The New York Analysis of Policy and Government reviews, in two parts, unresolved and relatively undiscussed issues, including media bias and potential criminal actions, that inappropriately influenced the 2016 presidential campaign.
There was a great deal of rage when President Trump asserted that there were “good guys” as well as extremists with evil intentions on both sides of the right-left divide.
The furious reaction to this rather bland and self-evident comment, in which the President was accused of everything from racism to being a neo-Nazi, revealed a great deal about how much of the media operates, both in the way particular news stories are reported, and, perhaps more importantly, which news items are completely ignored.
The list of vitally important news that has been downplayed or ignored by much of the media is stunning in its scope and in the importance of the particular items.
While the media has tilted left since the 1960’s, (when journalism schools replaced teaching their students about the importance of objectively describing who, what, when, where and why with “advocacy” which inevitably tilted left,) the current extreme nature of reporting beginning in the 1990s, which centered around unquestioning support of the Clintons and eventually Barack Obama, is unprecedented. That has resulted in downplaying the most significant political scandals in American history.
It is becoming increasingly clear that, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Democrat elected officials as well as party leadership conspired (that word is used in the full legal sense) to insure that Hillary Clinton both secured the Democrat Party nomination and won the general election.
DNC misdeeds during the primaries prompted appropriate howls of anger from Bernie Sanders supporters
The Observer reported: “In its recent leak of 20,000 DNC emails from January 2015 to May 2016, (released by Wikileaks) DNC staff discuss how to deal with Bernie Sanders’ popularity as a challenge to Clinton’s candidacy. Instead of treating Sanders as a viable candidate for the Democratic ticket, the DNC worked against him and his campaign to ensure Clinton received the nomination.”
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Donors to the DNC reacted with anger to the bias.
One example, as noted in Newsweek: “Jared Beck, a Harvard Law graduate and one of the several attorneys who filed the suit against the DNC and its former chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz, wants retribution for donations made by supporters to the Vermont senator’s campaign, citing six legal claims of the DNC’s deceptive conduct, negligent misrepresentation and fraud. The DNC violated Article 5, Section 4 of its own charter by working with a single campaign to effectively choose who would win the Democratic ballot, the attorneys stated in the suit.” (The lawsuit was eventually dismissed, not on the merits but because the judgein the case considered the matter more appropriately resolved within the DNC itself, and that those donors bringing the case lacked the legal standing to bring the action to court.)
Despite a long history of important scandals, both personal and professional, Hillary Clinton was given a relative free pass in both the primaries and the general election by a media that acted far more like partisan cheerleaders than journalists. Trump, of course, provided a near daily fare of over-the-top comments, which were reported with exuberant glee. But, other than in the few conservative outlets, where was the discussion of Clinton’s abundant misdeeds?
As National Review noted during the campaign, “Felony mishandling of classified information, including our nation’s most closely guarded intelligence secrets; the misappropriation and destruction of tens of thousands of government records — these are serious criminal offenses…Whatever the relevance of the new e-mails to the probe of Clinton’s classified-information transgressions and attempt to destroy thousands of emails, these offenses may pale in comparison with Hillary Clinton’s most audacious violations of law: Crimes that should still be under investigation;…Mrs. Clinton appears to have converted the office of secretary of state into a racketeering enterprise. This would be a violation of the RICO law — the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1971 (codified in the U.S. penal code at sections 1961 et seq.).
Having secured the nomination, actions were taken to rig the fight against Trump, including using federal agencies to illegally harass and surveil his campaign. To their credit, a limited number of news outlets rose above the general bias to ask questions that many other media outlets still find uncomfortable.
USA Today provided an important example, when it asked “…what are we to make of the recently unveiled Obama administration program of massively spying on political opponents in violation of clearly established law?… The admitted violations undercut one of the primary defenses that the intelligence community and Obama officials have used in recent weeks to justify their snooping into incidental NSA intercepts about Americans. … The American Civil Liberties Union said the newly disclosed violations are some of the most serious to ever be documented and strongly call into question the U.S. intelligence community’s ability to police itself and safeguard Americans’ privacy as guaranteed by the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure.”
The Report concludes tomorrow.