Here’s a fun thought experiment: Imagine the federal government paying a foreign group to make a hit list of media outlets it doesn’t like. Now imagine that list includes the New York Post and excludes the New York Times. Oh wait — you don’t have to imagine. That’s exactly what happened under the Biden administration, and the media’s idea of a national tragedy is… Jimmy Kimmel losing his late-night gig.
Yes, the Left is in full meltdown mode over Kimmel’s cancellation, crying censorship like someone stole their oat milk. But spoiler alert: Kimmel wasn’t “canceled” by conservatives. He was booted by his own Democrat-run network after years of tanking ratings, smug monologues, and pandering to an audience that stopped watching in 2018. The only thing he was a victim of was gravity — the kind that pulls down ratings when your content is stale and your shtick is tired.
Now, while Democrats pretend Kimmel’s farewell is some kind of free speech funeral, here’s what they didn’t protest: an actual, taxpayer-funded censorship machine that targeted conservative voices for daring to tell the truth.
Enter the Global Engagement Center, or GEC — a bureaucratic Frankenstein created by the Obama administration. Its official mission? To combat foreign propaganda. Its real mission? To slap a “disinformation” label on any American outlet that didn’t toe the progressive line. And they outsourced the dirty work to a foreign group called the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), because nothing says “defending democracy” like importing British hall monitors to shame American journalists.
GDI’s 2022 report read like a blacklist for advertisers — ranking conservative sites like The Blaze, Daily Wire, The Federalist, and even RealClearPolitics as “risky,” while praising left-wing darlings like NPR and The New York Times as safe and squeaky clean. Apparently, pushing the Russia collusion hoax for three years doesn’t count as misinformation if it comes with a Pulitzer.
And yes, your tax dollars helped fund this. The Biden administration quietly funneled money to GDI through the GEC, helping turn this “neutral” foreign nonprofit into a censorship hitman for the Deep State.
But here’s the punchline: when Blaze News and other outlets fought back, filing a lawsuit in December 2023, the same crowd now weeping for poor Jimmy Kimmel didn’t say a word. Not a peep. Not a tweet. Not even a tear emoji. Because in their minds, censorship is only a problem when it affects their team. When it targets conservatives? That’s “safeguarding democracy.”
By December 2024, the GEC was finally shut down — not because the media demanded it, but because enough sunlight finally hit the rot. But don’t think for a second that the censorship playbook is gone. Bureaucrats don’t retire bad ideas; they just rename them.
So let’s get this straight. Jimmy Kimmel loses his job after years of flopping, and that’s a crisis. But conservative journalists getting blacklisted by their own government? That’s just Tuesday.
Funny how the people who scream the loudest about “threats to democracy” are the ones running secret censorship ops behind closed doors.
Makes you wonder: What other “disinformation” lists are still out there — and who’s funding them now?