Wednesday, September 14, 2016

What is to be done?

The liberal part of the social media has been working the mainstream version of itself tirelessly for the past few weeks as it protests the steady drumbeat of negative coverage of Hillary Clinton's campaign while barely protesting the torrent of lies and BS emanating from Trump's.  In sport's jargon, it's called "working the refs".  So far, the foremost names in the media such as the NYT have declined to be influenced.  It was up to President Obama to call out some of the more outrageous lies at a rally in Philadelphia yesterday.  With a 58% approval rating, Obama is more popular than the media, so his criticisms not only had to be covered, but possibly may shame the press and TV journalists to be more even-handed for the rest of the campaign.  We can only hope.

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