Kass: Is 2024 the year of the Deep State

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Is 2024 the Year of the Deep State?

By John Kass

Sunday, October 13, 2024

What do you see as Barack Obama, in panic mode, spends time in Pennsylvania race-shaming young black men into voting for Democrat Kamala Harris for president?

What do you see as the pro-Harris corporate media unleashes piteous cries of anxiety in these last few weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign?

What do you see as CBS News, once the Gold Standard of television journalism, befouls itself and makes an idiotic cartoon of its once impressive reputation and embraces censorship?

What do you see as CBS’ “60 Minutes” selectively edits Harris’ answers to make her look good in violation of CBS ethics, as her much-celebrated friendly media blitz backfired on her campaign?

But recall how previously “60 Minutes” humiliated itself, serving as a Deep State tool, publicly stating the Hunter Biden laptop could not be verified, even though it was being held by the FBI.

So look and see so that you may understand. Strip away the emotional noise and what you’re seeing is this:

Harris, the Deep State corporate media candidate, is imploding. Obama and his Democrats are quietly freaking out. The Borg Hive roils with fear.

And so the corporate media, Harris, and all the rest are shrieking about “misinformation” and “disinformation,” which is political talk for gutting politically objectionable speech.

Yet corporate media, in supporting Harris, is like other Deep State apparatchiks engaging in the very “misinformation” it decries in favor of government censorship to curtail political speech that challenges them.

It’s un-American or used to be not long ago. Americans once prided themselves on speaking truth, but obviously the corrupt corporate media, from CBS and others, are on the other side. They’re not on your side.

I asked America’s leading expert on the Deep State, my brother Nicholas, who served more than 30 years as a CIA officer and American diplomat with the U.S. State Department—including years at the White House with the National Security Council among other duties.

“What “60 Minutes” did here, and in 2020 when Leslie Stahl claimed the Hunter laptop could not be verified (despite reporting by @mirandadevine) is pure disinformation—a hallmark of Deep States the world over. Consider that next time Kamala or Walz calls for censorship,” he posted on “X.”

For years he was stationed in Türkiye, where the Deep State concept emerged under the authoritarian Kemalist regime after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. But the American administrative state has grown its own Deep State as well. If you doubt it, stick your own head into the memory hole to recall New York Post columnist Miranda Devine and how her scoop over that Hunter Biden laptop was censored by the U.S. government, Big Tech, and the American news media including “60 Minutes,” just days before the 2020 elections.

Joe Biden hasn’t forgotten. He was the Deep State’s candidate in 2020.

And we know that screaming about disinformation now is crucial for Democrats, who seek reasons to shut down political speech that threatens their power.

“But panic over disinformation (whatever its source) has been too useful to be allowed to let drop,” wrote Andrew Stuttaford in National Review in his essay “The Disinformation Panic.”

“A helpful complement to conveniently flexible “hate,” it has been a handy rationale for greater control over internet speech. It has accelerated the rise of “fact-checkers,” who all too often are propagandists and censors masquerading as guardians of objectivity. Their biases are insufficiently examined (not that they are hard to guess).”

Political tastes and fashions change, but human nature doesn’t.

It is one thing for politicians to try to limit speech. We know their base nature and the Constitution is supposed to protect against that. But it is quite another thing for journalists, the supposed watchdogs, to openly support anti-free speech candidates like Harris and her running mate Walz. Both Democrat candidates are loudly on record vilifying critics of the administration’s policies.

They move to criminalize, at least outlaw, political speech they find objectionable. And these decrepit Deep State puppets, these praetorians of politically acceptable information now have the gall to cast themselves as being opposed to the alleged authoritarianism of Donald J. Trump?’

Pathetic.

People outside of Deep State precincts understand how pathetic that is. It is more pathetic than the ridiculous yet malevolent song by Biden’s now-former Disinformation commissar Nina Jankowicz, sung to the applause of Washington elites. It’s the left’s vindictive ditty about violating American rights, which is something I can’t forget.

I think it’s all falling apart for Kamala right now. The panic tells the story.

But please, don’t relax.

Instead, vote.

If she becomes president there is literally no way to determine how far they will go. They’ve already gone too far.

I do know the Deep State doesn’t like to be questioned. And if it consolidates its control, there will soon be no one to challenge their demand for compliance and silence.

But at least you won’t have to worry about the news, will you?