Leaving out an important detail or two

Leaving out an important detail or two

Media’s new fake horror: Trump threat to jail Hillary endangers democracy!

Part of me wonders if they would have done this without the p****-grab tape having come out first, but then the rational rest of me says . . . of course they would. It’s what they do.

I’m sure you’ve seen this, but just to set the context.

The freakout by the media is both predictable and uniform. A liberal Facebook friend put it like this: 

“Threatening to jail our political opponents is apparently something we do now.”

CNN came forth with a list of dictators like Putin, Pinochet and Mugabe who jailed political opponents. Over at PRI’s The World, they think democracy is at death’s door with Trump’s declaration. And so it goes across the board.

The dishonesty in all this is simply stunning, as if Trump was threatening to put Hillary in jail simply for being his political opponent. I didn’t see any of these people fret that democracy was threatened when the FBI, under pressure from the Justice Department and the White House, conducted a sham investigation of Hillary’s clear and obvious criminal behavior and refused to enforce the law because of her political prominence. That was perfectly fine, but Trump vowing to actually enforce the law against a lawbreaker is a threat to the republic.

This is why you can’t take the media’s coverage of any debate or of the campaign in general as reliable or authoritative. They will twist everything that happens to suit their preferred narrative, no matter what the facts are. Hillary illegally endangering national security in order to hide her Clinton Foundation/State Department pay-to-play operation? Nothing to see here! Trump threatening to prosecute her for it? Democracy is over!

But they’re on a mission to make sure Trump doesn’t win, and they’ve made no bones about it, so what else do you expect. Any time you read the media between now and Election Day (and surely beyond that), you have to read it like it’s the Democratic Party newsletter. Because for all intents and purposes, it is.