Posted on 11/09/2015 1:53:36 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
National Review trying to sneak in under the radar as “not part of the GOPe deception machine.”
This article is very enlightening. If you are a person who believes that this country needs truthful reporting without blatant politicization and bias and if you believe that is simply crucial to the freedom of a nation to have fair media, then you have to be seething over the state of today’s press. Just looking at the double standard tells you all you need to know and that bias and double standard is becoming very dangerous to everything American citizens hold dear. Their very lives are at stake. How very depressing!
Why Republican Candidates Must Always Be Better Than Their Democratic Opponent
Author of Ben Carson Hit Piece: 'I Was In Guantanamo for 12 Hours'
Question should be asked over and over by ALL the candidates.
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Common sense tells me that the “media” is tasked with
taking out any real competition for Hillary and causing
the GOPe candidate to be nominated and easily defeated.
- Hillary’s “inevitable” don’t ya know? God help us!
“......So why is this happening?
Because the left has seen recent polls showing that Ben Carson has not only the highest ratings among current candidates on the question of honesty and trustworthiness but perhaps the highest ratings ever for any presidential candidate. While Carson finds more than 60 percent of voters believing him to be honest, the opposite is true for both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, each of whom have about 60 percent saying they are not honest and trustworthy.
That’s why Hillary-loving Politico and Donald Trump - who tweeted out another typical Trump whopper - “WOW, one of many lies by Ben Carson! Big story” - are on the rampage. Actually, it’s no story at all. But you attack a candidate where he is strong, and that’s what Trump and the media - who seem to take their vetting responsibility much more enthusiastically when it comes to Republicans - are doing by questioning Dr. Carson’s honesty.
Carson is on a knife edge here and much depends on his behavior as well as to whether the media can actually prove a lie; Carson insists there is no lie to find and that “lying is a grave sin.” His press conference performance was fairly solid, righteous indignation just reaching the edge of acceptability, the next step beyond which would be politically comparable to Howard Dean’s campaign-ending scream; that would suit the liberal media just as well.
If no actual fabrications are unearthed - Politico’s overreach (and Donald Trump’s typically outrageous and mean-spirited recasting and exaggeration of Dr. Carson’s childhood story) could make Carson the sympathetic victim. Indeed, Carson predicted that very thing on Friday.”.....
http://spectator.org/articles/64592/politico%E2%80%99s-friday-fabrications
Why is Dr. Carson comparing his treatment with that of Obama? We’re all disgusted with everything Obama has gotten away with and saying “I’m being held to a higher standard” is hardly a defense. Does Dr. Carson expect special treatment, just as Obama received? Look where that got us.
National Review was one of the main periodicals that took the high, noble road about Obama and his qualifications, and spewed venom at anyone who questioned Obama’s then published pathetic little birth certification. National Review can’t criticize anyone over Obama’s lack of vetting.
You must still be asleep with your knee-jerk, mindless hatred of Trump. It is, of course, mindless, because that is probably your mental state. This article is about Ben Carson and the antagonistic press.
To this point dear, you are correct. Trump, in my opinion, made a huge mistake by coming out in support of the narrative to paint Carson a liar. The media and the left has to discredit him, because if they were to champion one who started out with nothing but his intellect and a stern mother, that means the entire narrative from the left will be exposed as the lie that we know it is.
On this one issue, I am totally for Carson just as I am totally for Trump on his going after illegal immigration and the political establishment. So, that does not mean I totally support Carson to be the nominee. He still has many political and social issue stances that are being shoved behind the curtain while this kerfuffle is being played out.
I heard Carson on Breitbart Radio on Friday say to Bannon that he was for TPP. Bannon got him to admit he did not know about much of the details of the thing and invited him back so he could be enlightened. There are more . . .
Maybe US citizens no longer hold the original ideals “dear”.
Maybe the country is no longer what it was, the one we grew up in.
Electing Barak Hussein Ovomit may be the most telling sign of where the soul (and befuddled brain) of the nation is and is going...
The population has changed so much that maybe most folks are just ignorant of what we have and cherish?
Not sure but bringing back the draft might be a step in the right direction for all.
but I doubt it.
The media has always been biased. The liberals dominate the tv media. The media needs more competition. But with a very high entry barrier, it is difficult for new competitors to enter the market.
One way conservative consumers can help is to stop feeding the liberal media. Cancel your cable tv and tell the cable companies you want a la carte channels not the package that they currently sell.
Playing the victim doesn’t work for male candidates.
If there had been interest would Carson be saying that it was irrelevant and that the media shouldn't be asking Obama about it and they should be concentrating on the issues? Or is Carson just mad that the media is concentrating on his bogus life story and not Obama's?
I'm with Levin, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and others over this fiasco and not with Trump/Politico/CBS/CNN/NBC et al
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