There's an article at The Week today by lefty Paul Waldman headlined, "How Trump convinced America that character doesn't matter". It's an amazing bit of delusional thinking. Supposedly, President Trump has convinced the country that the character of the president is irrelevant, and that is why the media hardly covers the subject at all. Really, Waldman argues that the media doesn't cover Trump's supposed character flaws. I laughed for ten minutes after I read that howler.
In the last year, the mainstream media has covered in minute detail every supposed character failing of the President, no matter how silly or irrelevant. Remember the news cycles devoted to the "expose" that Trump had two scoops of vanilla ice cream at a White House dinner while everyone else just got one scoop? Oh, the horror! And how about the outrage when Trump tweeted "covfefe" in an obvious typo which the media portrayed as everything from proof of racism to a harbinger of mental breakdown. Those big character flaws got coverage along with a whole host of other imaginary failings of the President.
But let's be clear. There is no question that President Trump acts in a different way from the typical politician of the past. For the left, Trump's failure to speak in the platitudes of Obama while doing next to nothing is a character flaw. For Trump, and for millions of Americans, it's results that matter, not saying things nicely.
And while we're at it, remember that when it came to failings of character, it was Hillary Clinton who gave new meaning to the concept of a dishonest politician. She was the one who used the Clinton Foundation to shake down tens of millions of dollars from people with business in front of the State Department when she headed that organization. Hillary was the one who illegally stored classified information on a private unsecured computer system, a move that put America's national secrets as well as our fighting forces at risk. If anyone convinced America that character doesn't matter, it was Hillary Clinton, because next to her, Trump was pure as the driven snow.
In the last year, the mainstream media has covered in minute detail every supposed character failing of the President, no matter how silly or irrelevant. Remember the news cycles devoted to the "expose" that Trump had two scoops of vanilla ice cream at a White House dinner while everyone else just got one scoop? Oh, the horror! And how about the outrage when Trump tweeted "covfefe" in an obvious typo which the media portrayed as everything from proof of racism to a harbinger of mental breakdown. Those big character flaws got coverage along with a whole host of other imaginary failings of the President.
But let's be clear. There is no question that President Trump acts in a different way from the typical politician of the past. For the left, Trump's failure to speak in the platitudes of Obama while doing next to nothing is a character flaw. For Trump, and for millions of Americans, it's results that matter, not saying things nicely.
And while we're at it, remember that when it came to failings of character, it was Hillary Clinton who gave new meaning to the concept of a dishonest politician. She was the one who used the Clinton Foundation to shake down tens of millions of dollars from people with business in front of the State Department when she headed that organization. Hillary was the one who illegally stored classified information on a private unsecured computer system, a move that put America's national secrets as well as our fighting forces at risk. If anyone convinced America that character doesn't matter, it was Hillary Clinton, because next to her, Trump was pure as the driven snow.
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