“Smug Media” Attacks Trump While Refusing To Condemn “Violent Riots” Led By “Anarchist Groups”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Nov 11, 2016
Yesterday we shared an op-ed on the “The Unbearable Smugness Of The American Media” which highlighted the media’s unwillingness to accept or even try to understand the will of the American electorate. Rather than accept the fact that Trump’s victory was the direct result of Washington’s complete failure, on both sides of the aisle, the media has instead doubled down and attributed his win to the notion that there are just more “racist white people” in the country than they originally thought. Which is fine so long as you can ignore the fact that Trump actually performed 8-points better with Hispanics than Mitt Romney did in 2012…but that doesn’t fit the narrative to best to ignore it completely.
This morning the Financial Times offered up a perfect example of the “unbearable smugness” that we mentioned yesterday. Rather than condemn violent protests in Oakland and Portland, the FT attacked Trump for “lashing out at demonstrators” and implicitly questioned his “temperament” by saying that “top aides struggled to keep the candidate on-message and constrain his angrier outbursts.”
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