Posted on 11/09/2016 1:10:16 PM PST by bobk3
Clinton’s supporters among the media didn’t help much, either. It always struck me as strange that such an unpopular candidate enjoyed such robust and unanimous endorsements from the editorial and opinion pages of the nation’s papers, but it was the quality of the media’s enthusiasm that really harmed her. With the same arguments repeated over and over, two or three times a day, with nuance and contrary views all deleted, the act of opening the newspaper started to feel like tuning in to a Cold War propaganda station. Here’s what it consisted of:
Hillary was virtually without flaws. She was a peerless leader clad in saintly white, a super-lawyer, a caring benefactor of women and children, a warrior for social justice. Her scandals weren’t real. The economy was doing well / America was already great. Working-class people weren’t supporting Trump. And if they were, it was only because they were botched humans. Racism was the only conceivable reason for lining up with the Republican candidate. How did the journalists’ crusade fail? The fourth estate came together in an unprecedented professional consensus. They chose insulting the other side over trying to understand what motivated them. They transformed opinion writing into a vehicle for high moral boasting. What could possibly have gone wrong with such an approach?
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Put this question in slightly more general terms and you are confronting the single great mystery of 2016. The American white-collar class just spent the year rallying around a super-competent professional (who really wasn’t all that competent) and either insulting or silencing everyone who didn’t accept their assessment. And then they lost. Maybe it’s time to consider whether there’s something about shrill self-righteousness, shouted from a position of high social status, that turns people away.
As the WikiLeaks emails have shown, the MSM is the greatest weapon the establishment has. They are weakened, but they will lash back as hard as ever and they will be more evil than ever.
As Freepers have been doing for years, Trump must actively fight the MSM.
Some movie. “Ice Station Hillary.”
Let's cut that sentence down and make it pithier.
"What happened on Tuesday is a disaster for liberalism."
Succinct and to the point.
The key questions today are:
How will they resist Trump and resist freedom over the next two years and the next four years?
How will they try to win the 2020 presidential election?
How can we outplay them on those strategies? They know the media is weakened by alternative media and hacking. They know their credibility is weakened by the wikileaks revelations and by their over the top performance this election. How do we counter their responses to those losses of power?
I don’t think that people voted for Clinton because they liked her or thought she didn’t do anything wrong (although the lifting of the investigation may have helped).
Hillary was virtually without flaws. She was a peerless leader clad in saintly white, a super-lawyer, a caring benefactor of women and children, a warrior for social justice. Her scandals weren’t real.
The Obama economy was doing well / America was already great. Working-class people weren’t supporting Trump. And if they were, it was only because they were botched humans.
Being a KKK-type racist was the only conceivable reason for lining up with the Republican candidate.
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How did the journalists’ crusade fail? The fourth estate came together in an unprecedented professional consensus. They chose insulting the other side over trying to understand what motivated them. They transformed opinion writing into a vehicle for high moral boasting. What could possibly have gone wrong with such an approach?
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Clinton’s supporters among the media didn’t help much, either. It always struck me as strange that such an unpopular candidate enjoyed such robust and unanimous endorsements from the editorial and opinion pages of the nation’s papers, but it was the quality of the media’s enthusiasm that really harmed her. With the same arguments repeated over and over, two or three times a day, with nuance and contrary views all deleted, the act of opening the newspaper started to feel like tuning in to a Cold War propaganda station. Here’s what it consisted of:
How did the journalists’ crusade fail? The fourth estate came together in an unprecedented professional consensus. They chose insulting the other side over trying to understand what motivated them. They transformed opinion writing into a vehicle for high moral boasting. What could possibly have gone wrong with such an approach?
The left only has itself to blame, if they had ran bernie instead of “Mrs. My turn NOW” they would have had a far better chance....
This is a good, concise article.
Have his FCC revise ownership limits on how many radio and TV stations these corporations can own. Force a sell-off.
Use antitrust law to bust-up the six media megamonopolies into itty bitty pieces.
Make them pay an ACTUAL PRICE for their malfeasance
That is a curious comment given Hussein and Mrs Bill's record in the ME and Ukraine and her pronouncements about going to war with Russia.Or is the "picking fights with other countries" a good thing when they do it?
I think the media also factored in because of over-confidence.
1. Trump was a horrible, terrible person, who no one, who was a decent person, could ever like or support. The msm never, ever said one positive word about him.
2. All the msm’s polls confirmed he was going to lose and lose big.
So my question is ... after hearing the above for almost 2 years, how many comfy, self-satisfied lefties didn’t bother to vote since her election was so much in the bag? As much as the msm wanted to suppress Trump supporters from voting, I believe their antics backfired and they suppressed their own side far more.
I wouldn’t have expected such insight from The Guardian.
This is the first time in history that a billionaire is moving into public housing that is vacated by a black family.
This guy is too close to the truth for comfort. Fortunately, he will be shouted down by the other leftists.
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