“Well the truth is, many Republicans do offer solutions and make comments.
But the ‘reporting’ media, the AP, ABC news, Reuters, Breitbart, Yahoo News, Google News, UPI —— will not report any good thing a conservative says.”
They’d probably be more likely to report it if the Republicans were making their opening statements with a can of political whoopass against their opponents.
Democrats are ruthless in their lies and disinformation while Republicans aren’t exactly spunky even when the truth is on their side.
Make a few waves and it’ll get attention. And for God’s sake, don’t apologize and back down when the Democrats WHINE about what you’ve said!
This is the Republican dilemma in a nutshell.
IF a good conservative were to come out and slam-bam a Democrat, the "reporting" lib reporter would dutifully frame the story as "another partisan attack" from a Republican -- and would totally bury or ignore the essence of the Republican's comments.
"Aren't you readers sick of this Washington DC mudslinging," the reporter would ask or imply near the top of the story.
But if the shoe were on the other foot (and the Dem made a brutal statement), that same reporter would dutifully frame the story as evidence that the public is sick and tired (yes, they use that term all the time) of the Republican Administration....
... sick of the recession (even though there is none) .....sick of rampant inflation (even though it is really not that bad)..... sick of the war ( even though....)
You get the idea.
I am serious when I say I have sat in newsrooms the past 15 years and literally heard reporters insist that all readers think this way or that way .... and thus they do not feel obligated to report any logical solutions or factual statements made by conservative politicians.
I got fired from one newspaper, in fact, for shooting off my mouth one too many times.
My colleague, (there were only two 'right leaning' reporters on the 25-person newsroom staff) was fired several years after me, also for not fitting in, basically.
I truly believe that unless one has worked inside a newsroom, they really have no idea how news is made, manufactured or generated.
And I really mean 'manufactured'.
Once in a while a Republican can break thru the haze, but usually only when a large portion of the reporting media has become sick of or disillusioned with the Democrat in power.
Are there conservative writers in America?/ Yes, certainly.
But they are the second-day pundits and columnists.... and columnists and pundits do not and cannot "drive" the story.
It is the lib "reporting" media which frames the initial story, and makes Republicans out to be dolts, and worst.