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How does something like this make a publication like The Wall Street Journal<\/a>?\u00a0 Of course it is. \u00a0 The press has thrown out all pretense of objectivity with this election. \u00a0Thanks to Trump, publications and anchors can express unrestrained disgust and contempt for the GOP candidate. \u00a0And what can we do? \u00a0Disagree? \u00a0When Charlie Rose or Erin Burnett or Gayle King express\u00a0clear and obvious outrage or disagreement with Trump and what Trump is saying, how can we possible call them out? \u00a0Most people I know \u2013 myself included \u2013 typically agree.<\/p>\n

Of course I always have agreed. \u00a0So I was taken by Charlie Rose questioning Mike Pence last week. \u00a0 When Pence said he felt the accusations against Trump are false, Rose fired back, asking \u2013 with visible indignation \u2013 if Pence was suggesting that these women were\u2026liars! \u00a0For his part,\u00a0Pence insisted he wasn\u2019t by more or less dodging the issue.<\/p>\n

Now I have no evidence, but perhaps Charlie was one who openly condemned those who called Bill Clinton\u2019s accusers far worse than liars back in the day. \u00a0If so, then he gets and A+ for consistency. \u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0I don\u2019t recall his reaction to the scandal and, believe it or not, you can\u2019t find everything on the Internet. \u00a0So I\u2019ll assume Charlie broke rank with the majority of the press in the 90s and actually felt that women being called liars and trailer park trash was bad, and that even though it was about sex, it still mattered because things like character, values and morals matter where our leaders are concerned.<\/p>\n

But whatever they thought in the 90s, their opposition to Trump and what Trump says and stands for is clear. \u00a0Because of that, it likely not a coincidence that the press is not talking\u00a0about the leaked Clinton\u00a0emails that much, except for on a need-to basis. \u00a0And when the press does cover the emails, it prefers the emails that suggest the Clinton campaign talked about\u00a0(horrors!) staging certain things like Hillary bussing tables for photo ops, or (I can\u2019t believe it) local Democrats might have been making deals with the Clinton campaign in order to curry favor and receive paybacks down the road. \u00a0In short, things we all assume happen and, in politics, aren\u2019t a big deal.<\/p>\n

The more damning ones, like Democrats talking about those backward thinking Muslims and the backward gender relations in Islam, have been no more than an afterthought, covered at the end of the hour once, or not at all. \u00a0Coincidence? \u00a0Possibly. \u00a0Coincidence can explain anything if we want it to. \u00a0But the bigger question was posed by my oldest son who wondered what it will\u00a0be in 2020. \u00a0After all, since the line has been crossed and Trump\u2019s deplorable behavior and rudeness has allowed media outlets to express their obvious preferences with impunity, will it be the same next time around no matter who runs for office? \u00a0 It\u2019s certainly worth thinking about.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"