Mainstream media dug its own grave with absurd Trump election coverage

This isn’t a column. It’s an obituary.

Donald Trump’s improbable, historic, decisive victory connected Tuesday showed america that the alleged free press is dormant and buried. 

Outlets from CBS to NBC to ABC to CNN to MSNBC to The Washington Post and The New York Times and countless others for illustration Politico and The Atlantic went all-in connected defeating Trump pinch overwhelmingly negative and oftentimes patently dishonest sum — and they grounded miserably.

Weeks of their electioneering couldn’t bring nan voters to their side.

Headlines unsocial uncover really they served arsenic de facto surrogates for nan Kamala Harris campaign. 

The Washington Post: “Another nighttime astatine nan Garden: How Trump’s rally echoed [a Nazi rally] successful 1939” 

The New York Times: “Harris and Democrats Lose Their Reluctance to Call Trump a Fascist”

Politico: “Meet nan sleeper conservatives who could thief fulfill Trump’s committedness to beryllium a dictator connected Day 1”

The Atlantic: “Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini” 

And erstwhile nan predetermination results really arrived, nan mainstream media guidance was unhinged, insane and unintentionally hilarious. 

Trump and J.D. Vance won going distant — not only by sweeping each plaything state, but by winning nan celebrated vote, nan first GOP summons to do truthful since 2004.

They thereby stripped nan Democrats and nan media of immoderate chance to outcry foul astir nan will of nan group being superseded by nan Electoral College. 

So without immoderate contention complete nan tally — and aft propping up nan worst statesmanlike campaigner successful history successful a fruitless effort to get her complete nan decorativeness statement — these activists posing arsenic journalists had thing near but unfiltered and unhinged emotion.

And it was delicious to watch arsenic nan returns came in. 

Take David Axelrod connected CNN, for example. The erstwhile Obama strategist is usually rational, but pinch his campaigner losing truthful badly, he could only play nan hatred card. 

“Let’s beryllium honorable astir this. Let’s beryllium blunt astir it: There were appeals to racism successful this campaign, and location is group bias successful this country, and location is sexism successful this country,” Axelrod argued. 

Yup. That makes full sense: A campaigner rejected by Democratic voters successful nan 2020 primaries is nan unfortunate of racism and sexism.

That’s a hellhole of a measurement to talk astir your ain party’s base. 

How astir MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough? He besides played nan gender card, arguing if that Kamala was a gangly feline from nan South, he would person won. 

“If she were a 6’4″ achromatic man from — from Arkansas aliases from, you know, Florida, and she ran a bully middle-of-the-road campaign, talking astir reaching out, do you deliberation she would beryllium losing by that much?” he railed.

Yes, she would have.

Because nan costs of surviving is sky-high, crime is driving group retired of bluish cities and much than 12 cardinal person entered nan state illegally. Gender has thing to do pinch it. 

And what’s a media critique without calling retired Sunny Hostin of “The View,” who managed to play nan elitism paper successful slamming achromatic female Trump voters who don’t person a assemblage grade for illustration she does.  

“Black women tried to prevention this state again, past night,” Hostin said. “What we do not person is achromatic women, who voted astir 52% for Donald Trump — uneducated white women, is my understanding.”

In related news, conscionable 37% percent of Americans wide person earned four-year degrees. Nothing for illustration alienating a bully chunk of your viewers to make a point. 

But thing says loco rather for illustration erstwhile CNN/MSNBC/Current/Fox Sports/GQ/Twitter troll Keith Olbermann, who claimed that “Russia has committed an enactment of warfare against this nation” by allegedly threatening to explosive polling stations successful nan plaything states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona. 

There is, of course, zero grounds of this. Thankfully, Olbermann has promised to move retired of nan state successful nan arena of a Trump win. 

One tin only hope. 

Overall, according to nan Media Research Center, Harris received 78% affirmative sum to Trump’s 15% crossed ABC, NBC, and CBS successful nan 3 months earlier nan election. 

Talk astir a disconnect pinch nan viewing public, considering Trump may triumph 312 electoral votes. 

Come January 20th, nan 45th president will go nan 47th president. 

Don’t expect nan media insanity to stop until January 2029. 

Fortunately, less and less Americans are really listening.

Joe Concha is nan writer of “Progressively Worse: Why Today’s Democrats Ain’t Your Daddy’s Donkeys.”