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Well. Let's be clear. And let's be fair. "Alternative facts" is a nonsensical term. Conway's boss is nuts and she's is very likely in over her head. It's true that Trump is a boorish buffoon, a narcissist, a liar, a con man, and - as best those of us who don't know him personally can tell - a horrible guy.
What's also true is that Chuck Todd, like nearly all American journalists, is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who has never gone after an Obama toady in the way he went after Conway even when the topic was Benghazi, Syria, the abject failure of "Obamacare", and the commutation of traitor's and terrorist's prison terms rather than the size of inauguration day crowds. It's also a particularly sad fact that Trump may succeed in peddling his propaganda to the masses because the press who should exist to stop him has delegitimized itself by peddling their own propaganda on behalf of democrats for the past twenty-five years while still maintaining that they are objective, impartial, nonpartisan. Although, it does seems as if over the past eight years they've been unable to do so and maintain a straight face.
In my view the press is responsible for the past two presidents: Obama and Trump. The press simply did not vet Obama. They allowed him to craft a narrative in his two self-serving autobiographies and they didn't challenge it. His life prior to seeking public office was allowed to remain very murky and go uninvestigated. The press was content to take a cursory peek and say, "Ah. Nothing to see here." Thus, America got it's first president with - in my opinion - no love for America. He weakened it's ability to defend itself, he demeaned it's history and values on the world stage, and he greatly deepened divides among it's citizens. The press popularized the terms "post-partisan" and "post-racial" to describe a deeply partisan senator turned president who did as much inflame racial tensions and undo cultural progress on that front than anyone in the past half century. What is that, if not propaganda?
In the end, the press reduced itself to parody and could not longer be taken seriously. Rather than report on Trump, they threw hissy-fits, they called names, they laughed out loud. The electorate was afforded the opportunity to see something extraordinary and instructive: How the press treated Obama and Trump, side-by-side, concurrently. Thus, now we have Trump. Yay, America.
What's also true is that Chuck Todd, like nearly all American journalists, is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who has never gone after an Obama toady in the way he went after Conway even when the topic was Benghazi, Syria, the abject failure of "Obamacare", and the commutation of traitor's and terrorist's prison terms rather than the size of inauguration day crowds. It's also a particularly sad fact that Trump may succeed in peddling his propaganda to the masses because the press who should exist to stop him has delegitimized itself by peddling their own propaganda on behalf of democrats for the past twenty-five years while still maintaining that they are objective, impartial, nonpartisan. Although, it does seems as if over the past eight years they've been unable to do so and maintain a straight face.
In my view the press is responsible for the past two presidents: Obama and Trump. The press simply did not vet Obama. They allowed him to craft a narrative in his two self-serving autobiographies and they didn't challenge it. His life prior to seeking public office was allowed to remain very murky and go uninvestigated. The press was content to take a cursory peek and say, "Ah. Nothing to see here." Thus, America got it's first president with - in my opinion - no love for America. He weakened it's ability to defend itself, he demeaned it's history and values on the world stage, and he greatly deepened divides among it's citizens. The press popularized the terms "post-partisan" and "post-racial" to describe a deeply partisan senator turned president who did as much inflame racial tensions and undo cultural progress on that front than anyone in the past half century. What is that, if not propaganda?
In the end, the press reduced itself to parody and could not longer be taken seriously. Rather than report on Trump, they threw hissy-fits, they called names, they laughed out loud. The electorate was afforded the opportunity to see something extraordinary and instructive: How the press treated Obama and Trump, side-by-side, concurrently. Thus, now we have Trump. Yay, America.
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