Media Bias Is One Thing; Its Complicity Is Another

By David Limbaugh We keep reading that if Donald Trumps personal issues werent sucking up all the media oxygen his campaign might get more traction against Hillary Clinton from the WikiLeaks disclosures but is that really true? Lets concede that the ongoing allegations against Trump are a distraction and damaging to his campaign. Those matters are being litigated figuratively and literally so it is hard to argue that news of these allegations is being suppressed. But could we please put a pin in this for a minute and look at the Clinton scandals? Despite claims to the contrary one is not automatically defending or covering for Trump by raising issues of Clinton corruption. Somehow Bill and Hillary Clinton always get a pass on their own misconduct by turning the allegations on their accusers and attributing them to smears by their political opponents benefiting from an unconscionably protective liberal media phalanx. So talk about allegations against Trump all you want but dont use them as a license for Clintons misconduct and dont always try to besmirch the character of people seeking accountability from the Clintons by saying they are indifferent to womens claims against Trump. Im not indifferent to those claims but Im also not going to be deterred from calling out liberal media bias for fear that some on my side will say Im just flacking for Trump. Nonsense. The issue of Hillary Clintons corruption is vitally important as is the role of the liberal media in suppressing it. The Hill reported that in viewing recordings of each major networks evening newscasts which are watched by an average total of 22 million to 24 million people nightly the newest batch of WikiLeaks revelations was covered for a combined 57 seconds out of 66 minutes of total air time on ABC NBC and CBS. ... On the other hand allegations from four women of unwanted sexual advances by Trump were covered a combined 23 minutes. This is what Newt Gingrich and others mean when they complain that liberal media are covering allegations against Trump 24 times as much as those against Clinton. And we wonder why the Clintons are able to skate through their lives with impunity. Are we to assume from this that allegations against Hillary Clinton are about 4 percent as important as those against Trump on the matter of fitness for office? You cant be serious. So what then? Why would the liberal networks so shamelessly smother genuinely disturbing allegations against Clinton by highlighting allegations against Trump? Clinton gets a twofer here a pass on the WikiLeaks bombshells and hyper-focus on claims against her opponent. Can you imagine how the media would react if the facts were flipped -- if the sexual allegations were against Clinton and the Clinton Foundation email erasure Benghazi and other scandals were connected to Trump? We would see liberal media in full war mode and there would be no end to their caterwauling about Trumps corruption and the national security threat that he would pose as president. Note: This hypothetical is not quite fair to Trump because there actually are sexual misconduct allegations against Bill Clinton and ample evidence that Hillary was not just his enabler but an accessory after the fact in terrorizing Bills victims. The media have never cared about that. I repeat: My bringing these up doesnt mean Im excusing behavior Trump may or may not have engaged in. But thats not the point here. The liberal media arent stupid. They know their coverage is biased distorted and outrageously unbalanced. But that doesnt faze them because they are liberals and the highest ethic is pursuing their shared agenda no matter how corrupt their means. There is no other rational explanation. This is one of the things that scare me tremendously about a third Obama term through Hillary Clinton. Liberal media are thoroughly in the tank for these people and are helping them fleece the American people. Look at their brazen apathy concerning the Obamacare premiums debacle which they are lying about because they want to protect Obama and his agenda they agree with his and Clintons goal of single-payer and want to help in advancing this nefarious goal and above all they wont do anything that might decrease Clintons chances of winning the election. If the liberal media dont care about their darling presidential candidates accepting from foreign governments donations to the Clinton Foundation -- along with personal gifts on the side as were now discovering for influence (or even possible influence) -- if they dont care about Obama and Clintons self-serving lie that the terrorist attacks in Benghazi were inspired by a video if they dont care about her commingling government emails with her own emails and recklessly exposing classified information if they dont care about her intentionally deleting 33000 emails under subpoena if they dont care about her and Obamas egregious lies on Obamacare if they dont care about the targeting of political conservatives by the IRS if they dont care about Clintons assuring donors in private that she favors open borders and would protect Wall Street as president while telling the public the opposite and on and on can you imagine what kind of free rein Clinton would have if elected? Its one thing for conservatives to drone on about liberal media bias which weve done for decades but have we reached the point that it is becoming a threat to the republic as we have known it?