Media malfeasance

Within forty-eight hours of Nancy Pelosi announcing the Trump impeachment initiative, the brain trust that runs Canada’s national newspaper of record weighed in on the matter with utter certainty; Trump was guilty of treason.

There’s a belief among Globe and Mail “thought leaders” that they can’t be seen as deviating too far from whatever the NYT/WaPo/WSJ consensus might be.

If they would stick to reporting actual news, that editorial would not have happened. Ukraine-US history didn’t begin with Trump’s phone-call to Zelensky. It didn’t even begin with the US sponsored 2014 Maidan coup.

Nor did political corruption in the Oval Office begin with that call. As near as I can tell, even when you put the worst possible spin on Trump’s “arm-twisting,” it’s nothing more than a business-as-usual moment in American history.

Trump may be a serial liar, but he’s not the first American president to tell a lie, or lots of them.

Trump may be using the office to enrich himself, but that’s a time-honoured American tradition. A number of US presidents of the past were born in poverty. None of them died in poverty.

What was the Clinton Foundation other than a massive pay-to-play scheme?

If our “free press” were even remotely free, they’d be giving us the whole story.

Instead, they relentlessly pursue an obviously partisan agenda that bears little or no resemblance to lived reality.

Ultimately, this is not about Trump. The same media that today denigrates Trump at every turn, never missed a chance to kiss his ass in the twenty-five years before he entered politics. How else did Trump become a “celebrity?”

What’s really threatening America’s elite isn’t having a serial liar in the White House. It’s having a self-proclaimed “socialist” knocking on the door.