On this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown,” I’m joined by Vince Coglianese, host of WMAL’s “The Vince Coglianese Show.” As a radio host in the Washington, D.C., area, Coglianese intimately knows how Washington interacts with the media, and how the corporate media does the bidding of uniparty interests.

The corporate media, Coglianese told me, “represent Democrat establishment interests, primarily,” which extends to both Democrats and Republicans.

“This is where people use the phrase ‘Uniparty,’ and those interests are very much represented by the media,” he said. “The election comes down to, fundamentally, the establishment versus a guy who cares about sovereignty and wants to represent American interests. And so, if he’s the opposite of what the establishment wants, they’re not representing American interests.”

It’s no mistake, then, that the media seems so out of touch. It’s a confluence of experience and interest for those atop the American media hierarchy, the afternoon-drive radio host suggests. “The media lies, and every time they do lie, they are devaluing their currency, obviously. And that leads people away from them.”

The lies and gaslighting are “indicative of, sort of, the media hive mind on this subject, which is like, ‘That’s impossible. I’m sitting in a brightly lit studio. The air conditioning is set exactly to the temperature that I prefer. I was driven here by a car service this morning. All my meals are wonderful, in fact, and everybody I talk to is super happy and rich. Like, what? How could the economy be bad? The government says it’s great. So, this is, obviously, once again, the stupid, unwashed masses who are ingesting lies.’ This is what they’re thinking.”

Nevertheless, the media’s posturing is geared toward its preferred political ends—one that maintains their power and influence. That’s why, for the past three presidential election cycles, the media have seemingly sought to “rig” the election in favor of their preferred candidate.

“When we talk about election rigging, what better way to rig an election than to rig someone’s mind?” Coglianese said. “If you can control the minds of the people who pull the levers, you’ve rigged the election, baby.”

President Joe Biden’s ousting was a part of this larger strategy to rig the election for the preservation of Uniparty interests, Coglianese suggests.

“That Biden debate, there’s a reason they scheduled it in June. It was meant to happen early. It had to. Whoever was around Biden—Biden didn’t pick his own debate schedule. Somebody picked the debate schedule for him and said if we’re going to do this, we need to make sure we have one early. And the earliness of it was meant to test his competency on national television,” he explained, adding: “It was a strategic decision to put [the debate] that early.”

“They were all sort of preparing for this, saying, ‘This is an eventuality. And when it occurs, we need to move swiftly, so that we can maintain our power,’” Coglianese said. “It was about power maintenance.”

As for Biden’s replacement, the talk-show host said, “The whole Kamala Harris candidacy is really a test of the media’s ability to rig the election. It’s like, ‘How much of an empty vessel could we possibly get elected president of the United States? How much power do we have? Is it possible to take the least eloquent politician who’s ever existed to include Joe Biden, who’s ever existed and get her into the Oval Office? Do we have the power to do that still?’ And so that’s what this election is.”