The Presser

                I happened to be between cities in northern Colorado on Thursday when President Trump conducted his impromptu news conference so I got to hear about half of it live. That lifted my spirits so much I You Tubed (is that the correct usage as a verb?) most of the rest of it later.

                I know you heard about it because the media has been going crazy ever since.

                I’m actually not sure if I did more cheering for The President or laughing at the media. I loved Trump’s line that “Tomorrow’s news will be about how I was ranting and raving about the media. I’m not ranting and raving, I’m telling you you’re dishonest.” He sounded very calm when he said it.  I’ve heard President Trump rant and rave and it sounded way different than this.

                Sure enough, the opposition newsletter (The Denver Post) Friday morning featured a number of stories highly critical of the President’s remarks. (I’m capitalizing President every time because it pisses liberals off.) True to form the AP story above the fold, this time written by Julie Pace who possesses a special kind of omniscience, was predictably more of an editorial than news. At this point though, that’s just becoming entertaining.

                Julie’s hard-hitting, pure journalistic style informed us that the President’s speech featured “his signature hyperbole betrayed by reality.” Now that is hard news by any definition. Or maybe it’s something else. (Catch my play on the Audi commercial there?)

                Julie is especially upset that Mr. President would dare to claim his administration “is running like a fine-tuned machine,” when clearly she and her recycle guy feel it is not. She is also vexed that her nation’s President will not just admit that the Russians rigged the election and that he will soon be turning the country over to them. And she had a real “Ah-ha” moment over Trump’s erroneous claim that he won by more electoral votes that any previous republican President.

                Also sticking in her craw, as well as the rest of the media, was the President’s invitation to a black reporter (I’m sure she has a name but I can’t find it and that’s how Erica Werner of the AP identified her in her hard news editorial) to arrange a meeting between him and the Congressional Black Caucus after she asked him why he had not met with them. The silence was funny enough but I wish I could have seen that reporter’s face.

                Trump says he had a meeting for after his inauguration arranged with Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) of said CBC but Cummings backed out because someone advised him it could hurt him politically. Cummings quickly found a reporter after the presser to tell that never happened so I guess you have to decide if you want to believe the President with the longest three-week accomplishment list in U.S. history or the congressman whose been around since the 90’s and who finally admitted he was aware the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups for 27 months through 2012. At least one (True The Vote) at his specific direction.

                Now the CBC says they had sent the President a letter asking for a sit down and he never responded. One has to wonder if that was before or after they boycotted his inauguration. Should the President reach across the aisle if no one is going to reach back?

                Listen, the media think they are all showing us how great they are and how awful The President of the United States is. They think that somewhere in this country there are people not directly related to them who respect them and trust them to tell the truth in an objective and impartial way. They still have absolutely no clue how Donald Trump got to be President and how irrelevant they have become.

They can’t believe any of us want this man for President nor how we can think he is worthy when they have plainly told us just the opposite and after all, they are the media and we are completely dependent on them for whatever they want us to know.

                They continue with their poll numbers showing that only one third of Americans approve of President Trump. They’ve been throwing numbers like that around since the week after the election when the ABC and CNN polls had his approval rating at under 40%.  Of course, both of those polls included in their sampling only 23 and 24% Republicans. These are the same pollsters who predicted Hillary would win the presidency by a landslide.

                That was the week after the election! It would make one wonder who voted for the President besides all the Russians. I guess they have been telling us all along that Hillary had the popular vote. Yup, true story.  She had 3 million more votes.  Even if you don’t try and adjust that number for illegal aliens in California that got to vote, folks who voted multiple times and dead people who voted there were 129 million ballots cast. 3 million is only 2.33% of total voters. Hillary won by 5 million votes in California alone. I forget by how many in the five boroughs of New York but it was a lot. How many people between La-La Land and the Land of How You Doin’ must’ve voted for him if Hillary ended up winning the popular vote by only 3 million people?

                Friday Rasmussen and Pew both released polls on President Trump’s approval rating. Pew had him at 39%. Rasmussen had him at 55%. I’d say they might be asking two different groups of people.

                It makes it hard to know who to trust. I say, just like I did when Obama first lied to tell us he’d fixed the economy or maybe when he promised you could keep your doctor, you can always trust your own eyes, ears and gut.

                The media is trying to make you feel like you are the lone ranger if you feel any kind of support for Trump.  They have to. They are in a battle for their survival—they’ve already lost the one for their credibility and the battle for their souls has been a no contest for years. But you are not alone. Realize who is telling you that you are. The lowest and most despicable profession on the planet today.

                I have so much more I want to say but I’m trying to observe my around 1000-word pledge.

 

               Despite the brave face CNN is trying to put on their sudden uptick in ratings since “false news” entered our vernacular, consider this: Donald Trump is the guy responsible. The guy who won the presidency by spending half as much as his opponent because he got so much news coverage and the media can’t figure out how it happened when they were blaring his message to America for free. And now CNN can’t afford not to cover him or they’ll lose all viewership which must drive all of them crazy.

                In spite of CNN’s uptick Fox News still enjoys a daytime viewership of 1.4 million viewers to 651,000 for CNN. Fox has an evening viewership of 2.4 million to CNN’s 1.3 million.

                Sean Spicer’s press briefings are drawing audiences between 4.3 and 4.5 million viewers. Each. I am pretty sure that is unprecedented.

                It’s ok to feel good America. When your eyes and ears tell you things are getting better it’s because they are. And they are going to be great. Unless you live in California. There I’m pretty sure you’re going to think things suck.