As we sit back and tune in to another polarizing cable news show
about the presidential race, we prepare ourselves for a barrage of insults,
half-truths, rumors, innuendo, lies, distortions, agitations, and frustrations,
and that is just what is coming from the news reporters and commentators, not
the candidates.
They say deaths from opiate over-doses in America
Right next to the beer and remote control are the bottles.
In the bottles, you will find the legal pain relief opioid drugs including:
- codeine (only available in generic
form)
- fentanyl (Actiq, Duragesic, Fentora)
- hydrocodone (Hysingla ER, Zohydro ER)
- hydrocodone/acetaminophen (Lorcet, Lortab, Norco, Vicodin)
- hydromorphone (Dilaudid, Exalgo)
- meperidine (Demerol)
- methadone (Dolophine, Methadose)
- morphine (Astramorph, Avinza, Kadian, MS Contin, Ora-Morph SR)
- oxycodone (OxyContin, Oxecta, Roxicodone)
- oxycodone and acetaminophen
(Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet)
- oxycodone and naloxone (Targiniq ER)
Now you are ready to face the
pain of what you are about to hear.
I am pretty certain lying and
political campaigns are synonymous, inter-related, Ying
and Yang. Even fact checkers have to be
fact checked to see whose side they are protecting. Instead of saying "Veritas vos liberabit", "The truth is out there," perhaps one should say "Est
ex veritate non est,"
"No truth is out there."
With
that in mind we come to a poll that should be the most dreaded news ever
reported by the media. Of course they do
not report it. What they do report is
how Trump has the highest unfavorable rating in modern history.
It
is the truth they refuse to report that weighs down on them. Here is the headline they should be
reporting.
New Polls force Democrats to push Panic Button as Main Street
Since we know polls in America
Trump still has not secured the Republican nomination and Clinton continues to battle Bernie Sanders for media
coverage, but the media is acting as if Trump is a real threat to beat the
media favorite Clinton
Quite a contrast to earlier in the campaign when the media
dismissed Trump yet wanted him to win the GOP nomination since polls showed
Hillary winning by a landslide if Trump were the opponent.
A funny thing happened on the way to the conventions and polls
confirmed it after Trump's landslide wins in the Northeast and Indiana
Trump and Clinton
The press says very little about the crosstabs in the polls, and
for good reason. You hear Trump has the
highest unfavorable score ever recorded at 65%, yet no one says Hillary has the
second highest unfavorable ever recorded at 57%.
So the media has mounted a massive campaign to discredit Trump
and drag out anything he ever did in his life, say 30 to 50 years ago, as if it
will have a direct effect on whether he pushes the nuclear button. That is about as yellow as journalism can be.
However, I am not defending Trump. I say, what he says and does today, is far
more relevant than what he did three or four decades ago. I mean people do change over the course of a
lifetime. Besides, every time he opens his mouth he is capable of stumbling
over his tongue.
To me fair reporting is an issue of credibility. Now to get to the most dreaded poll results not
reported.
The American Press Institute published a survey April 18,
2016, and the real headline was:
"Only 6% of Americans trust the media"
Just 6 percent of
people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, putting the news
industry about equal to Congress and
well below the public’s view of other institutions. In this presidential
campaign year, Democrats were more likely to trust the news media than Republicans
or independents.
The
bottom line is this. Why is the media
trashing Trump as a strategy to defeat him, pointing to his negative ratings in
public polls, when 94% of the same public does not trust the media?
To me the 35% of the public trusting Trump today is six
times better than the public trusts the media, 6%. That is truth in reporting.
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