Posted on 09/11/2016 4:11:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
We’ve spent eight years hearing how awful we are for not praising President Obama’s failures.
Have a problem with anemic economic growth? You’re a bigot. Not a fan of accumulating more debt than every other president combined? You’re a Klansman. Not a fan of unfettered, anonymous immigration or providing funding, housing and work to unvetted refugees from terrorist-infested parts of the world? You’re a xenophobe. Think adding millions upon millions of Americans to the welfare rolls shouldn’t be celebrated? You’re blowing the “dog whistle” of racism.
During the Obama years, almost every American has been called an “ist” or “phobe” of some sort because the alternative would’ve been to deal with the substance of the critiques. That’s something Democrats don’t want and can’t handle. Their unquestioned failures haven’t destroyed them as a party only because they’ve been shielded by fellow travelers in the media. When an administration can create the phrase “jobs saved or created” to spin a trillion-dollar stimulus scam without being laughed out of the White House, journalism is dead.
Journalism is dead, but there are still people using that title who do not come close to living up to it. And those people still are watched by otherwise-disengaged Americans too busy surviving to pay close enough attention to realize the emperor has no clothes. They hear a tailored suit-wearing talking head read 22 minutes of “news” every once in a while, or read some slanted spin by a “reporter” with impressive-sounding awards and have no reason to question them.
That’s how the Democratic Party survives.
But Hillary Clinton is such an awful candidate and corrupt human being, the media can spin only so much to keep people in the dark. As the curtain is pulled back even further, the stench of desperation is emerging.
The media has been forced to move beyond standard coverage of Clinton’s boilerplate stump speeches and acknowledge the realities surrounding her. The Foundation, the insane amounts of money, the access sold, the favors traded, the trust betrayed. They do their best to undercut the stories – keeping them short on TV and burying them deep in the paper – but people have heard enough to connect the dots from Clinton’s nearly 40 years in public life and to read between the lines themselves.
It’s what’s kept this race close, and it’s what has the media worried.
And it’s what explains the new tactic ushered in this week – attacking those who expose her as a warning to those who might in the future.
Matt Lauer made the mistake of asking thus-far unanswered questions of Hillary at the “Commander In Chief Forum” on NBC News. He compounded his media transgression by interrupting her filibustering of those questions to point out her lack of clarity. For this random act of journalistic integrity, Lauer was smeared repeatedly, including being called “loser” two days in a row by none other than the New York Times.
The message to moderators of future debates was clear: Go easy on Hillary, or they will come after you.
Compounding matters, since there are so many fronts on which Hillary is corrupt and therefore vulnerable, information continues to come out about how she compromised national security to avoid accountability. As each drip creates a ripple washing across more and more people’s consciousness, the story must be squashed. Enter the Washington Post.
In an editorial, the paper that exposed Watergate after months of continual digging demanded all shovels be put away when it comes to Hillary’s secret private server. Saying the “story is out of control,” the Post pre-emptively excoriated those who who’d question her ever-evolving tale.
She’s the victim, the Post would have you believe. Hillary’s “emails have endured much more scrutiny than an ordinary person’s would have,” the editorial stated. So no more stories.
But with Hillary there’s always more, so every angle must be covered.
After going the gestation period for a human being without holding a press conference, she took a few questions this week. Proving just how worthless the press is, and how afraid Hillary is, the first question was whether she’s the victim of sexism.
This mantra was picked up by other group-think “journalists” and passed off as original thought. They’ll probably all win Pulitzers for it.
The message has become clear: Protect Hillary. Accuse whoever may stand in her way of being whatever kind of “ist” or “phobe” is handy at any given moment, and do whatever it takes to get her over the finish line. She’s such an awful candidate she can’t win without it, even against someone as distrusted as Donald Trump.
That Trump has kept this a margin-of-error race against the full force of the corporate media machine backing Hillary is a testament to just how awful she is. No amount of spin will be able to undo 24 years of knowing Hillary Clinton, and no lie will make her seem honest.
Debate moderators likely will heed their fellow travelers’ warnings to go easy. But it’s just a matter of what comes first: enough voters in battleground states realizing they’ve been lied to or Nov. 8.
Without long comments, IMHO...I believe the American people and voters, have a clear picture of who Hillary Clinton is to her very flawed & evil core. She is an evil hater of millions of decent, hard working Amercans!!! Her comments against the millions of supporters of Donald J. Trump, when viewed on TV are delivered with hate, disdain, an evil intent.
I only pray, every minute of everyday, that she never gets to become the POTUS. I also believe...that, if the American people have awoken...they will not only destroy Ms. Clinton, politically....but take down the entire Democrat Party, politically on election day, November 8, 2016.
GO DONALD J. TRUMP!!! Onward to victory!!!
Their massage is aimed at the liberals in the press, i.e. nearly all of them: “We will kick you out of our inner circle unless you do everything you can to elect Clinton.”
Go look at journals like Time and NewsWeak....no one reads anymore.
Go look at the WaPo and New York Times...they are barely surviving and require infusion of outside funds to make it.
Go look at CNN and MSNBC....neither is doing well in viewers, and profits are dismal.
Go look at premier shows like Sixty Minutes, which no one takes serious any more.
For some stupid moderator to think Trump is some fake and they can twist something around and make him look foolish....at any given second, Trump could flash a “go-to-jail” card at some moderator and suddenly it’s the moderator who is being put up for a dog-and-pony show.
Debates used to be debates....it’s no longer the case, they are simply a show....reality TV. It’s been that way since the 1960s.
The media brought us Obama and now it is time to carry Hillary across the finish line.
And I fixed yours!!!
The debates, at least in my lifetime have never been debates in the purest sense of the word. They have been a concerted effort to discredit and destroy the republican candidate, and little more.
There is no substantive questioning of the democRAT. The are given softballs, or allowed to dodge the question. The republican is grilled, and challenged of every point, and any assertion.
They are little more than a WWF wrestling match. THe outcome is predetermined, and the storyline is to make the dmeocRAT, no matter how detestable, look presentable, and the republican look insane.
I would agree.
If the Lincoln-Douglas debate were held today....Lincoln would have lost, and Douglas would have won the Presidency.
The message to moderators of future debates was clear: Go easy on Hillary, or they will come after you.
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No need. They are all members of the Ministry of Propaganda and fully understand that their role is to get illary elected.
They MUST get her elected because she is physically unable to campaign effectively.
And she is the most inept, unlikeable character to ever be thrown up by a major party as the nominee.
What—Isn’t Hillary! capable of protecting herself?
Hillary isn’t capable of chewing gum by herself.
Witch rushed from 9/11 ceremony in med emergency
If the press doesn’t fall into line the FBI and IRS can do ‘enforcing’... Ask any conservative how ‘fair’ the effing elites are...
Hitlary might be elected posthumously due to her health as it is beginning to decrease a tad bit quicker now.
How long can the press lie for her?
Clinton’s aides say she ‘overheated’ after being seen suffering ‘medical episode’
http://www.express.co.uk/news
/world/709501/hillary-clinton-health-9-11-ceremony-medical-episode-coughing-faint
Hillary has year to live...better save it before You Tube yanks it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoBL7fqOVcQ
I hope Trump asks Hillary something like, “Good evening Mrs. Clinton. Do you remember how you feel tonight?”
As long as there are refills for the pen, electricity to run the computers and if that isn’t enough they will start carving it into stone tablets. Yeah that long.
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