Media bias – going strong as the year ends. What’s next?

Let us see if we can understand this during the gap between Christmas and New Years, when every agency and many news organizations are either on vacation or have their third-string people struggling through.

Look, a lot of Americans don’t like The Donald. We understand; we here at TPOL don’t particularly care for him, his personality, or many of his actions. We don’t like what he’s doing, the direction that he is leading the Fifty States, or for that matter, that the States “need” a leader. (It may be a stronger argument to say that we need a babysitter – or at least our politicians do, so the rest of us can go on making a living, raising a family, and serving our Lord.)

But compared to the alternatives offered then and now, we are more willing to tolerate Mr. Trump. In contrast to Kammie Harris, Uncle Joe Biden, Pretty Boy Gavin Newsom, or for that matter, De Santis, Cruz, Graham, Pence, and various and sundry other GOP types. The Donald is bad, but relative to a bunch of others, he is not the least of two evils. Maybe 20!

But to the media, including many so-called conservative or neo-con, The Donald is evil incarnate. And they never want us to forget that.

Consider this latest adventure in Venezuela. Maybe we are supposed to treat this the way history (or at least, historians) treat Washington’s crossing of the Delaware to attack the Hessian mercenaries on Christmas of 1776, although this Christmas Eve attack was one day plus one year early of the 250th anniversary of that adventure.

We don’t know a whole lot about this raid, against something described as a “big facility” and a “dock area” except that it is supposedly connected with boats that appear to be used to smuggle drugs across the Caribbean to the States. We’d like to think that more will come out. But who knows?

But the point of this commentary is much simpler. No matter what Trump does, no matter if he does or proposes the same sort of actions as Biden or Obama. Or Clinton or Bush I or II, the action is immediately condemned, and Trump is condemned for suggesting, approving, or speaking about it. And every article, regardless of source, looks to go out of its way to trash-talk Trump. He is not “the President” but rather, “the Republican President.” He is always “confused” and always falsely claiming this or that. The contrast, not just between the media in general during the Obama and Biden regimes, but even the conservative media during those administrations, is phenomenal.

The new year is likely going to show us more of the same – and even intensify. The mess in Minnesota, seems now to be claimed by the media to be a result of the first Trump regime. We are used to administrations placing blame on the previous administration. But this is more the media than just the political opponents. Who is being a shill for whom?

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