There’s a very good chance Kamala Harris is going to win the election. There’s also quite a substantial chance Donald Trump can pull it off. Whichever the losing side will be, many of its members surely will insist the election was “rigged.” I won’t wait that long, I’ll tell you right now: no matter who wins, the election’s already rigged – in favor of the Democrats. No, not because of boxes pulled out from under tables, suspect Venezuelan vote-counting machines, or ‘mules’ making midnight ballot dumps in dropboxes. That would be like identifying organized crime in America by mentioning random incidents of lone punk kids stealing merchandise from local Walmarts. The equivalent of organized crime in terms of election rigging is the collective – and at times, collaborative – efforts of the media, Big Tech, academia, Hollywood – and yes, in Trump’s case, because of his erratic nature, even a sizable segment of Wall Street. These forces operate on a national level, influencing minds one voter at a time. It’s so well-oiled a syndicate that Charlie Luciano would be proud.

As you’re reading this, schoolteachers and college professors nationwide betray their professions by imposing their political opinions upon their impressionable students. Intellectual harassment, I call it. Films and television shows portray Hollywood’s interpretation of MAGA, to the horror of millions of viewers who deem it factual. Wall Street – which above all wants market stability and thereby shudders at the thought of another Trump rollercoaster ride – lambastes both Trump and Harris as being tariff mongers, but prefers Harris because she’s likely to toe the establishment line to a greater extent than Trump. And big tech, with the notable exception of Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter), relentlessly perpetuates these distortions. Then, there’s the most sinister culprit of all, the media.

Consider the ABC debate between Trump and Harris. ABC’s owned by Disney, whose Disney Entertainment division oversees all of the company’s TV and film enterprises (except ESPN), including ABC. Disney Entertainment’s co-chair is Dana Walden, who’s been friends with Harris for over 30 years and has been donating to Harris’ political campaigns consistently for over 20 years. Walden insists there’s no conflict of interest there, wink-wink.

Enter debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, who infamously spewed fact checking counters to Trump’s allegations, but granted Harris amnesty. Davis admitted to the Los Angeles Times in a post-debate interview that her decision to preemptively fact check Trump stemmed from his June debate (with Joe Biden) comments, namely Trump’s claim that in some states it’s legal to kill a baby after it’s born as a result of a botched abortion attempt.

First of all, it’s not a debate moderator’s place to take it upon him/herself to set the record straight. A moderator’s job is to ask questions (hopefully evenhanded ones, but don’t hold your breath) and keep time. That’s it. Second, if a moderator’s going to step outside the boundaries of his/her role and factcheck, then certainly such fact checking should apply equally to both candidates. But in this case, Harris wasn’t factchecked at all – not even once. And here are some whoppers she told during the debate, falsehoods she’s been using to deceive voters for years.
Perhaps most notorious of all is Harris’ perpetuation of the Great Biden Lie: his claim that Trump called neo-Nazis in Charlottesville “very fine people,” which was the basis of Biden’s 2020 presidential run. Team Biden played it smart: they counted on their media messenger boys to perpetuate that falsehood, and on those of the American Sheeple who tend to vote Democrat – who are also not-so-coincidentally the ones who still tend to trust the media – to read it in the New York Times, Washington Post, or see it on CNN, and thus conclude it must be true.

Now Harris is riding that wave. The story’s been debunked all over the place – not least of which back in 2020 in my book ‘Trumped-Up Charges!’, to which I devote an entire chapter, replete with sources – and yet Linsey Davis sits by idly and stays mum.

Then, there was Harris’ preposterous claim that Trump is against In-Vitro-Fertilization (IVF). Although other Republicans oppose that practice, Trump is a strong advocate.

Harris knows it, but she figures that with most of the media obsessing over “Trump’s lies,” she can lie all she wants to and sail under the radar. But Davis knows it too, and again sits still like a mute statue.
Arguably the most annoying of Harris’ lies, one parroted by legions of feckless minions throughout the country, is that the centerpiece of Trump’s platform is the…gasp…dreaded 2025 Project. To my knowledge (I haven’t read it nor will I, and I haven’t heard any Republican ever mention it), it’s a policy paper written by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. Trump has overtly, repeatedly, and unequivocally disavowed it. He says he’s never even read it, nor plans to, and I believe him. I’m guessing it contains some views considered so extreme by some on the Left that Democratic strategists aim to horrify them by linking those views to Trump himself. Again, not a peep out of Davis. Oh, and David Muir sat there like a mannequin too, every bit as unwilling to level the fact checking playing field.

It’s not that Trump’s entirely blameless for his own debate performance. The moderators didn’t make him say Haitian PHIs (Persons Here Illegally) eat pets in Springfield, OH, and they didn’t force him to obsess about his rally crowd sizes. But the rest of the mainstream media was all too eager to bellow that Harris trounced Trump in the debate.
What good, obedient little soldiers Davis and Muir are, sitting on Dana Walden Pond.