Watch any entertaining presidential primary debates lately? That was an impressive bit of pushback by the GOP candidates on the partisan hack who was masquerading as a debate moderator! After an embarrassment like that how does our media react – apologetic and promising to make a more honest effort next time? Ha Ha! Don’t be silly, of course they doubled down on stupid and lashed out at the knuckle-dragging simpletons who dared to question the mainstream press’ absolute authority over what the public should be presented as news. Brian Beutler at The New Republic lamented “The GOP’s Grotesque Festival of Lies”: The tone is set in the first paragraph:
The darkest moment of the 2012 campaign for President Obama was the first of his three debates with Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee. Obama was rusty and under-prepared, which contributed to his poor showing that night, but a big reason he lost the plot so badly is that the Mitt Romney he had prepared to debate was a composite of public statements, briefing papers, and other documentation from the past. The Romney who showed up was a shapeshifter adapting to his immediate circumstances.
Yep, Beutler is lamenting that one candidate actually did his homework and showed up prepared for the debate, and it wasn’t his guy! Fast forward to his complaints about the CNBC debate, and Beutler attacks Rubio defending that his tax plan. Even after reprinting a tweet from moderator John Harwood that backs up Rubio’s statement, Beutler still asserts the opposite. At the end the column includes a blurb about Hillary:
The likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, enjoys no such presumption of good faith from either the public or the media.
Um public, some. But that’s mainly because she gets nothing but good faith from the media. No, they’ll never love her the way they did her husband of President Obama, but how much they may or may not like her dwarfs next to the MSM’s hatred for conservatives. Putting aside the fact that the moderators let her skate in the last debate over her well known criminal activity, a better question would have been why she did not get grilled over her acts of treason. Or they could have been fair and thrown out a few simple questions to all of the candidates sharing the stage with Hillary, such as:
- Since FDR in the 30’s , Japan in the 90s’, and Obama’s first term have indisputably proven your economic theories don’t work, what makes you think it will this time?
- Exactly how do you plan to pay for all of this s***?
- Are there any articles of the Bill of Rights that you do not feel need to be abolished?
It’s not as though Hillary sees the media as her obedient sheep – right?
Over at Gawker, Hamilton Nolan lectures us that If the Media Loses, So Do You He whines for a bit at how the Republicans had the audacity to not accept every loaded question, a treatment their counterparts on the other side don’t have to worry about, and concludes by scolding us:
Hate the media all you want, America. The more you do, the less you know. In the end, we will get the president that we deserve. Unfortunately.
And in that rant Nolan also misses the point – it’s not media we hate – it’s members of the Radical Left masquerading as journalists that we hate. Trust in the media is hovering near the ebola / Nickelback popularity range, and stories about left wing journalistic malpractice come up all the time. Look no further than the expose on the New York Times’ “expose” of the nail salon industry. Maybe if members of the media are so angry that we don’t blindly trust them, then maybe they should focus on actually being trustworthy instead? Personally, I’m just grateful that the Republicans are finally taking my advice and fighting back. At least CNBC has enough sense to feel some shame over how badly they botched the debate. And we’re even seeing the unthinkable – “journalists” apologizing for substance-less hit pieces, as Politico’s Kyle Chaney was forced to do. The last point I want to make is to repeat what I finished with back in July:
Say what you will about (Hillary), she understands that the press are a useful tool for Democrats and has been making an excellent use of that tool. The press can be useful for Republicans as well, but in a completely different manner.It’s one thing to disable your opponent’s artillery – it’s quite another to turn the cannons around and have your opponent scurry as their favorite weapon is used against them. The question is, will they actually decide to go on the offensive and use this weapon?
And while the Twitterverse served up some great blurbs to end this post on a humorous note, actor Nick Searcy went on his own assault, so I’ll give him the stage (via Freedompost):
https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/660211517552373763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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