Knuckleheads

I have noted the bias of the mainstream media in hundreds of posts over the years. I call members of the media "trained hamsters" because they predictably espouse memes adopted by most Democrats and their progressives allies. But even as I criticize them for their bias, their complete lack of objectivity, and their application of blatant double standards, I remain amazed as they descend into full-blow derangement and hysteria driven by their hatred of Donald Trump.

Andrew Claven nails it when he writes:

This column has, on occasion, been disparaging toward American journalism, but only because it is now populated by the biggest bunch of knuckleheads ever to be assembled outside of Knucklehead City on the planet Knucklehead. Remember the sitcom news anchor Ted Baxter with the big voice and the slick haircut and minuscule IQ? Well, if you added the emotional stability of a three-year-old having a temper tantrum, you would have your typical American journalist and commentator, not just on cable but at the networks and newspapers too. I could lasso a gorilla, give him a lobotomy, and teach him to do the job better than these clowns in fifteen minutes.

But perhaps I overstate my case. Or ... do I?

... The conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group had its news anchors around the country read an ad for the network. The ad read: “The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. Some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy." It then went on to say, basically, we strive to be better than the other guys but if we mess up, let us know. Which is what ads for news say. It was kind of like CNN's "This is an apple" ad, only literate and true.

An internet wag made a supercut of all the anchors reading it, so it looked like some sort of propaganda campaign. Or like an ad. Which is what it was.

Here is a sample of reactions from the fever pits of CNN and MSNBC: "Orwellian!" "Dangerous!" "State run media for an autocrat." "Embarrassing." "An assault on the democratic ... norms that helped us build a country that ... conquered the communistic one in the most existential struggle in human history." And, of course, the whole thing was put at the door of Donald Trump, who had nothing to do with it. Sinclair is privately owned.

Hysterical knuckleheads.

The irony is that during Barack Obama's presidency, the trained hamsters themselves became a propaganda arm of Obama's government, ignoring scandal after scandal, policy mistake after policy mistake, and a disgraceful record of economic missteps and failures. It would not have been unfair to call their approach

"Orwellian!" "Dangerous!" "State run media for an autocrat." "Embarrassing." "An assault on the democratic ... norms that helped us build a country that ... conquered the communistic one in the most existential struggle in human history."

But that's how they labeled an obvious commercial run by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sounds an awful lot like psychological projection to me.