The Media Assault Continues; What A Waste

Yesterday, President Trump resurrected the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Trans Dakota Pipeline.  That move will generate tens of thousands of construction jobs and, despite the chagrin of the global warming crowd, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and risks of pollution.  The two pipelines had been stopped by Obama in a move that was more a political present to the irrational environmental crazies (a big part of his base) than one designed to help America and its people.  Trump also took a series of other steps which will have real positive consequences.  So last night, I flipped a few times onto the cable news channels to see what was being covered.  Each time I went to CNN, the discussion was about Trump's comments that he would have won the popular vote but for 3-5 million illegal votes that were cast.  On MSNBC, the coverage was split between Trump's comments, follow ups to the protest march from last weekend and a rehash of Sean Spicer's lambasting of the press on last Saturday.  I even saw a discussion of reasons for the possible impeachment of President Trump.  On Fox News, there was coverage of the pipelines, of the president's other moves of the day and of his remarks about the illegal votes.

Clearly, the most important news of the day was the rebirth of the pipelines.  Nevertheless, CNN and MSNBC ignored it and spent the evening in their continuing assault on Trump.  To be fair, I did not watch their coverage all evening since to do so would be cruel and unusual punishment.  Still, I think I got the flavor of the evening.

There really is no reason to ever turn on CNN or MSNBC.  Of course, not many people do, anyway.