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That said, it was like 2016 all over again.
We saw a shamelessly biased main-stream media which this time made no secret of their loathing for Trump. Their interviews didn’t just ask hard questions but vindictive ones laced with a tone of contempt and a “gotcha” mentality.
I don’t blame him for walking out of the 60 Minutes interview two weeks ago. While he was repeatedly criticized for what he didn’t do, the interview never addressed what he did right.
On the other hand, Biden was lobbed softballs and the conversation with Kamala Harris bordered on a love-in. Her contentious comments about protecting protesters from criminal charges after they trashed, looted and engaged in violence in U.S. cities like Denver, Milwaukee and Seattle were completely ignored.
Former president Barack Obama, who forever got a free pass during his eight years in office, couldn’t keep his nose out of the election, either. The media ate it up.
Once again, the media failed to connect with the sentiments of average Americans — instead taking as gospel the words of the political class, the special interests and those they consider “likable.”
It was a shocking abdication of the basic tenets of journalism to get every side of the story.
Americans who felt Trump had gotten things done and had kept his promises simply considered all of the media bluster white noise. Faced with the prospect of being bullied by the “woke”– called halfwits and dumbasses– they kept their thoughts to themselves or became those “lean-in” voters we saw during our own mayor Rob Ford’s landslide in 2010.
