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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Another Reality Check

It's been nine days since Donald Trump was declared the winner of the election.  If you watch the mainstream media, you would think that Trump's transition is totally chaotic and in disarray.  There haven't been any cabinet positions named.  We only have heard of two appointments.  How bad is that?

This has been and continues to be a big story on the mainstream media.  Last night, I watched Chris Matthews lamenting the terrible transition that Trump is running.  Okay, to be fair, I only watched for about twenty seconds; I have a limit on watching Matthews.  What was interesting was then to see the facts covered on Special Report on Fox News.  They looked back at prior presidential transitions to see when cabinet appointments were announced in order to compare the present Trump effort with those earlier days.  If one goes all the way back to Richard Nixon in 1968, the earliest cabinet appointments came after three weeks following the election, and the average was five weeks before the first selections.  There is only one exception to this, and that was when George H.W. Bush was elected.  His administration, however, was a continuation of the Reagan years, so he kept some people in office and they were announced at two weeks after the election.  The new people, however, were appointed later.

So what does this mean?  The simple answer is that the mainstream media either knows the real facts and is telling lies or that the media is just too lazy to even bother checking on the real facts before reporting their narrative.  They are all so intent on Trump being a failure, that they will report anything that might make him look that way no matter its validity.

It's a sad day for America when most of our media is reporting blatant lies for political purposes.

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