The Putrefaction of Journalism

Vincent J. Curtis

21 Aug 2016

As U.S. Attorney-General Loretta Lynch learned, even being near a Clinton can get you covered in political filth.  Journalists have been bathing themselves in filth for the last nine years, essentially since the candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama.  The filth is now so old that the smell of putrefaction is unmistakable.

For example, consider the piece of journalism that was published this morning on the front page of the Washington Post.  It was written by Anne Gearan, John Wagner, and Dan Balz,

-          “Hillary Clinton’s increasingly confident campaign has begun crafting a detailed agenda for her possible presidency, with plans to focus on measures aimed at creating jobs, boosting infrastructure spending and enacting immigration reform if current polling holds and she is easily elected to the White House in November.

-          In recent weeks, as her leads over GOP nominee Donald Trump have expanded, Clinton has started ramping up for a presidency defined by marquee legislation she has promised to seek immediately.  The pace and scale of the planning reflect growing expectations among Democrats that she will win and take office in January alongside a new Democratic majority in the Senate.”

And they know all this how?

Did they interview Hillary?  Are they retyping under their own names a for-the-Post exclusive press release that was written by the Hillary for President Campaign?  Okay, maybe it was dictated over the phone.

Anyhow, you would be wrong if you thought the former.  If it were the former, then they would have boasted about having an exclusive interview, and then they would have to answer why no questions were asked about the email scandal, and her lies about her lying.

It is wonderful that Hillary is crafting a detailed plan for all of these wonderful things, but is the public going to be told these details before the election?  Are the details she is working out going to be posted on her website?  Is she going to announce them in a speech?

And if she does announce them, on what grounds should be believer her?  Hillary has been known to lie for her personal benefit.  Benghazi being one example, her bald-face lie to Fox News correspondent Chris Wallace is another, the many lies told about her email server being another, her implication of Colin Powell as suggesting private email being another, but I digress.

The press is fawning over Hillary and have dispensed all pretense of objectivity.  They may not be the 27 year old reporters that Ben Rhodes boasted about fooling, but you would have thought “burn me once shame on you, burn me twice, shame on me.”

New York Post Columnist Michael Goodwin has a piece in his paper today, headlined “American journalism is collapsing before our eyes.”  Ya think?  I would have dated the collapse of the towers of Journalism in 2007 (or earlier), for the reason mentioned; what is happening in 2016 is a pulling down of the remaining, burning rubble.

Goodwin writes, “The largest broadcast networks – CBS, NBC, and ABC – and major newspapers like The New York Times, and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play.  Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.  Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang suffers the daily beating that Trump does.  The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan, and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.”

He goes on, “By torching its remaining credibility in service of Clinton, the mainstream media’s reputations will likely never recover, nor will the standards.  No future producer, editor, reporter, or anchor can be expected to meet a test of fairness when that standard has been trashed in such willful and blatant fashion.”

Goodwin is absolutely right.  And all for what?  I can’t believe all these journalists are doing this to service the Clintons personally.  I have to believe they are doing it for the larger cause the Clintons represent, namely progressivism and the content of that political philosophy.

The man who the press has worshipped all these years, Barack Hussein Obama, holds them in contempt and treats them with contempt, unless it is with disdain.  Only when they are most fawning are they even allowed a touch of graciousness from his majesty.

By focussing on the political cause, the press don’t have to inquire about the putrid stench emanating from the bodies of their majesties.  Hillary’s lies, Bill’s lies, Bill’s girls, the Clinton Foundation, and lies and subterfuge from the Administration, no questions about any of that.  The cause cleanses all to these journalists.

This is yet another reason why Trump NEEDS to win.  Journalism is another Washington mould that needs breaking.  There will be no cleaning out of the Saugeen stables that journalism presently is unless Trump is elected.

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