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Democrats and
Media Have Lost America’s Trust
By Clarence V.
McKee
January 02,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Florida
Courier"
- In
many ways, the election was a referendum on the
mainstream media and the Democratic Party.
Both got
clobbered.
Most objective
observers have to admit that the Democratic Party and
its mainstream friends live in a closed bubble and
mutual admiration society.
They also have
something else in common. They are neither trusted nor
respected by the American people and are in a full
Titanic-dive to irrelevancy!
Little confidence
As to the mainstream media, an April report from the
American Press Institute found that only six percent of
adults surveyed said they had “a great deal of
confidence” in the press. Five months later, a September
Gallup poll found that Americans’ trust and confidence
in the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately
and fairly” dropped to its lowest level in Gallup
polling history.
Just before the
election, the Suffolk University/USA Today poll found
that nearly 76 percent surveyed believed the media,
including major newspapers and TV stations, wanted to
see Clinton elected. And after the election, a poll by
the well-respected Media Research Center (MRC) found
that 78 percent of voters believed the news coverage of
the presidential campaign was biased.
Nearly a
three-to-one majority (59) percent, believed that the
media were for Clinton; and, 69 percent did not believe
the news media are honest and truthful.
Thankfully, 97
percent of voters said they did not let the media’s bias
influence their vote.
MRC President
Brent Bozell summed up these results nicely saying that
the media was in full “panic mode” adding, “…People
didn’t believe the nonsense that the media were
politically neutral. When you have a strong majority of
actual voters saying the national ‘news’ media were
biased in favor of Hillary Clinton…; and believing they
are fundamentally dishonest, you have a major problem
that can’t be fixed with an apology. The public has
rejected this institution as being either objective or
truthful.”
Just as these
polls show that American people have rejected and do not
trust major media, they also have similar misgivings and
distrust of Democrats. According to MSNBC, since Barack
Obama took the helm of the Democratic Party in 2008,
Democrats have lost 11 Senate seats, 60 House seats, 14
governorships, and over 900 state legislative seats.
Dems shellacked
Putting that in perspective, according to National
Review, two-thirds of the nation’s governors are
Republicans; more than two-thirds of our state
legislative houses are under Republican control;
Republicans control both houses of Congress and have
just captured the White House.
What’s the problem?
Why do Americans mistrust and reject major media and the
Democratic Party?
Regarding the
Democratic Party, former Obama advisor and CNN
commentator Van Jones, recently on ABC’s “The View,”
said, “Everybody knows we have a problem with elitism.
Liberals and Democrats, we see ourselves as champions of
the poor and downtrodden…we have somehow let a little
camp of elitist-sounding, snobby people come into the
party, and it’s obnoxious. They talk down to people and
everybody hates it.”
The same can be
said of the major media.
The elites of
both institutions have forgotten, if not abandoned, the
interests, concerns and values of average American
workers of all colors.
What do they stand for?
In the closed-door world of the mostly White liberal
elites at the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The
Washington Post and other major newspaper outlets;
executive suites of major cable and network news
organizations; and, of course, the Democratic Party
power structure; there is a common highbrow vision of
America.
That vision is
one of transgender bathrooms in public schools, open
borders, sanctuary cities and protection of illegal
immigrants; condoning or remaining silent on anti-police
“pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em’ like bacon” rhetoric and
blaming rioting, looting, and arson on racism, to name
just a few.
As they found
out, such views are not shared by the vast “red-state
tide” which swept Donald Trump into the White House with
a resounding Electoral College victory. They are out of
touch, out of ideas, and out of time.
Blaming others
So, what is the mainstream media and Democrats’ reaction
to their massive loss? Instead of heeding Shakespeare’s
famous “The fault lies not in our stars but in
ourselves,” they blame everybody and everything else.
First it was
FBI Director James Comey’s fault. Then it was because of
“fake news” even though the fake news of the decade was
Hillary blaming the Benghazi terrorist attack on a
YouTube “video.”
Next it was
because our political system uses the Electoral College
rather than the popular vote to determine presidential
winners.
The latest
excuse is that the Russian’s meddled in our election
process.
Stay tuned for
the next hot air excuse coming from the Media-Democratic
bubble…
Clarence V.
McKee is a government, political and media relations
consultant and president of McKee Communications, Inc.,
as well as a Newsmax.com contributor. This article
originally appeared on Newsmax.com.
The views
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