Who ordered the American media to get Trump elected? It's been obvious in the past month that every major media outlet, from the New York Times and Washington Post and NPR to the gutter levels of the cabloids have been relentlessly negative on Hillary Clinton while pretending that the past 15 months, if not 70 years of Donald Trump's pathology don't matter.
The synchrony of the hard turn to trashing Hillary Clinton is too pronounced to ignore, though it was never as if they were at all positive about her. This has all of the appearance of being a concerted effort on their part.
Anyone who is left of center-right, anyone who cares about the United States or the world who falls for the bull shit that the American media is anything but a servant of oligarchs and Republican-fascism and that they don't need to be forced to not lie is a simpleton. I watched that old Bogart movie, Deadline U.S.A. a few weeks back, the one where Bogey plays a crusading newspaper editor on a newspaper being sold down the river by the heirs of the former owner, a movie I liked a lot about fifty years ago when I first saw it. I can't tell you how false, phony, dishonest and a load of bullshit it seemed to me now. But, then, I've been able to see what the American media has become once it was freed from any danger due to lying intentionally and with all but the most blatantly demonstrable malice proved with mathematical precision.
This day's undermining of her because she allegedly got overheated on a hot day at an emotionally wrenching event was disgusting. If it had been Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush it would be used to prop him up. I can't for a second believe that it would be done to any man with an "R" after his name.
Ah, for that golden age of American media, when we had Hearst papers lying America into a war with Spain and a Hitler-sympathizing Catholic priest broadcasting coast to coast.
ReplyDeleteFor crying out loud, Sparky -- didn't they teach you how to spell the White House, i.e. as two words, in 3rd grade?
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