{"id":68923,"date":"2016-11-13T11:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68923"},"modified":"2016-11-13T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:05:01","slug":"picking-over-the-debris-of-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68923","title":{"rendered":"Picking over the debris of the Presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hindsight heroes have taken to autopsying the failed Clinton campaign. With protesters in the streets demanding that the Congress shred the US Constitution, dingy Harry Reid, the draft dodger, throws fuel on the fire from the comfort of his Capital Hill office<\/a> on Veterans’ Day;<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump\u2019s victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear \u2013 especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They may be “wracked with fear” but that hasn’t stopped them from being lawless in the streets.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> reports that Clinton herself, blames F.B.I. director, James B. Comey for her failure to win the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful,\u201d Mrs. Clinton said, according to a donor who relayed the remarks. But, she added, \u201cour analysis is that Comey\u2019s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Clinton said a second letter from Mr. Comey, clearing her once again, which came two days before Election Day, had been even more damaging. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Odd, that she doesn’t blame the fact that she was using private email to avoid scrutiny of her time in the State Department to begin with. The Clintons have always been more concerned with their legacies than the truth. They sent Sandy Berger into the bowels of the National Archives to alter their record in regards to fighting terrorism virtually guaranteeing the failure of the 9-11 Commission to arrive at accurate conclusions in order to improve our national security. The Hillary Clinton private email server was supposed to rectify the situation for her.<\/p>\n

For their part, the New York Times blames their own prejudices in the election for those results, according to the Times competitor, the New York Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Bad or sloppy journalism doesn\u2019t fully capture the Times sins. Not after it announced that it was breaking it rules of coverage because Trump didn\u2019t deserve fairness.<\/p>\n

As media columnist Jim Rutenberg put it in August, most Times reporters saw Trump \u201cas an abnormal and potentially dangerous candidate\u201d and thus couldn\u2019t be even-handed.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t one reporter talking \u2014 it was policy. The standards, developed over decades to force reporters and editors to be fair and to build public trust, were effectively eliminated as too restrictive for the Trump phenomenon.<\/p>\n

The man responsible for that rash decision, top editor Dean Baquet, later said the Rutenberg piece \u201cnailed\u201d his thinking, and went on to insist that Trump \u201cchallenged our language\u201d and that, \u201cHe will have changed journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baquet also said of the struggle for fairness, \u201cI think that Trump has ended that struggle,\u201d adding: \u201cwe now say stuff. We fact-check him. We write it more powerfully that it\u2019s false.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baquet was wrong. Trump indeed was challenging, but it was Baquet who changed journalism. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, the Times is begging it’s subscribers to come back and promising to \u201crededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeah, well, the media gave us Trump – they gave him all of the attention through the primaries virtually ignoring the other dozen or so candidates thinking that he couldn’t win the popular election. <\/p>\n

The Democrats, for their part, ignored some candidates, namely Jim Webb, who could have brought it home for them. Instead, they stuck to identity politics thinking that no one could vote against the first woman, despite the fact that she brought more baggage to the campaign than most Presidents leave the White House with after eight years.<\/p>\n

More importantly, maybe Republicans learned to stop nominating people who they think the Democrats voters will elect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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