Mercy! Mercy! That Dang Nabed PERCY!

Manifesto for the Fake News Journalists

Edward Klein in his book, All Out War, The Plot To Destroy Trump, is must reading for anyone who wishes to look behind the scenes of all the political intrigue of the past year. While full of amazing insights, the one that struck me most was an article by Jim Rutenberg, the media columnist for the New York Times. What he penned was A Manifesto for the Fake News. Beginning on page 45 is one of the damndest things I've ever read. It suddenly dawned on me that this was not only a Manifesto for Rogue Journalists but also applies to many of the top tier bureaucrats of the Deep State. Here it is....

"If you're a working journalist and believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the Nations worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him? Because if you believe all of these things you have to throw out the textbook American Journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way that you've never approached anything in your career. If you view a Trump presidency as something that is potentially dangerous then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer than you've ever been to being oppositional. That's uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, non-opinion journalist I've ever known, and by normal standards, untenable... But let's face it: Balance has been on vacation since Mr. Trump stepped onto his golden Trump escalator last year to announce his candidacy."

If this doesn't bother you it should. It's encouraging Yellow Journalism! Speaking of "Yellow" the line about the "golden Trump escalator" sounds a whole lot like "The Golden Shower" dossier.... I'm sure the resonance was not lost on Rutenberg's following of rudderless peers.