Charles Pierce: Trump's trip to Mexico was an embarrassment for our nation's media

[kpete]

Newspapers, television, everything.

Quite simply, for almost 98 minutes, the presidential candidate of one of our two major political parties did a very convincing imitation of someone who should not be allowed out in public without a keeper, and whose keeper should not be allowed anywhere near him without a net, sufficient backup, and a tranquilizer gun capable of inducing coma in a herd of drunken elephants.

Again, this was the only story to be covered on Wednesday night. It obliterated the earlier dog-and-pony show in Mexico. It made a jackass out of every member of the media who ever has used the word "presidential" in any connection with El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago, and particularly those members of the media who got played for suckers on Wednesday afternoon.



Early and late editions of the Wall Street Journal front page:


https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/771339586849112069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Once again, confronted with an authoritarian loon showing his brightly painted ass to the world, the elite political media proved utterly incapable of conveying to the nation what the nation could plainly see for itself. Journalism is flummoxing itself because it is incapable of confronting what it must confront.

MORE:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a48263/trump-mexico-media/

[niyad]

2. brilliant:

Quite simply, for almost 98 minutes, the presidential candidate of one of our two major political parties did a very convincing imitation of someone who should not be allowed out in public without a keeper, and whose keeper should not be allowed anywhere near him without a net, sufficient backup, and a tranquilizer gun capable of inducing coma in a herd of drunken elephants.

[mcar]

3. Pierce is correct

As he almost always is. The media should be hanging their heads in shame.

[anamandujano]

4. The most popular story on that site is K.Trash and her n*pples.

Other than that, it's a good story.

[Iliyah]

5. The corporate media is a total embarrassment

except for a tiny small portion and many useful social media sites. Corporate media's so called journalist ain't journalist at all but paid mouth pieces for their corporate masters. America has always be great. It's the ignorant part of America that makes it unbearable.

[Hekate]

6. Corporate media has become contemptible, an embarrassment to the Constitution

[Stonepounder]

7. The MSM will happily give Trump more and more coverage to sell ads and improve the bottom

line, while he systematically and very openly plans to get rid of the MSM when he is elected. What we will end up with is one news channel, named 'TRUTH'. And we won't have need of reporters or editors, because the 'TRUTH' will be written by the White House. Anyone who tries to disagree will simply disappear.

[Cosmocat]

8. This would be a BINGO

fin "elite" media ...