Are Media Folks Literally Insane?

I often write about the “Pravda Media,” and I think that the description is accurate. 

The media do skew their coverage to help the transnational elites, and especially the Democrats. They help perpetrate hoaxes, describe illegal alien gang members as “fathers” and “constituents,” and prattle on constantly about the “right wing” committing violence as the Brownshirts of Antifa stalk and attack ICE agents and Jews. 

They see themselves as the defenders of “good” people over the bad people who populate America. 

CBS News reporter says he got ‘PTSD’ from Trump assassination attempt because of crowd anger at media https://t.co/cdnhuEuGJ8

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 17, 2025

But one thing I admit I have never considered is that one reason they do this is that they are insane. Several cards short of a full deck. Psychotic. Crazy. Around the bend. 

Pick your term, but maybe these people aren’t just politically-motivated self-dealers. At least some of them are nutso. They live in a world where malevolent Americans are roving the hinterlands, throwing bleach and nooses on black actors while screaming “This is MAGA country!”

CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told podcaster Chuck Todd on Wednesday about how traumatized he was by Trump rallygoers blaming the media for the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in 2024.

Americans reeled in shock from the attempt on Trump’s life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but MacFarlane said he had personal trauma from the crowd’s immediate rage in response.

“For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America,” MacFarlane told Todd on his podcast. “And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck. This was – I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people.”

 “They were coming for us,” he said in the clip flagged by The Daily Caller. “If [Trump] didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!”

CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told podcaster Chuck Todd about his ongoing trauma from seeing the crowd’s rage on the day of the Trump rally shooting. (“The Chuck ToddCast”)

“I know,” Todd agreed.

Later in the discussion, MacFarlane added that, “Many of us on press row, as we talked about this on our text chains for weeks after, were quite confident we’d be dead if he didn’t get back up.”

MacFarlane says his PTSD wasn’t from seeing Donald Trump get shot. After all, that was likely in his own mind a good thing. 

It was the crowd–you know, those Americans who didn’t stampede out, but instead protected each other and acted heroically as bullets were flying at them and the president. 

Yes, he was scared to death of the crowd. “An emerging America” that was ready to tear the media limb from limb. 

Yep. Insane. 

🚨NEW: CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane tells Chuck Todd he got “PTSD” after Trump assassination attempt — *NOT* from the shooting, but because the crowd blamed the media🚨

“For those of us there, it was such a horror.”

“I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got… pic.twitter.com/JYeA7FZ90G

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) July 16, 2025

The insanity in this case is likely not due to something like a chemical imbalance in the brain. Rather, it is the disconnection from reality that comes from living in an alternate reality of their own creation. One in which young children belong in the laps of drag queens, physicians should be chopping the genitals off of kids, and Christians are scary people roaming the land with AR-15s, taking potshots at everybody they don’t like. 

They have bought the bulls**t they have been selling us. 

I doubt that this applies to the majority of people in the media, but they all live in a hermetically sealed bubble, living in fear that ordinary people will have a say in what happens in this country. Their world is defined by the Acela corridor and the world’s big cities. They feel more comfortable in London or Berlin than in Des Moines, which they believe is filled with toothless morons who live to torture their betters. 

It’s similar to the plantation owners in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries. In Haiti, there were half a million slaves and only 30,000 whites, who lived in terror that their slaves would revolt. Apparently, Scott MacFarlane lives in fear that MAGA will turn on him and burn him alive. 

I’m not certain that you can strictly call living in this illusion “insanity,” but it functionally is the same thing. When an actual assassin is taking shots at a crowd, the only thing a CBS correspondent can think about is that the crowd will kill him. 

It’s the same mindset that sympathizes with the illegal immigrant who raped a young girl and hates the people who want him deported. 

• Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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