Posted on 06/05/2022 6:26:49 AM PDT by RandFan
If Donald Trump laid his right hand upon a Bible and swore, “The sky is blue, the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, and the New York Yankees have the most World Series titles, with 27,” many in the media and on the left still might call him a “liar.”
Trump has been out of the Oval Office for more than 16 months, and yet, he seems to be living rent-free in the minds of many Americans and international elites who have come to loathe him.
But, facts are facts. Just because many people hate Trump does not mean that he can’t be correct sometimes — or even, often.
Tens of millions of Americans believe in his policies. Hillary Clinton may think of Trump’s supporters as “Deplorables,” but most of these people consider themselves to be pragmatic, commonsense, rule-of-law Americans who are trying to survive difficult times.
When Trump offers an opinion or makes a pronouncement, he’s generally directing his remarks to that demographic. But those statements can be factual. Consider two recent broadsides from him.
First, Trump reached out to the Pulitzer Prize administrator to rescind the 2018 prizes for national reporting awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their investigative reporting of the then-alleged Trump-Russia interference into the 2016 presidential campaign.
Said the former president to the Pulitzer office: “There is no dispute that the Pulitzer board’s award to those media outlets was based on false and fabricated information that they published. The continuing publication and recognition of the prizes on the board’s website is a distortion of fact and a personal defamation that will result in the filing of litigation if the board cannot be persuaded to do the right thing on its own.”
Now, all but the most partisan Democrats realize that the rumors, charges and investigations of Trump’s alleged coercion with Russia during the campaign were suspect from the start. These allegations were tainted by troubling partisan connections to the Clinton campaign and Obama administration officials — including, sadly, some in the FBI and the Department of Justice.
The Times and the Post should have uncovered that the “shameful smears” against him were political and partisan in their investigations, Trump pointed out.
That raises an important question: Did those news organizations do honest investigations, or were they simply hoping the charges were true because of some journalists’ inherent biases against Trump, which were exhibited in hundreds of negative stories they printed about him?
With regard to the Pulitzer Prize — or the Nobel Prize, for that matter, awarded to President Obama in 2009 for nothing more than inspiring “Hope” — it’s becoming clear that the award is generally given to those on the left, by the left.
Maybe the Times and the Post would be better served investigating the Pulitzer and Nobel committees for ignoring conservative voices. In the meantime, they should display the ethical good grace to return awards given under false premises.
Then there is Trump’s professed outrage following the news that a jury acquitted Michael Sussmann, an attorney who once represented the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, of a charge of lying to the FBI.
“Our Legal System is CORRUPT, our Judges (and Justices!) are highly partisan, compromised or just plain scared, our Borders are OPEN, our Elections are Rigged, Inflation is RAMPANT, gas prices and food costs are ‘through the roof,’ our Military ‘Leadership’ is Woke, our Country is going to HELL, and Michael Sussmann is not guilty,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.
Now, it’s logical to assume that Trump’s opinion is biased, considering that the case revolved around alleged political dirty tricks against him. But even Georgetown University law professor Jonathan Turley said on Fox News, “I don’t believe the jury got it right. … No one could seriously not argue that it was a very favorable jury for the defense.”
Unfortunately, this case — like so many things that impact our daily lives — is now increasingly viewed through the prism of partisanship. It’s a trend that bodes ill for us all.
Partisan award committees rewarding partisan media for political hit jobs, and potentially biased jurors exonerating “the enemy of my enemy,” might seem like a good idea to like-minded ideologues, but it is ultimately a recipe for disaster.
No one has to agree with Trump all the time — or ever. But sometimes he raises the alarm on fairness issues that are worth debating for the sake of our nation.
Douglas MacKinnon, a political and communications consultant, was a writer in the White House for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and former special assistant for policy and communications at the Pentagon during the last three years of the Bush administration. His latest book is “The 56: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign the Declaration of Independence.”
Also guy who wrote it is a Bush League Republican.
Interesting times...
The Hill did their level best to bring us the current governmental train wreck, so they can stuff their opinion.
What’s going on at The Hill to publish this?
Also guy who wrote it is a Bush League Republican.
Yes and they got rid of their cesspool of a comments section that was pointless in its leftist vitriol.
The Hill features columns by David Webb (provided they still do). I don’t listen to David’s show with the same regularity as I do Andrew Wilkow, but I’ve never gotten the impression that David is Bush League.
Face the Facts; The Biden White House is run by the Obozo White House. The Hurricane that is coming is going to be a high magnitude level and nothing can be done now until the November election is complete. At that time, The Republican Congress must appoint President Trump as Speaker and Impeach Biden and Harris, moving Trump into the Presidency otherwise the Hurricane will last for two years and the Tribulation will continue into 2024. Putin will continue, China will have moved on Taiwan, Iran will move on Israel once it acquires Nukes. Famine is just a matter of time if the Status Quo is maintained. Monkeypox and Covid are developing rapidly and at its present rate will starting destroying economies.
My first thought as I was reading this piece of actual journalism!
What—the Hill?
Can’t believe Media Matters, I mean The Hill, published that article.
Sure, there are a lot of Obama retreads in the White House, but have you considered that they want you to think that Obama is still running things? It's convenient for them to have people blaming Obama rather than old Joe or rather than thinking that somebody else (or nobody else) is really running things.
When government does it’s job no one notices. It’s the crisis that comes along. Don’t let it go to waste. Heard it somewhere.
Pres Trump could cure cancer, house the homeless, feed the hungry and bring peace to the world....oh wait, he did bring peace to the world....and the left will deny everything and anything.
I rarely go on Twitter. I do ‘follow’ a few folks but I very quickly grow tired of all the liberals spouting off their nonsense. IE...Republicans and Republican politicians don’t care about mass shootings or all the violence in Chicago. As is the norm, it’s very easy to let the liberals know how wrong they are: President Trump sends more ATF agents to Chicago to help the cops - Lightfoot says it will be a disaster if more ATF agents are sent to Chicago to help the cops.
Reading the stuff on Twitter is actually cringeworthy to read some of their comments and give spectacular examples of why the two sides cannot coexist. Nothing but children who aren’t getting their way throwing temper tantrums from their keyboards. The sooner folks realize that, the better.
Reagan had it right: “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
Impeach is one thing. Where are your 67 votes to remove Biden and Harris?
Of course. Contempt for TRUTH--TRUTH for its own sake--is the evil most fundamental to the Decadence of Western Civilization,
And "the left"/the Democrat Party/Establishment Republicans/the so-called "journalists" of the news media/the US judiciary/wokies/et al. have allowed themselves to be overwhelmed by the Decadence--and the evil most fundamental to it.
the shill panders to the LEFT 99% of the time
this is one of their blind squirrel moments
tune in tomorrow
they will be back to shilling for good ol’ joe
Not one Democrat admits the Trump/Russia Collusion Story was fake.
Rank and file Democrats still believe the evidence was indisputable.
High gas prices...no oil being pumped...housing crash looming...student loan crisis well on its way....war...never ending corruption and money laundering...woke military...inflation...looming recession
Guess what? We still haven’t got the bill for all the illegals that are pouring into the country. A new school year is coming and those property taxes are going to go into the stratosphere with all the new “students” and the need for bilingual teachers, of many different languages, breakfasts, lunches, and who the hell knows what else.
Thank you...Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and all the Governors, Lt Governors, AGs, Sec States and legislatures in each /sarc
To the NY Times and Washington Post, the term “investigative Journalism” means simply waiting for the Democrats to supply their reporters with hand-written propaganda aka “breaking news.”
Sunday token ‘opinion contributor’. They all have one. Makes them all fair and balanced, don’t ya know.
The money line from the article: “Partisan award committees rewarding partisan media for political hit jobs, and potentially biased jurors exonerating “the enemy of my enemy,” might seem like a good idea to like-minded ideologues, but it is ultimately a recipe for disaster.”
That’s a conclusion that was addressed nicely in the movie “A Man for All Seasons”:
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”
The Left is bound and determined to pervert the rule of law that has fortified this country for centuries (see, for example, the Navarro indictment in the wake of the Sussman acquittal), and the end of that road will not be pretty for anyone, including their own.
I agree - what a shock to see something like this in “the hill.” (Hill of what? I always wonder.)
But this is the part that made me chuckle: “No one has to agree with Trump all the time.”
WHEW!!!! Thanks for that, man! I was really worried for a minute.
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