Where I go back and forth is on the question of whether the country is dumb because it's fed this crap by the media, or whether we get the dumb media we deserve because dumb people lap it up
Washington Post pretty excited Hillary said 'black lives matter' and didn't hedge or anything
Every time I think media coverage of presidential politics can't get any more sad and pathetic, I come across something like this. Of course, the whole storyline concerning #blacklivesmatter and whether certain candidates utter the phrase in compliance with Official Leftist Orthodoxy has been around for much of this year. But there has rarely been a clearer demonstration than this of how left-wing activists lead political writers around by the nose, such that a certain Janell Ross actually thought she was writing about a worthwhile matter when she keyboard-vomited the following for the Washington Post: