The Pravda Media is, despite the evidence before our eyes that they should have the credibility of a Soviet Commissar at best and Baghdad Bob in most cases, still has the power to create illusions that large numbers of people take at face value.
It seems odd that anybody still believes them, but time and again we are reminded that a good chunk of the population will take anything written in The New York Times, The Atlantic, or Scientific American as gospel.
For years the public was inundated with propaganda insisting that Donald Trump stole the 2016 election–ah, the good ol’ days when “election denial” was patriotic and not insurrection-y–colluding with Vladimir Putin to steal the election from the rightful Queen of the American people, Hillary Clinton.
Column 2 is up: @RasmussenPolls preview reveals majority of Dems still believe the Russia collusion hoax was real https://t.co/YsWtH7zgFP
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) July 14, 2025
The New York Times and Washington Post received the once-prestigious Pulitzer Prize for covering the Russia Collusion story, which was nothing more than a Clinton Campaign hoax about which Barack Obama had been briefed.
The hoax was exposed in 2019, when the Mueller Report debunked it all.
That doesn’t matter, though. Most Democrats still believe it, six years after the accusations were proven to be false.
A new Rasmussen poll to be published Monday morning shows a majority of Democrats still believe the Russia collusion hoax, even though it has been debunked repeatedly.
Astonishingly, 60% of Democratic voters still think “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election”, according to the poll of 1,014 Likely Voters conducted on July 6-7.
A whopping 69 percent of liberal voters still cling to the Russia collusion hoax, compared to 27 percent of conservatives, and 45 percent of moderates. Among all voters, more believe it unlikely (49 percent) than likely (42 percent).
The fact that liberals and Democrats still believe in the hoax is likely a reflection of their preferred media outlets, such as the New York Times, which refuses to hand back its ill-gotten Pulitzers, and MSNBC, which pays discredited plotters such as former CIA director John Brennan and former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissman to act out their Trump derangement on air.
Media malfeasance is nothing new. In fact, Pravda has perfected the technique over the decades. And if it weren’t for the explosion of sources enabled by the internet, it wouldn’t just be 70% of liberal voters still believing the Russia hoax, but closer to 90% of all voters. Anybody who believed the truth would be a “conspiracy theorist.”
As much as we think that the media is self-discrediting, the fact is that it takes years for people to realize that they are being lied to all the time. And for the people who consider themselves “informed” because they read what Pravda pumps out on a daily basis, it is almost impossible to dislodge their belief that they are getting the straight scoop.
This is poisonous for our public discourse. Liberals live in a different reality than the rest of us–a Truman Show created by content producers. The January 6th Committee was, quite literally, a TV production run by an ABC producer. It wasn’t a Congressional hearing–it was a show trial. Here’s how PBS described the setup:
KELLY: All right. What kind of spectacle are we going to see tomorrow night?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, it’ll – seems as though it’ll start pretty conventionally. You’ll have the chairman, Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, and Congresswoman Liz Cheney, Republican from Wyoming, give their opening statements. And then we’re going to see unfold what is supposed to be kind of a television spectacle. You’ll have two witnesses, a guard and a documentary filmmaker, there that day. And we’re supposed to see a narrative being presented with something of a narrative storytelling arc – think of “20/20,” “Dateline” NBC – with not just moments, but a story that has dramatic tension building up with revelations along the way using real footage, using real documents, using apparently previously undisclosed White House official photographs from that day to piece together a narrative of what the chairman has said he believes was an attempt to essentially thwart democracy.
KELLY: What’s the thinking behind presenting it this way?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, there’s a desire to make sure this punches through, that it’s compelling on TV. There’s a worry that it will be politicized, as it has already been dismissed by House Republicans and allies of former President Donald Trump, or simply ignored. And they want it to burst through.
Conservatives are more likely to notice that the “news” is just highly produced propaganda because we see how misrepresented we are. We have direct experience that contradicts what they are saying about us. Liberals, because they are flattered and portrayed as good people on the news, eat it all up.
Everybody likes to be told that they are the good guys and people they disagree with are the bad guys, and it works.
Much of the division in our society can be traced to the media’s emphasis on a narrative of good versus evil.
Lying media folks are much more dangerous and destructive than lying politicians. We all expect politicians to spin things and not be above spinning a tale or two. But many people still believe that the media plays it straight down the middle.
The result? Things like this–7 out of 10 liberals still believe a hoax.
They are Blue-Anon.
