The prism of the political establishment skews reality

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Armando Diana

Throughout the presidential campaign, the political establishment continually misread the pulse of the nation.  They were aided and abetted by a tone deaf media that also misread public sentiment.

Marketing 101: know your audience.  There are many Marketing lessons that can be learned by how President-elect Donald Trump ran circles around the political establishment.

The first lesson is the message is more important than the messenger. This will upset many in the advertising field that fall over themselves to get celebrity endorsements.  The truth is most people do not respond to over-paid, over-hyped stars.  They respond to the message.  Trump found the message that resonated with most people.  His slogan “Make America Great Again” was lampooned by his opponents but it worked.

Trump’s value proposition was selling a vision of America most not in the Millennial age group understand.  The value of a strong America raises every socio-economic group which resonates to anyone that see beyond their eyes.

Time and again I heard Trump was the wrong messenger. Of course, that came from the same rocket scientists cooking the polls so consider the source.  Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, had no message.  “I am not him” is not a value proposition.  Trump sold a vision while Clinton was selling herself to the highest bidders.

The second lesson goes back to Marketing 101.  Trump knew his audience and market. He understood the frustration of many in the nation and expertly directed his message to that base audience.  While the political establishment wagered on political incorrectness to be his downfall, they completely missed the point.  Trump made a mockery of their playbook. And they continue to not understand their constituents.

I think they need to attend Political Establishment Anonymous meetings to help them see what any non-liberal knows is true.

Trump understood the nation’s frustration with political correctness and the Thought Police stripping society of individual thought and freedom to express those thoughts.  He became a symbol most people aspire to become.  They relished in his ability to thumb his nose at the political elite.

I am not a Trump supporter but I enjoyed his Houdini act every time the political establishment tried to take him down.  Their tactics work on other political establishment types but not on him.  It was that air of invincibility most people admired.

Trump knew – and knows – what buttons to push to differentiate himself from the rest.  To some he is breath of fresh air with his rhetoric and pugilistic approach.  He likes to say he doesn’t start fights but punches back.  That is open to conjecture but his audience loved his daring, his tenacity and his never-say-die attitude.  That rugged individualism is what made America great in the first place.  He personified it and whether it was an act or not remains to be seen.  Regardless he sold the image.

Another lesson is positioning.  In the Republican Primary, he stole the outsider mantle from Senator Ted Cruz and, one can make a case, from Governor Chris Christie.  Once he had that position everyone else had to find another sandbox for their toys.  Many politicians position themselves as outsiders but are the ultimate insiders.  Trump is no different as he traveled in political circles throughout his life.  He never held a public office which helped but the reality is he convinced us he was an outsider.  In the general election he successfully positioned Hillary Clinton as the standard bearer for the establishment or business as usual.

Finally, know your competition.  Trump knew who he was up against but the arrogant fools underestimated him.  He successfully got under Governor Jeb Bush’s skin and befuddled Governor John Kaisich and Senator Marco Rubio.  He knew their strength and weaknesses and adroitly determined his opportunities and threats.  He relentlessly attacked their egos and drove them to distraction.

And the fools still believe they can view Trump through the prism of the political establishment. Some people just never learn.  At one point they will realize they could have been him if they just listened to the people.  And that is the biggest secret of a good marketer.  The ability to listen to the audience, understand and fill their needs.

However, the biggest lesson yet to be learned is can a business man dispel the conventional wisdom that you cannot run a government like a business!

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To get respect you must earn it and give it

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Armando Diana

We left the winning run stranded on second base and lost the game.  We watched the other team celebrate as we collected our bats, balls, and equipment. In my postgame talk,  I was harsh with the team of teenage boys.  I told them we lost the game. That’s right.  I admit it – I used the word lost.

I did not say we were victory challenged.  I did not say we won but not as much as the other team.  I avoided terms like “moral victory” and stayed away from blaming the umpire.  Heck, I didn’t even say the boys were winners in my eyes.  I simply stated the fact and expected the team to survive.

Fortunately no one melted.  No one had to retreat to his safe space. The sun actually came up the next day but I did look out my window before leaving the house to get the morning paper.  I wanted to make sure the paid protesters were not lurking about.

Can we agree the polls were wrong for the presidential election?  If so, doesn’t it mean Hillary Clinton was never really ever the favorite to win?  Then why do the media insist on positioning President-elect Donald Trump’s victory as an upset?  In order to have an upset win, the chances of losing must be legitimate.  Words mean something.

The media lives in a bubble of self-importance sprinkled with seeds of ego.  Students on college campuses not realized, despite what Mommy and Daddy may have said, the world does not revolve around them.

Both of these groups need to get a grip and grow up. Schools should expel any student who needed to take a day away from classes because of the presidential election results.  Chances are those students will not survive the workforce.  Members of the media should curl up in the fetal position and catatonically rock back-and-forth.  It will be the most useful they have been for their readers in the past decade.

Most students come out of college wanting to change the world.  Someone needs to tell them they can’t do it by holding their breath and hoping someone does it for them.  The media is having a hissy fit that President-elect Trump is “breaking with tradition” by not having pool reporters follow him around.

The media is no longer relevant.  Their relevance went down the drain when they flushed objectivity during the campaign.  President-elect Trump owes the media nothing.  Society owes the bedwetting students nothing.

Both groups must come to grips with a new concept: Earning the right.

Students must earn the right to be heard by actually accomplishing something first – a real accomplishment – not a participation trophy accomplishment.  The media must earn the respect of its readers by covering the news objectively – not making the news, being the news, or opining on the news.  Just cover the news even-handedly and the audience will return.

The media, like the students, cannot demand respect.  They must earn it.

The same is true for the political elite.  This shameless group of charlatans is wringing their hands and demanding respect for the disenfranchised Clinton voters who are presumably barricading themselves in homes, caves, and the nearest Starbucks. Meanwhile they show no respect for the Trump voter – only contempt.

My father always told me “You do not get respect, until you give respect.”  If students want respect they need to give respect.  If the media wants respect, it needs to earn it.  If the political elite wants respect from all voters it needs to give and earn it.

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The past propels our future if we are willing to learn

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Armando Diana

 

Ever watch a Bob Newhart show episode?  Either one of his major hits, it doesn’t matter.  Bob played the only sane character in an insane world.  The nuts in his world made it seem like he was crazy and the audience laughed at the silliness.

I imagine half of Americans who voted this year believe they were in a Bob Newhart episode the past eight years.

The media is beside itself since election day with hysteria and overstatements beyond comprehension.  Meanwhile, the professional protesters are also out in force starting fires in Oakland, burning a giant papier mache Trump head in Los Angeles, and disrupting traffic in Chicago among other hi-jinks in other major cities in America.

And president Obama says nothing.  Wasn’t he the one who lectured Trump supporters a few weeks back about accepting the election results and not protesting?

The mainstream media is portraying everyone who voted for Trump as stupid, uniformed losers. At last count, that means 59 million idiots are on the lam from their villages.  It also means America is comprised of 59 million Xenophobes, homophobes, and misogynists.  And finally, if you listen to some in the African American community there are 59 million racists among us.

I half expect someone to walk into my office and say “Hi Bob.”  There is a lot of blame going around but I do not believe in the blame game.  Circumstances are usually a shared result from both sides.  I think there is a list of reasons Trump won that half the people will accept and the other half will call me a litany of names.

I think it starts with the current occupant of the White House.  It turns out “Hope and Change” was more hope than change.  After eight years half the nation was tired of a culture where illegality is condoned and law abiding citizens are considered oppressive.  Illegal immigration is a problem.  That does not mean I am anti-immigrant.  It means I am against people coming into our country illegally.

I believe half the country got tired of having their desire for traditional values be considered more evil than Darth Vader by the media and political elite.  The media spent more time campaigning for the right of a man to use the woman’s bathroom than ensuring the safety of the girl in that same bathroom.

Maybe people got tired of a country where small business owners not wanting to compromise their values must fear being run out of business if they do not comply. You mean to tell me those seeking services can’t easily get similar services elsewhere?

Now here is the difference.  I am not saying to ban transgender people from bathrooms or homosexuals from buying goods. I am saying give people who prefer to not participate an opt out.  I think the anger is from being forced to accept something that is unacceptable to our core values.

It’s like the protesters’ protesting the election results.  They do not want to accept what is unacceptable to them.  There is nothing wrong with that and it’s their right.  However, the one-way street of “progressive” thinkers is what led to the backlash – with apologies to Van Jones.

Or maybe people simply got tired of an economy that never materially improved for the average family.  Slight increases on a macro-level are nice talking points but rarely uplift a family struggling to pay the bills.  When a president spends more time defending global warming than trying to protect this nation, half the nation will get upset.

Of course, we have the obvious reasons like Obamacare, stagnant wages, the president’s disdain for the Constitution, and the ungodly amounts of regulation that stifled commerce in the nation.

To be fair, there are 59 million people who wanted the continuation of current policies.  That is their right and they deserve a voice.

It’s only fair.  I may not agree with their views but that does not mean they are wrong or evil.  I do not want to impose my views on them much like I do not want them to impose their views on me.  Somewhere in the middle lies common sense and we can co-exist in that space.  We just need a strong leader that can get everyone to the table.  Unfortunately, we did not have a strong leader for the past eight years and, in my mind, that is what drove the Trump Train.

I am hoping President-elect Trump learns from the past that propelled his future.  I hope he listens and gives them a seat at the table.

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American voter 1; Political Establishment 0

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Armando Diana

Welcome back suburban America.  I do not believe the election results is an indictment of Republican versus Democrat or Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton.  I think it’s a referendum on the average American versus the political elite.

The political elite despise and disdain us.  They do not understand our struggles, fears, hopes, and dreams.  They are awash in their false narratives about understanding us but have no clue.  A good example is Clinton not even bothering to show up at her campaign headquarters to thank her supporters.

Here stood people who believed in her cause, believed in her message, and believed in her.  They sacrificed a lot throughout the campaign and spent the entire day and night at her campaign headquarters.  And Clinton couldn’t even show up to say thanks?!

That is simple common courtesy but, once again, it shows just how far removed and out of touch the political ruling class is with the common person.

Now the real work begins for President-elect Trump.  Now his supporters and the anyone-but-Clinton crowd will learn if he is different than the idiots in Washington, DC or is he one of them.  Time will tell.

An ancillary benefit of is victory is the fact the mainstream media was so wrong.  Driven by liberal bias, elitism, and arrogance the media did not allow itself to cover the story.  It tried to create the story and now everyone knows what a wasteland the media has become.

I am a Marketing executive in real life.  We are paid to ensure a message resonates with the audience. In today’s competitive world, we look for any “fact” to help differentiate our product or company from competitors. This leads to the use of surveys to gather information – much like pollsters do for political candidates.

Never trust a marketing survey or a pollster.  I will survey my customer base to get a “pulse” of my product. That seems like a rather innocuous project but it’s all in how you phrase the question.

Throughout a litany of standard questions, I will add “Before selecting [my product] what other vendors did you review?” I will then list five to 10 of my competitors.  Let’s say 60 percent of the respondents said they looked at Product X before selecting my product.

The screaming headline of my advertisement will be “60 percent of customers chose [my product] after looking at Product X.  Am I lying?

Nope.  Technically, in the survey I cite, 60 percent of the respondents said they looked at Product X but chose my product.  Of course, I do not mention that I surveyed my customer base which, by default, chose my product at one point.  I absolve myself of any sins by adding in tiny, tiny print the information regarding the survey so anyone that has keen eyesight and a desire to follow up on details can do so at their leisure.

This is what media outlets do with polls.  The media creates polls to suit its bias and then sells the hyperbole.  The goal is either to suppress turnout for the candidate it dislikes or drive enthusiasm for the candidate in its favor.

The American voter did not fall for the trick this time.  Trump is right – this is a movement but it’s up to him to stay true to the movement and not himself.

I am not telling you anything you do not already know.  I may not be happy we have the lesser of two evils but I am thrilled the American public had its say.  But is anyone listening?

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This election season has changed politics but not because of the candidates

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Armando Diana

The presidential election season is almost over and I am looking forward to writing about something other than the stupidity we have witnessed.  I think it’s safe to say politics has changed forever but not because of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.  Most politicians are crooks so Clinton simply fits the mold.  Trump is an entity unto himself and borne from the crooked politicians.

I think the revelations about the mainstream media and its obvious liberal bias is what changed politics forever.  Having witnessed the liberal bias first-hand, I never believe any news article.  I know lurking beneath the print is the truth because my crap meter is good and I can distill the real story. But unless you are willing to do your own research, the news media is the wrong place to find accurate and objective information.

The real joy for me is now most Americans, excluding Liberals in denial, realize the media cannot be trusted.  Rush Limbaugh refers to people who believe the slop the media produces as news as low information voters.  I could not agree more.

Thanks to the media, these low information voters no doubt believe

  • It is worse to call someone “a nasty woman” than half the population a “basket of deplorables.”
  • Hacking e-mail is more heinous than the content of the e-mails exposing corruption, racism, collaboration between the media and Liberals, and the planned cover-up of a rather famous e-mail server
  • Talking dirty is worse than defending a rapist with no remorse or concern about the female victim
  • Stealing a nomination from a colleague is not as interesting as impugning half the country for electing an outsider
  • Rigging an election does not deserve coverage but trying to prevent voter fraud is considered a racist attempt to quell voter participation
  • Purposely disrupting an opponent’s rally by paying people to incite violence is not as newsworthy as covering the confrontation at the rally
  • A foundation with minimal complaints is bigger news than a foundation created to serve a pay-to-play Ponzi scheme
  • Managing a criminal empire that dwarfs the mafia is ignored when a man decides to release his taxes after an audit
  • Threatening violence on another man is OK if you are Vice President Joe Biden
  • Rioting and looting are fine if you are African-American in an anti-police rant but rioting and looting if the election is stolen from Trump is evil
  • Julian Assange is a darling journalist when he releases hacked e-mails from President George W. Bush but a vile villain when he does the same for John Podesta
  • When is derelict in duty, James Comey is a non-partisan brave FBI director. When he does his job and follows the leads to the natural end, he is a partisan puppet. But he becomes a hero again when he returns to form
  • Saving children means banning guns so they do not accidentally shoot themselves but allowing abortion in the third term is not murder
  • Having the Pope actively interfere with our election is good but unsubstantiated speculation of possible Russian interference is bad.

You know, it is all fun and games until the wrong person gets elected. What I can’t figure out is why the media would not want Trump as president.  What is more fun to cover; a litany of congressional special sessions in search of illegality or a man with no filter?  You would think the media would want Trump just for the ratings boost!

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It’s time for a new way to elect a president

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Armando Diana

 

Hiding beneath the scandals, lies, ego, and deplorable nastiness of this election lay actual issues. If we tune out the noise and focus on the main issues of this election, our choice becomes clear depending on political leanings.  Otherwise, it is a matter of whom you hate less.

For me it is simple.  I support the notion of stronger immigration policy, rebuilding our military, fixing the tax code, and a non-liberal Supreme Court nominee.  Most importantly, I do not subscribe to the redistribution of wealth as a way to drive a nation forward.  I do not believe you raise the bottom up by bringing the top down.

It is clear for me, in theory, to vote for Donald Trump.  I may have to invest in a gas mask but I do believe of the two losers, he has the most upside to grow in the position.  President Obama never grew so there is a chance I’m wrong but I know exactly what we’ll get with a Hillary Clinton presidency. I want more for my children.

But this election has created other issues that concern me.  Are you tired of hearing about swing states?  I know I am and I hope congress addresses the issue before the next presidential election.  Did you know when you vote in a presidential election your vote does not count towards the person you choose?

Every vote actually does count but you are actually voting for your candidate’s elector.  The Electoral College was a compromise our Founding Fathers forged to avoid a popularity contest in place of a presidential election.  They also did not want to cut smaller states out of the process.

Each of our 435 congressional districts represents approximately 710,000 citizens. Each district has an elector and the state gets an electoral vote for each of its state senators. For example, New Jersey has 12 congressional districts with two senators so it accounts for 14 electoral votes.

In most states, the popular vote winner in that state gets all of the state’s electoral votes. The only two exceptions are Nebraska and Maine that apportion their Electoral College votes. In other words, an electoral vote goes to the candidate who gets the most votes in a particular congressional district.  The two Senators electoral vote goes to the winner of the state’s popular vote.

To me, that is a more fair method of electing a president.

By following the apportion method, each district would be fairly represented.  For example, there are four predominantly Republican districts in New Jersey.  However, NJ is a cesspool of Liberalism and all 14 electoral votes goes to the Democratic nominee.  Under the apportion method three votes would go to the Republican nominee and 11 to the Democrat.  I think this more fairly represents the will of the people.

An ancillary benefit is the swing states go away and all voters matter.

Mitt Romney won 78 percent of all counties in 2012.  That means President Obama only carried 22 percent of all counties in America.  They just happened to be the most populous counties. President Obama won 26 states but Romney had a plurality of votes in 99 of the congressional districts.  In a sense, those 99 districts should not have even bothered to vote because their voices went unheard.  Likewise, in the 24 states Romney won, President Obama won 32 congressional districts. The same holds true for those 32 districts.

If we followed the apportion method in 2000, Al Gore would have received 269 electoral votes, George W. Bush would have received 263 and Ralph Nader would have received six.  In this case, a vote of state delegations in the House of Representatives would have settled the issue not the Supreme Court.

I hope this election proves the will of the people is stronger than the selection of the elite.  To ensure this remains the case, I think we need to move to an apportion method for all states.

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When your only choice is the lesser of two evils….evil still wins.

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Armando Diana

I was arguing with my father the other day.  He insists on voting for Hillary Clinton and I cannot convince him otherwise.  Probably because he has been dead for 35 years.   I think Clinton has locked up the dead vote and the illegal immigrant vote.  But don’t worry the media tells us there is no voter fraud.

Later that same day I came across a millennial Snapchatting with some friends.  He was confused.  He couldn’t understand why he had to pay for his medical benefits through payroll deductions. I explained working for a living is different from going to the Bank of Mom and Dad.  I think the Republican Party will grow once millennials realize they are the ones paying.

The next day I was engaged in a conversation with a Liberal friend.  A conversation in Liberal speak means she was telling me how wrong I am and dictating when I could and could not speak.  She insisted the media was not biased.  I showed her a quote from Liberal columnist Glenn Greenwald, “the U.S. media is essentially 100 percent united, vehemently, against Trump, and preventing him from being elected president.”

She is not speaking to me anymore.  I think the collective IQ of my base of friends just went up.

The following day, I received an e-mail that circumvented my spam folder from the Republican National Committee asking for a donation.  I wrote back I do not donate to spineless, ship-jumping cowards and to become e-mail pen pals with Clinton. Why not? There really is no difference between the two parties.

I called Donna Brazile to offer support.  Being a straight, white male, I know all about being persecuted. She hung up.  So I called Paul Ryan next to give him some tips on filing for unemployment benefits as I’m hoping he gets fired.  He also hung up.  .

In an interview with his party, I mean the media; Vice President Joe Biden apparently indicated his desire to physically fight Donald Trump. Would the press refer to that heavy weight bout as the Thriller and Vanilla?  It seems Clinton had the idea for the Donald Duck guy that kept appearing at Trump rallies to start fights.  And yet, the media claims Trump instigates violence.

Along with the vast right wing conspiracy against Clinton, it seems she believes Russia is interfering with our elections.  I can see her point but why didn’t she complain when Pope Francis told Catholics not to vote for Trump?  I also think I missed her chastising President Obama for actively interfering with the Israeli prime minister election.

Later in the week, I had a conversation on Facebook with my nephew.

Nephew: You know when you’re considering dating someone really bad for you and it’s killing your self-esteem so your friends are trying really hard to make you remember why you’re awesome and deserve better? Yeah, Canada is doing that for the U.S. right now

Me: Re: Your Canadian post: In this case, I prefer those friends telling you to divorce the bitch that will drag you down if you stay with her much longer

Nephew: Both parties are going to reap what they’ve sowed

Me: True but unfortunately the American public will be collateral damage. When your only choice is the lesser of two evils….evil still wins.

It was a weird week..

 

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The media can no longer be trusted – if it ever was in the first place

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Armando Diana

Are Democrats great Marketers or the recipient of wonderful propaganda?  Watching the presidential election play out is like a case study in the power of the media.

All I heard or read about today is how the election is over and the Hillary Clinton campaign was starting to plan for a landslide victory so they can claim a mandate.  They are even targeting once solid Red states that are now “in play.”

There are only two reasons the Clinton campaign will be campaigning in solid Republican states.  The first is tactical to try and demoralize Donald Trump supporters and discourage turnout.  The second is a recon mission to figure out better ways to conduct voter fraud. But, don’t worry, the media says there is no voter fraud so there can’t be….unless Clinton loses then watch how many news outlets report voter fraud.

The media excoriated Trump for saying he would wait and see before conceding the election.  This comes from the same media that supported Al Gore’s lawsuit contending voter fraud when he lost to President George W. Bush on 2000.  Maybe it was the Y2K bug that did it.

We are treated to stories on how the polls show Clinton way ahead.  Mark my words, as the election draws closer the polls will tighten.  Any smart Marketer can craft a survey to deliver pre-conceived results. The same is true for polls.  However, most pollsters want to claim they were right so as Election Day approaches, they will start using more neutral questions and the polls will start reflecting reality.

Polls showed President Jimmy Carter nine points ahead of President Ronald Reagan a week before the election.  How did that turn out?  Of course, President Harry Truman laughed at the pundits. Thomas Dewey was not so tickled.

Early voting data suggests the race is closer than the media wants to admit.  In fact, they spun the story that Clinton had a huge advantage.  The only problem with early voting data is it only shows how many registered Democrats and Republicans voted. It does not indicate for whom the vote was cast.  Reporting facts has never been the media’s strong suit.

The media can no longer be trusted – if it ever was in the first place. WikiLeaks has proven the collusion between the mainstream media and Democrats.  It also proved the Clinton machine is capable of stealing elections as I’m sure most of Senator Bernie Sanders fans are aware.  Yet, the media treats any mention of a rigged election or voter fraud as the rantings of a mad man.

The media bombards you with slanted information and those who do not verify, believe. The media claims Republicans are racists right?  Then explain why the Thirtieth Amendment (abolish slavery) was supported by 100 percent of the Republicans and only 23 percent of the Democrats?  The Fourteenth Amendment (free the slaves) had 94 percent of the republican support with zero support from Democrats.

The media claims Republicans are sexists right?  Then explain the 100 percent of the Republicans support for the Fifteenth Amendment (right to vote) with zero support from Democrats.  Most millennials buy the false narrative the media presents.  They will learn and it may be sooner than they think.   Millennials can have solace in knowing the Democrats supported Obamacare 100 percent to the Republicans zero.  Let’s see how they feel next year when rates will double.

The media can spin as much as it want. The one thing it can’t change is reality. I’m reminded of the line in Animal House when Pinto explains to Flounder that he screwed up.  He trusted them.

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If you think voter fraud is a myth I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Armando Diana

A few years ago I went to the polling place to cast my vote for anyone not name Obama.  I went to the desk, signed my ticket and went on line to wait my turn.

The woman at the desk called me and asked for my return.  I was informed that she made a mistake and skipped a ticket.  She said I signed out of sequence and asked for my ticket back.  She instructed me to sign a new ticket.

I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.  I told her I would comply if she would destroy my initial ticket in front of me. She refused.  I returned the favor about giving up my ticket.  She became irritated and asked why I would make such a request.

I told her if I gave her my signed ticket, she would have a “free” vote to make because the ticket had a valid signature. She became more irritated.  It was the kind of irritation you get when you know you are caught in a lie and are now trying to obfuscate the issue.

The commotion became more intense and poll workers came over to see what was happening. Throughout the course of our discussion I learned this was the sixth time that day this poll worker had made a similar mistake.  One of the poll worker recognized me as a freelance journalist for a newspaper and quickly ended the debate.  He said all was OK and for me to go back on line.  They apologized for any inconvenience.

Think about that for a second.  Five additional votes could be cast without the voter’s knowledge.  Tell me again why you believe anyone who says voter fraud is a myth.

Both parties do it so it’s not a Democrat of Republican thing.  In fact, dead people get more action on Election Day than Halloween.  Just saying.

So the story today is Donald Trump’s refusal to blindly accept the election results if he loses.  Gee, I can’t see why he’d take such a position. Let’s see; oh, I know, probably because Hillary Clinton and her band of merry marauders stole the nomination from Senator Bernie Sanders.

To this day, those in the media still contend President George W Bush stole the election from Al Gore.  Of course, President Bush had the actual votes to win but that does not change the media’s narrative.  In this case, we have proof the Clinton Gang actually usurped the process and, yes, “rigged” the primary election.  In essence, they stole the nomination from Sanders.  The media response: crickets.

After Trump said of accepting the election results that he will “look at it at the time” Clinton quickly remarked “Oh that’s horrifying.”  No, a Clinton presidency is horrifying.

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The media is supposed to deliver the news, not try to manipulate it

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Armando Diana

The media bias is at an absurd level. There is nothing the media can do to change the views of die hard Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump supporters.

It’s a different story for the rest of us so-called undecided voters.  Although, I do not think there is truly an undecided voter. We are leaning one way or another and that is what makes the media dangerous.  Most voters are not informed and I do not mean that in a bad way.  They either do not have the time or interest or both to follow politics.

So if they rely on radio news updates on the way to and from work or read the headlines in the trash masquerading as newspapers than America is in trouble.  The news is dead.  There is no longer any pretense the mainstream media is remotely close to objective.

According to the watchdog Center for Public Integrity, journalists donated $382,000 to the Clinton campaign versus $14,000 to Trump.  For you non-Math whizzes, that’s a 27 to 1 ratio.  The report indicated more than 430 media businesses contributed to Clinton compared to 50 for Trump.

There is verifiable evidence in the WikiLeaks e-mail dump of collusion between the State Department and Clinton campaign regarding her e-mail scandal.  There are also stories of how chummy the media is with Liberal candidates not named Bernie Sanders.  Yet we hear crickets from the media. The media instead focuses the story on the theft of the e-mails versus the explosive content.

I bet Richard Nixon would have loved the story to be about some crackpot stool pigeon with a throat condition versus the content he delivered.  Ironically Mark Felt (Deep Throat) was a top FBI official much like the FBI officials in the WikiLeaks e-mails.  The only difference is the media is on Clinton’s team so she gets a pass.

How many stories have you read or heard about Trump’s womanizing?  I guess that is a bigger issue than keeping our country safe, the economy, and immigration reform.  But when President John F. Kennedy or President Bill Clinton converted the White House into a brothel the news was about the issues because their personal business is none of our concern if they are doing the job.

Right.

Politico is as biased as CNN and about as tone deaf as the political establishment.  In a recent article it wrote (I’m guessing with a straight face) “Republicans and Democrats, in Washington and beyond, fear that the aftermath of the 2016 election will create a festering infection in the already deep and lasting wound that the campaign is leaving on America.”

Really?  It thinks the rancor of this political season will “create a festering infection…”  That is how out of touch the media is with its own duplicity in fermenting a divide between the populace and the political ruling class.  The article goes on to fret about how Trump supporters will react if he loses.  It fears an outbreak of violence.

This from a media that covers rioters like a tailgate party when they march in solidarity to a fallen brother they never knew at the hands of a police officer. And now it worries about potential violence if Trump loses?

If Trump loses and people riot, will the media cover the riots with the same sympathy it did for the looters in Baltimore?  Or the ones in South Carolina?  Will we get story after story justifying riots because of a stolen election?

Trump is spending too much time setting the narrative of a stolen election versus speaking to the issues that matter to those of us more interested in what he can do for the country. But that doesn’t mean the media is not out campaigning for Clinton trying to swing the vote her way.

Do you think some will see a media openly campaigning for Clinton as trying to “rig” the election?  The media is supposed to deliver the news, not try to manipulate it.

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