It's no secret that the mainstream media largely dislikes Donald Trump. Dubbed the "opposition party" by former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon, outlets from CNN to MSNBC to the Washington Post and beyond have made minimal efforts to hide their bias against the President.
With the Mueller investigation looking more and more like the "hoax" Trump claims it is, the MSM passed through the Overton window of credibility long ago - as scores of "anonymously sourced" bombshells have failed to find their target. The result? They're simply turning Trump into a billionaire martyr.
And now - as columnist David Harsanyi notes in the New York Post - the MSM has resorted to pedantic fact checks of Trump's State of the Union address that make them look as desperate as they are biased to in their efforts to bring Trump down.
If media wants to challenge the context and politics of Republican arguments, that’s their prerogative. There are plenty of legitimately misleading statements worthy of fact-checkers’ attention. Yet, with a veneer of impartiality, fact-checkers often engage in a uniquely dishonest style of partisanship. And State of Union coverage gave us an abundance of examples of how they do it: -New York Post
Politico - for example, insinuated that President Trump was lying about the sexual assault of "one in three women" who make the long journey north to cross into the United States illegally. Not so fast - Drumpf, said Politico, which deemed Trump's statement only "partly true." It's actually 31 percent of women, who are sexually abused based on a 2017 Doctors Without Borders report.
Whether Doctors Without Borders’ scary statistic is accurate or not, is one thing. Trump, however, was being called out for asserting that “one in every three” illegal immigrants has been abused attempting to cross the border rather than “33.333 percent of women” — probably a rounding error in the poll. It is almost surely the case that every past president and every politician has used “one-third” or “one-half” rather than a specific fraction, and walked away without being fact-checked. -New York Post
The New York Times flatly interjected their opinion into their "fact check" of Trump's SOTU address - ruling that Trump's contention that there is "an urgent national crisis" at the border is "false" because illegal border crossings have been declining for two decades, and Customs and Border Protection agents had arrested just half of the number of people per month as they had in the mid-2000s.
As Harsanyi points out - the Times can't simply define a national emergency using pretzel logic.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-11/msm-fact-checkers-reveal-their-anti-trump-bias-pedantic-sotu-analysis?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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