So Much for the 'Liberal Media'

The myth of the liberal media "shambles on" like one of the undead, even in the Age of Trump. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton warned us that "you can put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables.' Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up." Clinton was pilloried for that observation by the professional, "serious" and "respectable" voices of the American chattering class. Many in the media declared her to be an "elitist," out of touch with "ordinary people." Of course, the Trump-supporting "white working class" was to be empathized with and understood because of its understandable rage at "the system," which Clinton's words encapsulated and legitimated. Her "deplorables" comment was certified, at least in retrospect, as a reason why she was defeated by Donald Trump in a white rage uprising, in which an army of the deplorables lifted him into the White House. Read Full Article »