With Trump's degrading description of women and accusations of sex scandals and Clinton's criminal e-mail deletions, we have poor choices for the next person to occupy the White House.
I'd like to start by pointing out something. In any relationship, it is important to apologize when you've made a mistake. After Trump's nasty remarks about women, he apologized. After Hillary's e-mail scandal, she did not. I think being able to apologize says something about your character... Trump made a huge mistake. Colossal. Bigger than his you-know-what. But at least he had the balls to apologize.
I feel like the election is between a political crook and a business crook, but I'll be honest - I'm fairly cynical when it comes to any politicians.
Although Trump freely admitted to the degrading comments about women (that would have been tough to deny), he has defended himself against the sex scandal allegations. His words were:
“These lies spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else, are poisoning the minds of the electorate. No witnesses, no backup or anything else.” - Trump
He feels the media is conspiring against him, muckraking because they would rather have Hillary in the White House than him. He then made a point, questioning why she had not brought it up before... which I found to be valid. Why did she not bring it up before? Or did the media just not care before?
In any case, I definitely see the media as pro-Clinton. I don't find that surprising since they tend to be liberal in general. But I feel that they will play an important part between keeping Trump accountable and being fair to both candidates.
You can check out an interesting WSJ article here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-denies-new-sexual-misconduct-claims-calling-allegations-a-conspiracy-1476478799
I do believe that this election is completely messed up. Our two main candidates have completely lost their minds. I also think the media plays a huge part in the news they spread about each candidate. Unfortunately, certain news stations are bias towards one candidate or the other.
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I absolutely loved this blog post! The post was a spot on interpretation of the media's ploy to paint Donald Trump as a rapist. One thing stuck out to me more than anything about this blog, which was when you referred to the media's muckraking. To even describe the present day media's investigative journalism as muckraking does past investigative journalists a disservice. If the present day media was conducting serious investigative journalism, then why are they largely ignoring the Podesta emails, the Veritas videos and any other incriminating documentation of Hillary Clinton's corruptness? I guess the media’s coverage of Trump’s accusers is a form of muckraking, but I don’t believe that these investigative journalists are true muckrakers because of their failure to investigate corruption from the Democratic Party as well. Once again, I really enjoyed reading this blog post!
ReplyDeleteThe media's purpose was to paint Donald Trump as a man who had lack of respect for women. This came after Trump tried to bring up Hillary Clinton's husband's affair with women. Trump is clearly caught on video confessing his groping and forcing himself on to women, and then he downplays it as "locker room talk" which many women doesn't see him as a candidate to do things in their favor.
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