An Orgy of Double Standards

Get ready for an orgy of double standards. The media and many on the left have declared war on Donald Trump. It isn’t as though Trump did not bait them. He did. It isn’t as though Trump did not behave indecorously during the presidential campaign. He did.

Yet now, as president elect he has not been indulging in some of the rhetorical excesses he used during the campaign. Besides, in a nod to decorum he always wears a suit and tie. In a time of increasingly casual and slovenly male dress, Trump has returned to the uniform. One understands why some people would be horrified.

While the mainstream media was willing to excuse Barack Obama for everything he did, it is in full attack mode with Trump. To be more precise, the press declared everything Obama did to be genius. It seems to believe that everything Trump does signals incompetence and an absence of qualification.

Have you noticed that no one questioned the absurdly thin resume of Barack Obama? Some of us have questioned the Trump qualifications, but how many people pointed out that Obama had no qualifications to speak of? He had a few years as a backbench U. S. senator who accomplished nothing. Trump has no experience in government but he has worked as an executive and has dealt with foreign countries for decades.

Trump’s antics managed to make Obama look presidential, but Obama’s resume makes Trump look qualified.

While some media voices confessed after the election that they had missed the story and had left their readers in ignorance, they did not take the lesson to heart. They are back to trashing Trump, and thus, in my view, misleading and misinforming their readers. Moreover, they are compromising he mental health and emotional stability of their readers by feeding them scare stories and undermining their ability to think rationally about what is going on.

So, Donald Trump just took a congratulatory telephone call from the president of Taiwan. The powers-that-be in Beijing did not look too kindly on the gesture, because they had reached an agreement with previous administrations that Taiwan was a rogue province of China and not an independent nation.

The press was aghast. They should not be so quick to judge. Trump may have been flying blind. He may have been making a shrewd move in the game of three dimensional chess that is called foreign relations. I do not know. The press does not know, either. We will not know until we see how the relationship develops.

Media geniuses declared that they knew and that they understood. They saw Trump as a bumbler on the world stage. They were terrified to the depths of their being and managed to make their readers terrified too.

To place it all in context Katie Pavlich recalls, for our edification, some of the telephone calls that Barack Obama made. For example, when Obama caved in to the leading state sponsor of terrorism the media was agog over his “brilliance.”

Pavlich writes:

Back in 2013 President Obama made direct contact with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with, you guessed it, a phone call. The call was initiated by President Obama, not Rouhani. Iran is listed as the world's largest state sponsor of terror by the State Department and before 9/11, its terrorism offshoot Hezbollah was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization in the world.

And,

Officials in the Iranian government have repeatedly violated international sanctions, classified the United States as Satan, called for the complete annihilation of Israel and is responsible for countless murders of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Reaching out to your enemy bespeaks an attitude of submission and surrender. Obama consistently adopted a respectful tone toward the ayatollahs. With his nuclear deal he basically gave them everything they wanted and got next to nothing in return. Upon signing the treaty he decided that it was not a treaty and did not need senate approval. He contravened the constitution and did as he pleased. The media declared it to be “historic.”

But, the Obama policy of kowtowing to America’s enemies did not stop with Iran. He did the same with Cuba.

Pavlich adds:

Earlier this year, Obama went to a baseball game in Cuba and did the wave with Dictator Raul Castro, brother of murderous tyrant Fidel Castro. Members of the Colombian terror group FARC were also in attendance.

If you were wondering why Trump supporters were angry, the reason must lie in the fact that for eight years America has been led by a man who ran around the world looking to surrender to people who hate America.

And the press cheered him on. Since the great Obama could do no wrong, Trump can do no right. Now you know why no one trusts the mainstream media any more.