Manufacturing Consent: MSM Uses Republicans To Bolster War Argument

ABC’s Martha Raddatz served up a total softball question to Republican Senator Joni Ernst on the Afghanistan withdrawal. The mainstream media is hammering Biden for his handling of the evacuation. To help them out they bring on his political opponents to manufacture consent to prolong the war.

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Emma: Joni Ernst was asked a question on ABC Sunday about Afghanistan and our withdrawal from there. Martha Raddatz asked this question in such a leading way that I found it to be incredibly glaring. And just an indicator of where a lot of the press lies on this and how they lead our politicians in the course of these interviews to the consensus that they’re trying to manufacture consent. you could say that they’re trying to manufacture. I don’t know if people are familiar with that keep going.
Martha Raddatz: Morning to you senator, you heard secretary Austin say they’re looking at every possible way to get Americans and Afghans out there now. Activating that civil reserve air fleet. But the problem is getting to the airport itself. You’re a veteran do you think they should be sending convoys into the city?
Sen. Joni Ernst: Yes Martha. And thank you so much for having me on. Absolutely we should be doing everything possible to get Americans safely to the airport for…
Emma: So your veteran. Gives her legitimacy. Asks her a very specific question about tactically what should be happening. And then Joni Ernst goes yes absolutely. And then goes into buttress the entire framing of the question. Like look I’ve conducted interviews with progressive politicians where it’s framed that way because I’m open about my perspective. I’m a progressive. And like I like shouldn’t I be shouldn’t we be doing this? Like, don’t you agree? But the difference is is that that’s not how that’s presented this is presented as oh this is the only way that we can move forward this is you know this is the the the legitimate course of action. And so that bugs me and it reminds me a lot of what we saw at the height of the Iraq wars in the Afghanistan war. Obviously, we’re seeing shades of it now but this is a huge huge problem in our press. And that that particular framing is something you’re going to see all over the media. But it was fairly egregious in my view.