September 30, 2019
This stinks: A biased press is mauling Trump's TV defenders
By Monica Showalter
Apparently, it's not just enough to attack President Trump any more.
The mainstream media is doing its level best to attack anyone defending Trump, too. They've got venom to burn and nowhere was it more obvious than on the Sunday talk shows.
As leftists and anti-Trumpsters glide right through interviews with zero probing, Trump defenders, in contrast, are getting the third degree.
Just look at how bad it was over the weekend - here's a list.
Start with 60 Minutes, which featured two anti-Trump Democrats and one pro-Trump Republican, stacking the airtime for the left. "I always said, we will follow the facts where they take us," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed, in dramatic, grave, rehearsed, tones to 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley, claiming she wanted the whole impeachment show to be "a unifying experience" despite doing the exact opposite. Video here. Pelley didn't do any probing on that colossal phoniness, despite House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pointing out very accurately later (around the 6:16 point in the video) that Pelosi started her impeachment inquiry well before she had President Trump's transcript in her hands. Nor was Pelosi (nor was House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff who also got interviewed) asked about the weird little rules change about whistleblowers not needing any firsthand knowledge to file politically motivated complaints, which occurred just days before the whistleblower report came out (almost as if the rules change were planned that way) and whether that might mean a setup. She also wasn't asked about the problem of Joe Biden's sale of public office in the $50,000 a month payout from a foreign energy company for the 'services' of his drug-addled and otherwise unemployable son. "No evidence Hunter did anything illegal," Pelley noted, delicately explaining it as a mere "appearance of conflict of interest" if that. Nor was Pelosi asked about what Trump really meant in attempting to get to the bottom of Biden's own collusion with foreigners which was tied to the 2016 Russia collusion investigation. Pelosi also should have been asked about House Democrats' letters asking the Ukrainians investigate Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and how that might be any different from Trump asking the Ukrainians to throw some sunlight on Biden's dealings. Softball? Off easy? Double standard? You decide.
By contrast, McCarthy got the third degree from Pelley, and to be fair, McCarthy did seem to keep begging Pelley's questions and he made a minor error on the transcript, which didn't help his case. However, the interview was choppy. That suggests there may have been some editing done, big editing, taking out all the parts where McCarthy could have been effectively defending Trump. Bottom line: He got mauled.
That wasn't the only instance of bias in the press.
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