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Jeffrey Lord is a regular contributor to The
American Spectator blog, but more Tea Party people may recognize him as a
regular panelist – often the only conservative – on CNN prime time news. He attended a recent Trump rally and published a piece
exposing the utter dishonesty in the mainstream media. The following is an
extract from NewsBusters:
The other night I spent some time with Donald Trump. He had come to
Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, a mere five or so
miles up the road from my house.
The Trump rally was filled - completely - with thousands inside and
outside thousands more waiting (in vain) to get in the door. Here’s what
interested.
Never once - not once - did I hear Donald Trump mention the Khans,
the now famous parents of a son killed in battle in Iraq. Even more to the
point? In talking with many people in the audience before and after the rally,
no one - say again not a single soul - mentioned the Khans. What I did hear
from Trump was talk about jobs, trade, the economy, ISIS and more. Which was
the talk from members of the audience when I spoke to many of them before and
after the rally. They volunteered directly to me, conversation after another,
their thoughts about ObamaCare, a sick child, jobs, trade ,pride in America,
Hillary and so on.
And yet? Mysteriously when I returned home and turned on the
television or checked on-line it seemed to be all-Khan all-the-time. As if
Trump had spent the evening re-hashing the whole subject yet again. Which he
had not.
In my conversation with Donald Trump himself he was upbeat, every
bit as enthusiastic as his audience. Yet what was the media take on the Trump
campaign this week? Here’s ABC’s Jon Karl:
“I am told that senior officials at
the party are actively exploring what would happen if Trump dropped out. How to
replace him on the ballot. They can’t force him out, he would have to go
out voluntarily. And then it would be the 168 members of the RNC through a
complicated process they would pick a new candidate.”
Over here at Politico was
this headline:
Insiders to Trump: Drop out
'I’d rather take our chances with
nearly anyone else than continue with this certain loser who will likely cost
the Senate and much more,' said a New Hampshire Republican.
This media jewel began this way:
“Amid widespread chatter that
Donald Trump could drop out of the presidential race before Election Day,
Republican insiders in key battleground states have a message for The Donald:
Get out.”
GOP reaches ‘new level of panic’
over Trump’s candidacy
“Turmoil in the Republican Party
escalated Wednesday as party leaders, strategists and donors voiced increased
alarm about the flailing state of Donald Trump’s candidacy and fears that the
presidential nominee was damaging the party with an extraordinary week of
self-inflicted mistakes, gratuitous attacks and missed opportunities.
Republican National Committee
Chairman Reince Priebus was described as “very frustrated” with and deeply
disturbed by Trump’s behavior over the past week, having run out of excuses to
make on the nominee’s behalf to donors and other party leaders, according to
multiple people familiar with the events.
Meanwhile, Trump’s top campaign
advisers are struggling once again to instill discipline in their candidate,
who has spent recent days lurching from one controversy to another while
seemingly skipping chances to go on the offensive against his Democratic
opponent, Hillary Clinton.
“A new level
of panic hit the street,” said longtime operative Scott Reed, chief strategist
for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “It’s time for a serious reset.” Hours later Politico took note of the Trump
announcement of his economic team - a team filled with seriously competent
businessmen with considerable experience in making the American economy
work. What did Politicosay?
This:
Trump unveils all-male economic
advisory team
“Donald Trump's campaign on Friday
announced more than a dozen members of the Republican nominee's all-male
economic advisory team, including several prominent real-estate investors,
hedge-fund managers and bankers.”
CNN's 'New Day' Airs Nearly 200
Times More Coverage On Trump Controversies Than Iran
“CNN set aside nearly half of its
air time on Wednesday's New
Day to various
recent controversies involving the Trump campaign — 1 hour, 24 minutes, and 18
seconds over three hours. By contrast, the program clearly didn't think much of
the Wall Street Journal's Tuesday revelation that the Obama administration secretly airlifted $400
million in cash to Iran. John Berman gave a 27-second news brief to the report,
but didn't mention that the payment was sent on "an unmarked cargo
plane" New Day, therefore,
devoted over 187 times more coverage to Trump than to the millions to Iran.”
. . .
To the larger point.
Monday night at that Trump rally here in Pennsylvania, a rally I
have described here in The
American Spectator, Trump drew what was unarguably his most
sustained applause when he said of his campaign: “the biggest problem is the
media.” The audience erupted, applauding and cheering, with many turning -
unasked by Trump - to the back of the room where the television cameras were
perched on risers and booing repeatedly. Trump went on to say this:
These are among the most dishonest
people you will ever, ever meet. These people — you know, I’ve had days where I
have said, ‘Boy, this was a great day. I’ll look forward to seeing it tonight
or tomorrow and it’s brutal.’ And I say, ‘What happened?’
We are going to punch through the
media. We have to! The New York Times is totally dishonest. Totally dishonest.
The Washington Post has been a little bit better lately but not good. By the
way The New York Times, which is failing badly. I call it ‘The Failing New York
Times.’ Every story that they write is a hit job. I could do the greatest thing
in the history of the world. I could come up with a cure for the most horrible
disease in the world and they give me a front-page horrible, horrible story.
The New York Times is very dishonest but it will be out of business soon. I
hope. It will be out of business. It will. Really dishonest reporters. Not all
of them, but most of them.
There was more, with another attack on CNN.
But the point here is very simple. Out and abroad in the land there
are millions of Americans who feel intensely that “the media” - fill in an
outlet of your choice in print, TV, radio and now the Internet - are out there
with the sole object of
destroying Donald Trump [emphasis added]. That the slightest misstep of
Trump’s will be magnified and replayed over and over endlessly - while major
events like the clear case of the Obama administration’s payment of $400
million in cash to ransom Iranian hostages are simply downplayed.
. . .
Buckle in. It is a long way to November. And everything including
the kitchen sink is coming in Trump’s direction courtesy of the media.
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