ADAM WEISS: The Media’s Demonization Of The Right Has Consequenceshttps://dailycaller.com/2025/09/13/opinion-the-medias-demonization-of-the-right-has-consequences-adam-weiss/For decades, America’s media institutions have cultivated a narrative that paints conservatives as dangerous, regressive, even subhuman. Every nightly newscast, every editorial page, every so-called “analysis” drips with disdain for anyone who dares to challenge the progressive orthodoxy. You don’t just disagree with the left anymore; you’re smeared as a bigot, a fascist, or worse.
This relentless demonization isn’t harmless rhetoric. It creates an atmosphere where hostility toward the right feels not only acceptable but righteous. When the press treats millions of Americans like villains, it should not shock us when some unhinged individual takes that narrative literally and turns it into violence.
Words have consequences. The media knows this when it lectures conservatives about “dangerous speech” and “dog whistles.” It never looks in the mirror. When major outlets tell audiences day after day that Republicans are a threat to democracy, when they equate conservative beliefs with extremism, they are not just engaging in biased journalism. They are laying kindling for hatred, and sometimes that hatred combusts.
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That’s what the press has done to the right: it has turned millions of good, law-abiding Americans into cartoon villains in a morality play. For years, conservatives have been warning: when you keep telling people that a whole class of citizens are monsters, don’t be surprised when someone believes you — and acts accordingly.
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No individual act of violence can ever be excused. Personal responsibility matters. Yet individuals do not commit violence in a vacuum. They act within a culture shaped by institutions; none more influential than the media. When leading outlets tell the public that conservatives are existential threats to democracy, they normalize hostility against us. When commentators sneer that half the country is made up of racists, misogynists, and extremists, they legitimize rage against us.
In this climate, the media is complicit. Its hands are not clean.
One significant factor underlying in the audience/readership decline for MSM "news" outlets, over several decades, has been conservative and MOR people switching them off due to their bias. MSM manglement should, in the 80s and 90s, have read their marketplace and stopped their bias crap. That did not happen, and in that sense, the great news source change failed. Message not heard.
In fact, the MSM bias escalated, from Reagan-hate to Clinton being
"their (horndog) boy" to Obama worship to becoming in-kind campaign contributors and mouthpieces-of-hatred for Hillary and Joe.
It is time that conservatives and MOR people jam into MSM people's faces, "You killed Charlie Kirk! You encouraged two assassination attempts against Donald Trump! You encourage the attempted assassinations of Steve Scalise and other R Congress members! Stop denying, stop lying, you are failing to fool increasing numbers of Americans!"
