I just listened to a pirated Youtube of the Hillary Clinton interview done by Rachel Maddow and the first thing I have to say is, listen to the interview and compare her to Trump. Just think as you listen to her rational, informed, brilliance that this is the woman the American media sandbagged and lied about for a quarter of a century, leading to the installation of Donald Trump in the American presidency.
The degeneracy of America, 2017 is directly attributable to the influence of the free press in the United States, perhaps most of all the Publisher, Editors, writers and even reporters for the New York Times, perhaps more than any other venue, the cabloid 24-7 "news" networks and hate-talk radio. The lefty magazines, the tiny radio presence of things like Democracy Now and podcasts like The Young Turks have had a role in it but their destructive influence pales in comparison to the big, reputable media.
When people ask how the United States went bad, it was the media that made people stupider, that sold them lies that sold them bigotry and cynicism and paranoia and snobbery.
Just listen to the interview with the woman who won the election but lost it through the repulsive and destructive Constitutional mechanism of the Electoral College, something embedded in the Constitution by the slave-holding faction, the non-slaveholders selling out to them in order to get commercial concessions that favored their own wealth. Just consider that she is the second person who has had an election stolen from them by the Constitution in the past seventeen years, the Founders are directly responsible for both the George W. Bush presidency and now the Trump regime. They are also responsible for the absurdly vague language that turned the ability of the New York Times and the rest of the media to corrupt a sufficient number of Americans into voting for Donald Trump over probably the most qualified person to have run for the presidency in the history of the office. And now the same venues of media are telling her to shut up?
To hell with the free press, their freedom to lie is what got us here. Arthur Sulzberger jr and his rag did more than just about any other entity in American life to give us the Trump disaster. He, personally, should take the blame on behalf of the media for which his family got the Supreme Court to give them a license to lie for their own purposes. Someone, in one of the things I read in preparing this pointed out that Maureen Dowd got a goddamned Pulitzer Prize for writing her anti-Clinton crap. The media, freed of having to stick to the facts have been destroying democracy for the past half century, it's only going to get worse. Did anyone think it could get this bad back when Hillary Clinton was the embattled First Lady, under attack from the New York Times and everyone else? And yet they have the gall to wonder how SHE lost the presidency to Trump?
It is hard not to reflect on the hostility shown to Bill Clinton by the NYT (perfectly identified and analyzed by Gene Lyons), which carried over to Hillary, because they were both Southern (she isn't, really, but the taint attaches). Trump is from NYC, so he can never be as suspect.
ReplyDeleteObjective journalism, don't you know?
I suspect it started either because the NYT establishment resented the Clintons for coming from Arkansas or something like Sulzberger being upset by him or someone in his social set feeling dissed at a dinner party or something.
DeleteThere is too much enabling of the Republican psychopaths that flows from the New York Times in the past six decades for it to be some kind of accident. They talk some semblance of what passes as liberal but I think that's only a PR job.
They bought the rumors from Arkansas hook, line and sinker, and never spit it out. Parochialism, pure and simple.
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