The establishment press didn't just report on the death of shame in public life—they killed it, and now accountability runs in only one direction: against outsiders, never against the cartel's own.
A new Politico poll finds that MAGA voters have stopped listening to scandal allegations, with two-thirds saying they'd stick with a GOP candidate accused of sexual assault and 72 percent standing by one accused of domestic violence. HotAir notes the critical word buried in the framing: "accused." Not proven. Not corroborated. Just alleged. After decades of watching the media weaponize unverified claims against Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Donald Trump, voters have tuned out the scandalmongers entirely. The boy who cried wolf now wonders why no one's listening.
But the media's shamelessness isn't limited to domestic politics. It extends to protecting the ideological commitments of the ruling class—no matter the body count.
Breitbart reports that more Polish citizens have been killed in Islamist terror attacks in Germany than have died in Poland itself. A 65-year-old woman from Warsaw was killed last weekend when 21-year-old Abdul Ballout rammed a van into crowds at Berlin's Christopher Street Day Pride Parade. She wasn't the first: Łukasz Urban, a Polish truck driver, was murdered in the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack by Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri.
The contrast between the two countries is stark and speaks volumes. Poland, which resisted Angela Merkel's open-door immigration policy in 2015, has a Muslim population of roughly 0.1 to 0.2 percent—and zero fatal Islamist terror attacks. Germany, which threw open its gates, has between 6.6 and 7 million Muslims comprising 8 to 8.5 percent of its population. Die Welt, Berlin's paper of record, noted the grim milestone. Yet the broader Western press apparatus continues to treat open-border ideology as beyond question, even as the bodies pile up.
The consequences are real and measurable. For the first time on record, more people are moving from Germany to Poland than the other way around—90,807 versus 82,082 in 2024. Poland's economy grew at 3.6 percent last year compared to Germany's anemic 0.2 percent, demolishing the conventional wisdom that mass migration is an economic necessity.
Meanwhile, the New York Times found space to report on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo—1,521 dead in under three months, on pace to surpass the 2014-2016 crisis that killed over 11,000. Dr. Jean Kaseya of the Africa CDC admitted they are not "in total control." A legitimate story. But the institutional press always seems to find urgency for crises abroad while averting its eyes from the consequences of its preferred policies at home.
The pattern is clear. The media cartel weaponizes allegations against its enemies while burying the deadly consequences of its allies' policies. Voters have noticed. That's not cynicism—it's a rational response to a press that abandoned shame long ago and now demands accountability only from those who dissent.
