Katie Couric is a disgraced journalist. There's no ifs, ands, or buts about this. The woman is responsible for so much blatant disinformation that was discovered that it's a true testament to the shameless nature of leftist journalists that she still has the gumption to show her face in public.
Yet she continues to be a presence on the big stage, so much so that she recently appeared on Bill Maher's podcast. Not only did she do that, as Nick Arama reported on Tuesday, Couric went after Trump supporters and dared to label them as bitter and anti-intellectual:
“The socio economic disparities are a lot and class resentment is a lot and anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving many of these anti-establishment [people] — which are Trump voters — so, I think that is a huge problem that we have to address,” Couric explained to Maher, referring to the MAGA movement that got its name from the ex-president’s campaign slogan.
“I mean globalization and the transition from an industrial to a technological society — I don’t know if you’ve ever been jealous of someone else or resentful — It is such a corroding and bitter almost bile feeling.”
Firstly, it's kind of rich for Couric of all people to refer to anyone as "anti-intellectual." The woman who blatantly has to lie about people to sell her biases to the general public instead of debating the points directly and honestly has no ground to stand on. I doubt she can even understand what the "MAGA" movement is. Like most leftists, it sounds like she's roping in anyone who plans on voting for Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 election into the category.
That's not the case.
But Couric isn't all wrong. She's half right, in fact.
Trump voters are bitter, but they're not bitter people. Hillary Clinton qualifies as a bitter person. Don Lemon, Kathy Griffin, Liz Cheney, and Anita Sarkeesian are bitter people. They suffer from an underlying prejudice that blinds them from a reality that is continuously knocking on their conscious minds and they hate it. They can't stand the idea that they're not the good guys. They've gone mad convincing themselves that it's everyone else that's gotten crazy.
They lash out, cry into cameras, obsess over people and events, and double, triple, and quadruple down on their ideas and behavior, slowly driving themselves into irrelevancy.
But Trump voters are bitter in that they've been mistreated, lied to, attacked, robbed, taken advantage of, and suffered at the hands of the very people who sneer at them. They're bitter because they've watched the same people who look down at them from their noses, called them racist, sexist, homophobic, and a myriad of other social sins, turn around and take their taxpayer dollars and give them to foreign governments to wage wars against one another, pay off student debts they didn't agree to, and fund the day-to-day lives of illegal immigrants.
They're bitter because they have a voice that's been censored, misrepresented, and lied about for years now.
They're bitter because they wanted a better life than this and they were stabbed in the back by radical ideologues posing as helpful representatives.
And here's the kicker...
A lot of these Trump voters weren't Trump voters in 2020. A lot of the Trump voters voted Democrat all their lives. A lot of these Trump voters were created by Democrat politicians, media figures, and activists who generated deep feelings of spite in the populace thanks to a mixture of incompetence and abuse.
That group of "anti-intellectual" and "bitter" people that Couric is referring to as "MAGA" are just normal Americans. Once again, Couric is demonstrating her own ignorant elitism that blinds her to the country around her and the people who reside in it. This is the same attitude that Clinton had when she called this same group of people "deplorables."
And she doesn't get it because she is the bitter person she's complaining about. She doesn't understand that she doesn't have feelings of bitterness, but that she's bitter at her core to those who don't think like she does. She's heavily prejudiced and angry at people for daring to not align with her vision of a nation, or even a world, that things like her and her friends. She's offended by it. She's offended by your individualism.
She's bitter toward you. She's bitter toward me. She's just bitter.
If she wasn't, she'd be using her "journalistic" mind to get the real story. She'd be trying to talk with Trump voters, not talk at them, or not avoid talking to them at all.
But she's not. She and people like her would rather just be mad, accusing their ideological opponents of being this or that and of being stupid and angry.
A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
But this is who you're up against. These are the people who think you're too stupid and angry to have any say in any matter. It's people like her who censor you in good conscience, thinking they're doing the world a favor by silencing you, even if you have the facts. These are the people who bury stories or punish news sites like ours whenever the point they start to make about an agenda item is getting a little too good.
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