstitutes who looked us in the eye and called the 2020 riots ‘mostly peaceful’ told us with absolute certainty that Trump was invoking J6 riots if his side were to lose the 2024 election. You know, the guys who somehow fail to wring their hands when Tesla dealerships get firebombed, or when violent leftists in Seattle attack a Christian open-air celebration that was given a city permit to use the park.
How did the press report the Bloodbath statement?
Supposedly ‘objective’ news outlets ranging from Rueuter to Politico, from CBS to CNN to ABC, from WaPo to the NYTimes… example after example of online reporting at the time ran with the ridiculous claim that Trump was calling for mass violence if he didn’t win.
It quickly became part of Joe’s cynical campaign rhetoric.
When Trump’s team tried to correct the record, pointing to obvious contemporary uses of ‘bloodbath’ as a descriptor of economic collapse, the media doubled down and amplified the left’s version of the ‘bloodbath’ narrative.
But now CBS is in dire straits and panicky staffers have forgotten about protecting narratives, while concerned primarily over whether they will still have a job in the morning.
In that context, they gave the game away:
Insiders have told the Daily Mail that morale has plummeted across the network, from the flagship Sunday news show 60 Minutes to CBS Mornings, sparked by a looming $8.4 billion merger and a $20 billion lawsuit.
The tumult is turning into a ‘bloodbath’, one employee said, with feverish speculation rife among colleagues as to who will get the axe next.
Tensions are running particularly high about reports that CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, is preparing to slash $500 million in costs in preparation for the lucrative merger with Skydance Media against the backdrop of a ratings freefall.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s legal action against 60 Minutes over claims that an interview with former presidential candidate Kamala Harris was deceptively edited continues to cause deep division. — DailyMail
Hold on. What was that? Is Freddy Kruger terrorizing staffers with his custom glove? Some guy with a hatchet is running through the cubicles? How many casualties ARE there?
Oh right. It’s a metaphor.
We knew that all along. And if they possessed the tiniest shred of honesty, they would admit that they did too. But feigning outrage got them the result they were pressing for, and pushed the public in the direction they wanted.
Trump is suing See-BS, and that’s good.
But if we’re being honest? The GOP would be within its rights to jackhammer every one of the ‘objective’ media outlets that ran this story, and so many others. This wasn’t merely biased. It was deliberately deceptive, with the intent of prejudicing the public against voting in support of the GOP.
If the media is so quick to give grave warnings about ‘misinformation’, they should be ready to pay a price when it turns out they are the chief manufacturer and distributer of it.