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If the Trump victory has proven any thing it’s that the influence of the lib-left is fast fading, so is the influence of their sycophantic running dog media

Left dive-bombing into Donald Trump’s election success pretending that they were always there

By Judi McLeod ——--December 14, 2016

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It was only a matter of time before it was going to happen: The left dive-bombing into Donald Trump’s historic election success—and pretending to have been there all along. According to Mark Thompson, President and CEO of the Save-Our-Rear-in-Tatters New York Times, “one of our most devoted readers, a New Yorker born and bred, has just been elected President of the United States”.
They may be reeling in shock that their heroine Hillary has been left loudly whining on the sidelines.; they may be shrinking in stature and dreaming in technicolor that social media will come along and bail them out, but the one thing this ink-splashed New Yawker’s got plenty of is chutzpah. Ladies, Gentlemen and LGBTQ of America: Donald J. Trump’s not the underdog who fought off 95 percent of a slanted mainstream media to capture the 2016 presidency—but the NYT “devoted reader” dispatched to the presidency by the NYT! Dripping with sarcasm, The Gray Lady which only weeks ago promised to turn a new page, pontificated through the person of Thompson in verbal editorial style to members of the Detroit Economic Club. (NYT: To Our Readers, From the Publisher and Executive Editor, Nov. 13, 2016 Not being there to argue otherwise, Trump was quickly upgraded from a “devoted” readership in Thompson’s opening remarks to an “assiduous” one. Has anyone else noticed how the far left, who purportedly loathe him the most, are so quick to cash in on the Donald Trump Phenomenon? “Indeed almost as soon as he’d won the election, this extremely assiduous reader began to tweet about his hometown newspaper. Here’s a sample from 6.16 am on the 13th of November: “Wow, the nytimes is losing thousands of subscribers because of their very poor and highly inaccurate coverage of the ‘Trump Phenomenon’.” (Press Run, Dec. 12, 2016)
“And here’s another, again sent at 6.16 am, this time on the 22nd November: “I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice.” “Now I can’t tell you why or how Donald Trump came to send these two tweets – or even what spooky significance we should attach to the tweeting hour of 6.16 in the morning in the Trump household. What I do know, not to make a political point but simply as a matter of personal observation and knowledge, is that both of these statements were and are untrue. "The “failing” New York Times has not lost “thousands of subscribers” since the election. On the contrary, there has been a spectacular surge in subscriptions, with weeks during which we have seen ten times as many new subscribers as the same period last year.”
An uneducated guess on the “spooky significance” of Trump twice tweeting at 6:16 a.m.: Coffee at 6:15, Tweeting away one minute later. Thompson’s account of what took place after Trump decided to turn up after initially postponing a 75-minute, on-the-record meeting with the fair-minded and objective NYT executive, is literally—Thompson’s account of it.

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Readers who want to read the full text of the overlong speech, should be forewarned that “by the time he swept out of the building he was describing the “failing nytimes” as a “jewel”, not just for America but for the whole world.” “In eight hours, we’d gone from “not nice” to, well, really quite nice.” But when it comes to his own newspaper, and what unwashed readers expect of it, Thompson just doesn’t seem to get it:
…”As you’ve heard, proper journalism is expensive to make. The print advertising which once paid for it is in steep decline and, for the reasons we’ve discussed, the hope that digital advertising would grow to replace the lost revenue has turned out to be hollow. The result for many newspapers is cuts, layoffs and a bleak future. “It’s like any quality product. If you want real journalism, you as a consumer will have to pay for it. So subscribe. Subscribe to your local paper, or The New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal, or the Washington Post, or, if you’re feeling particularly flush, to all of the above. “But don’t rely on someone else – big advertisers, Silicon Valley, Santa Claus – to step in to save the day. Real journalism is vital to our democracy, and it has to be paid for. If not, it will largely disappear and leave the field open for Pizzagate, and that zombie army of illegal voters, and all the rest of it. “If you as a citizen are worried about fake news, put your money where your mouth is and pay for the real thing.”
Running press releases verbatim from the DNC is not real news. Whether it’s the print media or the digital one, readers want the REAL thing, the truth, absolutely unadulterated and free from the lying politicians of any party that happens to be in power. If the Trump victory has proven any thing it’s that the influence of the lib-left is fast fading. Unfortunately but all the same ergo, so is the influence of their sycophantic running dog media.
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Judi McLeod—— -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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