Why??

Why does the Media, Hollywood and the education professors hate Trump so much that they brush off the idea that they are acting against the best interests of the voters who voted for him and aainst the best interests of America. Why??

At the midpoint of Donald Trump’s first term, the establishment media’s obvious hostility towards the president of the United States, his wife, children and his success shows no signs of relenting.

The tone of the negative coverage remains overwhelmingly and incessantly hostile: 90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (excluding neutral statements), matching the historically bad press we documented in 2017. Yet despite the media’s obvious disapproval, public opinion of the President actually improved slightly during 2018, from an average 40% approval on January 1 to 42.7% approval on December 31, according to RealClearPolitics.

■ For the second year in a row, the Russia investigation against the president of the United States by the opposition Democrats was the single most-covered topic amid the networks’ Trump coverage, garnering 858 minutes of airtime. Since January 20, 2017, the Russia probe has received 2,092 minutes of coverage on just the three evening newscasts. All of tha coverage is necessarily negative because the cause of the investigation is negative towards the president.

As has been the case since the President took office, the tone of network coverage has been exceptionally hostile, ranging from 82% negative in April 2017 (after Trump was praised for a missile strike punishing Syria for a chemical weapons attack) to 96% negative in February 2018 (when the news agenda focused on the Russia investigation, demands for gun control, and a White House aide accused of domestic abuse).

TV’s Trump agenda: More than half of the Trump coverage on the broadcast evening newscasts in 2018 focused on just five topics: the Russia investigation (858 minutes); immigration policy (643 minutes); the Kavanaugh nomination (435 minutes); dealing with North Korean nukes (410 minutes); and the Michael Cohen/hush money investigation (341 minutes).

As the chart shows, the network spin on all of these topics was fiercely negative, ranging from 80% bad press on North Korea, to 99% negative on the Cohen/hush money story.

What about the shutdown? The partial government shutdown was the top Trump topic in December, garnering 67 minutes of airtime that month, or about one-fifth of the total Trump coverage. (Note that this figure also includes negotiations prior to the start of the shutdown on December 21). And at least in December, nearly 97% of the evaluations of Trump’s handling of the impasse were negative.

In ordinary circumstances, this onslaught of negative publicity would cause the politician on the receiving end of it to reverse course. But the establishment media have been so reliably negative towards this President, for so long, that the effect of their criticism now seems to be virtually nil. As noted above, Trump’s job approval ratings actually rose slightly last year, despite all of the negative coverage.

The media elite have clearly waded into the political fray to wage war against this President. But have they accomplished anything beyond cementing their reputation as political partisans, not objective journalists?

It’s not surprising that National Review is eager to shiv Steve King and stand athwart history crying “We surrender!” “Dump Steve King” which is a new editorial and a new low in the magazine, where the enstupidated Leftie editors plead: “one of the glories of American history is how we finally shed our shameful racist past”. [January 11, 2019]? Really?? Did they miss the pro-black basis of the Civil War fought to really, really eliminate the enslavement of black people contrary to what’s going on in Africa itself where white genocide has been practiced by the locals and supported by the internationals ? What about Affirmative Action, taken up against the basic interests of white Americans??

The rule for the Left is: Lie; Lie; Lie and when you are caught scream “Racist” even when there’s no race involved. Just scream and scream “Racist” and the rest of the Left will scream along with you.. 

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