MIDLIFE MINI-19, Thursday, October 12, 2023 – The American Democrat Party is Dead.

MIDLIFE MINI-19, Thursday, October 12, 2023 – The American Democrat Party is Dead.

The enemy is within, like the proverbial cancer on the body politic, it has metastasized, taking one of the two parties within the system with it.

We are confronted with the art of propaganda – journalistic malfeasance – daily.

Here, we have the The Daily Beast’s faux reporting in an attempt to malign Newsmax, specifically Eric Bolling, the producer and host of The Balance, in an interview with, “Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz” (1.).

That is a pretty longwinded title for Dershowitz, and to lead with it, it is a fallacy, an appeal to authority in an effort to support the headline, followed by reporting that is factually incorrect.

Let us start with the false headline, the drive-by, and for some, the bait-click.

“Alan Dershowitz Calls Out Newsmax Host Eric Bolling in Tense Interview,” but he did not, what he did was obfuscate the truth about the current diseased state of the American Democrat Party (1.).

The lead-in:

“Harvard Law School professor emeritus on Wednesday took issue with Newsmax host Eric Bolling’s characterization of the attitude toward the Israel-Hamas conflict among those on the left” (1.).

Like the headline, the lead-in is also incorrect. Bolling very specifically noted that the Left, including the extreme Left, are some of the most vocal and influential members of the Democrat Party, and that they represent in part the Party’s position on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

As reported, “Bolling began by mentioning the Chicago chapter of the Black Lives Matter group posting—and then backtracking on—a message that seemed to support Hamas militants, and how BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors called for the ‘end’ of Israel during a 2015 Harvard Law School panel. The conservative Newsmax host also pointed out that more than 30 student groups at Harvard signed a letter declaring that Israel is ‘entirely responsible’ for the current situation.

“’What’s going on with the new American Democrat?’ Bolling asked Dershowitz, a Democrat” (1.).

So, what is there for Dershowitz to refute?

“’Well, it’s not Democrats,’ he replied. ‘Democrats are very strongly supportive of Israel. Biden made speeches three times in the last five to six days. I don’t think Israel could ask for anything more from the Democratic Party. It’s these fringe groups on the hard left, the woke progressives, the Socialist Democrats of America who support Hamas, these Black Lives Matter groups in Chicago that support Hamas’” (1.).

Unwittingly, Dershowitz just described the leading elements of the Democrat Party, and what groups and what narratives have prevailed for the past several years. Dershowitz then attempts to distance himself, and the Democrat Party, from the Party itself, yet he cannot have it both ways.

Separately, note that References (2.) and (3.) give account of President Biden, and the Biden Administration’s, response to the terrorist attack on Israel. It must also be noted that any accounting of Biden’s response be understood within the context of the Administration’s complicity towards Iran, and let us not overlook the irony in Biden’s own words.

“In his televised remarks later, Biden issued a blunt warning.

“’Israel has a right to defend itself and its people - full stop,’ he said. ‘Let me say this as clearly as I can. This is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage. The world is watching’” (3.).