Quote:What has become clear over the years is that the media narrative is driven by what they're told to report by their progressive icons. 

Case in point. 

 

Obama gives a press conference at the Pentagon where the focus is on the money sent to Iran.  When he finished his statement, the first question that came his way was about his prior comments that Trump is not qualified to be the president, asking if he could expand on those comments.

 

Hillary Clinton met with a minority group of journalists today, gave a speech filled with the same empty rhetoric and platitudes that are boilerplate, and then decided to take some questions that were fed to her through a moderator.  To her credit, the moderator did ask about the previous comments about Hillary saying Comey had exonerated her, and that he made a statement saying she was truthful in all of her answers to the FBI.  Hillary went on this meandering, rambling response filled with all sorts of qualifiers and legalese that is vintage Clinton speak, saying that during the interview with Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace this past Sunday where she made the claim that has been debunked all over the media subsequently, they must have been speaking past each other and that Wallace must have misunderstood her response.  It's funny because apparently Hillary is just so smart that people have trouble grasping her points based on this comment.  It's a similar deflection to the one that she made when talking about the parents of the Benghazi 4 who said she told them while standing over the caskets of their loved ones that their death was caused by a video.  Her response when asked about that recently was that they must have had a problem recollecting what she said because she never made any such reference.  Only problem is, she also said it from the podium with Obama standing right there on camera. 

 

In the incident with journalists today, there was no follow up.  I guess her non-answer answer was adequate to satisfy the least curious press corps in the history of the nation.

 

Meanwhile, Trump said something that offended someone, and the media will no doubt fixate on that and trying to turn that into yet another campaign crisis.  It's getting comical how slanted this has been, and the media isn't even bothering to try to mask it any more.  They're almost completely in the bag for Clinton, and they'll craft whatever narrative they feel is necessary to assure she brings it home in November.  It's been that way since she announced last year.  They colluded with the campaign, as evidenced in the DNC emails that were leaked.  There are no more Woodward and Bernsteins out there looking to actually break a real news story.  Now it's about crafting a narrative to prop their person up and trash the opposition. 

 

Very good post and spot on.

 

Another example is the press conference held by President Obama with the Prime Minister of Singapore.  The press conference was about trade, but the first question taken from a "reporter" was about Trump's fitness for holding the office.  Obama babbled for nearly 5 minutes with his answer.

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