Press Turned Servile to the Authors of the U.S. Decline

The Sun (New York) ^ | November 26, 2016 | Conrad Black

[Auntie Mame]

As the days have ticked past since the U.S. election, its implications, especially for the press, have been interpreted with agonizing slowness. The polls, so inaccurate, yet uniformly revealed public disrespect for the press. Ninety per cent of conventional press was hostile to Donald Trump, and 90 per cent of polling organizations predicted a comfortable Clinton victory.

As there was no substantive argument for the re-election of the Democrats, their entire campaign was to slag off Trump. The servile press deluged Trump’s followers with disparagements, and generally signed on to Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of 30 million Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables.” Mr. Trump pointed to the press sections at his heavily attended meetings and drew down on them crescendos of brickbats and fist-shaking hostility.

[Auntie Mame]

This is well-written amusing commentary. Much more at link. Enjoy!

[jsanders2001]

The American people need to turn the backs on the press and the MSM and cancel services and subscriptions so that even advertising doesn’t work. That will drain their wallets even further. They will only understand who keeps them in business then.

[Lopeover]

I agree.

[Godebert]

Wow, this guy is a Canadian?

[jazminerose]

I agree-very good read!

[Liz]

Great piece for its laceration of the liberal Trump-hating media....thanks for posting. My fave part:

Van Jones, called 'one of the thoughtful New Democrats,' said Trump is ushering in an era of routine espousal of the virtues of Nazism.

The author Conrad Black was asked if he thought current American conditions resembled Germany in the 1930s. He responded:

....unemployment is not at 30% (as it was in Nazi Germany), the US has not recently experienced a crushing military defeat in which 25% of the adult male population was killed or wounded and the United States has not been branded by the world as a criminal state for unleashing world war.

The majority of the US population is not advocates of totalitarian theories of government, and individual ethnic groups are not being scapegoated as traitors ineligible for the benefits of citizenship.

Nor are private armies of thousands of uniformed thugs roaming the streets of the entire country, beating up and murdering innocent people and destroying dozens of homes and houses of worship every month.

The author sarcastically concludes: " These are trifling differences of course, but the vigilant contemporary Canadian journalist might notice them."

[Liz]

ping

[YepYep]

It was just funny at the Trump rallies, when he said, “TURN the CAMERAS AROUND!!” And they never would. They did not want to highlight or acknowledge the growing support for Trump.

Their non-reporting of the good stuff is as bad as their terribly slanted reporting.

[Dahoser]

Ninety per cent of conventional press was hostile to Donald Trump, and 90 per cent of polling organizations predicted a comfortable Clinton victory.

That ninety percent continues their hostility to Trump unabated by the election results.

[Sirius Lee]

Nor are private armies of thousands of uniformed thugs roaming the streets of the entire country, beating up and murdering innocent people and destroying dozens of homes and houses of worship every month.

Well, not uniformed, unless you count saggy, baggy pants and wife-beater t-shirts as a uniform, but Soros does have an army of paid brownshirts going around doing just that. As such, Trump is the anti-nazi.

[Liz]

BLM.....yeah, they fit the description.

Not to mention Dumbocrats marching in lockstep to whatever Obama is pushing, like Obamacare.

[GOPJ]

The Sun was a New York newspaper that was published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper...

Is this a blog?

[pepsi_junkie]

Van Jones, a pillar of comment on CNN, told the Broadbent Institute of thoughtful New Democrats at the Art Gallery of Ontario last week that Trump is ushering in an era of routine espousal of the virtues of Nazism. I was asked by a pleasant interviewer at Global Television if it were not the case that current American conditions resembled Germany in the 1930s. I thought not, as unemployment is not at 30%, the country has not recently experienced a crushing military defeat in which 25% of the adult male population was killed or wounded and the United States has not been branded by the world as a criminal state for unleashing world war. The majority of the population is not advocates of totalitarian theories of government, and individual ethnic groups are not being scapegoated as traitors ineligible for the benefits of citizenship. Nor are private armies of thousands of uniformed thugs roaming the streets of the entire country, beating up and murdering innocent people and destroying dozens of homes and houses of worship every month. These are trifling differences of course, but the vigilant contemporary Canadian journalist might notice them.

Magnificent!