Commentary on Trump, Media, etc.
Unfortunately, many from the left use Trump as a convenient
piñata to denigrate the anti-socialist, republican measures he has
instituted. While I may question his
past personal morals and some of his business practices, I cannot denounce his
unravelling of the moribund culture and economy left behind by Obama. (And
spare me the “great” Obama growth rates from the depths of the 2007-08 recession.)
Trump makes a big, convenient target for disappointed and
disenfranchised liberals, who really revile the unwinding of that “nanny state”
so highly prized by Obama, Clinton and the previous corrupt ruling cabal. So when I hear all that bleating by the
biased liberal media and its adherents, I know what the real target represented
by Trump is – the republicanism and conservatism that is replacing the servile and
inept attitude that served as government prior to this administration.
Trump is but a symbol and a whipping boy for the left’s
frustration at losing the election and halting their march into making our
country a second rate, apologetic second EU ala Obama. Trump defies the coastal and urban elites by
undoing Obama’s socialist policies and proving that American exceptionalism,
coupled with the right incentives, can make our country economically dynamic
and successful. And this grates on the
left so much that they are destroying the democrat party by sliding into undisguised
socialism.
I was in NYC when Trump came up, so I’m pretty familiar with
his background as a wheeler-dealer, promoter and ladies’ man. I could care less about all that, and about
Stormy Daniels and meetings about past relationships with Playboy playmates,
and empty collusion/obstruction threats.
What I care about is what he’s doing for our country. I don’t care if he stands on his head and
whistles “Dixie”, so long as his policies reinstitute real American pride and
well-being across our country (and across the opposition in spite of
themselves).
Since I have digital subscriptions to the
New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Dallas Morning News,
and I have full range TV coverage for both the U.S. and overseas, I
periodically review news coverage by the mainstream media.
When I look particularly for balanced and
unbiased coverage of the news, I’ll turn to Associated Press, Reuters, USA
Today, The Economist, Politifact or Snopes.
Since I have a conservative bent, I tend to concentrate on the Wall
Street Journal, National Review, Fox news, more than the rest of the left wing
media.
What I find consistently is that the
unbiased sources and the ostensibly “right wing” sources present a pretty fair
picture of the news, and that their opinion pieces and segments allow for
dissent and discussion. Just as an
example, Fox News, which is an acknowledged right oriented news source, present
themselves as “fair and balanced”, and regularly presents dissenting opinions
and discussion from the likes of such left wing figures as Juan Williams,
Jessica Tarlov, Geraldo Rivera and others. I have found no such corresponding right wing
dissenting figures on CNN or MSNBC, whose news fare is a constant drumbeat of
anti-Trump rhetoric, without respite or dissenting discussion.
Is it any wonder, then, that Trump and
his minions express enmity at what he calls “fake news”. One would think that the press and the
broadcast media would introduce some modicum of fairness into their coverage of
Trump’s accomplishments, rather than continually casting everything he does in
a negative light. The balanced media and
the right oriented media take Trump to task when he commits one of his gaffes,
but they don’t constantly excoriate him, his family, his staff, every day for
everything they do, as the left wing media do.
Ray Gruszecki
August 9, 2018
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