Posted on 11/09/2016 6:34:19 AM PST by Rennes Templar
Donald Trump, the real estate mogul mocked and minimized by the media and political establishment, has stunned the world with a death-defying campaign that has captured the presidency.
The real estate mogul, mocked and minimized by many in the media and criticized by his own party’s establishment, wound up doing far more than avoiding the landslide loss that so many prognosticators predicted after the conventions. The man who had never run for public office, who had supposedly alienated so many women and minorities that he had no serious chance, somehow captured the highest office in the land.
It was not until 2:30 am that first the AP, then the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, then Fox News, declared Trump to be the 45th president.
There was a sense of disbelief, even shock, among journalists on and off the air as states like Ohio, North Carolina and Florida fell into the Trump column and Clinton failed to put away the big blue Midwestern states. Once Trump was within 54 electoral votes of winning the White House, the entire conversation changed:
How did Trump do this?
How could Clinton have blown this?
How could we have missed this?
How would this guy govern?
Some media figures lashed out on Twitter. ABC's Martha Raddatz choked back tears as she discussed the Trump presidency.
It was a version of what has gone on since the billionaire came down the Trump Tower escalator last year, when he was treated as an entertaining figure but not as a plausible president. The Huffington Post was less than gracious at the end: "Nightmare: President Trump."
The mainstream media mindset was clear going into Tuesday--“Trump Hopes for a Miracle,” Politico declared—and few believed he would carry the half-dozen states that would get him to the magic 270.
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One word: Schadenfreude.
5.56mm
Now where are those NEVERTRUMPers!!
Got to give the guy creds for that.
What does that mean?
'The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him. To ride their horses and take away their possessions. To see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.' - Genghis Khan
It’s amazing that he won just with the media’s treatment of him.
You should have heard Andrea Mitchell (was on the phone) on msnbc. She was clearly upset and crying.
Donald Reagan.
“That’s just not who WE are”.....”
HA HA HA!!
Anyone skilled enough in Photoshop to put Trump's face and the "Hitlery Defeats Trump" headline on the paper?!
In doing so they became an arm of the DNC. The fact that so many of them were near tears at the end of the night shows this. No detached reporters of the facts.
Many years ago, journalism on the national scale became near extinct. They had no clue what at least half of the country cared about and if they did, they mocked it.
If they want to become relevant, the MSM outlets need to place these people all over the country, away from NY, LA, DC. etc. Make them LIVE among the common people for a couple years and make them interact with the people to understand them and not belittle them and their beliefs, hopes, and dreams. Then rotate them to another location away from their inbred brethren. Keep them away from each other. They need a bit of "diversity."
The slothful shiftless MSM got their ‘stories’ fed to them by corrupt liberal political operatives.
It was easier.
And cheaper.
Made the bozos and bimbos on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and NBC look smart - - as they spit out the words of their handlers.
And now they look like fools - played - marks - stupid - used...
We laugh. They have no ideas of their own... they pick up the talking points placed before them - knowing they’ve been fooled once... We watch them... laughing - they’re being played again ... today. Same talking points from the same handlers ... mouthing words that failed them and will fail them again.
Too stupid to be in the jobs they hold. And now we all know.
Bingo
The slothful shiftless MSM got their ‘stories’ fed to them by corrupt liberal political operatives.
It was easier.
And cheaper.
Made the bozos and bimbos on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and NBC look smart - - as they spit out the words of their handlers.
And now they look like fools - played - used...
We laugh. They have no ideas of their own... they pick up the talking points placed before them - knowing they’ve been fooled once... We watch them... laughing - they’re being played again ... today. Same talking points from the same handlers ... mouthing words that failed them and will fail them again.
Too stupid to be in the jobs they hold. And now we all know.
Andrea Mitchell said Clinton staffers were optimistic and mingling with the media and supporters at the Javitz Center until around 8:30pm... and then they vanished.
Not one word from Clinton's people until John Podesta came out at 2 am and told everyone to go home.
The media were not the slightest bit embarrassed by their open preference for hillary.
With that, they trumpet their uselessness - at the very least.
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