Liberal Bait And Switch Headlines

There was a time when a headline was supposed to describe the story. Today’s liberal media has decided it should replace the story.

Jim Harden | October 11, 2026

There was a time when a headline was supposed to describe the story. Today’s liberal media has decided it should replace the story.

Case in point: the Drudge Report recently ran the all-caps banner “ROVE: REPUBLICAN PARTY BEING TAKEN OVER BY ‘NAZIS’...” It never prints Donald Trump’s name, and it doesn’t need to. If the Republican Party has been taken over by Nazis, the man who leads that party is in the dock. The banner is built to produce exactly that inference.

Click through and the trick is obvious. Karl Rove called Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust-denying livestreamer, a Nazi. He did not say that about Trump or about any Republican on the November ballot. It was a specific charge against a fringe player that Drudge sold as a verdict on the party, and therefore on Trump. This deflects from the fringe elements of the Socialist majority of Democrat Party. They use smoke and mirrors to hide their Marxist core.  In contrast, Republicans don’t need to hide what they really stand for.

Unfortunately, people frequently judge a book by its cover, a.k.a. headlines. A Penn State study of 35 million Facebook posts found that about 75 percent of link shares happened without the sharer ever clicking, and that political content was shared unread more often than unbiased objective content. The reader absorbs the headline, concludes the GOP is a Nazi party, and moves on,........

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