By Dave Andrusko
About 90 seconds after President Trump announced his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next justice of the Supreme Court, I switched to CNN just to see what the usual (as in blatantly hostile) suspects would say. This is one of those situations where if you repeat what Chris Cuomo and Jeffrey Toobin and Joan Biskupic actually said, you inevitably wind up spreading their venom no matter how thoroughly you inject the antidote of truth.
Suffice it say it was as ugly as it was predictable.
I mention this for two reasons. First (as if you needed to be reminded), the opposition to Judge Kavanaugh will stop at nothing. They will give a green light to every unsubstantiated rumor, every misinterpretation of what he wrote in over 300 opinions, and every pro-abortion Democratic critic who (surprise, surprise) is adamantly against confirming the 53 –year-old father of two.
Second, because I read a post today that referenced a story written by Becket Adams for the Washington Examiner under the headline, “Mainstream media errors in the Trump era: Your catalogue of the media’s bias-fueled failure-fest in 2017.”
Intrigued, I immediately clicked the hyperlink.
It was not a pretty picture. Its stated conclusion, which came early and was thoroughly documented, was
“This isn’t to say all coverage of the Trump administration was trash. Rather, it’s to say an unusually large number of 2017 stories, tweets and headlines turned out either to be overhyped, inconclusive, misleading, half-true, or flat-out false.
His concluding paragraph began
This database of 2017 political journalism misfires was started the day after Trump was sworn into office. It grew exponentially in the months that followed.
My point is simple. Again, you of course know how much the “mainstream media” hates President Trump. They already have a running start (which actually goes back to the 2016 campaign) which means as they pick up speed you can anticipate a tide of “overhyped, inconclusive, misleading, half-true, or flat-out false” statements about Judge Kavanaugh.
Forewarned is forearmed.