As the mainstream media struggles to find a new identity without having to criticize President Trump at every turn, critics have noted that many liberal news organizations have tried to make the QAnon conspiracy theory his latest foil in the post-Trump world.
“The media has teamed up with Democrats to share the point that Republicans are QAnon’s party,” NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham told Fox News, saying it was absurd to see QAnon as the new face of the GOP. to paint.
“QAnon people were Trump supporters, but to compare it to the Republicans is a bit like saying that the Democrats are communists, because factions of the old Communist Party USA endorsed a strategy in 2016 for Hillary Clinton to vote, “Graham added.
“No one will ever ask the Democrats to explicitly deny the Communist Party’s approval, because it’s ridiculous that someone accepts that Democrats and Communists are the same thing.”
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But the mainstream media has spent a lot of time on QAnon at the GOP over the past few weeks. Liberal CNN host Chris Cuomo was perhaps the worst when he recently named Republicans the official party of QAnon. The conspiracy theory focused on the unfounded belief that Trump was waging a secret campaign against enemies in the ‘deep state’ and a child trafficking. ring ruled by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.
“I say the new party is the GOP-Q,” Cuomo said last week, continuing to mock the Republican Party by adding: “And it shows that they are actually embracing diversity, because they just created the QAnon wing. “
CNN host Chris Cuomo recently called the Republicans the official part of QAnon.
Cuomo’s colleague, CNN host Don Lemon, replied that he preferred the monk “Q-Trumplican Party” when trying to belittle conservatives.
Tom Elliot, founder of Grabien Media, has been watching the media industry for a living and seeing a trend since President Biden took office.
“While Trump is gone, the media needs a new boogeyman, and the past two weeks’ coverage shows that they are exchanging Trump for his dying base, accusing them of being conspiracy theorists,” Elliot told Fox News. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Was ‘the obvious focal point’ of liberal cable news hosts.
“Of course there are worrying conspiracy tendencies in modern America, but it is false and counterproductive to indicate that it is a phenomenon that is unique on the right,” Elliot said.
“What this represents is a much bigger problem than QAnon and the Republican Party, as the media wrongly suggests. The real problem is the disintegration of trust between average Americans and institutions like the media itself.”
Elliot feels that confidence in the media is waning during Trump’s term in the White House, and that Americans are consequently more likely to believe strange and irrational theories.
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‘When the alleged source of fact-checked information becomes a front for obsessive conspiracy – as happened during the Trump era during the false Russiagate scandal, the people stop, rationally, to trust the news, and as soon as it happens, they are more willing to believe just about anything, ‘Elliot said.
“If the big media wants to solve a problem like QAnon, they must first look at their own role in this mess.”
Conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News that QAnon is simply ‘the new thing for all those who are dogmatically left’, and liberal experts such as Cuomo and Lemon like to link it to the GOP.
“This is a pure fabrication by a media that is desperate to continue their 24/7 Trump unrest,” Barron said.
The hyperpartisan CNN aired special offers for QAnon, sent reporter Donie O’Sullivan to a rally of supporters in Arizona, appointed a former cult member to write an op-ed comparing his experiences with QAnon believers and even a former QAnon fan invited. on the network to talk to Anderson Cooper.
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Former QAnon believer Jitarth Jadeja told Cooper that he once believed the liberal CNN host “drank the blood of children” and “ate babies” because he was singled out by Q. CNN is using the interview to promote an hour-long special, “Inside the QAnon Conspiracy,” which aired last month.
CNN is not alone in its endless QAnon coverage, as many of the liberal media are in love with the unhindered theory. Recent opinion pieces from the New York Times have the headlines: “The QAnon error has not weakened its grip”, “QAnon Believers are obsessed with Hillary Clinton,” and “Three weeks
inside a Pro-Trump QAnon chat room “has hit the Gray Lady since Inauguration Day.
MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” is even mentioned Ben Collins, NBC News staff as a “reporter covering QAnon” for a graphic image. Meanwhile, photos of the so-called QAnon Shaman – a man arrested during the riot in the Capitol, wearing a Viking costume and face paint and now jailed in Virginia – have become ubiquitous with the reporting.
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” which typically coincides with left-wing ideology and has been relentlessly ridiculed by Trump for years, referred to QAnon during a sham pizza ad on Saturday, suggesting that conspiracy theory is essentially a household name among progressives .
Washington Times columnist and political satirist Tim Young believes the big media’s obsession with QAnon has led to reporters and experts who are essentially experts on the conspiracy.
“Not only do I think the mainstream media is trying to make QAnon the face of the Republican Party. I want to be willing to bet that most members of the mainstream media know more about Q and his theories than most Republicans,” Young said. said Fox News.
“They are obsessed with it, because now that Trump has lost, they had to shift their goalposts from winning to silence all Republicans.”
“They are adamant about it, because now that Trump has lost, they had to shift their goalposts from winning to silence all Republicans,” Young continued. And what better way to do that than to try to make all members of the IDP, not just an infinitely small group, believe this nonsense. ‘
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Controversial first-year member Greene has received a lot of media attention over the past few days. Last week, House Democrats took the unprecedented step of removing her from two committee assignments because they advocated violence and QAnon conspiracy theories on social media before she was elected to Congress in November. Greene has since tried to distance himself from the movement.
Republicans have strongly endorsed Greene’s comments in the past, but ties to QAnon have made her a household name among cable news viewers. MSNBC’s Joy Reid recently discussed half of her hour-long program just Greene.
While Greene was condemned by many prominent members of the IDP, the party largely banned the House vote from removing Greene from the committees because they did not want the Democrats to interfere in IDP matters and set a new precedent. set to punish members for statements and postings they have made. before joining Congress.
CNN’s Cuomo admitted on Friday that he spends a lot of time covering a first-year member of Congress, but insisted that her story “illustrate everything” with the Republican Party.
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“Many of you are now saying, ‘Why are you paying so much attention to the QAnon lady?’ Because she’s all wrong with them, and our state of affairs.A QAnon cook, and the GOP-Q, just fought for her to be a leader in their ranks.This is the most striking example of how toxic things have become, ‘Cuomo said Friday.
Last month, CNN media expert Brian Stelter maintained that Greene would open doors for other “QAnon-curious” Republicans.
“It’s important to recognize that Congressman Greene is a smaller piece of a larger movement, of a larger phenomenon. Other Republicans who are also QAnon-curious and play to a conspiracy base,” Stelter said.
The New York Times reported last week that the Democratic congressional campaign committee spent $ 500,000 on ads that Republicans linked to QAnon, indicating that the media and Democrats are on the same page.
“Noticing a fringe element and trying to transform it in the face of the Republican Party is a well-developed media and democratic strategy.”
However, Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson does not think the tactic is anything new.
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“Paying attention to a fringe element and trying to change it in the face of the Republican Party is a well-developed media and democratic strategy,” Jacobson told Fox News.
“We saw it during the Tea Party movement, where you could hold a rally with thousands of people and hundreds of signs, but the media would concentrate on the small number of strange balls and the occasional offensive sign, and that plaster over the entire cover, “Jacobson said. prosecute. “The attempt to make QAnon the face of the Republican Party is therefore in line with this strategy.”
Fox News’ Evie Fordham contributed to this report