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    If Arrogance Were A Crime, A Lot of Journalists Would Be In Jail - Bernie Goldberg

    No matter what he says, no matter what he does, no matter what he tweets — Donald Trump doesn’t surprise me anymore. Nothing he states as fact, no matter how demonstrably untrue, rattles me anymore. No amount of humiliation he publicly heaps on loyalists like Jeff Sessions, shocks me anymore. After six months of this president, I’m suffering from Trump fatigue. And I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.

    But I’m also suffering from Trump-bashing fatigue, the non-stop drumbeat of negative news about the president; the crazy speculation about whether he’ll be impeached for high crimes including treason. This isn’t honest journalism. It’s wishful thinking.

    If Donald Trump didn’t exist, the liberal pundits on MSNBC and CNN would have nothing to talk about. If he’s unhinged, as they so often tell us … so are they. If you don’t believe me, just tune in to “Morning Joe” on MSNBC sometime. It’s a three-hour orgy of unbridled mockery and hate aimed at the president every day. Or try Don Lemon on CNN at night, a supposed journalist who gives the word smug a bad name. Or those CNN panels loaded with liberals who detest the president and one lonely Trump supporter who serves as a convenient prop to show how “fair” CNN is despite what the president thinks.

    And even when I agree with liberal journalists who point out the president’s defects, I find myself thinking that I don’t want to be on their team anymore. As much as I dislike President Trump’s demeanor, I dislike theirs at least as much. They’re smug. And if arrogance were a crime, they wouldn’t be on TV or writing op-eds; they’d be behind bars.

    A Harvard study released this year showed that on CNN and NBC, 93 percent of the news about the president during his first 100 days in office had a negative tone. CBS wasn’t much better where 91 percent of the news was negative. At the New York Times the coverage had a negative tone 87 percent of the time.

    Overall, the tone of the coverage at major news organizations in the survey showed only 20 percent of it was positive for the president – compared to Barack Obama’s coverage that was 59 percent positive.

    No surprise there. Journalists adored Mr. Obama just as much as they detest Mr. Trump.

    This is not to suggest that President Trump hasn’t generated a lot of negative news. He clearly has. But it is to suggest that such a massive truckload of negativity – even when the stories are accurate — is evidence of bias in and of itself.

    Let’s say someone wrote a series of stories about CNN and 93 percent of it had a negative tone. Or let’s say 93 percent of the stories about Barack Obama were negative. That wouldn’t be honest journalism. It would be a hit job.

    And then there’s the double standard. Liberal journalists are outraged at the president’s shenanigans. Okay, but where was the same outrage over Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice’s deceptions about Benghazi where four Americans were slaughtered? Where was their outrage over the IRS scandal, where conservative non-profits were targeted by a liberal middle manager (and who knows who else) who took the Fifth rather than testify before Congress?

    And we’ll never know this with absolute certainty, but does anyone really think there’d be a liberal media feeding frenzy if Chelsea Clinton had met with a Russian lawyer that claimed to have dirt on Donald Trump? I can hear those liberal media pundits on TV now: Nothing happened at the meeting. She loves her mother and was just trying to help. Everybody wants opposition research...

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    All of this has been said before.

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