Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Left side of the media has completely lost their collective minds...

So according to a rising number of liberal journalists, the reason why Donald Trump is moving up in the polls (less than three weeks from when Politico wrote a piece about how Clinton was prepping for a landslide victory) is because the media simply is too hard on poor Hillary Clinton, and not hard enough on Donald Trump.

So, basically the media is blaming themselves for not being hard enough on Donald Trump? Anyone else see the inherent problem with this logic?

The reality folks is that there is no such thing as "the media" anymore. What we have today is the right side of the media, the left side of the media, and a handful of journalist who would like to pretend that they are neutral, but because they don't offer any tangible amount of partisan thinking, they become effectively irrelevant in the 2016 culture of partisanship.

The problem today is that the left side of the media hates the fact that there is a right side of the media that now garners similar attention, and that the old traditions of a liberal media being thought of as an objective center is long gone. While they may believe what they say (that the media overall isn't fair) it's clear what they want isn't objective fairness.  What they want is for everyone in the media to promote the same views that they hold on the election. They want everyone to report this election as if Hillary Clinton is a bona fide Presidential candidate, while Donald Trump is a buffoon who probably shouldn't be let out of the house without psychiatric supervision.

Bottom line: the left side of the media are so hateful about Donald Trump, that they simply cannot objectively see their own bias.

Let's take CNN (the supposed neutral cable news network) and their coverage of the two conventions. I watched the eight person panel covering the Republican convention, where seven of the eight panelist offered a negative take on Donald Trump's speech. Two of them were so angry that they could hardly speak. When their own CNN flash poll came out, showing over 70% of the viewers had a positive impression of the speech, they could hardly contain themselves. But the truth is simple. If CNN had fair and accurate coverage of the speech, they should have had a panel that saw the speech the same way the public saw it. The public was overwhelmingly positive about the speech, while 87% of the CNN panel saw it negative. On the flip side, did CNN find seven panelist to criticize a Hillary Clinton speech (that was by most objective accounts fairly flat)? Of course not, it was about the same breakdown, which is to say they only had one panelists who was seriously critical, and everyone else held a varying degree of positive feelings about it.

Here is the bottom line, and the one thing that the left doesn't appear to understand. The American voter "can" actually think, "can" actually process information, and "can" draw their own conclusions. I would offer that a substantial portion of the general population is just as smart or smarter than the journalists in question, and almost none of them are any where near as politically partisan as these journalists.

So when the right side of the media hits Americans hard with Hillary's deleting 15,000 work related emails emails, security lapses, foundation scandals, FBI investigations, and health issues... and the left side of the media hits Americans with the fact that Trump hasn't released his taxes, or that he has flipped flopped on certain issues, or that he now believes President Obama was actually born in Hawaii... Americans have the ability to determine on their own what sort of "equivalency" these issues hold for them.

It's not up to the media to determine what should be viewed as important to everyday Americans. They simply don't hold that power (anymore), nor should they. The fact that the Paul Krugmans and Nick Kristofs believe that this is somehow wrong and needs to be fixed, shows us exactly how much contempt they hold for the general public, and exactly "why" it's a good thing they no longer hold this power.    

6 comments:

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Trump train is starting to derail. Silver is decreasing the Clinton chances, but the RCP graphs show that the indicators have stopped closing tofu the center, there are again Clinton indicator is now going up, while the red trend is going down.

Also, the hated Monkey shows that Clinton is at 56+% qualified, while the Republican candidate is at 35%.

Loretta said...

"On the flip side, did CNN find seven panelist to criticize a Hillary Clinton speech (that was by most objective accounts fairly flat)?"

CNN had a wine and lovefest after the coronation of Hillary.

Even showed Wolfe Blitzer drinking an old fashion, or whatever it's called.

I doubt he's sobered up yet.

C.H. Truth said...

Roger - one poll does not a trend make. Certainly not when there are two other internet polls (just like S.M.) that currently show Trump up five points or more.

The reason why Silver's odds are moving are more about specific polls, like the one that came out today in Nevada that pushed Trump into the lead there in both RCP and 538. With Iowa, Florida, and Ohio, that's four pick ups... and puts him at 266 E.C.V.

All he would need at this point to pass up Clinton is to pick up one of many states where he has been closing...

Loretta said...

Thanks CH.

Sure wish Roger understood how this all works.

wphamilton said...

The NBC Monkey poll has changed their methodology on their latest, switching to a weird version of "likely voter" basis. Apparently they're trying to force it to track closely with the general registered voters. I don't quite trust this result.

Meanwhile her lead is dropping among independents. That's probably a more concerning trend for the Clinton camp.

Anonymous said...

Also, the hated Monkey
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we don't hate the monkey. we just laugh at the monkey because we know that the monkey is a joke, the monkey is not accurate, and the sole purpose of the monkey is for liberals like you to delude themselves.