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bullet · 03-17-2017 08:04 AM

https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2017/03...onderland/

...Now, I like a good laugh as much as the next person whose favored political party currently dominates every level of American government, but really the larger issue is serious. An insulated leftist media — the networks, CNN, the New York Times (a former newspaper), the Washington Post and the rest — have now pied pipered their entire movement into a kind of Fantasy Scandal Wonderland.

The morning after the Maddow disaster, the Times not only reported the story as if it was serious news, but also featured this ridiculous headline about Trump's Supreme Court pick: Neil Gorsuch Has Web of Ties to Secretive Billionaire. Get that? It's a "web" — like spies and spiders use. And the billionaire is "secretive." Spooky, no? The non-story explained that Gorsuch, while a private lawyer, had been hired by Philip Anschutz, the guy who financed the Narnia movies. Completely legal, non-sinister stuff.

All this goes along with the increasingly idiotic story that Russia "hacked the election." As often as the media have used this phrase, it so far amounts to nothing more than the fact that Clinton campaign manager John Podesta fell for a phishing scheme and gave someone, possibly Russians, his password. The possibly-Russians used this to pilfer some embarrassing emails from the DNC. And then voters elected Donald Trump because they were sick of being out of work while Barack Obama sold out American interests overseas and bullied us about who used our bathrooms here at home. And every investigation has cleared Trump of any involvement....

The best hope for any fix at all was detailed in an op-ed in 2005, the year Donald Trump made a lot of money and paid a lot of taxes. The op-ed was published in the Los Angeles Times and was written by my single favorite commentator: me. It explained to our news media that if they were going to avoid disappearing down the rabbit hole into a fantasy wonderland, they were going to have to hire some conservatives:

I don't mean hire a conservative. I don't mean cover conservatives. I don't mean allow conservatives to express a minority opinion on your Op-Ed page or argue at the top of their lungs on some yes/no, black/white, point/counterpoint debate program. I mean... a substantial proportion of the reporters who cover stories, and the editors who assign and shape those stories, should be people with conservative beliefs. The rest can continue to be what they are now: left-wingers who live under the delusion that they're moderates.

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