{"id":71791,"date":"2017-04-30T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71791"},"modified":"2017-04-30T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:15:42","slug":"the-lady-doth-protest-too-much-methinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71791","title":{"rendered":"The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68161\">Last September<\/a>, the Washington Post asked their readers to stop accusing them of being part of some big &#8220;media conspiracy&#8221;. That by doing so, we consumers were being \u201clazy and unfair\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68162\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The-media-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The-media-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The-media-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The-media-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The-media.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fact is, there really is no such thing as \u201cthe media.\u201d It\u2019s an invention, a tool, an all-purpose smear by people who can\u2019t be bothered to make distinctions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last Saturday night, Jeff Mason, the president of the  White House Correspondents\u2019 Association claimed  that the media was not \u201cFake News\u201d according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/04\/29\/white-house-correspondents-association-we-are-not-fake-news\/\">Breitbart <\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is our job to report on facts and to hold leaders accountable. That is who we are. We are not fake news.\u201d said Mason, \u201cWe are not failing news organizations and we are not the enemy of the American people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, then where were you for the eight years prior to the Trump Administration? A quick perusal of <a href=\"http:\/\/memeorandum.com\/\">Memeorandum<\/a> these days is just a page full of anti-Trump rhetoric and insults of those who voted for him &#8211; from nearly every &#8220;main stream&#8221; news source. <\/p>\n<p>The Post even ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2017\/04\/17\/racism-motivated-trump-voters-more-than-authoritarianism-or-income-inequality\/?utm_term=.7d29222af248\">an article two weeks ago<\/a> about how Trump voters voted the way they did out of racism you know, despite the fact that Clinton is the same race as Trump. I don&#8217;t remember them treating Obama voters the same way &#8211; I guess their racism was better than ours. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the media is uniformly hoping and praying that Joe Biden jumps into the 2020 presidential race, you know, despite the fact that Biden has proved himself to be unqualified for any job in government, including functioning as a Congressional intern.<\/p>\n<p>Americans voted overwhelmingly for President Trump &#8211; most of us because we couldn&#8217;t stomach having another President Clinton. Instead of trying to understand why a large number of Americans chose an inexperienced politician over a large number of career politicians, infinitely more qualified than Trump, by the standard generally accepted by the media, the media has decided to insult us instead. &#8220;Fake News&#8221; also means news that doesn&#8217;t matter &#8211; and that&#8217;s the type of journalism that The Media has decided to engage in rather than investigating the real news of the day.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you have to take every opportunity you can to claim that you are not &#8220;Fake News&#8221;, that&#8217;s fake news, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last September, the Washington Post asked their readers to stop accusing them of being part of &hellip; <a title=\"The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71791\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}