Since the inconclusive (to say the least) July 24 Robert Meuller testimony, the media center gravity has switched back from Russia collusion to leveling charges of racism against President Donald Trump. Evidence for Trump as a racist, according his foes, includes that he used term “very fine people” in the aftermath of the Charlottesville protest that tragically turned deadly.
The New York Times, one of many liberal news outlets that has created divisiveness over hysterical Russiagate “journalism” and other issues while accusing that Trump of dividing the country, has even admitted that it is rolling out the race card again.
Collusion Exposed?
From Byron York of the Washington Examiner:
“Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, said recently that, after the Mueller report, the paper has to shift the focus of its coverage from the Trump-Russia affair to the president’s alleged racism.
“We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well,” Baquet said. ‘Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story.’ Baquet made the remarks at an employee town hall Monday. A recording was leaked to Slate, which published a transcript Thursday. In the beginning of the Trump administration, the Times geared up to cover the Russia affair, Baquet explained…But then came the Mueller report, with special counsel Robert Mueller failing to establish that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia to fix the 2016 election. ‘The day Bob Mueller walked off that witness stand, two things happened,’ Baquet continued. “Our readers who want Donald Trump to go away suddenly thought, ‘Holy shit, Bob Mueller is not going to do it.’ And Donald Trump got a little emboldened politically, I think. Because, you know, for obvious reasons. And I think that the story changed…
“Baquet used the gentlest terms possible — ‘the story changed’ — but the fact is, the conspiracy-coordination allegation the Times had devoted itself to pursuing turned out to be false. Beyond that, Democrats on Capitol Hill struggled to press an obstruction case against the president. The Trump-Russia hole came up dry. Now, Baquet continued, ‘I think that we’ve got to change.’ The Times must “write more deeply about the country, race, and other divisions’…’How do we cover America, that’s become so divided by Donald Trump?’… The town hall was spurred by angry reaction, both inside and outside the Times, to a headline that many on the Left faulted for being insufficiently anti-Trump. After the El Paso shootings, when the president denounced white supremacy, the Times published a page-one story with the heading, ‘Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism.'”
Added Legal Insurrection about the revelations on the leaked audio:
“This is a smoking gun. It shows the most powerful news organization in the country congratulating itself for setting the anti-Trump narrative on Russia collusion, and seamlessly transitioning to setting a narrative of Trump as racist after collusion flopped. There is a collusion case to be made, but it’s not about Trump and Russia. It’s about powerful news organizations throwing their weight behind Democrats.”
Charlottesville Reconsidered
As far as Charlottesville is concerned, Dilbert creator Scott Adams has already debunked what he calls the media-driven “fine people” hoax.
“If you only see or hear the first half of what the president said, it looks exactly like the president is calling neo-Nazis ‘fine people.’ But in the second part of Trump’s comments, he clarified, ‘You had people in that group who were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of the park from Robert E. Lee to another name.’ In other words, the president believed there were non-racists in attendance who support keeping historical monuments. To remove all doubt, the President continued with ‘I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?’…My point is that Trump could have been right or wrong about who attended, but it doesn’t change the fact that his words clearly and unambiguously condemned the marching racists while excluding them from his ‘fine people’ category…”
Writing in Human Events, Steve Cortes, who has the resourcefulness and personal strength to continue as a CNN commentator, has also weighed in:
“For two years since the tragic, violent events of August 2017 in Charlottesville, media figures have shamefully pushed the lie that President Trump praised the white supremacists who gathered there as “very fine people.” Any honest review of the full transcript and video of that now-infamous Trump Tower press conference reveals, in total clarity, that he excluded bigots from his praise – and, in fact, singled them out for his scorn. Trump unambiguously declared: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.”
“Even though ‘condemned totally’ leaves no room for interpretation, the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ made Charlottesville the centerpiece of their vile narrative that Trump and our whole 2016 America First movement flows from racism. In recent months, the Charlottesville hoax spread like a pandemic after former Vice-President Biden launched his 2020 presidential campaign on this scurrilous premise…
“In fact, this damnable lie has become the great deception of the decade. By fooling tens of millions of Americans into believing that our commander-in-chief actually praised Nazis, the Democratic media complex betrayed journalistic ethics and poisoned our political dialogue. Why? Without the ludicrous Russia narrative to attack President Trump anymore, Democratic politicians and their media allies needed another line of attack; thus, they quickly pivoted to the narrative that Trump is a racist, with the Charlottesville Lie at the center of their slander.”
Cortes, who also serves as Trump’s Hispanic Advisory Council, created a PragerU video to debunk the Charlottesville myth and “journalistic malfeasance.”
Assuming the Worst
The rush-to-judgment blue-check brigade stands ready to condemn President Trump about just about anything, regardless of the facts or sources. In each increment of the news cycle, and the controversy du jour, the end of the world is at hand. Instances of media double-standards are massive.
Plus, the nitpicking media, the Democrats, and the Never Trumpers seem incapable of judging the POTUS on his deeds rather than his words. Maybe it’s his hair, his personality, or the spray tan. For those who consider themselves part of the resistance in an out of media and politics, specifically what Trump policy initiatives have made the U.S. less prosperous and less safe? Has any president fulfilled or sought to fulfill his campaign promises to the degree that Trump has despite fierce opposition from the political and media establishment and the Deep State?
The self-important, 24/7, anti-Trump media also takes the position that any incoming criticism is an attack on the Constitution. What these error-prone institutions and outlets seem to forget is that Trump also has First Amendment rights to call out fake news, whether they or you like it or not. Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of our democracy.
A former Democrat and independent, Trump has shown other Republicans how to fight back against biased coverage, something at which, for example, President G.W. Bush failed miserably.
Troller in Chief
Leaving aside Charlottesville incident which was very serious, when he’s riffing, President Trump doesn’t always use precise language or communicate in a linear fashion. Some of the language is needlessly inflammatory. Moreover, he’s not a detail guy, and he often throws around nouns and pronouns which can cloud meaning. Creating needless feuds constitute unforced errors by the president instead of letting certain opportunistic critics fade into obscurity.
Yet he also makes himself readily available and accessible to answer questions from reporters perhaps like no other president. His impromptu and highly informative press conferences as he heads to the Marine 1 helicopter have become a regular feature of this presidency.
Donald Trump obviously enjoys trolling his opponents on Twitter or during speeches and rallies. Sometime in 2015 or thereabouts, the nitpicking media — which insists on taking Trump literally all the time — lost its sense of humor in favor of manufactured outrage. After Trump came on the scene as a politician, the news industry became even more gullible, lazy, hypocritical, and ideologically blind, assuming that’s possible.
If Trump is presiding over a racist regime, why do people from all over the world, whether legally or illegally, want to come here?
