The political dictionary has been hijacked. Words that once defined unspeakable evil are now thrown around like confetti at a parade, deployed by the Left and their media lapdogs to score cheap political points. It’s a disgrace. They’re not trying to describe history; they’re trying to manufacture a scandal and annihilate anyone who steps outside their tiny ideological box.
This isn’t just an argument over words; it’s a vicious game with ugly consequences. When the media establishment decides to brand an American citizen with the most toxic label imaginable, they are playing with fire. They are signaling to their radical base that their opponents are not just people they disagree with, but monsters who must be destroyed. It’s a cynical and deeply dishonest strategy, and as a recent example of jaw-dropping hypocrisy shows, their moral outrage is a complete and total fraud.
From The Post ‘Millennial:
After New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did the same “Nazi salute” gesture that got wall-to-wall coverage from the legacy media when Elon Musk did it during Trump’s inauguration, the legacy media and left-wing politicians who condemned Musk at the time have been silent on the issue.
After Elon Musk gestured and said, “My heart goes out to you,” when Trump won the 2024 election, there was coverage from various legacy media outlets characterizing the gesture as a “Nazi salute.” Some reports at the time included Politico, CNN, MSNBC, and others. Those legacy outlets, however, have not reported on Mamdani’s gesture performed on Thursday.
You remember the media meltdown following President Donald Trump’s 2024 inauguration. When Elon Musk, an American innovator who has built more and risked more than his critics could dream of, raised his hand in a simple gesture of support, the media piranhas smelled blood in the water. In a coordinated hit job that you could set your watch to, outlets from CNN to MSNBC tripped over themselves to declare he had performed a “Nazi salute.” It was a vile, pathetic lie, but it served its purpose: smear a successful, independent man and link him to pure evil, all because he dared show respect for our Republican president.
The message from our media overlords was unmistakable: get in line, or we will ruin you. They set the standard themselves. This gesture, they shrieked, was an unforgivable sin.
A Tale of Two Salutes
Now, let’s zip over to this week in New York City. The city’s new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, stood before his adoring fans and made a nearly identical gesture. He placed his hand over his heart and then raised it to the crowd with a straight, extended arm. It was all on video. And what happened next? The same media outlets that threw a week-long tantrum over Elon Musk’s wave went quiet. Crickets. Absolute, deafening silence from our supposed guardians of truth.
Shocked? Of course you’re not. There were no breaking news banners on CNN. No grave, hand-wringing panels on MSNBC about the normalization of hate. The New York Times and The Washington Post, which dedicated forests’ worth of paper to dissecting Musk’s gesture, suddenly developed a case of journalistic amnesia. For a darling of the radical Left, the gesture was apparently a non-issue. The hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
This is the fundamental difference between the two Americas on display today. While the Left and its media allies obsess over cheap, hypocritical theater and witch hunts, they ignore real-world results. Their manufactured fury over a hand wave is a pathetic distraction from the work of real leadership, like President Trump’s historic peace deal in the Middle East that brought our hostages home. One side builds a stronger nation. The other just tears good people down.
Key Takeaways
- The legacy media selectively weaponizes outrage to attack its political opponents.
- Leftist politicians hold their enemies to a standard they refuse to apply to themselves.
- This coordinated hypocrisy is designed to protect their political allies from scrutiny.
- Real leadership is measured by tangible results, not by partisan media games.
Sources: The Post Millennial
