"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist
June 1, 2016
By: Linda Case Gibbons
This week the press finally got a dose of what they've been dishing out.
It was a dressing down, something we've been waiting for someone to do for a long time.
But no one ever did. No one ever had the guts.
Over the past eight years, Americans have been forced to accept that the press is liberal, and the rest of us just have to take it on the chin.
Until Trump.
Before Donald Trump, no one took on the "Fourth Estate" and their behavior.
The Democrats didn't need to. They are the darlings of the Leftist Media.
But this week, and for the past nine months, Trump has said what we all have been thinking: The media is biased and shamelessly favors liberals.
That's what we wanted the Republicans we elected to say.
But they never did.
Once upon a time, real newspapermen followed the Holy Grail of Journalism: The Scoop. Today newsmen wouldn't know a scoop if Deep Throat met them in Starbucks, and dished the dirt to them while they were ordering a latte.
It's the way it is.
And how else could it be? Educated in liberal colleges, with liberal professors, with an uber-liberal president, the country has moved closer to what passes for news in Communist China.
It has made the media into bullies.
They get away with falsely broadcasting dead air when filming a "documentary on gun control;"
They lose interest after a day-and-a-half, never delving into what happened to Ambassador Christopher Stevens' body the night of his tragic murder in Benghazi;
And they have never been indignant and shocked that a woman:
Who messed up her job in the State Department;
Who is being investigated by the FBI for destroying State Department documents, which she kept on a private server in someone's bathroom;
And who cavalierly endangered the security of America while on that job -- is running for president.
She's a Democrat, so she gets a pass.
But when Donald Trump raises money for veterans, they see evil. They're on the story, insinuating he mishandled the money raised when he skipped the FOX Republican Debate in Des Moines, and held a rally of his own on the same night.
They saw no story in his standing up to the bullying tactics at FOX, by the Kelly/Baier/Wallace/Ailes team, after a press release was issued, sanctioned by Ailes, which ridiculed Trump in a way that would have made Barack Hussein Obama cry.
Trump's on the other team, so the press isn't interested in that story, just in hounding him...for raising money for vets.
This week Trump responded to questions about his honesty, published in The Washington Post. He held a press conference. He provided copies of checks made out to veterans groups receiving the money, with names and addresses, and answered questions posed by the press.
But still they weren't satisfied.
When a veteran at the press conference passionately defended the good Trump did and has done, the press was unconvinced. They didn't revamp the story.
Because it was never about Truth or even the Money. It never is.
If it were about Truth, they would have been indignant when the news broke that the Hillary Campaign had set up the "Vets Against Trump" protestors outside the Trump Tower press conference. If it were about Truth, they would have been indignant when it became public the protest was bogus, with Hillary's fingerprints all over it.
But, they weren't.
Instead they refashioned their attack, and, with a president like Barack Obama in the White House, actually accused Donald J. Trump of being "thin-skinned." It's enough to make you want to revoke their press passes.
Facts mean nothing to them. And no one took them on about it until Trump.
When Obama apology-toured his way through Vietnam and Japan, awarding weapons to the Vietnam government "to defend themselves," and apologizing by innuendo for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the press saw nothing wrong with his visit, blatantly planned to take place a few days before America's Memorial Day.
And this week they saw nothing odd about Obama throwing his hat into the political ring, campaigning in Elkhart, Indiana, demonizing the Republican candidate.
They didn't find it odd that the president stammered and stuttered while Trump-trash-talking for at least as long as Katie Couric's dead air gun control documentary. (That's about eight minutes.)
Instead the press explained the stammer and the stutter. It wasn't stuttering, they said. It was "Intellectual Stammer," the one experienced by those with superior brains, when their mouths cannot keep up with their superior intellect.
To them, when they looked at the Emperor, he was fully clothed.
It's too bad, but that's the way it is. Until Trump came along.
However, there is some breaking news:
America's media has time-morphed back to the time of the Spanish American War and Yellow Journalism.
That's defined as "Scare headlines of minor news; use of faked interviews; a parade of false learning from so-called experts; and dramatic sympathy with the underdog against the system."
It's like Michelle Obama telling a graduating class this year that she's living in a house built by slaves.
It's the kind of journalism we see all the time on the major networks and newspapers, the ones who could make even Mother Teresa look bad.
Hold the line, America.