At The Federalist Saritha Prabhu closely parallels my own views:
My awakening came accidentally when I realized in 2016 that I just couldn’t support Hillary Clinton (I ended up protest-voting for Gary Johnson). I thought Clinton was arrogant, entitled, corrupt, and dishonest. I couldn’t believe the Democratic Party would nominate someone who was the subject of an FBI investigation.
But as 2016 rolled on, I became quietly incensed. I couldn’t help noticing repeatedly that the mainstream media was shielding and enabling Clinton in her dissembling and media avoidance. I noticed that the commentators at CNN, MSNBC, and the NYT either ignored or made light of Clinton’s many problem areas: the private email server, compromising of state secrets, and the questionable multimillion-dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation. (Yes, the Times broke the story in 2015 about Clinton’s personal email account, but I’m talking here about its 2016 treatment of her candidacy.)
Read the whole thing.
I’m not a liberal but I’m a Democrat. I couldn’t support Hillary Clinton for president. Like Ms. Prabhu I protest-voted for Gary Johnson. I agree with her assessment of Hillary Clinton’s character. I agree that the DNC erred in foisting her upon the party as its standard-bearer in 2016.
Where I differ is that it didn’t come as a bolt from the blue for me. I’ve recognized the incredible bias of our major media outlets for some time.
I can’t bear to watch television news. I get my news by reading a sample of newspapers, hoping to separate the chaff, editorial opinion presented as news, from the wheat, actual news. I don’t honestly see how ordinary sane Americans who don’t follow things as closely as I do, God love them, can possibly do so.
“..I don’t honestly see how ordinary sane Americans who don’t follow things as closely as I do, God love them, can possibly do so….”
This remark reeks of the condescension you seem to feel for “ordinary sane Americans”, who, amazingly enough, have remarkable powers of discernment. Perhaps spending more time among “ordinary” Americans would change your opinion. I don’t have a degree, but I follow current events avidly, skim newspapers and read blogs. Even those American who don’t, however, have enough sense to realize the media is lying to them. Get out of your ivory tower and ask them. Visit a refinery in Corpus Christi or a day-care in Pensacola or any bar in Youngstown or a cafe in Minot or an unemployment line just about anywhere, and ask Americans what they think of their Fourth Estate. You’d learn two things: one, that Americans aren’t the rubes you take them to be, and two, Americans feel they are being both lied to and misled about events of public interest by our media.
You have some learning to do. Best get started.
I haven’t watched television “news” in a long time. I put in the scare quotes because most “news” channels are filled with opinion shows or the “news” reporting is based on selective POV reporting.
I do occasionally watch France24 and al Jazeera online. It’s amazing to see how their coverage of US issues is so fundamentally different than what we get here.
I get almost all of my news online and from NPR – though NPR is starting to annoy me recently.
Roadgeek,
Are you new here? I think you’ve read too much into that one sentence. Our host here is probably the most even tempered and least condescending person who posts regularly on the internet.
And Andy is no bootlicker.
And Dave is pretty much a populist Democrat who would probably prefer elected officials be ordinary people to what we have.
“Are you new here? ” Lurker and very occasional commenter of about three years. Even even-tempered souls can sometimes say foolish things.
Registered Republican here, still, and I voted for Clinton. Not my ideal Democratic candidate to be candid, but I didn’t want Trump and I thought I should give my vote to someone who might win rather than a protest candidate.
Mostly I get my news from the Internet these days — I’ve got about a thousand websites in my favorites pile, so I get a range of commentary.
Quietly incensed about Clinton? Yup, she sucked. Second worst POTUS candidate in my life time. Trump was the worst.
Steve
Maybe it’s because it’s really all a dog and pony show.
Think Matt Lauer was concerned about informing you?
Think for a minute Bill Clinton “feels your pain”?
Hillary’s insincere drawl,”Ah ain’t in no ways tared” would make a Black voters face red with embarrassment.
Obama sold us “Hope for Change”. Oh well, It sure changed HIS life.
Give you an insight into the mind of a common man. I am a wholesale milkman, a laborer, when I scan the news about our leaders, the rich and famous, the dignified, the well read, the informed, I wonder how they even find the TIME for their lewd and lecherous pastimes.
They only pretend to do their jobs, because they see clearly it’s all about grabbing what you can, while you can, and getting away with it.
The essence of Prabhus comment was the realization that the media has abandoned any notion of integrity. Every last bit. Dave added that the machine got behind Clinton only because they are, well, a machine.
Both are true. Just in the last few days we had ABCs Ross leaving out a minor little detail (snicker) that completely changes the meaning of their reporting. But it worked. It sent the chattering class into orbit, and the casual observer. Now he’s suspended. And Newsweek informs us that Ivanka Trump “plagiarized” an earlier version of her own speech. You can’t make this shit up.
It’s overwhelmingly a one-sided bias, and the country is not well served.
Nowadays, the Democrat Party is a full-blown socialist party. It is also an overt anti-White working class party. If you are not a liberal, or better a communist, you have no business in the Democrat Party. Moreover, if you are White, you have no business in it. The face and future of the Democrat Party are Tom Perez and Keith Ellison. Look carefully. There is NO place in that Party for any White person or any Jew.