Two separate but related posts from Balloon juice, highlighting the ineptitude of those who spend too much time gazing into their own navels. First, from Betty Cracker, this:
Follow up with this post from Cheryl Rofer:
The post is mostly tweets and is almost impossible to excerpt, so click through.
And ask yourself again, how much did the press do to get Donald Trump elected?
Hillary Clinton gave this speech just a few days after the Comey letter dropped, an event that prompted The New York Times to publish an edition with this all-caps headline: “NEW EMAILS JOLT CLINTON CAMPAIGN IN RACE’S LAST DAYS”
The most prophetic 2 minutes and 44 seconds in American history is:@HillaryClinton warning us about @realDonaldTrump’s ties to Russia...
— Ryan Knight 🇺🇸 (@ProudResister) November 30, 2018
...8 days BEFORE the 2016 election.pic.twitter.com/0cfevk7Jtr
I hope Clinton gets some satisfaction from the knowledge that she was right about everything. I doubt it’s much comfort since Clinton doesn’t seem to be the sort of person who sees herself as the center of the universe.
Of course, Trump thinks the sun rises and sets in his pants, and we can see how disastrous it is to put someone like that in charge of a large, rich, diverse, heavily armed country. But less malevolent manifestations of the same pathology greased the skids toward our present catastrophe.
Comey is one example. Following boring old FBI protocol wasn’t good enough for a world-bestriding colossus such as Comey, so he inserted himself into the race, and disaster followed.
The front page of that infamous Times edition showcased another example of the “I am the cosmos” syndrome that was instrumental in bringing a once-great nation low: Clinton beat reporter Amy Chozick, whose byline appeared on an article entitled “With 11 Days to Go, Trump Says Revelation ‘Changes Everything.'”
Follow up with this post from Cheryl Rofer:
Given the new developments in what we know about Donald Trump’s interactions with Russia, some of us have been kicking around that “Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia” story that the New York Times served up on October 31, 2016.
The post is mostly tweets and is almost impossible to excerpt, so click through.
And ask yourself again, how much did the press do to get Donald Trump elected?
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