The Joe Biden-era FBI’s Arctic Frost operation — which targeted nearly every facet of the Republican Party and the conservative movement — was described Wednesday as “100 times worse than Watergate,” but the propaganda press still chose to ignore it. Larger new outlets turned a blind eye to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s press conference detailing how the FBI tried to tank President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign by using its authority to invasively gather data on some 430 Republican individuals and entities.
The New York Times saw fit to omit the disgraceful misuse of the Department of Justice (DOJ) from its front page. The Gray Lady’s traditional motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” but it should be “All the news that is fit to print if we say it is important and after we have massaged the messaging.” The New York Times used a good chunk of its front page real estate Thursday for a story about the historically black Talladega College, which is selling its black history art murals to avert a financial crisis.
The Washington Post front page ignored Arctic Frost too, using its space for a riveting story about how long people must wait on hold when they call the Social Security Administration. It is “A maddening ordeal for callers,” the Post reported, stating the obvious.
It was the same on the CNN, ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News websites. Not a word Thursday morning about Arctic Frost and how former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team issued 197 subpoenas desperately seeking legitimate reasons to stop Trump’s presidential campaign. (CNN did find it important to report on “ethical carnivores” harvesting road kill though.)
According to a statement from the Senate Judiciary Committee, the 197 subpoenas the corporate press is not talking about were seeking:
Communications with media companies such as CBS, Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, Sinclair and others.
Communications with “any member, employee or agent of the Legislative Branch of the U.S. Government.”
Communications with White House advisors, such as Stephen Miller, Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner, Lara Trump and others.
Statistical data and analysis relating to donors and fundraising efforts.
Broad financial data relating to conservative individuals and entities.
If the firepower of the federal government’s well-resourced FBI investigated and surveilled the entire Democrat Party, with no legitimate probable cause, with the intent of destroying the party — as Biden’s government did to Republicans — the media would run nonstop hysterical coverage. But in the case of Arctic Frost, the corporate media ignores or downplays the scandal, and in doing so helps shield the Democrat perpetrators from accountability.
No doubt before long we will hear, “Why are you still talking about Biden’s term?” And the media will spin Arctic Frost as a right-wing conspiracy theory instead of explaining the troubling, likely criminal overreach, and exploring the very real possibility that the DOJ and FBI could still be infected with people who engaged in these warrantless, partisan investigations.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
