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America Takes Knee On Media Bias
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Joe Cooper
2016-11-15 13:39:24 UTC
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It’s been amusing to watch some of the elites, celebrities and members of
the mainstream media have embarrassing childlike temper tantrums and
meltdowns over Donald Trump’s victory. It’s expected with the elites and
especially Hollywood stars, many in both circles are completely out-of-
touch with reality. However, what I find so incredibly disturbing is that
so many members of the media – who have a duty to report what the
majority of Americans are really thinking and feeling - are genuinely
shocked by the election results. There is no reason any journalist with a
functioning brain should be the slightest bit shocked by Trump’s victory
if they were actually doing their job. This election media folk allowed
their arrogance and extreme narcissism to completely blind them from the
revolution that was going on right underneath their smug noses.

After Trump’s landslide, I got a call from a reporter with the mainstream
media. He told me he wanted to know why Trump won and why the media and
elites got this election so wrong. He asked me if I was surprised by the
results, I told him no. He then asked me why I believe Trump won. I
attempted to tell him why it was obvious to me Trump would win most
likely in a landslide; however, before I could finish a sentence, he
would interrupt me and inform me that my opinion was wrong. He was not at
all interested in what I had to say. He attempted to put words in my
mouth and would answer his own questions instead of allowing me to
answer. He basically interviewed himself. I finally had to ask him if he
was even interested in my opinion at all. I found it extremely ironic
that he was asking me why the media got this election so wrong but he
then refused to listen to anything I had to say. This is the exact reason
why the media got this election so wrong. The MSM refused to listen to
what Americans had to say -- they chose only to listen to themselves or
the selective opinions of those they agreed with.

I mentioned to this reporter that I write for Townhall, and he told me he
had never heard of this conservative news site. I thought he was kidding;
he was not. He then proceeded to tell me he only reads the New York
Times. I was shocked. I couldn’t believe a journalist admitted to me that
not only does he only read one news publication, it also happens to be
one with a terrible reputation for publishing blatant lies and liberal
bias. This so-called journalist highlights everything that is wrong with
the MSM these days. Some of these media elites are the most disgustingly
arrogant, self-righteous and narcissistic people on the planet. Remember
when Ann Coulter went on Bill Maher and said Trump had the best chance of
winning the general election and everyone laughed in her face? My guess
is that they’re not laughing now.

The people we have working in the elite media circles not only have a
gross sense of self-righteousness, some of them are blatant pathological
liars. The fact that Brian Williams is allowed back on TV reporting news
after repeatedly telling tall tales is a disgrace. We saw countless
examples of outlets -- such as MSNBC, CNN, CBS and the New York Times --
blatantly lying to the voters and colluding with Clinton to rig this
election. If they had actually reported the truth, none of them would be
shocked by the election results. The signs pointing to an inevitable
Trump victory were everywhere. His rallies broke records with tens of
thousands of people waiting for hours in sometimes-extreme weather
conditions to pack massive stadiums to see and hear him speak; meanwhile,
Clinton struggled to get a few hundred of her supporters out to a high
school gym to listen to her speak. Trump’s social media pages – even with
all the censorship of conservative voices – blew Clinton’s out of the
water with exchanges that most dominantly were in his favor. During the
last few weeks of the campaigns, both candidates did live feeds from
their rallies. Trump’s numbers were often in the six-figure digits while
Clinton was lucky to get 10,000 viewers. I’d review the comments on both
feeds and Trump’s were overwhelmingly positive; Clinton’s were
overwhelmingly negative. It’s as if no one in the mainstream media read
any of the comments made by everyday Americans. Their predictions and
calculations were based on extreme bias, lies and a false sense that
their entitled opinions were exceptional compounded with the assumption
that everyone must agree with them. On election night, Trump had already
been called the President-elect by some major networks and Rachel Maddow
was still on MSNBC trying to convince herself that Clinton was winning.

I started covering this election in July because I couldn’t stand the
scathing lies that were being told about Trump and the obvious collusion
going on with the media and corporate America for Clinton. I felt a moral
obligation to do something about this. In less than six months, since my
first article came out, my stories have been read by millions of readers
and shared on hundreds of thousands of social media pages. That’s because
I was listening to what people actually had to say and I reported the
truth. Meanwhile, I’ve had colleagues go on my social media pages and try
to debunk my work with zero evidence to back up their claims. A reporter
at a major newspaper in Chicago has spent hours on one of my social media
pages in an attempt to trash my work; yet, she lives in the most
politically corrupt city in the country with skyrocketing crime rates and
she’s been incapable of breaking any viral stories. If she had spent as
much time doing real investigative journalism as she does on my page
sounding off with her opinion, her work could be going viral too. Her
misdirected energy is another example of everything wrong with
journalists today. I broke a major corruption story about how Clinton has
systematically stolen from her poor donors. This story has gotten a
million views and has been shared over 100,000 times on Facebook alone;
however, only one reporter contacted me to do a follow-up story. If my
story had been about Trump’s campaign stealing from thousands of his poor
and vulnerable supporters, my phone would be ringing off the hook.

When I used to work in Chicago as a reporter years ago, I became good
friends with Chelsea Handler. Whenever she came to town, she’d beg me to
go out partying with her. She used me for press and once she made it big,
she dropped me faster than Macy’s dumped Trump. Years later, I ran into
her at the Hotel Bel-Air. I said hello to her and she pretended like she
didn’t know who I was. When I told her that I lived in the West Hollywood
area and I was surprised I hadn’t run into her in LA since I had moved
there, she literally scoffed, looked at me like I was some peasant and
told me that’s because she doesn’t dare hang out in my neck of the woods.
She snidely remarked that she doesn’t leave Bel-Air. I couldn’t believe
the ugly monster that she had become. Now that she’s rich and famous with
phony A-list friends, she has no need for minions like me. Sadly, many
celebrities, elites and members of the media share this kind of
mentality. They truly believe they’re gods and that their opinions are
superior to all. So it came as no surprise that Handler was one of the
many celebrities that had a meltdown -- that struck me as very
disingenuous -- when the American populace didn’t vote in the way she
commanded them to. Americans have had enough of these people’s arrogance.

Trump has been spot on since the beginning to call out how horrible,
corrupt and biased the MSM has become. The media elites’ gross narcissism
and blatant disregard for the truth played a pivotal role in his victory.
They mocked and literally laughed at Americans who firmly believed Trump
would be our next president. Now the joke is on them.

Source: http://bit.ly/2ftY81Z
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“It turns out that the willingness of the campaign to tolerate a man so
perverse he texts female children he does not know (and who turned out to
be uncontrollable in his perverse addiction) has come back to bite them
in the posterior. If the investigation onto his alleged child sexting
ends up providing evidence against Hillary via her 33k deleted emails,
then we can conclude that God is just, and karma does actually operate."
(Thomas Lifson)
Beam Me Up Scotty
2016-11-15 16:06:26 UTC
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It’s been amusing to watch some of the elites, celebrities and members of
the mainstream media have embarrassing childlike temper tantrums and
meltdowns over Donald Trump’s victory. It’s expected with the elites and
especially Hollywood stars, many in both circles are completely out-of-
touch with reality. However, what I find so incredibly disturbing is that
so many members of the media – who have a duty to report what the
majority of Americans are really thinking and feeling - are genuinely
shocked by the election results. There is no reason any journalist with a
functioning brain should be the slightest bit shocked by Trump’s victory
if they were actually doing their job. This election media folk allowed
their arrogance and extreme narcissism to completely blind them from the
revolution that was going on right underneath their smug noses.
After Trump’s landslide, I got a call from a reporter with the mainstream
media. He told me he wanted to know why Trump won and why the media and
elites got this election so wrong. He asked me if I was surprised by the
results, I told him no. He then asked me why I believe Trump won. I
attempted to tell him why it was obvious to me Trump would win most
likely in a landslide; however, before I could finish a sentence, he
would interrupt me and inform me that my opinion was wrong. He was not at
all interested in what I had to say. He attempted to put words in my
mouth and would answer his own questions instead of allowing me to
answer. He basically interviewed himself. I finally had to ask him if he
was even interested in my opinion at all.
That's been my experience with Liberals in general, they have all the
answers and you're wrong if your answers aren't what they wanted to
hear. It's NOT a discussion when you interact with a Liberal. They're
always right and there is no getting them to support being correct with
any facts.

They won't listen because they're correct no matter what and yet they
have no facts to prove they're correct. They want to hear how smart
and clever they are, rather than hearing the truth. The idea is to get
their opinions out and try to tell you that you agree with them and not
allow you the option to disagree. When I realized that MY NIECE had no
serious knowledge about the issue she started talking about (the
electoral college) there was nothing I could discuss since she had no
knowledge and was sure she was correct about an amendment to get rid of
it. And I'm not even sure she realized it took an amendment to the
constitution to remove the electoral college.

I offered my niece the respect I would anyone that was in her position
with what I saw as a serious job in government and a higher education
seeking a PhD.... boy was that disappointing when I discovered I gave
her far too much credit and she apparently didn't have what it took to
discuss politics at the adult table.

Some people are engaging and interesting with ideas and deep thoughts...
that just wasn't her. I think her ideology got in the way of her
growing into that kind of a person. Liberalism is a closed minded
ideology that doesn't allow for people to go their own way, they have to
believe as the rest of the Liberals do, and just repeat the narrative in
order to be accepted as one of the group.
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That's Karma

Whatever the problem is, ObamaCare wasn't the solution for it.
Siri Cruise
2016-11-15 16:38:24 UTC
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Post by Joe Cooper
It’s been amusing to watch some of the elites, celebrities and members of
the mainstream media have embarrassing childlike temper tantrums and
I see. You're confusing entertainers with reporters. That's what you get from
watching only Fox.
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:-<> Siri Seal of Disavowal #000-001. Disavowed. Denied. Deleted.
'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'
Free the Amos Yee one.
Yeah, too bad about your so-called life. Ha-ha.
Xavier
2016-11-15 18:25:28 UTC
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Post by Siri Cruise
Post by Joe Cooper
It’s been amusing to watch some of the elites, celebrities and members of
the mainstream media have embarrassing childlike temper tantrums and
I see. You're confusing entertainers with reporters. That's what you get from
watching only Fox.
Actually, MSM journalism died even before you were a gleam in your hippie
parents' eyes.

And what your socialist professor described as journalism is actually
propaganda to further the leftist agenda.

Hope this edifies.
Beam Me Up Scotty
2016-11-15 19:27:02 UTC
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Post by Siri Cruise
It’s been amusing to watch some of the elites, celebrities and members of
the mainstream media have embarrassing childlike temper tantrums and
I see. You're confusing entertainers with reporters. That's what you get from
watching only Fox.
And Liberals watch the Comedy Channel for their news.... didn't that
guy retire from doing the satire that Liberals all think is real news.

I remember now his last name was Colbare... or something like that.
--
That's Karma

Whatever the problem is, ObamaCare wasn't the solution for it.
PaxPerPoten
2016-11-16 03:34:01 UTC
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Post by Beam Me Up Scotty
Post by Siri Cruise
It’s been amusing to watch some of the elites, celebrities and members of
the mainstream media have embarrassing childlike temper tantrums and
I see. You're confusing entertainers with reporters. That's what you get from
watching only Fox.
And Liberals watch the Comedy Channel for their news.... didn't that
guy retire from doing the satire that Liberals all think is real news.
I remember now his last name was Colbare... or something like that.
Is that asshole gone? Great! I stopped watching that channel just due to
the SOB.
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It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard
the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all
ages who mean to govern well, but *They mean to govern*. They promise to
be good masters, *but they mean to be masters*. Daniel Webster
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