“He still has a misplaced respect and trust in the “mainstream” media, expecting them to at least go though the motions of acting as a press in a Democratic Republic.”
Man, if he still has respect for the mainstream media, love is indeed blind, for you to describe him as “smart as a whip”.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but those two things just seem so incongruous.
I know. He refuses to pay attention to those things with a critical eye. He also never sees dust balls on the floor. NEVER.