Guy wrote:Hopefully we'll start seeing some high-quality polling after Labor Day. While I think Clinton is up nationwide by at least 5% (probably even more), we're just seeing the same pollsters over and over at this stage. Difficult to know where we really are.
Alternatively, the situation really is that dire, fed in no small part by the mainstream media. We are, after all, talking about an election in which the NYT flat-out ignored Trump's pay-to-play scandal in favour of yet more substance-free beatups of the Clinton Foundation. Didn't "minimize" it. Didn't bury it on page 60-something, or even indulge in their usual gratuitous "both sides are equally bad"-isms. Flat. Out. Ignored.
Meanwhile, the NYT's front page? Oh, look! It's yet another issue of Serious Concerns About The Clinton Foundation, raised by yet more self-anointed Very Serious People! Of course, they eventually acknowledge that there's no evidence of any wrongdoing by the Clintons whatsoever (aside from the emails, and Benghazi, and the Clinton Death List, and so on), but clearly, this is Very Serious News That People Need To Hear About, damnit! Not like that other guy actually breaking the law with criminal intent - that doesn't matter, this does! We gotta have more Clinton scandals, damnitall, and if the Clintons won't co-operate by breaking the law, why we've gotta take matters into our own lily-white hands and make it look as if they broke the law!
This election is different from most. The media aren't engaging in their usual false-equivalency games this election. They're not engaging in horse-race mentality, or even really trying to sell papers/clicks. They are flat-out boosting Trump and tearing Clinton down at every possible opportunity - then making more opportunities out of whole cloth.
"Liberal" media, my fat hairy arse. Let no-one dare to suggest that they stand atop so tall a mountain of contempt for those lily-livered, sycophantic, knock-kneed, pathetic, mim-faced "journalists" as I do - that plateau is mine alone to command!
