[quote=SK in CV]It’s not just right wing media. It’s the absolutely moronic mainstream media. This from the LA Times:
Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office.
JFC. Who coulda knowed it all over again. Anyone and everyone who watched the campaign should have known exactly what was coming. Only an f’ing moron couldn’t see it coming. But they were constantly distracted by shiny but absolutely benign things. Ya know…. emails and shit.
So you’re saying the mainstream media was not harsh enough on con man don?
I think that that was definitely true in many cases. And I think the reason for that is that the constant accusations of left-wing bias from the right-wing media have cowed the mainstream media into toning down, not just in the case of con man don’s candidacy, but in general, their condemnation of any right-wing idea, policy, action, or philosophy that they (the mainstream media) see as dangerous, foolish, ignorant, wrong, or immoral.
All that said, I disagree with your assessment of the L.A. times. The quote you cite above was preceded by this:
The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”
