Posted on 09/11/2016 11:44:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There is nothing more to learn about Hillary Clintons home-brew server, deleted e-mails, chronic cough or anything else that makes her look bad, according to The Washington Post. And The New York Times, stung by Clintons woeful performance at last weeks presidential forum, believes the debates are going to be a total disaster unless moderators get much, much tougher with Donald Trump.
To judge from her tone, the Gray Lady finally has found somebody she wants to waterboard. Naturally, its a Republican, not a terrorist.
Americas two most prominent newspapers used to compete for Pulitzer Prizes and readers, but now theyre competing to see which can suck up more to Clinton. On Friday, both papers editorial pages turned on fellow liberal card-carrier Matt Lauer for his performance as the moderator of the commander-in-chief forum, with The Washington Post blasting him for being too tough on Clinton and the Times accusing Lauer of letting Trump ramble, boast and lie.
The unsubtle point was clear: journalists must focus all their firepower on Trump, or they will get a beatdown from the Clinton Praetorian Guard. She must be protected, even if that means taking the new out of news. How odd for businesses protected by the First Amendment to demand that others shut up.
Then again, the stakes are high. The best lap dog can expect better access and more leaks from a Clinton White House. Whoppee.
In any other era, there would be staff revolts as both papers trash their standards and torch their credibility in their partisan quest. But Trump Derangement Syndrome is creating an unprecedented spectacle as elite news organizations reveal contempt for their own traditions and the millions upon millions of Americans who dont agree with them....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The only standards they’ve got are their double standards. Without those, they have no standards at all.
Andrea Mitchell’s wigs are getting more and more extravagant as the election gets closer.
She is as bald as her lies.
They ain’t never had no standards.
My guess is those quotes are “fake but accurate.”
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