One of my neighbors accosted me about Trump’s incessant,
sometimes playful, sometimes personal and painful tweets.
Here’s what I told him:
“Trump is going around the left-wing media which has been
pushing their left-wing narrative for decades. He is also helped exposing this
bias and now routinely puts on open display.”
It’s been barely six months, but still the bipolar,
bi-coastal want Trump to stop tweeting. Some of the Republicans in Washington
want him to stop, too. I say: Stop asking the President to stop tweeting! I
love it! I love every letter, every meme, every heart-warming, America-promoting,
anti-Big Media snubbing bit of it.
He is a down to earth voice for you and me, as local media
turns into a hulking, generalized mass dedicated to destroying the president.
The stock market is soaring and jobs are coming back. Why won’t the press
report on this? They were goo-goo for Obama when the market was rallying weren’t
they?
He actually provides real news!
The Goldbergs, Jonah and Bernard, are all wrong: There is
nothing wrong with Trump’s epic Twitterama smack-down of the press, bad
politicians, and everything PC.
Yet the national media bigwigs like the Big Three (ABC, CBS,
BCS) and the editorialists (if anyone still reads them) are clinging to their gatekeeper
role, which they’ve dominated for decades, from Walter Cronkite to Jake Tapper.
“We are the spouters of All the News that Fits our Narrative! We are not about
to be pushed aside by a reality show rodeo clown.”
Trump’s answer? “Cannon Ball!”
Their fearful condescension has handed to the President the
final and fulfilling role of notary, votary, and broadcaster, all rolled into
one. Trump has taken down the corrupt media phalanx like a boss. The meme
showing Trump in a World Wrestling Federation (WWF) ring beating down CNN with
chairs, then cutting off his hair is pure dope-opera fun. Except that the
outcome of this fight is real, and the media frauds like CNN are the dopes
getting jack-hammered. “What’re you gonna do, brothers?”
Dinesh D’Souza,
interestingly enough, caught the spirit of this wonderful, conservative
resurgence. Trump has indeed saved the Supreme Court, and ensured a
right-leaning, pro-constitutional leadership for decades to come. He is not
Hillary Clinton, although I think that Trump exceeds beyond not being a
corrupt, kleptocratic politician-madam. He is driving the Left crazy, and
beating them at their own game on their turf!
How? By taking on and taking down the media.
There is so much to admire about our President. He may come
off like a thuggish brawler, but he is tap-dancing with grace and style against
one of the most sinister threats to our culture. This is about more than CNN,
but the perverted press. They don’t report the news, but drive a destructive
narrative to create a more “progressive” society, one in line with the
dangerous ideals of Academia rather than an American culture based on
constitutionalism, limited government, and individual liberty.
Trump is the unlikely knight-errant of our cultural wars to
Make America Great Again. I still can’t wrap my head around it, but it’s so
true. Despite his numerous failings, and his long previous record of very
liberal views, this man has become the conservative champion I have waited for!
He is the first Republican of the modern times who has stood
on the media’s field of battle—not more than a faux wrestling cage—and brought
them to their desperate knees.
Think about it. Republicans’ greatest enemy has been liberal
media bias. Republican presidents have had an adverse, adversarial relationship
with the media since … whenever! Abraham Lincoln had reporters arrested for
their seditious behavior against the Union efforts. Modern day sedition
includes lies about WMD (they found them) and their fear-driven attention to
non-essentials in our culture.
Teddy Roosevelt called invasive investigative
journalists “Muckrakers.” Fast-forward to Eisenhower, who enjoyed a relatively
peaceful relationship with the press, only because he was a war hero. His
successor Richard Nixon, however, never fared well with reporters, especially on
television. The media had pretty much chosen their gilded successor: another
member of the Kennedy clan. Plus they did nothing about rampant allegations of
voter fraud in 1960. Two years later, following another epic election failure,
Nixon groused at a press conference: “You won’t have me to kick around
anymore.”
Despite his triumphs in 1968 and even more so in 1972 (49
states!), Nixon drew up an Enemy’s List, including media talking heads. Like
Lyndon Baines Johnson before him, he needed Walter Cronkite to like him or his
agenda was finished. Watergate fell, and the negative public opinion that
followed flooded him out.
Gerald Ford was mercilessly pilloried in the press.
Entertainment media routinely mocked him after he stumbled off a plane during
the first month of his administration: The Johnny Carson Show and Saturday
Night Live. They coasted to decent ratings at Ford’s expense. He did nothing
about it.
Reagan was special, the first Republican to counter-act the
liberal media attack. He went over their heads and spoke to the American people
heart to heart. He mocked reports, too, and once told hecklers to “Shut Up!” after
his 1980 landslide victory. But Reagan never hit the core problem: liberal media
was inherently corrupt, determined to promote Democratic candidates and core
liberal values at all costs. Trump has handled this challenge handily---and
handed the Big Bad Media their own head on a lance.
How has Trump accomplished this momentous, challenging, yet
necessary task? Social media, certainly. But the media handed him the sword for
him to decapitate them. After eight years of Obama, particularly the two years
of Hillary hocking on every major news outlet and paper, it was painfully clear
to Americans of all backgrounds how far in the tank they were for the Left. Americans
loathed the arrogant press for going after their guns and their Bibles, their
livelihood and their values. Trump captured this vicious animosity and
campaigned on it!
And still does, and he keeps winning like a boss!
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