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The Tsunami the Media Never Saw Coming
Real Clear Politics ^ | 11/22/16 | Bernie Goldberg

Posted on 11/22/2016 7:28:46 PM PST by bobk3

It's no secret that reporters were rooting for Hillary Clinton. All that was missing were buttons on their coats saying, "I'm with her." As Will Rahn nicely put it on the CBS News website: "Had Hillary Clinton won, there'd be a winking 'we did it' feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic."

The media elite thought she was right when she said half of Trump supporters belonged in a basket of deplorables. They thought if his minions weren't racist or sexist, they were, you know, not too smart.

So, on Election Day, voters fed up with the arrogance of the elites didn't only reject Hillary Clinton -- or Barack Obama and his legacy, or big swatches of liberal culture in general -- they also rejected the liberal media elite, the ones who thought they were smarter and better than ordinary Americans.

"There are too many enablers in New York, too many liberals whom the media elites are shamelessly trying to please."

And the enablers, I wrote, "keep telling their friends that they don't have a bias problem, that they're doing just fine, that only those right-wing nuts think there's a liberal bias problem in the news."

Here's what I suggested: "I have come up with a list of five very nice places in this great country of ours, any one of which would be a good choice for ABC, NBC and CBS to locate their new worldwide news division headquarters, far from New York City."

I suggested, Tupelo, Mississippi, or Mitchel, South Dakota, or Oklahoma City, or Indianapolis, or Laughlin, Nevada.

I could have picked a hundred different cities and towns. The places I settled on mattered only because they were not New York City or Washington, D.C.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; hillary2016; liberalmedia; trump2016

1 posted on 11/22/2016 7:28:46 PM PST by bobk3
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To: bobk3

Bitter clinger deplorables are taking control...


2 posted on 11/22/2016 7:30:30 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: bobk3

They thought we BOOMERS were to decrepit to fight the good fight. LOL


3 posted on 11/22/2016 7:32:36 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: 2banana
Bitter clinger deplorables are taking control...

and hitting the reset button.

;^)

4 posted on 11/22/2016 7:34:13 PM PST by gasport (Live and Let Live)
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To: bobk3

save for later


5 posted on 11/22/2016 7:47:23 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: bobk3

“Wouldn’t it be a good thing for the elites to live among people who have a different worldview than they do?

“What kind of diversity is that?”

Mr. Goldberg is hitting on the key point that the diversity pimps always seem to miss. They want people who look different on the outside but all of whom think exactly the same.

True diversity is when you have more than one person in the room, and each exercises their own brains and employ critical thinking.

Diversity of thought.


6 posted on 11/22/2016 8:00:04 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: bobk3

OMG do not let them leave and screw up other places in the country....

We must CONTAIN THEM.


7 posted on 11/22/2016 8:03:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bobk3

Just wait for the next one! You’re gonna love it!


8 posted on 11/22/2016 8:25:51 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Secret Agent Man

Agree completely. They are a plague and must be held in as small an area as possible. We sure as hell don’t want them in Miss.


9 posted on 11/22/2016 8:34:42 PM PST by prof.h.mandingo
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To: bobk3

He forgot Crawford, Texas as a suggestion.


10 posted on 11/22/2016 9:01:12 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BerryDingle

Lompoc, California?


11 posted on 11/22/2016 9:10:36 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: bobk3

Just don’t bring’em to my little town (pop. 1100), we’d probably run out of rope before the job could be finished.


12 posted on 11/22/2016 9:14:52 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Boomers have been fighting each other since the Sixties.
Half of us went to war and half burned the flag.
The Clintons finally found themselves on the losing team.
About time!


13 posted on 11/22/2016 9:15:21 PM PST by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: 5th MEB

Of course I guess we could just switch over to barbed wire, it’s fairly strong if you double or triple it up.


14 posted on 11/22/2016 9:17:16 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: bobk3

The idea of the media ‘elites’ leaving their sheltered enclaves will probably not happen, because then they would actually have to perform some WORK. Yes, to them work is a 4 letter word to be avoided and shunned. Work is for the little people who should not be allowed to vote. I remember one of the EU bureaucrats being very bent out of shape that those in charge of England allowed the minions to vote. Creepozoids all.


15 posted on 11/22/2016 9:29:43 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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To: 2banana

The gypsies are in the palace.


16 posted on 11/23/2016 1:48:27 AM PST by ARGLOCKGUY
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To: bobk3

Whoa!

Indy? What the hell... what did we do to deserve those vermin? We don’t want them here.


17 posted on 11/23/2016 2:52:04 AM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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