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As Trump nears GOP nomination, elitist Michael Goodwin

media again treat American voters like
they’re stupid – it’s 2016 all over again
As Trump nears GOP nomination,
elitist media again treat American
voters like they're stupid – it's 2016 all
By Michael Goodwin over again
Published Jan. 16, 2024, 10:21 p.m. ET

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Proving they remain infected by a fact-resistant virus, most
Joe Biden's handling of the members of the self-proclaimed smart set are once again
Middle East crisis is just
downright dangerous horrified by GOP voters. Repeating the contempt they
displayed when Trump won the nomination and the White Browse Covers
Eric Adams is following in the House eight years ago, they are also furious that their
footsteps of past one-term NYC
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nightmare could be happening again.
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How can it be that their fellow Americans remain so stupid
Joe Biden's ‘January 6th’
speech is nothing more than a after they’ve repeatedly explained Trump’s flaws? Why do 79,023
rant against Donald Trump voters refuse to listen to their media masters?

Claudine Gay’s obnoxious, self- The New York Times certainly doesn’t have any qualms
lattering resignation is just the about looking down on middle America and the people who
start — Harvard needs to explain
what took so long live there.

2023 was the year of chaos “The responsibility of Republican voters,” it declared in a
amongst both political parties Sunday editorial, is “to nominate a candidate who is fit to Airport employee leaps over counter,
serve as president.” fights managers and swings chair
after she's fired: 'Give me my stuff!'

Trump, the Gray Lady insisted, “is manifestly unworthy.”

73,901
This is the same Times that, after the 2016 election, apologized to readers because its reporters and
editors underestimated Trump’s appeal. This time the paper sees the appeal, but refuses to recognize it

as anything other than a mass movement of the ignorant.

Not that it would matter because the Times hasn’t endorsed a Republican for president since Dwight
Eisenhower in 1956. Regardless of whom GOP voters nominate, the paper will support the Democrat,
even if it’s a dead raccoon — or Joe Biden.
Chinese lab crafts mutant COVID-19
strain with 100% kill rate in
It just wants a different Republican to beat up on because it fears Trump will win. 'humanized' mice: 'Surprisingly' rapid
death
Willful ignorance also was on display at CNN, where a headline reported Trump’s historic Iowa victory
margin as coming despite his “leaving office in disgrace.”
62,268
Commentator Chris Wallace piled on by bemoaning a “willful denial of reality” among Trump supporters
and suggested they belong to a “cult.”

Wallace also cited the criminal cases against Trump as a reason for his being surprised the former
president remains on top. Apparently Wallace missed the repeated polls showing that Trump’s support
surged because of those unprecedented cases, not despite them.
NFL owner was found unresponsive,
Is it possible Wallace doesn’t know that the four criminal cases and had turned blue and was gasping for
one civil one were all filed by Democrats? Does he believe the party see also air after suspected overdose

affiliation is just a coincidence and that GOP voters are crazy if they
believe Dems are weaponizing the legal system to protect Biden and
jail his opponent?

Speaking of those who refuse to see, Bloomberg reported on the sour

mood at Davos where, as a headline put it, “Elite Size Up the Global
Risks of Another Trump Presidency.” It’snot over yet: Here’s
how Trump could still
lose the GOP primary
‘A great concern’
Oh no, the hand-wringing has begun among the private-jet set!

The outlet quoted BlackRock vice chairman Philipp Hildebrand as saying, “You know, we’ve been there
before, we survived it, so we’ll see what it means.” He added: “Certainly from a European perspective,
from a kind of globalist, Atlanticist perspective, it’s of course a great concern.”

Ah, yes, the globalist perspective. Bringing that up is like throwing red meat at Trump supporters, who
have the chutzpah to want a president who puts America first. How dare they!

Then there’s Joy Reid, the chief racial arsonist at MSNBC. She singled out “white Christians” in Iowa who
supported Trump, saying they believe they are entitled to own America.

And so it goes in the comfortable confines of the best and brightest, where being wrong year after year
means never having to admit it.

None of this is to suggest Trump is pure as the driven snow and without fault, or even a shoo-in for the
nomination. Iowa did its job by trimming the field, and while Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley survived , one
of them must bow out soon for there to be any chance of beating Trump.

The next test is whether Haley can pull off an upset in the New Hampshire primary and whether DeSantis
can register enough support there to continue to South Carolina and beyond.

But the left-wing media are also on every ballot in every Republican primary. Their intense hatred for
Trump continues to blind card-carrying Dems about the reasons for his appeal and thus distorts coverage
of the campaign and the stakes for America.

see also Distrust of media

Like robots, the mainstream media repeat Dems’ talking points that
Trump is a danger to democracy without recognizing that just 16% of
Americans trust newspapers to report the news “fully, accurately and
fairly,” according to a 2022 Gallup survey. It found that trust in
television news falls to a basement low of 11%.

editorial Perhaps admitting that Russia, Russia, Russia was nothing more than
Trump the a Hillary Clinton dirty trick and that the FBI was in on the scam would
magnanimous or ‘Dark be a good first step in regaining some of that lost trust.
Donald’? One of them
plays into Biden’s hand
Giving back the Pulitzer Prizes that fed the misinformation would also
help cleanse the past.

Instead, there is zero indication that any substantial change in coverage is coming. Consider that, while
most major media have reported on Biden’s historically low approval numbers, they refuse to make the
connection between his obvious failures and why so many Americans want Trump back in the Oval Office.

For example, ABC News/Ipsos released a survey Sunday showing Biden with an approval rating of just
33%, which pollsters called the low point for any president since the final three years of George W. Bush’s
tenure were swamped by the Iraq War and the financial crisis.

Results like that make the reasons for Trump’s support obvious to those who care to see them. Another
one comes in the same poll’s finding that 47% of respondents say he has the “mental sharpness” to be
president, while just 28% believe Biden does.

And 57% believe Trump is in good enough physical health for the job, while just 28% say the same of
Biden.

Those and other comparisons explain Trump’s appeal. The

refusal to report on and explore those explanations is a result of
the bias among a relative handful of highly educated coastal Keep up with today's
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Take the southern border.

A recent CBS News poll found that 93% of Americans think the
situation there is either a problem or a crisis, yet the networks
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When they do bother to cover what has become an unrestrained

invasion, most of the time is spent insisting that both parties are to blame.

Trump supporters know better.

They know the number of illegal crossers surged the minute Biden took office and hasn’t stopped since.

They know a border wall is more needed than ever and believe Trump is far more likely than Biden to
build one.

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There’s no mystery in any of this. There’s only corrupt media that believe they know what is best for
America and are entitled to pick the president.

Trump supporters have the courage to disagree. For this, they must be shunned.

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T Joseph
11 hours ago
Michael it isn't the elitist, it's regular citizens who are alarmed at how easy America could
ecome an authoritarian government.
Trump tested boundaries that were based on principals and ideology of a free America.

He showed us how little the voters voice matters because politicians do what they ... See

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LUv
6 hours ago
Anytime you have prosecuted somebody as much as the government has prosecuted
rump and they still a free man? Let it go. he has done nothing wrong. The only thing I've
is the American justice system is in bad need of justice.

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HispanicAmerican4SchoolVouchers
8 hours ago
Dems will never admit they're wrong. The closest Dems will admit to being wrong is to
both Republicans and Dems are wrong about an issue.
Face the music. Biden presidency is destroying America. America prospered under Trump

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Mark Jones
5 hours ago
The difference now is that Trump is once again the challenger but with a track record as
OTUS. It's an unprecedented situation. The MSM can spin it all day long, but it doesn't
history. A majority of voters think Trump was a better Pres than Biden.
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Tom Loudon
5 hours ago
Gee, that's weird. I could have sworn he lost in 2020- losing millions of Independents in
020. I could have sworn that almost all of his endorsed candidates- Walker, Oz, Lake
Master lost their races in 2022
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BigD64
2 hours ago
I would vote for my DOG if he could speak, say and defend the same policies that this
guy led us to 4 years ago.
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James korth
8 hours ago
Over the last thirty years a very small but powerful element in this country has taken control of
he mainstream media. That element uses this control to drive their own very narrow political
So from the media executives down through producers and to the on-air people, that
narrow...
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Lady Feliz
8 hours ago
30 years? Try 56. The minute Nixon won in '68, the media went into attack mode and
let up on anyone who isn't a Dem since.
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I.Am.Vengence
7 hours ago
Funded to a large extent from George Soros.
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