No one can deny there is a symbiotic relationship between the press and the creatures we call "professional politicians. They both prosper and get fat from feeding from the same "feed troughs",and the career advancements of both are based on the "You scratch my back,and I'll scratch yours" method.
Any outside influence that becomes a factor that threatens the survival or the advancement of either side,threatens the survival and advancement of the other side of that couple.
EVERYONE understands that you don't start at the top of either power structure. You start at the bottom,kiss a LOT of ass,take a LOT of crap from people you don't like,many of whom you may never even see again,and "make your bones" by blindly and wholeheartedly supporting those 1 or more steps higher on the political or media food chain than you are. As they lose their positions by being fired,not being elected,retiring,or dying,everyone on that particular food chain get to make a lateral move to a slightly more important slot on the food chain,or move up a spot on the food chain.
That is the process everyone understands and agrees to in order to prove they are the team players they need to be in order to become media commissars or political royalty.
The "System" IS their religion,and they are all true believers who hope to one day become priests,or even Popes if they play their cards right.
Then Trump comes along,and blows their religion right out of the water. He's NOT a team player,he has NOT advanced his way up through their "farm system" one step at a time,and he owes nobody any favors. Worse of all from THEIR POV,he orbited close enough to the world of the elites in the political and media world that he has as much dirt on them as they do on him,so he is virtually bulletproof. By virtue of winning the Presidency as his first public office,he has made a mockery of them and everything they have accomplished in their lives that makes them feel like they are somebody important and "special".
Probably what hurts them the most is the CERTAIN knowledge that if they had taken him seriously from the start they could have probably torpedoed his victory in the primaries. Instead they just arrogantly assumed that their Queen was going to be crowned,and did nothing to bring him down. They most likely even worked in the background without his knowledge to help him win the primary.
Now they are left with trying to come up with excuses to justify their loss,and to lessen the damages they have done to their own self-images. All they have came up with so far is "It was the Russians,I tell you,the Russians! They hacked the Queens emails that she sent out unsecured,I tell ya! EEEK! EEEEK! EEEEK!"
Is there ANYBODY reading this that doesn't understand that EVERY major nation out there does their damnedest to "read the mail" of competitor nations in order to gain some sort of advantage for themselves,and that this includes US?
It's been that way from the time when there were no nations,only wandering tribes. Each tribe spied on the other tribe to try to gain an advantage. The only thing new is computers make is SOOO much easier to "read the mail" of your enemies. This is especially true when it is the mail of an arrogant "entitled" bitch that thinks it's "her turn to be President" and that email security and all other forms of security are the worry of the "little people".
If Trump can come in from out of the blue and take over the most important job/position in the country,how safe are THEIR jobs?
Selfish Self-Interest. That IS what it is all about.
