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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (3879)	12/29/2016 7:44:10 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356038

was ridiculed, attacked, discounted, name-called, and generally opposed by the media coverage and Democrat candidates were supported by media coverage. It couldn't have anything to do with how he acted? My Gosh, no!

To: i-node who wrote (3879)	12/29/2016 8:24:49 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 356038

At the end of the day, Trump -- the Republican candidate -- was ridiculed, attacked, discounted, name-called, and generally opposed by the media coverage and Democrat candidates were supported by media coverage. There you go again. The media breathlessly covered the whole email nothingburger of Hillary. Every little Wikileak. Every word that Comey had to say. While Trump got literally billions of dollars worth of free coverage. Your sense of victimization is almost as high as Trump's.

To: i-node who wrote (3879)	12/29/2016 9:56:19 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Recommended By one_less Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 356038

What I saw this year was a dangerous bias that is something new If it's a one-off thing with the press, that's not the same as a permanent change of gears. I agree that what they did is not the proper role of the institution of the press. It remains to be seen how that will play out, whether it will end with Trump or whether it permanently alters the mainstream press. Trump is sui generis not just wrt the press. This is a less-than-once-in-a lifetime anomaly. I realize it's hard for a fan and partisan to get his head around but some people pulled out all the stops because they saw a monumental threat to the country and perhaps the world all the while others, such as yourself, were treating him as business as usual. So they jumped into patriot mode with both feet, risked careers and retribution, to shake up the sleep-walking others. You may not agree with their assessment of extraordinary risk but I think it's important for Trump fans to understand that this isn't the usual left-right thing but the reaction of people who ripped off their press badges and did everything they could from whatever pulpit they had to save their country from what they saw as impending disaster, not the hyped disaster talk that we've come to hear every election, but a this-is-not-a-drill disaster. They would not have reacted to Cruz or Rubio or Bush or whomever that way. From a previous post of mine: The Post changed last December. It was a jolt to my system--clear and conspicuous. There was no doubt that it was horrified by Trump, but IMO not as a Republican, per se. I had started capturing clips regarding Trump and the other candidates last fall. I just went back to verify when the change started. The first I saw of it came from Jennifer Rubin, who is the house righty. She was really exercised over him. It was quickly followed by opinion pieces from the Republican establishment, which was just starting to entertain what became never-Trump mode. Once the Post started in on Trump, it never let up. I think that GOP partisans make a big, paranoid mistake when they treat the Post's action as partisan. It was driven by the sheer horror experienced by both cosmopolitan D's and R's that the likes of Trump, someone considered monumentally unqualified, could actually be elected president. Considering someone unqualified is not the same as disagreeing with his political positions or disfavoring his party. Message 30908970 If you're going to understand what the other guys are up to, you have to recognize that for that other culture, the cosmopolitan elite who rub shoulders with the political elite, Trump represented not just another party shift in the White House but the end of the world as they knew it. I collected over 500 clips over the year from that bunch, both D's and R's. Either you missed them or blew them off. (I don't get news from TV so I can't speak to that.)