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Plus, the growing symbolic and substantive significance of President Biden's first firing
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2. Biden’s First Firing Takes on New Significance Amid China’s Propaganda
Within the first hour of Joe Biden’s presidency, the commander in chief fired a little-known figure running an agency most Americans have likely never heard of.
Yet that firing was symbolically and substantively significant.
Its significance has only grown two months into an administration that has conferred legitimacy on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) narratives with respect to America’s purported moral failings—providing it a major propaganda coup—and messaged still further weakness to our other adversaries.
I have the story—which builds on a soon-to-be-released interview with the official in question, all too short-time U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) head Michael Pack—in a new piece at The Epoch Times.
As I detail in the piece, Pack threatened to do the unforgivable: adhere to the law by fairly presenting the Trump administration’s agenda to the world, rebalancing USAGM content away from progressivism, and confronting tyrannical regimes in the information battlespace.
Consequently, the political establishment, the administrative state that executes its agenda, and the corporate media that propagandizes on its behalf, could not tolerate him.
Our worst adversaries have proved perhaps the greatest beneficiaries of the Ruling Class’s jihad against him, culminating in Biden’s first act in the Trump personnel purge.
As I conclude:
when Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s CCP counterparts lambasted America for its purported human rights failings—those frequently raised by our nation’s left—their response was to concede the premise, but call it a strength that we could recognize our failings and seek to be better.
Beyond the fact that the Trump administration likely would have never held such a meeting, the executive branch almost certainly would not have acceded to this narrative. One can bet that the USAGM under Pack would have fought it, and exposed it for the propaganda that it was.
Instead, we are likely to see a reversion to the status quo ante, of a U.S. government media operation that speaks not for Americans, but in effect, for our adversaries. The best that can be said is that it will likely do so consistent with the executive it is supposed to serve.
Read the whole thing here.
