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Liberals denounce the media for not derailing Trump's candidacy
Fox News ^ | 20 Sep 2016 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 09/20/2016 8:22:55 AM PDT by mandaladon

The liberal media are freaking out over the possibility that Donald Trump might win the presidency.

They are denouncing their profession, decrying what they see as a press corps that coddles Trump and castigates Hillary Clinton, and demanding a change before it is too late.

Let’s take a deep breath and see if they have a credible case, or whether this is pure partisanship.

It’s been just 18 days since Politico reported that Hillary Clinton’s advisers were telling her to prepare for a possible landslide in the Electoral College. Now, with Trump pulling roughly even in national polls and ahead or within striking distance in most battleground states, a Trump administration is no longer some distant mirage.

Some folks on the left are so convinced that Trump would be a disaster, and so mystified why roughly half the country doesn’t view him with the same disdain, that they are lashing out at the media.

I would pose this question: Why do these pundits think they’re so much smarter than everyone else that they can clearly see Trump’s flaws but others are blinded by lousy media coverage?

I’d also pose this question: Can anyone seriously say there hasn’t been an avalanche of negative coverage about Trump and the birther issue, Trump and the Khan family, Trump and the comments about “Second Amendment people” taking care of Clinton, Trump and the Mexican-American judge, and on and on?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alternatereality; media; mediabias; msm; trump
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The MSM continues to battle Trump...but in the end he will prevail!!!
1 posted on 09/20/2016 8:22:55 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

So does Fox News not look in a mirror?


2 posted on 09/20/2016 8:25:15 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: mandaladon
"Liberals denounce the media for not derailing Trump's candidacy"

Look, it's not as if they didn't TRY! Mmmkay?

3 posted on 09/20/2016 8:25:52 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: mandaladon
Another liberal Times columnist, the Nobel Prize-winning Paul Krugman, asks: “Why are the media objectively pro-Trump?”-------------The media is pro-Trump???
4 posted on 09/20/2016 8:26:08 AM PDT by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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To: mandaladon

One thing the libs have got to remember before they start casting stones in glass houses is that prostitutes always defer to the ones with the most money, the most attention, that can get them what they want. You had your 8 years with Captain Destructo at the helm. Now buzz off...


5 posted on 09/20/2016 8:26:43 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: mandaladon

Not a shock. They blamed themselves for Reagan too.
Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes fell on the sword.
“I guess we ran too many stories about welfare queens
coming in Cadillacs to pick-up their check.”


6 posted on 09/20/2016 8:26:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: mandaladon

They already want Matt Lauer’s scalp...wonder if they’re bee after Lester Holt’s after next Monday night?


7 posted on 09/20/2016 8:26:52 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: mandaladon

So the leftists admit the media is working for their agenda!


8 posted on 09/20/2016 8:27:28 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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“Media denounced for not taking down Trump”

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. The debates are coming, and the moderators will be as biased as they think they can get away with.


9 posted on 09/20/2016 8:27:39 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mandaladon

Liberals live in the land of 1,000 excuses.


10 posted on 09/20/2016 8:28:21 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: mandaladon

The Donald is operating insde of their journolist OODA.


11 posted on 09/20/2016 8:28:34 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: mandaladon

Liberals in the media can’t admit that they’re doing it wrong, so they believe they aren’t doing it hard enough.


12 posted on 09/20/2016 8:28:59 AM PDT by Genoa (deplorable)
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To: mandaladon

Shoe...other...foot...


13 posted on 09/20/2016 8:34:07 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Genoa

“....so they believe they aren’t doing it hard enough...”

There is ALWAYS an excuse for failure with the LibTards.


14 posted on 09/20/2016 8:34:13 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Genoa

The harder they hit him the more screen time he gets to broadcast the ideas that most Americans agree with. They just can’t see it.


15 posted on 09/20/2016 8:35:48 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: mandaladon

NO BIAS HERE! /S


16 posted on 09/20/2016 8:36:31 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to say goodbye.)
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To: mandaladon
They certainly have tried. Bereft of all other options they have leapt off tall buildings into crowds of Deplorables.

They missed and went splat.

17 posted on 09/20/2016 8:37:16 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: mandaladon

The Globalist MSM overestimated their reach and power. They truly look like the fools they are now because they are throwing everything and anything at Trump and coming up with no effect.

They did not realize that a majority of Americans were only waiting for someone like Trump to stand firm and not shrink away from their usual tactics that worked every time on the weak GOPe lackeys.

For over 50 years it was all too EASY for them.

Trump and his patriot supporters have UTTERLY broken them and they are maddened by hate and disbelief. Hillary is too sick and weak, and riddled with exposed corruption - not too mention the fakest most insincere politician walking on the face of the Earth and they cannot “fix” her. She is going to lose unless they can pull off the biggest stolen election since Nixon/Kennedy.

Its a beautiful thing to watch.


18 posted on 09/20/2016 8:38:24 AM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: mandaladon

What the ‘Media’ doesn’t see, and cannot see, and REFUSES to see, is that the American people HATE HILLARY and EVERYTHING SHE STANDS FOR...................


19 posted on 09/20/2016 8:38:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

If you think Candy Cowley was a biased debate moderator, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Just wait for Dan Rather to gin up a video of Trump killing a basketful of kittens with a hammer.


20 posted on 09/20/2016 8:38:57 AM PDT by henkster (Democrats want to keep blacks on the plantation and whites on the collective farm.)
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