Posted on 09/17/2016 4:29:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
At this point in the race, as his poll numbers are surging and Hillary Clinton is dealing with the negative fallout over her health scare and continual lying; only the media can stop Donald Trump from being elected the next President of the United States.
The media will have multiple opportunities in upcoming debates, featuring mostly liberal moderators. In fact, in an interview this week with the Washington Post, Trump questioned the impartiality of CNN’s Anderson Cooper. According to Trump, Anderson is “very biased, very biased. I don’t think he should be a moderator.” Trump also said that Cooper cannot “be fair” and that “CNN is the Clinton News Network.”
CNN is just like the other networks, tilted to the political left. Only Fox News has true ideological balance.
Thus, it is no surprise that Americans have a very dim view of the news media. According to a new Gallup survey, only 32% of Americans have a fair or great deal of faith in the news media to “report the news fully, accurately and fairly.” Among Republicans, it is even worse with only 14% expressing a belief that the media is fair. These are the lowest media ratings in the 44 year history of the Gallup survey, dropping eight points in just one year. In the view of Gallup, these dismal results are “a stunning development for an institution designed to inform the public.”
The problem is that the media does not inform; they mostly try to persuade. For example, Republicans have certainly noticed how horribly the media treats Donald Trump and they obviously do not like what they see. Among Democrats, there is much more support for the news media with 51% expressing faith in their work. Democrats obviously appreciate how the media has covered for Hillary Clinton on so many issues.
In the last week, a video showing Hillary collapsing and being dragged into her van forced the mainstream news media to reluctantly cover Hillary’s health problems. Previously, it was viewed as a major conspiracy theory pursued by suspicious websites and crazy Republicans. The media prefers to focus on Trump controversies and found a new one this week, the President’s birth certificate, to drag back into the spotlight.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Trump was questioned about whether he accepts that Obama was born in Hawaii. Of course, with so many important issues facing the nation, it is amazing that Trump would be asked about an old controversy. It was another media trap set to destroy Donald Trump.
After first refusing to acknowledge the authenticity of the birth certificate, Trump later said that he accepts that Obama was born in the United States. Today, at a media event at his new Washington D.C. hotel, Trump said that “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.”
Today, Trump handled the event masterfully by first introducing military heroes who endorsed his candidacy. He only addressed the birth certificate at the very end of the event, but only after getting the media to cover his powerful endorsements. This is exactly what happened during his highly anticipated immigration speech in Arizona. He used it as an opportunity to show endorsements from “Angel Moms,” parents who suffered the loss of a child due to the criminal actions of an illegal alien.
For the next few days, the media and their favored candidate will try to trumpet the birth certificate issue as another way of calling Trump a racist. Hillary Clinton said that the debate shows “bigotry and bias” and that Trump owes the President “an apology.” These attacks are only the beginning as Hillary and the media will join forces in an attempt to sidetrack Trump’s momentum in the polls.
The good news is that the public is wise to the media’s game. The Gallup poll results show that the American people understand what side the media is on and will discount much of what is reported. Luckily, the mainstream media cannot influence the American public like it once did. There are too many alternative news sources today and, clearly, the American people are too smart to fall for the media’s tricks once again.
Exactly! They've been throwing spaghetti at the wall hoping something would stick for so long that the MSM is all out of ammo and are reduced to grabbing uncooked pasta out of the box and flinging wildly - and in the process are hitting each other in the eyes.
The mediots have discredited themselves to such a degree that they won't recover for generations. Used car salesmen and hookers have moved up a notch in the respect category.
The author makes a very good point. He’s not running against Hillary. If that were the case he’d already bee done. The author should have added the globalists elitist establishment aka NWO.
The Ministry of Propaganda is about all that illary has left.
She is unable to keep up the pace that Trump is setting.
. Only Fox News has true ideological balance.
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This is not true.
Fox News works for the Cheap Labor Express as a propaganda organ and have been trying to convince Americans to give up their country without a fight.
That we have no choice but amnesty for illegal aliens and that we cannot stop the illegal alien inundation.
They are as anti-Trump as any other Ministry of Propaganda outlet.
you have correctly stated the dogma of those that ride the anti Fox bandwagon to enhance their personal self esteem
Unless his father is someone other than the Kenyan, he is not a natural born citizen.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality of their foreign parent(s).
Salem media is his boss’s do they are deranged Never
Trumpers.
All of Salem Media trolls are Trump haters .
Hotgas aka Hotair - that tired Blog that peddles cheap labor express and crony capitalists take over .
Hughy Hewitt
Townhall aka Villageidiot with
all DC Insider trolls.
Salem Media is the enemy of this country .
Thank you
Murdoch Globalist News like Fox is all lies all the time.
They are way out there own in CNN nutter world .
Medved has been a mouthpiece for the Cheap Labor Express for years.
He is a propagandist trying to talk you out of keeping the rule of law and your country.
Stop listening.
Open your eyes and ears
Our local radio dumped Huge Hewitt, but still keeps the Beckster.
Obviously this guy hasn't watched Fox News coverage in the last couple of months since Ailes left and the owner, Murdoch, who is a Trump hater, started calling the shots.
It's gotten so bad, that I don't even turn Fox News on anymore. Sounds just like CNN or MSMBC at times. I'll get my news from the internet instead of these inside DC talking heads, who wouldn't know Trumpland and his infamous "Les Deplorables" if they bit them is their collective arses.
I guess a better question is why are people here tuning into his show?
Want him gone? Then top listening.
The sad part of your statement is the fact that Anderson Cooper is actually BETTER than most of them! He’s certainly better than Fox’s pillow-muncher Shepard Smith. He’s all in to take Trump down and makes his little, snide comments at every opportunity. What a faggity fag weasel....
Fact is, the media's legs are no sturdier than Hillary's.
What is the purpose of the armed SS? To protect POTUS and others deemed needing it. Would the SS be less protective if unarmed? YES! That alone was Trump’s point. Take away the hated guns, and she’s virtually no longer protected. It’s a 2nd A. issue.
Once againg, as he so often is, Michael Medved the smartest guy in the room is demonstrably wrong.
Trump is destroying his career and he knows it. If Trump wins Michael knows his radio show along with an credibility are gone.
Conservatives despise him now - so just who is his audience?
He should take that phoney Ben Shapiro with him.
I give the Medved show 6 months tops
I wonder if the media being in the snake bite condition they are will actually be easier for Donald to handle in the debates.
I doubt it makes a difference word is getting around as it is plain to see Donald Trump is very smart, extremely quick on his feet, thinks strategically, has a sense of humor, and weird mix egotistical self mocking humility and self-awarness that allows him to communicate and connect with ordinary Americans. I think it will in the next couple of weeks start to dawn on many Americans that Trump is exceptionally talented and adroit.
The method to what people initially thought was madness is now starting to be seen and appreciated for it's genius.
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