DISGRACEFUL – AT 10:14 A.M. ET:  A media critic for the Baltimore Sun wrote last week that the big loser in this election campaign is the American media.  The critic is correct.

There has always been press bias, but never so blatant as this year.  The New York Times doesn't even pretend to be a fair-minded newspaper any longer.  CNN has become an embarrassment.  The Washington Post, which had shown some progress in the quality of its journalism, seems to have slipped back into open liberal slanting.

And we know from Wikileaks and other sources that there's been outright collusion between the Clinton campaign and some journalists.  From Daily Caller: 

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank appears to have asked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to do the majority of the research for a negative column he wrote about Donald Trump in April 2016.

Milbank’s column was titled, “The Ten Plagues of Trump,” and featured a list of “outrageous things” said by Trump. One of the “plagues” listed by Milbank, for example, was “Blood” and centered around a quote from Trump about Megyn Kelly: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

Internal DNC emails suggest Milbanks asked for — and then leaned heavily on — DNC opposition research on Trump for the article.

The day before Milbank’s article, DNC deputy communications director Eric Walker sent out an email to the DNC’s research team.

In the email — which was titled “research request: top 10 worst Trump quotes?” — Walker wrote, “Milbank doing a Passover-themed 10 plagues of Trump.”

The DNC research team worked together to come up with a list of things Milbank could use that was provided to Walker.

Of the 10 “plagues” listed by Milbank, eight of them matched up with suggestions from the DNC.

COMMENT:  This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.  The problem stems from the lowering of moral standards in this society, starting with the "sixties generation."  It also stems from the out-of-control egos of college graduates, especially graduates of "elite" schools, who believe that their College Board scores guarantee both their wisdom and goodness. 

One of the main tasks for the Republican Party, as it starts to think of the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential race, is to develop strategies for going around the press and speaking directly to the American people.  Reagan knew how to do it.  McCain did not.  Every Republican candidate has two opponents – the opposition candidate, and the mainstream media.  Both must be defeated.

November 7,  2016