Media
Puts Debate Moderators on Notice: Protect Hillary, by Derek Hunter, 9/11/16
We’ve
spent eight years hearing how awful we are for not praising President Obama’s
failures. Have a problem with anemic economic growth? You’re a bigot. Not a fan
of accumulating more debt than every other president combined? You’re a
Klansman. Not a fan of unfettered, anonymous immigration or providing funding,
housing and work to un-vetted refugees from terrorist-infested parts of the
world? You’re a xenophobe. Think adding millions upon millions of Americans to
the welfare rolls shouldn’t be celebrated? You’re blowing the “dog whistle” of
racism.
During
the Obama years, almost every American has been called an “ist” or “phobe” of
some sort because the alternative would’ve been to deal with the substance of
the critiques. That’s something Democrats don’t want and can’t handle. Their
unquestioned failures haven’t destroyed them as a party only because they’ve
been shielded by fellow travelers in the media. When an administration can
create the phrase “jobs saved or created” to spin a trillion-dollar stimulus
scam without being laughed out of the White House, journalism is dead.
Journalism
is dead, but there are still people using that title who do not come close to
living up to it. And those people still are watched by otherwise-disengaged
Americans too busy surviving to pay close enough attention to realize the
emperor has no clothes. They hear a tailored suit-wearing talking head read 22
minutes of “news” every once in a while, or read some slanted spin by a
“reporter” with impressive-sounding awards and have no reason to question them.
That’s
how the Democratic Party survives. But Hillary Clinton is such an awful
candidate and corrupt human being, the media can spin only so much to keep
people in the dark. As the curtain is pulled back even further, the stench of
desperation is emerging.
The
media has been forced to move beyond standard coverage of Clinton’s boilerplate
stump speeches and acknowledge the realities surrounding her. The Foundation,
the insane amounts of money, the access sold, the favors traded, the trust
betrayed. They do their best to undercut the stories – keeping them short on TV
and burying them deep in the paper – but people have heard enough to connect
the dots from Clinton’s nearly 40 years in public life and to read between the
lines themselves.
It’s
what’s kept this race close, and it’s what has the media worried. And it’s what
explains the new tactic ushered in this week – attacking those who expose her
as a warning to those who might in the future.
Matt
Lauer made the mistake of asking thus-far unanswered questions of Hillary at
the “Commander In Chief Forum” on NBC News. He compounded his media
transgression by interrupting her filibustering of those questions to point out
her lack of clarity. For this random act of journalistic integrity, Lauer was
smeared repeatedly, including being called “loser” two days in a row by none
other than the New York Times.
The
message to moderators of future debates was clear: Go easy on Hillary, or they
will come after you.
Compounding
matters, since there are so many fronts on which Hillary is corrupt and
therefore vulnerable, information continues to come out about how she
compromised national security to avoid accountability. As each drip creates a
ripple washing across more and more people’s consciousness, the story must be
squashed. Enter the Washington Post.
In an
editorial, the paper that exposed Watergate after months of continual digging
demanded all shovels be put away when it comes to Hillary’s secret private
server. Saying the “story is out of control,” the Post pre-emptively excoriated
those who who’d question her ever-evolving tale.
She’s
the victim, the Post would have you believe. Hillary’s “emails have endured
much more scrutiny than an ordinary person’s would have,” the editorial stated.
So no more stories. But with Hillary
there’s always more, so every angle must be covered.
After
going the gestation period for a human being without holding a press
conference, she took a few questions this week. Proving just how worthless the
press is, and how afraid Hillary is, the first question was whether she’s the victim
of sexism. This
mantra was picked up by other group-think “journalists” and passed off
as original thought. They’ll probably all win Pulitzers for
it.
The
message has become clear: Protect Hillary. Accuse whoever may stand in her way
of being whatever kind of “ist” or “phobe” is handy at any given moment, and do
whatever it takes to get her over the finish line. She’s such an awful
candidate she can’t win without it, even against someone as distrusted as
Donald Trump.
That
Trump has kept this a margin-of-error race against the full force of the
corporate media machine backing Hillary is a testament to just how awful she
is. No amount of spin will be able to undo 24 years of knowing Hillary Clinton,
and no lie will make her seem honest.
Debate
moderators likely will heed their fellow travelers’ warnings to go easy. But
it’s just a matter of what comes first: enough voters in battleground states
realizing they’ve been lied to or Nov. 8.
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