A Vanquished Press Fails To Comprehend Its Defeat by Trump

The New York Sun ^ | 22 Nov 2016 | Conrad Black

[Rummyfan]

As there is an incessant crescendo, still gaining in volume each week, about President Obama’s “legacy,” I thought it appropriate to try to identify this legacy, which his supporters believe history will honor. I have written here and elsewhere that, apart from breaking the color barrier and disposing of bin Laden, I am hard pressed to think of anything useful in his legacy.

Never have I been an Obama hater or someone who disputed his patriotism. I do think that Mr. Obama is rather subdued about the tired pieties of “American exceptionalism” and that this is not unjustified given his background and the fact that that exceptionalism is now almost exclusively a matter of the economic scale on which the country operates. The United States is not now one of the world’s better-functioning democracies, though it is certainly the premier democracy, as the indispensable nation in the triumph of democracy and of the free market in much of the post-colonial and post–Cold War world.

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I looked at Remnick’s very lengthy review of the Obama presidency and description of the president’s response to Trump’s election in the New Yorker of November 28. Mr. Remnick makes no secret of his unwavering and unlimited admiration for the president. The grief-stricken elegies of Abraham Lincoln, even unto Henry Ward Beecher, the toadying chronicles of the great liberal hallelujah chorus for Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the mawkish potboilers mass-produced by the Kennedy entourage could be ransacked in vain to find a rival to the body of Mr. Remnick’s works of ultra-secular canonization in laudation of Barack Obama.

[Rapscallion]

The press destroyed itself through dishonesty. Only themselves and Soros to blame.

[Da Coyote]

The fourth estate is a massive outhouse.

[Rummyfan]

Donald Trump is the oldest and wealthiest person elected president, the first not to have had a public office or high military command, the first to pay for his own campaign, and the first since Washington to waive his salary. He has defeated the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas, and almost all the dishonest, myth-making national press (including David Remnick). The national political press has declined even more precipitously than the political class, and the president-elect was elevated despite the animosity of both, a signal achievement whose significance those who have been vanquished show no signs of grasping.

[Liz]

It’s too bad the MSM phonies and the Never Trumpers have none of the integrity of Cato the Younger who committed suicide to avoid being pardoned by Julius Ceaser.

(hat tip C19fan)

[Raycpa]

Vanquished?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Rush was right yesterday.

The press has made this personal.
They are going to spend the next four years trying to destroy Trump and his administration.

Trump is going to have to keep up the buttsmack
throughout his entire time in office.

[1Old Pro]

The press destroyed itself through dishonesty.

It has happened, it will take them years to figure it out.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Rush got his wish. Obama failed.

[stremba]

Jeez, we called you all racist, homophobic, sexist, anti-semetic bigots. We insulted your intelligence and your value to society. I can’t believe you didn’t vote for Hillary like we told you to. Why won’t you worthless, trashy, redneck, homophobic deplorables listen to us anymore? I just don’t comprehend it!

signed,

Media member who knows better than you do what you need

[eyeamok]

Mr. Trump won because the United States has had the 15 worst years of misgovernment by all branches and both parties, and the only period of absolute and relative decline, in its history.

By Design in an effort to usher in a One World Government using FASCISM disguised as Climate Change to achieve Power and Control over EVERYTHING

[Red Badger]

They are like the citizens of the city of Rome, in a fugue, wandering around their vanquished city after it fell to the barbarians..................................

[Paladin2]

The press was always after W, but he never fought back.

[Lorianne]

Their out in force talking up their new meme “fake news” which is beyond ironic.

[fortheDeclaration]

They can't figure out Trump, he doesn't want them to like him (like most Republicans).

He is independent and doesn't owe anyone anything.

[Windflier]

The posted excerpts have little to do with the title of the thread.

Are we talking about Obama’s nonexistent legacy, or about how Trump destroyed the press?

[marktwain]

The thrust of the article is well conceived, but the author is far, far, too kind to President Obama.

[Pelham]

“Mr. Trump won because the United States has had the 15 worst years of misgovernment by all branches and both parties, and the only period of absolute and relative decline, in its history.”

+1

[Skooz]

Donald Trump is the oldest and wealthiest person elected president, the first not to have had a public office or high military command, the first to pay for his own campaign, and the first since Washington to waive his salary. He has defeated the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas, and almost all the dishonest, myth-making national press (including David Remnick). The national political press has declined even more precipitously than the political class, and the president-elect was elevated despite the animosity of both, a signal achievement whose significance those who have been vanquished show no signs of grasping.

Just wanted to read that again. And again.

[refermech]

Very good editorial. Worth the read.